DOROTHY DAY: Dissenting Voice of the American Century. By John Loughery and Blythe Randolph. Simon and Schuster. 448 pages. $30. Dorothy Day rarely left those who met her unmoved. Tall and regularly ...

I first stumbled upon the Catholic Worker movement shortly after I graduated high school. Having taken several months to travel the country, I lived for a few weeks in a blighted section of Baton ...

Dorothy Day's first jail stint, in 1917, was a brutal experience arising from a protest for women's suffrage. Behind bars she embarked on a hunger strike and came to know the misery of forced feeding.

There is much to be gained by studying the lives of great men and women. Human history is adorned by the lives of those able to see beyond themselves, to couple a vision of a better world with the ...

After our daughter was born, my wife and I mailed our donation and subscription request to The Catholic Worker newspaper. After all, we had just named our firstborn, Rachel Day, for Dorothy Day, ...