Patrick Jordan is a former managing editor of "The Catholic Worker". He and his wife Kathleen were associated with Dorothy Day from 1968 until her death in 1980. From 1984 until 2012, Jordan was an editor at "Commonweal" magazine. He is the editor of "Dorothy Day: Writings from Commonweal "(Liturgical Press, 2002) and, with Paul Baumann, co-edited "Commonweal Confronts the Century" (Touchstone, 1999). He serves on the advisory board of the Dorothy Day Guild.