In Catholicism and American Freedom (2003), historian John T. McGreevy described the Catholic Worker as “the most important radical Catholic movement in American history.” At seventy-five, the Catholic Worker is certainly the most long-lived and written-about venture of its kind in American Catholicism. And while this lay movement’s charismatic founders, Peter Maurin (d. (...)
June 06, 2008
Books
Taking Root
The Catholic Worker after DorothyPracticing the Works of Mercy in a New GenerationDan McKananLiturgical Press, $19.95, 236 pp.
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