Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin are credited with founding the Catholic Worker. However, a number of other Catholic Workers also deeply influenced the movement. Click through to learn more about each person.
Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement along with Peter Maurin. A writer and journalist by trade, she and Maurin founded…
Peter Maurin
After her conversion to Catholicism, Dorothy Day struggled to reconcile the activism of her young adulthood with her newfound faith. The situation came to a head in early December 1932…