Pacifist Heart, Activist Hands:  Dorothy Day & the Catholic Worker Movement

The Catholic Worker Movement was founded seventy-six years ago by the American activist Dorothy Day and a French Christian Brother, Peter Maurin. They devoted their lives to serving the poor, resisting war, and organizing collective worker movements in urban centers and on farms across North America.

In May of 1960 Catholic priest Eugene Boyle interviewed Dorothy Day on Pacifica Radio Station KPFA in Berkeley, and for the first time in half a century this interview will be publicly aired before an audience. Monsignor Eugene Boyle will share his reflections looking back on that day, and Larry Purcell of the Catholic Worker House in Redwood City will discuss how the movement has changed people's lives.

Thursday, September 17 @ 7:00 p.m.

Our Lady of the Rosary Church

3233 Cowper St., Palo Alto   (the nearest cross street is Loma Verde)

Donations requested to benefit the Catholic Worker House. Donations of money, food, toiletries, laundry detergent, garbage bags, brooms, tools, bicycles, binoculars, and working computers are all welcome. Please be as generous as possible.

Donations may be made out to:
Catholic Worker House. 545 Cassia Street, Redwood City, California 94063. (650) 366-4415. www.catholicworker.org

"What we give to the poor for Christ's sake is what we carry with us when we die." Easy Essay, by Peter Maurin

Sponsored by the Thomas Merton Community of St. Thomas Aquinas Parish.

Wheelchair accessible. Plenty of parking.

 

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