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Here at Roundtable, we aim to cover the Catholic Worker Movement with news from CW communities, media mentions, writing reprinted from CW publications, and excerpts from the writing of the movement’s founders. As time allows, we also do original reporting and interviews.
We publish two editions:
Our Sunday Roundtable edition is a weekly digest of news from around the movement, plus an excerpt from the writing of Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, or another prominent figure from the movement’s past.
Our CW Reads edition comes out on Thursdays, with occasional bonus issues appearing in your inbox from time to time on other days. As the name suggests, CW Reads highlights one or two extended pieces of writing reprinted from recent Catholic Worker newspapers, podcasts, and other media.
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Search ArticlesLondon Catholic Workers Embrace Failure and Extend Hospitality
CW Reads A look at how the London Catholic Worker approached its overnight shelter to provide hospitality and avoid burnout, creating seasons, boundaries, and, in the end, a stronger community. View of the chapel in the London Catholic Worker’s overnight shelter, September 2025. Photo by Renée Roden London, United Kingdom—Catholic Worker hospitality is personalist, not programmatic. Illustrating that philosophical divide in practice can be difficult.
A New House of Hospitality for Migrants Welcomes Its First Guests
CW Reads Moya Barnett, a member of the London Catholic Worker, on a new house of hospitality in Calais, France Sojourner Truth House via Instagram/London Catholic Worker By Moya Barnett On the 15th of June 2025, the Quaker House WhatsApp group was created. Four of us, Missy, Bradon, Martin and I, all Quakers (or, in Bradon ’s case, Quaker adjacent), all involved in refugee hospitality projects in Calais and with a dream of a new house of hospitality.
“A Life Spent in Preparation for Death”
There is a sort of silly poem we keep on our fridge with a small magnet. It was the product of a Friday night dinner and evening prayer at St. Peter Claver’s men’s house, when a friend of the community, Leah, led an impromptu writing group. We gathered around a wood table in the library and each person contributed a word while Leah wrote it down on our “prompt” page.
Embracing our “Martha” and “Mary” at the Catholic Worker
Mary and Martha have been a recurring theme on the farm this summer. This dichotomous relationship has also come up in our parish conversations, and on a recent road trip to learn about caring for local resources. God, through several gentle reminders, has been asking me to consider these saintly women in light of my new life on the farm and in this movement. It does not take much consideration to come to terms with the idea that I have always been a Martha.
Catholic Workers Are Returning to the West Bank
Last fall, I traveled for five weeks with Catholic Workers and others trained in the use of unarmed civilian protection, or “protective presence,” to the West Bank. While our team was in the West Bank, almost every Palestinian we met told us that having internationals there with them, witnessing what was happening to them, not only helped them feel less vulnerable, but gave them the courage to remain on their land.
The Catholic Worker: Midwest Edition
This week, James and I accompanied a one-year-old neighbor from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, back to Matamoros, Mexico to reunite with his parents who had been separated from him by deportation. One of our fellow travelers asked James if this was a typical sort of activity of Catholic Worker living or if it was weird, even for Catholic Workers. “It’s up there,” James responded.
Mustard Seed Community Farm Practices Inclusive Agro-Ecology
This year, Mustard Seed Community Farm in Ames, Iowa, will celebrate its 18th year of existence. Alice McGary, 50, one of the farm’s founding members, cut her teeth at urban Catholic Workers—Su Casa in her native Chicago, the Des Moines Catholic Worker, and the Tucson Catholic Worker. When she wasn’t at Catholic Worker houses, McGary said she spent the rest of her time on farms, learning how to farm.
Practicing Forgiveness in 2026
Art by Monica Welch (DovetailInk) During the winter, as ICE’s presence in our state intensified, Catholic Worker friends from around the country reached out to us. While there was some ICE activity in our town, the vast majority of it took place two hours north of us, in the Twin Cities. Many of our volunteers participated in protests or supported efforts to help folks who were most impacted. Through it all I wondered how we might address the topic in our next newsletter.
A Movement That Sings
By Ashley McCormick Artwork by Monica Welch (DovetailInk) “Right was the tyrant king who once said ‘Beware of a movement that sings.’ … Whenever and wherever the oppressed challenge the old order, songs are on their lips,” or so said the Industrial Workers of the World to their members, knowing there is power in song. Folk and protest music have done a lot to keep me going the last few years.
How Can I Keep From Singing?
Betsy Keenan at the Tivoli Farm with Ayin, Sky and Lhasa de Sela in 1978, photo by Bill Barrett By Betsy Keenan I grew up singing. We sang at home, especially at Christmas time, but often in the car. I sang at school-at music class and in various choruses, the Girl Scouts sang, especially at camp. We sang at church, During the beginning of “the changes” there was some very dreary music, and some stronger stuff borrowed from the Protestants, which amused my non-Catholic mom.