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.
ByScarlett Rose Ford
In the Philippines, Nazareth House Catholic Worker welcomes those living with HIV/AIDS, distributes food to the needy, and stands with the families of victims of the government’s extra-judicial killings.
ByMike Doyle
This is the third in a continuing series of articles about how to start a Catholic Worker community, told through the lived experience of the Tampa Catholic Worker.
ByCatholicWorker.org
Here’s the Summer 2025 issue of THE SOWER, the newsletter of Strangers and Guests Catholic Worker Farm. Inside: s solstice peace celebration discover Dorothy Day’s searing 1945 response to the atomic bomb; and an account of six activists’ nonviolent protest at the Kansas City National Security Campus. Plus, Betsy reports on garden volunteers, county-fair weaving, and Brian’s Peacemaker Award in New York.
ByCatholicWorker.org
Members of Philadelphia’s House of Grace Catholic Worker released the following statement on November 14 regarding Kay Lasante Clinic.
ByRosalie Riegle
What golden thread connects Dorothy Day’s radical vision to the Catholic Worker houses still serving the poor today? In this 1986 interview conducted by Rosalie Riegle, Nina Polcyn Moore—one of the movement’s pioneering voices—traces that “golden cord” of providence through five decades of Catholic Worker history.
Moore offers firsthand accounts of the movement’s Depression-era struggles, the daily realities of running houses of hospitality in Milwaukee and Chicago, and her remarkable 1970 journey to Russia alongside Dorothy Day herself. But she also confronts the movement’s tensions: Can families truly flourish in houses of hospitality? How has women’s leadership evolved in a movement founded by a laywoman? And what does authentic lay leadership look like when living out the radical works of mercy?
ByClaire Schaeffer-Duffy
Claire Schaeffer-Duffy (Sts. Francis and Therese CW) recounts her journey to Ukraine on behalf of the Zaporizhzhia Protection Project, an innovative peace initiative that seeks to engage unarmed civilians in the establishment of a no-fire zone around the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), the largest nuclear power plant in Europe.
