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November 8, 1897 — November 29, 1980 “The greatest challenge of the day is: How to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us.”
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Dorothy Day was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1897. In her autobiography, The Long Loneliness, she divided her life into three parts. She describes her first twenty-five years as a time of searching for meaning and focus. It was here that her interest in the powerless and in the state of social conditions led her to become a writer for and a member of the Socialist Party. She called the next period Natural Happiness. This time was marked with the birth of her daughter, Tamar, and her conversion to the Catholic faith, both of which occurred in 1927. In 1933 she met Peter Maurin, beginning the final and longest phase of her life which she titled Love Is The Measure. Day and Maurin co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement, which began its work with the publication of the Catholic Worker newspaper. This allowed Catholic social teaching to become public. Issues of urbanization, industrialization, poverty and related challenges were discussed. During the 50’s and 60’s, civil rights and issues involving war were at the forefront of her various acts of civil disobedience. In 1969, at the age of 76, she was imprisoned for a period of 10 days as a result of her support of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers in California. During the Vietnam War Dorothy was instrumental in the formation of a peace movement that started as American Pax which ultimately became Pax Christi. She was a friend to bishops and cardinals and was known and admired by many popes. On her visit to Mother Teresa, she was given a cross which is worn only by the members of her Missionary Sisters of Charity. Dorothy died in 1980 at the age of 83.
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