Today Pope Francis referred to Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton in his speech to congress. Here are some links with further information on them;

Dorothy Day

“In these times when social concerns are so important, I cannot fail to mention the Servant of God Dorothy Day, who founded the Catholic Worker Movement. Her social activism, her passion for justice and for the cause of the oppressed, were inspired by the Gospel, her faith, and the example of the saints.” – Pope Francis

• Dorothy Day on PBS   Dorothy Day on PBS
• Witness Posters Scarboro Missions have produced a series of witness posters available from their website including one for Dorothy Day
• Catholic Worker Home Page in Catholic Education Organization Links & Justice Organizations Links  This site caters to those interested in exploring established Christian communities whose mission it is to serve. The philosophy of the Catholic Worker Movement, which was founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933, is grounded in a firm belief in the dignity of every human person. Today over 175 Catholic Worker Communities remain committed to nonviolence, voluntary poverty, prayer, and hospitality for the homeless, exiled, hungry, and forsaken. Catholic Workers continue to protest injustice, war, racism, and violence of all forms. Toronto’s Parkdale community has a Catholic Worker House located at 1339 King W.  — Martina Smith
• Modern Prophets Links Ten Great Catholics of the Second Millenium This website is a great data bank of information about specific saints of modern times. It gives anecdotal accounts of various saints that include historical facts as well as their impact on the Church and Catholicism.
• Mark and Louise Zwick – Dorothy Day: Foundress of the Catholic Worker Movement. This talk was given on March 16, 2011 as part of the University of St. Thomas’ Lenten Lecture Series on “Americans on the Road to Sainthood.”
• Video: Dorothy Day Servant of God, Dorothy Day, and the Catholic Worker movement is discussed by Rev Jim Korda and Sr Ann McManamon HM
• Video: Dorothy Day from “Who Cares About The Saints?” with Fr. James Martin, S.J.
• Video: The Life of Dorothy Day Robert Ellsberg Extended InterviewDorothy Day, Servant of God : A page that promotes Dorothy Day’s cause for sainthood.
• Directory of Catholic Worker Communities

Thomas Merton

“A century ago, at the beginning of the Great War, which Pope Benedict XV termed a “pointless slaughter”, another notable American was born: the Cistercian monk Thomas Merton. He remains a source of spiritual inspiration and a guide for many people. In his autobiography he wrote: “I came into the world. Free by nature, in the image of God, I was nevertheless the prisoner of my own violence and my own selfishness, in the image of the world into which I was born. That world was the picture of Hell, full of men like myself, loving God, and yet hating him; born to love him, living instead in fear of hopeless self-contradictory hungers”. Merton was above all a man of prayer, a thinker who challenged the certitudes of his time and opened new horizons for souls and for the Church. He was also a man of dialogue, a promoter of peace between peoples and religions.” – Pope Francis

• 100th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Merton
• Thomas Merton Links on CARFLEO
• Links The Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University
• Word on Fire Video: Thomas Merton
• Thomas Merton from “Who Cares About The Saints?” with Fr. James Martin, S.J.

“A nation can be considered great when it defends liberty as Lincoln did, when it fosters a culture which enables people to “dream” of full rights for all their brothers and sisters, as Martin Luther King sought to do; when it strives for justice and the cause of the oppressed, as Dorothy Day did by her tireless work, the fruit of a faith which becomes dialogue and sows peace in the contemplative style of Thomas Merton.” –Pope Francis