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The Catholic Worker Movement is a collection of autonomous〔Robert Waldrop, ("About the Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House," ) www.justpeace.org/ Retrieved August 17, 2011.〕 communities of Catholics and their associates founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933. Its aim is to "live in accordance with the justice and charity of Jesus Christ."〔"(The Aims and Means of the Catholic Worker )" from ''The Catholic Worker'' newspaper, May 2002〕 One of its guiding principles is hospitality towards those on the margin of society, based on the principles of communitarianism and personalism. To this end, the movement claims over 213 local Catholic Worker communities providing social services. Each house has a different mission, going about the work of social justice in its own way, suited to its local region. Catholic Worker houses are not official organs of the Catholic Church, and their activities, inspired by Day's example, may be more or less overtly religious in tone and inspiration depending on the particular institution. The movement campaigns for nonviolence and is active in opposing both war and the unequal global distribution of wealth. Dorothy Day also founded ''The Catholic Worker'' newspaper, still published by the two Catholic Worker houses in New York City and sold for a penny a copy. == History == The Catholic Worker Movement started with the ''Catholic Worker'' newspaper, created by Dorothy Day to advance Catholic social teaching and stake out a neutral, pacifist position in the war-torn 1930s. Day attempted to put her words from the ''Catholic Worker'' into action through "houses of hospitality" and then through a series of farms for people to live together communally. The idea of voluntary poverty was advocated for those who volunteered to work at the houses of hospitality. Many people would come to the Catholic Workers for assistance, only to become Workers themselves. Initially, these houses of hospitality had little organization and no requirements for membership. As time passed, however, some basic rules and policies were established. Day appointed the directors of each of the houses, but tried to maintain autonomy in the actual running of the houses. Because of this policy, the houses varied in both size and character: in the 1930s, the St. Louis Workers served 3400 people a day while the Detroit Workers served around 600 a day. The ''Catholic Worker'' newspaper spread the idea to other cities in the United States as well as to Canada and the United Kingdom through the reports printed by those who had experienced working in the houses of hospitality. More than 30 independent but affiliated communities had been founded by 1941. Between 1965-1980 an additional 76 communities were founded with 35 of these still in existence today,〔Dan McKanan, The Catholic Worker After Dorothy, 2008. Pp 75-76. http://books.google.ca/books?id=LalvZo7fx5sC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Catholic+Worker&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kPfGUreNA6nA2AXGoYH4Bw&ved=0CEIQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false〕 such as the "Hippie Kitchen" founded in the back of a van by two Catholic Workers on Skid Row, Los Angeles in the 1970s. Well over 200 communities exist today, including several in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, the Republic of Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, and Sweden.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.catholicworker.org/communities/commlistall.cfm Directory of Catholic Worker Communities )〕 Co-founder Dorothy Day, who died in 1980, is currently under consideration for sainthood by the Catholic Church. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Catholic Worker Movement」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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