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.
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Our guest this episode is Joanne Kennedy from the New York Catholic Worker, current managing editor of the Catholic Worker…
Phil Runkel, the longtime Catholic Worker archivist at Marquette University, recently suffered a broken hip. Rosalie Riegle took the news as an opportunity to offer this fond remembrance.
Cassandra Dixon of Mary House of Hospitality was seriously harmed by an Israeli settler on March 7 while she and an Italian observer were in the hills outside of Hebron near a village called Tuba. Both were volunteers with Operazione Colomba (Operation Dove), the “nonviolent Peace Corps” of the Pope John XXIII community based in Italy, She issued the following statement.
The city of New Haven, Connecticut, cut power to the tiny homes hosted by the Amistad Catholic Worker in its backyard. The move is just the latest chapter in a long-running conflict between the Amistad Catholic Worker and the city over the plight of unhoused people.
This fall, from St. Louis to London, Catholic Workers have walked with Jewish groups and pacifist organizers to protest the United States’ blocking of U.N. resolutions for a ceasefire, to protest Boeing’s supply of weapons to Israel, and to stand in solidarity with Jewish and Palestinian groups advocating for peace and justice.
About 75 people came together for the 2024 Midwest Catholic Worker Gathering last weekend. But the gathering is a tradition that is nearly fifty years old. Here’s a brief history.