HIST 3124 Biographical Approach to History: Dorothy Day: Catholic Worker
Dorothy Day was a journalist, an activist, a devout Catholic and a self-proclaimed anarchist In 2000, Pope John Paul II recognized Dorothy Day as a "Servant of God," the first step in the canonization process to declare her a saint in the Catholic Church. Dorothy Day was the founder, along with Peter Maurin, of the Catholic Worker Movement. This course looks at the life and words of this remarkable American Catholic and the work and philosophy of the Catholic Worker Movement.