![]() ![]() ![]() Her insight is both privileged and rare – privileged because of her intimate relationship with Dorothy and rare because most authors who are that intimately tied to their subject cannot maintain a balanced critical distance. This book is extraordinary for a number of reasons: Kate Hennessy is a very good writer, the book is the product of years of research, she’s Dorothy’s granddaughter and had a very close and special relationship with her, and she manages in telling Dorothy’s story to keep both a healthy critical and aesthetic distance. This new biography gives us an honest picture of who this remarkable woman actually was. Congress, singled out four Americans who, he suggests, connected spirituality to a life of service in an extraordinary way: Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day. Indeed, Pope Francis in addressing the U.S. ![]() We’re all, I’m sure, familiar with who Dorothy Day was and what her life’s work was about. ![]() Dorothy Day is alleged to have said, “Don’t call me a saint I don’t want to be dismissed that easily!”Ī new biography on her by her granddaughter, Kate Hennessy, “Dorothy Day – The World Will Be Saved by Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of My Grandmother,” will, I believe, go a long way in preventing anyone from turning Dorothy Day, soon to be officially canonized by the church, into what she feared: a plaster-saint who can be piously doted upon and then not taken seriously. ![]()
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