Voices From the Catholic Worker - Softcover

Rosalie Riegle Troester

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566390591 ISBN 13: 9781566390590

Publisher: Temple University Press, 1993

Synopsis

This rich oral history weaves a tapestry of memories and experience from interviews, roundtable discussions, personal memoirs, and thorough research. In the sixtieth anniversary year of the Catholic Worker, Rosalie Riegle Troester reconfirms the diversity and commitment of a movement that applies basic Christianity to social problems.

Founded in 1933 by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, the Catholic Worker has continued to apply the principles of voluntary poverty and nonviolence to changing social and political realities. Over 200 interviews with Workers from all over the United States reveal how people came to this movement, how they were changed by it, and how they faced contradictions between the Catholic Worker philosophy and the call of contemporary life.

Vivid memoirs of Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, and Ammon Hennacy are interwoven with accounts of involvement with labor unions, war resistance, and life on Catholic Worker farms. The author also addresses the Worker's relationship with the Catholic Church and with the movement's wrenching debates over abortion, homosexuality, and the role of women.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Reflections on the past and future of a long-standing community

From the Inside Flap:

"This book is even more essential now than when these voices were first heard. It deals with a movement that is so much a symbol of American hope that it's in a class by itself. I strongly recommend Voices from the Catholic Worker."

—Studs Terkel

About this edition

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1566390591
• ISBN 13: 9781566390590
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 597