Inventing the Catholic Worker Family
“The Catholic Worker movement is evolving in ways its founders didn't anticipate,” declared a recent article in the National Catholic Reporter, explaining that the movement has evolved from a community of single people to a network that includes many family-centered houses of hospitality. Such...
| Publié dans: | Church history |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2007
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Church history
Année: 2007, Volume: 76, Numéro: 1, Pages: 84-113 |
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| Édition parallèle: | Non-électronique
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| Résumé: | “The Catholic Worker movement is evolving in ways its founders didn't anticipate,” declared a recent article in the National Catholic Reporter, explaining that the movement has evolved from a community of single people to a network that includes many family-centered houses of hospitality. Such media perceptions are widely shared by Catholic Worker families. “In 1933,” explained Julia Occhiogrosso of the Las Vegas Catholic Worker, “Dorothy [Day] didn't give us models for families who want to minister to the poor, Catholic Worker style.” These claims demand a more sustained historical analysis. Just how new are Catholic Worker families? What historical factors contributed to their emergence? Who did create the models for the dozens of families that today are feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, visiting the prisoners, and bending swords into plowshares? |
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| ISSN: | 1755-2613 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Church history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0009640700101428 |