Primary Sources for the Catholic Worker Movement

Dorothy Day at Catholic Worker Farm, Tivoli, NY, 1970

Writings of Dorothy Day

Dorothy Day, who founded The Catholic Worker movement with Peter Maurin on May Day 1933, was a journalist by trade and temperament. She thought she was doing a one-off printing of a newspaper, but Peter Maurin saw her as the spokesperson for a whole new movement for Social Justice in America. 

Dorothy Day tells the beginnings of The Catholic Worker Movement in her 1947 autobiographical account, The Long Loneliness. This is the book that the members of our class will discuss tomorrow at DSPT.