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.
ByClaire Schaeffer-Duffy
“Loneliness is the greatest poverty, Mother Teresa said.” In this edition of Mason Street Musings, Claire Schaeffer-Duffy recounts the stories of a 20-year-old guest working jobs up and down the coast and a toddler named Davide. “Time is looping back on itself,” she writes, reflecting on how she and Scott are once again working on issues of nuclear disarmament, just as they did as young Catholic Workers.
ByCatholicWorker.org
On Sept. 21, the International Day of Peace, a new mural was blessed in the cathedral’s narthex, linking the struggles of Irish immigrants of the past with today’s migrants and refugees. Alongside figures like St. Kateri Tekakwitha, Pierre Toussaint, and Mother Cabrini, Dorothy Day is depicted as a witness to mercy and justice. Kevin Ahern was there, and reflects on the significance of the event.
ByRosalie Riegle
Dorothy Day: Radical Devotion is a lively, colorful introduction to the life of Dorothy Day, the 20th century Catholic social reformer and co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement.
ByJames Allaire
A personal note from Jim Allaire about the new look for CatholicWorker.org, and the future of the website.
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.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
Here’s a roundup of Catholic Worker news for February 14, 2023, including a remembrance of Tom Cornell, an AgWeek report on Catholic Worker farms, and a new Catholic Worker community listing in the directory..
