Episode #18: Don't Call Me a Saint — Dorothy Day (part one), the Woman Nobody Could Domesticate

About this episode

The episode explores the life of Dorothy Day, her political activism, Catholic conversion, and the founding of the Catholic Worker Movement.

Dorothy Day is the kind of person everyone tries to claim and nobody can fully control. One side calls her a socialist. Another side calls her a saint. She answered both with the same refusal: don’t use a label to dismiss the demand her life puts on you. We walk through her story from early bohemian politics and labor activism to her Catholic conversion, then the founding of the Catholic Worker Movement with Peter Maurin. Along the way, we dig into her most important writings, including The ...

People in this episode

Host: Travis Mullen

Topics covered

• socialism
• Catholicism
• activism
• labor rights
• Catholic Worker Movement

Keywords

• Dorothy Day
• Catholic Worker Movement
• socialism
• labor activism
• Catholicism

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