![]() Day was about people, especially poor people, especially those whom she called with some wryness “the undeserving poor,” and the paramount importance of serving them. Is a saint, because her holiness has suffered no decrease in vitality since her death, at age 83, in 1980, and her example, her American example, is more challenging and provocative today than it ever was. Whether or not the Catholic Church makes it official-and the cause for her canonization rumbles on-Dorothy Day was most definitely a saint. They have seen, among other things, that the world is hollowed-out and illumined by beams of divine love, that the first shall be last and the last shall be first, and that sanctity-should you desire it-is merely to live in accordance with these elementary facts. ![]() They have penetrated the everyday atomic buzz and seen into the essential structures. Their research, if you like, has led them unblinkingly to conclude that reality is not at all what, or where, or who we think it is. ![]() One way to understand the saints-the radiant, aberrant beings next to whom the rest of us look so shifty and shoddy-is to imagine them as cutting-edge physicists. ![]()
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