The Sower (Summer 2024)
Here’s the Summer 2024 issue of THE SOWER, the newsletter of Strangers and Guests Catholic Worker Farm.

The Sower is the newsletter of Strangers and Gusts Catholic Worker Farm in Maloy, Iowa.

Here’s the Summer 2024 issue of THE SOWER, the newsletter of Strangers and Guests Catholic Worker Farm.

The Sower is the newsletter of Strangers and Gusts Catholic Worker Farm in Maloy, Iowa.
The mission of CatholicWorker.org is to document the Catholic Worker movement in all its diverse expressions around the world. The website includes a searchable archive of all of Dorothy Day's writings in THE CATHOLIC WORKER newspaper, a directory of all known Catholic Worker communities, information about the aims and means of the movement, and news from Catholic Worker communities around the world. See the About CW.org page for more information.
In the pre-dawn hours on Monday, April 15, dozens of Catholic Workers and their allies gathered at the Kansas City National Security Campus. Their mission was to beg the workers there to stop assembling the parts necessary for a global nuclear war.
In this transcript of Robert Ellsberg’s presentation to the National Catholic Worker Gathering in San Antonio, Texas in October 2025, Ellsberg reflects on what he learned from Dorothy Day during the years that he knew her and from a long career of editing her writings.
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.
“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.
In this issue: The Nation runs a long piece on the state of the movement; two new Catholic Worker communities now listed, bringing number of CW communities to 177; Iowa City raises $30,000 for new living space; Great Turning signs purchase agreement for second house; Chapp publishes “Confession of a Catholic Worker; death of Tampa CW co-founder Ann Doyle; Casa Maria preaches Christian nonviolence to gun owners; a conversation about voting; and more.
Here’s a roundup of Catholic Worker news for March 20, 2023, including four calls for volunteers, Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin as literary figures, the impact on the Catholic Worker on sociologists, news from Cassandra Dixon in Palestine, and more.