Coffee with Catholic Workers

In this episode Michele shares with us her journey to the Catholic Worker through the  Plowshares movement . We talk about her journey to grounding herself in Catholic Worker principles including the Sermon on the Mount. Michele has been connected to many projects including Christian Peacemaker Teams ,  Rojava , and valve turning actions for the climate. 

In this episode we talk with Frits from the Jeannette Noel House in Amsterdam. Frits shares his story that ranges from anarchist squats to imprisonment for draft resistance to marches across the US for peace.

DL Mayfield joins us to talk about her book Unruly Saint: Dorothy Day's Radical Vision and its Challenge for our Times. We explore how she found Dorothy Day inspirational once she discovered her coming from an evangelical background as well as her journey away from her. You can find her work at:  http://www.dlmayfield.com/

Mark Colville from Amistad House in New Haven shares an exploration of trying to contextualize some of the work of the Catholic Worker to today in thinking about the ways that encampments and the right for people to stay particularly on public land should be more strongly emphasized than traditional hospitality.

Hope Vaughn from Emmaus House in Chicago talk about mutual aid networks, jail support, and being a young person (younger than Lydia and Theo) in the Catholic Worker Movement.

In our first mini episode we introduce the Aims and Means of the Catholic Worker and read through the current iteration published in The Catholic Worker newspaper.

In this episode we hear from Mary Beth and Johanna from the House of Grace Catholic Worker in Philadelphia. There they help run a free medical clinic as well as provide hospitality, garden, and support the management of a health clinic in Haiti.

Michael shares about his experiences in the Catholic Worker from being a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War to helping found the Mustard Seed Catholic Worker which just celebrated its 50th anniversary.

Ericka Williams Rodriguez currently resides at Littleflower Catholic Worker, a sustainable farm in Virginia. Some of her work includes raising children, supporting micro solar development in Puerto Rico, and running Serenity Solidarity -a charitable organization that supports BIPOC communities with a particular focus on land. You can read about her recent trip to Puerto Rico here: https:...

Welcome to Coffee with Catholic Workers, a podcast from and about folks involved in the Catholic Worker movement hosted by Theo and Lydia. This episode we get to hear from Theo both a little bit about how he came to be a part of the Catholic Worker movement as well as exploring the Catholic Worker value of decentralized power or decentralized society.

Welcome to Coffee with Catholic Workers, a podcast from and about folks involved in the Catholic Worker movement hosted by Theo and Lydia. In today's episode, we are talking with Catherine Morris who lives at the Hennacy House of Hospitality in Los Angeles. In this interview, she tells us about when she felt the call to leave her life as part of a religious order running a school for well to do st...

Welcome to Coffee with Catholic Workers, a podcast from and about folks involved in the Catholic Worker movement hosted by Theo and Lydia. This episode we're talking to Brenna from the Saint Isidore Farm in Cuba City, WI about her Catholic Worker journey, how the farm set up a coop to handle their finances, her community's journey working towards decolonization, and what about the Catholic Worker...

Welcome everyone! This is Coffee with Catholic Workers, a podcast about and with Catholic Worker folks hosted by Theo and Lydia. Our guest this episode is Joanne Kennedy from the New York Catholic Worker, current managing editor of the Catholic Worker Newspaper.

Welcome everyone! This is Coffee with Catholic Workers, a podcast about and with Catholic Worker folks hosted by Theo and Lydia. Our inaugural guest is Julie Brown joining us from Iraqi Kurdistan to share her compelling story and chat all things Catholic Worker.