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	Catholic Worker Movement -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Catholic Worker Movement was founded by (Click link for more info and facts about Dorothy Day) Dorothy Day and (Click link for more info and facts about Peter Maurin) Peter Maurin in 1933.
		The group also campaigns for (Peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate) nonviolence and is active in (Click link for more info and facts about protesting war) protesting war, as well as the unequal (Click link for more info and facts about distribution of wealth) distribution of wealth globally.
		Dorothy Day also founded (Click link for more info and facts about The Catholic Worker) The Catholic Worker newspaper which is still published, and sold at 1 (A fractional monetary unit of several countries) cent per copy.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/catholic_worker_movement.htm (211 words)

	Catholic Worker: Can it work as a family activity?
		The message here during a recent three-day conference for a group of Catholic Worker families from across the country was don’t go on automatic pilot the next time Catholic Worker houses of hospitality for the poor come up in conversation.
		It was cosponsored by San Bruno Catholic Workers Kate Chatfield and Peter Stiehler, directors of St. Bruno Parish’s homeless shelter.
		The Oct. 11-13 conference was also open to couples who might not minister in a Catholic Worker setting, but who need support and nurturing as they strive to live radical gospel values and cultivate sustainable models of economic simplicity and family life.
	www.natcath.com /NCR_Online/archives/102999/102999d.htm (1255 words)

	Earth Abides Catholic Worker Farm: Purpose Statement
		The Catholic Worker Farm in Sheep Ranch, CA is one of the many cells of the Catholic Worker Movement.
		The Catholic Worker is one of the earliest back-to-the-land movements in the U.S. There are many Catholic Worker houses and a few farms in different places, but there are no organizational ties to the Roman Catholic hierarchy and Catholic Worker communities do not depend on it for support.
		In the Catholic Worker tradition, we are committed to non-violence and simple living as radical symbols of justice.
	www.goldrush.com /~eartha/ea0fps.htm (1159 words)

	Catholic Worker Movement - PeterMaurin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		We read in the Catholic Encyclopedia that during the early ages of Christianity the Hospices or Houses of Hospitality was a shelter for the sick, the poor, the orphan, the old, the traveller, and the needy of every kind.
		By living with the workers in Houses of Hospitality scholars will be able to convey to the workers why things are what they are, how things would be if they were as they should be, and how a path can be made from things as they are to things as they should be.
		The Catholic Worker believes in 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.
	www.catholicworker.org /roundtable/easyessays.cfm (6996 words)

	A Brief Introduction to the Catholic Worker Movement
		Out of their meeting in 1932, the Catholic Worker was born and the paper first offered to the public five months later.
		Catholic Workers attempt to alleviate the sufferings of the poor by adopting lives of voluntary poverty in order to be free for direct, personal involvement, not so much dispensing charity as sharing in the lives of others.
		Catholic Worker alumni can be found on the editorial staffs of major publications, on university faculties, in labor unions and in monasteries, and occasionally in jails and prisons for acts of nonviolent civil disobedience.
	www.catholicworker.com /cwo010.htm (1209 words)

	Cover story: Finding family at the Catholic Worker
		All Catholic Worker houses are engaged in the works of mercy, but these can and do run the gamut, from soup kitchens in one Catholic Worker to housing immigrant workers in another.
		Most Catholic Worker parents recognize that, but many also say they struggle with trying to reconcile their mission as Catholic Workers to practice poverty and social justice with their role as parents.
		Whether Catholic Worker parents raise their children in a nuclear family or as part of a larger community, parents say the effort to live an intentional life in the spirit of voluntary poverty comes with an array of ethical dilemmas that family life can complicate.
	www.natcath.com /NCR_Online/archives/030703/030703a.htm (3942 words)

	U.S. Catholic Bishops - Social Development & World Peace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Catholic teaching on work — based on the principle that people are more important than things — reflects a compelling Christian revelation.
		Some low wage workers who labor in many important industries come from abroad and are vulnerable to exploitation because they do not enjoy permanent legal status.
		A legalization program for these workers would help protect their basic labor rights and ensure that all workers in the United States are afforded a living wage and decent working conditions.
	www.nccbuscc.org /sdwp/laborday2001.htm (949 words)

	Catholic Worker Houses of Hospitality, Washington, DC & Clayton, WV Farm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Catholic Worker Houses listed here were founded by Michael A. Kirwan in the 1970's and he founded the Catholic Worker Farm in Clayton, WV in 1983.
		The Llewellyn Scott Catholic Worker House of Hospitality for Men in Washington, DC was founded on February 8, 1986.
		The John Filligar & Tyra Dunn Catholic Worker Farm is a 50 acre farm located in the heart of Appalachia in Clayton, West Virginia and was established on May 1, 1983, the Feast Day of Saint Joseph the Worker.
	home.att.net /~cwhouse (579 words)

	San Diego Catholic Worker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Catholic Worker in San Diego was founded in the fall of 1979 by Julia Doughty, a graduate student at San Diego State University.
		In 1985, they rented a building on 16th Avenue and this was considered the Catholic Worker's first "own" building where they could prepare food as well as serve their guests.
		San Diego Catholic Workers hopes to be around providing service and opportunities to serve for many more years to come-it's really up to you.
	projects.edtech.sandi.net /bayweb/catholicworker/aboutus.htm (595 words)

	The Catholic Worker Movement
		The Catholic Worker movement was founded in 1933 during the Great Depression by Dorothy Day at the urging of Peter Maurin.
		Beyond hospitality, Catholic Worker communities are known for activity in support of labor unions, human rights, cooperatives, and the development of a nonviolent culture.
		Catholic Worker communities have refused to apply for federal tax exempt status, seeing such official recognition as binding the community to the state and limiting the movement's freedom.
	www.catholicworker.com /cworkjf.htm (685 words)

	Visiting a Catholic Worker Farm by George M. Anderson, America: The Catholic Weekly Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Monica came as a live-in volunteer from Ohio, settling in at the Catholic Worker house, which was then on Chrystie Street on the Lower East Side.
		A married daughter lives 10 miles south of the farm in Newburgh, where she and her husband have begun another Catholic Worker undertaking called Aleluya House, which reaches out to Hispanic migrants working in the local factories and in the orchards.
		And although gardening is his principal job on the farm, he observed in the same article that “a Catholic Worker farm is for people first, for farming second.” The 10 plots are now filled, and further ones will be needed.
	www.americamagazine.org /gettext.cfm?articleTypeID=1&textID=2442&issueID=398 (1540 words)

	Salon.com Politics \| Bush's brand-new Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Catholic Worker movement founder and socialist Dorothy Day, who President Bush quoted in a speech at Notre Dame Sunday.
		But the other dissonance in Bush's quoting Day is that her Catholic Worker movement refuses to accept government funding for its work, believing such monies inevitably come with strings attached, and that the work is better done voluntarily, out of love, not obligation.
		In fact, the vast majority of Catholic Worker communities aren't even incorporated, which means they have to turn away monies from many private donors.
	www.salonmag.com /politics/feature/2001/05/22/day/print.html (863 words)

	The Des Moines Catholic Worker Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Des Moines Catholic Worker Community, founded in 1976, is a response to the Gospel call to compassionate action as summarized by the Sermon on the Mount.
		In the spirit of the Catholic Worker tradition, we are committed to a simple, nonviolent lifestyle as we live and work among the poor.
		The Catholic Worker movement was founded in 1933 by Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day in New York City to implement the teachings of the Gospels and to promote the biblical promise of mercy, compassion, justice and love.
	www.no-nukes.org /dmcw (175 words)

	st benedict catholic worker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		ST Benedict Catholic Worker is an organisation of Benedictine Oblates in Fresno, California, which is...
		Benedict Catholic Worker, a community serving the poor, the incarcerated, and homeless...
		Catholic Workers live a simple lifestyle in community, serve the poor, and resist war and social injustice.
	www.pilgrimscompanion.com /articles/25/st-benedict-catholic-worker.html (471 words)

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		Catholic Church in England and Wales * Westminster Cathedral * Westminster Yearbook
		Two Catholic, private, residential, Benedictine, liberal arts colleges in central Minnesota; one for men and one for women sharing a common curriculum.
		Friendship House -- A Catholic Interracial Apostolate founded by the late Catherine de Hueck Doherty in the 1930s.
	employees.csbsju.edu /roliver/catholic.html (445 words)

	St. Jude Catholic Worker House
		The Catholic Worker Movement, founded in 1933, is grounded in a firm belief in the God-given dignity of every human person.
		Today over 175 Catholic Worker communities remain committed to nonviolence, voluntary poverty, prayer, and hospitality for the homeless, exiled, hungry, and forsaken.
		Catholic Workers continue to protest injustice, war, racism, and violence of all forms.
	www.prairienet.org /cwh-stjude (200 words)

	Catholic Worker Degrees of Theology Brian terell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I pray they are all well and am grateful for all they brought to us it was an education for us at the Catholic Worker as well as for the students, their parents, teachers, and for the community at large.
		A Catholic Worker course of study is best pursued not in the classroom or lecture hall but on the picketline, the soupline, in the doorway of an arms factory, in prison, weeding the garden, canning tomatoes, at the bedside of the dying, or thumbing a ride on the freeway.
		I wonder if the Catholic Worker is not at a similar "moment of truth" in our own history and if we are, I pray our movement comes out of this with more of our intent and spirit intact than has the Order of Friars Minor.
	www.aislingmagazine.com /aislingmagazine/articles/TAM24/Degrees.html (1464 words)

	National Catholic Reporter: Light of Day shines yet at Catholic Worker - Dorothy Day's Maryhouse hospitality house 60th ...
		A conscientious objector during World War II (the Worker's pacifism cost it a lot of followers at the time), he decided that with so many people dying, "going to jail was not positive enough." So he joined the American Field Service and drove ambulances in the Middle East,, Egypt and Italy.
		She said she became part of the Catholic Worker story after a college course on Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., with the Gulf War serving as something of a moral catalyst, landed her at Maryhouse.
		The first edition of The Catholic Worker was put out on the table of a cramped kitchen in an East Side tenement, hawked in competition with the communist Daily Worker in Union Square.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1141/is_n29_v29/ai_13797256 (1558 words)

	Catholic Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Catholic Worker camp aims to provide respite for inner-city youth
		Because of a joint effort by the Catholic Worker community in Hartford and several other organizations, inner-city youths traded the stench of urine-soaked hallways in hot apartment buildings for the smell of fresh grass.
		The Voluntown Peace Trust, of which the Catholic Worker is a part, recently purchased the property, ensuring that children will continue to escape the violence and harshness of the city for years to come.
	www.catholic.org /cathcom/national_story.php?id=16204 (757 words)

	Tucson Weekly: Catholic Worker Movement (February 28 - March 6, 2002)
		Casa Maria, 401 East 26th St., is one of 175 Catholic Worker communities committed to nonviolence, voluntary poverty, prayer and hospitality for the homeless.
		The Catholic Worker movement, founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933, is pacifist and anti-racist.
		Her followers are attempting to have her canonized by the Catholic Church as a saint.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/2002-02-28/feat4.html (176 words)

	Charity begins at home / Couple reaches out to poor from Coastside neighborhood
		Practicing members of the Catholic Worker Movement, they took a vow of poverty and moved to Half Moon Bay to start a hospitality house for the poor.
		She met the Rev. Father Frank Cordero, who started the Des Moines Catholic Worker, when she was in her late 20s and working on her second bachelor's degree, in occupational therapy.
		After running the Catholic Worker house in that location for less than a year, they moved to a house at Fruitvale Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard for two years.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/04/PNG21BI8M21.DTL (2382 words)

	Dorothy Day Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		What kept Day in the sidelines was that she was a Catholic and the march had been organized by Communists, a party at war with not only with capitalism but religion.
		The Catholic Worker's first expression of pacifism, published in 1935, was a dialogue between a patriot and Christ, the patriot dismissing Christ's teaching as a noble but impractical doctrine.
		One of the rituals of life for the New York Catholic Worker community beginning in the late 1950s was the refusal to participate in the state's annual civil defense drill.
	www.paulist.org /dorothyday/ddaybio.html (3442 words)

	A Year at the Catholic Worker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sixty-six years ago the Catholic Worker movement began with the opening of a shared apartment as a house of hospitality and the selling of the Catholic Worker newspaper for a penny a copy in Union Square.
		Their meeting was the effective beginning of the Catholic Worker movement and remains to this day the source of its inspiration.
		He lived at the Catholic Worker in 1974 and 1975 and has written a biography of its founder, Peter Maurin.
	www.tamu.edu /upress/books/2000/ellis.htm (338 words)

	Access to Catholic Social Justice
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	www.justpeace.org (1496 words)

	Distributivism and Catholic Social Teaching - Site Map
		Distributivism and Catholic Social Teaching This article, which appeared in the January, 2000 issue of The New Oxford Review, outlines the main thrust of Catholic Social Teaching as it is presented in Rerum Novarum, Quadragesimo Anno, Centesimus Annus, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, and Laborem Exercens, and discusses the Distributivist response to the Teaching.
		Current owners would be deprived of none of their current property, but new growth would accrue to the workers and other constituent groups.
		The Catholic Worker Movement -- Distributivism as practiced on the street and in the slums of America.
	www.medaille.com /distributivism.htm (912 words)

	Catholic News Service Home Page
		Catholic News Service offers you a chance to order your own colorful and inspiring images of Pope Benedict XVI and Pope John Paul II.
		The parish priest was found the day before in his car handcuffed and dead from six bullet wounds.
		NEW DELHI, India (CNS) -- Church officials coordinating relief work for victims of the earthquake in Pakistan said they were inspired by the commitment of Pakistanis to the massive effort.
	www.catholicnews.com (716 words)

	Dorothy Day Catholic Worker Social Justice
		The Catholic Worker Roundtable at aims to communicate the distinctive Catholic Worker vision of justice and mercy for our time.
		We follow the Catholic Worker tradition by accepting the Gospel invitation to be personally responsible for our neighbors in need.
		Peter Maurin, Saint and Scholar of the Catholic Worker.
	www.taxpolicy.com /dorothy.htm (2072 words)

	Dorothy Day-Catholic Worker Collection - Special Collections and Archives - Marquette University
		In addition to the New York CW, Catholic Worker communities in Alderson, West Virginia; Bloomington, Illinois; Chicago, Illinois; Des Moines, Iowa; Houston, Texas; Los Angeles, California; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; St. Louis, Missouri; Syracuse, New York; and Washington, DC, have made substantial donations of archival material.
		Most of the other CW communities in existence at present send their newsletters and other publications to the Archives, and information is available on many of the former houses as well.
		Visiting researchers who are not affiliated with the university must obtain a guest pass for access to the Raynor Memorial Libraries; this entails presentation of photographic identification and payment of a daily or annual fee.
	www.marquette.edu /library/collections/archives/day.html (674 words)

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