John Cort
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John C. Cort (1913-2006), was a longtime Christian socialist writer and activist. He was the co-chair of the Religion and Socialism Commission of the Democratic Socialists of America. He was based in metropolitan Boston, Massachusetts. He fathered 10 children with his wife, Helen Haye Cort,[1] and he still cantored in his local parish at the age of 92.
Soon after graduating from Harvard College and converting to Catholicism, he was moved by a speech by Dorothy Day. [2] He was one of the earliest Catholic Workers who started at the Main Street House in 1936. He worked with the Catholic Worker for a few years. For several years he edited the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists' Labor Leader. He served on the editorial staff of Commonweal magazine from 1943 to 1959. [3] He was an assistant director of the Peace Corps. [4] In the 1970s he directed the Model Cities Program in Lynn, Massachusetts. [5]
He wrote several books and articles for magazines. He was the founding editor of the Religion and Socialism Commission's Religious Socialism magazine. [6] He contributed to the American Friends Service Committee's Peacework Magazine. [7]
He was described as "personally conservative but socially and politically radical, well-read but never pedantic, funny, chivalrous, of broad culture but a man of the people." Unlike most Catholic Workers, John Cort was not a pacifist, but opposed the Vietnam War using the Just War theory. [8]
[edit] Selected bibliography
- "Christian Socialism: An Informal History," published in 1988 by Orbis Books. (ISBN-10: 0883446006)
- "Dreadful Conversions: The Making of a Catholic Socialist" Fordham University Press, 2003
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