The Catholic Worker Movement is a Catholic organization founded by the "Servant of God" Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933. Its aim is to "live in accordance with the justice and charity of Jesus Christ."^[1] One of its guiding principles is hospitality towards those on the margin of society. To this end there are over 185 local Catholic Worker communities providing social services. Each house has a different mission, going about the work of social justice in their own ways, suited to their region of the country. Catholic Worker houses are not official organs of the Roman Catholic Church. The group also campaigns for nonviolence and is active in opposing war, as well as the unequal distribution of wealth globally. Dorothy Day also founded The Catholic Worker newspaper which is still published, and sold at 1 cent per copy. The group began as a means to combine Dorothy Day's history in American social activism and pacifism with the tenets of Catholicism, five years after she converted in 1927.^[2] Servant of God is the title given to a person of the Roman Catholic Church upon whom a pope has opened a cause of sainthood. ... This image has an uncertain copyright status and is pending deletion. ... Peter Maurin (May 9, 1877 - May 15, 1949 born in Oultet, France) was a Catholic activist who co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement with Dorothy Day in 1933. ... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Catholic Church redirects here. ... Nonviolence (or non-violence), whether held as a moral philosophy or only employed as an action strategy, rejects the use of physical violence in efforts to attain social, economic or political change. ... Anti war protest in Melbourne, Australia, 2003 Anti_war is a name that is widely adopted by any social movement or person that seeks to end or oppose a future or current war. ... Differences in national income equality around the world as measured by the national Gini coefficient. ... The Catholic Worker is a newspaper published by the Catholic Worker Movement community in New York City. ... ¢ c A United States cent, or 1¢ or a penny In currency, the cent is a monetary unit that equals 1/100 of various countries basic monetary units. ...

"Our rule is the works of mercy," said Dorothy Day. "It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence."

Beliefs of the Catholic Worker

According to co-founder Peter Maurin, the following are the beliefs of the Catholic Worker:^[3]

1. gentle personalism of traditional Catholicism.
2. personal obligation of looking after the needs of our brother.
3. daily practice of the Works of Mercy.
4. Houses of Hospitality for the immediate relief of those who are in need.
5. establishment of Farming Communes where each one works according to his ability and gets according to his need.
6. creating a new society within the shell of the old with the philosophy of the new, which is not a new philosophy but a very old philosophy, a philosophy so old that it looks like new.

See also

• Ammon Hennacy
• Fritz Eichenberg
• Ciaron O'Reilly
• Friendship House
• Catholic social teaching
• Christian anarchism
• Industrial Workers of the World
• Saint Patrick's Day Four
• Utah Phillips
• James Loney

Ammon Hennacy Ammon Hennacy (July 24, 1893 - January 14, 1970) was an American pacifist, Christian anarchist, vegetarian, social activist, member of the Catholic Worker Movement and a Wobbly, and was known for establishing the Joe Hill House of Hospitality in Salt Lake City, Utah and never paying taxes. ... Fritz Eichenberg (October 24, 1901–November 30, 1990) was a German-American illustrator who worked primarily in wood engraving. ... Ciaron OReilly is long time Catholic Worker, nonviolent resister and Christian anarchist. ... An early Friendship House storefront entrance Friendship House is a missionary movement founded in Toronto in the early 1930s by Catholic social justice activist Catherine de Hueck Doherty, one of the leading proponents of interracial justice in pre-Martin Luther King, Jr. ... Catholic social teaching comprises those aspects of Catholic doctrine which relate to matters dealing with the collective aspect of humanity. ... Christian anarchism is any of several traditions which combine anarchism with Christianity. ... The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international union currently headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. At its peak in 1923 the organization claimed some 100,000 members in good standing, and could marshal the support of perhaps 300,000 workers. ... The Saint Patricks Day Four (also, The Saint Patricks Four, or SP4) are four American peace activists of Irish Catholic heritage who poured their own blood on the walls, posters, windows, and a US flag at a military recruiting center to protest the United States impending invasion of... Utah Phillips showing his membership card from the Industrial Workers of the World Bruce Utah Phillips (b. ... James Loney (born 1964) is a Canadian peace activist who has worked for several years with Christian Peacemaker Teams in Iraq and Palestine. ...

Similar Christian movements

• Servants to Asia's Urban Poor
• Madonna House Apostolate
• "New Monasticism" related communities.
• Anabaptism in particular the emerging peace church movement

Established by Viv Grigg the community of Servants to Asia’s Urban Poor[1] has been serving the poorest of the poor in the mega-cities of Asia for nearly 25 years. ... The Madonna House Apostolate is a Catholic Christian community of lay men, women, and priests. ... New Monasticism, or Neomonasticism, is a modern day iteration of a long tradition of Christian monasticism which has recently developed within certain communities associated with Protestant Evangelicalism. ... Anabaptists (re-baptizers, from Greek ana and baptizo; in German: Wiedertäufer) are Christians of the so-called radical wing of the Protestant Reformation. ...

References

External links

• Catholic Worker directory, archives and info
• Open Directory list of Houses