The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has honored the 45th anniversary of the death of Dorothy Day in this Instagram post. They exhort us to follow her example. She loved and served the poor and recognized the ineradicable dignity of every human person. She also saw prophetically and spoke boldly about problems in the United States of America that many of her fellow Catholics were blind to in her time.
Encouraged by Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV, the U.S. bishops recently spoke firmly for the humanity of immigrants facing this regime’s cruel and chaotic mass deportation policy. Perhaps we are all beginning to appreciate the need to see our own country as Jesus sees us, with great mercy (for he knows our weakness) but also with ardor for suffering persons we would rather ignore — poor persons whose needs we can only see if we break free of our comforts in order to accompany them and share their sufferings.
