Thoughts on Catholic Worker Movement

[mrld20]

One of my favorite things about being Catholic is the social justice component. I love Catholic social teaching and practically treat it as the cornerstone of my interaction with the secular world.

I do volunteer work at a Catholic Worker House.

The Catholic Worker Movement was founded during the great depression by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin. They are dedicated to helping the poor, the sick, the hungry. They are vehement pacifists who disagree even with the Just War theory…

At this Catholic Worker house I help prepare meals for people who live there because they have nowhere else to go, and I help them rebuild their lives…

There’s some controversy to the Catholic Worker movement because of its connections to anarchism…

But Day (also a self-avowed anarchist) was recognized as a “Servant of God” by the Church…

To me I love this kind of stuff (I’m not an anarchist though ) I love working in social justice situations and doing good towards the less fortunate… It helps me deal with my own struggles with SSA and mental illness.

But there’s a good number of Catholics in my home diocese who look upon the little Catholic Worker House I’m at with scorn… To them it’s not “Catholic.”

What are everyone’s thoughts on the Catholic Worker Movement? A good thing? Or should I find another “Catholic” organization to volunteer at?

 

[AntalKalnoky]

One of my favorite things about being Catholic is the social justice component. I love Catholic social teaching and practically treat it as the cornerstone of my interaction with the secular world.

I do volunteer work at a Catholic Worker House.

The Catholic Worker Movement was founded during the great depression by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin. They are dedicated to helping the poor, the sick, the hungry. They are vehement pacifists who disagree even with the Just War theory…

At this Catholic Worker house I help prepare meals for people who live there because they have nowhere else to go, and I help them rebuild their lives…

There’s some controversy to the Catholic Worker movement because of its connections to anarchism…

But Day (also a self-avowed anarchist) was recognized as a “Servant of God” by the Church…

To me I love this kind of stuff (I’m not an anarchist though ) I love working in social justice situations and doing good towards the less fortunate… It helps me deal with my own struggles with SSA and mental illness.

But there’s a good number of Catholics in my home diocese who look upon the little Catholic Worker House I’m at with scorn… To them it’s not “Catholic.”

What are everyone’s thoughts on the Catholic Worker Movement? A good thing? Or should I find another “Catholic” organization to volunteer at?

Congratulations, mrld! Great attitude and volunteer work. Volunteering work with the poorest, hungry has always been recognized as Essential and Ideal. World respected Blessed Mother Theresa’s hands-on work with the poorest, sickest, dying caused her to be tied as the Most admired Woman in the World, with Princess Di 15 years ago. She Is Officially The National Hero of India!. Catholic Social Justice And “Social Concern” WORK is the Centerpiece of Christ’s Church, for 2,000 years. Blessed Pope John Paul II The Great, Personal survivor of WW II (as I am) said in the days Before he Passed, that War is NEVER Justified. (Can Almost always be Prevented by Negotiation, Like Hitler eanting the Sudenteland and Ruhr Valley Back (Justly); Japan wanted Basic Raw Materials even 1941, But Any Negotiations were 100% Avoided by Churchill, Roosevelt. Ditto the Civil War, Spanish American War, WW I, Etc., Etc. Pat Buchanan wrote a remarkeably revealing Book about Major wars Intended by the Allies, surprising Documentation.

                                                                                                                       The    Work you do  at the   Catholic Worker House is Great.  And the  Church Recognized  Dorothy  Day  as officially  "Blessed" after detail Investigations.  Best  to have  Zero  concern   about  'Some'  or  'many'  or  'a  lot' of  Catholics  (who have   ideas Contrary  to  Church    Major  Policy  like  Social  Concern  they  view  with  False Bias, often based on False  "Commercial  Propaganda"   even that Social Concern is Marxist,  etc., etc.).  There is  a  Massive amount of TOTALLY False Propaganda  by  Commercial Interests against even SSA  and Medicare,  VA,  Etc.,  Etc.   I  correct   All the False  Propaganda,  Totally Opposite to  Church   Ideals, on CAF.  

                                                                                                                     You  are  doing the Exact  Personal  work  The Church,   and the Late  Archbishop  Hanna, Mother Theresa,   **Many** others idolize.  You  are doing   The Lord's Work!  :tiphat::blessyou: Sir.