Simona Beretta, Director of the University Center for the Social Doctrine of the Church and Responsible Director of the Journal “Dizionario di dottrina sociale della Chiesa,” Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore; Robert Ellsberg, Collaborator and curator of the autobiography Dorothy Day Ho trovato Dio attraverso i suoi poveri (ed. Lev); Giulia Galeotti, Journalist and author of “Siamo una rivoluzione. Vita di Dorothy Day”. Moderated by Francesco Magni, Researcher of General and Social Pedagogy at the University of Bergamo.

This event focuses on Dorothy Day (1897-1980), the co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement in New York in 1933. Dorothy Day was a versatile and outgoing personality, known as a journalist, writer, and activist for social rights. Her conversion to Catholicism and her life filled with dramatic events, joys, sorrows, successes, and misunderstandings make her particularly relevant to the struggles and challenges faced by men and women today. This discussion aims to rediscover her figure and reflect on why it is still worth living for an ideal, shedding tears, loving, suffering, and building something good for oneself and others, starting with the poorest and most abandoned, always guided by the discovery of faith, the unique dynamic of love that generates voluntary poverty, courage, humility, and charity, which we all, deep down, feel the need for.