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Year at the Catholic Worker
Marc H. Ellis
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Description for Year at the Catholic Worker
Paperback. A diary that recounts the author's spiritual journey among the poor in New York City in the early 1970s. What he witnessed at the Catholic Worker continues to increase in our world: homelessness, destitution, and other forms of poverty. Yet the spiritual life he experienced is even more real as well - commitment, hope, and faith among the poor. Series: Literature & the Religious Spirit. Num Pages: 174 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJP; BG; HRCC7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 294.
Sixty-six years ago the Catholic Worker movement began with the opening of a shared aprtment as a house of hospitality and the selling of the Catholic Worker newspaper for a penny a copy in Union Square. It began amidst the Great Depression with millions out of work and the foundation of American capitalism crumbling. Most of all, however, the Catholic Worker began with the meeting of two persons: Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin. Their meeting was the effective beginning of the Catholic Worker movement and remains to this day the source of its inspiration.
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Sixty-six years ago the Catholic Worker movement began with the opening of a shared aprtment as a house of hospitality and the selling of the Catholic Worker newspaper for a penny a copy in Union Square. It began amidst the Great Depression with millions out of work and the foundation of American capitalism crumbling. Most of all, however, the Catholic Worker began with the meeting of two persons: Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin. Their meeting was the effective beginning of the Catholic Worker movement and remains to this day the source of its inspiration.
In this diary Marc H. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Baylor University Press United States
Number of pages
174
Condition
New
Series
Literature & the Religious Spirit
Number of Pages
174
Place of Publication
Waco, United States
ISBN
9780918954749
SKU
V9780918954749
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