Catholic Worker Movement

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The Catholic Worker Movement is a Christian social justice movement founded in the 1930s that combines radical hospitality to the poor, pacifism, and communal living with a critique of capitalism and state power.

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instanceOf Catholic lay movement
Christian social justice movement
pacifist movement
basedOn Catholic social teaching
Sermon on the Mount
corePractice civil disobedience
farming communes
hospitality houses
hospitality to migrants
hospitality to the homeless
roundtable discussions for the clarification of thought
soup kitchens
war tax resistance
countryOfOrigin United States
foundedBy Dorothy Day
Peter Maurin
hasApproximateNumberOfCommunities over 200 worldwide
hasCharacteristic Christian anarchism
anarchism
communal living
critique of capitalism
critique of state power
distributism
nonviolence
pacifism
personalism
radical hospitality to the poor
voluntary poverty
works of mercy
hasGlobalPresence yes
hasHeadquartersLocation New York City
hasMainOrgan The Catholic Worker
hasMotto “Create a new society within the shell of the old”
“The world will be saved by beauty”
hasNotableFarm Maryfarm
Peter Maurin Farm
hasNotableHouse St. Joseph House (New York City)
hasPublicationFrequency monthly (often) for The Catholic Worker newspaper
inception 1933
inspiredBy Benedictine monasticism
Francis of Assisi
French personalism
opposes anti-immigrant policies
capitalist exploitation
conscription
imperialism
militarism
nuclear weapons
racism
positionOnWar absolute pacifism
religion Catholicism
linked to: Roman Catholicism
supports conscientious objection
decentralization of power
labor unions
local self-sufficiency
workers' rights

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Christian anarchism associatedMovement Catholic Worker Movement
Dorothy Day movement Catholic Worker Movement
Dorothy Day coFounded Catholic Worker Movement
Dorothy Day influenced Catholic Worker Movement communities
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Ammon Hennacy movement Catholic Worker Movement
Ammon Hennacy associatedWith Catholic Worker houses of hospitality
linked to: Catholic Worker Movement
Dorothy May Day movement Catholic Worker Movement
Dorothy May Day coFounded Catholic Worker Movement
Peter Maurin movement Catholic Worker Movement
Peter Maurin coFounded Catholic Worker Movement
Peter Maurin influenced Catholic Worker Movement
Catholic Worker publisher Catholic Worker Movement
subject linked to: Catholic Worker newspaper
Catholic Worker associatedWith Catholic Worker Movement
subject linked to: Catholic Worker newspaper
Catholic Worker supports Catholic Worker houses of hospitality
subject linked to: Catholic Worker newspaper
linked to: Catholic Worker Movement
The Long Loneliness mainSubject Catholic Worker movement
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From Union Square to Rome mainSubject Catholic Worker movement
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From Union Square to Rome associatedWith Catholic Worker movement
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From Union Square to Rome associatedWith Catholic Worker houses of hospitality
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Loaves and Fishes mainSubject Catholic Worker movement
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Tamar Teresa Day Hennessy movement Catholic Worker Movement
Tamar Teresa Day Hennessy participatedIn Catholic Worker communal life
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Tamar Teresa Day Hennessy associatedWith Catholic Worker farms
linked to: Catholic Worker Movement
Tamar Teresa Day Hennessy associatedWith Catholic Worker hospitality houses
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