Catholic Worker Movement

The Catholic Worker Movement was founded on May 1, 1933 by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin as Catholic social movement in the United States. Born out of the movement - first in the U.S., then the world - "Houses of Hospitality", the unique personal touch on various ways to help disadvantaged people ( homeless, disabled, poor ... ). The staff usually forego a salary and live with it in voluntary poverty, not to support the state through income taxes. More guiding principles are in addition to voluntary poverty, the " personal relationship ", " Green Revolution " and nonviolence.

Since the 1990s, there is in Europe a small number of organizations that see themselves as part of the Catholic Worker movement, as in Hamburg, Amsterdam, London, Gent and Dortmund.

From the movement of the social activism newspaper The Catholic Worker has been published since the 1930s, which found encouragement in the poorer, communist and pacifist movements quickly. The newspaper is still selling monthly for the symbolic price of 1 U.S. cent.