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John Cyrus Cort (1913–2006), was a longtime Christian socialist writer and activist. He was the co-chair of the Religion and Socialism Commission of the Democratic Socialists of America. He was based in metropolitan Boston, Massachusetts. He fathered 10 children with his wife, Helen Haye Cort, and he still cantored in his local parish at the age of 92. ==Biography== John Cyrus Cort was born in New York City on December 3, 1913 to Ambrose Cort, a public school teacher, and Lydia Painter Cort.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=John Cort Biographical Notes )〕 Cort attended public schools in Hempstead, New York. Soon after graduating from Harvard College (class of 1935) and converting to Catholicism, he was moved by a speech by Dorothy Day. He was one of the earliest Catholic Workers who started at the Mott Street House in 1936. He worked with the Catholic Worker for a few years. For several years he edited the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists' ''Labor Leader.'' He served on the editorial staff of Commonweal magazine from 1943 to 1959.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/John+Cort,+R.I.P-a0152011093 )〕 In the early 1960s he was a regional director of the Peace Corps in the Philippines, and was appointed by Governor Endicott Peabody as the director of the Massachusetts Commonwealth Service Corps. In the 1970s he directed the Model Cities Program in Lynn, Massachusetts and administered a number of Great Society social programs in Roxbury, Massachusetts.〔 He wrote several books and articles for magazines. He was the founding editor of the Religion and Socialism Commission's ''Religious Socialism'' magazine. () He contributed to the American Friends Service Committee's Peacework Magazine. ()〔 He was described as "personally conservative but socially and politically radical, well-read but never pedantic, funny, chivalrous, of broad culture but a man of the people." Unlike most Catholic Workers, John Cort was not a pacifist, but he did oppose the Vietnam War using the Just War theory.〔 Cort died August 3, 2006 in Nahant, Massachusetts and buried at Greenlawn Cemetery in Nahant.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=John Cyrus Cort )〕 John Cort's papers are housed at the American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives at Catholic University of America.〔 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「John Cort」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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