Peter Maurin, the French peasant-philosopher who inspired Dorothy Day to start the Catholic Worker, died May 15 1949. My reflection from
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Peter’s personalist philosophy, belief in community, voluntary poverty, work, hospitality, the works of mercy, nonviolence, integration of “cult, culture, and cultivation” (respect for the earth), recognition of Christ in the poor— all became foundation of CW and Dorothy’s life.
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