Question on Dorothy Day

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I don’t mean this to be scandalous by posting this but I realize that she is being considered for beatification.

My question is that I have read a book and heard she had an abortion prior to becoming a catholic and wondered if this is true? Is this false?
 
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It’s true and she called it “the great tragedy of her life” and was sorry about it for the rest of her life.

She wrote about it extensively; it’s not a secret.
 
Do not know if she did or did not. However, in God’s eyes, it does not matter, or even exist, if one is absolved of that sin.

Father Abraham lied. Moses and David were murders. Dr. Bernard Nathanson aborted thousands before repenting and being absolved and entering the Church. Notorious American Gangster Dutch Schultz converted on his deathbed after being mortally wounded in a shootout.

The beauty of the Catholic faith is that confronting and dealing with our past goes as follows:
  1. Contrite confession and absolution.
  2. What past?
 
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If we’re going to talk about sins generally, by the standards of the Catholic Church, Dorothy Day lived a very sinful life before she became a Catholic. She had an abortion, she had sex outside marriage with a number of men, she had a child out of wedlock.

As you said, all she had to do was confess and be absolved and none of that mattered any more. She was a good mother to the child she had and ended up raising on her own because the father didn’t want a child and didn’t want to marry her in the Church.
 
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Do not know if she did or did not. However, in God’s eyes, it does not matter, or even exist, if one is absolved of that sin.

Father Abraham lied. Moses and David were murders. Dr. Bernard Nathanson aborted thousands before repenting and being absolved and entering the Church. Notorious American Gangster Dutch Schultz converted on his deathbed after being mortally wounded in a shootout.

The beauty of the Catholic faith is that confronting and dealing with our past goes as follows:
  1. Contrite confession and absolution.
  2. What past?
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Plus reparation for sins.
 
Sin does not preclude sainthood, if it did, we would have only a very few saints!
 
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