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
“These settlers act with impunity because Israel has impunity in the world, and they have that because of the U.S.,” Cassandra Dixon (Mary House CW) says. She hopes the September 7 trial of the Israeli settler who attacked her might help to change that.
ByBrian Terrell
When offered the choice between a ‘Catholic Worker House Incorporated’ and a Catholic Worker that is homeless, penniless and its leaders in prison, Dorothy chose the latter.
ByCatholicWorker.org
After attempting to educate subsistence farmers about their legal rights, Elizabeth Nakiwolo and Michael Setikoleko of the Uganda Catholic Worker were illegally detained in early June. Nakiwolo, a mother of three, was recently released. Setikoleko reports that the farmers’ village was raised, and several have died, in the wake of an illegal land seizure.
ByCatholicWorker.org
In this episode of “Coffee with Catholic Workers,” Theo Kayser and Lydia Wong interview Alexandria Addesso, founder of the Elizabeth, New Jersey, Catholic Worker.
Alex talked about her journey to the Catholic Worker; her time at the Los Angeles Catholic Worker; and coming home to Elizabeth, New Jersey, to found a Catholic Worker there. Along the way, she talks about the intersection of Catholicism and anarchism, mutual aid, the pros and cons of registering a Catholic Worker as a tax-exempt nonprofit organization, and the ups and downs of operating a Catholic Worker largely on her own.
ByCatholicWorker.org
Daniel Ellsberg released this letter announcing that he has terminal pancreatic cancer on March 2.
Ellsberg is best known for leaking the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in June 1972; however, in his letter he calls his work for nuclear disarmament his greatest cause. Ellsberg is also the father of Robert Ellsberg, editor at Orbis Books and managing editor of The Catholic Worker newspaper from 1976-1978.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
The future of the Catholic Worker at 90; CWers turned sociologists; European Catholic Workers; Cherith Brook raises $190,000 for rehab project.
