Dorothy Day
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Many of our readers ask, “What is the stand of the Catholic Worker in regard to the present war?” They are thinking as they ask the...
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Dorothy Day
Aug 15
Pacifism
A repost of Dorothy Day’s 1936 Catholic Worker editorial on pacifism The Catholic Worker is sincerely a pacifist paper. We oppose class...
Dorothy Day
Jul 19
Why Do the Members of Christ Tear One Another?
Fr. Stratman writes: “We think with Cardinal Faulhaber that Catholic moral theology must in fact begin to speak a new language, and that...
Peter Maurin
Jul 11
Christianity, Capitalism, Communism
1. Christianity has nothing to do with either modern Capitalism or modern Communism, for Christianity has a Capitalism of its own, and a...
Peter Maurin
Jul 10
Better Off
The world would be better off if people tried to be better. And people would become better if they stopped trying to be better off. For...
Dorothy Day
Jul 4
Room For Christ
It is no use to say that we are born two thousand years too late to give room to Christ. Nor will those who live at the end of the world...
Peter Maurin
Jun 27
Social Workers and Workers
1. The training of social workers enables them to help people to adjust themselves to the existing environment. 2. The training of social...
Dorothy Day
Jun 20
On Pilgrimage (July 1955)
Dorothy Day writes shortly after the birth of her seventh grandchild, Martha. During the two months since the last issue of the Catholic...
Dorothy Day
Jun 13
Poverty Is the Pearl of Great Price
Jacques Maritain, speaking at a Catholic Worker meeting a few years ago, urged us to read the Gospels. Therese of Lisieux, the little...
Peter Maurin
Jun 6
Share Your Wealth
1. God wants us to be our brother's keeper. 2. To feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to shelter the homeless, to instruct the...
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