Dorothy Day
Part of a series of articles on Christianity Social Christianity Major figures Francis of Assisi Antoninus of Florence Wilhelm E.F. von Ketteler Pope Leo XIII Adolph Kolping Edward Bellamy Margaret Wedgwood Benn Phillip Berryman James Hal Cone Dorothy Day Toni Negri Leo Tolstoy Óscar Romero Gustavo Gutiérrez Abraham Kuyper Daniel Berrigan Philip Berrigan Martin Luther King, Jr. Walter Rauschenbusch Desmond Tutu Tommy Douglas Joseph Smith, Jr. Organizations Confederation of Christian Trade Unions Catholic Worker Movement Christian Socialist Movement Key concepts Subsidiarity Christian anarchism Christian humanism Marxism Christian communism Liberation theology Black Liberation Theology Praxis School Precarity Human dignity Social market economy Communitarianism Distributism Catholic social teaching Neo-Calvinism Neo-Thomism Communalism Law of consecration United Order Bishop's storehouse Key documents Rerum novarum (1891) Princeton Stone Lectures (1898) Populorum progressio (1967) Centesimus annus (1991) Caritas in veritate (2009) Christianity portal v t e Dorothy Day, Obl.O.S.B. (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist, and devout Catholic convert. She advocated the Catholic economic theory of distributism. In the 1930s, Day worked closely with fellow activist Peter Maurin to establish the Catholic Worker Movement, a pacifist movement that continues to combine direct aid for the poor and homeless with nonviolent direct action on their behalf. She served as editor of the Catholic Worker newspaper from 1933 until her death in 1980. The Catholic Church has opened the cause for Day's canonization and therefore refers to her with the title Servant of God.