ByCatholicWorker.org
What do you get when you put a Catholic Worker community, a Socialist Collective, and a variety of people of goodwill in the same room together for a common cause?
ByCatholicWorker.org
If there’s one thing that connects Catholic Worker communities everywhere, says Dawn McCarty, it’s doing the works of mercy…and at the Houston Catholic Worker, feeding the hungry has been a major focus since its inception. McCarty traces this history from its 1980 founding sheltering Salvadoran refugees to today’s massive food distribution program serving 1,200 families weekly.
ByScarlett Rose Ford
The city of New Haven, Connecticut, cut power to the tiny homes hosted by the Amistad Catholic Worker in its backyard. The move is just the latest chapter in a long-running conflict between the Amistad Catholic Worker and the city over the plight of unhoused people.
ByCatholicWorker.org
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.
ByClaire Schaeffer-Duffy
“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.
