worker-priest

[ wur-ker-preest ]

noun

1. (in France) a Roman Catholic priest who, in addition to his priestly duties, works part-time in a secular job.

worker-priest

noun

1. a Roman Catholic priest who has full-time or part-time employment in a secular job to be more closely in touch with the problems of the laity

Word History and Origins

Origin of worker-priest¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

Luciani has been hostile to the worker-priest movement and to many workers' Communist attitudes, but has defended their economic rights.

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A champion of social reform in France long before he won a red hat in 1930, Cardinal Li�nart was an active supporter of trade-unionism and a leader of the worker-priest movement that sent Catholic clergymen to live among French laborers.

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Undaunted by either the opposition of industrialists, who dubbed him "the Red Cardinal," or the Vatican's termination of the worker-priest experiment in 1954, he became a leading proponent of church decentralization during Vatican II.

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More indirect results of Maritain's broad influences were the social statements of Vatican II and some humane and resounding experiments in practical Christianity, including the French worker-priest movement, which lasted from 1941 to 1954�when it was suppressed by the Vatican.

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The French worker-priest is back.

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