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Dorothy Day ~ The Catholic Worker
She's on her way to sainthood... but her life didn't start out that way...
• Initially Dorothy Day lived a bohemian life ~ Bohemianism is the practice of an unconventional lifestyle, often in the company of like-minded people, with few permanent ties, involving musical, artistic or literary pursuits...
• She had with two common-law marriages ~ Common-law marriages are not solemnized...
• She had an abortion.
• In 1910 she supported sexual freedom BUT opposed sexual revolution of the 1960s after she became a Catholic... saying she had seen the ill-effects of a similar sexual revolution in the 1920s.
• She was buried in Cemetery of the Resurrection on Staten Island, just a few blocks from the location of the beachside cottage where she first became interested in Catholicism.
• She was proposed for sainthood by the Claretian Missionaries in 1983.
• Pope John Paul II granted the Archdiocese of New York permission to open Day's "cause" for sainthood in March 2000, thereby officially making her a "Servant of God" in the eyes of the Catholic Church.
Click here to read more about her life...
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Here are some Quotes by Dorothy Day
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/dorothy_day.html
Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.
Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.
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Here are some Quotes by Dorothy Day
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/dorothy_day.html
Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.
Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.
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