Word: maurine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dressed in a castoff suit and consigned to a donated grave, the mortal remains of a poor man were buried last week. These arrangements were appropriate; during most of his life Peter Maurin had slept in no bed of his own and worn no suit that someone had not given away. But to his funeral among the teeming, pushcart-crowded slums of lower Manhattan, Cardinal Spellman himself sent his representative. There were priests representing many Catholic orders, and there were laymen rich & poor from places as far away as Chicago. All night long before the funeral they had come...
...faith. He is really an agitator. For 35 years he traveled up & down the U.S. in the dirty, ragged clothes which were his only possessions, sleeping in flophouses, eating in skid row joints, inveighing to everyone he met against industrialism, war and Christian smugness. His name is Peter Maurin...
Respectable people did not often listen to Peter Maurin. But in 1933, his Catholic dynamite set off Dorothy Day, a young Manhattan radical who had flirted with Communism and Socialism until her rereading of Dostoevsky converted her to Roman Catholicism...
With this month's issue, the Catholic Worker begins its 16th year. Old Peter Maurin, now in his 70s, is crippled and numbly dying of arteriosclerosis of the brain. But the Christian dynamite he set off is still blasting away. The Worker's circulation now totals nearly 70,000. Nine other cities besides New York have Houses of Hospitality (one of them in London). Each is staffed by workers who have dedicated themselves to voluntary poverty, pacifism, and the "14 corporal and spiritual works of mercy."* Wrote Editor Day, 50, in the Catholic Worker's anniversary issue...
Among U. S. Christians who care for the poor, none are more blessed with selfless zeal than those Roman Catholics who labor in the Catholic Worker movement. Their leaders are rugged, genial Peter Maurin and tall, dowdy Dorothy Day, who run a "House of Hospitality" in Manhattan, edit the Catholic Worker, a 1?monthly with 125,000 circulation...