The Sower (Summer 2024)
Here’s the Summer 2024 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.

Here’s the Summer 2024 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.
Today we have Tensie Hernandez joining us from Beatitude House of Guadalupe, California. She shares with us the story of stumbling on to the Los Angeles Catholic Worker while still in high school, how rootedness in a community grows over time, and how running a Catholic Worker in a small town is different than doing so in a big, bustling city.
In this issue: The Institute for Religious Peace and Justice changes its name to honor Jim Forest; Amistad Catholic Worker raises money for tiny houses; Theo Kayser is live-blogging the Catholic Worker Eurogathering; and Brian Terrell makes the case that Catholic Worker communities need to go beyond “hyper-local” activism.
A collection of tributes to longtime Catholic Worker and Catholic peace activist Tom Cornell, who died on August 1, 2022, at the age of 88.
Cassandra Dixon, the Wisconsin Catholic Worker who has been visiting Palestine for 15 years, describes the deteriorating situation for her friends in Masafer Yatta, a region in the southern West Bank, where communities face forced removal, violent settler attacks, arbitrary arrests, theft, and the restriction of their movement.
Shortly after opening Mary’s House in Birmingham, Alabama in 1993, Shelley and Jim Douglass befriended a man on death row. That friendship was the start of their decades-long campaign against the death penalty in the state.
What if we had a roadmap that promised to help move people from the streets into housing? Would that inspire more of us to accompany and help unhoused people on that journey? Matt Harper interviews two longtime housing advocates to create such a roadmap for L.A.’s Skid Row. This article originally appeared in the August 2023 issue of The Catholic Agitator.