Sister Peter Claver Catholic Worker House (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

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The Sister Peter Claver Catholic Worker House program includes hospitality services for the poor and an afterschool and chess club for neighborhood children.

The Catholic Worker movement was founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin. In 1933 in New York, Sister Peter Claver gave Dorothy Day a donation that helped pay for the first edition of the Catholic Worker newspaper. Later she gave Dorothy notes from the a retreat led by Father Onesimus Lacouture, S.J. "This is what I've been looking for since I became a Catholic," Dorothy told Sister Peter Claver. The two of them would go on to make the retreat fourteen times. Marquette University requested Sister Peter Claver's papers for placement in the archives of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker.

Phone: 215-232-7823
www.catholicworker.org