Catholic Worker Movement

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Catholic lay movement Christian social justice movement pacifist movement

The Catholic Worker Movement is a Christian social justice movement founded in the 1930s that combines radical hospitality to the poor, pacifism, and communal living with a critique of capitalism and state power.

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All labels observed (7)

Label	Occurrences
Catholic Worker Movement canonical	12
Catholic Worker movement	4
Catholic Worker houses of hospitality	3
Catholic Worker Movement communities	1
Catholic Worker communal life	1
Catholic Worker farms	1
Catholic Worker hospitality houses	1

Statements (56)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Catholic lay movement ⓘ Christian social justice movement ⓘ pacifist movement ⓘ
basedOn	Catholic social teaching ⓘ Sermon on the Mount ⓘ
corePractice	civil disobedience ⓘ farming communes ⓘ hospitality houses ⓘ hospitality to migrants ⓘ hospitality to the homeless ⓘ roundtable discussions for the clarification of thought ⓘ soup kitchens ⓘ war tax resistance ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
foundedBy	Dorothy Day ⓘ Peter Maurin ⓘ
hasApproximateNumberOfCommunities	over 200 worldwide ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	Christian anarchism ⓘ anarchism ⓘ communal living ⓘ critique of capitalism ⓘ critique of state power ⓘ distributism ⓘ nonviolence ⓘ pacifism ⓘ personalism ⓘ radical hospitality to the poor ⓘ voluntary poverty ⓘ works of mercy ⓘ
hasGlobalPresence	yes ⓘ
hasHeadquartersLocation	New York City ⓘ
hasMainOrgan	Catholic Worker newspaper ⓘ surface form: The Catholic Worker
hasMotto	“Create a new society within the shell of the old” ⓘ “The world will be saved by beauty” ⓘ
hasNotableFarm	Maryfarm ⓘ Peter Maurin Farm ⓘ
hasNotableHouse	St. Joseph House (New York City) ⓘ
hasPublicationFrequency	monthly (often) for The Catholic Worker newspaper ⓘ
inception	1933 ⓘ
inspiredBy	Benedictine monasticism ⓘ Saint Francis of Assisi ⓘ surface form: Francis of Assisi French personalism ⓘ
opposes	anti-immigrant policies ⓘ capitalist exploitation ⓘ conscription ⓘ imperialism ⓘ militarism ⓘ nuclear weapons ⓘ racism ⓘ
positionOnWar	absolute pacifism ⓘ
religion	Roman Catholicism ⓘ surface form: Catholicism
supports	conscientious objection ⓘ decentralization of power ⓘ labor unions ⓘ local self-sufficiency ⓘ workers' rights ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Christian anarchism → associatedMovement → Catholic Worker Movement ⓘ

Dorothy Day → movement → Catholic Worker Movement ⓘ

Dorothy Day → coFounded → Catholic Worker Movement ⓘ

Dorothy Day → influenced → Catholic Worker Movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Catholic Worker Movement communities

Ammon Hennacy → movement → Catholic Worker Movement ⓘ

Ammon Hennacy → associatedWith → Catholic Worker Movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Catholic Worker houses of hospitality

Dorothy May Day → movement → Catholic Worker Movement ⓘ

Dorothy May Day → coFounded → Catholic Worker Movement ⓘ

Peter Maurin → movement → Catholic Worker Movement ⓘ

Peter Maurin → coFounded → Catholic Worker Movement ⓘ

Peter Maurin → influenced → Catholic Worker Movement ⓘ

Catholic Worker newspaper → publisher → Catholic Worker Movement ⓘ

subject surface form: Catholic Worker

Catholic Worker newspaper → associatedWith → Catholic Worker Movement ⓘ

subject surface form: Catholic Worker

Catholic Worker newspaper → supports → Catholic Worker Movement ⓘ

subject surface form: Catholic Worker

this entity surface form: Catholic Worker houses of hospitality

The Long Loneliness → mainSubject → Catholic Worker Movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Catholic Worker movement

From Union Square to Rome → mainSubject → Catholic Worker Movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Catholic Worker movement

From Union Square to Rome → associatedWith → Catholic Worker Movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Catholic Worker movement

From Union Square to Rome → associatedWith → Catholic Worker Movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Catholic Worker houses of hospitality

Loaves and Fishes → mainSubject → Catholic Worker Movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Catholic Worker movement

Tamar Teresa Day Hennessy → movement → Catholic Worker Movement ⓘ

Tamar Teresa Day Hennessy → participatedIn → Catholic Worker Movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Catholic Worker communal life

Tamar Teresa Day Hennessy → associatedWith → Catholic Worker Movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Catholic Worker farms

Tamar Teresa Day Hennessy → associatedWith → Catholic Worker Movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Catholic Worker hospitality houses