Dorothy Day, whose work many still consider radical, is now a candidate for sainthood By Russell Shaw OSV News In one of his more snarky stories about clerical life — it’s called “The Forks” — the American Catholic writer J.F. Powers capsulizes the fraught relationship between a stuffy, self-important pastor and his young curate […]
Sainthood cause for Dorothy Day picking up steam in United States
By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The sainthood cause for Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, believes it could have all of the documentation prepared at some point next year to send to the Vatican Congregation for Saints’ Causes. It would represent the culmination of an effort begun informally in 1997, […]