The Sower (Winter-Spring 2025)
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 Guests Catholic Worker Farm in Maloy, Iowa.

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 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.
What did Peter Maurin mean when he talked about “personalism”? In his continuing series on the ideas underpinning the Catholic Worker Movement, Colin Miller writes about the meaning of personalism.
In this fourth installment of his journey into climate activism, Anthony Lanzillo of Duluth’s Bread and Roses Catholic Worker describes how a Chicago training session catalyzed his involvement with the local Climate Mobilization Campaign. Despite initial resistance from city council members who viewed Duluth as a “climate haven,” their persistent grassroots campaign succeeded in passing a climate emergency resolution and establishing new environmental initiatives, proving that dedicated local advocacy can create meaningful change.
A delegation from the Archdioceses of Santa Fe and Seattle is embarking on a Pilgrimage of Peace to Japan for the purpose of building stronger ties with the Church there and advocating for universal, verifiable nuclear disarmament.
Casey Mullaney writes in memory of Monica Ribar Cornell, a life-long Catholic Worker, mother, farmer, and friend, who died August 8, 2025
After the opening Mass for the San Antonio National Catholic Worker Gathering, attendees introduced themselves to the group. Those in attendance represented a wide diversity in the Catholic Worker movement, with folks joining in 2025 and others having been in the movement for longer than the San Antonio Catholic Worker’s existence. Catholic Workers came from Texas, California, Vermont, Missouri, Alabama, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, New York, Kentucky, Minnesota and Arizona.
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.