Coffee with Catholic Workers

While visiting the Brot und Rosen (Bread and Roses) CW, Theo spoke with Dietrich Gerstner about their work supporting refugees in Hamburg, Germany.

Today we have Brian Terrell joining us from Strangers and Guests Catholic Worker Farm in Tiny Maloy, Iowa. Brian discusses what they're growing at the farm, whether it's really worth growing your own beans and what it was like living with Dorothy Day compared to how she is thought of nowadays.

Today we speak with Joe Kruse, a long time Catholic Worker in Minneapolis about his involvement since childhood in the movement and his perspectives on labor, union organizing, and work in general.

In our second episode looking at labor within the Catholic Worker Movement, we speak with Lincoln Rice; a Catholic Worker with Casa Maria in Milwaukee. Lincoln recently published The Forgotten Radical Peter Maurin: Easy Essays from the Catholic Worker.

In this episode we talk with Rosalie Riegle, an oral historian who has both lived in Catholic Worker Houses as well as documented their history. Some of her books include Dorothy Day: Portraits by Those Who Knew Her, Doing Time for Peace: Resistance, Family, and Community, and Voices of the Catholic Worker. Today we focus on labor and the labor movement in the Catholic Worker Movement's history. This is the first of a series of three episodes focused on labor.

Today we have Tensie Hernandez joining us from Beatitude House of Guadalupe, California. She shares with us the story of stumbling on to the Los Angeles Catholic Worker while still in high school, how rootedness in a community grows over time, and how running a Catholic Worker in a small town is different than doing so in a big, bustling city.

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.