Everything about Catholic Worker totally explained
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. Dorothy 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 U.S. during the
Great Depression. Dorothy and Peter 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.
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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.
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