When she was just a young girl, Day was introduced to the concept of Catholicism and saints by Mary Harrington, a playmate. As Mary told her about the life of a saint, she suddenly began to feel love for God and be overwhelmingly curious and interested in a spiritual life. In another instance, she found one of her neighbors on her knees in prayer, and this neighbor in turn began to teach her how to pray as well. Basically, she was just learning about religion; she did not know much about the bible or the background of Catholicism. Yet, she still loved Go

After Day grew into a young adult and became involved in the University and her own education, she began to feel that other things were more important than religion. She became interested in radicalism and made a conscious effort to push religion away from her. As she began to look around at the other religious students that she went to school with, she started to feel as though her religion and the peaceful beliefs of those around her only added to the misery and disarray of the rest of the world. Religion to her, was starting to feel more and more like a crutch. Because she was a young and arrogant student, she assumed that she was strong enough and intelligent enough not to need that kind of crutch in her life. She cut herself off from religion immediately and began to move onto her work, writing, and eventually socialism. She began to appreciate the appeal of intellectual circles and radicalism, but no longer kept the love for the God that she had held so dear for most of her young life.

It took quite awhile, but in time, Dorothy Day matured as most young people do; with that maturity came the realization that she could not become the person she wanted to be without accepting the fact that she needed all of these very important thi

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