“The faithful have been swept from the land; not one upright person remains [...] But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.”
– Micah 7:2,7
Dorothy Day (1897 – 1980) worked as a journalist for radical newspapers in the 1920s. As a Roman Catholic, she struggled to unite her personal faith with the passion for social justice until she met Peter Maurin, with whom she founded the Catholic Worker Movement in 1933. Through hospitality houses in the city, agronomic universities on the land, and roundtable discussions for the clarification of thought, they aimed to “create a new society within the shell of the old,” offering American Christianity the witness of a new monasticism that combines piety and practice, charity and justice.
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