What the Catholic Worker Believes
Peter Maurin was a co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement. He came from French peasant stock to become an intellectual kindred spirit to Dorothy Day, who called him a modern-day Saint Francis. His “Easy Essays” — droll philosophical nuggets of wisdom — laid down much of the movement’s ideological foundation. Here, for example, he summarizes quite nicely What the Catholic Worker Believes.
1. The Catholic Worker believes
in the gentle personalism
of traditional Catholicism.
2. The Catholic Worker believes
in the personal obligation
of looking after
the needs of our brother.
3. The Catholic Worker believes
in the daily practice
of the Works of Mercy.
4. The Catholic Worker believes
in Houses of Hospitality
for the immediate relief
of those who are in need.
5. The Catholic Worker believes
in the establishment
of Farming Communes
where each one works
according to his ability
and gets according to his need.
6. The Catholic Worker believes
in creating a new society
within the shell of the old
with the philosophy of the new,
which is not a new philosophy
but a very old philosophy,
a philosophy so old
that it looks like new.
From the website CatholicWorker.org
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