Catholic Radicalism and Pacifism in the United States: "Catholic Worker" 1936-1948.
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In the context of American Catholicism characterized by patriotism and anti-communism, Catholic Worker appeared in 1933 as a radical movement defined by its attention to urban poverty, precarious workers, and pacifism. The article discusses the evolution of this pacifism, which would be the origin of Catholic pacifism, between 1933 and 1948. In the Spanish Civil War, the Catholic Worker refused to support Franco's “crusade”, but, because its opposition to all wars, agreed with Roosevelt’s the policy of strict neutrality and arms Legal embargo; while in World War II the radical pacifism of Catholic Worker opposed the conscription and abandonment of U.S. neutrality, rejecting also in the Postwar period the making of the Cold War and American anti-communism
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United States, Radical Catholicism, Pacifism, Spanish Civil War, World War II, Cold War
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