In New York in 1933, Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin began publishing a penny-a-copy newspaper and opening houses of hospitality for the poor and the unhoused. Maurin’s essays and Day’s journalism gave the movement its intellectual spine, and the soup lines and meeting halls gave it a body. Thought and practice lived in constant conversation, and have continued doing so ever since.
“We have all known the long loneliness, and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.”
— DOROTHY DAY
