Peter Maurin (1877-1949) was a radical Catholic social activist, who started the Catholic Worker with Day in 1933. He also assisted in creating the Catholic Worker movement. Day describes their first meeting as an overwhelming experience. Maurin was a passionate, intelligent defender of farming communes, and he advocated simple living, resisting technology and communitarianism. He was also an anti-statist, anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist.
Day often tempered his radicalism with practical considerations. and the two initially Day is obviously a great admirer of Maurin's, and she believes that there would be no Catholic Worker Movement without him. Maurin set up Catholic Worker collective farms and Houses of Hospitality, many of which still exist today.
The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of Dorothy Day
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