After Grants Pass Decision, What’s Next for L.A.’s Skid Row?
The following article is reprinted from the August 2024 issue of the Catholic Agitator, newspaper of the Los Angeles Catholic…
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Reconstructing the Social Order Through the Works of Mercy in an Age of Migration
The mass migration of people today is causing a surge of anti-immigrant sentiment, hatred, and violence among those who follow a false god, write Louise Zwick and Noemí Flores. But if Christians recall how the Church responded to a previous age of mass migration, they might find that today’s “migrant crisis” is in fact a golden opportunity for reconstructing the social order.
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In ‘Love the Stranger,’ Bishops of England and Wales Issue Strong New Document on Migration
“Love the Stranger,” the new teaching document published by the Catholic Bishops in England and Wales, is a clear challenge to the widespread hostility to migrants and refugees reflected in the UK government’s Illegal Migration Bill. This article originally appeared in the August 2023 issue of the London Catholic Worker newsletter and is reprinted with permission.
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Scarred: An Impression of the Dunkirk Refugee Camp
In June 2023, Brother Johannes r Maertens of the London Catholic Worker visited the Dunkirk refugee camp in the Northern France with the charity Art Refuge and joined the local team of the NGO Doctors for the World. Here’s his report.
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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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Dandelion House CW Finds Its Own ‘Liturgy of Hope’
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.
