You're listening to a podcast on Catholic Saints.

This podcast is produced by the Augustine Institute,

an Apostolate helping Catholics understand, live, and share their faith.

Welcome to Form Now. I'm Tim Gray, president of the Augustine Institute. And joining me is

Elizabeth Klein, who's a professor of theology here at the Augustine. We're going to talk about

Dorothy Day, who is really a famous American Catholic. She spent most of her life in New York, although she was born in

Chicago. And she has a fascinating story. And I think it's a story that gives people hope. And that's why I

want to talk about Dorothy, her amazing virtues, her amazing life. She lived at a very tumultuous time,

the 20th century. And she, as an American, she was an atheist who becomes Catholic.

And so there's a great part of the story of her conversion that we want to talk about.

But there's also many other things about Dorothy Day that are really remarkable.

One of them is that she had an abortion.

She had a child out of wedlock and was a single mother.

And yet many, and there's an argument and a movement going forward right now,

to make her a canonized saint.

And so I think that we give a lot of hope to so many people in our country

and so many women who maybe struggle as a single mom

in our plague of divorce and broken marriages,

or with this pandemic of abortion.

So many people, and of course women are victims of abortion too.

And our culture just makes it for so many young women, that's the alternative that they kind of get driven to.

And I think it's easy for a lot of women who suffered an abortion, who had an abortion, to just despair, to think that, you know, they're just so filled with guilt and despair that they can't amount to anything and that God can't love them.

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