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In Maura Troester’s review of Haunted by God: The Life of Dorothy Day [August 7], she mentioned the Catholic Socialist newspaper Day and Peter Maurin founded in 1933, the Catholic Worker, and noted they sold it “for a penny a copy on the corner.” The Catholic Worker still costs one penny a copy, subscriptions for eight issues mailed in the U.S. each year, 25 cents, foreign subscriptions, 30 cents. The Catholic Worker movement accepts no government or institutional funding, depending on the generosity of friends to support its work of feeding, clothing, and housing the poor, speaking out against war and oppression, and supporting workers everywhere. A recent issue contained among other articles these: The Plight of the Forest People (of Brazil), Franz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, The Mystery of Suffering, and Fr. George Zabelka, the Catholic chaplain who served zealously the Atomic Bomb Crews in summer 1945, and lived to “do an about face.”
The address of the Catholic Worker is 36 East First Street, New York, NY 10003.
