James Murphy – The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies

Season 4, Episode 1: James Murphy on Cooperation and Poverty as Catholic Action

July 18, 2025 by maurinacademy

Spencer and Laurie kick off their new season with Catholic Worker James Murphy of St. Martin de Porres, Harrisburgh, PA. The Catholic Worker movement is a testing ground for solutions to poverty, successful relationships, and the possibility of bypassing politics. We get into some of those issues in this interview.

Upcoming Maurin Academy Series with James Murphy on Tuesday, September 26, 2023

September 1, 2023September 1, 2023 by maurinacademy

Peter Maurin’s Easy Essays encourage Catholic Workers interested in constructing a new social order to read the personalist revolutionaries: Emmanuel Mounier and Jacques Maritain. These personalist and communitarian philosophers also inspired Fr. Jose Maria Arizmindi, the founder of Mondragon, the world’s largest industrial worker-owned cooperative. What can Mondragon illustrate about Peter Maurin’s program that Catholic … Read more