On Pilgrimage

Here is a selection of Dorothy Days On Pilgrimage columns published in The Catholic Worker newspaper during the last decade of her life. Highlights are reports from her travels around the world, including Tanzania and the Soviet Union; arrest with the farmworkers at age 75; a standoff with the IRS over refusal to pay federal income tax; the end of the Vietnam War; speaking at the Eucharistic Congress; opening a new house of hospitality for homeless women; and the slow, inexorable journey toward the culmination of her pilgrimage in 1980. After the tumult of the 1960s, Dorothy welcomed in the 70s with the signs of constructive work, pointing to an alternative society. These writings are a moving testament to a life among the poor, her work as a prophetic peacemaker, her model as a new kind of saint for our times.

Dorothy Day