ByBrian Terrell
Celebrating Christmas in a way that truly honors the incarnation of love requires more than works of charity; as Dorothy Day insisted in 1941, it requires an ongoing commitment to justice, too.
ByCatholicWorker.org
In this episode of “Coffee with Catholic Workers,” Theo Kayser interviews Elisabeth and Josh Armstrong about their lives at the Kommuniteten Senapskornet (Mustard Seed Community) Catholic Worker in Luleå, Sweden.
ByTheo Kayser
We are in the process of finding a physical space to purchase in the St. Louis area to headquarter our works of mercy and revolution of the heart. If you find yourself in a place of abundance at this time, please consider helping us start this new House of Hospitality.
ByLouise Zwick
We know that the person in need who comes to our door is not just Maria Garcia or Samuel Smith, but the Lord himself present in the poor. We Catholic Workers are just a few. We cannot solve all the problems of people seeking help, but we can, with the help of our readers, provide what may seem like just a few loaves and fishes. We pray that the Lord may transform and multiply them.
ByCatholicWorker.org
In this episode of “Coffee with Catholic Workers,” Theo Kayser interviews Judith Samson of Brot und Rosen (Bread and Roses) Catholic Worker about civil disobedience she’s participated in to combat climate change.
ByCatholicWorker.org
In this episode of “Coffee with Catholic Workers,” Theo Kayser interviews Dietrich Gerstner of Bread and Roses Catholic Worker (Hamburg, Germany) about the community’s work with refugees.
ByRenée Roden
This fall, from St. Louis to London, Catholic Workers have walked with Jewish groups and pacifist organizers to protest the United States’ blocking of U.N. resolutions for a ceasefire, to protest Boeing’s supply of weapons to Israel, and to stand in solidarity with Jewish and Palestinian groups advocating for peace and justice.
ByCatholicWorker.org
Here’s the Fall/Winter2023 issue of THE SOWER, the newsletter of Strangers and Guests Catholic Worker Farm.
ByCatholicWorker.org
Here is the full text of Two Agiators: Peter Maurin – Ammon Hennacy, a 56-page pamphlet published by the New York Catholic Worker in 1959. The pamphlet includes essays by Hennacy, “Easy Essays” by Peter Maurin, and an introduction by Dorothy Day.
ByCatholicWorker.org
With some 7,000 employees, the Kansas City National Security Campus produces more than 80% of the U.S. nuclear weapons’ non-nuclear components. This spring, Catholic Workers will gather for a weekend of education, prayer, reflection, fellowship, and training followed by nonviolent direct action on Monday, April 15.
ByCatholicWorker.org
After 17 years of service, the Catholic Worker Farm (Hertfordshire, England) is seeking help to pay off the remaining £300,000 that it owes on the farm.
ByCatholicWorker.org
The new Dorothy Day Tampa Hospitality House will provide critical services such as showers, laundry, mail collection, computer access, coffee, and community meals, as well as compassion and respite.
ByMichael Doyle
This is the eighth in a continuing series of articles about how to start a Catholic Worker community, told through the lived experience of the Tampa Catholic Worker.
ByCatholicWorker.org
As we have worked to establish the Motels4Now program and ensure its sustainability, we have struggled to meet the monthly financial obligations of Our Lady of the Road and our Catholic Worker household. Would you please consider helping on a monthly basis and inviting others in your circle to do so? Together, we can continue practicing the works of mercy, listening for the promptings of God’s Spirit.
ByCatholicWorker.org
In this note from Israel, Cassandra Dixon (Mary House CW, Oxford, Wisconsin) reports on the September 6 court hearing regarding her assault by an Israeli settler. The settler’s lawyers interrogated doctors and rejected hospital reports in an attempt to downplay the severity of the assault, Dixon says, and the judge ejected her human rights lawyer from the courtroom. The next hearing in the case is scheduled for November 2.
ByBrian Terrell
In the July/August 2023 issue of The Regenerative Reader, Spencer Hess writes of “Maurin-ite” and “Hennacy-ite” Catholic Workers—those who farm and those who agitate. But does that distinction really make sense? For many Catholic Worker farmers, the work of the land and the work of resistance go hand-in-hand.
ByMichael Doyle
This is the seventh in a continuing series of articles about how to start a Catholic Worker community, told through the lived experience of the Tampa Catholic Worker.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
“These settlers act with impunity because Israel has impunity in the world, and they have that because of the U.S.,” Cassandra Dixon (Mary House CW) says. She hopes the September 7 trial of the Israeli settler who attacked her might help to change that.
ByCatholicWorker.org
As she prepares to return to Israel for the trial of the man who assaulted her, Cassandra Dixon (Mary House Catholic Worker, Jackson, Wisconsin) is asking supporters to help the people of Tuba plant an olive grove on their land. Her appeal letter is reprinted here.
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In this issue: CWers protest nuclear weapons at Volkel Air Base, White House; House of Grace Free Clinic granted zoning variance; Mary’s House vigil for James Barber execution; L.A. Catholic Worker on a roadmap to house the homeless; Pope Francis writes new preface to “From Union Square to Rome”; Amistad CW continues backyard hospitality for displaced tent encampment; Martha Hennessy on the Eucharistic Revival and the Catholic Church; London CW lauds Catholic bishops’ document on migrants; and more.
