MOSCOW MARY: A Brief Look at the Life of Dorothy Day

A Society of St. Pius X priest delves into the life, politics, beliefs and activities of Dorothy Day (1897-1980); an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth (unconventional life-style), became a Catholic without abandoning her social and anarchist activism. She had ties to radical and socialist newspapers and publications like New York Call, (New) Masses and The Catholic Worker. There is a movement afoot to rehabilitate the persona of Day as a “Catholic” heroine and model for today’s Catholic to imitate, ignoring her past as a radical with socialist and communist traits.

“No one can be at the same time a sincere Catholic and a true socialist.” Pope Pius XI, 1931.