Editing Catholic Worker Movement (section)

{{short description|Autonomous communities of Catholics and their associates}}
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| formation               = {{start date and age|1933|5|01}}
| founders                = {{ubl|[[Dorothy Day]]|[[Peter Maurin]]}}
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| purpose                 = [[Christian anarchist|Catholic anarchist]] activism
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| membership              = 200 Catholic worker houses of hospitality and farms internationally<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Darline Roden |first=Renée |date=15 May 2023 |title=The Anarchism of the Catholic Worker |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/society/catholic-worker-dorothy-day-peter-maurin/ |magazine=[[The Nation (magazine)|The Nation]] |location= |publisher= |access-date=1 December 2023}}</ref> 
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The '''Catholic Worker Movement''' is a collection of autonomous communities founded by [[Dorothy Day]] and [[Peter Maurin]] in the United States in 1933. Its aim is to "live in accordance with the justice and charity of [[Jesus Christ]]".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.catholicworker.org/cw-aims-and-means.html | title=The Aims and Means of the Catholic Worker | website=Catholicworker.org | access-date=February 4, 2018 | archive-date=December 5, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191205083714/https://www.catholicworker.org/cw-aims-and-means.html | url-status=live }}</ref> One of its guiding principles is hospitality towards those on the margin of society, based on the principles of [[communitarianism]] and [[personalism]]. To this end, the movement claims over 240 local Catholic Worker communities providing social services.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.catholicworker.org/ | title=Catholic Worker Movement | website=Catholicworker.org | access-date=February 7, 2005 | archive-date=January 31, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131054149/http://www.catholicworker.org/ | url-status=live }}</ref> Each house has a different mission, going about the work of [[social justice]] in its own way, suited to its local region.

Catholic Worker houses are not official organs of the Catholic Church, and their activities, inspired by Day's example, may be more or less overtly religious in tone and inspiration depending on the particular institution. The movement campaigns for [[nonviolence]] and is active in opposing both [[anti-war|war]] and the unequal global [[distribution of wealth]]. Day also founded the ''[[Catholic Worker (newspaper)|Catholic Worker]]'' newspaper, still published by the two Catholic Worker houses in [[New York City]], and sold for a penny a copy.