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The Servant of God Dorothy Day ( November 8 , 1897 - November 29 , 1980 ) was a Journalist turned social activist (she was an Industrial Workers Of The World member) and devout member of the Roman Catholic Church . She became known for her social justice campaigns in defense of the poor, forsaken, hungry and homeless. Alongside Peter Maurin , she founded the Catholic Worker Movement in 1933 , espousing Nonviolence , and hospitality for the impoverished and downtrodden. The movement started with the '' Catholic Worker '' Newspaper that she and Peter Maurin founded to stake out a neutral, Pacifist position in the increasingly war-torn 1930s . Day later opened a "house of hospitality" in the Slum s of New York City . The movement quickly spread to other cities in the United States , and to Canada and the United Kingdom ; more than 30 independent but affiliated CW communities had been founded by 1941. Well over 100 communities exist today, including several in Australia , the United Kingdom, Germany , The Netherlands , the Republic Of Ireland , Mexico , New Zealand , and Sweden . By the 1960s Day was embraced by left-wing Catholic s. Although Day had written passionately about women’s rights, Free Love and birth control in the 1910s , she opposed the Sexual Revolution of the sixties, saying she had seen the ill effects of a similar sexual revolution in the 1920s , when she had a then-legal Abortion . Day was proposed for sainthood by the Claretian Missionaries in 1983. Some opponents have found her unworthy because of the "sins of her youth" — pre-marital sex and an abortion. Others, Catholic Workers among them, found the process unworthy of her. Nevertheless, Vatican City granted the Archdiocese of New York permission to open Day's "cause" in March of 2000, officially bestowing upon her the title of Servant Of God . Her autobiography ''The Long Loneliness'' was published in , 2005 {Link without Title} . EXTERNAL LINKS
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION 1972: Laetare Medal, University of Notre Dame 1978: Pax Christi USA Pope Paul VI Teacher of Peace Award 2002: Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame SEE ALSO |