Saint Thérèse of Lisieux’s Little Way of Love in the Spirituality of Dorothy Day
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Saint Thérèse of Lisieux’s Little Way of Love in the Spirituality of Dorothy Day

CatholicWorker.orgByCatholicWorker.org

A new academic paper seeks to shed light on the connection between the spirituality of St. Thérèse of Lisieux and the very public social activism of Dorothy Day. In “Saint Thérèse of Lisieux’s Little Way of Love in the Spirituality of Dorothy Day,” Noel E. Bordador of Nazareth House (Meycauyan, Philippines) proposes that Day saw the Little Way as a path to inner spiritual transformation and social change.

Acclaiming Saint Dorothy: An Argument Against Her Canonization
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Acclaiming Saint Dorothy: An Argument Against Her Canonization

Brian TerrellByBrian Terrell

Many Catholic Workers support the process of adding Dorothy Day to the Church’s official roster of canonized saints—but not all do. While this opposition to the canonization process is often acknowledged, the reasons behind it are rarely detailed. In the spirit of “clarification of thought,” then, here are some of the those reasons.

Dorothy Day: A Saint for Today
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Dorothy Day: A Saint for Today

Robert EllsbergByRobert Ellsberg

Here’s a lecture delivered by Robert Ellsberg at Loyola University Chicago’s Joan and Bill Hank Center for Catholic Intellectual Heritage on February 17, 2017. Ellsberg was a member of the Catholic Worker community in New York from 1975 to 1980, and served as the managing editor of The Catholic Worker newspaper from 1976 to 1978. He later went on to become editor-in-chief at Orbis Books.