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Dorothy Day November 8, — November 29, was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social activism.

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She was perhaps the best-known political radical among American Catholics. Day's conversion is described in her autobiography, The Long Loneliness. In she was imprisoned as a member of suffragist Alice Paul 's nonviolent Silent Sentinels. In the s, Day worked closely with fellow activist Peter Maurin to establish the Catholic Worker Movement , [ 5 ] a pacifist movement that combines direct aid for the poor and homeless with nonviolent direct action on their behalf.

She practiced civil disobedience , which led to additional arrests in , [ 6 ] , [ 7 ] and in at age As part of the Catholic Worker Movement, Day co-founded the Catholic Worker newspaper in , and served as its editor from until her death in In this newspaper, Day advocated the Catholic economic theory of distributism , which she considered a third way between capitalism and socialism.

The Catholic Church has opened the cause for Day's possible canonization , which was accepted by the Holy See for investigation. For that reason, the Church refers to her with the title of Servant of God. Her parents were married in an Episcopal church in Greenwich Village.