(1897 – 1980) Day a Roman Catholic social activist, sought to reconcile her early socialism with her 1927 conversion to Catholicism. She did this through the Catholic Worker’s Movement, which offered hospitality to the homeless and hungry from the Depression onwards, and the newspaper Catholic Worker (founded 1933). Throughout her life, Day brought her deep faith and conscience to bear on issues of labor, race and pacifism. Since her death, some have sought to propose her as a fitting saint for the American century. Her autobiography The Long Loneliness, appeared in 1952.