ByCatholicWorker.org
The Spring 2026 Sower shares updates from the farm, reports on antiwar resistance from Nevada to Kansas City, reflections on Dorothy Day and the Woodstock generation, and an invitation to gather in Maloy on June 20 for the solstice and the feast of John the Baptist.
ByCatholicWorker.org
Here’s the April 2026 issue of Via Pacis, newsletter of the Des Moines Catholic Worker. Inside: community updates, reflections on going home to Kurdistan in a time of war, an interview with a longtime worker, and more.
ByRosalie Riegle
Nina Polcyn Moore, lifelong friend to the Catholic Worker movement and Dorothy Day, gave this interview to Rosalie Riegle on June 28th, 1998. This wide-ranging conversation includes recounting a trip that Nina took to Russia with Dorothy Day. Nina and Rosalie review correspondence that Dorothy and Nina had exchanged over the years, relating bits of Catholic Worker history as well as revealing a more human side of Dorothy in her later years.
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In this episode of Coffee with Catholic Workers, hosts Theo Kayser and Lydia Wong speak with Maryn Hakes at Loaves and Fishes Catholic Worker in Duluth, Minnesota. The conversation explores queerness, foster children in community, and Maryn’s journey from religious formation to the Catholic Worker.
BySteve Jacobs
Singer-songwriter Steve Jacobs recounts the tale of a 1984 action at a SAC base that involved swim fins, a watermelon, the takeover of an island by seven hairy activists, and a pontoon boat overloaded with military police. What could possibly go wrong?
ByRosalie Riegle
What golden thread connects Dorothy Day’s radical vision to the Catholic Worker houses still serving the poor today? In this 1986 interview conducted by Rosalie Riegle, Nina Polcyn Moore—one of the movement’s pioneering voices—traces that “golden cord” of providence through five decades of Catholic Worker history.
Moore offers firsthand accounts of the movement’s Depression-era struggles, the daily realities of running houses of hospitality in Milwaukee and Chicago, and her remarkable 1970 journey to Russia alongside Dorothy Day herself. But she also confronts the movement’s tensions: Can families truly flourish in houses of hospitality? How has women’s leadership evolved in a movement founded by a laywoman? And what does authentic lay leadership look like when living out the radical works of mercy?
ByCatholicWorker.org
In this episode of Coffee with Catholic Workers, hosts Theo Kayser and Lydia Wong speak with folks from the Los Angeles Catholic Worker for a second time. Mary Anne O’Connor, Megan Ramsay, Matt Harper, and Donald Nollar join in conversation focused on their experiences offering personalist end of life care to guests.
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An excerpt from Scott Schaeffer-Duffy’s “Nothing Is Impossible: Stories from the Life of a Catholic Worker”.
ByCatholicWorker.org
In this archival clip from 1973, Dorothy Day sits down with interviewer Nodlaig McCarthy to talk about the origins of the Catholic Workers’ Houses of Hospitality.
ByKate Hennessy
Kate Hennessy identifies nine major teachings of Dorothy Day, which she calls “Provocations”, inviting us into deeper understanding and practice of Catholic Worker theology.
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Japheth Obare, founder of Christian Friends of the Mentally Ill (CFOMI), a Catholic Worker community in Kenya that primarily serves those with mental health needs, spoke to attendees about CFOMI’s vital work, the unique challenges they face under the current government, and the hope they have to forge ahead.
ByCatholicWorker.org
In this transcript of Michael Sekitoleko’s presentation to the National Catholic Worker Gathering in San Antonio, Texas in October 2025, Michael urges the U.S. and European Catholic Workers to provide mentorship and capacity building, and shares three goals of the Uganda CW with the group.
ByBrian Terrell
In this transcript of Brian Terrell’s presentation to the National Catholic Worker Gathering in San Antonio, Texas in October 2025, Brian shares about his experiences with imprisonment and Dorothy’s belief that we ought to move beyond learning about the world by looking down from above, to learn about the world by looking up from below and “filling the jails.”
ByRev. Ronald Ronrolheiser
In this transcript of Fr. Ron Rolheiser’s presentation to the National Catholic Worker Gathering in San Antonio, Texas in October 2025, Fr. Rolheiser shares nine points that provide a framework for those who aspire to live out Dorothy’s prophetic ordinance in today’s world.
ByCatholicWorker.org
After the opening Mass for the San Antonio National Catholic Worker Gathering, attendees introduced themselves to the group. Those in attendance represented a wide diversity in the Catholic Worker movement, with folks joining in 2025 and others having been in the movement for longer than the San Antonio Catholic Worker’s existence. Catholic Workers came from Texas, California, Vermont, Missouri, Alabama, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, New York, Kentucky, Minnesota and Arizona.
ByBrian Terrell
Reflecting on Pope Francis’ address to Congress and Dorothy Day’s legacy, Brian Terrell argues that opposing the arms trade and practicing nonviolent resistance remain essential duties, not optional additions, to the Catholic Worker movement’s mission.
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“I would like to remember a small, great American woman, Dorothy Day, who lived in the last century,” Pope Leo told pilgrims at his Jubilee audience on Saturday. “She had fire inside her.” See the full text of Pope Leo’s remarks on Dorothy Day.
ByRobert Ellsberg
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.
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Scott Schaeffer-Duffy and Martha Hennessy explored the challenges of practicing “loving-kindness” in personal confrontations and daily community life in this presentation at the October 2025 Catholic Worker gathering at the San Antonio Catholic Worker.
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Meet Oxbow Farm, a Catholic Worker farm 30 miles outside Baltimore, Maryland, that runs a small organic CSA and is involved in the care farm movement.
