Catholic Worker Movement - Timeline Event
Founder
Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin
Time Period
05-01-1933
Description
Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin founded the Catholic Worker Movement as an apostolate that served the poor. Many trace the official beginning of the Catholic Worker Movement on May 1, 1933 with the first issue of their newspaper entitled The Catholic Worker, which sold for a penny per copy. The movement embraced aspects of Christian personalism, the belief that each human being has value and dignity. Day managed to implement those principles in practice. For example, she established a "house of hospitality," providing food and beds for the poor. Moreover, the movement held "round table discussions" for intellectuals and workers.
Many of those who joined the movement have embraced voluntary poverty in order to improve the economic and social conditions of the impoverished.
Many of those who joined the movement have embraced voluntary poverty in order to improve the economic and social conditions of the impoverished.
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Religious Groups
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Biographies
Day, DorothyMaurin, Peter
Movements
Settlement House MovementRelated Dictionary Terms
Apostle, Catholic Worker Movement, Catholicism, Roman, Christianity, Day, Dorothy (1897-1980)Photographs
Little Mary's Hospitality House- English Wikipedia
Catholic Worker- Internet Archive- from The Christian Radical, vol 1
Dorothy Day portrait- Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-111099
Peter Maurin portrait- courtesy of The Marquette University Archives
Web Page Contributor
Benjamin T. GurrentzAffliated with: Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D. in Sociology
