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Access to Catholic Social Justice
Description
People often ask me: What is the Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House? That question should be easy to answer, but it isn't. Peter Maurin, who co-founded the Catholic Worker movement with Dorothy Day in 1933, used to say that the "Catholic Worker is not an organization, it is an organism."
I think that is a good description. We are not an "organization" in the way that most people think of organizations. We don't have officers and a board of directors. We aren't incorporated. We make decisions by consensus. We don't have membership cards. We barely have a mailing list. We're not officially a "person of record under canonical law". We are an autonomous lay community within the Catholic tradition. There is no Catholic Worker hierarchy that tells us what to do and what not to do. People don't get permission from someone to start a Catholic Worker house. When we decided to start this work, we just started this work. It's that simple - and that complex.
Catholic Workers are personalists, that is, we believe in taking personal responsibility for living the teachings of Christ, all of them, especially the hard ones. Dorothy Day said, "The Sermon on the Mount is our Manifesto!" That is a fine pious statement, but we take it literally, or as literally as we can.
Contact
- Robert Waldrop
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- Oklahoma City OK
- United States 73106
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- +1.4055570436
