Catholic Worker Movement & Dorothy Day

The central theme addressed by Dorothy Day (177) in Loaves and Fishes: The Inspiring Story of the Catholic Worker Movement, is summarized as follows: "All we give is given to us to give." The Catholic Worker Movement was based on underlying theological and spiritual principles, including the resistance to power structures that fail to care for society's most vulnerable, the Christ-inspired belief that voluntary poverty leads to social reform and a transformative sharing in redemptive suffering, and the belief that the duty of all Christians is to literally collaborate with God in the creation of His Kingdom. A fundamental belief expressed by Day (176) was that "one of the greatest evils of the day� is [a] sense of futility." It

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