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29 de may. de 2024 · The key to her life vocation is her encounter with a French “philosopher-hobo” named Peter Maurin, who helped her discover her calling to create what became the Catholic Worker movement. That movement began with a newspaper she launched in 1933, which was followed by a house of hospitality to house the homeless.
Hace 6 días · With Peter Maurin, Dorothy started the Catholic Worker in New York as a dynamic epicenter for living a radical Gospel vision of lay charitable enterprise and activism — and affiliated Catholic Worker communities have been popping up ever since (including one here in South Bend).
31 de may. de 2024 · In 1932, Dorothy Day, a journalist, bohemian socialist, and recent convert to Catholicism, met the French-born Peter Maurin. Maurin became Day's spiritual mentor. They collaborated in seeking ways to live the biblical injunctions to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and to seek justice and peace through the founding of the Catholic ...
Hace 2 días · In the 1930s, Day worked closely with fellow activist Peter Maurin to establish the Catholic Worker Movement, a pacifist movement that combines direct aid for the poor and homeless with nonviolent direct action on their behalf.
Hace 1 día · In the 1930s, co-founders Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin had pioneered the idea of creating a community that would open its doors and its arms to those on the margins of society by treating them with the dignity already bestowed on them as image-bearers of God. Peter Maurin famously envisioned a society ‘where it is easier for people to be good.’
19 de may. de 2024 · Houses of hospitality are such a defining feature of the Catholic Worker Movement that it is easy to forget that Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, the movement’s cofounders, envisioned something more: that every Catholic parish would have its own house of hospitality, and that every Christian home would have a “Christ room,” a room ...
11 de may. de 2024 · “Man can recover true life and preserve the cosmos only by rediscovering that a certain voluntary poverty is the condition for possessing the word in a way that will not reduce it to ashes.” (160) Bouyer is speaking here, as did Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day, of the detachment taught to Christians from the time of the early Church.
