Dorothy Day

Dorothy Day was a Greenwich Village journalist, socialist and bohemian who converted to Catholicism in 1927 after the birth of her daughter, and in 1933, with the French peasant-philosopher Peter Maurin, founded the Catholic Worker newspaper and the houses of hospitality that fed and sheltered the poor through the Depression and after. The Long Loneliness is her autobiography, the story of a search that ended in the Church and in the community she built around voluntary poverty and pacifism. She was jailed for suffrage in 1917 and for civil defence protests in the 1950s, and the Church has opened her cause for sainthood.