Servant of God Dorothy Day is best known as the co-founder(with Peter Maurin) of the Catholic Worker Movement, which the two started in 1933 to inform workers about the social teaching of the Catholic Church and to promote the Works of Mercy. And at the end of this article, you’ll find a story this future journalist wrote for the Chicago Daily Tribune when she was 13 years old. Then I’ll suggest a list of five themes kids can learn from Dorothy Day. To help you introduce your kids to this saint-on-the-way (the formal process for her canonization is ongoing), I’d like to share a brief sketch of her life-including some interesting details of her childhood. As I researched her childhood, I was struck by how much her early experience either foreshadowed her later work, or planted the seeds for it. Over the past year, I’ve been working on a children’s picture book about Dorothy Day’s childhood experience of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake ( Dorothy Day and the Great Quake). Her example has inspired thousands of adults-Catholic and otherwise-to carry on her commitment to the corporeal Works of Mercy, peace, and social justice.īut Dorothy Day can be a good model for kids, too. Dorothy Day is one of four Americans that Pope Francis held up as worthy of imitation in his 2015 address to Congress.
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