Dorothy Day (1897-1980) was a founder of the Catholic Worker Movement which joined radical social reform with the Roman Catholic faith in a movement for social justice and peace. Dorothy Day was born on November 8, 1897, in Brooklyn, New York, the...

Dorothy Day was a radical journalist and social activist who has had a great influence on modern American Catholicism, and on many people outside the church as well. As the cofounder of the Catholic Worker movement and, for forty-seven years, the...

DAY, DOROTHY (1897–1980), personalist revolutionary, journalist, and lecturer. Between 1933, when she brought out the first penny-a-copy issue of the Catholic Worker, and 1980, when she died, Dorothy Day became, in the opinion of many,...

Born November 8, 1897 Brooklyn, New York Died November 29, 1980 New York, New York Journalist, advocate for the poor Dorothy...

Dorothy Day Born November 8, 1897 Brooklyn, New York Died November 29, 1980 Brooklyn, New York Social service provider, peace activist, editor, and religious worker Dorothy Day remains one of the most highly regarded social activists in the history of...

Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist turned social activist and devout member of the Catholic Church. She became known for her social justice campaigns in defense of the poor, forsaken, hungry and homeless....

All Is Grace: The Spirituality of Dorothy Day by William D. Miller (Doubleday,207 pp., $14.95) DOROTHY DAY was born in early November,1897, and died 83 years later, in the last week of November, 1980. She was recognized as one of the...

After John Cardinal O'Connor announced Nov. 1997 that Dorothy Day should be canonized, the public came forth to remember and comment on her politics and ideology. Yet Day's spiritual persona suggests another aspect to her life. Day, like Joan of Arc should be canonized...

Today is Saturday, Aug. 18, the 230th day of 2007. There are 135 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Aug. 18, 1587, Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents to be born on American soil, on what is now Roanoke Island,...

The hunt for the great American Catholic voter of 2008 started in earnest last week, led by none other than New York’s junior Senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Speaking about a Republican-passed immigration bill that would make it a felony to be in the United States...