ByCatholicWorker.org
About 50 people, including Catholic Workers, participated in the Nevada Desert Experience walk from Las Vegas to the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS), where the U.S. government is conducting subcritical testing as part of the effort to maintain and update the United States’ nuclear arsenal.
ByLiam Myers
As long ago as 1983, the New York Catholic Worker was wrestling with the implications of new digital technologies. In this essay for The Catholic Worker newspaper, Liam Myers reflects on how Catholic Workers might “reimagine a right relationship to technology” in light of how deeply intertwined it is with our lives, for both good and ill.
ByRenée Roden
Sarah Fuller and Becky McIntyre talk about the launch of their newsletter, The Illuminator, by and about Catholic Worker artists.
ByCatholicWorker.org
Cassandra Dixon, the Wisconsin Catholic Worker who has been visiting Palestine for 15 years, describes the deteriorating situation for her friends in Masafer Yatta, a region in the southern West Bank, where communities face forced removal, violent settler attacks, arbitrary arrests, theft, and the restriction of their movement.
ByJerome Christenson
Bishop Robert Barron made a pastoral visit to the Winona Catholic Worker on March 19th, the feast of St Joseph.
ByZak Sather
After nearly 50 years living with and serving the poor, Fr. Thomas Lumpkin, founder of the Detroit Catholic Worker, reflects on his spiritual journey from arrogance to empathy.
ByCatholicWorker.org
Some 21 activists calling for a ceasefire in Gaza risked arrest during a demonstration in front of the White House on March 6. The multifaith demonstration was organized by Christians 4 Ceasefire, which is co-sponsored by the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker (Washington, D.C.). The event aimed to call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and to protest against U.S. involvement in what the organizers describe as Israel’s “genocidal war” in the region.
ByCatholicWorker.org
Here’s the Winter/Spring 2024 issue of THE SOWER, the newsletter of Strangers and Guests Catholic Worker Farm.
ByCatholicWorker.org
Five Catholic Workers were arrested on Monday, March 4th, while blocking access to the General Dynamics Electric Boat facility in New London, Connecticut. The engineering facility is involved in designing a new class of submarines equipped with nuclear weapons. This article is slightly adapted from a press statement released by Scott Schaeffer-Duffy of Sts. Francis and Therese Catholic Worker House, Worcester, Massachusetts.
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.
ByBrian Terrell
When offered the choice between a ‘Catholic Worker House Incorporated’ and a Catholic Worker that is homeless, penniless and its leaders in prison, Dorothy chose the latter.
ByColin Miller
True solutions to social problems have to come from within, not outside institutions. This is personalism, and it is deep in the heart of the Catholic social tradition, says Colin Miller in the third of his series on the ideas underpinning the Catholic Worker Movement.
ByColin Miller
What did Peter Maurin mean when he talked about “personalism”? In his continuing series on the ideas underpinning the Catholic Worker Movement, Colin Miller writes about the meaning of personalism.
ByRenée Roden
People from about ten different Catholic Worker farms from across the Midwest gathered for the biennial Catholic Worker Farm Gathering in Platteville, Wisconsin, last weekend. The weather was cold and windy, but participants warmed things up with singing, dancing, discussion, prayer, and even a hog roas
ByCatholicWorker.org
Archbishop John Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico, addressed the immorality of nuclear weapons and the moral imperative to abolish them in his sermon at the Mass for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, sponsored by the Dorothy Day Guild, at Our Savior Church in New York City. The event was held on November 29, 2023—the anniversary of Day’s death—and Wester cited Day’s early witness against nuclear weapons. Wester called on faith leaders, and Catholics in particular, to step up efforts to abolish nuclear weapons.
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.
ByRosalie Riegle
Phil Runkel, the longtime Catholic Worker archivist at Marquette University, recently suffered a broken hip. Rosalie Riegle took the news as an opportunity to offer this fond remembrance.
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.
ByTheo Kayser
Theo Kayser recounts his early days in the Catholic Worker and reflects on the growing prevalence of homeless encampments in the U.S. Now, he and a few others are working to bring the Catholic Worker back to St. Louis.
