Unruly Saint: Dorothy Day's Radical Vision and its Challenge for Our Times

In 1933, in the shadow of the Great Depression, Dorothy Day started the most prominent Catholic radical movement in United States history, the Catholic Worker Movement, a storied organization with a lasting legacy of truth and justice.

Day's newspaper, houses of hospitality, and ministry of paying attention to the inequality of her world would eventually become world famous, just as she—a high-energy activist with a cigarette in one hand and a coffee cup in the other—would become a figure o...