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 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.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
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.
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?
ByBrian Terrell
Reflecting on Pope Francis’ address to Congress and Dorothy Day’s legacy, Brian Terrell argues that opposing the arms trade and practicing nonviolent resistance remain essential duties, not optional additions, to the Catholic Worker movement’s mission.
ByScarlett Rose Ford
The newly launched Dorothy Day Foundation seeks to help Catholic Workers in need of funds to stay open.
ByCatholicWorker.org
Here’s the July 2023 issue of via pacis, the newsletter of the Des Moines Catholic Worker.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
In the third part of our series, “The Catholic Worker in Africa,” Uganda Catholic Worker founder Michael Sekitoleko dreams of creating a sustainable, revitalized community—in spite of a skeptical priest and a stalled fundraising campaign.
