Tampa CW January 2024 newsletter
Here’s the January 2024 issue of the Dorothy Day Tampa CW newsletter.


Here’s the January 2024 issue of the Dorothy Day Tampa CW newsletter.


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We can count the years there has been a Catholic Worker movement (92, as of today), but can we count how many Catholic Worker houses are in it? Jerry Windley-Daoust tackles the question.
“Dorothy’s dissatisfaction with the Church is not in contradiction to her equally emphatic devotion to and love for the Church. It is not a denial or even a qualifier, but an intensifier of that love.”
Michael Sekitoleko, founder of Uganda Catholic Worker, was released after being detained for 28 days for intervening in an illegal land seizure. He and other activists were arrested, mistreated, and tortured. Despite his efforts to aid peasant families, corruption and land seizures remain rampant in Uganda. Sekitoleko seeks financial and international support.
For over two decades, CatholicWorker.org has offered free access to Dorothy Day’s writings, a national directory of Catholic Worker communities,…
In this issue: The Institute for Religious Peace and Justice changes its name to honor Jim Forest; Amistad Catholic Worker raises money for tiny houses; Theo Kayser is live-blogging the Catholic Worker Eurogathering; and Brian Terrell makes the case that Catholic Worker communities need to go beyond “hyper-local” activism.
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.