Mustard Seed Community Farm & Catholic Worker Seeks Interns, Community Members
Mustard Seed Community Farm (Ames, Iowa) is actively seeking interns and community members to live and farm with us for the 2024 season
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New Kansas City CW Will Nurture Creativity and ‘a Listening Society’
A new Catholic Worker community in Kansas City, Missouri, will focus on hospitality, nurturing creativity, and “building a listening society,” according to founders Wilhelm and Sally Höjer. The couple hope to raise nearly $200,000 to launch the project; their appeal letter follows.
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Tampa CW January 2024 newsletter
Here’s the January 2024 issue of the Dorothy Day Tampa CW newsletter.
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Newly Formed CW Farm Seeks Gifts & Loans to Purchase Property in Wisconsin
The newly formed Little Platte Catholic Worker Farm, is actively seeking monetary gifts or interest-free loans to aid in the purchase of a 37-acre property in Platteville, Wisconsin!
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CWers Mark Massacre of the Holy Innocents at Pentagon
Two Catholic Workers were arrested at a nonviolent protest at the Pentagon organized by three Catholic Worker communities to mark the Feast of the Holy Innocents.
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Kommuniteten Senapskornet in Luleå, Sweden (CCW Ep 21)
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.
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Judith Samson from Brot und Rosen Talks Climate Activism(CCW Ep 20)
In this episode of “Coffee with Catholic Workers,” Theo Kayser interviews Judith Samson of Brot und Rosen (Bread and Roses) Catholic Worker about civil disobedience she’s participated in to combat climate change.
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Dietrich Gerstner from Brot und Rosen in Hamburg, Germany (CCW Ep 19)
In this episode of “Coffee with Catholic Workers,” Theo Kayser interviews Dietrich Gerstner of Bread and Roses Catholic Worker (Hamburg, Germany) about the community’s work with refugees.
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The Sower (Fall/Winter 2023)
Here’s the Fall/Winter2023 issue of THE SOWER, the newsletter of Strangers and Guests Catholic Worker Farm.
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Two Agitators: Peter Maurin – Ammon Hennacy
Here is the full text of Two Agiators: Peter Maurin – Ammon Hennacy, a 56-page pamphlet published by the New York Catholic Worker in 1959. The pamphlet includes essays by Hennacy, “Easy Essays” by Peter Maurin, and an introduction by Dorothy Day.
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Catholic Workers to Protest Nuclear Bomb Production in Kansas City, April 12-15
With some 7,000 employees, the Kansas City National Security Campus produces more than 80% of the U.S. nuclear weapons’ non-nuclear components. This spring, Catholic Workers will gather for a weekend of education, prayer, reflection, fellowship, and training followed by nonviolent direct action on Monday, April 15.
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Catholic Worker Farm (UK) Seeks Support, Advice, Prayer to Pay Off £300,000
After 17 years of service, the Catholic Worker Farm (Hertfordshire, England) is seeking help to pay off the remaining £300,000 that it owes on the farm.
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Support Tampa CW’s new Dorothy Day Hospitality House Drop-In Center
The new Dorothy Day Tampa Hospitality House will provide critical services such as showers, laundry, mail collection, computer access, coffee, and community meals, as well as compassion and respite.
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St. Peter Claver CW Appeal for Sustaining Contributors
As we have worked to establish the Motels4Now program and ensure its sustainability, we have struggled to meet the monthly financial obligations of Our Lady of the Road and our Catholic Worker household. Would you please consider helping on a monthly basis and inviting others in your circle to do so? Together, we can continue practicing the works of mercy, listening for the promptings of God’s Spirit.
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Israeli Court Hears Testimony in Assault on CW Activist; Trial to Resume in November
In this note from Israel, Cassandra Dixon (Mary House CW, Oxford, Wisconsin) reports on the September 6 court hearing regarding her assault by an Israeli settler. The settler’s lawyers interrogated doctors and rejected hospital reports in an attempt to downplay the severity of the assault, Dixon says, and the judge ejected her human rights lawyer from the courtroom. The next hearing in the case is scheduled for November 2.
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Dixon Appeals for Help Planting an Olive Grove in Tuba
As she prepares to return to Israel for the trial of the man who assaulted her, Cassandra Dixon (Mary House Catholic Worker, Jackson, Wisconsin) is asking supporters to help the people of Tuba plant an olive grove on their land. Her appeal letter is reprinted here.
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Heard Around the Catholic Worker #11
In this issue: CWers protest nuclear weapons at Volkel Air Base, White House; House of Grace Free Clinic granted zoning variance; Mary’s House vigil for James Barber execution; L.A. Catholic Worker on a roadmap to house the homeless; Pope Francis writes new preface to “From Union Square to Rome”; Amistad CW continues backyard hospitality for displaced tent encampment; Martha Hennessy on the Eucharistic Revival and the Catholic Church; London CW lauds Catholic bishops’ document on migrants; and more.
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In ‘Love the Stranger,’ Bishops of England and Wales Issue Strong New Document on Migration
“Love the Stranger,” the new teaching document published by the Catholic Bishops in England and Wales, is a clear challenge to the widespread hostility to migrants and refugees reflected in the UK government’s Illegal Migration Bill. This article originally appeared in the August 2023 issue of the London Catholic Worker newsletter and is reprinted with permission.
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The Beliefs, Values, and Commitments of the L.A. Catholic Worker
The following statement of beliefs, values, and commitments from the June 2023 Catholic Agitator (newspaper of the L.A. Catholic Worker) offers another take on how different Catholic Worker communities frame what they do.
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Scarred: An Impression of the Dunkirk Refugee Camp
In June 2023, Brother Johannes r Maertens of the London Catholic Worker visited the Dunkirk refugee camp in the Northern France with the charity Art Refuge and joined the local team of the NGO Doctors for the World. Here’s his report.
