Official Views..

[TommyCCR]

What is the Church’s OFFICIAL view on the Catholic Worker Movement started by Dorothy Day?

 

[JimR-OCDS]

As far as I know, the Church was in very much support of Dorithy Day.

I did find this at the Catholic Worker Website;

Day lived long enough to see her achievements honored. In 1967, when she made her last visit to Rome to take part in the International Congress of the Laity, she found she was one of two Americans – the other an astronaut – invited to receive Communion from the hands of Pope Paul VI. On her 75th birthday the Jesuit magazine America devoted a special issue to her, finding in her the individual who best exemplified “the aspiration and action of the American Catholic community during the past forty years.” Notre Dame University presented her with its Laetare Medal, thanking her for “comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.”

Among those who came to visit her when she was no longer able to travel was Mother Theresa of Calcutta, who had once pinned on Day’s dress the cross worn only by fully professed members of the Missionary Sisters of Charity.

Long before her death November 29, 1980, Day found herself regarded by many as a saint. No words of hers are better known than her brusque response, “Don’t call me a saint. I don’t want to be dismissed so easily.” Nonetheless, having herself treasured the memory and witness of many saints, she is a candidate for inclusion in the calendar of saints. The Claretians have launched an effort to have her canonized.

“If I have achieved anything in my life,” she once remarked, “it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.”

catholicworker.com/ddaybio.htm

Jim