ByCatholicWorker.org
Here’s the Fall/Winter2023 issue of THE SOWER, the newsletter of Strangers and Guests Catholic Worker Farm.
The Sower is the newsletter of Strangers and Gusts Catholic Worker Farm in Maloy, Iowa.
The mission of CatholicWorker.org is to document the Catholic Worker movement in all its diverse expressions around the world. The website includes a searchable archive of all of Dorothy Day's writings in THE CATHOLIC WORKER newspaper, a directory of all known Catholic Worker communities, information about the aims and means of the movement, and news from Catholic Worker communities around the world. See the About CW.org page for more information.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin called for every Christian household to have its Christ room. What would it be like if even a fraction of Christian households adopted the ancient practice of opening up a room to someone in need? Generally, people object to the idea on practical grounds. And yet, some people have taken the leap and found the experience to be deeply enriching and rewarding, if not always without its stresses and problems. Their stories provide a glimpse of what it might look like to realize Peter and Dorothy’s original vision in which hospitality was a habit of every Christian community.
ByCatholicWorker.org
With some 7,000 employees, the Kansas City National Security Campus produces more than 80% of the U.S. nuclear weapons’ non-nuclear components. This spring, Catholic Workers will gather for a weekend of education, prayer, reflection, fellowship, and training followed by nonviolent direct action on Monday, April 15.
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.
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.
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.
ByMike Doyle
This is the fifth in a continuing series of articles about how to start a Catholic Worker community, told through the lived experience of the Tampa Catholic Worker.
