Agreed. Archbishop Gomez has produced an article on Dorothy Day which is full of pious platitudes about “love” and “service” . He does not address the real issues concerning Dorothy Day which have been demonstrated with the support of rock-solid evidence in “The Catholic Worker Movement (1933-80): a Critical Analysis.”
There you will find the truth that Day never gave up her Communist ideology. She could not in principle bring herself to condemn the social and economic ideals of Marxism. Her actions flowed from this ideology and were not constrained by such limiting factors as Catholicism or patriotism. In fact, she retained a lingering respect for Lenin and, by analogy, for all revolutionaries who were inspired by him. How else did she merit among her contemporaries the nickname “Moscow Mary?”
Many people are now using their critical faculties to uncover the truth about Dorothy Day rather than accept at face value the ready-made image of her that the Catholic Left keeps churning out.
Hmmm... One of Day’s contemporaries, also helping the poor and founding little communities, was Catherine Doherty. She and Day parted ways. She was from the Russian aristocracy and I’m willing to bet she had a different view of Marxism and it’s merits.
Her cause for sainthood is being pursued by her admirers, who continue to run a retreat house and co-ed community of lay people in Combermere, Ontario. (We once met a guy who lived there.)