Under Pope Leo XIV, Vatican Moves Dorothy Day Closer to Sainthood

Rome has accepted the first piece of Day’s canonization file; the full brief arrives by December. The radical whose kitchen helped birth the DSA may rise to sainthood under the first American pope.

Dorothy Day pickets at a New York peace demonstration in the early 1960s, carrying Pope John XXIII’s charge that nations turn their riches “more often to preparing arms” than to “the welfare of all classes of citizens and particularly of the poor.”

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