Catholic Worker
New York Catholic Workers bring new growth with rooftop garden
By Fiona Murphy — April 9, 2024
(RNS) — Inspired by Pope Francis’ apostolic letter on ecology, a garden planned for the roof of the movement’s historic Maryhouse has attracted new attention to Dorothy Day’s Catholic service organization.
The nun who became a star shares her wisdom in new book of letters
By Yonat Shimron — October 24, 2022
(RNS) — Sister Wendy Beckett's three-year correspondence with Robert Ellsberg, the publisher and editor in chief of Orbis Books, reveals a life devoted to saints, holiness, beauty, suffering and prayer.
Tom Cornell, Catholic worker and Dorothy Day lieutenant, dies at 88
By Patrick O'Neill — August 3, 2022
(RNS) — An author and lecturer, Cornell spent his life promoting nonviolence, conscientious objection and the Catholic 'Works of Mercy' that represent the core values of the Catholic Worker Movement.
Evidence of Dorothy Day’s ‘everyday’ sainthood heads to Rome, boxed and beribboned
By Renée Roden — December 9, 2021
NEW YORK (RNS) — In a Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan gave a formal sendoff for two decades of work by Day’s supporters.
His parish was the poor: The Rev. Tom Lumpkin spent 40 years ministering to Detroit’s homeless
By Renée Roden — August 4, 2021
(RNS) – ‘Living with people who have lots of problems helped me see my own dark side,’ said the Rev. Tom Lumpkin, who spent 40 years serving Detroit’s homeless.
2 Plowshares activists win early release from prison
By Yonat Shimron — May 27, 2021
(RNS) — Martha Hennessy, 66, the granddaughter of Catholic Worker Movement founder Dorothy Day, and Carmen Trotta, 58, a Catholic worker at St. Joseph House in New York City, were released after serving six months in prison for breaking into a nuclear submarine base.
Seventh and final Plowshares member sentenced to prison for nuclear base break-in
By Yonat Shimron — April 9, 2021
(RNS) — Mark Colville was part of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 who broke into a naval base on April 4, 2018. DePaul University in Chicago announced last month it would recognize the group with a Christian nonviolence award.
On his way to prison, Catholic activist advocates for COVID-19 prisoner release
By Yonat Shimron — January 12, 2021
(RNS) — Patrick O’Neill will report to a federal prison Thursday for breaking into a nuclear submarine base to protest nuclear arms. Now he’s advocating for prisoner safety during a pandemic.
Dorothy Day’s granddaughter sentenced to prison for nuclear base break-in
By Yonat Shimron — November 13, 2020
(RNS) — Martha Hennessy received the lightest sentence of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 — the group of Catholic pacifists who broke into the Navy base 40 miles south of Brunswick, Georgia, on April 4, 2018.
Martin Gugino is a Catholic peace activist, not an ‘Antifa provocateur,’ friends say
By Yonat Shimron — June 9, 2020
(RNS) — ‘Martin has a passion for social justice,’ said the head of a Catholic Worker house in Connecticut. ‘When he sees wrong he wants to be involved in making it right.’
Dorothy Day defied definition. Now the potential saint is the subject of a new film.
By Yonat Shimron — March 4, 2020
(RNS) — The former journalist who founded the Catholic Worker movement was a committed Catholic who gave her life to the cause of the poor, yet also disdained government assistance.
Jury convicts 7 Catholic pacifists of breaking into nuclear submarine base
By Yonat Shimron — October 24, 2019
(RNS) — They now face up to 25 years in prison each for stealing onto the US Navy base that houses six Trident submarines carrying hundreds of nuclear weapons in an effort to symbolically disarm the base.
These Catholics broke into a nuclear base. Now they’re asking a judge to drop the charges.
By Yonat Shimron — August 7, 2019
(RNS) — Members of the group known as the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 face up to 25 years in prison for trespassing on a U.S. Navy base that houses six Trident submarines carrying hundreds of nuclear weapons.
Awaiting trial for breaking into a nuclear base, 7 Catholic activists are unrepentant
By Yonat Shimron — July 10, 2019
(RNS) — At a time when many faith-based social activists have moved on to other issues, seven Catholic pacifists aim to draw attention to the most ominous threat facing civilization: the risk of global nuclear annihilation.
Dorothy Day — ‘a saint for our times’
By Sandra Yocum — December 5, 2018
(The Conversation) — Dorothy Day, who died 38 years ago this week, was able to discern beauty in the midst of her harsh and demanding life. In that, she has a lesson for the times we live in.
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