The Core Ideas–the Vision The person who created the Catholic Worker philosophy, and in partnership with Dorothy Day, lived the vision of the Catholic Worker movement, is Peter Maurin. Peter Maurin taught Dorothy Day not everything she knew, but just about everything. They met in 1933, Peter having been sent to Dorothy Day by George… continue reading
Room for Christ
December 1, 1995 by
It is no use saying that we are born two thousand years too late to give room to Christ. Nor will those who live at the end of the world have been born too late. Christ is always with us, always asking for room in our hearts. But now it is with the voice of our contemporaries that… continue reading
We Urge Our Readers to be Personalist
March 1, 1995 by
We are urging our readers to be neither collectivist nor individualist,but personalist. This consciousness of oneself as a member of the Mystical Body of Christ will lead to great things. We are working for the Communitarian revolution to oppose both the rugged individualism of the capitalist era, and the collectivism of the Communist revolution. We… continue reading
All Souls: The Day of the Dead
November 1, 1994 by
This month when we celebrate the feast of All Souls it is good to write about heaven as well as death. Someone is always putting a book or article in my hands that I need just at that moment, and the other night, when we gathered for Vespers in our office-library-stencil room, Mike Kovalak handed me a little book,… continue reading
Aims and Purposes of the Catholic Worker Movement
August 1, 1994 by
For the sake of new readers, for the sake of men on our breadlines, for the sake of the employed and unemployed, the organized and unorganized workers, and also for the sake of ourselves, we must reiterate again and again what are our aims and purposes. Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and… continue reading
Who Will Inherit the Legacy of Dorothy Day? The Questions
May 1, 1994 by
Will the Catholic Worker movement survive without Dorothy Day? Who will inherit her legacy? Can the real spirit of Dorothy Day continue? Some wonder, “Where are the profound leaders who can take up the mantle of Dorothy Day?” Should the New York Catholic Worker (The Catholic Worker house that Dorothy founded, with Peter Maurin) become… continue reading
