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A New York ferry to be named after Catholic Worker co-founder Dorothy Day

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30 March 2021
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The Staten Island Ferry moves past the Statue of Liberty in New York City. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced one of the three new ferries transporting people between Staten Island and lower Manhattan will be named for Catholic Worker Movement co-founder Dorothy Day, whose sainthood cause is being considered by the Vatican. Photo: CNS

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Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement and its newspaper, The Catholic Worker, is depicted in a stained-glass window at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in the Staten Island borough of New York. Photo: CNS

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says that one of the city’s three new ferries transporting people between Staten Island and lower Manhattan will be named after Catholic Worker Movement co-founder Dorothy Day, whose sainthood cause is being considered by the Vatican.

“Dorothy Day lived a life of tremendous selflessness and service. I can think of no greater way to honor her beloved legacy than by having her name on this new ferry boat connecting Manhattan and Staten Island,” Mayor de Blasio, himself a Catholic, said.

The new vessel is expected to be ready for service sometime in 2022 – faster, likely, than any Vatican action on her canonization.

“How providential that the ferry from lower Manhattan to Staten Island should be named after a brave, loving woman who cherished both those areas of our city and the people who live there,” a statement by Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, said.

“How appropriate that a ferry transporting people would honor a believing apostle of peace, justice and charity who devoted her life to moving people from war to peace, from emptiness to fullness, from isolation to belonging.”

The Staten Island Ferry moves past the Statue of Liberty in New York City. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced one of the three new ferries transporting people between Staten Island and lower Manhattan will be named for Catholic Worker Movement co-founder Dorothy Day, whose sainthood cause is being considered by the Vatican. Photo: CNS

Day’s roots grew deep on Staten Island. As an adult, she was baptized at Our Lady Help of Christians Church in Tottenville in 1927.

Day, who was given the title “Servant of God” when her cause was officially opened in 2000, also began a cooperative farm in Pleasant Plains in 1950, operating it for the needy and Catholic Worker members until 1964, when it was sold. She died in 1980 at age 83 and is buried in Resurrection Cemetery, also in Pleasant Plains.

It was in Manhattan where Day met Peter Maurin and started the Catholic Worker newspaper, which still publishes with its cover price of one cent – the same price now as when it was founded in the depths of the Great Depression -and Mary House, the first Catholic Worker hospitality house, of which there are more than 250 worldwide today.

“Dorothy Day was a modest woman. She didn’t even want to take credit for founding the Catholic Worker, insisting that any plaudits go to her inspiration, the religious thinker Peter Maurin,” said John Loughery, co-author of last year’s “Dorothy Day Dissenting Voice of the American Century.”

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“She’d probably want the city, in her name or anyone’s name, to do more to help the homeless who are still with us. Personally, though, I’m fine with anything that increases her name recognition and brings attention to her values.

“Dorothy Day and what she stood for are simply not very well-known today in comfort-obsessed America.

“In a country scarred by the ravages of Donald Trump, COVID, and the horror of children taken from their families at our border, anything that moves people to think about, and perhaps restore, our moral compass – even a ferry boat – is good by me.”

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