Dorothy Day could be a saint for a ‘polarised’ world
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If canonized, Dorothy Day would be a saint for a ‘polarized’ world (Crux)
Day co-founded the Catholic Worker movement in New York City in the 1930s following her conversion to Catholicism. Day’s model for integrating service, piety, and activism lives on today in more than 200 Catholic Worker communities around the globe...
Conversations about Day’s canonization cause frequently turn to Day’s famous line, “Don’t call me a saint, I don’t want to be dismissed that easily.” Some marshal the line in support of their critiques of the movement to canonize Day; others believe it paradoxically strengthens her cause...
Day’s life “teaches us that when we live out the Corporal Works of Mercy, suddenly many of the labels that make us question each other and divide us-clean, dirty, holy, unholy, left, right-fall away as more meaningful God questions surface: Are you hungry? Is your soul thirsting? Can I visit you?”...
Day’s witness for a suffering church today: “I believe Dorothy is a model not only for how to be Christian in addressing the myriad problems and suffering in the U.S., but also how to be a lay Catholic within the Church, which has its own myriad of suffering and problems”...
the “patroness of tension” capable of being a “bridge between two worlds that are often separated in American Catholicism: liturgy and social justice... Dorothy was neither/both a traditionalist or a progressive Catholic, and that’s precisely why she is a saint”...
Day co-founded the Catholic Worker movement in New York City in the 1930s following her conversion to Catholicism. Day’s model for integrating service, piety, and activism lives on today in more than 200 Catholic Worker communities around the globe...
Conversations about Day’s canonization cause frequently turn to Day’s famous line, “Don’t call me a saint, I don’t want to be dismissed that easily.” Some marshal the line in support of their critiques of the movement to canonize Day; others believe it paradoxically strengthens her cause...
Day’s life “teaches us that when we live out the Corporal Works of Mercy, suddenly many of the labels that make us question each other and divide us-clean, dirty, holy, unholy, left, right-fall away as more meaningful God questions surface: Are you hungry? Is your soul thirsting? Can I visit you?”...
Day’s witness for a suffering church today: “I believe Dorothy is a model not only for how to be Christian in addressing the myriad problems and suffering in the U.S., but also how to be a lay Catholic within the Church, which has its own myriad of suffering and problems”...
the “patroness of tension” capable of being a “bridge between two worlds that are often separated in American Catholicism: liturgy and social justice... Dorothy was neither/both a traditionalist or a progressive Catholic, and that’s precisely why she is a saint”...
2John5918
Panel assesses Dorothy Day’s impact on church and their own lives (Crux)
If you met Dorothy Day, you were changed... And if you were changed... you had the ability to make change yourself.
“Dorothy taught me to pay attention and feel the sufferings of others”...
If you met Dorothy Day, you were changed... And if you were changed... you had the ability to make change yourself.
“Dorothy taught me to pay attention and feel the sufferings of others”...
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