Background
John Cyrus Cort was born in New York City on December 3, 1913 to Ambrose Cort, a public school teacher, and Lydia Painter Cort.
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John Cort
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Education
Cort attended public schools in Hempstead, New New York
Career
He was based in metropolitan Boston, Massachusetts. He was one of the earliest Catholic Workers who started at the Mott Street House in 1936. He worked with the Catholic Worker for a few years.
Foreign 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. In the early 1960s he was a regional director of the Peace Corps in the Philippines, and was appointed by Governor Endicott Peabody as the director of the Massachusetts Commonwealth Service Corps.
In the 1970s he directed the Model Cities Program in Lynn, Massachusetts and administered a number of Great Society social programs in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He wrote several books and articles for magazines.
He contributed to the American Friends Service Committee"s Peacework Magazine.
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 he did oppose the Vietnam War using the Just War theory. Cort died August 3, 2006 in Nahant, Massachusetts and buried at Greenlawn Cemetery in Nahant. John Cort"s papers are housed at the American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives at Catholic University of America.
Politics
He was the co-chair of the Religion and Socialism Commission of the Democratic Socialists of America. He was the founding editor of the Religion and Socialism Commission"s Religious Socialism magazine. Christian Socialism: An Informal History, published in 1988 by Orbis Books.
Dreadful Conversions: The Making of a Catholic Socialist Fordham University Press, 2003.
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Religion
Catholic Church