Tom Cornell once described the Catholic Worker movement as a community "marked by a cooperative social order without extremes of wealth and poverty and a nonviolent approach to legitimate defense and conflict resolution."
For the Catholic Worker's meal center in LA, known as the Hippie Kitchen, meeting the increased need while preventing the spread of coronavirus has meant improvising — both in how it provides its services and how it prevents the spread of the virus.
Appreciation: Jerry Ryan was an uncommon common man possessed of fierce integrity, a searcher who persistently sounded the depths and brought to readers the riches of what he found.
The Catholic Worker co-founder's program of farming communes, or "agronomic universities," was once considered a failure. Today, his ideas are resonating with modern ecological concerns.
Selling Dorothy Day's former New York parish to make way for luxury apartments would be a devastating blow to residents and former parishioners in a neighborhood threatened by gentrification, an American researcher said.
In Conversation: NCR Bertelsen intern Maria Benevento reports on the Catholic Worker movement; author Jim Forest shares lessons from Jesuit Fr. Daniel Berrigan.
Since 1933, a decentralized approach has led Catholic Worker communities to carry out a variety of ministries that are limited only by members' interests, resources and creativity.
