ByCatholicWorker.org
Here’s the Winter/Spring 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.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
Here’s a roundup of Catholic Worker news for March 20, 2023, including four calls for volunteers, Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin as literary figures, the impact on the Catholic Worker on sociologists, news from Cassandra Dixon in Palestine, and more.
ByRenée Roden
About 25 Catholic Workers from five European communities gathered in Cudham, Britain, in May. They shared community news, held roundtable discussions on pressing issues…and competed for top prize in the talent contest.
ByCatholicWorker.org
Twenty-three activists, including Catholic Workers, gathered May 19 outside the Kansas City National Security Campus to protest nuclear weapons production. Six were arrested for trespass, including three Catholic Workers.
ByBrian Terrell
“Dorothy’s dissatisfaction with the Church is not in contradiction to her equally emphatic devotion to and love for the Church. It is not a denial or even a qualifier, but an intensifier of that love.”
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.
ByLiam Myers
As the 2024 election looms, Liam Myers examines the Catholic Worker’s legacy of resistance to systems of violence, reflecting on figures like Dorothy Day and the Catonsville Nine. In a time of political disillusionment, he challenges us to rethink “false joy” and rediscover solidarity outside conventional power structures. Can we, like the third servant in the parable of the talents, reject complicity in systems of suffering?
