ByJerry Windley-Daoust
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.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
On Peter Maurin Farm near Brisbane, Australia, the Dowling family has created a comfortable, joyful way of life with a low environmental impact. Through a variety of creative adaptations, they consume less than 1/20th the amount of energy as their Australian neighbors. Here’s how they do it.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
It took Japheth Obare ten years to receive the right diagnosis for his psychotic episodes. Faced with desperately scarce mental health resources in his native Kenua, he set out to create a group for people with mental illness to help one another. Now, Catholic Friends of the Mentally Ill is only the second Catholic Worker community in Africa…and the only one anywhere run by and for people with mental illness.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
In the third part of our series, “The Catholic Worker in Africa,” Uganda Catholic Worker founder Michael Sekitoleko dreams of creating a sustainable, revitalized community—in spite of a skeptical priest and a stalled fundraising campaign.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
Sean and Monica Domencic, co-founders of the now-dissolved Holy Family CW in Lancaster, are starting something new: the Rechabite Catholic Worker.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
In the second part of our series, “The Catholic Worker in Africa,” founder Michael Sekitoleko carries on the work of the Uganda Catholic Worker in the wake of his two co-founders departing. One of the ways he copes is by forming his guests into an ad-hoc community with set routines and responsibilities. But when COVID-19 hits, the community is overwhelmed by people desperate for help.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
Michael Sekitoleko, founder of the Uganda Catholic Worker, embraces the Catholic Worker vision of a society radically re-ordered around love, mercy, and justice, and he has ideas about what that might look like not only in Uganda, but for the African continent.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
“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.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
In this issue: A new Catholic Worker in St. Louis; Claire Schaeffer-Duffy reports on her trip to Ukraine as part of the Zaporizhzhia Protection Project; St. Francis House plans a nine-day celebration for its 50th anniversary; “The Provocations of Dorothy Day” by Kate Hennessy; Vatican covers 90ths anniversary of CW; and much more.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
After raising more than $195,000 to purchase a second house, The Great Turning CW turns to the work of hospitality and expanding its urban farming operation.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
In this issue: The Institute for Religious Peace and Justice changes its name to honor Jim Forest; Amistad Catholic Worker raises money for tiny houses; Theo Kayser is live-blogging the Catholic Worker Eurogathering; and Brian Terrell makes the case that Catholic Worker communities need to go beyond “hyper-local” activism.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
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.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
As the Catholic Worker Movement turns 90, we take a look back at its origins…and a look forward toward its future.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
The future of the Catholic Worker at 90; CWers turned sociologists; European Catholic Workers; Cherith Brook raises $190,000 for rehab project.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
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.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
Here’s a roundup of Catholic Worker news for February 14, 2023, including a remembrance of Tom Cornell, an AgWeek report on Catholic Worker farms, and a new Catholic Worker community listing in the directory..
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
The pandemic nearly shuttered Duncan and Porter House of Hospitality, until a 1.000-mile road trip from a Catholic Worker cleaning crew gave the community a boost. Now the community is appealing for help paying for a new roof and floors.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
Here’s a roundup of Catholic Worker news for February 7, 2023, including two CW-authored op-eds about nuclear disarmament, the closing of the Parkland Catholic Worker, and more.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
Here’s a roundup of Catholic Worker news for the week of January. 26, 2023, including two CW-authored op-eds about nuclear disarmament, the closing of the Parkland Catholic Worker, and more.
