Dorothy Day Inc.?
When offered the choice between a ‘Catholic Worker House Incorporated’ and a Catholic Worker that is homeless, penniless and its leaders in prison, Dorothy chose the latter.
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Personalism and the Common Good
True solutions to social problems have to come from within, not outside institutions. This is personalism, and it is deep in the heart of the Catholic social tradition, says Colin Miller in the third of his series on the ideas underpinning the Catholic Worker Movement.
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What Does Personalism Mean in the Catholic Worker?
What did Peter Maurin mean when he talked about “personalism”? In his continuing series on the ideas underpinning the Catholic Worker Movement, Colin Miller writes about the meaning of personalism.
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Catholic Worker Farm Communities Gather to Celebrate, Learn, and Reflect
People from about ten different Catholic Worker farms from across the Midwest gathered for the biennial Catholic Worker Farm Gathering in Platteville, Wisconsin, last weekend. The weather was cold and windy, but participants warmed things up with singing, dancing, discussion, prayer, and even a hog roas
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Archbishop Wester: Faith Leaders Need to Step Up Call to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Archbishop John Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico, addressed the immorality of nuclear weapons and the moral imperative to abolish them in his sermon at the Mass for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, sponsored by the Dorothy Day Guild, at Our Savior Church in New York City. The event was held on November 29, 2023—the anniversary of Day’s death—and Wester cited Day’s early witness against nuclear weapons. Wester called on faith leaders, and Catholics in particular, to step up efforts to abolish nuclear weapons.
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Stepping Toward Mercy: Alabama CW Has Long Protested Death Penalty
Shortly after opening Mary’s House in Birmingham, Alabama in 1993, Shelley and Jim Douglass befriended a man on death row. That friendship was the start of their decades-long campaign against the death penalty in the state.
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Saint Thérèse of Lisieux’s Little Way of Love in the Spirituality of Dorothy Day
A new academic paper seeks to shed light on the connection between the spirituality of St. Thérèse of Lisieux and the very public social activism of Dorothy Day. In “Saint Thérèse of Lisieux’s Little Way of Love in the Spirituality of Dorothy Day,” Noel E. Bordador of Nazareth House (Meycauyan, Philippines) proposes that Day saw the Little Way as a path to inner spiritual transformation and social change.
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The Catholic Worker Returns to Staten Island
Sixty years after Peter Maurin Farm closed, the Catholic Worker is returning to Staten Island with a new community gearing up this year.
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Remembering and Reconnecting with Phil Runkel
Phil Runkel, the longtime Catholic Worker archivist at Marquette University, recently suffered a broken hip. Rosalie Riegle took the news as an opportunity to offer this fond remembrance.
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In Kenya, a Catholic Worker for Those with Mental Illness
It took Japheth Obare ten years to receive the right diagnosis for his psychotic episodes. Faced with desperately scarce mental health resources in his native Kenua, he set out to create a group for people with mental illness to help one another. Now, Catholic Friends of the Mentally Ill is only the second Catholic Worker community in Africa…and the only one anywhere run by and for people with mental illness.
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The Journey to a New CW in St. Louis
Theo Kayser recounts his early days in the Catholic Worker and reflects on the growing prevalence of homeless encampments in the U.S. Now, he and a few others are working to bring the Catholic Worker back to St. Louis.
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What Good is a Prophet Who Is Not Open to Their Own Conversion?
We can all identify the ways the Spirit has helped us “see the light,” helping transform us from who we were then to who we are now, Matt Harper writes in this essay from the Catholic Agitator. But how often do we move with the recognition that the Spirit is never done weaving through our lives? How often do we live with an openness to whatever shifts She has planned next for us?
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Detroit’s Day House CW Closes
Members of the Detroit Catholic Worker have announced the closure of Detroit’s Day House Catholic Worker as of December 2023 due to declining worker interest, community capacity, and financial resources,
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Hildegard House (Duluth, MN) Seeks Summer Interns
The Hildegard House Catholic Worker is looking for one or two summer interns from May through September.
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Haley House (Boston) Seeks Summer Volunteers
The Haley House Live-In Community is now accepting applications for the 2024 Summer Residency at Haley House!
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What’s Next for the Uganda CW: How about a House…and a Farm?
In the third part of our series, “The Catholic Worker in Africa,” Uganda Catholic Worker founder Michael Sekitoleko dreams of creating a sustainable, revitalized community—in spite of a skeptical priest and a stalled fundraising campaign.
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Support Ciaron O’Reilly’s Vigil for Assange
Since early April 2023, Ciaron O’Reilly has been camped at the entrance of HM Prison Belmarsh (London) in solidarity with Julian Assange. Now, his friends are asking for financial support to help him continue the vigil in good health.
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Goodbye, Holy Family CW; Hello, Rechabite CW
Sean and Monica Domencic, co-founders of the now-dissolved Holy Family CW in Lancaster, are starting something new: the Rechabite Catholic Worker.
