Abstract

Miracle in the Bowery. The Catholic Worker

The article focuses on the miracle at the edge of New York's Bowery. Its address is 223 Chrystie Street, its guiding spirit is Dorothy Day, and its name is the Catholic Worker movement. The men and women who stand in the daily breadlines at the Catholic Worker "Hospitality House" on Chrystie Street, and those who live in its rooms, are not all Catholics and not all workers. A few, like the aims of the movement, are pacifists and anarchists. Some are former monks. Some are former soldiers. When the one-cent monthly Catholic Worker newspaper was born in May of 1933, its first editorial announced that it would not be restricted to the people of any one religion or political belief, any one color of skin or cut of clothes.