Catholic Workers

Who We Are and What We Do

The San Diego Catholic Worker is composed of a group of people inspired by the Sermon on the Mount and the instructions of Jesus to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless and clothe the naked.

For close to 40 years now with lots of volunteer help we have provided a delicious lunch for 100 or more mostly homeless people in Pacific Beach every Friday.

In recent years we have also been taking hot soup, sandwiches, boiled eggs and water at nighttime, directly to people living on city streets.

We have also been collecting and distributing used clothes once or twice a month to the same men, women and children.

The Catholic Worker Movement is a collection of autonomous communities founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in the United States in 1933. Its aim is to "live in accordance with the justice and charity of Jesus Christ".[2] One of its guiding principles is hospitality towards those on the margin of society, based on the principles of communitarianism and personalism. To this end, the movement claims over 240 local Catholic Worker communities providing social services.[3] Each house has a different mission, going about the work of social justice in its own way, suited to its local region.

Catholic Worker houses are not official organs of the Catholic Church, and their activities, inspired by Day's example, may be more or less overtly religious in tone and inspiration depending on the particular institution. The movement campaigns for nonviolence and is active in opposing both war and the unequal global distribution of wealth. Day also founded the Catholic Worker newspaper, still published by the two Catholic Worker houses in New York City, and sold for one cent a copy.

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Resource links

• Local house: san diego 
• https://www.sandiegocatholicworker.org/

• Wiki: What is the catholic worker movement?
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Worker_Movement

• Cw national directory 
• https://catholicworker.org/

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