Dorothy Day: Finding Freedom in Obedience

“The Holy Spirit is Moving in Manhattan,” read the headline in the National Catholic Register in April. At St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in New York’s Greenwich Village this past Easter, eighty-eight young people received the sacraments of baptism or confirmation, up from thirty-five the previous year. Even more are flocking to Sunday Mass. Week after week, it’s standing room only. But over one hundred years ago, a different conversion took place at St. Joseph’s.