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What is it that leads a person to voluntary poverty, hourly disruption, complete involvement witht he poor, a willingness to exist on the kindness of others? This book is a celebration of the Catholic Worker Movement fifty years after its founding; an inquiry into the lives of those who choose for a week, a year, or a lifetime to follow in the footsteps of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin on city streetes and RFD routes. It is a celebration of guests who, in their need, enter into the Catholic Worker houses bearing their spirit, their pain, their joy, their own willingness to serve.

Catholic Worker Houses

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    A Paperback / softback by Sheila Durkin Dierks, Patricia Powers Ladley

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      Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
      Publication Date: 01/05/1988
      ISBN13: 9781556121098, 978-1556121098
      ISBN10: 1556121091

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      Book Synopsis
      What is it that leads a person to voluntary poverty, hourly disruption, complete involvement witht he poor, a willingness to exist on the kindness of others? This book is a celebration of the Catholic Worker Movement fifty years after its founding; an inquiry into the lives of those who choose for a week, a year, or a lifetime to follow in the footsteps of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin on city streetes and RFD routes. It is a celebration of guests who, in their need, enter into the Catholic Worker houses bearing their spirit, their pain, their joy, their own willingness to serve.

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