Dorothy Day, welfare reform, and personal responsibility From: St. John's Law Review | Date: July 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright St. John's Law Review Association Summer 1999. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

INTRODUCTION

The 1930s and 1940s were the time of the origin of the welfare program that was abolished in 1996. This article will reflect on this time through the lens of an unusual woman, Dorothy Day, who was the founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, and who was recently proposed for sainthood by Cardinal John O'Connor.

"Welfare reform" advocates invoke a language reminiscent of Day in describing their program. "Personal responsibility," a favorite term of Day's publication, The Catholic Worker, is in the title of the Act. Further, the "reform's" devolution of power from the federal to ...

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