ABSTRACT
Historically, the Catholic Worker movement sprang into existence and grew around two powerful charismatic leaders: Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day. Maurin gave the Worker its ideals of personalist hospitality, the clarification of thought seminars, and the “green revolution”. Day’s contributions, on the other hand, were her leadership abilities and emotional powers which were devoted to peace issues and love for the underpriviledged. Day’s role at the beginning of her involvement with the Catholic Worker was to promote Maurin’s ideas primarily through journalism by publishing the newssheet of the same name. However, as a result of her own personal history of poverty, and previous involvement in radical political groups, she had a predilection for social justice. The leadership of the Catholic Worker movement in the process of handling the balance between safeguarding the ideology of Maurin and Day, and creating the environment in which the ideology will inspire the continuation of services begun by the founders.
