To mark our anniversary, we have invited 50 Catholics to choose a person from the past 175 years whose life has been a personal inspiration to them and an example of their faith at its best In New York some years ago, we caught the ferry to Staten Island to visit the grave of Dorothy Day, one of the four “great Americans” praised by Pope Francis in his recent address to Congress, along with Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King and Thomas Merton. No grave could have been simpler. A small flat stone with little on it except her name and dates, 1897-1980, and the words “Deo Gratias”. But there was something else there that day: a paper cup with some plastic flowers in it. How fitting for a woman who had deliberately chosen, without sentimentality, a life of poverty. T