Dorothy Donnelly's most prized award came in 1976, when she was presented with the Gold Medal for the Christian Culture Award at Assumption University (Windsor, Canada), joining the ranks of former award winners that included Marshall McLuhan, Dorothy Day, Jacques Maritain, Christopher Dawson, Etienne Gilson, and Allen Tate.
Reviews of her work have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement (1951), The Irish Times (1951), The Chicago Tribune (1961), The New York Times (1961), The Michigan Quarterly Review (1961).