Dorothy Day is focus of onewoman play

“Haunted by God,” a onewoman play about Dorothy Day, will be performed at 5 p.m. March 31 at Epiphany of the Lord Catholic Church, 7336 W Britton Road.

Admission is free to the play which tells the story of one of the co-founder's of the Catholic Worker movement.

Day (1897-1980) was a woman of immense conviction who found herself jailed many times when standing up for her beliefs, which included women's suffrage. In New York in 1933, she and a Frenchborn itinerant philosopher Peter Maurin co-founded the Catholic Worker, a living movement that has been responsible for feeding and housing the homeless while maintaining a monthly national newspaper. Today, there are more than 100 Catholic Worker houses in the United States and around the world.Day spent 47 years living with the poor and challenging the U.S. government to halt acts of war. She is known as the “mother of the peace movement” in the United States and has influenced such American peacemakers as Daniel Berrigan and Michael Harrington.In the year 2000, Saint John Paul II granted the Archdiocese of New York permission to open Dorothy Day's cause for canonization as saint, allowing her to be called a “Servant of God” in the eyes of the Catholic Church. Pope Benedict XVI in 2013, in the closing days of his papacy, cited Day as an example of conversion.

“Haunted by God” was written by Paul Amandes; Lisa Wagner, who portrays Day; and Robert McClory. Directed by Virginia Smith, with costume and set design by Daniel Ostling, this production has been touring the United States since May 1990. For more information, call 722-2110.