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	Workers and Scholars in the Catholic Worker tradition, Traditional Catholic Reflections & Reports, Stephen Hand Editor ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		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.
		Her Catholic Worker cofounder, Peter Maurin, coined the phrase to describe the tension between, on the one hand, lots of work and no reflection on the social implications of the work, and, on the other, lots of talk about discerning forms of ethically productive work while fl flies buzzed the food-encrusted dishes in the sink.
		The Catholic Worker movement is no exception to this reality and is today divided between those who more or less follow Dorothy Day in her adamant, prophetic, orthodoxy and critique of the culture, and those who play fast and loose with it.
	tcrnews2.com /CW_academics.html (2922 words)

	Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin and the Catholic Worker Movement: Dorothy Day, Prophet of Pacifism for the Catholic Church
		The Catholic Worker declared that even some advocates of active nonviolence took their positions "from an individualism that may err in positing complete liberty as an end in itself." This libertarianism was "contrary to a properly Catholic understanding of both objective morality and the purpose of human freedom."
		The Catholic Workers did adapt Gandhian nonviolence in their active resistance, and incorporated it into the development of the theology of Catholic pacifism, even suggesting that it could apply to the just war theory as one of the peaceful methods that must be tried before war was declared.
		The influence of the Catholic Worker during the Vietnam War is explored in detail in American Catholic Pacifism, as well as its impact on what came to be called ultra-resistance, with Daniel and Philip Berrigan and later Plowshares activists.
	www.cjd.org /paper/pacifism.html (2951 words)

	Catholic Worker Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Catholic Worker Movement is a Christian anarchist organisation founded by Servant of God St.Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933, whose aim is to "live in accordance with the justice and charity of Jesus Christ."
		Dorothy Day also founded The Catholic Worker newspaper which is still published, and sold at 1 cent per copy.
		The Fig Tree Catholic Worker in Hammarkullen Sweden
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catholic_Worker_Movement (369 words)

	10_09_05 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.
	home1.gte.net /vze2046e/parishioners4peaceandjustice/id164.html (548 words)

	Catholic Worker lessons stayed with me: Dorothy Day shared my small apartment when she was in town - Dorothy Day, ...
		Catholic Worker lessons stayed with me: Dorothy Day shared my small apartment when she was in town - Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker movement is remembered on her 100th birthday by a former editor of the New York City-based Catholic Worker newspaper - Cover Story
		The Catholic Worker movement she founded with Peter Maurin is a unique expression of Christianity.
		She was a member of the Catholic Worker community in New York from 1959 to 1962 and remained an editor of the legendary little Catholic Worker newspaper until 1970.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1141/is_n32_v33/ai_19564188 (1089 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.
		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.
		The beauty of the Catholic Worker is that it is a movement, and it’s meant to be organic without losing sight of the powerful principles that are part of the tradition.”
	www.natcath.com /NCR_Online/archives/030703/030703a.htm (3942 words)

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		In all aspects of Catholic Worker House life we strive to treat our fellow community members as individuals worthy of our respect, to be thought of as brothers and sisters rather than as strangers for whom we do charity work.
		Catholic Workers have historically stood in opposition to war and conflict in every form around the globe.
		Catholic Worker houses of hospitality the world over seek to fulfill specific needs that their particular communities have.
	www.sa-catholicworker.org /about.html (1104 words)

	CPF - Catholic Peace Fellowship Ten Years Old
		Forest was released from the Navy as a conscientious objector and high-tailed it to the Catholic Worker.
		It is necessary to emphasize that the Catholic Worker, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and the Catholic Peace Fellowship are pacifist: We are opposed to the war in Vietnam not only because it is unjust, but because it is a war.
		Catholic pacifists are opposed to war because it is the planned, mass taking of human lives for political purposes and violates God’s exclusive dominion over human life.
	www.catholicpeacefellowship.org /nextpage.asp?m=2010 (3062 words)

	Catholic Workers urge U.S. bishops to demand new military law be rescinded - Catholic Online
		The Catholic Worker statement urged the bishops to call for "an end to the U.S. practice of torture" of prisoners and "an immediate end" to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
		The Catholic Worker gathering, held at the rural Iowa Catholic Youth Camp, was hosted by the Des Moines Catholic Worker community, which was celebrating its own 30th anniversary.
		Frank Cordaro, a member of the Des Moines Catholic Worker movement, said Catholic Worker houses are vibrant houses known for their works of mercy and their willingness to articulate Catholic social teaching.
	www.catholic.org /national/national_story.php?id=21762 (1140 words)

	Roots of the Movement: Emmanuel Mounier, Personalism, and the Catholic Worker Movement
		The Catholic Worker is incomprehensible without an understanding of the influence of the great thought and movements going on in France, and especially the ideas of Mounier.
		The Catholic revival was a response to this crisis of meaning and truth in a particular historical situation, a crisis which required a "revolution,"--always non-violent--in thought and action commensurate with the scale of the crisis.
		Like those gathered around Esprit, the early Catholic Workers were, for the most part, Catholic, but were open to others who shared their commitment to the primacy of the spiritual and to living out the social doctrine of the Church expressed in papal encyclicals.
	www.cjd.org /paper/roots/rmounier.html (3085 words)

	Dorothy Day, Works of Mercy, Poverty and Precarity,The Catholic Worker TCRNews.com, Catholic Reflections & Reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Catholic authors from the personalist movement, centered in France and brought to Dorothy Day by Peter Maurin, provided much of the intellectual base for the Catholic Worker movement and its practical response in service to the Gospels.
		A pacifist prior to the foundation of the Catholic Worker, she wrote often of the opposition of the work of love to the work of violence or war.
		One could readily believe that an important part of the Catholic Worker platform, the publication of a newspaper, trying to bring Christ into all areas of life, was a part of the spirituality--getting the word out to laity, clergy and bishops alike.
	tcrnews2.com /genpoverty2.html (5678 words)

	Catholic Worker Pacifism: An Eyewitness to History
		Now the Catholic Worker was thought to be on the "lunatic fringe," and Dorothy Day to be at least a "material, if not a formal heretic." For those strong enough to stay with the Catholic Worker, it was a time of harsh asceticism.
		Catholic Worker leaders Ammon Hennacy, Karl Meyer, and I became identified with CNVA by the late 50s.
		The Catholic Worker came through the Viet Nam period with respect regained due, without a doubt, to its constancy in its chosen work of direct service to the poorest of the poor and a sharing of their lives in communities of voluntary poverty, but especially to its unwavering, uncompromised adherence to the principles of nonviolence.
	www.catholicworker.com /peacetc.htm (2795 words)

	The Catholic Worker Movement - Sean Hannity Discussion
		The Catholic Worker Movement, founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933, is grounded in a firm belief in the God-given dignity of every human person.
		The Catholic Worker should stand for a decentralized society stressing cooperation rather than duress, with artisans and craftsmen in worker-owned small factories, and agricultural communities.
		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.
	www.hannity.com /forum/showthread.php?t=30979 (1662 words)

	The Des Moines Catholic Worker Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		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)

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		The Catholic Worker movement is a 72 year old experiment in radical Christianity.
		The early Christian movement was criminal under the Roman state and evicted by the established church bureacrats of their day.
		The Dublin Catholic Worker attempts to explore a radical way of life through community, hospitality and resistance.
	www.geocities.com /dublincatholicworker (222 words)

	Catholic Worker Movement
		During its heyday in the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Chicago Catholic Worker was the most significant offshoot of Dorothy Day's group in New York City.
		Its rejection of pacifism and revolutionary rhetoric, close connection with the Church hierarchy, and immersion in the Congress of Industrial Organizations in Chicago distinguished it from its parent organization.
		The Chicago Catholic Worker, especially its newspaper published from 1938 to 1941, launched the careers of many prominent Roman Catholic journalists and lay activists, including John Cogley, Edward Marciniak, and James O'Gara.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/219.html (172 words)

	Fellowship Magazine
		While The Catholic Worker revises and prints a philosophical statement of "Aims and Means" every year or so, there is no doctrine to which one has to subscribe when becoming a Catholic Worker and no hierarchy which gives approval when a group opens a hospitality house and adopts the name.
		The Catholic Worker is a lay community of women and men dedicated to living the social dimension of the Gospel in a radical way by serving the poor, struggling for social and economic justice, and working for peace.
		When I began to meet individual Catholic Workers, I learned of Day's hundreds of friendships and of her very human weaknesses-a craving for coffee, a sometime abruptness in conclusion, a leadership style that caused friends to refer to her as "the abbess." I came to know someone more human and approachable.
	www.forusa.org /fellowship/archives/fel1197-11.htm (2078 words)

	Catholic Community Forum Discussion Groups - Christian Anarchism
		The Catholic Encyclopedia speaks of "communistic anarchism", "nihilistic anarchism" and "pure anarchism" (an extreme variety of "individualism") but not a Christian variety of anarchism.
		There are Catholic anarchists, most notably the Catholic Worker Movement.
		Anarchism is the relentless movement toward the supposed utopia of lawlessness.
	www.catholic-forum.com /forums/printthread.php?t=5856 (1900 words)

	Dorothy Day: Catholic Worker Movement
		Surrounded by people in need and attracting volunteers excited about ideas they discovered in The Catholic Worker, it was inevitable that the editors would soon be given the chance to put their principles into practice.
		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.ottawainnercityministries.ca /biographies/Dorothy_Day.htm (3374 words)

	Dorothy Day/Catholic Worker Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Stinson, Donald J. A propaganda analysis of the pacifist communications of the Catholic Worker movement in the United States from 1933 to 1965.
		Many of the Catholic Worker communities in the United States publish their own newspapers or newsletters.
		The best-known and longest running one is The Catholic Worker (36 East First St.,New York, N.Y. Many of the Catholic Worker newspapers, both current and defunct, are available from Marquette University's library under the subject "Catholic Worker Movement -- Periodicals".
	www.paulist.org /dorothyday/daybib.html (1250 words)

	Salon.com Politics \| Bush's brand-new Day
		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.
	archive.salon.com /politics/feature/2001/05/22/day/print.html (863 words)

	Catholic-Pages.com \| Discussion Forum - Catholic Worker House
		It is not easy to be a disciple of Jesus (see Luke 14), but one of the reasons that I was so drawn to the Catholic Church was that it truly seeks to implement God's justice and mercy which is completely different from the justice and mercy that the world preaches.
		If you have he time it would be good for you to read about the history of the Catholic Worker, if you have not already done so, and about the original intentions of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin.
		The movement is a sign of the will of Christians to prevent recurrence of another such catastrophe.
	www.catholic-pages.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9427 (2203 words)

	Catholic Worker Movement Turns 70 - Riverwest Currents
		Born of the fruitful and spirit led collaboration of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, on May 1, 1933 the first edition of the Catholic Worker newspaper was distributed at a demonstration in Union Square in New York City.
		Today Catholic Workers are still Catholic Workering, making things up as we go along, here in Oklahoma City and in more than 150 other houses.
		We are grateful this day, the feast of St. Joseph the Worker, for the charism of Dorothy and Peter, which continues to be an inspiration to continue this work, and to develop it in new ways to meet the changing needs of this time.
	www.riverwestcurrents.org /2003/May/000662.html (385 words)

	catholic workers retreat house
		Now, John Mahoney of the St. Francis Catholic Worker Community in Chancellorsville, his wife Polly, and many volunteers are engaged in a similar project, as evidenced by the brick pile in the front yard.
		"What the Catholic Worker community is trying to do here is unique; providing a place for homeless people — the most marginalized people in our society — is very important," said Don Hayes, a St. Patrick’s parishioner and professional electrician who has contributed his skilled labor to the house expansion.
		The Catholic Worker movement, whose foundation is prayer, was instituted by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in New York City in 1933.
	www.catholicherald.com /articles/00articles/cworkers.htm (869 words)

	Catholic Worker St. Francis Community of Columbia, Missouri
		Catholic Workers continue to protest injustice, war, racism, and violence of all forms.
		The aim of the Catholic Worker movement is to live in accordance with the justice and charity of Jesus Christ.
		Our sources are the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures as handed down in the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, with our inspiration coming from the lives of the saints, "men and women outstanding in holiness, living witnesses to Your unchanging love." (Eucharistic Prayer).
	www.stfranciscommunity.org (213 words)

	The Catholic Worker Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This essay was written by Jim Forest on the Catholic Worker Movement for The Encyclopedia of American Catholic History to be published by the Liturgical Press.
		In 1995 there were 134 Catholic Worker communities, all but three in the United States.
		The Catholic Worker is also the name of a newspaper published by the Catholic Worker community in New York City.
	www.paulist.org /dorothyday/cworkjf.html (567 words)

	Catholic Christianity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Jesus was very critical of the institutional church and its leaders, Jesus broke lots of rules in order to defend the voiceless.
		Catholic Workers live in community and open their homes to those who have none.
		Although it is not politically logical to be against abortion AND the death penalty, for instance, the gospels tell us that Jesus was a revolutionary and when we follow Him we may not fit in.
	www.missouri.edu /~kdr83a/catholic.html (740 words)

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