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The Traditional Catholic Worker Movement

Thomas Storck

Dorothy Day's movement is a solid expression of traditional Catholicism, rooted in the spirituality and thought of the Church.

No Catholic Church, No Dorothy Day

Edmund B. Miller

Only love, no matter how historically insignificant it might seem, can create; and no work, no matter how well financed, if done without love can be fruitful.

The Power & the Glory

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

Gluttony

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

The Catholic Worker: Is It Still Catholic?

DOROTHY DAY'S CRUMBLING LEGACY

Ann O'Connor

The Other War We Lost in Vietnam

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED, #10

Charles Owen Rice

President Johnson was seduced by his macho superpatriotism into the morass of Vietnam, and so the war against poverty was lost too.

Garry Wills: An Important Writer

BUT AN IMPORTANT CATHOLIC WRITER?

John C. Cort

The Practice of Mercy

Stuart Gudowitz

Catholic Worker spirituality is situated in the biblical conviction of the poor being a profound revelation of God’s presence and grace.

Dramatizing the Need to Rescue the Homeless

HOMELESSESS: A LIFE-THREATENING CONDITION

John Dear

Being human means caring for others, standing up for the rights of victims of injustice, and working to make the world more just and peaceful.

The Passion of Dorothy Day

A REVOLUTIONARY INFINITELY BEYOND MARX

William D. Miller

Day was a revolutionary infinitely beyond Marx, for her objective was to find the completion of meaning in the Kingdom of Heaven.

The Death of a "Catholic Atheist"

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

Michael Harrington was an eloquent, attractive leader and lucid thinker. Even those who disagreed with him found it almost impossible not to love him.

Dorothy Day and Simone Weil

William D. Miller

In our time surely there are no two persons who have seen more clearly the loss of community as the consequence of the deifica­tion of technique as have these two.

The Politics of Abandonment

THE SPIRITUAL BASES OF GOOD POLITICS

L. Brent Bozell

There is a connection between Thérèse's spectacular commitment to abandonment and her spectacular elevation to leadership of an important Church enterprise.

The Gentle Catholic Radicalism of Peter Maurin

HISTORY AS SEEN FROM A PERSONALIST VANTAGE POINT

William D. Miller

"Gentle personalism" described his program for renewal. It was an impulse toward freedom and community that had the potential of radiating throughout creation.

Tolstoy's Anna Karenina

Harvard Diary

Robert Coles

Voluntary Poverty

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

The struggle toward voluntary poverty is a privilege and requires constant self-scrutiny, lest smugness and self-righteousness undo a decent and honorable effort.

Jacques Maritain’s Friendship with Dorothy Day

MARITAIN’S INFLUENCE ON THE CATHOLIC WORKER MOVEMENT

Bemard Doering

Maritain and Day were of one mind on the use of private property toward the common good, and their desire to “exist with the people.”

Silone’s Religious Humanism

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

The world is wolfish, devouring, full of evil, Silone knew — yet, good will and love are also constantly in evidence: God’s gift to us.

The Truth About the A.C.T.U.

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

The resistance of American workers to communist domination of their trade unions was based on something far more solid than anti-communist hysteria.

Social Justice & Hell-Fire

FIFTY YEARS OF THE CATHOLIC WORKER MOVEMENT

John C. Cort

The Works of Mercy originated in a hell-fire sermon that Jesus preached as a final summary of his teaching, a sermon reported in the 25th chapter of Matthew.