There is an article in the New York Times today about the canonization of Dorothy Day. I wrote a letter to the Times in response, but I doubt they will print it since they never print our letters…maybe they will surprise me…

In Hero of the Catholic Left, a Conservative Cardinal Sees a Saint

Dorothy Day
is a hero of the Catholic left, a fiery 20th-century social activist
who protested war, supported labor strikes and lived voluntarily in
poverty as she cared for the needy.

 

Patrick Semansky/Associated Press

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, of
which Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York is president, voted this
month to support Dorothy Day's canonization.

But Day has found a seemingly unlikely champion in New York’s conservative archbishop, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, who has breathed new life into an effort to declare the Brooklyn native a saint.

Cardinal Dolan has embraced her cause with striking zeal: speaking on
the anniversaries of her birth and death, distributing Dorothy Day
prayer cards to parishes and even buying roughly 100 copies of her
biography to give out last year as Christmas gifts to civic officials
including Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.

This month, at Cardinal Dolan’s recommendation, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
voted unanimously to move forward with her canonization cause, even
though, as some of the bishops noted, she had an abortion as a young
woman and at one point flirted with joining the Communist Party.

The rest is here:http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/27/nyregion/sainthood-for-dorothy-day-has-unexpected-champion-in-cardinal-timothy-dolan.html?ref=nyregion