Is it time for St. Dorothy Day? The Brooklyn, N.Y.-born co-founder of both the Catholic Worker movement and the Catholic Worker newspaper in 1933 has a gathering of both the voiceful and voiceless calling for her to be canonized.
An early tailwind wafted in when Cardinal John O'Connor of New York announced in St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1997 that it might be time to begin the bureaucratic process to get a halo atop Day, who died in Lower Manhattan in 1980. O'Connor followed through by petitioning the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints. In 2012, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops unanimously endorsed the idea. Adding heft, an advocacy group, the Dorothy Day Guild, has been formed.
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