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Worker-priest was a missionary initiative by the French Catholic Church in particular for priests to take up work in such places as car factories to experience the everyday life of the working class. A worker-priest was any priest who was "freed from parochial work by his bishop, lived only by full-time labor in a factory or other place of work, and was indistinguishable in appearance from an ordinary workingman".〔 Although the movement did spread to many other countries such as Belgium and Italy, the French were always the most prominent. The movement was an attempt to "rediscover the masses" of industrial class workers who had become largely disaffected with the church.〔Siefer, 1964, p. 4.〕 ==History== Father Jacques Loew, who began working in the docks of Marseilles in 1941, effectively started the worker-priest movement.〔Corley, Felix. 1999, February 27. "(Fr. Jacques Loew: Spawned the Worker-Priest Movement )." ''The Catholic - Labor Network''.〕 Loew had been sent by his Dominican Father Lebret to "study the condition of the working classes" but not to actually join the workers.〔 In 1944, the first worker-priest missions were set up in Paris, and then later in Lyons and Marseille. The Church hoped, by "putting young priests into secular clothes and letting them work in factories, to regain the confidence of the French working class, which () almost completely abandoned the Catholic faith."〔''Time''. 1953, December 14. "(Urbi et Orbi )".〕 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「Worker-Priest」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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