The Catholic Worker Movement, founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933, is grounded in a firm belief in the God-given dignity of every person.​

 

Today there are over 240 Catholic Worker communities around the world. "The exact number is impossible to know because the Catholic Worker Movement has no central headquarters, nor is there a single, authoritative list of communities. New communities are created every year, while other communities close. In addition, there is no agreed-upon definition of what constitutes a Catholic Worker community, although many people would cite some intentional connection to the vision of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, as well as the Aims and Means, as a good standard."
From Catholic Worker Movement website

 

Every Catholic Worker community remains committed to nonviolence, voluntary poverty, prayer, and hospitality for the homeless, exiled, hungry, and forsaken.  Catholic Workers continue to protest injustice, war, racism, and violence in all forms.​ 

The aim of the Catholic Worker movement is to live in accordance with the justice and charity of Jesus Christ.  Our sources are the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures as handed down in the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church as well as the writings of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin.​

This aim requires us to begin living in a different way.

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We recall the words of our founder, Dorothy Day who said, "The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart: a revolution that starts with each one of us."

 

We follow the example of our founder, Peter Maurin who wanted to build a society “where it is easier for people to be good".Together we work to understand these ideas and the people who founded the Catholic Worker movement both in their time and how Catholic Worker relates in our time.​