Is Catholic Worker Movement condemned by the church?

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So Communism and Socialism were condemned by the catholic church.
However, according to the “Catholic social teaching” the catholic church does support some form of socialism (mixed economical model).
So my question is whether it is true that as catholic I am not supposed to support movements like Catholic Worker Movement or even mixed economical model?
 
The founder of the Catholic Worker movement, Dorothy Day, is a Servant of God and officially on the way to sainthood.

If it was condemned, I don’t think they’d have done that.

EDIT: Not to mention, the Catholic Workers aren’t socialist, in the sense of the fact that they believe the state can administer justice. While my pool of reference is small, most distrust the government more than libertarians… They just believe that if it must exist, it needs to take care of those less fortunate, rather that support the rights of corporations.
 
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They just believe that if it must exist, it needs to take care of those less fortunate, rather that support the rights of corporations.
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What does that mean? Should not corporations have their rights protected?
 
IWantGod said:
No one has a right to exploit the poor.
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Who suggested that they do? “Rights,” as established by law, should be protected for whoever they are designed, be they rich, poor or corporations.
 
m_p_w said:
So Communism and Socialism were condemned by the catholic church.
However, according to the “Catholic social teaching” the catholic church does support some form of socialism (mixed economical model).
So my question is whether it is true that as catholic I am not supposed to support movements like Catholic Worker Movement or even mixed economical model?
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No, the Catholic Worker Movement has never been condemned by the Church. Dorothy Day became intensely unpopular in the US during World War II when she opposed war even after Pearl Harbor. Her Catholic Worker Movement never regained its’ broad popularity.
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So Communism and Socialism were condemned by the catholic church.
However, according to the “Catholic social teaching” the catholic church does support some form of socialism (mixed economical model).
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A mixed economy is not the kind of state socialism condemned by the Church. Dorothy Day was a socialist, but a Christian socialist.

Crisis Magazine March 19, 2013:
crisismagazine.com/2013/the-dorothy-day-few-of-us-know
“The Dorothy Day Few of Us Know”
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Tim_D said:
What does that mean? Should not corporations have their rights protected?
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She was a radical in her response to the poor. Go back to when she was born (1897) and stroll through workers rights from then forward to the 1960’s. There was more than just a smidgen of negativity toward labor; and more than just a slight tilt in favor of corporate rights.

It was not so much that she was anti-business than it was a matter of subsidiarity; and not so much anti-business as it was workers’ rights to safety, to fair pay, for the right to organize (or as I have said, why do we have unions? Because we have had stupid management). I am neither particularly pro big business nor pro union. But if you want an eye-opening historical read, go research the beginnings and growth of the unions.
 
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