Dorothy Day & the Catholic Worker Movement: Themes

Dorothy Day often wrote to promote the “arousal of conscience” and the “examination of conscience.” Some pieces explored the nature of conscience, especially as it applied to Catholicism. She also wrote to prick readers’ consciences on particular issues: war, peace, and anti-nuclear themes; on poverty; on race; and on the labor movement. Often touting the primacy of conscience.She believed that one of the chief objectives of The Catholic Worker was to raise Christians’ consciences on these and other matters.

Dorothy discusses the notion of Christian hospitality, central to the Catholic Worker vision and work.

Dorothy explains her Christian pacifist stance covering all the wars of the middle decades of the 20th Century.

Covers the period of rapid industrial expansion shortly after World War II.

This series of articles probe the many facets of poverty and destitution, the works of mercy, voluntary poverty as a means, poverty and pacifism, poverty and personal responsibility, holy poverty, poverty and work.