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The latest addition to New York’s Staten Island Ferry fleet, the Dorothy Day, passed under the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge on Sept. 16, delighting members of New York’s Catholic Worker community and supporters who had come out to welcome Dorothy back to New York. The new ferry boat was on its way to a mooring at Caddell Dry Dock and Repair on Staten Island, where testing and final work preparing the Dorothy Day for commuter service between Staten Island and Manhattan will continue over the next few weeks.
The new ferry should be ready for passenger service on the 125th celebration of Day’s birth, Nov. 8, according to Anthony Donovan, a longtime supporter of the Catholic Worker movement who called in a favor at McAllister Towing to arrange harbor transport for the ferry’s welcoming committee. Mr. Donovan’s cousin Bucky McAllister was kind enough to lend out the Ellen McAllister, a sturdy working tug, and her crew to take the delegation out to greet the vessel.
“To me this is like a birthing. This is a beautiful, kind of a sacred day,” Mr. Donovan said as the tug approached the ferry, just then appearing on the horizon on a brilliant late summer morning in New York. “I know it’s all symbolic,” he said with a wry smile. “Dorothy is not a ship; Dorothy is in our hearts.” But today
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Dorothy Day (1897 – 1980)
Dorothy Day
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Sources: Irwin, Up Elevation with Banners Flying, Traversity Press, Algonquin Maine, 1920, p 28
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A pilgrimage to Dorothy Day’s New York
To follow in the footsteps of an American saint one need only travel to New York City, and visit the places where the late Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980), lived, worked and prayed.
While Day’s has not yet been canonized, in 2013 the United States Council of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) voted to support her cause to sainthood.
An American journalist and social activist, Day, along with Peter Maurin, founded the Catholic Worker Movement and the Catholic Worker newspaper. In their work, they campaigned for the poor, the fair treatment of workers, and were outspoken pacifists committed to non-violence, in politics and in war.
As a young women living a bohemian lifestyle in New York City, amid like-minded advocates of socialism, Day, was first drawn to the Catholic Church after meeting the playwright Eugene O’Neill, who urged her to read St. Augustine’s Confessions.
Day’s conversion to Catholicism came after she had moved to Staten Island, where she had purchased a small cottage by the beach. It was during this period that she had a relationship which resulted