[a-saint-from-new-york--Film-list-image]

1995 / 30 minutes

Directed by
Line Hatland
Anthropologist
Country of production
United Kingdom
Series
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film

Dorothy Day, ex-communist, anarchist, single mother and co-founder of the widespread ‘Catholic Worker’ movement — died in New York in 1980. Soon after the Claretian Fathers started a campaign to get her canonised. But the Philadelphia Catholic Workers oppose the idea.

Language and subtitles
English (no subtitles)
Location(s) depicted
Philadelphia
Region
North America
Country
United States
Keywords
Alternative culture Religion / Belief / Faith