Catholic Worker Movement marks 75 years of social activism

 
From Religion News Service
Published: May 3, 2008

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

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 ...


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