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Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 - November 29, 1980), initially Marxist, became Catholic in 1927. She was the cofounder in 1933 of the Catholic Worker Movement, a religious organization that espouses nonviolent action, and hospitality for the homeless, hungry and forsaken.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 slums of New York City to carry out good works and community organizing. By the 1960s Day was embraced by left-wing Catholics —although Day was opposed to the sexual revolution of that decade, saying she had seen the ill effects of a similar sexual revolution in the 1920s, when she had a then-illegal abortion.
Day's vow of poverty means she left no money when she died; her funeral was paid for by the archdiocese of New York.
Because of her role as a controversial character in the Catholic Church, there are conflicting campaigns for and against her canonization. Much of the opposition stems from her support of the distributist economic ideas of G. K. Chesterton.
Her autobiography The Long Loneliness was published in 1952.
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