ByCatholicWorker.org
Japheth Obare, founder of Christian Friends of the Mentally Ill (CFOMI), a Catholic Worker community in Kenya that primarily serves those with mental health needs, spoke to attendees about CFOMI’s vital work, the unique challenges they face under the current government, and the hope they have to forge ahead.
ByCatholicWorker.org
In this transcript of Michael Sekitoleko’s presentation to the National Catholic Worker Gathering in San Antonio, Texas in October 2025, Michael urges the U.S. and European Catholic Workers to provide mentorship and capacity building, and shares three goals of the Uganda CW with the group.
ByBrian Terrell
In this transcript of Brian Terrell’s presentation to the National Catholic Worker Gathering in San Antonio, Texas in October 2025, Brian shares about his experiences with imprisonment and Dorothy’s belief that we ought to move beyond learning about the world by looking down from above, to learn about the world by looking up from below and “filling the jails.”
ByRev. Ronald Ronrolheiser
In this transcript of Fr. Ron Rolheiser’s presentation to the National Catholic Worker Gathering in San Antonio, Texas in October 2025, Fr. Rolheiser shares nine points that provide a framework for those who aspire to live out Dorothy’s prophetic ordinance in today’s world.
ByCatholicWorker.org
After the opening Mass for the San Antonio National Catholic Worker Gathering, attendees introduced themselves to the group. Those in attendance represented a wide diversity in the Catholic Worker movement, with folks joining in 2025 and others having been in the movement for longer than the San Antonio Catholic Worker’s existence. Catholic Workers came from Texas, California, Vermont, Missouri, Alabama, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, New York, Kentucky, Minnesota and Arizona.
ByRobert Ellsberg
In this transcript of Robert Ellsberg’s presentation to the National Catholic Worker Gathering in San Antonio, Texas in October 2025, Ellsberg reflects on what he learned from Dorothy Day during the years that he knew her and from a long career of editing her writings.
ByCatholicWorker.org
Scott Schaeffer-Duffy and Martha Hennessy explored the challenges of practicing “loving-kindness” in personal confrontations and daily community life in this presentation at the October 2025 Catholic Worker gathering at the San Antonio Catholic Worker.
ByCatholicWorker.org
The San Antonio Catholic Worker National Gathering opened with a powerful celebration of Mass on the Feast of the Guardian Angels. In his homily, Father James Drennan said guardian angels set an example for how we should live: guiding, accompanying, protecting, lifting up, and loving one another.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
About 75 people attended the 2025 gathering this past weekend; Jerry Windley-Daoust shares the highlights.
ByCatholicWorker.org
Photographer Mauro Heck shares some of the videos he took at the Midwest Catholic Worker Gathering at the Sugar Creek Retreat Center in Iowa (Sept. 12 – 14, 2025).
ByCatholicWorker.org
Mauro Heck and Mary Farrell share their best photos from the Midwest Catholic Worker Gathering, September 12 – 14, 2025.
ByCatholicWorker.org
“Lessons Learned from 50 Years of St. Francis House” was the title of a panel at the National Catholic Worker Gathering in Chicago on October 5th. Panelists from different eras of the St. Francis House Catholic Worker community shared stories and reflections, providing insights into the daily work of hospitality and what enables a Catholic Worker community to thrive for fifty years.
ByCatholicWorker.org
You may have missed the National Catholic Worker Gathering in Chicago earlier this month, but we’re pulling together summaries of some the roundtables. Here’s what people were talking about.
ByRenée Roden
About 75 people came together for the 2024 Midwest Catholic Worker Gathering last weekend. But the gathering is a tradition that is nearly fifty years old. Here’s a brief history.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
The Catholic Worker had a tiny presence at the National Eucharistic Congress last week in Indianapolis, with about twenty Workers and pilgrims coming together in a park near the Indiana Convention Center for a picnic supper and roundtable.
But despite those small numbers, most of the 50,000 people attending the Congress got to hear about the Catholic Worker Movement and Dorothy Day.
ByRenée Roden
About 25 Catholic Workers from five European communities gathered in Cudham, Britain, in May. They shared community news, held roundtable discussions on pressing issues…and competed for top prize in the talent contest.
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.
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
ByTheo Kayser
Theo travels to the Netherlands for the 2023 European Catholic Worker Gathering, where he finds a CW sensibility not unlike the Sugar Creek Midwest Catholic Worker Gathering.
ByFrank Cordaro
I’ve just returned from the national Catholic Worker gathering in Worcester, Massachusetts, which celebrated the Mustard Seed Catholic Worker’s fiftieth…
