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Catholic Worker Movement

The Catholic Worker Movement is a collection of autonomous communities founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in the United States in 1933. Its aim is to "live in accordance with the justice and charity of Jesus Christ".[2] One of its guiding principles is hospitality towards those on the margin of society, based on the principles of communitarianism and personalism. To this end, the movement claims over 240 local Catholic Worker communities providing social services.[3] Each house has a different mission, going about the work of social justice in its own way, suited to its local region.

Formation

May 1, 1933 (1933-05-01)

200 Catholic worker houses of hospitality and farms internationally[1]

Catholic Worker houses are not official organs of the Catholic Church, and their activities, inspired by Day's example, may be more or less overtly religious in tone and inspiration depending on the particular institution. The movement campaigns for nonviolence and is active in opposing both war and the unequal global distribution of wealth. Day also founded the Catholic Worker newspaper, still published by the two Catholic Worker houses in New York City, and sold for a penny a copy.

in particular the emerging peace church movement

Anabaptism

medieval religious communities composed entirely of laity

Beguines and Beghards

particularly distributism

Christian democracy

Catholic/Ecumenical movement promoting the ideals of unity and universal brotherhood. 

Focolare

Madonna House Apostolate

"" related communities

New Monasticism

Peace Churches

Servants to Asia's Urban Poor

Labour Church

McKanan, Daniel (March 2007a). "Inventing the Catholic Worker Family". . 76 (1): 94. doi:10.1017/s0009640700101428. JSTOR 27644925. S2CID 162589205.

Church History

McKanan, Daniel (April 2007b). "The Family, the Gospel, and the Catholic Worker". . 87 (2): 153–182. doi:10.1086/510646. JSTOR 10.1086/510646. S2CID 145471121.

The Journal of Religion

Piehl, Mel (1982). . Philadelphia: Temple University Press. ISBN 9780877222576.

Breaking Bread: The Catholic Worker and the Origin of Catholic Radicalism in America

Dorothy Day (1997) Loaves and Fishes: The inspiring story of the Catholic Worker Movement. Maryknoll: , 1963.

Orbis Books

On the English CW, see: Olivier Rota, From a social question with religious echoes to a religious question with social echoes. The 'Jewish Question' and the English Catholic Worker (1939–1948) in Houston Catholic Worker, Vol. XXV n°3, May–June 2005, pp. 4–5.

Main website of the Catholic Worker Movement

at Curlie

Catholic Worker communities

Dorothy Day-Catholic Worker Collection at Marquette University

– by Bill Kauffman, Whole Earth (Summer 2000)

The Way of Love: Dorothy Day and the American Right

The Times, February 29, 2008

Following Jesus in love and anarchy

by Nicholas Evans 2018

Maurin, Day, the Catholic Worker, and Anarcho-Distributism