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Catholic Workers live a simple lifestyle in community, serve the poor, and resist war and social injustice. Most are grounded in the Gospel, prayer, and the Catholic faith, although some houses on this list state that they are interfaith. Each Catholic Worker house is independent and there is no "Catholic Worker headquarters". Income for Catholic Worker houses can come from outside jobs held by members or by cottage industries developed by the community, but most houses survive on donations. Every Catholic Worker house can use donations of money and/or specific items like food, clothing, etc...Most can also use volunteers from the surrounding community to help with the work. If you feel called to do something about poverty and homelessness in your community, your local Catholic Worker house would be a great place to start. This is a list of all the Catholic Worker communities that we know about, indexed by state or country. United States: (201 communities) AL | AZ | CA | CO | CT | DC | FL | GA | HI | ID | IL | IN | IA | KS | KY | LA | MD | MA | MI | MN | MO | MT | NV | NJ | NM | NY | NC | OH | OK | OR | PA | RI | SD | TN | TX | VA | WA | WV | WI |International: (23 communities) Belgium | Canada | Dominican Republic | Germany | Great Britain | Mexico | New Zealand | Scotland | Sweden | The Netherlands | Uganda |Alabama [Menu] Mary's House
Phone: 205-780-2020
Email: Shelleymdouglass@gmail.com
Publication: Magnificat Hospitality primarily for families and single women; nonviolent witness: peace vigils twice weekly, vigils against the death penalty; first Friday Mass; discussion groups; Advent and Lenten retreats.
Consider contacting the Mary's House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Arizona [Menu] Andre House of Hospitality
Phone: 602-252-9023 Andre House of Hospitality Home Page
Publication: The Open Door Core community of lay and religious.
Consider contacting the Andre House of Hospitality to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Casa Maria
Phone: 520-624-0312
Publication: Guadalupe Daily soup kitchen; clothing; peace and justice work; Eucharist on Mondays.
Consider contacting the Casa Maria to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Quixote's Garage
Phone: 928-771-2637
Publication: Quixote's Epistle
Quixote's Garage is located in Sam Hill Alley, between Granite and McCormick Streets, just north of Willis in downtown Prescott. Quixote's Garage is a drop-in for anyone who needs a place to be out of the cold, heat, etc, or just a safe, calm place to relax during the day. We are open every day from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. We have a telephone and take messages, our address can be used to receive mail, we have several couches, free coffee and sometimes goodies. We average around 20 people a day using the place.
Consider contacting the Quixote's Garage to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Rose of the Desert Catholic Worker
Email: community@roseofthedesert.org Rose of the Desert Catholic Worker Home Page
The works of Rose of the Desert Catholic Worker are those of mercy and nonviolent resistance. To be in solidarity with the human rights struggle of immigrants. To resist the militarization of the borderlands. Our vision embraces a world that values the dignity of all people. A transformation of the culture of death into the peaceable kingdom. We see an inherent and lethal liaison between border militarization and the war against indigenous people and weapons of mass destruction. Thus, our shared commitment to walk in solidarity with migrants in the borderlands continues alongside our efforts to disarm the world of all weapons. We come to the US-Mexico border with faith traditions rooted in nonviolent activism. We come to participate in “building a new world in the shell of the old.” If you are interested in participating in similar work, consider volunteering with No More Deaths (nomoredeaths.org), the Jesuit Refugee Service (www.jrsusa.org/kino/) or Borderlinks (Borderlinks.org). At this time, Rose of the Desert CW is in the process of building up a local community and there are no openings for live-in members. We do invite visitors for one to two weeks to stay at the house, and if you visit, we will give you information on where volunteer work is needed. Our newsletter is published quarterly. Send us your address and we’ll put you on the mailing list.
Consider contacting the Rose of the Desert Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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California [Menu] Beatitude House
Phone: 805-343-6322
Email: beatitudecatholicworker@gmail.com
Publication: Beatitude House Newsletter Guadalupe is a small town on California's Central Coast, with a high population of immigrants and farmworkers. Beatitude House is a community of volunteers from various backgrounds, all committed to serving Guadalupe's low-income residents. Beatitude House's current programs for direct service include food and clothing distribution, assistance with utility bills, advocacy for government services, and a summer day camp. In line with the Catholic Worker philosophy of not merely serving the poor, but also resisting war and other social injustices that perpetuate poverty, Beatitude House conducts regular vigils and civil disobedience at Vandenburg Air Force Base. General contact: Dennis Apel, at 805-343-6322, jdapel@yahoo.com.
Consider contacting the Beatitude House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Burning Bush: Center for the Working Poor
Phone: 213-975-9452
Email: centerfortheworkingpoor@gmail.com Burning Bush: Center for the Working Poor Home Page
We serve the working poor of Los Angeles and are building a movement for a living wage. We distribute food to the homes of immigrant workers. We support whistle-blowers who stand up for their rights at their jobs. We offer our house of hospitality to those in need. And we do resistance work: organizing students, workers and community to fight for a living wage. We need volunteers who want to live communally, grow spiritually, and join the movement.
Consider contacting the Burning Bush: Center for the Working Poor to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Casa de Clara
Phone: 408-297-8330
Email: sanjosecatholicworker@yahoo.com
Volunteers needed: Our community provides emergency shelter to homeless women and children. We have been engaged in this ministry for over 30 years. Sadly we are among those CW houses that has experienced a loss of full-time, long-term community members in recent years, imperiling our mission of service to a few of the 7000 people homeless in our area. Our greatest need is for those who wish to make this a way of life for several years or more. It is only with such folks that a community can thrive. We also accept short-term (6 ths -1 yr) members & some students over the summer, Most of our scheduled work is in the mornings & evenings and on weekend days. It may be possible for community members to maintain a part-time job or take a class during the weekday. Prior community living, volunteer experience, and understanding of the needs of homeless women are helpful. Needed skills include cooking, cleaning, house maintenance, gardening, newsletter production and community out-reach. A commitment to non-violence, simple living and a faith-based lifestyle are required. Please have an open-mind & heart , a sense of humor, & lots of flexibility. Please email us at: sanjosecatholicworker@yahoo.com [Menu]Casa San Miguel
Phone: 805-467-2606 or 467-2353
Email: casa@slonet.org
We serve breakfast to people, migrant families and the disadvantaged in a rural central California area. We also have a day center and kids programs.
Consider contacting the Casa San Miguel to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Dorothy Day House CW
Phone: 510-684-1892
Email: ddhcw@yahoo.com
Publication: Dorothy Day House Newsletter (online at Website) Dorothy Day house is a Catholic Worker community in Berkeley. We are non-denominational, embracing volunteers of many beliefs and faiths. We believe in providing a consistent, caring presence for the poor and homeless. We are a hospitality group, not an agency. We subscribe to the Catholic Worker philosophy as expressed by Dorothy Day,". . . we are our brother's [and sister's] keeper and. . .we must have a sense of personal responsibility to take care of our own and our neighbor, at a personal sacrifice." Currently, we serve a nutritious breakfast seven mornings a week in the men's shelter at the Berkeley Veterans Building, and six mornings a week at University Lutheran Capel, Berkeley. If you would like to volunteer with us, please call 510-466-5553 and leave a message.
Volunteers needed: Elizabeth House
Phone: 510-658-1380
Street Address: 6423 Colby St, Oakland CA 94618 Elizabeth House is a transitional house for women and children.
Consider contacting the Elizabeth House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra
Phone: 831-757-3838
The Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra work at Dorothy’s Place, a house of hospitality inspired by Dorothy Day and her teachings. The primary staff members at Dorothy’s Place are the Companions of the Way, an Interfaith Dharma Community that lives and works with the poor and marginalized. Our quest is to “Imagine Paradise, Practice Beauty.” The quest is not just a means for us, but an end in itself – to live lives of “holy daring”, with grace, gentleness, enthusiasm and joy. We are challenged to grow in a passionate commitment to God, one another, and to the world through a sincere practice of meditation and the “Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings.” We have a communal commitment to the “Declaration Toward a Global Ethic” and to the “Earth Charter”, both of which lend themselves to an expansive vision of personal and social possibilities.
Volunteers needed: Alert: we are currently seeking to fill two specific volunteer positions. Women Alive! (women's emergency shelter) Program Director Development Assistant Visit www.companionsoftheway.org Wanted: POSSIBILITARIANS The Companions of the Way intentional community in Salinas is looking for new members. Members live simply and work to promote social justice in our community, in a manner similar to VISTA volunteers. Are you looking for a way to put your social justice values into action? Are you a ‘POSSIBILITARIAN’ at heart, and looking for a way to practice peace and justice and still afford to live in Monterey County? Companions of the Way Community might be your answer. Our work includes Dorothy’s Kitchen, the Women Alive! shelter, a silk-screening micro-enterprise, after-school programs for farm worker youth, and an art gallery. Internships are welcome, as well as permanent community members. Contact Rick Slone at 831-757-3838 or rick.slone@dorothysplace.org for more details. Rev. Shinko Rick Slone
High Desert Catholic Worker
Phone: 760-2247-5732
Email: highdesertcw@yahoo.com or atbremser@yahoo.com
Publication: Locusts & Wild Honey
Consider contacting the High Desert Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Isaiah House - Orange County Catholic Worker
Phone: 714-835-6304
Email: worker@occatholicworker.org Isaiah House - Orange County Catholic Worker Home Page
Publication: Call to Faithfulness Hospitality; meals 7 days a week; liturgy; prayer at local jails.
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Consider contacting the Isaiah House - Orange County Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Kelly Avenue Catholic Worker of Half Moon Bay
Phone: 650-726-6621 Kelly Avenue Catholic Worker of Half Moon Bay Home Page
We provide hospitality to homeless families. We run a weekly produce distribution out of our garage. We serve a nutritious breakfast once a week at Coastside Lutheran Church. And we also maintain a fruit and vegetable garden which provides food for our programs.
Consider contacting the Kelly Avenue Catholic Worker of Half Moon Bay to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Los Angeles Catholic Worker Community
Phone: 323-267-8789
Email: info@lacatholicworker.org Los Angeles Catholic Worker Community Home Page
Publication: The Catholic Agitator The L.A. Catholic Worker is a lay Catholic community of men and women which operates a free soup kitchen, hospitality house for the homeless, AIDS ministry, hospice for the dying, newspaper, and regularly offers prophetic witness in opposition to war-making and injustice. Each summer mid-June through early August, the L.A. Catholic Worker extends an invitation to any adult interested in joining us for a period of six weeks during the summer. It is an opportunity to live and work with a gospel-based community, to discern one's vocation, or just simply to deepen one's social justice experience on a first hand basis. By the way, the weather here in Southern California is great too. Hospitality Kitchen, 821 E 6th St, 213-614-9615.
Volunteers needed: Martin de Porres House of Hospitality
Phone: 415-552-0240
Email: info@martindeporres.org Martin de Porres House of Hospitality Home Page
Periodic newsletter; meals and showers.
Consider contacting the Martin de Porres House of Hospitality to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Night on the Streets - Catholic Worker
Phone: 510-684-1892
Email: noscw@sbcglobal.net
We serve a nutritious breakfast every Sunday for 80-150 at People's Park and at the Men's Shelter We also provide a hot "rolling meal" on the streets of Berkeley 3 nights a week during the cold and rainy months (usually November through April of each year). We are located at 1630 Berkeley Way in Berkeley, California.
Consider contacting the Night on the Streets - Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Oakland Catholic Worker
Phone: 510-533-7375
Email: oaklandcatholicworker@yahoo.com Oakland Catholic Worker Home Page
Publication: The Oakland Catholic Worker The Oakland Catholic Worker is a half-way house/community center for Latin American refugees and immigrants.
Volunteers needed: Peter Maurin Catholic Worker
Phone: 619-478-5851
Consider contacting the Peter Maurin Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Redwood City Catholic Worker House
Phone: 650-366-4415
Larry Purcell. Sanctuary to troubled tees; language school for immigrants to learn English; food and furniture program; housing for twelve day laborers.
Consider contacting the Redwood City Catholic Worker House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Sacramento Catholic Worker
Phone: 916-447-3785
Consider contacting the Sacramento Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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San Bruno Catholic Worker
Phone: 650-827-0706
Publication: Bread and Salt Peter Stiehler, Kate Chatfield. hospitality; grocery distribution; hot meal program.
Consider contacting the San Bruno Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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San Diego Catholic Worker
Phone: 619-298-3755
Email: info@catholicworkersd.org San Diego Catholic Worker Home Page
Publication: The San Diego Catholic Worker Food services/meal; clothing distribution.
Volunteers needed: San Pedro Catholic Worker
Phone: 310-831-3480
Publication: In The Breaking of The Bread Meals to the poor Monday and Tuesday, 7 p.m. in L. A. Harbor area; overnight shelter Mon-Thurs 9pm-9am on "as needed" basis; vigil every Friday at noon at LOGICON, a defense contractor. Liturgy and potluck every 3rd Thursday at 6:00 p.m.
Consider contacting the San Pedro Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Santa Rosa Catholic Worker
Phone: 707-575-8342
Consider contacting the Santa Rosa Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Sheep Ranch Catholic Worker
Phone: 209-728-2193 Sheep Ranch Catholic Worker Home Page
Publication: Earth Abides
Consider contacting the Sheep Ranch Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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St. Benedict Catholic Worker
Phone: 559-229-6410
Email: bryan.apper@yahoo.com St. Benedict Catholic Worker Home Page
Publication: Ora et Labora
Consider contacting the St. Benedict Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Temenos Catholic Worker
Phone: 415-922-7553
Email: temenos@sbcglobal.net Temenos Catholic Worker Home Page
Publication: Peniel Temenos Catholic Worker provides outreach, advocay, intervention and personalist service to homeless youth and male and female sex workers and addicts in San Francisco's Polk Gulch area "in the personalist tradition of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin." The work includes food distribution, needle exchange, health products (including condom distribution.) Temenos' primary purpose is being a "presence of grace" in the midst of despair, addiction and violence of the street culture.
Consider contacting the Temenos Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Colorado [Menu] Denver Catholic Worker
Phone: 303-296-6390
Email: denvercw@juno.com
Publication: Denver Catholic Worker Contact us if you are interested in the non-salaried position of live-in volunteer.
Consider contacting the Denver Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Connecticut [Menu] Amistad Catholic Worker
Phone: 203-624-5517
Email: amistadcw@msn.com
Consider contacting the Amistad Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Dorothy Day Hospitality House
Phone: 203-792-7494
Consider contacting the Dorothy Day Hospitality House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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New Covenant House of Hospitality
Phone: 203-964-8228
Email: ccfcnch@aol.com
Consider contacting the New Covenant House of Hospitality to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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St Francis House
Phone: 860 437-8890
Email: stfrancishousenl@att.net
Publication: TROUBADOUR St. Francis House is a place of prayer, a house of hospitality, and a center for peace and justice ministry in New London, Connecticut. We are an intentional Christian community, rooted in Franciscan and Catholic Worker spirit, seeking conversion of life for ourselves through friendship with and service to God and our neighbors. We pray together daily, ground our life in Bible study, and do the work we believe God is calling us to in our inner city neighborhood. At present our ministry includes work with homeless men and women in the Homeless Hospitality Center we helped to establish and continue to serve; urban education reform through our bilingual parents group; urban gardening; and resistance to war and Empire with fellow Catholic Workers and others. Each summer we hold a weeklong residential "Radical Discipleship" course involving in debth Bible study, experience of other communities, and reflection on our discipleship in the 21st century US. We also have a Hermitage available for people seeking do make retreats or sabbath time.
Consider contacting the St Francis House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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St Martin de Porres House
Phone: 860-724-7066
Email: doucot@sbcglobal.net St Martin de Porres House Home Page
Publication: The Hartford CW Food and furniture pantry. Food co-operative; Summer Youth Camp; resistance, seamless garment.
Consider contacting the St Martin de Porres House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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St Vincent de Paul Place
Phone: 860-344-0097
Consider contacting the St Vincent de Paul Place to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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District of Columbia [Menu] Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House
Phone: 202-882-9649 Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House Home Page
Publication: The Little Way
A Community of Hospitality and Resistance
Consider contacting the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Florida [Menu] Florida CW R&R
Phone: 727-867-6702
Email: marykm@cs.com
Pat & Mary Murray, old CW "lifers" would like to share their modest St. Pete condo, with solar heated pool, 15 minutes from Gulf beaches, with weary Workers who need a place to kick back in the sun for a spell.
Consider contacting the Florida CW R&R to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Gainesville Catholic Worker House
Phone: (352) 271-6941
Email: johnnypcusa@yahoo.com Gainesville Catholic Worker House Home Page
The Gainesville Catholic Worker community is a gospel-based community which feeds the hungry, offers hospitality to those who need shelter, and practices prophetic witness in opposition to violence and injustice. We aspire to a commitment to live out the gospel in a life of community, solidarity, service, prayer and witness rooted in our discipleship to Jesus.
Consider contacting the Gainesville Catholic Worker House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Jorge Pettit Hospitality House
Phone: 772-579-9775
Day drop in center. Showers, laundry, TV or just hang out. Mon. thru Fri. 9 am to 2pm
Consider contacting the Jorge Pettit Hospitality House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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St Francis House of Hospitality
Phone: 407-423-7096
Consider contacting the St Francis House of Hospitality to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Georgia [Menu] The Open Door Community
Phone: 404-874-9652 The Open Door Community Home Page
Publication: Hospitality
Volunteers needed: If you are interested in volunteering at the Open Door Community, we ask you to read some of the articles that you can access at this link: http://opendoorcommunity.org/resources/publications We hope that our volunteers walk with us as we together seek God’s Beloved Community on earth through service to our sisters and brothers who are oppressed. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer community service opportunities whether required by a school or a government agency. If you need to fulfill such a requirement, we suggest the organizations at this link: http://opendoorcommunity.org/get-involved/donate/other-opportunities
To find out how you can participate as a volunteer at the Open Door, please call Sarah Humphrey, Volunteer Coordinator, at 770.246.7618 or email odcvolunteer@bellsouth.net. [Menu]Hawaii [Menu] St. Damien Catholic Worker
Phone: (808) 988-6222
Email: dannyo@newmanhawaii.org St. Damien Catholic Worker Home Page
Publication: St. Damien Catholic Worker The St. Damien Catholic Worker is committed to living the radical Gospel of Jesus in Hawaii. Following in the footsteps of St. Damien, we are called to serve our neglected and marginalized neighbors. Following in the footsteps of Dorothy Day, we are called to welcome our brothers and sisters with hospitality and solidarity. Following in the footsteps of Peter Maurin, we are called to advocate for the respectful use of the land and sustainable farming and to foster dialogue for a greater understanding of the problems facing Hawaii and the world. Following in the footsteps of the non-violent Jesus, we are called to seek peace, justice and an end to oppression and militarism in all their forms.
Consider contacting the St. Damien Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Idaho [Menu] Boise Catholic Worker
Phone: 208-629-5306
Email: boisecathworker@aol.com
Publication: Boise Catholic Worker Paraclete Thomas Merton House, Lazarus House Outreach Center.
Consider contacting the Boise Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Corpus Christi House
Email: hkkrewer@spro.net
Publication: On Earth As In Heaven
Mailing address: PO Box 9722, Boise ID 83707
Consider contacting the Corpus Christi House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Illinois [Menu] Clare House of Hospitality
Phone: 309-828-4035
Email: birdcls@aol.com
Publication: Clare House News We have a food pantry and provide other necessary household items. We have a soup kitchen at Holy Trinity Parish Center twice-a-week.
Consider contacting the Clare House of Hospitality to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Hedwig Haus of Hospitality
Consider contacting the Hedwig Haus of Hospitality to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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New Wineskins Catholic Worker House of Hospitality
Consider contacting the New Wineskins Catholic Worker House of Hospitality to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Peoria Catholic Worker
Phone: 309-681-9892
Consider contacting the Peoria Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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St Francis of Assisi House of Hospitality
Phone: 773-561-5073
Publication: At The Door Visit the blog of the Chicago Catholic worker houses at:
Consider contacting the St Francis of Assisi House of Hospitality to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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St Jude Catholic Worker House
Phone: 217-355-9774 or 217-398-3413
Email: stjudecatholicworker@gmail.com St Jude Catholic Worker House Home Page
Publication: Workers and Friends
St. Jude maintains the position that Christ demands we do everything we can for marginalized people to empower themselves. St. Jude has personal relationships with people in our community community fighting to do just that. St. Jude counts among its friends the community activists of Champaign Urbana. All groups striving to fulfill the Works of Mercy are free to use our space and promote their causes with our help. Our Doors are Open to them as well as to the people of the street. St. Jude currently has Open Door Hours every Mon-Fri from 12-3pm. All are welcome. We provide showers, Fresh produce to take home for healthy meals, checking mail, using the phone, laundry, and a quiet place for the occasional nap. Volunteers and visitors are very much appreciated during these hours! Stop by M-F 12-3 to check out our radical library, help start dinner, volunteer, or just hangout. House Up Dates: St. Jude Catholic Worker House Primarily extends hospitality to people for long-term stays. The house is currently unable to offer shelter to any additional women or children. There are four long-term guests at the moment. The House will not be accepting additional guests indefinitely, for certain through May 2012. Volunteers are always needed. Vistors welcome please contact us first.
Consider contacting the St Jude Catholic Worker House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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St. Marcellus Catholic Worker Houses for Homeless
Phone: 1-217-942-9730
Email: tom_kuna@yahoo.com St. Marcellus Catholic Worker Houses for Homeless Home Page
Our founder and resident director is 63 and has known of the Catholic Worker Movement since 1977 and has always hoped to buy a House to use as a CW House. He was finally been able to buy our first and only house so far, this St. Isidore CW Cottage, which is now full to capacity with two formerly homeless vets and two other formerly homeless men, and Tom. The House pays its expenses with Tom's Pension and, so far, with spot labor and donations. While we are open to persons of all faiths and no-faith, both to serve and to be helped, our inspiration and community prayer-life is Catholic. Our Catholic Diocese has gifted us the funds to be registered as a non-profit, so that the VA might stipend us a per-diem for every Vet to whom we provide a home in the CW tradition. Much of that per-diem we hope to use to subsidize wages to our residents to be employee-member-owners of our affiliated, for-profit workshop: Vets'-Green-Energy-Co-Ops, to install and maintain de-centralized heating, cooling, and electricity co-generating capacity at our and other CW Houses, and at FBC's (Faith-Based Communities) around the country.
Volunteers needed: Su Casa Catholic Worker Community
Phone: 773-376-9263
Email: sucasacw@gmail.com Su Casa Catholic Worker Community Home Page
Publication: Kairos Su Casa Catholic Worker provides hospitality and a healing environment for homeless Latino families, reaches out to our local community through our weekly soup kitchen and recreation programs for kids and engages in education and action to work for social justice. In the tradition of the Catholic Worker Movement, we strive for a simple, non-violent and sustainable lifestyle. Each worker’s responsibilities vary according to skills and interests. Every worker assists with house managing, which involves welcoming visitors, accepting donations, providing childcare, and being present to our guests.
Consider contacting the Su Casa Catholic Worker Community to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Indiana [Menu] Bloomington Christian Radical / Catholic Worker
Phone: (812) 339-4456
Email: rossmartinieeiler@gmail.com
The Bloomington Christian Radical CW is an ecumenical Christian community that tries to live, pray and work both with each other and with the poor we encounter. We try to offer housing, food, clothing and love to people facing homelessness. We perform the works of mercy and nonviolently oppose the works of war. We strive to practice the Sermon on the Mount, community living, voluntary poverty, personalism, and care for the environment. We have families and children here, all trying to build community together. We love hosting visitors and prospective volunteers so give us a call.
Consider contacting the Bloomington Christian Radical / Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Cesar Chavez House
Phone: 219-392-0419
Consider contacting the Cesar Chavez House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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House of Bread and Peace
Phone: 812-425-6754
Consider contacting the House of Bread and Peace to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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House of the Little Flower
Phone: 517-648-4573 or 317-480-1028
Email: catholicworkerindy@gmail.com or barber.meli@gmail.
Consider contacting the House of the Little Flower to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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St. Peter Claver Catholic Worker
Phone: (574) 235 0623 and (574) 287-7734
Consider contacting the St. Peter Claver Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Iowa [Menu] Clare House Catholic Worker
Phone: 319-364-4101
Publication: newsletter INDEPENDENT LIVING FOR THOSE WITH HIV/AIDS. Application required. Call or write for information and facility location.
Consider contacting the Clare House Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Des Moines Catholic Worker
Phone: 515-243-0765
Email: desmoinescatholicworker@gmail.com
Publication: Via Pacis
Bishop Dingman House Msgr. Ligutti House Rachel Corrie House
Consider contacting the Des Moines Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Emma Cornelis Hospitality House
Phone: 319-372-3983
Consider contacting the Emma Cornelis Hospitality House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Hope House
Phone: 563-582-9079
Publication: The Messenger of Hope
Consider contacting the Hope House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Mustard Seed Community Farm
Phone: 515-460-1467
Email: mustardseedbee@gmail.com Mustard Seed Community Farm Home Page
Publication: Catholic Worker Farmer
Growing Season Address: 366 W Ave. Ames, IA 50014 We run a small CSA and share food with shelters, food kitchens, and foodshelves in the area.
Volunteers needed: New Hope CW Farm & Agronomic University
Phone: 563-556-0987
Located 10 miles south of Dubuque, Iowa. 28.5 acres in a valley not far from the Mississippi River. Organic gardens. Diverse animal husbandry. Four families. Occasional Agronomic University workshops. Please write or call for updates.
Volunteers needed: Oaks of Mamre Catholic Worker
Email: Oakscatholicworker@gmail.com
Consider contacting the Oaks of Mamre Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Simone Weil and Peter Maurin House -- Monastic
Phone: (563) 583-6790
Email: simoneweil.petermaurinhouse@gmail.com
a Library of books and films in a House of Silence, which provides environment for inner work towards learning living, within ourselves, in deep communion with God; and then living it and acting it out as a way of Love. Repentance, prayer, Knowledge, healing. Simple, of old way, life in the House, and learning it. Also, variety of service to the victims of the system. The purpose of this House is to further the aims and goals of the Catholic Worker movement as expressed by Dorothy Day and, particularly, as expressed by Peter Maurin; to join in works and efforts of the newly established, in 2004, New Monasticism movement; please check NewMonasticism.org; to follow in footsteps of the Madonna Houses, founded by Catherine de Hueck Doherty, and as expressed by her in the book "Pustinia"; to learn about and draw from, and follow, the examples of the other deeply rooted in God spiritual/religious monastic or life communities like the ancient Essenes, the Bruderhof, or Amish and Hutterites; and, on the side of all those above combined, to form one unique small monastic community as a response to God's call toward all people for repentance and conversion, and then for living a way of love, which will bring fruits of truth, justice, and peace. The commitment and effort toward learning God's Law; and toward learning God's Ways; both as oppose to secular, that is "world's" law, and secular, that is "world's" ways; is the major goal and aim and purpose of this House. ...just established; still in process of organizing; official Open House date: December 8, 2009. In October 2009 we bought a small house in Dubuque, Iowa, and moved our library and household from Rockville, Maryland. We need donations to help with tremendous expenses we coped with; but also to begin our mission. To put the library up on shelves and to continue preparing the house we hope to be having already a person living with us; a person who is interested in the above described mission. We are waiting for contacts from you. Please call us to further inquire about the situation; and come and visit. We have no computer , therefore we are unable to check e-mail, so the best way for you is to call us. The address and phone number are: 725 Hennepin Street, Dubuque, Iowa, 52001; 563-583-6790. Love, Krystyna and Steven. If you would like to send a donation, please make it out to Simone Weil and Peter Maurin House-Monastic
Volunteers needed: St Francis of Assisi Catholic Worker
Phone: 319-232-2116
Publication: St. Francis Worker
Consider contacting the St Francis of Assisi Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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St John of the Cross Catholic Worker House
Phone: 319-362-9041
Publication: Reflections
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Strangers & Guests Catholic Worker Community
Phone: 641-785-2321
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Kansas [Menu] Divine Mercy Catholic Worker House
Phone: 620-680-0804
Email: divinemercycw@yahoo.com
Consider contacting the Divine Mercy Catholic Worker House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Emmaus House
Phone: 316-275-2008
Consider contacting the Emmaus House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Shalom Catholic Worker House
Phone: 913-321-2206
The Shalom Catholic Worker House is a community of diverse people living under one roof, striving to bring about an occasional glimpse of the Kingdom of God. We provide hospitality to 25 homeless men and promote issues of peace and justice.
Volunteers needed: Kentucky [Menu] Casa Latina Catholic Worker
Phone: 502-636-5461 & 502-322-5631
Email: mscharfenberger@yahoo.com
Volunteers needed: Lousiana [Menu] New Orleans Catholic Worker
Phone: 504-527-5363
Email: cw@nolacatholicworker.org New Orleans Catholic Worker Home Page
Volunteers needed: Maryland [Menu] Catholic Worker Community
Phone: 301-598-5427
Email: tobyterrar@aol.com Catholic Worker Community Home Page
Our apostolate is senior citizens, hospitality and support for our Catholic Worker farm at Dalzell, South Carolina.
Consider contacting the Catholic Worker Community to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Viva House, Baltimore Catholic Worker
Phone: 410-233-0488
Email: vivacatholicworker@gmail.com
Publication: Enthusiasm 2013 is the 45th anniversary of Viva House. Our community does a family soup kitchen and food pantry, emergency assistance and advocacy, resistance to war and the death penalty, and Catholic Worker art.
Consider contacting the Viva House, Baltimore Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Massachusetts [Menu] catholicworker.org
Email: catholicworker.org@gmail.com
The Catholic Worker Movement website is the collaborative effort of many people affiliated with the Catholic Worker Movement: Workers, scholars, archivists, writers, and editors. The site is maintained by Jim Allaire, who resides in Massachusetts. For more information or to contact Jim with comments or suggestions use the above email address. No Catholic Worker funds are used to maintain the website.
Consider contacting the catholicworker.org to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Great Barrington Catholic Workers
Phone: 413-528-2155 & 413-243-6017
Email: berkshire.pax.christi@gmail.com
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Haley House
Phone: 617-236-8132 FAX 617-867-.0018
Email: info@haleyhouse.org
Volunteers needed: Noonday Farm
Phone: 508-297-1148
Consider contacting the Noonday Farm to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Rosie's Place
Consider contacting the Rosie's Place to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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SS Francis & Therese Catholic Worker
Phone: 508-753-3588
Publication: The Catholic Radical
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The Mustard Seed
Phone: 508-754-7098
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Michigan [Menu] Day House
Phone: 313-963-4539
Email: dayhouse@flash.net
Publication: On the Edge
Consider contacting the Day House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Mustard Seed Shelter
Phone: 989-755-4741
Publication: The Seed Contact: Leona Sullivan leona.sullivan8@gmail.com Carmen Mora qbaninmi@gmail.com
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St Ambrose Catholic Worker
Phone: 989-790-7179
Email: grace@thepottshouse.org
Publication: General Purpose Podcast St. Ambrose Catholic Worker contacts: Grace Potts, Paul Potts. Living protest, Community Gardening and Food Security, InterReliance. Sunday Mass 5 p.m. at St. Mary's Cathedral.
Consider contacting the St Ambrose Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Minnesota [Menu] Anne's Place on Oxford
Email: Ganjes@mtn.org
Contact person: Margaret and Dwight Ganje
Consider contacting the Anne's Place on Oxford to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Central Minnesota Catholic Worker
Email: CentralMNCW@gmail.com Central Minnesota Catholic Worker Home Page
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Dorothy Day Center
Phone: 651-293-1919
Publication: House News
Consider contacting the Dorothy Day Center to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Dorothy Day Hospitality House
Phone: 507-282-5172
Publication: Dorothy Day Hospitality House
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Dorothy Day House of Hospitality
Phone: 218-233-5763
Email: fmddh@cableone.net Dorothy Day House of Hospitality Home Page
Publication: Dorothy Day Newsletter Hospitality for 10 men and shower and laundry services available to non-guests.
Consider contacting the Dorothy Day House of Hospitality to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Loaves & Fishes Catholic Worker
Phone: 218-724-2054
Email: duluthcatholicworker@gmail.com Loaves & Fishes Catholic Worker Home Page
Publication: Loaves and Fishes Newsletter
Dorothy Day House
Hannah House The Olive Branch Loaves & Fishes Community was founded in 1989 and is inspired by the Catholic Worker as well as radical strains of community organizing and social work. Our current work includes family-style hospitality to people experiencing homelessness and migration; a free community bike shop and gardens; and grassroots community organizing for safe and affordable housing.
Volunteers needed: Loaves & Fishes Community has room for new live-in members! Share communal life with us and our guests in one of three nearby houses in a (mostly) quiet residential neighborhood just east of downtown Duluth. We welcome people of all faiths and are LGBT- and family-friendly. We strive to balance our communal obligations in a way that members can pursue part-time work or school. Decisions are made collectively, room and board is covered, long-term members tithe. We ask potential new members to join us for a 3-month trial period before making a commitment. Did we mention we're three blocks from Lake Superior and a few short hours drive from the Boundary Waters? For more information, contact Joel at duluthcatholicworker@gmail.com or 218-724-2054. [Menu]Maryhouse of Little Canada
Phone: 651-481-0907
Email: atbiscig@aol.com
Volunteers needed: Rye House
Phone: 612-872-2336
Email: theryehouse@gmail.com
We are an intentional community and house of hospitality in South Minneapolis. We are inspired by peace movements including the Civil Rights Movement, the Catholic Worker Movement, and the Food Justice Movement. Most of all, we are motivated by good conversations shared over meals and humble, challenging love. Our Projects: We have been cooking and serving meals at a street corner near our house on Thursday and Friday nights. Our meals accompany a weekly event known as the Amen Corner put on by the Ventura Village Neighborhood Association (our neighborhood). The Amen Corner is a two hour-long open mic meant to act as a space to foster positive change in our community. We invest a lot of time and thought into gardening, home-based food production, and ethical food purchasing. We raise chickens, do compost and vermiculture, extend the harvest through canning, freezing, and preserving, and we try to either get food for free, grow it ourselves, or buy it local and organic. We work with friends to plan roundtable discussions about topics that we believe to be positive and life-giving. We have so far had roundtables on heterosexual privilege/transgender identities, racism within our American school system, and Catholic Womanpriests. We also host people who are either homeless, refugees, or in a period of transition. The four core community members also practice a common purse. This means that we share the money we earn at jobs outside the house and pay for our needs collectively.
Consider contacting the Rye House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Solanus Casey House of Hospitality
Phone: 651-275-0339
Consider contacting the Solanus Casey House of Hospitality to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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St Francis House
Phone: 651-430-0306
Email: tom@peacehouse.org
Consider contacting the St Francis House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Winona Catholic Worker
Phone: 507-454-8094 & 507-457-3451
Email: winonacatholicworker@gmail.com Winona Catholic Worker Home Page
Publication: Winona Catholic Worker We are two houses of hospitality in the Catholic Worker tradition offering drop-in hospitality and evening meal for anyone in need, Monday thru Friday at the Dan Corcoran House (802 W Broadway). We also offer overnight hospitality for single men at Bethany House (832 W Broadway). We publish a newsletter, hold monthly roundtable discussions on topics of current interest, and occaisionally organize community events of prayer and protest. All are welcome to join us for weekly Eucharistic lturgy on Mondays at 5:00pm, folowed by community supper.
Volunteers needed: Missouri [Menu] Carl Kabat House
Phone: 314-621-7099
Email: kabathouse@gmail
We do hospitality for men and women with a focus on immigrants and Spanish-speakers. We also do a lot of activism.
Consider contacting the Carl Kabat House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Cherith Brook Catholic Worker House
Phone: 816-241-8047
Email: cherithbrookkcmo@gmail.com Cherith Brook Catholic Worker House Home Page
We are a community that practices the works of mercy, peacemaking, and hospitality. We offer temporary housing, showers, clothes, and a warm meal to our friends from the streets.
Consider contacting the Cherith Brook Catholic Worker House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Columbia Catholic Worker Community
Phone: 573-875-7874, 573-442-4502 (Fax)
Email: sfhcw913@aol.com
Publication: Harvest of Justice
St. Francis House-901 Rangeline St - 573-875-7878 and 573-875-4913 Z. Lois Bryant House- 913 Rangeline St - 573-875-7874 and 573-443-0096 Loaves & Fishes Soup Kitchen- 616 Park St Contacts : Lana and Steve Jacobs Fax:573-442-4502 Our community houses 30-40 homeless people nightly. About 10 of our guests are long term. We do hospice with guests from the streets and the prisons. We are a consistent life community working in justice issues around life issues. Currently working to close the SOA and end sanctions in Iraq. Disability rights and oppostion to assisted suicide with Not Dead Yet. (Lana and Steve's daughter Heather DeMien is a national Disability Rights leader.) The core community has been together 16 years.
Consider contacting the Columbia Catholic Worker Community to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Ella Dickson House
Phone: 314-231-2039
Consider contacting the Ella Dickson House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Holy Family House
Phone: 816-753-2677
Publication: Kinship
Volunteers needed: Karen House Catholic Worker
Phone: 314-621-4052 Karen House Catholic Worker Home Page
Publication: The Round Table
Consider contacting the Karen House Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Loaves and Fishes Soup Kitchen
Phone: 573-875-0826
Publication: Harvest of Justice
Consider contacting the Loaves and Fishes Soup Kitchen to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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St Francis House
Phone: 573-875-4913
Email: sfhcw913@aol.com
Consider contacting the St Francis House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Montana [Menu] BitterRoot Catholic Worker Farm
Phone: 406-239-5379
Email: errb333@hotmail.com
We are a 4 acre farm/orchard in Southwestern Montana - south of Missoula (location of the University of Montana). We are an intentional community practicing simple, sustainable community living and exploring renewable energy and recycling. We offer individual retreat space to Catholic Worker workers. We manage an orchard and an expanding garden to produce our food and excess for the homeless shelter in Missoula. Community members work with fragile children, for the church's Newman Center and at the homeless shelter. We are able to host two individuals or two couples at a time or a family (especially in the summer). There are monthly Clarification of Thought meetings to expand the knowledge of Catholic Worker ideas in the Montana community. To participate in any of the above please contact Becky Bishop at errb333@hotmail.com or at 406-239-5379.
Consider contacting the BitterRoot Catholic Worker Farm to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Nevada [Menu] Las Vegas Catholic Worker
Phone: 702-647-0728 Las Vegas Catholic Worker Home Page
Publication: Manna in the Wilderness
Consider contacting the Las Vegas Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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New Jersey [Menu] Jersey Shore Catholic Worker
Email: jerseyshorecatholicworker@yahoo.com
Volunteers needed: Leavenhouse
Phone: 609-966-4596
Publication: Leavenhouse
Consider contacting the Leavenhouse to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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New Mexico [Menu] Casa de las Comunidades Catholic Worker
Phone: 505.265.2371
Email: casadelascomunidades@gmail.com
Publication: The Immigrants Journal Resources for the immigrant community, as well as food, clothing and hospitality. Physical address: 444 D Chama St SE / Albuquereque, NM 87108.
Consider contacting the Casa de las Comunidades Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Trinity House Catholic Worker
Phone: 505-242-0497
Trinity House is open four mornings per week, supports nuclear abolition,and is a transitional community of pacifists, anarchists, Catholics, volunteers and homeless guests who stay together for up to 3 months. LGBT-friendly: yes Wheelchair accessible: yes but please call for details
Consider contacting the Trinity House Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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New York [Menu] Bethany House Rochester Catholic Worker
Phone: 585-454-4197
Email: rbethan1@rochester.rr.com
Publication: Day by Day
Volunteers needed: Casa de la Paz
Phone: 516-491-9601
Consider contacting the Casa de la Paz to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Catholic Worker of Niagara Falls
Phone: 716-282-8683
Email: cwniagara@sysr.com
Consider contacting the Catholic Worker of Niagara Falls to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Dorothy Day House
Phone: 315-474-7011
Publication: Dorothy Day House Newsletter
Consider contacting the Dorothy Day House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Emmaus House
Phone: (518) 482-4966
Email: fred.acw@gmail.com, dianaconroy@gmail.com
Fred Boehrer & Diana Conroy
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Friends of Dorothy Catholic Worker
Phone: 315-471-6853
Hospitality with people with HIV/AIDS.
Consider contacting the Friends of Dorothy Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Hesed House
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Holy Family Catholic Worker
Phone: 914-762-3914
Email: HolyFamily7123@aol.com
Consider contacting the house to volunteer, and help with visiting the homeless, distributing food, seeking shelter for them, accompany needy to hospitals and Social service appointments, visiting the jail, and the sick. We are seeking a permanent home were we can have a house of hospitality, the one we have now is limited to women.
Consider contacting the Holy Family Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Maryhouse
Phone: 212-777-9617
Publication: The Catholic Worker New York Catholic Worker Records, 1915- at Marquette University
Consider contacting the Maryhouse to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Peter Maurin Farm
Phone: 845-236-4774
Consider contacting the Peter Maurin Farm to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Slocum House
Phone: 315-424-1877
Publication: Thursday's Obligation
Volunteers needed: St Joseph House
Phone: 212-254-1640
Publication: The Catholic Worker
Consider contacting the St Joseph House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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St Joseph's House of Hospitality
Phone: 585-232-3262
Email: cathwork@frontiernet.net St Joseph's House of Hospitality Home Page
Publication: Rochester Catholic Worker
At St. Joseph's House of Hospitality, the sources of our spirit and the direction are the teachings of Jesus and the founding work of Dorothy Day. Since 1941, we have been an independent, non-profit organization, sustained by the donations and financial contribution of individuals and groups. We accept no funds from the government. We are rooted in the belief that through God we are provided with our daily needs. Consistent with the philosophy of the Catholic Worker Movement, we share our hope for a "new society," a new way of being with one another. People who come to this house are "guests," ambassadors of God. We attempt to form the community through commitment to the following:
Volunteers needed: St. Fiacre Gardens
Phone: 585-288-1073
Email: fiacregardens@yahoo.com
Daily work, prayer and meditation in the spirit of St. Benedict's "ora et labora" at a Microfarm & Agronomic University. We run a small CSA 12 months/year with a diverse orchard, hundreds of vegetables, herbs, and cutflowers. There are 7 urban and suburban gardens around the county, 50+ "adopted" fruit trees, year-round fresh produce with our greens hoophouse and root cellar. We also host a Peter Maurin Study Group, cooperative educational events on local food sufficiency (canning, pickles, tofu-making, etc.), and organic farming apprenticeships which are available mid-February to mid-November.
Volunteers needed: St. Francis Farm
Phone: (315) 298-2844
Consider contacting the St. Francis Farm to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Unity Acres
Phone: 315-298-6215
Publication: Unity Acres Providing lon-term hospitality to approximately 100 men.
Consider contacting the Unity Acres to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Unity Kitchen Community of the CW
Phone: 315-478-5552
Publication: Unity Grapevine
Consider contacting the Unity Kitchen Community of the CW to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Utica Catholic Worker
Email: UticaCW@aol.com
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Wittjung Catholic Worker
Phone: (315) 479-9994
Email: wittjung@yahoo.com
Daily hot breakfasts delivered to friends on the street and homeless encampments in Syracuse. Sunday breakfasts shared at the Ray McVey Breakfast Room, transportation provided.
Consider contacting the Wittjung Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Zacchaeus House
Phone: 607-773-0246
Publication: Zacchaeus House
Consider contacting the Zacchaeus House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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North Carolina [Menu] Community of the Franciscan Way
Phone: (919) 797-9324
Email: cfwdurham@gmail.com Community of the Franciscan Way Home Page
Publication: The Little Way The Community of the Franciscan Way is a Catholic Worker community in the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina committed to hospitality, the Works of Mercy, praying the Daily Office (Book of Common Prayer), and living out the five marks of Anglican mission. Consider contacting the Community of the Franciscan Way to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
Consider contacting the Community of the Franciscan Way to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Fr. Charles Mulholland Catholic Worker
Phone: 919-779-1912
Consider contacting the Fr. Charles Mulholland Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Nazareth House Catholic Worker
Phone: (919) 231-9752
Email: nazhouse@att.net
Publication: Instrument of Peace
Consider contacting the Nazareth House Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Silk Hope Catholic Worker
Phone: 919-663-4334
Consider contacting the Silk Hope Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Ohio [Menu] Alliance Catholic Worker
Publication: Dynamite: Alliance Catholic Worker Newsletter
Volunteers needed: Has God called you to be a part of starting a Catholic Worker home? Do you enjoy the unknown and start-up projects? The Alliance Catholic Worker is looking for individuals who are interested in volunteering to live at the Catholic Worker house. There will be much to do and the living space is currently a very well kept church hall provided by The Most Rev. John Michael Botean, DD of the Romanian Catholic Diocese. We are looking for a 1 year commitment, but are willing to explore this further with each individual. Individuals must have an in-depth knowledge of the Catholic Worker movement and preference will be given to individuals with previous Catholic Worker experience. The Alliance Catholic Worker is a small mix of individuals who desire the house to develop and grow. Means of support is being developed. We look forward to exploring the possibility of you becoming a part of the Alliance Catholic worker. God bless all who read and consider this call. If interested, please respond and provide a letter of recommendation or for more information to: Tony Wolters at email: anthonywolters@hotmail.com [Menu]Casa San Jose
Phone: 216-631-4726
Consider contacting the Casa San Jose to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Catholic Worker Community of Akron
Phone: 330-384-1112
Email: akroncw@yahoo.com Catholic Worker Community of Akron Home Page
Publication: Catholic Worker Community of Akron News
Houses and work of the Catholic Worker of Akron: House of Peace Casa Maria Jose
834 Princeton St. Matthew 25 House Dorothy Day House
Volunteers needed: We are looking for full-time live-in volunteers as well as part-time volunteers. [Menu]Cleveland Catholic Worker
Phone: 216-631-3059
Email: Brian@irtfcleveland.org
Publication: Inherit the Earth Drop in center at 4241 Lorain Ave.
Consider contacting the Cleveland Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Colette Marie Infant Home
Phone: 216-934-5390
Consider contacting the Colette Marie Infant Home to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Columbus Catholic Worker
Email: columbuscatholicworker@gmail.com Columbus Catholic Worker Home Page
We are an intentional Christian community living in the former convent at St. James the Less Catholic Church in Columbus, with many community members also living off site. We are newly moved in as of January 2009. Our ministries are evolving but so far include the following: We pray regularly together as a community. We offer our 20-bedroom facility for retreats and workshops. We started offering fee meals to the community and regularly host a Hispanic legal clinic. Plans are underway for ESL classes, community garden, and hospitality for the homeless. Our community has been involved in activism against the death penalty. We share a building with a food pantry of the St. Vincent de Paul Society and are looking for ways to add more services such as hot meals, clothing distribution, free store, etc. We are eager to offer hospitality to traveling Catholic Workers and activists.
Volunteers needed: Dorothy Day House of Hospitality
Phone: 330-743-1409
Email: annhm@me.com Dorothy Day House of Hospitality Home Page
The Dorothy Day House, at 620 Belmont Ave in Youngstown, offers hospitality four times a week. Dinner is served Monday-Thursday from 5:00 to 6:30 PM, and free showers are offered on Tuesday evenings from 2:00 to 4:45 PM. Roundtable discussions of social justice topics are held on the fourth Thursday evening of the month at 7:00 PM, and we meet for Vespers on Wednesdays at 7:00 PM. We are a relativley new Catholic Worker community (we opened our doors in November 2009) who strive to be grounded in the works of mercy, hospitality and nonviolence.
Volunteers needed: Grace Place Catholic Worker Community
Phone: 513-681-2365
Email: graceplacecw@fuse.net Grace Place Catholic Worker Community Home Page
Publication: Grace Notes The mission of Grace Place is to provide temporary shelter and hospitality for women in transition from homelessness in a setting which is homelike, healthy, loving and supportive, and to educate and advocate to create a just society. Our house is in an old racially and economically diverse neighborhood.
Volunteers needed: We are primarily seeking an experienced Catholic Worker who is capable and willing to take on the role of management and administration of Grace Place. This person would replace current director who wishes to retire. We are also interested in long term live-in and part time shift(commuter or live- in) community members or interns to share in the intentional community, works of mercy, and to engage in all forms of life here- from bookkeeping, letter writing, organic gardening, faith sharing with our guests to community prayer and laughter. This could be an individual or a married couple to live in community creating a safe and hospitable home for women and families in transition from homelessness. [Menu]Mary Queen of Peace House
Phone: 937-227-1365
Email: http://devols@woh.rr.com/
The Dayton Catholic Worker Movement operates a house of hospitality for six homeless guests labeled working poor, mentally ill, ex-felon, and addict. We mentor social cooperative business development - helping people to help themselves. A cooperative is defined as an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise.
MISSION: The mission of Mary Queen of Peace House is to introduce homeless people labeled working poor, mentally ill, ex-felon, and addict to relationship with God. VALUES: Mary Queen of Peace House core values are guided by faith in Jesus Christ and Catholic Social Teaching, to include: (1) life and dignity of the human person; (2) call to family, community and participation; (3) human rights and responsibilities; (4) preferential option for the poor and vulnerable; (5) the dignity of work and rights of workers; (6) solidarity; and, (7) care for God's creation. METHOD: Mary Queen of Peace House community life is ordered daily by the ancient monastic rhythm of Mass, community prayer, work structured as social cooperative and 12 Step study groups.
CO-OP PROGRAMS: Stay-at-Home Mom Call Center Cooperative Paint Contractors Cooperative MS Office Live Design Partner Cooperative Print-on-Demand Copy Center Cooperative Catholic Internet Television Network Cooperative Catholic Creative Commons Cooperative (Peacemakers College Social Documentary)
Volunteers needed: Mentors with relevant industry experience who want to experience God's love in relationship with His homeless ambassadors. [Menu]St Francis / St Joseph Catholic Worker
Phone: 513-381-4941 St Francis / St Joseph Catholic Worker Home Page
Publication: St. Francis/St. Joseph Catholic Worker The St. Francis/St. Joseph CW is a house of hospitality for 15 homeless men, open since 1984. We also provide a soup kitchen 3 days/week and host an AA meeting 2 times/week. We are interested in receiving newslettes and sending our newsletter to people interested in our house. We can house a guest who is interested in the Catholic Worker Movement or one who would like to visit from another Catholic Worker House.
Consider contacting the St Francis / St Joseph Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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St Herman's Monastary & House of Hospitality
Phone: 216-961-3806
Consider contacting the St Herman's Monastary & House of Hospitality to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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The Lamb Catholic Worker
Phone: (614) 235-2557
Email: thelambcatholicworker@gmail.com The Lamb Catholic Worker Home Page
Contact: Monica Cassidy
Consider contacting the The Lamb Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Oklahoma [Menu] Archbishop Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House
Phone: 405-557-0436 Help Line
Email: robert@justpeace.org Archbishop Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House Home Page
The OKC Catholic Workers deliver food to people in need who don't have transportation. Call us at 405-613-4688 for information about dates and times of deliveries. Other calls: 405-200-8155
Consider contacting the Archbishop Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Enid Catholic Worker
Phone: 580-242-0691
Email: neehi@aol.com
Publication: The Works of Mercy Newsletter The Enid Catholic Worker runs The St. Monica Project, a baby furniture pantry. We are particularly interested in cribs, changing tables, and rocking chairs, as well as basic baby care items like diapers, powder, shampoo, and lotion, all of which is donated free of charge to families in crisis.
Consider contacting the Enid Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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St. Zita Catholic Worker House
Phone: 918-815-3671
Email: catholicworkertulsa@gmail.com St. Zita Catholic Worker House Home Page
We are committed to living out Matthew 25 and Acts 4 through prayer, voluntary poverty, hospitality and sharing of all that we have.
Consider contacting the St. Zita Catholic Worker House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Oregon [Menu] CW Farm of Sts. Isidore and Maria
Phone: 541-964-3012
Consider contacting the CW Farm of Sts. Isidore and Maria to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Ken Brown House
Phone: (541) 684-8064
A safe sanctuary for otherwise homeless introverts and base for Occupy Opportunity, a project of ACT (A Community Together - Lane County), P.O. Box 1214, Eugene, OR 97440.
Consider contacting the Ken Brown House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Portland Catholic Worker
Phone: 503-287-4230
Email: portlandcatholicworker@gmail.com
Dorothy Day House: We are a small house which offers hospitality to single women experiencing homelessness or transitioning out of prison.
Consider contacting the Portland Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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St. John Bosco House
Phone: 541-683-7517
Email: boscohouse@comcast.net
Consider contacting the St. John Bosco House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Whitefeather Catholic Worker Community
Phone: 503-327-8250
Email: pcwtom@gmail.com
Whitefeather CW started in 2005 and is a community devoted primarily to nonviolent resistance,militarism, and injustice. We are named for Whitefeather of the Ojibwe, a Plowshare veteran and CW who crossed over in 1999.
Consider contacting the Whitefeather Catholic Worker Community to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Pennsylvania [Menu] Duncan & Porter House
Phone: 412-231-2766
Publication: Resistance and Contemplation
Consider contacting the Duncan & Porter House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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House of Grace Catholic Worker
Phone: 215-426-0364
Publication: House of Grace Newsletter Catholic Worker Free Health Clinic, hospitality, roundtable discussions, liturgies, resistance, and Community Garden.
Consider contacting the House of Grace Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Jubilee Soup Kitchen
Phone: 412-261-5417
Consider contacting the Jubilee Soup Kitchen to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Lighthouse Scranton Catholic Worker
Phone: 570-341-5858
Email: lNmRL1@AOL.COM
We do hospitality and some resistance. Contact person: Lindy Morelli
Volunteers needed: Mary the Apostle Catholic Worker
Phone: (814) 459-2529
Email: matthew_ochalek@riseup.net Mary the Apostle Catholic Worker Home Page
Mission - Mary the Apostle House, in the tradition of the Catholic Worker movement founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, and inspired by monasticism is a community committed to prayer, nonviolence, and environmental sustainability. We are learning an alternative way of life one that is in tune with the Gospel. We stand in solidarity with those who struggle in and against poverty and systemic injustice. With profound hope for a renewed and transformed world, we resist forces of destruction, death and oppression by living hospitality, reverence for all creation, and witness for justice and peace. Works - Active resistance to war as a community and in concert with other local peace and justice organizations, food pantry, shared meals, and experimenting in urban gardening.
Consider contacting the Mary the Apostle Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Sr Peter Claver House
Phone: 215-232-7823
Publication: Common Life St. Peter Claver House is a Catholic worker community located in North Philadelphia and extending hospitality to its neighbors in the form of an after school program, a food and clothing distribution program and a summer youth program.
Consider contacting the Sr Peter Claver House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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St. Martin de Porres Catholic Worker
Phone: 717-230-8328
We work with men who are addicted and coming out of jail and we do street outreach ministry. Visitors are always welcome (but call first).
Consider contacting the St. Martin de Porres Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Thomas Merton Center
Phone: 412-361-3022
Publication: The New People
Consider contacting the Thomas Merton Center to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Rhode Island [Menu] Amos House
Phone: 401-272-1531
Consider contacting the Amos House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Blackstone Valley Catholic Worker
Consider contacting the Blackstone Valley Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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South Dakota [Menu] Emmaus Catholic Worker House
Phone: 605-664-3662
A little more than seven years ago, the Yankton Catholic Worker community opened the doors of Emmaus House. This ministry provides hospitality for women and children visiting loved ones at the state prisons in Springfield and Yankton, as well as the Human Services Center and the Yankton Federal Prison Camp. At the core of our ministry is the love of Christ: It is revealed in the community built amongst our guests. It is manifested by the practice of mutual aid and sharing between our guests. It is a gift for us to practice the Corporal Works of Mercy.
Consider contacting the Emmaus Catholic Worker House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Tennesse [Menu] Dorothy Day House of Hospitality
Phone: 901-726-6760
Consider contacting the Dorothy Day House of Hospitality to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Emmanuel House
Phone: 901-272-0509
We've been handing out sack lunches on Mondays to folks at a labor pool near our house, serving at some churches that offer meals, and about once a month offering transportation to a family to visit their son/brother/father on death row.
Consider contacting the Emmanuel House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Nashville Greenlands
Phone: 615-322-9523
Email: karlmeyerng@hotmail.com
Contact: Pam Beziat or Karl Meyer We are a non-sectarian community, not based in prayer or religious doctrine, affiliated with the Catholic Worker movement through many years of personal association, and a deeply shared ethical and social vision. Our common purpose is to explore and demonstrate an ecologically sustainable way of life within a city, based on agricultural use of open land, and a simple common life to minimize our consumption of world resources. We also practice radical direct action for justice and peace, and use our houses and land for education about peacemaking and the nonviolent life we seek to develop. We own four houses in an inner city Nashville neighborhood, with about an acre of arable land and housing for a total of seventeen community members. Each household is semi-autonomous. We welcome visits and inquiries from people who might be interested in joining us, or investing in similar land and houses that are available at very reasonable cost, nearby in our neighborhood. We also welcome visits from travelers interested in our vision and work.
Volunteers needed: Texas [Menu] A Simple Life
Phone: 903-965-9862
Volunteers needed: Casa Juan Diego
Phone: 713-869-7376
Email: info@cjd.org
Publication: Houston Catholic Worker (in English and Spanish)
Consider contacting the Casa Juan Diego to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Jonah House
Phone: 214-941-6558
Publication: Jonah's Wail
Consider contacting the Jonah House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Mary House Catholic Worker
Phone: 512.447.0963 Mary House Catholic Worker Home Page
Publication: Jeremiah's Stutter Mary House Catholic Worker of Austin (Texas), founded in 1991, is a small Catholic Worker community which offers housing to homeless adults with critical and/or terminal illnesses who have no other resources. Ours is the ONLY free housing available to these people. We live and work in the tradition of the Catholic Worker movement, referring to the Gospel of Jesus, the social teaching of the Catholic community of faith, and the writings and experience of our founders, Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin.
Consider contacting the Mary House Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Maurin-Day House
Phone: 361-882-1202
Publication: Conversion A day shelter, we supply some coffee and food in the morning and guests can take a shower, do their laundry and have somewhere to sit and watch tv during the day.
Consider contacting the Maurin-Day House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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San Antonio Catholic Worker
Phone: 210-224-2932
Email: info@sa-catholicworker.org San Antonio Catholic Worker Home Page
CWH-San Antonio is a Day Center of Hospitality. Three meals (approximately 400 per day) are provided to our guests each weekday, as well as, other amenities such as clothing, travel-sized hygiene supplies, books, movies, and laundry, phone, email and postal services. Volunteers and former guests who desire to help with our ministry of "hospitality of the heart" live in community in a third house and share in the daily soup kitchen and other tasks.
Consider contacting the San Antonio Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Tabor House
Note: hous is in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Consider contacting the Tabor House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Tomorrow's Bread Today
Phone: 832-202-9922, 866-234-8707 (Fax)
Email: donmcco@tbt.org Tomorrow's Bread Today Home Page
Catholic Worker lay religious order with goal of doing the corporal and spiritual works of mercy and a current mission of providing physician and home health care services for the poor in Houston who do not qualify for public assistance or do not have insurance or money to pay for care.
Consider contacting the Tomorrow's Bread Today to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Virginia [Menu] Charlottesville Catholic Worker
Email: cvillecw@gmail.com Charlottesville Catholic Worker Home Page
We are a family creating houses of hospitality and an urban farm, together with a supportive community. We welcome help with gardening, cooking, home repair, and fund raising. We hope to have space for live-in volunteers in the coming year.
Consider contacting the Charlottesville Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Freedom House
Phone: 804-649-9791
Consider contacting the Freedom House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Little Flower Catholic Worker Farm
Phone: 540-967-5574
Email: littleflowercw@wildmail.com
Publication: LIttle Flower Catholic Worker Farm Little Flower is a small CW homestead in rural VA, about a 1/2 hour east of Charlottesville. We grow food, and practice community, hospitality and resistance. We spend our days working--mostly manual labor, sometimes for pay; protesting war, building giant puppets, weeding the garden and responding to the needs of the moment. We welcome visitors, whether in need of shelter or looking to experiment with an alternative lifestyle of precarity, community and taking personal responsibility for addressing systemic violence. Send us an e-mail and we'll eventually check it on our slow dial-up, or call or write.
Volunteers needed: Norfolk Catholic Worker
Phone: 757-423-5420
Publication: Simplicity Small hospitality house offering short- and long-term hospitality to homeless men and women; serves 100+ folks four mornings a week, bringing "breakfast-to-the-streets;" faith-based intentional community; supports Plowshare movement for disarmament; involved in non violent civil resistance against militarism locally and with Atlantic Life Community
Volunteers needed: St Francis Catholic Worker
Phone: 540-972-3218
Publication: St. Francis Catholic Worker
The St. Francis Catholic Worker is a one-page, home-spun newsletter, offered free of charge, mailed faithfully February, May, August, and November to all who request a copy. Born in Washington, DC in 1979 as a hospitality house for single adults, both male and female, we missioned and helped to start the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House for families. Several members of our community prayerfully became its core community in 1981. Experiencing a new call to service from Jesus we embraced a long held vision of a spiritual retreat center for folks living in shelters and transitional houses. Thus, in 1993 we moved to the above address and began hosting non-denominational, directed, group retreats (with the assistance of volunteer retreat directors). Our 12 bedroom retreat house and separate chapel with the Blessed Sacrament, located on a ten acre wooded property, is an oasis of love for our sisters and brothers who come. Our community house, separate from the retreat house, has room for 5 people: 2 couples and a single person. Each bedroom has its own bathroom and quiet space. Simple living, in solidarity with the poor, requires much change from the average American lifestyle. Our wood burning fireplace gives winters warmth along with baseboard heat backup, used only as needed. Food bank shopping, limited use of community vehicle, Mass daily at our local parish are a few examples of our attempt at simple living. We are a mix of Martha and Mary: we meditate each day and we do laundry too.
Volunteers needed: For our ministry of hospitality and love coupled with a retreat ministry for the homeless who are longing for a stronger connection to Christ. We seek a couple and a single person approximately between ages 45 and 65 to join our faith community and work with our retreatants. We look for willing hearts to make a long term commitment to engage in all aspects of life here -- from bookkeeping, letter writing, gardening, bed making, retreat direction and faith sharing with our guests, to community prayer and a little laughter. We take seriously the command, "Come follow me" and because of that we live a faith fulfilled life. HISTORICALLY SPEAKING Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day often went on retreats, themselves. Dorothy wrote of her own retreat experiences and urged others to make retreats. "Food for the soul," she called them. Her writing clearly shows she envisioned Catholic Worker retreat houses --"... It is certainly a dream for the future." We are humbled to be part of the lying out of her dream. Inquiries Welcome. Please contact John or Polly Mahoney, or Pumpkin, our cat, at the above address and phone. PEACE -- PLEASE PRAY FOR US. [Menu]Washington [Menu] Bethlehem Farm Catholic Worker
Phone: 360-748-1236
Publication: Bethlehem Peace Farm
Consider contacting the Bethlehem Farm Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Bread & Roses Catholic Worker
Phone: 360 754-4085
Email: admin.breadandrosesolympia@gmail.com Bread & Roses Catholic Worker Home Page
Consider contacting the Bread & Roses Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Pacem in Terris
Phone: 206-322-2447
Consider contacting the Pacem in Terris to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Tacoma Catholic Worker
Phone: 253-572-6582 and 253-627-4347
Email: tacomacatholicworker@gmail.com Tacoma Catholic Worker Home Page
Publication: Tacoma Catholic Worker Jean's House of Prayer (253)627-4347.
Consider contacting the Tacoma Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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West Virginia [Menu] Alderson Hospitality House
Phone: 304-445-2980
Email: aldersonhospitalityhouse@gmail.com Alderson Hospitality House Home Page
Publication: The Trumpet We are a non-profit bed and breakfast serving those visiting their loved ones at the Alderson Federal Prison Camp. Currently, our community is full, but we are always open to visitors and/or short term volunteers.
Consider contacting the Alderson Hospitality House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Appalachian Catholic Worker
Phone: (304)-927-5798
Email: jeannie@acwfarm.com Appalachian Catholic Worker Home Page
Publication: The Inner Voice We are a seamless garment Catholic Worker farm that strives to live the Gospel in light of Catholic social teaching. Our E.C.O. Center offers Education, Contemplation and Outreach in the context of Creation. By promoting social and environmental justice, hosting retreatants and service groups, and practicing the works of mercy, we address both the root causes and effects of poverty in the hills and hollers of Appalachia. Our community is a diaspora of educators, activists, students and volunteers, while one lives here full-time. Cottage industries include free range eggs, books, and Catholic Worker icons, note cards and bookmarks. We are not tax exempt.
Consider contacting the Appalachian Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Family Worker Farm
Publication: The Family Worker
Consider contacting the Family Worker Farm to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Wisconsin [Menu] A Place of Peace
Phone: 715-345-2345
Email: rusty@portesi.net
Daytime Hospitality: Meals every Thursday. Roundtable discussions after meals on the First and Third Thursdays of each month.
Consider contacting the A Place of Peace to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Anathoth Community Farm
Phone: 715-472-8721 Anathoth Community Farm Home Page
Publication: Anathoth Community Farm News
Consider contacting the Anathoth Community Farm to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Casa Esther
Email: frjoe@casaesther.org
Consider contacting the Casa Esther to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Casa Maria Catholic Worker House
Phone: 414-344-5745
Email: casa.maria.intern@gmail.com
Publication: Casa Cry
Volunteers needed: Catholic Worker Archives
Phone: 414-288-7256
Email: Phil.Runkel@marquette.edu
Catholic Worker Archives Website
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Gilbert House Catholic Worker
Phone: 715-265-4070
Email: gkc.catholicworker@gmail.com Gilbert House Catholic Worker Home Page
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Martin Luther Catholic Worker
Phone: 414-444-7771
Email: martinluthercw@sbcglobal.net
Our theme is "Grace and Works of Mercy" and every effort is made to connect the preaching of grace to the actual walking the walk of works of mercy. Coming from both Catholic and Lutheran backgrounds, this is a prophetic message that goes both ways. Our mission is "Ending homelessness one family at a time." We offer education groups with Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction; Peaceful Ears (nonviolent communication in the tradition of Marshall Rosenberg); a Treatment Foster Care Parenting Support group; Work Ministry program for neighborhood youth, and HIV+ Women's support group and retreats. Visitors to Milwaukee for retreats, service, workshops, urban outreach, research (e.g. at Marquette and the Catholic Worker Archives) are Welcome. Founder - Cindi Vian, Outreach Preacher (interfaith, (cell - 414-213-9533)
Consider contacting the Martin Luther Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Mary House of Hospitality
Phone: 608-586-4447
Email: maryhousewis@gmail.com
Consider contacting the Mary House of Hospitality to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Place of Grace - A Catholic Worker Community
Phone: 608-782-6224
Open Tuesday and Wednesday 1:00 - 5:00 and Thursday 1:00 - 8:00 with a meal from 4:30 - 7:30.
Consider contacting the Place of Grace - A Catholic Worker Community to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Rising Sun Garden
Phone: 608-624-5730
Consider contacting the Rising Sun Garden to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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The Jubilee House
Phone: 715-845-8030
Email: scurler@aol.com
Providing hospitality and meals every Thursday afternoon and evening. All are welcome to pray with us every Monday at 5:30 PM. Volunteers needed for preparing and serving meals on Thursdays.
Consider contacting the The Jubilee House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Waukesha catholic Worker Community
Phone: 262-524-8278
Publication: Waukesaha catholic Worker
Statement of Purpose The purpose of the Waukesha catholic Worker is to do works of mercy:
The Waukesha catholic Worker community is called to be a sign of the presence of God. Hospitality and Peacemaking We are a house of hospitality and peacemaking. We welcome refugees and others with special needs and we take a spiritual stand for peacemaking. Our hospitality extends to people from foreign countries who are here for medical needs. Education In the Catholic Worker tradition we hold peacemaking forums on current Issues. These forums are frequently co-sponsored with the Waukesha Peace Center and local churches. We also hold educational events in local churches and schools regarding the strengths and needs of our refugee guests. Spirituality The Waukesha catholic Worker is ecumenical and includes Jews, Muslims, Protestants, Hindus, Catholics, and others. Out of our deep faith each of us brings life to the community. Worship The Waukesha catholic Worker holds periodic ecumenical worship services to deepen our bonds with God, each other, and our guests. Respite We offer respite for Catholic Workers from large cities, like Milwaukee or Washington, D.C., who need a rest from their demanding work.
Consider contacting the Waukesha catholic Worker Community to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
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Belgium [Menu] Catholic Worker GhentKluizenaarstraat 25 9000 GENT BELGIUM Belgium
Phone: 00 32 9 223 60 65
Email: johannes@catholicworker.tk Catholic Worker Ghent Home Page
De Katholieke Werker Pleinstraat 1 B - 8000 Brugge 00 32 474 77 61 13 Belgium
Email: info@catholicworker.be De Katholieke Werker Home Page
Canada [Menu] Benedict Labre House308 Young St Montreal PQ H3C 2G2 Canada
Phone: 514-937-5973
Publication: Unity
Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Worker 576 Westvale Drive Waterloo ON N2T 1K4 Canada
Phone: 519-747-1740
Publication: Ordinary Time
Peterborough Catholic Worker 197 Hunter St W #29 Peterborough ON K9H 2L1 Canada
Radish House - Toronto Catholic Worker 238 Lumsden Ave Toronto ON M4C 2K4 Canada
Email: radishhouse@hotmail.ca Radish House - Toronto Catholic Worker Home Page
Publication: The Radish The Radish House is committed to acts of resistance against oppression. We specifically engage with trans and queer communities and discern the ways in which all forms of oppression intersect and affect those who are most marginalized within our churches and our communities. As a new house, we are still in the process of discernment but recognize that in order to serve the communities we want to serve, we feel this whole process should be done in community. We also recognize that the philosophy and mission work of our house will be dynamic and ever-changing and we want to start now, getting feedback from the community as we go along hopefully allowing everyone to grow. The house is currently full but if you are a Trans or Queer person or ally in need of temporary accommodation contact us. Please note that there are animals (cat and dog) in the house as well as children. Consider contacting Radish House to help with childcare, community living and solidarity and helping with community meals.
On facebook: facebook.com/radishhouse
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The Vancouver Catholic Worker - Samaritan House 1143 E Pender St Vancouver BC V6A 1W6 Canada
Phone: 604-255-1555, 604-251-0920 (Fax)
Email: vancouvercatholicworker@yahoo.ca
Publication: The Christian Radical
Thomas Merton House 53 Merton Street Ottawa ON K1V 1V6 Canada
Phone: (613) 724-2962
Email: mertonhouse@hotmail.com
Publication: The Ottawa Catholic Worker
Dominican Republic [Menu] Dominican Republic Catholic WorkerSanto Domingo Dominican Republic
Email: felix.cepeda@gmail.com
Some Dominican Catholics here inspired by the life of Dorothy Day are trying to found a CW house of hospitality here in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, for homeless Dominicans and Haitian immigrants. Germany [Menu] Bread and Roses - Base communityFabriciusstr. 56 22177 Hamburg Germany
Phone: 49-(0)40-69 70 20 85 Bread and Roses - Base community Home Page
Publication: Brot und Rosen "Bread and Roses" was founded in 1994 by german volunteers returning from experience in US-Communities such as the CW, the Open Door Community (Atlanta, Jubilee Partners (Comer, GA), and CCNV (Washington, DC). The 6-member base community started a 12-room house of hospitality in 1996. Guests are mostly refugees. Members live in community of income, have a daily common prayer and try to educate on justice and refugee issues. Kana Gemeinshaft Mallinckrodtstr 108 D-44145 Dortmund Germany
Phone: 0231-839853
Great Britain [Menu] London Catholic Worker49 Mattison Road Harringay London N4 1BG Great Britain
Phone: + (44) 20 8340 8212
Email: londoncatholicworker@yahoo.co.uk London Catholic Worker Home Page
Publication: The London Catholic Worker
Giuseppe Conlon Catholic Worker House
St Francis House Oxford Catholic Worker 227 Cowley Road Oxford OX4 1XG Great Britain
Phone: 01865-248288
Publication: Strangers & Pilgrims Hospitality, organic garden, roundtable discussions on peace and justice issues.
Morning prayer weekdays.
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Mexico [Menu] Casa ColibríJ. Manuel Hernandez E. Ocampo # 2 Hostotipaquillo, Jal 46440 Mexico
Phone: 386.744.5063
Email: jmhe76@gmail.com
We are a newly established community in rural Mexico, founded by former LACW community members. Casa Colibrí: We are an intentional community in the Catholic Worker tradition. Our projects include: a small organic farm; child, teen, and adult English classes; traditional folklorico dance classes; artistic and cultural workshops; round table discussions; prayer; and monthly in-house liturgies. In addition to our efforts to connect with and build community in the rural town of Hostotipaquillo, we are committed to maintaining our physical, emotional, and spiritual health. This we believe is essential to the Catholic Worker philosophy of ¨building a new society in the shell of the old.¨ Coatepec Mexico Catholic Worker Casa de Hospitabilidad Fray Bartolome de las Casas Moctezuma 31, Zona Central Coatepec, Veracruz, Mexico CP 19500 Mexico
Phone: 522.816.3608
Email: dignidad@prodigy.net.mx
New Zealand [Menu] Joseph Cardijn CW18 Feilding St Christchurch New Zealand
Phone: 03-388-0768
Suzanne Aubert House 8a Cotterill St Addington Christchurch 2 New Zealand
Phone: 03-328-7105 Suzanne Aubert House Home Page
Thomas Merton Catholic Worker PO Box 173 Lyttelton New Zealand
Phone: 03-328-8207 Thomas Merton Catholic Worker Home Page
Scotland [Menu] Catholic Worker GlasgowScotland
Email: glw@catholicworker.org.uk Catholic Worker Glasgow Home Page
Sweden [Menu] The Fig Tree CW in HammarkullenFikonträdet Sandeslätt 60 SE 424 36 Angered Sweden
Phone: 46(0)31-330 67 11
Email: annikaspalde@hotmail.com The Fig Tree CW in Hammarkullen Home Page
Contacts are Annika Spalde, Jonas Olsson and Per Herngren. Active support for several programs serving recent immigrants and addicts, resistance to the Swedish arms trade, and more! The Netherlands [Menu] Amsterdam Catholic WorkerKlieverink 125-126-127 1104 CC Amsterdam Amsterdam The Netherlands
Phone: 020-6994 320
Email: noelhuis@antenna.nl Amsterdam Catholic Worker Home Page
Publication: Dynamite!
Jeannette Noel Huis, Dantestraat 202, Postbus 12662, 1100 AP Amsterdam, Tel: 020 -699 8 996:
Rhimou Communauteit, Kikkenstein 224, 1104 AK Amsterdam, Tel: 011 31 20 6956 203 Harriet Tubman Huis Dantestraat 196 Amsterdam 1102 ZR The Netherlands
Phone: 020-4166-004 & 4166-005
Uganda [Menu] Uganda Catholic Worker CommunityP.O.Box 5978 Kampala Uganda
Phone: +256791888222
Email: united2uall@yahoo.com
Full address:
The Uganda Catholic Worker Community serves the less fortunate Ugandan Communities of East Africa.
We are witnessing Christ through Faith and Action.
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