After 14-Year Campaign, One Catholic Worker Celebrates Assange’s Release
“Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901…
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Finding My Footing: A CW Climate Activist’s Story
Anthony Lanzillo, of Loaves and Fishes Community in Duluth, MN, shares the first part of his journey of coming to…
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Marc Ellis, Pioneer of Jewish Liberation Theology, Dies at 71
Marc Ellis, the theologian who pioneered Jewish liberation theology and whose career trajectory was profoundly transformed by his encounter with…
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European CWers Gather for Community, Clarification, and Fun
About 25 Catholic Workers from five European communities gathered in Cudham, Britain, in May. They shared community news, held roundtable discussions on pressing issues…and competed for top prize in the talent contest.
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Reconstructing the Social Order Through the Works of Mercy in an Age of Migration
The mass migration of people today is causing a surge of anti-immigrant sentiment, hatred, and violence among those who follow a false god, write Louise Zwick and Noemí Flores. But if Christians recall how the Church responded to a previous age of mass migration, they might find that today’s “migrant crisis” is in fact a golden opportunity for reconstructing the social order.
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The Parallel Lives of Dorothy Day and St. Maria Skobstova
Although they were born more than 4,200 miles apart, Dorothy Day and Mother Maria Skobstova shared much in common: both were writers and intellectuals, both became involved in the radical and revolutionary movements of the day, both lost children and husbands…and both would ultimately be honored by their respective religious communities.
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‘Do You Want to Come Home?’ 18 Years Running a Kansas City Christ Room
For 18 years, Charles Carney and Donna Constantino hosting a Christ room in their modest Kansas City home. In this interview with Roundtable editor Jerry Windley-Daoust, they describe how they decided to open up their home and the ups and downs that followed. “This is a very doable thing and it’s not as daunting as people might think,” Carney said. “Our lives changed way more than probably the people that live with us changed.”
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Christ Room Hospitality is about Relationships and Family, Hosts Say
Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin called for every Christian household to have its Christ room. What would it be like if even a fraction of Christian households adopted the ancient practice of opening up a room to someone in need? Generally, people object to the idea on practical grounds. And yet, some people have taken the leap and found the experience to be deeply enriching and rewarding, if not always without its stresses and problems. Their stories provide a glimpse of what it might look like to realize Peter and Dorothy’s original vision in which hospitality was a habit of every Christian community.
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Akron Catholic Worker Seeks House Manager
We seek 3 full-time live-in volunteers to propel our mission forward.
Our work of hospitality grounds us in the daily needs of the most vulnerable. We are strongly rooted in faith and we act out of our commitment to the principles and tenets of the Catholic Worker Movement for which we look to the Aims and Means for guidance.
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Alexandria Addesso Comes Home to Start a New Jersey CW (CCW Ep 24)
In this episode of “Coffee with Catholic Workers,” Theo Kayser and Lydia Wong interview Alexandria Addesso, founder of the Elizabeth, New Jersey, Catholic Worker.
Alex talked about her journey to the Catholic Worker; her time at the Los Angeles Catholic Worker; and coming home to Elizabeth, New Jersey, to found a Catholic Worker there. Along the way, she talks about the intersection of Catholicism and anarchism, mutual aid, the pros and cons of registering a Catholic Worker as a tax-exempt nonprofit organization, and the ups and downs of operating a Catholic Worker largely on her own.
