May 1--the 85th anniversary of the Catholic Worker. From the first issue: "For those who are sitting on park benches in the warm spring sunlight. For those who are huddling in shelters trying to escape the rain...
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"...For those who think that there is no hope for the future, no recognition of their plight--this little paper is addressed. It is printed to call their attention to the fact that the Catholic Church has a social program. . .
"...To let them know that there are men of God who are working not only for their spiritual but their material welfare."--Dorothy Day, first issue of *The Catholic Worker,* May 1933
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