The Catholic Worker After Dorothy
The Catholic Worker after Dorothy Practicing the Works of Mercy in a New Generation Dan McKanan LITURGICAL PRESS Collegeville, Minnesota www.litpress.org Scripture texts in this work are taken from the New American Bible with Revised New Testament and Revised Psalms © 1991, 1986, 1970 Con- fraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C., and are used by permission of the copyright owner. All Rights Reserved. No part of the New American Bible may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the copyright owner. Cover design by Steven Heymans © 2008 by Order of Saint Benedict, Collegeville, Minnesota. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, microfilm, microfiche, mechanical recording, photocopying, translation, or by any other means, known or yet unknown, for any purpose except brief quotations in reviews, without the previous written permission of Liturgical Press, Saint John’s Abbey, P.O. Box 7500, Collegeville, Min- nesota 56321-7500. Printed in the United States of America. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McKanan, Dan, 1967– The Catholic worker after Dorothy : practicing the works of mercy in a new generation / Dan McKanan. p. cm. ISBN-13: 978-0-8146-3187-4 1. Catholic Worker Movement. 2. Christian sociology—Catholic Church. I. Title. BX810.C395M35 2008 267'.182—dc22 2007030125 Contents Introduction: Still Going On 1 Part I: Four Generations of Catholic Workers Chapter 1: The Founders 33 Chapter 2: On Pilgrimage 54 Chapter 3: The Flowering of the Sixties 71 Chapter 4: After Dorothy 97 Part II: Rules, Families, and the Church Chapter 5: Aims and Means 127 Chapter 6: Inventing the Catholic Worker Family 146 Chapter 7: Wrestling with the Church 181 Conclusion: The Future of the Works of Mercy 214 Acknowledgments 224 Index 226 Introduction Still Going On We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other.
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