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Article: Taking root.(Books)(The Catholic Worker after Dorothy: Practicing the Works of Mercy in a New Generation )(Book review)
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- June 6, 2008
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The Catholic Worker after Dorothy
Practicing the Works of Mercy in a New Generation
Dan McKanan
Liturgical Press, $ 19.95, 236 pp.
In Catholicism and American Freedom (2003), historian John T. McGreevy described the Catholic Worker as "the most important radical Catholic movement in American history." At seventy-five, the Catholic Worker is certainly the most long-lived and written' about venture of its kind in American Catholicism. And while this lay movement's charismatic founders, Peter Maurin (d. 1949) and Dorothy Day (d. 1980), are long departed, the Catholic Worker movement continues to grow in vibrancy and versatility.
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