Sainthood cause for Dorothy Day picking up steam in U.S

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Pro Life Dorothy Day would quite likely be a supporter of Pro Life President Trump.
 
Thirty interesting facts about Dorothy Day from the Catholic Worker, the movement she founded with Peter Maurin.

https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/dd-interesting-facts.html

Another interesting fact about Dorothy Day is that she never voted in U.S. elections, but that doesn’t stop political conservatives and liberals from claiming her as their own. I believe she transcends easy left/right pigeonholing, however, and I pray for her canonization.
 
christofirst said:
I believe she transcends easy left/right pigeonholing, however, and I pray for her canonization.
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Definitely. She called herself an anarchist but she clarified in one article that it wasn’t your typical anarchism i.e. down with the state! It was a little confusing but interesting.
 
Though I have a suspicion she may, I’m also thinking she may have, as an anarchist of a sort, disdained supporting even them. 😁
 
StudentMI said:
Definitely. She called herself an anarchist but she clarified in one article that it wasn’t your typical anarchism i.e. down with the state! It was a little confusing but interesting.
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Wikipedia officially puts her down as an Anarcho-Pacifist, but that school of thought in and of itself is an incredibly broad one.
She’s a very unique individual, and I have great respect for her from what I know of her story.
 
There would be no room for Dorothy Day in the pro abortion/infanticide leftist ideology that is the democratic party. Also since, as a Catholic, she would give all glory to God she would be rejected by a political ideology that seems to have no room for God.

I think she would have been smart enough to realize that voting for a weak third party that only seems to show up at presidential elections would hurt the Pro Life movement.
 
yankeesouth said:
I think she would have been smart enough to realize that voting for a weak third party that only seems to show up at presidential elections would hurt the Pro Life movement.
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Yeah…no. Day was a pacifist who was appalled at American partisan politics. Not even slightly. She remained a pacifist even in the face of the Second World War. She was a woman who saw politics as too compromised. She was not pro-life in a Republican sense, but a Catholic sense. She saw the dignity of ALL human life from conception to natural death as sacrosanct. Accepting a party that is ok with the death penalty and warfare was unconscionable to her.

Like all saints (canonized and not), Day is used by partisans on all sides. But she belongs to none of them. She belongs to God.
 
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Yeah…no.
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No…yeah. That is your opinion. The battle lines are so clearly drawn now that politics is part of spiritual warfare. She may very well have realized that and rejected the ‘seamless garment’ ideology which allows for liberals to vote for pro abortion ideology. She might have been influenced by Saint Teresa of Calcutta…

“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”

“What is taking place in America,” she said, “is a war against the child. And if we
accept that the mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to
kill one another.”

She may have read the Gospel of Life which says…

“Any politics of human dignity must seriously address issues of racism, poverty, hunger, employment, education, housing, and health care . . . But being ‘right’ in such matters can never excuse a wrong choice regarding direct attacks on innocent human life.

Indeed, the failure to protect and defend life in its most vulnerable stages renders suspect any claims to the ‘rightness’ of positions in other matters affecting the poorest and least powerful of the human community” (Living the Gospel of Life pp. 22).
 
yankeesouth said:
That is your opinion.
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No it was her opinion. She lived for almost a decade after Roe, and never felt the need to subvert her ideals for a political party. She knew that ALL of them exist for the sole purpose of expanding their own power at the expense of everyone else, and therefore are fundamentally anti-Catholic.

Dorothy Day belongs to God. While she was on this planet she never felt the need to engage in partisan politics. Let’s let her actions and words speak for themselves and not try to claim her for our own partisan reasons.
 
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christofirst said:
Another interesting fact about Dorothy Day is that she never voted in U.S. elections, but that doesn’t stop political conservatives and liberals from claiming her as their own. I believe she transcends easy left/right pigeonholing, however, and I pray for her canonization.
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At the very least anyone familiar with her would have to call her a leftist.
 
Maybe, maybe not. The liberals claim her but she was Pro Life and the way things stand now it is not out of the question that she would support Pro Life President Trump. Obviously she would not be accepted in the leftist ideology of the democratic party that proudly voices there is no room for Pro Life in it’s political ideology. I think she would be like Mother Teresa.
 
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yankeesouth said:
Maybe, maybe not. The liberals claim her but she was Pro Life and the way things stand now it is not out of the question that she would support Pro Life President Trump. Obviously she would not be accepted in the leftist ideology of the democratic party that proudly voices there is no room for Pro Life in it’s political ideology. I think she would be like Mother Teresa.
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She didn’t align herself to any political party. She was an anarchist. You’re creating an issue where none exists.
 
And you are fitting her into your political box. Anarchist or not she was Pro Life and she very well could have come to realize that Pro Life must be prioritized as the Catholic Church teaches because the left went over the deep end and advocated for pro abortion/infanticide.
 
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yankeesouth said:
And you are fitting her into your political box. Anarchist or not she was Pro Life and she very well could have come to realize that Pro Life must be prioritized as the Catholic Church teaches because the left went over the deep end and advocated for pro abortion/infanticide.
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No I’m not.
From the article.
An anarchist then as I am now, I have never used the vote that the women won by their demonstrations before the White House during that period."
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Given that she worked as a journalist with The Masses, a socialist newspaper, and that she strongly identified with a lot of progressive movements, I’d imagine she’d be more favorable towards left-leaning candidates if she absolutely had to pick a party, but she detested partisan politics. And the system. And injustice in general.

Man, Dorothy Day is really freakin’ cool.
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And you are fitting her into your political box.
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Bad form there, as you are doing the exact same thing, my friend.
 
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