DOROTHY DAY: Dissenting Voice of the American Century. By John Loughery and Blythe Randolph. Simon and Schuster. 448 pages. $30. Dorothy Day rarely left those who met her unmoved. Tall and regularly ...

Dorothy Day's first jail stint, in 1917, was a brutal experience arising from a protest for women's suffrage. Behind bars she embarked on a hunger strike and came to know the misery of forced feeding.

There is much to be gained by studying the lives of great men and women. Human history is adorned by the lives of those able to see beyond themselves, to couple a vision of a better world with the ...

Dorothy Day died 41 years ago yesterday at her beloved Maryhouse in New York City, surrounded by the poor whom she served for so many years in a life soon to be officially recognized as saintly. On ...

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When D.L. Mayfield's agent asked if she had a topic for her third book, only one subject came to mind: Dorothy Day. As a millennial Protestant and social justice activist, Mayfield had long drawn ...

Father Brian A. Graebe, episcopal delegate for Dorothy Day's canonization cause, recites an oath during a Mass marking the conclusion of the Archdiocese of New York's investigation of Day's candidacy ...