Catholic Worker

Catholic Worker

"The Catholic Worker" is a monthly newspaper published by the Catholic Worker Movement community in New York City. The newspaper was started by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin to make people aware of church teaching on social justice. Day said the word "Worker" in the paper's title referred to "those who worked with hand or brain, those who did physical, mental, or spiritual work. But we thought primarily of the poor, the dispossessed, the exploited." When Communism was rather popular in the United States during the Great Depression, Day and Maurin wanted to teach what seemed a well kept secret; the very progressive teaching of the church, so that the poor, mostly Catholic, would turn to their own tradition for the solution.

It first appeared on May Day, 1933 in an edition of 2,500 copies, to make people aware of the social justice teaching of the Catholic Church as an alternative to Communism during the depression. Circulation rapidly rose to 25,000 within a few months, and reached 150,000 by 1936.1

Day was the editor of "The Catholic Worker" until her death in 1980. The price per issue has always been one cent. Writers for the paper have ranged from young volunteers to such notable figures as Ammon Hennacy, Thomas Merton, Daniel Berrigan and Jacques Maritain. Ade Bethune and Fritz Eichenberg have frequently contributed illustrations.

"The Catholic Worker" lost thousands of subscribers because of its strict pacifist stance and refusal to join in the call for U.S. involvement in World War II.

References

1) Dorothy Day, "The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of Dorothy Day" (Curtis Booksp.207; orig. published by Harper & Row, 1952).

External links

* [http://www.catholicworker.org The Catholic Worker Movement]
* [http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0501.htm May 1, 1933] Daily Bleed Calendar


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