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Dorothy Day’s Very Early Writings

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Chicago Daily Tribune Three short stories, written when Dorothy Day was 13 and 14, are likely her first published work….

Chicago Daily Tribune

Three short stories, written when Dorothy Day was 13 and 14, are likely her first published work.

The New York Call

Thirty-six articles written in 1916-1917 for the socialist paper The New York Call.

The New Orleans Item

Seventy articles written in 1923-1924 for the The New Orleans Item.

The Eleventh Virgin

An autobiographical novel published in 1924.

Dorothy Day

Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement along with Peter Maurin. A writer and journalist by trade, she and Maurin founded the Catholic Worker newspaper. Much of her writing on the Catholic Worker Movement website is taken from the newspaper. The Roman Catholic Church is currently considering her cause for canonization.

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To The Workers

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Summary: An impassioned appeal to American workers asking them not to participate in the production of goods which will be used to wage war. She reminds workers of their power and begs them to unite and again sacrifice to further international truth and justice, not mass killing and destruction. (DDLW #347). The Catholic Worker, October 1939, 1, 3.

 

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May Day

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Summary: An anniversary remembrance of the Catholic Worker’s origins and how war and labor issues continue in the present. Recalls Peter Maurin’s opposition to the modern State, his emphasis on the principle of subsidiarity, clarification of thought, and the common good. (The Catholic Worker, May 1957, 2. DDLW #721).