This site is devoted to the writings of Dorothy Day who co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement with Peter Maurin in 1933.

Dorothy Day: The Staten Island Years In 1924, Dorothy Day used the proceeds from the sale of film rights to her novel, The Eleventh Virgin to purchase a bungalow overlooking the beach at Huguenot, on Staten Island, New York. There, over the next three years, she contracted a common-law marriage to Forster Batterham, conceived their daughter Tamar (born March 4, 1926), and became a Catholic, all ...

Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin and the Catholic Worker Movement Baroness calls Dorothy Day a Saint by Catherine Doherty Catherine de Hueck Doherty, a refugee of the Russian Revolution, began working with the poor during the Great Depression, opening Catholic Friendship Houses in Toronto, Harlem and later Chicago. She went on to establish the Madonna House Lay Apostolate in 1947, which is based in ...

The Catholic Worker Movement Home Dorothy Day Peter Maurin Communities Research Help Writings New Items Search Writings Dorothy Biographies Photos Canonization Index Bibliographies Article about Dorothy Day's saintliness Dorothy Day A Saint for Our Age By Jim Forest Presented at the Dorothy Day Centenary Conference, Marquette University, October 10, 1997. This article also appeared in a ...

Dorothy Day epitomizes the evangelical side of the Church; the side where we are called to go into the world and spread the word of social justice. Influenced by Peter Maurin, Day set up Houses of Hospitality to help feed, clothe, and comfort the poor - the basis of Christianity; the Beatitudes. She began her early adulthood as an avid communist, only to be swayed by all the Catholic Church offered her.