"We Are a Revolution" — A Review

She was a force: journalist, founder of the Catholic Worker movement and its monthly magazine, activist, pacifist, anarchist, adult convert, unwed mother, despised by cardinals and the FBI. Through picket lines, breadlines, and houses of hospitality, Dorothy Day (1897–1980) changed how the American Church and society saw their obligations. Little known in Italy, Giulia Galeotti's biography introduces her in all her complexity. The book reads like a novel, and it makes plain a truth both simple and exacting: if you choose to live the Gospel fully, you cannot help but place the fragile, the forgotten, the discarded at the center of your life. Many of these were people with disabilities and mental illness whom Day not only welcomed but enabled to flourish. A truly "revolutionary" woman who deserves to be known, for she has much to teach our conscience and our choices today. Now declared a Servant of God, will she one day be canonized? Galeotti argues she would be "exactly the model we need"—above all for her ability to see people beyond their supposed limits. But is the Church ready for a saint so revolutionary? The question remains.