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Finding God on Sixth Avenue
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TL;DR
- St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church on Sixth Avenue, Greenwich Village, is seeing a surge in young adult confirmations and attendance.
- Over 100 years ago, a similar, more subtle religious revival occurred on the same block.
- Journalist Dorothy Day, a regular at a local bar, found inspiration and converted to Catholicism after attending Mass at St. Joe's.
- Day co-founded the Catholic Worker movement with Peter Maurin in 1933, focusing on living by the Sermon on the Mount and practicing the Works of Mercy.
- The Catholic Worker movement created houses of hospitality, farming communes, published a newspaper, and participated in peaceful protests.
- Dorothy Day was imprisoned for protesting a nuclear raid drill in 1957.