Catholic Worker Movement

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The Catholic Worker Movement was founded on May 1, 1933 by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin as a Catholic social movement in the USA . The movement resulted in "Houses of Hospitality" - first in the USA, then worldwide - which help disadvantaged people (homeless, handicapped, poor ...) in a personal atmosphere in various ways. The employees mostly forego a salary and thus live in voluntary poverty in order not to support the state with income taxes. In addition to voluntary poverty, other guiding principles are “personal relationships”, “green revolution” and non-violence .

Since the 1990s there have been a small number of organizations in Europe that see themselves as part of the Catholic Worker movement, for example in Hamburg, Amsterdam, London, Ghent and Dortmund.

The social activist newspaper The Catholic Worker has been published by the movement since the 1930s , and it quickly found support in the poor, communist and pacifist movements. The newspaper is still sold monthly for the symbolic price of 1 US cent.

literature

  • Angelika Sirch: The whole way to heaven is heaven. About experience of God and world responsibility with Dorothy Day . Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010. ISBN 978-363-15943-9-1 .
  • Bread & Rosen (ed.): Radical saints. Charities of the Catholic Worker Movement . Hamburg 2001.
  • Bernd Büscher: The Catholic Worker Movement . In: Pax Christi - German Secretariat (ed.): Wegweiser. Christian Communities for Peace and Justice . Komzi-Verlag 1995. ISBN 3-929522-27-6 . Pp. 79-101.
  • Jim Forest: Dorothy Day - Measure is love. The biography of Dorothy Day . Pendo-Verlag, Zurich 1989. ISBN 3-85842-171-5 .
  • Hildegard Lüning: Dorothy Day (1897-1980). Among the last of God's children . In: Christiane Rajewsky , Dieter Riesenberger (ed.): Against the war. Great pacifists from Immanuel Kant to Heinrich Böll . CH Beck, Munich 1987. ISBN 3-406-31885-1 . Pp. 335-354.
  • Tom Cornell, "Dorothy Day, Ammon Hennacy, and Anarchism. The Life and Works of Two Catholic Workers". In: Sebastian Kalicha (ed.): Christian anarchism. Facets of a libertarian current . Verlag Graswurzelrevolution, Heidelberg 2013, pp. 117–146. ISBN 978-3-939045-21-2

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