Catholic Radical Alliance
- Catholic Radical Alliance
The Catholic Radical Alliance was founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1937 by Roman Catholic priests Charles Owen Rice, Carl Hensler, and George Barry O'Toole. [cite web |last=Bush |first=Perry |title=To Follow the Carpenter of Nazareth |url=http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=sof9089&article=980913 |format=magazine article |accessdate=2008-06-24] [cite journal |title=Priests, Pickets, Pickle Workers |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,788118,00.html |year=1937 |journal=Time|issue=June 28 |accessdate=2008-06-24] It supported the unionization of workers in the H.J. Heinz Company and the Loose Wiles Biscuit Company in Pittsburgh. [Keenneth A. Heineman "A Catholic New Deal: Religion and Reform in Depression Pittsburgh" 1999 Penn State Press ISBN 0271018968] In addition to union activities, it founded a house of hospitality, St. Joseph's, which was still active in 2008. It dissassociated itself from the Catholic Worker Movement in World War II, over a disagreement with the Catholic Worker's pacifist stance. [Nancy L. Roberts, "Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker" Albany, State University of New York Press, 1984. ISBN 0873959388]
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