In one of his final general audiences, Benedict XVI pointed to her “search for truth” and her willingness “to open herself to the discovery of faith” as a model for conversion. In 2000, Pope John Paul II gave approval for her cause for sainthood to begin. Today, more than one hundred hospitality houses are functioning in the United States.ĭorothy Day’s influence wasn’t limited to the United States. They opened a shelter (a “hospitality house”) and a food line on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and they founded a newspaper, the Catholic Worker, to draw attention to social injustice and to promote Catholic social teaching. In fact, she is one of the most inspiring Catholic women of the twentieth century.ĭorothy Day and Peter Maurin cofounded the Catholic Worker Movement as a way of helping the poor and homeless in New York City. She was also a convert, a mystic, and, above all, a devout Catholic. She was an unwed mother who had aborted a previous child. She was a drifter, a radical, a bohemian, an activist, and a journalist.
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