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Article: 'Dorothy Day' movie set for fall release. (film about Catholic Worker movement founder)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- May 12, 1995
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It has, come full circle. In 1933, Paulist Press in New York was paid $25 to print the first edition of an obscure newspaper - The Catholic Worker. Its cofounder, Dorothy Day, would go on to lead one of the most agitated yet faith-filled, pacifist yet activist lives witnessed by American Catholicism.
In 1995, on a Malibu beach and a Hollywood movie set, and elsewhere, too, Dorothy Day's words and the work of Paulist priests have met again for a feature film about her life. Produced by Paulist Pictures on a $4.3 million budget, "Dorothy Day" is scheduled to be released in the fall, though the Paulists have yet to find a distributor.
In 1933, Dorothy Day got ...