The Catholic Worker Movement is a Catholic organization founded by Servant of God Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933. Its aim is to "live in accordance with the justice and charity of Jesus Christ." One of its guiding principles is hospitality towards those on the margin of society. To this end there are over 185 local Catholic Worker communities providing social services. Each house has a different mission, going about the work of social justice in their own ways, suited to their region of the country. Catholic Worker houses are not official organs of the Roman Catholic Church. The group also campaigns for nonviolence and is active in opposing war, as well as the unequal distribution of wealth globally. Dorothy Day also founded The Catholic Worker newspaper which is still published, and sold at 1 cent per copy. The group began as a means to combine Dorothy Day's history in American social activism and pacifism with the tenets of Catholicism, five years after she converted in 1927.
"Our rule is the works of mercy," said Dorothy Day. "It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence."
