ByBrian Terrell
Brian Terrell remembers Cliff Lichter, a former soldier, Jesuit brother, and hospital orderly, found his true calling as a wandering pilgrim. Known for living out of a knapsack and frequenting Catholic Worker houses and monasteries, he died on July 11. His ashes will be interred at a South Dakota monastery.
ByScarlett Rose Ford
The city of New Haven, Connecticut, cut power to the tiny homes hosted by the Amistad Catholic Worker in its backyard. The move is just the latest chapter in a long-running conflict between the Amistad Catholic Worker and the city over the plight of unhoused people.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
The Catholic Worker had a tiny presence at the National Eucharistic Congress last week in Indianapolis, with about twenty Workers and pilgrims coming together in a park near the Indiana Convention Center for a picnic supper and roundtable.
But despite those small numbers, most of the 50,000 people attending the Congress got to hear about the Catholic Worker Movement and Dorothy Day.
ByCatholicWorker.org
Martha Hennessy, one of the grandchildren of Dorothy Day, addressed the 10th National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Friday, July 19, before a crowd of approximately 5,000 people at the Indiana Convention Center. Here is a video of the speech, along with a transcript and the prepared text.
ByAnthony Lanzillo
by Anthony Lanzillo After being in Duluth for just over a year, I was invited to speak to a room…
ByColin Miller
Work used to be personal, local, and communal…but all of that changed with the Industrial Revolution. Colin Miller begins a new series looking at Church teaching and the Catholic Worker’s critique of society in light of those changes.
ByCatholicWorker.org
In this episode of the Coffee with Catholic Workers podcast, Chrissy Kirchhoefer and Lindsey Myers join co-hosts Theo Kayser and Lydia Wong to talk about the new house of hospitality they are starting in St. Louis with Theo.
ByCatholicWorker.org
“Children have become a consumer decision,” writes Lydia’s House (Cincinnati, Ohio) co-director Mary Ellen Mitchell, “a luxury item not unlike an expensive mortgage or a Tesla: good for you if you can afford them, but don’t ask for help with that. The result is a collective lack of willingness to sacrifice for children that are not our own.” But her lived experience at Lydia’s House—along with the parenting practices of the Mbendjele people—suggests that there’s a way to celebrate the birth of every child and to support every mother.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
Michael Sekitoleko, founder of Uganda Catholic Worker, was released after being detained for 28 days for intervening in an illegal land seizure. He and other activists were arrested, mistreated, and tortured. Despite his efforts to aid peasant families, corruption and land seizures remain rampant in Uganda. Sekitoleko seeks financial and international support.
ByCatholicWorker.org
Here’s the Summer 2024 issue of THE SOWER, the newsletter of Strangers and Guests Catholic Worker Farm.
ByCatholicWorker.org
There’s a new graphic novel that tells the story of Dorothy Day’s life and the Catholic Worker Movement she co-founded. We interviewed the writer behind Dorothy Day: Radical Devotion about why the graphic novel format suits her life, plus some of the little-known anecdotes revealed in the book.
