Bishop Barron Breaks Bread at Winona Catholic Worker
Bishop Robert Barron made a pastoral visit to the Winona Catholic Worker on March 19th, the feast of St Joseph.
From Ego to Empathy: Fr. Tom Lumpkin’s Spiritual Evolution
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.
Activists Call for Gaza Ceasefire, Risk Arrest at White House
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.
The Sower (Winter/Spring 2024)
Here’s the Winter/Spring 2024 issue of THE SOWER, the newsletter of Strangers and Guests Catholic Worker Farm.
5 Catholic Workers Arrested for Blocking Access to Nuclear Sub Facility
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.
MVM Farm Seeks Community Members to Heal the Land, Offer Respite for CWers
miki shiverick at MVM Catholic Worker Farm in Bergholz, Ohio, seeks two to three live-in community members to join her in the work of restoring the 10-acre farm, formerly the site of a salvage yard, and providing retreat hospitality to other Catholic Workers in need of a break. A market garden is also in the works.
Biogas, Solar, Creativity, and a Joyful Spirit Fuel Sustainable Living on Peter Maurin Farm
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.
Dorothy Day Inc.?
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.
Personalism and the Common Good
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.
What Does Personalism Mean in the Catholic Worker?
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.
Catholic Worker Farm Communities Gather to Celebrate, Learn, and Reflect
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
Archbishop Wester: Faith Leaders Need to Step Up Call to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
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.
Stepping Toward Mercy: Alabama CW Has Long Protested Death Penalty
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.
Saint Thérèse of Lisieux’s Little Way of Love in the Spirituality of Dorothy Day
A new academic paper seeks to shed light on the connection between the spirituality of St. Thérèse of Lisieux and the very public social activism of Dorothy Day. In “Saint Thérèse of Lisieux’s Little Way of Love in the Spirituality of Dorothy Day,” Noel E. Bordador of Nazareth House (Meycauyan, Philippines) proposes that Day saw the Little Way as a path to inner spiritual transformation and social change.
The Catholic Worker Returns to Staten Island
Sixty years after Peter Maurin Farm closed, the Catholic Worker is returning to Staten Island with a new community gearing up this year.