Dorothy Day

Day’s Letter to an Agnostic

by Tim Muldoon

Dorothy Day’s 1934 Letter to an Agnostic is republished in this week’s America Magazine.  In it, she writes about her own struggles with belief and unbelief, sounding this very Ignatian note: We are taught that our souls never exercise just as our body does, otherwise it will never be healthy and well, and if it [...]

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Awareness and Dorothy Day

by Jim Manney

Toward the end of her life, Dorothy Day remarked that  “I’m just happy to have had our good Lord on my mind all these years.”  Patrick McGrath, SJ, sees that she captured the fundamental perspective of Ignatius Loyola: In our spiritual life we ought to pray for greater awareness and attentiveness. Do we really experience [...]

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Moving the Line

by Jim Manney

The lives of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin cause Paul Lickteig, SJ, to consider the limits to serving other people: I also see the way I draw lines between myself and others. I see the “other” and I see my desires and I say, “God, I will do this much for that person, but no [...]

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