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Who used Dorothy Day's conversion story to demonstrate how to have faith in a secular environment?

  • Pope John Paul II

  • Pope Benedict XVI

  • Archbishop Desmond Tutu

  • Mother Teresa

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Dorothy Day was an American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert. She was the co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement and its newspaper, The Catholic Worker. Pope Benedict XVI used Dorothy Day's conversion story to demonstrate how to have faith in a secular environment. He said that Day's conversion showed that it is possible to live a life of faith in a world that is often hostile to religion.
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