Cardinal Dolan, bishops endorse Dorothy Day of Catholic Worker as a "saint for our times" - NY Times

In 1965 the war in Vietnam was escalating sharply.  I hadn't given it much thought. But one day a couple of guys from the Catholic Worker showed up in the mail room in Kimball Hall at Holy Cross where I was a student.  I was drawn into the conversation.  They preached pacifist opposition to the war, the egalitarian social philosophy of their founder Dorothy Day, and gave out copies of the  Catholic Worker newspaper - price 1 Cent.  That was my introduction to the "Catholic left", soon to be followed by my encounters with veterans of the civil rights and civil liberties fights of the 50's and now 60's when I attended Friday evening sessions of the Phoenix Club in a downtown Worcester storefront.  There I met Boston College Law School Dean Robert Drinan, S.J. who would go to Congress as an anti-war candidate, David McReynolds of the War Resisters League, and the not-yet-famous Abbie Hoffman who lived in Worcester and would soon become a celebrity jester of the anti-war movement. - GWC
Champions Sainthood for Dorothy Day, Hero of Catholic Left - NYTimes.com: by Sharon Otterman

"Dorothy Day is a hero of the Catholic left, a fiery 20th-century social activist who protested war, supported labor strikes and lived voluntarily in poverty as she cared for the needy.  

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, of which Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York is president, voted this month to support Dorothy Day's canonization.But Day has found a seemingly unlikely champion in New York’s conservative archbishop, CardinalTimothy M. Dolan, who has breathed new life into an effort to declare the Brooklyn native a saint.Cardinal Dolan has embraced her cause with striking zeal: speaking on the anniversaries of her birth and death, distributing Dorothy Day prayer cards to parishes and even buying roughly 100 copies of her biography to give out last year as Christmas gifts to civic officials including Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.This month, at Cardinal Dolan’s recommendation, theUnited States Conference of Catholic Bishops voted unanimously to move forward with her canonization cause, even though, as some of the bishops noted, she had an abortion as a young woman and at one point flirted with joining the Communist Party.“I am convinced she is a saint for our time,” Cardinal Dolan said at the bishops’ meeting. She exemplifies, he said, “what’s best in Catholic life, that ability we have to be ‘both-and’ not ‘either-or.’ ”