ByCatholicWorker.org
Here’s the Spring 2025 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.
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.
ByRosalie Riegle
Nina Polcyn Moore, lifelong friend to the Catholic Worker movement and Dorothy Day, gave this interview to Rosalie Riegle on June 28th, 1998. This wide-ranging conversation includes recounting a trip that Nina took to Russia with Dorothy Day. Nina and Rosalie review correspondence that Dorothy and Nina had exchanged over the years, relating bits of Catholic Worker history as well as revealing a more human side of Dorothy in her later years.
ByCatholicWorker.org
“Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901…
ByMichael Harank
A meditation on the Catholic Worker’s commitment to nonviolence and its inseparability from doing the works of mercy. This essay originally appeared in the October 1982 issue of The Catholic Worker.
ByCatholicWorker.org
“I would like to remember a small, great American woman, Dorothy Day, who lived in the last century,” Pope Leo told pilgrims at his Jubilee audience on Saturday. “She had fire inside her.” See the full text of Pope Leo’s remarks on Dorothy Day.
ByMatt Harper
We can all identify the ways the Spirit has helped us “see the light,” helping transform us from who we were then to who we are now, Matt Harper writes in this essay from the Catholic Agitator. But how often do we move with the recognition that the Spirit is never done weaving through our lives? How often do we live with an openness to whatever shifts She has planned next for us?
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?
