Word: maurine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Make a Point. Aristide Pierre Maurin was born 71 years ago on a farm in the Languedoc region of southern France. When Pierre was 14, he went away to a school near Paris run by the Christian Brothers; five years later he was teaching there. He heard much talk then of the "proletariat" and of revolution. But to farm-boy Maurin such solutions did not seem to be solutions at all. Man, he felt, should stay close to the land...
...Peter Maurin (rhymes with bore in) studied because he wanted to teach, for he regarded teaching as his spiritual vocation. In city streets, in buses and in quiet parks he was always beginning discussions with strangers. These conversations were not casual. Each was carefully designed to "make a point," as he liked to say; they were dialogues carefully distilled from the works of such writers as Peter Kropotkin, G. K. Chesterton and Eric Gill...
...depersonalizing state. Workers, he thought, should leave the factories and work the land in agrarian communities retaining the barest minimum of private property. Participation in modern war he held to be always wrong-all Christians should be pacifists. And the best state of all for a Christian, said Peter Maurin, is voluntary poverty...
...Peter Maurin formed a spiritual partnership with free-lance writer Dorothy Day that has since become an international movement. Its intellectual nucleus is the monthly paper, the Catholic Worker. Strongly anti-capitalist and pacifist, the Catholic Worker sometimes makes the Communist Daily Worker Jook by comparison almost like a journal of reaction. Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day also opened a chain of "Houses of Hospitality," currently operating in ten U.S. cities, where anyone who applies is given free shelter and such food and clothing as there is for as long as anyone wants to stay. In addition, the movement...
Easy Essays. Five years ago, Peter Maurin, who had stripped himself of everything else, lost the use of his mind, through arteriosclerosis of the brain. Virtually unable to think or talk, Maurin numbly lived out the end of his life at one of the communal farms he helped build near Newburgh, N.Y. But every issue of the Catholic Worker has carried at least one of the old "Easy Essays," and readers unaware of Maurin's illness have often written in to congratulate him on their timeliness. Wrote...