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In this episode Brenna, Ben, and Sheila share their experiences about travelling to the West Bank as a Catholic Worker delegation to do accompaniment work with the International Solidarity Movement.
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“Our Story” by Llewellyn Scott (1914-1978) is an autobiographical account of Scott’s experience as the first Black American to open a house of hospitality, the Martin de Porres House in Washington D.C.
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Martin Newell reviews Anna Blackman’s chapter on Catholic Worker history in “Lay Catholic Societies in Twentieth Century Britain.”
Originally published at londoncatholicworker.org.
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The September 2026 issue of Via Pacis, newsletter of the Des Moines Catholic Worker. Inside: community updates; reflections by Richard Flamer and community co-founder Joe Da Via; and remembering Rusty Martin.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
About 75 people from 20 different Catholic Worker communities gathered this past weekend for the annual Midwest Catholic Worker Gathering at the Sugar Creek Retreat Center near Preston, Iowa. Here’s a report about the highlights.
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The Summer 2026 Simplicity from Norfolk Catholic Worker in Virginia shares A Times Mosaic, a series of reflections on current events; A profile of Ben Salmon, WWI conscientious objector; and the lecture “The Church: Fold of Lambs or Pack of Wolves?” by Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy
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The Summer 2026 issue of the Winona (Minnesota) Catholic Worker newsletter centers on forgiveness, prompted by intensified ICE activity in Minnesota this past winter.
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The Summer 2026 Sower shares updates from the farm, offers a reflection from Betsy on her life as a liturgical musician, and includes wisdom from Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day.
ByBrian Terrell
A response to David F. Evans’ “Damned Whiteness” with consideration to Dorothy Day’s own words by Brian Terrell of Strangers and Guests Catholic Worker Farm in Maloy, Iowa.
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Reflections from the Casa Maria Milwaukee Catholic Worker community on the life and witness of Don Timmerman, who died on July 19
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Judith Gregory, a former editor of The Catholic Worker newspaper from 1960-1970, discusses anarchism in light of contemporary political philosophy in “What Political Principle?” originally published in May 1961. Gregory also explores the complex relationship between the individual and the State.
An addendum, published six months later, “Further Clarification” continues the discussion.
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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.
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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?
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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”.
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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.
