Voices From the Catholic Worker

Rosalie Riegle Troester

ISBN 10: 1566390591 / ISBN 13: 9781566390590

Published by Temple University Press, 1993

About this Item

Inscribed by author, "May these words inspire you as they do me! Love, Rosalie, St Patrick's Day, 1994". No other markings in or on the book. Pages are clean, with no tears or folds. Cover are clean and have no tears or folds. 597 pgs.

Seller Inventory # D7807217

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Voices From the Catholic Worker
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1566390591
• ISBN 13: 9781566390590
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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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 the Author

Rosalie Riegle Troester is Professor of English at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan.