Dorothy Day and the Downward Path to Blessing

In 1933, Dorothy Day stood in a breadline on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, ladling soup alongside the very people most of New York had learned to look past. She had been a journalist, a woman of letters, someone who could have climbed. Instead, she opened the Catholic Worker house on Charles Street and chose to descend. Day slept on the same thin mattresses as the homeless men and women she served.…