Editing Catholic Worker Movement (section)

==Beliefs==
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"Our rule is the works of mercy," said Dorothy Day. "It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence."

According to co-founder Peter Maurin, the following are the beliefs of the Catholic Worker:<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.catholicworker.org/petermaurin/easy-essays.html#%3CB%3EWhat%20the%20Catholic%20Worker%20Believes%3C/B%3E | title=What the Catholic Worker Believes |website=www.catholicworker.org | first=Peter | last=Maurin | access-date=November 9, 2017 | archive-date=November 15, 2018 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181115191427/http://www.catholicworker.org/petermaurin/easy-essays.html#%3CB%3EWhat%20the%20Catholic%20Worker%20Believes%3C/B%3E | url-status=live }}</ref>
# gentle [[personalism]] of traditional Catholicism.
# personal obligation of looking after the needs of our brother.
# daily practice of the [[Works of Mercy]].
# [[House of hospitality|houses of hospitality]] for the immediate relief of those who are in need.
# establishment of Farming Communes where each one [[From each according to his ability, to each according to his need|works according to his ability and receives according to his need]].
# creating a [[new society within the shell of the old]]{{Efn | The concept of "a new society within the shell of the old" appeared in [http://www.iww.org/en/culture/official/preamble.shtml the preamble to the constitution] of the [[Industrial Workers of the World|IWW]], though it was not given a religious rationale. {{Webarchive |url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110904034634/http://www.iww.org/en/culture/official/preamble.shtml |date=September 4, 2011}}}} with the philosophy of the new.

The radical philosophy of the group can be described as [[Christian anarchism]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Cornell |first= Tom |author-link= Tom Cornell | date=May 2010 | title= In Defense of Anarchism|journal=[[Catholic Worker]] | volume=LXXVII | issue= 77th Anniversary Issue | pages=4–5}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last= Prentiss | first=Craig R. | year=2008 |title=Debating God's Economy: Social Justice in America on the Eve of Vatican II | page= 74 | publisher=Penn State Press | isbn=978-0-27104762-1 | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=wWY-DhOnFXkC&pg=PA74 | quote= Subsidiarity and its value in promoting the philosophy of personalism was also key to undergirding perhaps the most distinctive element of the CW ideology, its Christian anarchism}}</ref> Anne Klejment, a history lecturer at the [[University of St. Thomas (Minnesota)|University of St. Thomas]], wrote of the movement:

{{blockquote|The Catholic Worker considered itself a Christian anarchist movement. All authority came from God; and the state, having by choice distanced itself from [[Christian perfectionism]], forfeited its ultimate authority over the citizen… Catholic Worker anarchism followed Christ as a model of [[nonviolent revolution]]ary behavior…  He respected individual conscience. But he also preached a prophetic message, difficult for many of his contemporaries to embrace.<ref>{{cite book | title= A Revolution of the heart: essays on the Catholic worker | last1=Klejment |first1=Anne | first2=Patrick | last2=Coy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4dG87jxGDFcC |via=books.google.co.uk |year= 1988 | publisher=Temple University Press |pages=293–94 | isbn=978-0-87722-531-7 }}</ref>}}{{Libertarian socialism sidebar}}

=== Family involvement ===
Families have had a variety of roles in the Catholic Worker Movement.{{sfn|McKanan|2007a}} Because those donating funds to the houses of hospitality were primarily interested in helping the poor, the higher cost of maintaining a volunteer family (as opposed to maintaining an individual volunteer) conflicted with the wishes of those donating.{{sfn|McKanan|2007a|p=94}} Author Daniel McKanan has suggested that, for a variety of reasons, [[Dorothy Day]]'s perspective on family involvement in the movement was controversial.{{sfn|McKanan|2007a}} Despite these elements of conflict, families have participated in the Catholic Worker Movement through multiple avenues: some assist the [[house of hospitality|houses of hospitality]] while others open up a "Christ room" in their homes for people in need.{{sfn|McKanan|2007b|p=154}} There are many other opportunities for family involvement in the Catholic Worker as well, with some families running their own houses of hospitality.{{sfn|McKanan|2007b|p=158}}