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.
ByRenée Roden
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.
ByRenée Roden
Sixty years after Peter Maurin Farm closed, the Catholic Worker is returning to Staten Island with a new community gearing up this year.
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.
ByCatholicWorker.org
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,
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.
ByCatholicWorker.org
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.
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.
ByTheo Kayser
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.”
ByCatholicWorker.org
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.
ByTheo Kayser
Theo travels to the Netherlands for the 2023 European Catholic Worker Gathering, where he finds a CW sensibility not unlike the Sugar Creek Midwest Catholic Worker Gathering.
ByTheo Kayser
Theo (aka “the roamin’ Catholic Worker”) visits the Bloomington, Indiana Catholic Worker community, which mixes personal and community spaces in a unique way.
ByCatholicWorker.org
In Japan, where I grew up, twelve years represents a full cycle of the zodiac calendar. With each “round” or “turn” of the zodiac cycle, we enter a new fullness of life. This year of the rabbit, twelve years after my first experiment with the Catholic Worker, I find myself in Portland, Oregon, at the newly formed Dandelion House Catholic Worker.
