ByBrian Terrell
Here’s the Fall-Winter 2024 issue of THE SOWER, the newsletter of Strangers and Guests Catholic Worker Farm.
The Sower is the newsletter of Strangers and Guests Catholic Worker Farm in Maloy, Iowa.
Brian Terrell is a long-time Catholic Worker and peace activist who lived and worked with Dorothy Day in New York in the last years of her life. He currently lives at Strangers and Guests Catholic Worker, a farm in Maloy, Iowa.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
A “green revolution” was an integral part of Peter Maurin’s vision for the Catholic Worker. Today, it’s not just rural Catholic Worker farms that attempt to bring that vision to life; many urban houses of hospitality are also tapping into his philosophy…and harvesting more than just food for the table.
ByCatholicWorker.org
Summary: On the tenth anniversary of The Catholic Worker she explains their purpose as promoting love of God and our brother. Their work expresses the beauty of Christianity in supporting the worker, the poor, and eschewing violence. She highlights instances of violent racism. (DDLW #919) The Catholic Worker, May 1943, 4
ByColin Miller
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.
ByTheo Kayser
We are in the process of finding a physical space to purchase in the St. Louis area to headquarter our works of mercy and revolution of the heart. If you find yourself in a place of abundance at this time, please consider helping us start this new House of Hospitality.
ByCatholicWorker.org
More than 15 people gathered outside the federal building in Norfolk on January 20 to protest the new administration’s immigration and asylum policies.
ByRosalie Riegle
In a new collection of his writings, Philip Berrigan continues to be a mentor and a master of nonviolent civil disobedience. The collection, A Ministry of Risk, should move us all to Christian action, our reviewer writes.
