Catholic Worker Movement marks 75 years of social activism
Catholic Worker Movement marks 75 years of social activism

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From Religion News Service
Published: May 3, 2008

NEW YORK — The Catholic Worker Movement marked its 75th anniversary Thursday.

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Founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin on May Day 1933, during the height of the Great Depression, the Catholic Worker began as a radical newspaper and grew into a wider movement of hospitality and social activism. It now includes nearly 200 communities in the United States and eight other countries.

It remains committed to a "firm belief in the God-given dignity of every human person” and to the ideals of "nonviolence, voluntary poverty (and) prayer,” protesting "injustice, war, racism and violence of all forms.”

Day was a one-time radical Greenwich Village bohemian who underwent a conversion experience and became renowned as a Catholic writer and social activist.

Another constant for those involved in the Catholic Worker Movement is its cornerstone newspaper, the Catholic Worker, which still remains a penny a copy (excluding mailing costs) and has resisted going online.


 


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