Meet Oxbow Farm CW!
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.
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‘If You Can Do It, I Can, Too’: Peter Maurin House Shows How Vibrant Community Life Is Possible for All
The aims and means of the Catholic Worker movement shouldn’t be a niche calling, says Colin Miller; in fact, they can be the basis for a more joyful, satisfying communal life for all Christians. And at the Peter Maurin House CW, two families are trying to live out that vision.
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Lessons Learned from 50 Years at St. Francis Catholic Worker
“Lessons Learned from 50 Years of St. Francis House” was the title of a panel at the National Catholic Worker Gathering in Chicago on October 5th. Panelists from different eras of the St. Francis House Catholic Worker community shared stories and reflections, providing insights into the daily work of hospitality and what enables a Catholic Worker community to thrive for fifty years.
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Murphy Davis Tore Down the Prison Walls with Songs of Hope
Rev. Lauren Ramseur remembers her friend and mentor, Murphy Davis, founder of The Open Door Community and a leading voice in the movement to abolish the death penalty. Ramseur recalls her friend’s joyful spirit as she ministered to inmates on death row.
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Survivors of Sexual Exploitation Find Community and Hope at St. Bakhita Catholic Worker
At St. Bakhita Catholic Worker, Anne Haines and her collaborators create a safe and welcoming space for victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation to recover, heal, and start a new life.
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Nazareth House Welcomes Those Living with HIV/AIDS in the Philippines
In the Philippines, Nazareth House Catholic Worker welcomes those living with HIV/AIDS, distributes food to the needy, and stands with the families of victims of the government’s extra-judicial killings.
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Duluth’s Hildegard House Provides a Safe Refuge for Asylum Seekers
Not far from Lake Superior, the Hildegard House Catholic Worker community provides support and fosters strong connections for asylum seekers, guided by the Benedictine principle to “listen with the ear of your heart.”
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The Many Miracles of Bethany House
After opening Bethany House of Hospitality in the early 1990s, Harank and a circle of volunteers spent the next nine years working to break through the fear and stigma of AIDS with love. Along the way, he participated in an underground clinic and witnessed more than one Lazarus-style “resurrection.”
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Biogas, Solar, Creativity, and a Joyful Spirit Fuel Sustainable Living on Peter Maurin Farm
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.
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Stepping Toward Mercy: Alabama CW Has Long Protested Death Penalty
Shortly after opening Mary’s House in Birmingham, Alabama in 1993, Shelley and Jim Douglass befriended a man on death row. That friendship was the start of their decades-long campaign against the death penalty in the state.
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The Catholic Worker Returns to Staten Island
Sixty years after Peter Maurin Farm closed, the Catholic Worker is returning to Staten Island with a new community gearing up this year.
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In Kenya, a Catholic Worker for Those with Mental Illness
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.
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Detroit’s Day House CW Closes
Members of the Detroit Catholic Worker have announced the closure of Detroit’s Day House Catholic Worker as of December 2023 due to declining worker interest, community capacity, and financial resources,
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What’s Next for the Uganda CW: How about a House…and a Farm?
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.
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Goodbye, Holy Family CW; Hello, Rechabite CW
Sean and Monica Domencic, co-founders of the now-dissolved Holy Family CW in Lancaster, are starting something new: the Rechabite Catholic Worker.
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How We Came to the Catholic Worker: Anne and Jim Dowling
In this episode, Anne and husband Jim Dowling briefly recount what brought them to the Catholic Worker Movement. For Anne, it was one of the fruits of her search for joy and peace. Jim, for his part, joined a community started by an old acquaintance.
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At the Uganda Catholic Worker, Healing and Hope
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.
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The Catholic Worker in Africa: ‘We Need It Now More Than Ever’
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.
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Theo Visits Kommuniteten Senapskornet (Mustard Seed Community) in Luleå, Sweden
Theo travels north…way, way north…to visit Sweden’s Mustard Seed Community, where he joins in a prayerful protest of NATO’s “Arctic Challenge” and enjoys a lot of “fika.”
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Put to Work
All I was asking for was a little retreat and reprieve from all the sufferings of my heavy heart. Instead, Brian and Betsy and a menagerie of goats put me to work.
