Hannah Glickstein wonders whether canonization might obscure her more ordinary, human message.
Dorothy Day was born in November 1897 and died in November 1980; already declared to be a Servant of God, she is a candidate for canonization. In 2015, Pope Francis singled her out as one of four Americans – alongside Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King – who have made America “great”. But the late Jesuit priest Fr Daniel Berrigan said that to canonize Day would be a “demotion”. Her legacy is of vital importance to 21st-century Catholics. Does her putative sainthood run the risk of diminishing it somehow?
