Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement

A Better World community
Jan 11
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Dorothy Day, in black and white, with short hair in a vintage office, standing beside an old-fashioned telephone. Paneled walls and textured glass in the background. — Image: Dorothy_Day_1916 Wikimedia Commons

“No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do." - Dorothy Day

Pope Francis, in his address to the U.S. Congress in 2015, praised Dorothy Day's work for society's oppressed and urged Congress to imitate her life of challenging poverty and working for the common good.

As leader of the Catholic Worker movement, founded in 1933, Dorothy advocated for civil rights, worker's rights, social justice and pacifism. A person of faith, but also a person of action.

Join us as we talk to Kevin Ahern, professor of Religious Studies at Manhattan University and director of the Dorothy Day Center.