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But prior to converting to Catholicism in the late 1920s, she lived a bohemian life in New York City filled with hard drinking and sexual promiscuity, and was a political anarchist and Communist party member. After having an abortion and bearing a child out of wedlock, Day embraced Catholicism and life in poverty. Traditional in matters of theology and liturgy, Day was often radical in matters of social justice, race relations, pacifism and conscientious objection to military service. Day co-founded the revolutionary newspaper the Catholic Worker in 1933, with French Catholic visionary Peter Maurin, which advocated the union of Catholicism with a concern for social justice and personal activism. The newspaper, which still sells for a penny, spawned the Catholic Workers Movement, which established soup kitchens for the down and out, along with urban homes and farm communes for the poor that still exist today.