Heard Around the Catholic Worker (#6)
The future of the Catholic Worker at 90; CWers turned sociologists; European Catholic Workers; Cherith Brook raises $190,000 for rehab project.
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Midwest Faith & Resistance Retreat Recap
At the 2023 Midwest Faith & Resistance Retreat, Catholic Workers gathered from all over to pray, celebrate, and protest militarism in Madison.
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Theo the Roamin’ Catholic Worker: Bloomington CW
Theo (aka “the roamin’ Catholic Worker”) visits the Bloomington, Indiana Catholic Worker community, which mixes personal and community spaces in a unique way.
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The Tampa CW Story: Conducting a Needs Assessment
This is the third in a continuing series of articles about how to start a Catholic Worker community, told through the lived experience of the Tampa Catholic Worker.
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Michele Naar Obed: Spreading Catholic Worker Principles in Duluth (CCW Ep 13)
In this episode, Michele Naar Obed (Hildegard House Catholic Worker, Duluth, Minnesota) shares with us her journey to the Catholic Worker through the Plowshares movement. We talk about her journey to grounding herself in Catholic Worker principles including the Sermon on the Mount. Michele has been connected to many projects including Christian Peacemaker Teams, Rojava, and valve-turning actions for the climate.
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Book Review: “On Pilgrimage: The Sixties”
Don’t dive into this book as one does a novel. Read it slowly, musing on an essay for a week, with a pencil in hand. For Day challenges us to make the connections between a spirituality of love for God and a love for all.
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Book Review: “Dorothy Day: The World Will be Saved by Beauty”
In “Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty,” Kate Hennessy paints an intimate portrait of her famous grandmother in the context of her family.
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Celebrate the Living Legacy of Dorothy Day
The Dorothy Day Guild and America Media (publishers of America magazine) co-sponsored an event commemorating the 40th anniversary of the…
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Frits ter Kuile: Anarchist Squats, Peace Walks, and European Catholic Workers (CCW Ep 12)
Frits ter Kuile (Jeannette Noel House, Amsterdam, Netherlands) joins Coffee with Catholic Worker to share his story, which ranges from anarchist squats to imprisonment for draft resistance to marches across the U.S. for peace. He also shares some of the good work being done by other Catholic Workers across Europe.
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Catholic Workers Block Truax ANG Base, Occupy Wis. Governor’s Office
Catholic Workers attending the Midwest Catholic Worker Faith and Resistance Gathering were among dozens who participated in nonviolent direct actions at Truax Air Force Base and Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers’ office on Monday to oppose the deployment of F-35 fighter jets to the base.
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Davide Is Dancing in the Kitchen
“Loneliness is the greatest poverty, Mother Teresa said.” In this edition of Mason Street Musings, Claire Schaeffer-Duffy recounts the stories of a 20-year-old guest working jobs up and down the coast and a toddler named Davide. “Time is looping back on itself,” she writes, reflecting on how she and Scott are once again working on issues of nuclear disarmament, just as they did as young Catholic Workers.
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Road Report: National Catholic Worker Gathering, October 2022
I’ve just returned from the national Catholic Worker gathering in Worcester, Massachusetts, which celebrated the Mustard Seed Catholic Worker’s fiftieth…
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At 90 Years, Where is the Catholic Worker Movement Going?
The CW “no longer follows in Dorothy Day’s footsteps,” some complain, but I am confident that if on the day I arrived at the CW in New York almost 50 years ago I told Dorothy that I had come to follow in her footsteps, she would have immediately put me on a bus home.
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A Lenten Appeal from Simone Weil Catholic Worker
This Lent, we invite you to support our work financially. We are so grateful for the support offered to our community during the Advent season, which gave us a few months of peace of mind. However, this spring, we are now once again facing a monthly shortfall. Donations, especially recurring donations of any size, are greatly appreciated!
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Heard Around the Catholic Worker (#5)
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.
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Catholic Worker Seriously Injured by Israeli Settlers
Cassandra Dixon of Mary House of Hospitality was seriously harmed by an Israeli settler on March 7 while she and an Italian observer were in the hills outside of Hebron near a village called Tuba. Both were volunteers with Operazione Colomba (Operation Dove), the “nonviolent Peace Corps” of the Pope John XXIII community based in Italy, She issued the following statement.
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DL Mayfield: Writing an Unruly Saint (CCW Ep 11)
Author D.L. Mayfield joins Coffee with Catholic Worker to talk about her new book, Unruly Saint: Dorothy Day’s Radical Vision and its Challenge for Our Time.
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The Tampa CW Story: Inspiration and Origins
This is the second in a continuing series of articles about how to start a Catholic Worker community, told through the lived experience of the Tampa Catholic Worker.
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RSVP Now for the 20th Catholic Worker Midwest Faith and Resistance Gathering
Hello friends, Help us say no to war, environmental pollution, militarism, and F-35’s in Madison or anywhere else! The 20th…
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Heard Around the Catholic Worker (#4, March 3, 2023)
Here’s a roundup of Catholic Worker news for March 3, 2023, including a new film about the Kingsbay Plowshares 7, new community newsletters, a profile of Dorothy Gauchat, and more.
