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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.
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Icon of the Mother of Sacred Activism by William Hart McNichols -Buy a print of the art here. And see more of Fr. McNichols’ art here. Usually when I sit down to write for Roundtable, I have an idea in mind. Something in the news, something from the week that demands commentary. Often I feel called to write against the different ways Christian Nationalism perverts our faith and drives wedges where love should be. This week I’m finding both inspiration and indignation hard to muster.
Oily Money Out!
Every week across the City of London, oil and gas companies, climate deniers and far-right lobbyists meet for conferences, dinners and drink receptions. As they pop champagne corks and toast to their obscene profits, we are seeing the effects of their actions across the world: extreme weather events, climate breakdown, and destruction of biodiversity. The climate crisis is being orchestrated in London.
The Sacrament of the Brother
And why here? Because this is the place where decisions about borders, belonging, and human life are made every day. For many of our refugee friends, this building symbolises waiting, anxiety, and judgment: judgment on their lives, their stories, and their casework. That is why we keep vigil here. Icon via the London Catholic Worker newsletter Less than two weeks ago, I was in the refugee camp in Dunkirk, speaking with a young man from West Africa.
Catholic Workers Labor for the Peaceable Kingdom on Earth
Griffon Games is about a fifteen-minute walk from our house on South Saint Joseph Street. It sits on the corner of Main and Colfax, just across the way from Fiddler’s Hearth, a South Bend favorite where you will surely find Catholic Workers playing the bodhrán or button accordion on a Monday night. As one of the oldest continuously running dedicated game stores in the country, Griffon’s is a historic staple of South Bend.
Jesus and Nonviolent Revolution, Part III
The Peaceable Kingdom, by Fritz Eichenberg, photo taken from “Yours in Peace” In two previous essays we’ve been seeing that Jesus offered the world a contrast society—the Church—which was meant to be a real alternative to the violence that forms the basis of the world’s attempts to secure order in the name of peace.
Building a Resilient Future with Benedictine and Catholic Worker Communities
Members of Hildegard House with one of the Benedictine Sisters working on a garden project at the monastery. Photo courtesy of the author. On May 1, 2026, Greg and I turned Hildegard House Catholic Worker over to our guests and live-in volunteers while we moved up to the St. Scholastica Monastery as live-in volunteer Associates for four months. We will return to Hildegard House at the end of August.
Cultivating Nonviolence in Study and Practice
Art by Monica Welch (DovetailInk) We repeat, there is nothing that we can do but love, and dear God—please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend. Dorothy Day, Love is the Measure (1946) This week, as the U.S. bombed Iranian bridges—a series of attacks the United Nations called “unacceptable”—it seems unbelievable to me that there is still a suicidal commitment to war, a widely encouraged dependency upon the economy of destruction.
Jesus and Nonviolent Revolution, Part II
Way of the Cross By Ade Bethune Kelly and David are ordinary but faithful Christians committed to putting the teachings of Jesus into practice in their lives. At church they befriended a good-natured and clean-cut newcomer named Chuck who had begun attending parish events and daily Mass. In the course of conversation it came out that Chuck was recently homeless due to an unexpected job loss.
Learning from the Movement to Stop the War on Terror
For me and many of my fellow Zillennials, some of the first political images I can recall were the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Absorbing television images of the two planes hitting the towers was the beginning of my political consciousness.
A Revolution of "Ordinary Holiness"
Illustration by Monica Welch at DovetailInk This week I came across an image that has been widely circulated across the internet of a Black woman on the D.C. Metro surrounded by white nationalist militants. The photo is painful and evocative; we do not know where the courageous woman pictured was headed, but the militants, members of a neo-Nazi group called The Patriot Front, were on their way to march on the U.S. Capitol.