Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

great post on post abortive Dorothy Day, who was put up for canonization by John Cardinal O'Connor.

Dorothy Day, a Reluctant Saint

Shortly before his death, John Cardinal O’Connor announced that the Holy See had approved his petition for the Archdiocese of New York to open the Cause for the Beatification and Canonization of Dorothy Day. The Vatican’s decision to consider Dorothy Day for sainthood drew immediate objections from many conservative Catholics and surely would have raised objections from Dorothy Day herself.

         She will be a reluctant saint. She shunned personal aggrandizement and pointed to her work as the only thing about her that warranted attention. Her private life was not something that she would  want to come under scrutiny. Dorothy was a free spirit, as reckless as she was restless. She graduated from the University of Illinois determined to be a writer. Ambitious and adventurous, she took a train to New York and landed a job at The Call, a socialist newspaper. She worked hard and drank even harder. She was tumultuous and promiscuous; a spectacular sinner all around. One of her sexual liaisons resulted in a pregnancy, which she promptly ended by abortion. Dorothy regretted that decision the rest of her life. She felt that the damage done to her womb during the abortion made future pregnancies impossible.

read the rest here: http://familyfaithonline.wordpress.com/2010/11/08/dorothy-day-a-reluctant-saint/