Title: What the Catholic Worker Believes
Author: Peter Maurin
Date: October 1, 1933
Source: Retrieved on March 16, 2025 from https://catholicworker.org/what-the-catholic-worker-believes/
Notes: Peter Maurin’s “Easy Essay” outlining the program of the Catholic Worker

Peter Maurin

What the Catholic Worker Believes

  1. The Catholic Worker believes in the gentle personalism of traditional Catholicism.

  2. The Catholic Worker believes in the personal obligation of looking after the needs of our brother.

  3. The Catholic Worker believes in the daily practice of the Works of Mercy.

  4. The Catholic Worker believes in Houses of Hospitality for the immediate relief of those who are in need.

  5. The Catholic Worker believes in the establishment of Farming Communes where each one works according to his ability and gets according to his need.

  6. The Catholic Worker believes in creating a new society within the shell of the old with the philosophy of the new, which is not a new philosophy but a very old philosophy, a philosophy so old that it looks like new.