Of all the modern examples of holiness, Dorothy Day may well be the most approachable. During her bohemian years, she had a number of affairs, an abortion, lived out of wedlock, attempted suicide twice, and became a radical socialist. But all the while she longed for deeper meaning, with an unquenchable desire to help the downtrodden.
Day was born in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York into a stable, middle class family. Although her Episcopalian parents were not churchgoers, they instilled in her a sol
Of all the modern examples of holiness, Dorothy Day may well be the most approachable. During her bohemian years, she had a number of affairs, an abortion, lived out of wedlock, attempted suicide twice, and became a radical socialist. But all the while she longed for deeper meaning, with an unquenchable desire to help the downtrodden.
Day was born in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York into a stable, middle class family. Although her Episcopalian parents were not churchgoers, they instilled in her a sol…
