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

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

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

The Sower is the newsletter of Strangers and Guests Catholic Worker Farm in Maloy, Iowa.
Brian Terrell is a long-time Catholic Worker and peace activist who lived and worked with Dorothy Day in New York in the last years of her life. He currently lives at Strangers and Guests Catholic Worker, a farm in Maloy, Iowa.
Dawn McCarty shares stories of the many types of hospitality offered to immigrants at Casa Juan Diego. This article was first printed in the July – September edition of the Houston Catholic Worker newspaper.
In this fourth installment of his journey into climate activism, Anthony Lanzillo of Duluth’s Bread and Roses Catholic Worker describes how a Chicago training session catalyzed his involvement with the local Climate Mobilization Campaign. Despite initial resistance from city council members who viewed Duluth as a “climate haven,” their persistent grassroots campaign succeeded in passing a climate emergency resolution and establishing new environmental initiatives, proving that dedicated local advocacy can create meaningful change.
Here’s the Fall 2025 issue of THE SOWER, the newsletter of Strangers and Guests Catholic Worker Farm. Inside: Betsy’s fall garden report; Dottie Fromal on praying with the Catholic Worker; and Brian Terrell on resistance to war and violence as an essential, not optional, element of the Catholic Worker charism.
This is the third in a continuing series of articles about how to start a Catholic Worker community, told through the lived experience of the Tampa Catholic Worker.
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.
For over two decades, CatholicWorker.org has offered free access to Dorothy Day’s writings, a national directory of Catholic Worker communities,…