Explore: Worker Priests

Worker-priest (French: Prêtre ouvrier, Prêtres au travail) was a missionary initiative by the French Catholic Church in particular for priests to take

position on French worker-priests. In 1941, worker-priest Dominican Father Jacques Loew began a new priestly mission by working as a priest in the docks at

Argentinian clergy became "worker-priests" in style of the movement popular amongst French priests at the time - worker-priests took blue-collar jobs in

regimes, the influence of the Cuban Revolution and liberation theology worker-priests, the Montoneros emerged from the 1960s Catholic revolutionary guerrilla

worker-priests under Liénart would earn the respect of various left-wing movements, including the Marxist ones. Entering dialogue with these priests,

priest. A Hindu priest traditionally comes from the Brahmin community. Priests are ordained and trained as well. There are two types of Hindu priests

Perpignan. In February, 1954, in the context of the controversy over the Worker-priest movement in France, Suarez removed the Priors Provincial of the Paris

"No More Pretres-Ouvriers?". Time. 28 September 1953. "End of the Worker-Priests". Time. 28 September 1959. "Catholics v. M.R.A.". Time. 26 September

contained several secular priests who were sympathetic to Loew's views on labor. Loew eventually advocated that some priests should work in labor, such

and some of the time they will be priests or members of religious congregations. The advantages to employing priests in these roles include the reduced