Dorothy Day Film, Entertaining Angels

With the aid of her mentor, Peter Maurin, she founded the Catholic Worker, channeling the profits from the successful publication to her Catholic organizations that helped feed and shelter the homeless and dispossessed. While the film does an excellent job at showing what Day did, it fails at showing who she was. For Day spent most of her life sleeping, working, and eating among the poor, but the producers portray her as pious and remove the very earthy qualities of DayÆs character that made her a true Christian.

Entertaining Angels portrays Day as pious and as one of GodÆs chosen. When she has a crisis of faith and heads to a nearby, vacant church to speak with God, the soundtrack plays ominous thunder at her entrance. Like

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as one of Christian Anarchism. In her early days, Day was to be found having indiscriminate affairs, assaulting police officers at protests, drinking, smoking, and carousing with Bohemian artists, and she underwent an illegal abortion. However, her lack of spiritual fulfillment, after the birth of a second daughter whose father Day left, leads Day to search for something more meaning and fulfilling. Day found something more meaningful and fulfilling spiritually in her conversion to Catholicism and a newfound devotion to the poor and dispossessed. Such work tirelessly consumed Day from this point on in her life, a period where she was known to shun material comforts and spent much of her time eating, sleeping, and working among the poor and dispossessed. At the time of her death Day had no money, leaving nothing behind for her burial. She was buried by the Roman Catholic Church. As Day said of her mission in life, a mission that shows she was truly trying to mirror the life of Jesus in her expression of Christianity, ôWhat we would like to do is change the worldùmake it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended them to doàfighting foràthe rights of the worthy and the unworthy poor, in
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