To The Best Of Our Knowledge

On Pilgrimage with Dorothy Day


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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 gracesInside the ‘agony and ecstasy’ of MaryhouseWe are all ‘called to be saints’

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


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