Commonweal (magazine)
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Commonweal is a liberal Catholic journal of opinion, edited and managed by lay people, headquartered in New York City. It is the oldest independent Catholic journal of opinion in the United States.
Commonweal Cover 11 2022
Peter Maurin
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Peter Maurin was a French Catholic social activist, theologian, and De La Salle Brother who founded the Catholic Worker Movement in 1933 with Dorothy Day.
Commonweal (magazine)
…arts, religion, society, and politics. One of the magazine's most famous contributors is Dorothy Day, who began writing for it in 1929. In 1932, she met Peter Maurin, who had visited the offices of Commonweal to spread his ideas of a more radical practice and theory of the works of mercy; the editor of the magazine…
Maurin in front of one of the first Catholic Worker houses
Catholic Radicalism: Phrased Essays For The Green Revolution, 1949