ByCatholicWorker.org
Stanley Vishnewski’s classic 1965 article in The Catholic Worker brims with advice gleaned from a lifetime in the Catholic Worker Movement. Highly recommended reading for anyone thinking of opening a house of hospitality today.
ByColin Miller
In his continuing series of articles for The Catholic Citizen, Colin Miller reflects on the Church’s social teaching that property is only legitimately “mine” when it is used for the common good. Lawsuits, insurance, risk, property codes, a money economy, liability, consumer culture, single-use-disposable containers—all of this and much more help make a world where every item belongs “absolutely” to someone, rather than “loosely” as a trust for the purpose of building community.
ByCatholicWorker.org
House of Grace Catholic Worker (Philadelphia) sent this letter to its community remembering Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, who passed away on April 4. Community members and staff from Kay Lasante Clinic in Haiti, which he helped found, shared personal memories and tributes to his legacy of compassion and love.
ByCatholicWorker.org
The following excerpt is from the new book A Ministry of Risk: The Collected Writings of Philip Berrigan, a collection of the writings of Philip Berigan compiled and edited by Brad Wolf. Philip Berrigan (1923-2002) was a Catholic priest, author, anti-war and anti-nuclear weapons activist. He and his brother, Daniel Berrigan, were deeply influenced by the Catholic Worker Movement—and influenced the movement in turn. According to the publisher (Fordham University Press), “A Ministry of Risk is the definitive collection of Philip Berrigan’s writings. Authorized by the Berrigan family and arranged chronologically, these writings depict the transformation of one revolutionary soul while also providing a firsthand account of a nation grappling with its martial obsessions.”
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
In the pre-dawn hours on Monday, April 15, dozens of Catholic Workers and their allies gathered at the Kansas City National Security Campus. Their mission was to beg the workers there to stop assembling the parts necessary for a global nuclear war.
ByCatholicWorker.org
In an article adapted from her March 2024 talk at the University of Glasgow, Martha Hennessy discusses Dorothy Day, her canonization cause, and how her grandmother’s example led her to a life of voluntary poverty and radical social and anarchic political activism.
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Tyler Hambley writes about how his encounter with a Catholic Worker community led to personal transformation and a deeper, richer understanding of community–and his faith. This essay is reprinted from the April issue of The Catholic Citizen, a ministry of the Church of the Assumption in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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In this episode of “Coffee with Catholic Workers,” Theo Kayser interviews co-host Lydia Wong about Emmaus House’s work responding to the urgent needs of migrants sent north from the southern border and sleeping on Chicago police precinct floors without food and bedding.
ByCatholicWorker.org
Why is the Catholic Worker so engaged with the issue of nuclear proliferation? And why Is a younger generation of activists seemingly less engaged on it? With the multi-trillion-dollar resurgence of the nuclear arms race and world leaders talking openly about using them, it is more urgent now than ever to speak out, according to the three longtime anti-nuke activists we interviewed for our first Catholic Worker Roundtable panel.
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.
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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.
