it seems that the liberals have already infiltrated the sspx...

You have done us all a huge favour. How do we get the bourgeois trads to read this and change their thinking? Any ideas?

If one is worried about infiltration, they should take it up with District Superiors.

I can only conclude that traditional Catholics are having trouble really discerning this because they are hung up on capitalism. They believe that capitalism is unCatholic fundamentally. They seem to embrace distributism as a positive goal because Chesterton supported it or Belloc wrote about it or because they believe that Pope Leo XIII outright condemned capitalism as intrinsically evil.

I have been reading about Dorothy Day for many years---long before I became a traditional Catholic.  So I feel that I can speak with my own opinion that is thoroughly researched.  I think Dorothy Day is a symbol of all that is currently wrong with the modern Catholic Church.  Her canonization will solidify and codify a new direction of the Church--one in which the Church's primary concern is no longer the salvation of souls and the Sacraments to one in which the Church's primary concern is the with the needs of the poor and the disregarding of morality.  In other words, the new church's morality is poverty and liberation theology.

Dorothy Day was a Communist sympathizer.  She was a feminist.  She was an anarchist.  She was a pacifist.  She was a complete believer in distributism, an economic theory that erupted in the late 19th century as a response to the abuses that were happening in free-market capitalistic society.

There is absolutely no evidence, other than Dorothy Day's self admission, that she changed her opinion of Communism, feminism, anarchy, pacifism, socialism, and or distributism.

Based on my own readings of some things she wrote in the Catholic Worker Newspaper, I concluded my own self that Dorothy Day thought the idea of communism was a fundamental moral good.  What she didn't like about it was the propensity to abandon God and to embrace atheism.

She fully supported the idea of communitarianism, an ideology that emphasizes community over individualism.  This is what Ms. Day believed in and implemented across the U.S.--communal living, shared property, concern for the poor.

These things sound Catholic, but they are not really.  Communitarianism is wickedly deceptive.  Please do your own research about it.  I first heard the term about 5 years ago, just before I found tradition.  

My research about Ms. Day happened by accident when I was actually researching a man named Amitai Etzioni, when I was gathering some information on the right to privacy.  Out of that research,  I read plenty of online books and research articles and theological books regarding communitarianism.  

Here is what I concluded.  Communitarianism and distributism are the fundamental building blocks of liberation theology.  

Dorothy Day advocated these two ideas--communitarianism and distributism.  To discern whether her ideas are catholic, one must come to understand both communitarianism and distributism.  Are they theologically sound?  Are they Catholic?

I have concluded, as have many others, that they are not.

There are two books on this topic that are worth the read.  Liberation Theology and it's Critics and Liberation Theology at the Crossroads.  Both authors of these books agree on this fundamental idea----Liberation theology has undergone a movement, a slow progression.  It began with Marxist reductionism.  It found a home in radical communitarianism and faith-based communities.  

These are very troubling times for Catholics.  Some things sound really orthodox--caring for the poor--but the methods and ideas proposed and put forth as Catholic are really quite confusing and dangerous.  Many Catholics don't even know these terms let alone what they mean or where they came from!  Good Catholics just go along because they don't know what else to do.

Ms. Day will be canonized, I believe, because this Pope is a proponent of Liberation theology.  The New Church is oriented thus.  

I can only conclude that traditional Catholics are having trouble really discerning this because they are hung up on capitalism.  They believe that capitalism is unCatholic fundamentally.  They seem to embrace distributism as a positive goal because Chesterton supported it or Belloc wrote about it or because they believe that Pope Leo XIII outright condemned capitalism as intrinsically evil.

That's too bad.  

I've made up my own mind.  Ms. Day's ideas should be condemned.  Ms. Day should not be named a saint.  Traditional priests should be careful about giving sermons regarding Ms. Day's virtues.

I have been reading about Dorothy Day for many years---long before I became a traditional Catholic.  So I feel that I can speak with my own opinion that is thoroughly researched.  I think Dorothy Day is a symbol of all that is currently wrong with the modern Catholic Church.  Her canonization will solidify and codify a new direction of the Church--one in which the Church's primary concern is no longer the salvation of souls and the Sacraments to one in which the Church's primary concern is the with the needs of the poor and the disregarding of morality.  In other words, the new church's morality is poverty and liberation theology.

Dorothy Day was a Communist sympathizer.  She was a feminist.  She was an anarchist.  She was a pacifist.  She was a complete believer in distributism, an economic theory that erupted in the late 19th century as a response to the abuses that were happening in free-market capitalistic society.

There is absolutely no evidence, other than Dorothy Day's self admission, that she changed her opinion of Communism, feminism, anarchy, pacifism, socialism, and or distributism.

Based on my own readings of some things she wrote in the Catholic Worker Newspaper, I concluded my own self that Dorothy Day thought the idea of communism was a fundamental moral good.  What she didn't like about it was the propensity to abandon God and to embrace atheism.

She fully supported the idea of communitarianism, an ideology that emphasizes community over individualism.  This is what Ms. Day believed in and implemented across the U.S.--communal living, shared property, concern for the poor.

These things sound Catholic, but they are not really.  Communitarianism is wickedly deceptive.  Please do your own research about it.  I first heard the term about 5 years ago, just before I found tradition.  

My research about Ms. Day happened by accident when I was actually researching a man named Amitai Etzioni, when I was gathering some information on the right to privacy.  Out of that research,  I read plenty of online books and research articles and theological books regarding communitarianism.  

Here is what I concluded.  Communitarianism and distributism are the fundamental building blocks of liberation theology.  

Dorothy Day advocated these two ideas--communitarianism and distributism.  To discern whether her ideas are catholic, one must come to understand both communitarianism and distributism.  Are they theologically sound?  Are they Catholic?

I have concluded, as have many others, that they are not.

There are two books on this topic that are worth the read.  Liberation Theology and it's Critics and Liberation Theology at the Crossroads.  Both authors of these books agree on this fundamental idea----Liberation theology has undergone a movement, a slow progression.  It began with Marxist reductionism.  It found a home in radical communitarianism and faith-based communities.  

These are very troubling times for Catholics.  Some things sound really orthodox--caring for the poor--but the methods and ideas proposed and put forth as Catholic are really quite confusing and dangerous.  Many Catholics don't even know these terms let alone what they mean or where they came from!  Good Catholics just go along because they don't know what else to do.

Ms. Day will be canonized, I believe, because this Pope is a proponent of Liberation theology.  The New Church is oriented thus.  

I can only conclude that traditional Catholics are having trouble really discerning this because they are hung up on capitalism.  They believe that capitalism is unCatholic fundamentally.  They seem to embrace distributism as a positive goal because Chesterton supported it or Belloc wrote about it or because they believe that Pope Leo XIII outright condemned capitalism as intrinsically evil.

That's too bad.  

I've made up my own mind.  Ms. Day's ideas should be condemned.  Ms. Day should not be named a saint.  Traditional priests should be careful about giving sermons regarding Ms. Day's virtues.

It's not really about whether or not a "penitent" can be canonized.  Of course one can.  We are all penitents to an extent.  It's whether or not Dorothy Day qualifies as a saint. That is what is up for debate.   And I would be careful about calling Dr. Carol Byrne a "silly woman" without qualifying that statement.  And sorry, Sean, but the dear Father has pushed her glowing attributes on more than one occasion.