Roots of the Catholic Worker Movement: Saints and Philosophers who Influenced Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin

 

Introduction   The Catholic Worker Movement: Intellectual and Spiritual Origins, by Mark and Louise Zwick, Paulist Press, 2005. A Question for Catholics: Is "St." Dorothy Day a Uniter or Divider? Review of the Zwicks' The Catholic Worker Movement: Intellectual and Spiritual Origins Emmanuel Mounier Emmanuel Mounier and Personalism  Obituary of Emmanuel Mounier  The Personalist  Emmanuel Mounier, Personalism, and the Catholic Worker movement The Emmanuel Mounier Colloquium Virgil Michel, O.S.B. and the Benedictine influence Virgil Michel, Benedictine Co-Worker of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin: Justice embodied in Christ-life and Liturgy   The Liturgy the Basis of Social Regeneration  Bourgeois Spirit undermines Christian Renewal  Benedictine Influence Prominent in Catholic Worker: The Guest is Christ  Virgil Michel, Fellow Worker in Christ  Correspondence between Dorothy Day and the Benedictines  Nicholas Berdyaev, Prophet for the Catholic Worker Movement The Bourgeois Mind  Materialism Destroys the Eternal Spirit  Jacques and Raissa Maritain Jacques and Raissa Maritain influenced the early Catholic Worker  Pure Means--Ethical Choices  The Saints Refuse to Accept Evil  Christians must Transform the World: No Revolutions based on Hate and Greed  Christian Contemplation not for Privileged Few, but for All  St. Francis of Assisi Fight War and Conscription: Be like St. Francis  Catholic Workers wanted to be like St. Francis of Assisi  The Example of St. Francis of Assisi: Why Write about Strife and Violence?  St. Francis Transformed Church and World  St. Catherine of Siena Do for your Neighbor what you Cannot Do for Me  A Woman who Influenced her Times  St. Teresa of Avila Saint Teresa of Avila and Dorothy Day rebelled against Mediocrity  St. Teresa of Lisieux Dorothy Day and St. Therese of Lisieux respond to the Despair of our Time Saint Therese of Lisieux inspired Dorothy Day  Saint Therese's Little Way demands Love in Action  St. Thomas Aquinas The Common Good and the Body of Christ: St. Thomas Aquinas and the Catholic Worker Movement  Fr. John Hugo Fr. John Hugo, Spiritual Director to Dorothy Day, calls us to follow Jesus  The Catholic Worker Retreat of Father Hugo changed my Life  Dorothy Day: Driven by Love  The Retreat: Schedule for 2008 Peter Kropotkin Peter Kropotkin inspired Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day  Distributism Distributism vs. Socialism: Economics As If People Mattered Ownership of the Means of Production and Alternative to the Brutal Global Market G.K. Chesterton and Dorothy Day on Economics: Neither Socialism nor Capitalism Labor and Workers Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin Creative in their Approach to the Labor Movement Voluntary Poverty Voluntary Poverty at Heart of Catholic Worker Movement The Light from the East Dorothy Day and the Light from the East: Eastern Christianity, Fathers of the Desert, Dostoevsky Easy Essay by Peter MaurinThe Wisdom of Dostoevsky: The Monastic Way is very Different Helene Iswolsky: My Friendship with Dorothy Day Pacifism The Roots of Dorothy Day's Pacifism:Solidarity, Compassion and a Stubborn Hold on Truth Dorothy Day, Prophet of Pacifism for the Catholic Church