{"id":27301,"date":"2012-11-27T20:20:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T00:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/11\/dorothy-day-is-not-the-patron\/"},"modified":"2013-12-17T17:25:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T21:25:04","slug":"dorothy-day-is-not-the-patron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/11\/dorothy-day-is-not-the-patron\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorothy Day not the patron saint of the &#8220;left&#8221; nor an agenda item of the &#8220;right&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<o:documentproperties>\n<o:template>Normal<\/o:template>\n<o:revision>0<\/o:revision>\n<o:totaltime>0<\/o:totaltime>\n<o:pages>1<\/o:pages>\n<o:words>35<\/o:words>\n<o:characters>205<\/o:characters>\n<o:company>Liturgy Traing Publ.<\/o:company>\n<o:lines>1<\/o:lines>\n<o:paragraphs>1<\/o:paragraphs>\n<o:characterswithspaces>251<\/o:characterswithspaces>\n<o:version>10.260<\/o:version>\n<\/o:documentproperties>\n<\/xml>< ![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<w:worddocument>\n<w:zoom>0<\/w:zoom>\n<w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>0<\/w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>\n<w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>0<\/w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>\n<w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin><\/w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin>\n<\/w:worddocument>\n<\/xml>< ![endif]--><br \/>\n<!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; &lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;\nmso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Day%20the%20saint.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" alt=\"Day the saint.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2012\/11\/Day the saint-thumb-285x166-13296.jpg\" width=\"285\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><\/span>Dorothy Day is not a pawn in political camps. She is the darling of a political camp for either the seculars or the ecclesials. To apply political monikers of liberal and conservative, left or right is grossly inaccurate and a rather reductionistic manner to understand a person and her vocation, the vocation defined by love and happiness. True to an authentic follower of Christ, Dorothy Day&#8217;s vocation was to be a saint, that is singularly focussed on her Lord and Savior; her vocation was to adore and follow Jesus Christ. Day&#8217;s vocation was not to feed the the poor and argue for a change in governmental policy. As a friend said,\u00a0Day&#8217;s life is too easily &#8220;framed in political terms by people who anachronistically use words like &#8216;liberal&#8217; and &#8216;conservative&#8217; to describe a life that was never about that fight.&#8221; Additionally, I fully agree with Martha Hennessy, 57, the granddaughter of Day who said she was uncomfortable about her grandmother&#8217;s abortion. Let&#8217;s pay attention to Martha Hennessy, &#8220;I wish we would focus on the birth of her child more than on her abortion because that&#8217;s what really played a role in her conversion.&#8221; Indeed. This is the pro-life position of the Church.<\/p>\n<div>I significantly dislike the way Day&#8217;s life is used to diminish a true practice of faith, of religion.\u00a0<i>The NY Times<\/i>\u00a0published Sharon Otterman&#8217;s article, &#8220;<strong>I<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/27\/nyregion\/sainthood-for-dorothy-day-has-unexpected-champion-in-cardinal-timothy-dolan.html?pagewanted=1&amp;hp&amp;_r=0\">n Hero of the Catholic Left, a Conservative Cardinal Sees a Saint<\/a><\/strong>,&#8221; and it&#8217;s typically misguided with tired cliches and wrong information (her facts are often wrong) yet useful in a limited way because Dorothy Day saintliness shines. Obviously Otterman wanted a story and not the truth.<\/div>\n<div><!--EndFragment--><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorothy Day is not a pawn in political camps. She is the darling of a political camp for either the seculars or the ecclesials. To apply political monikers of liberal and conservative, left or right is grossly inaccurate and a rather reductionistic manner to understand a person and her vocation, the vocation defined by love &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/11\/dorothy-day-is-not-the-patron\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dorothy Day not the patron saint of the &#8220;left&#8221; nor an agenda item of the &#8220;right&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[32101,2744,2223,1900,1978],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27301"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29783,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27301\/revisions\/29783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}