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Still she longed to find some way of applying her new faith to help the poor. In the depths of the Depression, she met a wandering French philosopher-laborer named Peter Maurin. On May Day 1933 to challenge their church's social conservatism, they launched the monthly Catholic Worker (price per copy, to this day 1?). Circulation reached 150,000 by 1936 (though...
...Bowery. Today 47 urban "houses of hospitality," inspired by the one she founded in New York, provide hot meals, and sometimes shelter, for the down-and-out. Some are tied to companion farms in the country in keeping with the back-to-the-land ideas of Co-Founder Peter Maurin...
...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...