On Pilgrimage with Dorothy Day

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🗓️ 19 April 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

How does someone become an official saint? Meet Dorothy Day — journalist, radical activist, mother and lay minister to the poor who died in 1980 — who is being considered for sainthood by the Catholic Church. Shannon Henry Kleiber walks in her footsteps through New York City, where she lived and worked, looking for miracles, talking with people whose lives were changed by her, and wondering how and why saints matter today.

We are grateful for additional music for this show from Tom Chapin, Si Kahn and the Chapin Sisters. Thanks also to the Dorothy Day Guild, and The Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Marquette University Archives, which houses Dorothy Day’s papers and photos.

Original Air Date: April 19, 2025

Interviews In This Hour:
In search of miracles, favors and graces — Inside the ‘agony and ecstasy’ of Maryhouse — We are all ‘called to be saints’

Guests:
Robert Ellsberg, Martha Hennessy, Fr. James Martin

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0:00.0	Hey friends, it's Anne.
0:10.0	Are there people you think of as saints?
0:13.1	Well, on this episode, up to the best of our knowledge,
0:15.8	producer Shannon Henry Clyber is going to take us on a journey through New York City
0:19.8	in the footsteps of peace
0:21.8	activist, journalist, and single mother Dorothy Day. And if you haven't heard of her,
0:27.0	well, she is up for sainthood in the Catholic Church. Keep listening. From WPR.
0:43.3	It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strain Champs.
0:51.3	And today, Shannon Henry Clyber is taking us on a journey through New York City on pilgrimage with Dorothy Day.
1:00.0	Hi, I'm Shannon.
1:01.0	She doesn't lose time.
1:02.0	Hi, Shannon.
1:03.0	I'm Alex Avatabli.
1:06.0	I'm a good sure.
1:07.0	Shannon, I can hear the city all around you.
1:11.9	Where exactly are you?
1:13.3	We're standing under the statue of George Washington
1:16.2	near the entrance to Union Square.
1:19.0	This is where it all began.
1:20.3	On May 1, 1933,
1:23.3	Issue 1, Volume 1 of Catholic Rican newspaper
1:25.8	was distributed here in Union Square on Mayday,
	...

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