Maybe 50 or 60 years ago. Since that time, that brand of Catholicism has devolved into a Dorothy-Day socialistic melange of 60's hippy-dippy communistic/socialistic feel-good government-fed dependency that the current DemocRAT party has been only too happy to accommodate.
Dorothy Day: "We believe that social security legislation, now hailled as a great victory for the poor and for the worker, is a great defeat for Christianity."
You've got your facts wrong here, my friend. Whatever Catholicism has devolved into (and I get your general picture) Dorothy Day had nothing to do with it. From her conversion to Cathjolicism in 1927 to her death in 1980, she at no point advocated "government-fed dependency" as you so eloquently put it.
For her, it was love in person in the name of Christ all the way --- not socialism.
Day certainly was an ex-denizen of the Socialist Left; but from the time of her conversion she was far, far more religious than political; in the same league as St. Francis of Assisi and on the opposite end of the Universe from both 'borts and Bolsheviks; and to the extent that she was residually political from her younger days, she was anarcho-personalist in her sympathies, not statist in the least.
I'm correcting the picture at such great length because I know Day is often invoked and distorted by the government-suckled Catholic Left. And this is so wrong.
One of Day's most-appreciated maxims was "The Church must never abandon the poor --- to Holy Mother the State."