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| Writer and radical social reformer, born in New York City, USA. A lifelong Socialist, she worked in the New York City slums as a probationary nurse. Converted to Catholicism in 1927, she co-founded the monthly Catholic Worker in 1933. Under the influence of the French itinerant priest, Peter Maurin, she founded the Catholic Worker Movement, which established ‘houses of hospitality’ and farm communities for people hit by the Depression. A pacifist and a fervent supporter of farm-worker unionization in the 1960s, she helped turn her Church's attention to peace and justice issues. |
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