The Catholic worker movement : intellectual and spiritual origins / Mark and Louise Zwick.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Blowing the dynamite of the church -- Christ in the poor : the works of mercy -- Monasticism : hospitality, prayer, work, and study -- Dom Virgil Michel, OSB, the liturgical movement, and the Catholic worker -- Nicholas Berdyaev : particular prophet of the movement -- Emmanuel Mounier, personalism, and the Catholic worker movement -- Francis of Assisi : saint of voluntary poverty and nonviolence -- The common good vs. individualism -- Economics worthy of the human person -- Pure means from a converted heart : Jacques and Raïssa Maritain -- St. Teresa of Avila -- St. Catherine of Siena, a woman who influenced her times -- Dostoevsky and other Russian writers -- The famous retreat -- Dorothy Day : spiritual leader of American Catholic pacifism -- St. Thérèse : Dorothy Day and the little way -- The legacy of the Catholic worker in a troubled world.