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Directory of Catholic Worker Communities

Catholic Workers live a simple lifestyle in community, serve the poor, and resist war and social injustice. Most are grounded in the Gospel, prayer, and the Catholic faith, although some houses on this list state that they are interfaith. Each Catholic Worker house is independent and there is no "Catholic Worker headquarters".

Income for Catholic Worker houses can come from outside jobs held by members or by cottage industries developed by the community, but most houses survive on donations. Every Catholic Worker house can use donations of money and/or specific items like food, clothing, etc...Most can also use volunteers from the surrounding community to help with the work. If you feel called to do something about poverty and homelessness in your community, your local Catholic Worker house would be a great place to start. This is a list of all the Catholic Worker communities that we know about, indexed by state or country.

United States:

AL | AZ | CA | CO | CT | DC | FL | GA | ID | IL | IN | IA | KS | KY | LA | MD | MA | MI | MN | MO | MT | NE | NV | NJ | NM | NY | NC | OH | OK | OR | PA | RI | TN | TX | VA | WA | WV | WI |

International:

Belgium | Canada | Germany | Great Britain | Mexico | New Zealand | Sweden | The Netherlands |

Alabama [Menu]

Mary's House
2107 Avenue G
Birmingham AL 35218

Phone: 205-780-2020

Consider contacting the Mary's House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Arizona [Menu]

Andre House of Hospitality
1002 W Polk
Phoenix AZ 85007

Phone: 602-252-9023

Andre House of Hospitality Home Page

Mailing address: PO Box 2014, Phoenix AZ 85001

Consider contacting the Andre House of Hospitality to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Casa Maria
401 E 26th St
Tucson AZ 85713

Phone: 520-624-0312

Casa Maria Home Page

Publication: Guadalupe

Consider contacting the Casa Maria to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Quixote's Garage
233 N Summit
Prescott AZ 86301

Phone: 928-771-2637

Quixote's Garage is located in Sam Hill Alley, between Granite and McCormick Streets, just north of Willis in downtown Prescott.

Quixote's Garage is a drop-in for anyone who needs a place to be out of the cold, heat, etc, or just a safe, calm place to relax during the day. We are open every day from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. We have a telephone and take messages, our address can be used to receive mail, we have several couches, free coffee and sometimes goodies. We average around 20 people a day using the place.

Consider contacting the Quixote's Garage to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Rose of the Desert Catholic Worker
PO Box 17822
Tucson AZ 85726

Email: community@roseofthedesert.org

Rose of the Desert Catholic Worker Home Page

The works of Rose of the Desert Catholic Worker are those of mercy and nonviolent resistance. To be in solidarity with the human rights struggle of immigrants. To resist the militarization of the borderlands. Our vision embraces a world that values the dignity of all people. A transformation of the culture of death into the peaceable kingdom. We see an inherent and lethal liaison between border militarization and the war against indigenous people and weapons of mass destruction. Thus, our shared commitment to walk in solidarity with migrants in the borderlands continues alongside our efforts to disarm the world of all weapons. We come to the US-Mexico border with faith traditions rooted in nonviolent activism. We come to participate in “building a new world in the shell of the old.” If you are interested in participating in similar work, consider volunteering with No More Deaths (nomoredeaths.org), the Jesuit Refugee Service (www.jrsusa.org/kino/) or Borderlinks (Borderlinks.org). At this time, Rose of the Desert CW is in the process of building up a local community and there are no openings for live-in members. We do invite visitors for one to two weeks to stay at the house, and if you visit, we will give you information on where volunteer work is needed. Our newsletter is published quarterly. Send us your address and we’ll put you on the mailing list.

Consider contacting the Rose of the Desert Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


California [Menu]

Beatitude House
Guadalupe Catholic Worker
4575 9th St
Guadalupe CA 93434

Phone: 805-343-6322

Publication: Beatitude House Newsletter

Consider contacting the Beatitude House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Burning Bush: Center for the Working Poor
1289 Bellevue Ave
Los Angeles CA 90026

Phone: 213-975-9452

Email: centerfortheworkingpoor@gmail.com

Burning Bush: Center for the Working Poor Home Page

We serve the working poor of Los Angeles and are building a movement for a living wage. We distribute food to the homes of immigrant workers. We support whistle-blowers who stand up for their rights at their jobs. We offer our house of hospitality to those in need. And we do resistance work: organizing students, workers and community to fight for a living wage. We need volunteers who want to live communally, grow spiritually, and join the movement.

Consider contacting the Burning Bush: Center for the Working Poor to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Casa de Clara
San Jose Catholic Worker
318 N 6th St
San Jose CA 95112

Phone: 408-297-8330

Email: sanjosecatholicworker@yahoo.com

Volunteers needed:
We have provided emergency shelter to homeless women and children for over 30 years. Our Victorian home in a historic district of downtown San Jose CA is within walking distance of San Jose State University and numerous cultural and educational amenities. The Jesuit Santa Clara University is four miles away. In joining our community as a live-in member you would have the opportunity to serve while growing in your own faith and understanding of the causes of injustice. Alongside the great wealth that has been created in this region has grown ever-increasing poverty. The need to provide a safe and welcoming shelter has never been greater. Casa de Clara members are able to work or attend school while fulfilling their commitment to the community. A contribution for room and board is expected according to ones means. Prior community living or volunteer work preferred, especially with homeless women. Commitment to non-violence and simple-living, open-mind & heart, and good sense of humor. Useful skills: cooking, gardening, home maintenance, outreach, & newsletter development. Committment to a six-month term. One-year terms are preferred because of the expanded opportunities it affords in developing and stabilizing the work and the community. (408) 297-8330 sanjosecatholicworker@yahoo.com.


Casa San Miguel
PO Box 463
San Miguel CA 93451

Phone: 805-467-2606 or 467-2353

Email: casa@slonet.org

We serve breakfast to people, migrant families and the disadvantaged in a rural central California area. We also have a day center and kids programs.

Consider contacting the Casa San Miguel to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Dorothy Day House CW
PO Box 12701
Berkeley CA 94712

Phone: 510-466-5553

Email: ddhcw@yahoo.com

Dorothy Day House CW Home Page

Publication: Dorothy Day House Newsletter (online at Website)

Dorothy Day house is a Catholic Worker community in Berkeley. We are non-denominational, embracing volunteers of many beliefs and faiths.

We believe in providing a consistent, caring presence for the poor and homeless. We are a hospitality group, not an agency. We subscribe to the Catholic Worker philosophy as expressed by Dorothy Day,". . . we are our brother's [and sister's] keeper and. . .we must have a sense of personal responsibility to take care of our own and our neighbor, at a personal sacrifice."

Currently, we serve a nutritious breakfast seven mornings a week in the men's shelter at the Berkeley Veterans Building, and six mornings a week at University Lutheran Capel, Berkeley.

If you would like to volunteer with us, please call 510-466-5553 and leave a message.

Volunteers needed:
We need volunteers to prepare and serve breakfast. Shifts begin at 5am and 6:30am Monday through Saturday.


Elizabeth House
PO Box 1175
Berkeley CA 94701

Phone: 510-658-1380

Street Address: 6423 Colby St, Oakland CA 94618

Elizabeth House is a transitional house for women and children.

Consider contacting the Elizabeth House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra
30 Soledad St
Salinas CA 93901

Phone: 831-757-3838

Consider contacting the Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


High Desert Catholic Worker
PO Box 3157
Apple Valley CA 92307

Phone: 760-2247-5732

Email: highdesertcw@yahoo.com or atbremser@yahoo.com

Publication: Locusts & Wild Honey

Consider contacting the High Desert Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Isaiah House - Orange County Catholic Worker
316 Cypress
Santa Ana CA 92701

Phone: 714-835-6304

Email: worker@occatholicworker.org

Isaiah House - Orange County Catholic Worker Home Page

Publication: Call to Faithfulness

(714) 835-6304 message
(714) 558-7478 kitchen

Consider contacting the Isaiah House - Orange County Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Kelly Avenue Catholic Worker of Half Moon Bay
160 Kelly Ave
Half Moon Bay CA 94019

Phone: 650-726-6621

We provide hospitality to homeless families. We run a weekly produce distribution out of our garage. We serve a nutritious breakfast once a week at Coastside Lutheran Church. And we also maintain a fruit and vegetable garden which provides food for our programs.

Consider contacting the Kelly Avenue Catholic Worker of Half Moon Bay to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Los Angeles Catholic Worker Community
Ammon Hennacy House
632 N Brittania St
Los Angeles CA 90033

Phone: 323-267-8789

Email: info@lacatholicworker.org

Los Angeles Catholic Worker Community Home Page

Publication: The Catholic Agitator

The L.A. Catholic Worker is a lay Catholic community of men and women which operates a free soup kitchen, hospitality house for the homeless, AIDS ministry, hospice for the dying, newspaper, and regularly offers prophetic witness in opposition to war-making and injustice. Each summer mid-June through early August, the L.A. Catholic Worker extends an invitation to any adult interested in joining us for a period of six weeks during the summer. It is an opportunity to live and work with a gospel-based community, to discern one's vocation, or just simply to deepen one's social justice experience on a first hand basis. By the way, the weather here in Southern California is great too.

Volunteers needed:
Each summer mid-June through early August, the L.A. Catholic Worker extends an invitation to any adult interested in joining us for a period of six weeks during the summer. It is an opportunity to live and work with a gospel-based community, to discern one's vocation, or just simply to deepen one's social justice experience on a first hand basis. By the way, the weather here in Southern California is great too.


Martin de Porres House of Hospitality
225 Potrero Ave
San Francisco CA 94103

Phone: 415-552-0240

Email: info@martindeporres.org

Martin de Porres House of Hospitality Home Page

Consider contacting the Martin de Porres House of Hospitality to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Night on the Streets - Catholic Worker
PO Box 13468
Berkeley CA 94712-4468

Phone: 510-684-1892

Email: noscw@sbcglobal.net

We serve a nutritious breakfast every Sunday for 80-150 at People's Park and at the Men's Shelter

We also provide a hot "rolling meal" on the streets of Berkeley 3 nights a week during the cold and rainy months (usually November through April of each year). We are located at 1630 Berkeley Way in Berkeley, California.

Consider contacting the Night on the Streets - Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Oakland Catholic Worker
4848 E 14th St
Oakland CA 94601

Phone: 510-533-7375

Email: oaklandcatholicworker@yahoo.com

Oakland Catholic Worker Home Page

Publication: The Oakland Catholic Worker

The Oakland Catholic Worker is a half-way house/community center for Latin American refugees and immigrants.

Volunteers needed:
The Oakland Catholic Worker, a hospitality house for Latin American immigrants and refugees, seeks part-time volunteers for direct services, resource development, community organizing, and public education. Spanish language skills preferred but not required.


Peter Maurin Catholic Worker
28730 Hwy 94
Campo CA 91906

Phone: 619-478-5851

Consider contacting the Peter Maurin Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Redwood City Catholic Worker House
545 Cassia St
PO Box 513
Redwood City CA 94063-2016

Phone: 650-366-4415

Consider contacting the Redwood City Catholic Worker House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Sacramento Catholic Worker
619 12th St
Sacramento CA 95814

Phone: 916-447-3785

Consider contacting the Sacramento Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


San Bruno Catholic Worker
672 Second Avenue
San Bruno CA 94066

Phone: 650-827-0706

Consider contacting the San Bruno Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


San Diego Catholic Worker
PO Box 127244
San Diego CA 92112-7244

Phone: 619-298-3755

Email: info@catholicworkersd.org

San Diego Catholic Worker Home Page

Publication: The San Diego Catholic Worker

Volunteers needed:
The San Diego Catholic Worker, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, is growing and about to open a House of Hospitality. We are looking for two or three people (a couple would be ideal) to live in the house as a focal point for the activities of the membership at large. We are hoping to find people who are familiar with the Catholic Worker way of serving the poor and building a more just society, and who have lived in a House of Hospitality or have been attached to a Catholic Worker community for some time. Ideally, volunteers should have a good working knowledge of Spanish and be available to make a commitment for at least one year. Room and board and a stipend, if necessary, will be provided. You can read about the history of the San Diego Catholic Worker and its newspaper by referring to our Website: www.catholicworkersd.org/ People who are interested should address their inquiries to denyshorgan@att.net


San Pedro Catholic Worker
1149 Crestwood St
San Pedro CA 90732

Phone: 310-831-3480

Publication: In The Breaking of The Bread

Meals to the poor Monday and Tuesday, 7 p.m. in L. A. Harbor area; overnight shelter Mon-Thurs 9pm-9am on "as needed" basis; vigil every Friday at noon at LOGICON, a defense contractor.

Liturgy and potluck every 3rd Thursday at 6:00 p.m.

Consider contacting the San Pedro Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Santa Rosa Catholic Worker
437 A Street
PO Box 3364
Santa Rosa CA 95401

Phone: 707-575-8342

Consider contacting the Santa Rosa Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Sheep Ranch Catholic Worker
16777 Armstrong Rd
Sheep Ranch CA 95246

Phone: 209-728-2193

Sheep Ranch Catholic Worker Home Page

Publication: Earth Abides

Consider contacting the Sheep Ranch Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


St. Benedict Catholic Worker
4022 N Cheryl Ave
Fresno CA 93705-2201

Phone: 559-229-6410

Email: bryan.apper@yahoo.com

St. Benedict Catholic Worker Home Page

Publication: Ora et Labora

Consider contacting the St. Benedict Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Temenos Catholic Worker
1550 California Street, No 6-320
San Francisco CA 94109

Phone: 415-922-7553

Email: temenos@sbcglobal.net

Temenos Catholic Worker Home Page

Publication: Peniel

Temenos Catholic Worker provides outreach, advocay, intervention and personalist service to homeless youth and male and female sex workers and addicts in San Francisco's Polk Gulch area "in the personalist tradition of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin." The work includes food distribution, needle exchange, health products (including condom distribution.) Temenos' primary purpose is being a "presence of grace" in the midst of despair, addiction and violence of the street culture.

Consider contacting the Temenos Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Colorado [Menu]

Denver Catholic Worker
2420 Welton St
Denver CO 80205

Phone: 303-296-6390

Email: denvercw@juno.com

Publication: Denver Catholic Worker

Contact us if you are interested in the non-salaried position of live-in volunteer.

Consider contacting the Denver Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Connecticut [Menu]

Amistad Catholic Worker
203 Rosette St
New Haven CT 06519

Phone: 203-624-5517

Email: amistadcw@msn.com

Consider contacting the Amistad Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Dorothy Day Hospitality House
11 Spring St
PO Box 922
Danbury CT 06813

Phone: 203-792-7494

Consider contacting the Dorothy Day Hospitality House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


New Covenant House of Hospitality
90 Fairfield Ave
PO Box 10883
Stamford CT 06902

Phone: 203-964-8228

Email: ccfcnch@aol.com

Consider contacting the New Covenant House of Hospitality to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


St Francis House
30 Broad Street
PO Box 2171
New London CT 07320-2171

Phone: 860 437-8890

Email: stfrancishosue@mindspring.com

St Francis House Home Page

Publication: TROUBADOUR

St. Francis House is a place of prayer, a house of hospitality, and a center for peace and justice ministry in New London, Connecticut. We are an intentional Christian community, rooted in Franciscan and Catholic Worker spirit, seeking conversion of life for ourselves through friendship with and service to God and our neighbors. We pray together daily, ground our life in Bible study, and do the work we believe God is calling us to in our inner city neighborhood.

At present our ministry includes work with homeless men and women in the Homeless Hospitality Center we helped to establish and continue to serve; urban education reform through our bilingual parents group; urban gardening; and resistance to war and Empire with fellow Catholic Workers and others.

Each summer we hold a weeklong residential "Radical Discipleship" course involving in debth Bible study, experience of other communities, and reflection on our discipleship in the 21st century US. We also have a Hermitage available for people seeking do make retreats or sabbath time.

Consider contacting the St Francis House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


St Martin de Porres House
26 Clark St
Hartford CT 06120

Phone: 860-724-7066

Email: doucot@sbcglobal.net

St Martin de Porres House Home Page

Publication: The Hartford CW

Food and furniture pantry. Food co-operative; Summer Youth Camp; resistance, seamless garment.

Consider contacting the St Martin de Porres House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


St Vincent de Paul Place
617 Main St
PO Box 398
Middletown CT 06457

Phone: 860-344-0097

Consider contacting the St Vincent de Paul Place to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


District of Columbia [Menu]

Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House
503 Rock Creek Church Rd NW
Washington DC 20010

Phone: 202-882-9649

Publication: The Little Way

A Community of Hospitality and Resistance
Hospitality to families, resistance work, a seamless garment community.

Consider contacting the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Florida [Menu]

Florida CW R&R
1645 58th Terr. S # 4
St Petersburg FL 33712

Phone: 727-867-6702

Email: marykm@cs.com

Pat & Mary Murray, old CW "lifers" would like to share their modest St. Pete condo, with solar heated pool, 15 minutes from Gulf beaches, with weary Workers who need a place to kick back in the sun for a spell.

Consider contacting the Florida CW R&R to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Gainesville Catholic Worker House
218 NW 2nd Ave
Gainesville FL 32601

Phone: (352) 271-6941

Email: johnnypcusa@yahoo.com

Gainesville Catholic Worker House Home Page

The Gainesville Catholic Worker community is a gospel-based community which feeds the hungry, offers hospitality to those who need shelter, and practices prophetic witness in opposition to violence and injustice. We aspire to a commitment to live out the gospel in a life of community, solidarity, service, prayer and witness rooted in our discipleship to Jesus.

Consider contacting the Gainesville Catholic Worker House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


St Francis House of Hospitality
932 W Smith St
Orlando FL 32804-5230

Phone: 407-423-7096

Consider contacting the St Francis House of Hospitality to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Georgia [Menu]

The Open Door Community
910 Ponce de Leon Ave NE
Atlanta GA 30306

Phone: 404-874-9652

The Open Door Community Home Page

Publication: Hospitality

Consider contacting the The Open Door Community to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Idaho [Menu]

Boise Catholic Worker
Dorothy Day Place
PO Box 7142
Boise ID 83707-1142

Phone: 208-345-8584

Email: boisecathworker@aol.com

Publication: Boise Catholic Worker Paraclete

Consider contacting the Boise Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Corpus Christi House
525 Americana Blvd
Boise ID 87302

Email: hkkrewer@spro.net

Publication: On Earth As In Heaven

Mailing address: PO Box 9722, Boise ID 83707
Contact: Henry Krewer
Phone: 208-853-9593
Email:hkkrewer@spro.net

Consider contacting the Corpus Christi House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Illinois [Menu]

Clare House of Hospitality
703 E Washington St
Bloomington IL 61701

Phone: 309-828-4035

Email: birdcls@aol.com

Publication: Clare House News

We have a food pantry and provide other necessary household items. We have a soup kitchen at Holy Trinity Parish Center twice-a-week.

Consider contacting the Clare House of Hospitality to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Emmaus House of Hospitality
277 E. Main St
Lake Zurich IL 60047

Phone: 847-726-4743

Email: gkoll@stfrancislz.org

We presently have Sunday community dinners for the homeless, poor and lonely. Average attendance 80+. We also have a food pantry ministry and are seeking to acquire a house for the homeless.

Consider contacting the Emmaus House of Hospitality to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Peoria Catholic Worker
2130 N Linn St
PO Box 6424
Peoria IL 61604-3644

Phone: 309-681-9892

Consider contacting the Peoria Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


St Elizabeth Catholic Worker
8025 S Honore
Chicago IL 60620

Phone: 773-874-2500 FAX 773-483-0123

Our guests at St. Elizabeth Catholic Worker are women with their children.

Consider contacting the St Elizabeth Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


St Francis of Assisi House of Hospitality
4652 N Kenmore
Chicago IL 60640

Phone: 773-561-5073

Publication: At The Door

Consider contacting the St Francis of Assisi House of Hospitality to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


St Jude Catholic Worker House
317 S Randolph St
PO Box 1612
Champaign IL 61820

Phone: 217-355-9774 or 217-398-3413

St Jude Catholic Worker House Home Page

Publication: Workers and Friends

St. Jude Catholic Worker House is a lay Catholic faith community that lives out the Gospel values by sheltering the homeless, feeding the hungry and practicing the Works of Mercy. The community offers a lunch seven days a week as well as emergency shelter on a limited basis. There is a small lending library of Worker and justice based materials. There is living space for 14 persons (women, children, and families). The community offers a noon soup kitchen seven days a week. There is a small lending library of Worker and justice based materials. We have two live-in volunteers in place, would welcome one or two more. Champaign is a pleasant, university town. Live-in volunteers can work part-time or attend classes.

Consider contacting the St Jude Catholic Worker House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Su Casa Catholic Worker Community
5045 S Laflin St
Chicago IL 60609

Phone: 773-376-9263

Email: sucasacw@juno.com

Su Casa Catholic Worker Community Home Page

Publication: Kairos

Su Casa is a response to the Gospel call to compassionate action. Our ministry assists homeless Latino families who are in need of the shelter, food, clothing, and hospitality that we are able to provide. We provide a healing environment for these families and help link them with social services needed to prepare them for independent and safer living circumstances. We also provide community outreach to our neighbors in the form of a co-op. Our aim is to increase trust and friendship among our neighbors. Finally, we wish to educate ourselves and others in matters of social justice. We do this through active participation in social justice issues, through our newsletter, Kairos, and through hosting Urban Plunge groups.

Volunteers needed:
We have several openings for volunteers.


Indiana [Menu]

Bloomington Christian Radical / Catholic Worker
577 Graham Place
Bloomington IN 47401

Phone: (812) 339-4456

Email: rossmartinieeiler@gmail.com

The Bloomington Christian Radical CW is an ecumenical Christian community that tries to live, pray and work both with each other and with the poor we encounter. We try to offer housing, food, clothing and love to people facing homelessness. We perform the works of mercy and nonviolently oppose the works of war. We strive to practice the Sermon on the Mount, community living, voluntary poverty, personalism, and care fo rthe environment. We have families and children here, all trying to build community together. We love hosting visitors and prospective volunteers so give us a call.

Consider contacting the Bloomington Christian Radical / Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Cesar Chavez House
3765 Michigan Ave
East Chicago IN 46312

Phone: 219-392-0419

Consider contacting the Cesar Chavez House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


House of Bread and Peace
250 E Chandler
Evansville IN 47713

Phone: 812-425-6754

Consider contacting the House of Bread and Peace to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


St. Peter Claver Catholic Worker
518 South St. Joseph Street
South Bend IN 46601

Phone: (574) 235 0623 and (574) 287-7734

Consider contacting the St. Peter Claver Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Iowa [Menu]

Clare House Catholic Worker
PO Box 1183
Cedar Rapids IA 52406

Phone: 319-364-4101

Publication: newsletter

INDEPENDENT LIVING FOR THOSE WITH HIV/AIDS. Application required. Call or write for information and facility location.

Consider contacting the Clare House Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Des Moines Catholic Worker
PO Box 4551
Des Moines IA 50306

Phone: 515-243-0765

Email: monashaw@aol.com or frank.cordaro@gmail.com

Des Moines Catholic Worker Home Page

Publication: Via Pacis

Bishop Dingman House
1310 7th Street
Des Moines, IA 50314
Tel: 515-243-0765

Msgr. Ligutti House
1301 8th Street
Des Moines, IA 50314
Tel: 515-246-9887

Lazarus House
1317 8th Street
Des Moines, IA 50314
Tel: 515-246-1499

Consider contacting the Des Moines Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Emma Cornelis Hospitality House
2733 Avenue N
Ft Madison IA 52627

Phone: 319-372-3983

Consider contacting the Emma Cornelis Hospitality House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Hope House
Dubuque Catholic Worker
1592 Locust St
Dubuque IA 52001

Phone: 563-582-9079

Publication: The Messenger of Hope

Consider contacting the Hope House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Mustard Seed Community Farm
366 W Ave
Ames IA 50014

Phone: 515-460-1467

Email: mustardseedbee@gmail.com

Mustard Seed Community Farm Home Page

Publication: Catholic Worker Farmer

Growing Season Address: 366 W Ave. Ames, IA 50014
Winter Address: 216 N Hazel Ames, IA 50010

We run a small CSA and share food with shelters, food kitchens, and foodshelves in the area.

Volunteers needed:
We would apprecciate helpers from late April to mid October, helping with farm chores and food distribution.


New Hope Catholic Worker Farm/Catholic Worker Scho
6697 Mitchell Mill Rd
LaMotte IA 52054

Phone: 563-556-0987

Email: catholicworkerschool@gmail.com

The New Hope Catholic Worker Farm was started in 2001. We are on 33 acres in a beautiful valley just south of Dubuque, Iowa. We have a half acre in vegetables and fruits, a milking cow, a flock of chickens and turkeys, as well as bees. We are interested in pursuing the ideal of the "worker-scholar" that Peter Maurin discussed. We host periodic school sessions for those seeking alternative education in a farm context. Please contact us if you would like to be notified of such events.

Consider contacting the New Hope Catholic Worker Farm/Catholic Worker Scho to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Oaks of Mamre Catholic Worker
1715 W. 9th St
Davenport IA 52804

Email: Oakscatholicworker@gmail.com

Consider contacting the Oaks of Mamre Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Simone Weil and Peter Maurin House -- Monastic
725 Hennepin Street
Dubuque IA 52001

Phone: (563) 583-6790

Email: simoneweil.petermaurinhouse@gmail.com

a Library of books and films in a House of Silence, which provides environment for inner work towards learning living, within ourselves, in deep communion with God; and then living it and acting it out as a way of Love. Repentance, prayer, Knowledge, healing. Simple, of old way, life in the House, and learning it. Also, variety of service to the victims of the system. The purpose of this House is to further the aims and goals of the Catholic Worker movement as expressed by Dorothy Day and, particularly, as expressed by Peter Maurin; to join in works and efforts of the newly established, in 2004, New Monasticism movement; please check NewMonasticism.org; to follow in footsteps of the Madonna Houses, founded by Catherine de Hueck Doherty, and as expressed by her in the book "Pustinia"; to learn about and draw from, and follow, the examples of the other deeply rooted in God spiritual/religious monastic or life communities like the ancient Essenes, the Bruderhof, or Amish and Hutterites; and, on the side of all those above combined, to form one unique small monastic community as a response to God's call toward all people for repentance and conversion, and then for living a way of love, which will bring fruits of truth, justice, and peace. The commitment and effort toward learning God's Law; and toward learning God's Ways; both as oppose to secular, that is "world's" law, and secular, that is "world's" ways; is the major goal and aim and purpose of this House. ...just established; still in process of organizing; official Open House date: December 8, 2009. In October 2009 we bought a small house in Dubuque, Iowa, and moved our library and household from Rockville, Maryland. We need donations to help with tremendous expenses we coped with; but also to begin our mission. To put the library up on shelves and to continue preparing the house we hope to be having already a person living with us; a person who is interested in the above described mission. We are waiting for contacts from you. Please call us to further inquire about the situation; and come and visit. We have no computer , therefore we are unable to check e-mail, so the best way for you is to call us. The address and phone number are: 725 Hennepin Street, Dubuque, Iowa, 52001; 563-583-6790. Love, Krystyna and Steven. If you would like to send a donation, please make it out to Simone Weil and Peter Maurin House-Monastic

Consider contacting the Simone Weil and Peter Maurin House -- Monastic to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


St Francis of Assisi Catholic Worker
PO Box 1533
Waterloo IA 50704

Phone: 319-232-2116

Publication: St. Francis Worker

Consider contacting the St Francis of Assisi Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


St John of the Cross Catholic Worker House
1027 5th Ave SE
Cedar Rapids IA 52403

Phone: 319-362-9041

Publication: Reflections

Consider contacting the St John of the Cross Catholic Worker House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Strangers & Guests Catholic Worker Community
108 Hillcrest Dr
Maloy IA 50836-8065

Phone: 641-785-2321

Consider contacting the Strangers & Guests Catholic Worker Community to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Kansas [Menu]

Divine Mercy Catholic Worker House
325 East 1st St
Lyons KS 67554

Phone: 620-257-5270

Email: mwlatiolais@sbcglobal.net

Consider contacting the Divine Mercy Catholic Worker House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Emmaus House
802 N 5th St
Garden City KS 67846

Phone: 316-275-2008

Consider contacting the Emmaus House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Shalom Catholic Worker House
2100 N 13th St
Kansas City KS 66104

Phone: 913-321-2206

Shalom Catholic Worker House Home Page

The Shalom Catholic Worker House is a community of diverse people living under one roof, striving to bring about an occasional glimpse of the Kingdom of God. We provide hospitality to 25 homeless men and promote issues of peace and justice.

Volunteers needed:
We are looking for volunteers who would like to join our community for 6 months or longer. Young people are especially encouraged to consider working and living with us. Responsibilities of community members include helping with chores, attending to the needs of our homeless guests, and engaging in peace and justice activities (as much as you are comfortable with). Community members are encouraged to have a part-time job outside of the house. Benefits include getting to know some of the best and most interesting people ever--those who live in our community, those who come to volunteer with us, our homeless guests and our neighbors. Before a commitment is made, we ask those interested to come and spend a week or a weekend with us so we can discern together if a longer commitment seems right. For more information about our house, please visit www.shalomcw.org or call Brad at 913-321-2206.


Kentucky [Menu]

Casa Latina Catholic Worker
230 Woodbine St
Louisville KY 40208

Phone: 502-636-5461 & 502-322-5631

Email: mscharfenberger@yahoo.com

Volunteers needed:
Looking for Spanish speaking CW volunteers for our house of hospitality.


Lousiana [Menu]

New Orleans Catholic Worker
1910 Constance St
New Orleans LA 70130

Phone: 504-527-5363

Email: cw@nolacatholicworker.org

New Orleans Catholic Worker Home Page

Consider contacting the New Orleans Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Maryland [Menu]

Catholic Worker Community
15405 Short Ridge Ct
Silver Spring MD 20906

Phone: 301-598-5427

Email: tobyterrar@aol.com

Catholic Worker Community Home Page

Our apostolate is senior citizens, hospitality and support for our Catholic Worker farm at Dalzell, South Carolina.

Consider contacting the Catholic Worker Community to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Viva House, Baltimore Catholic Worker
26 S Mount St
Baltimore MD 21223

Phone: 410-233-0488

Publication: Enthusiasm

1998 is the 30th anniversary of Viva House. Our community works an inner city soup kitchen at the house. There are an average of 270 people per meal. We have a food pantry and distribute about 8 tons of food per year.

We also offer legal services at the Sowebo Center for Justice (Sowebo is Southwest Baltimore). The law office is located at Viva House and offers services to our neighbors.

This year we are beginning an after school program for neighborhood children. We also run a summr camp. Currently live-in community members: Willa Bickham, Brendan Walsh, Dave Walsh-Little, and Kate Walsh-Little.

Consider contacting the Viva House, Baltimore Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Massachusetts [Menu]

Great Barrington Catholic Workers
PO Box 1046
Great Barrington MA 01230

Phone: 413-528-2155 & 413-243-6017

Email: worker@catholicworkers-gb.org

Great Barrington Catholic Workers Home Page

Consider contacting the Great Barrington Catholic Workers to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Haley House
23 Dartmouth St
Boston MA 02116

Phone: 617-236-8132 FAX 617-867-.0018

Email: info@haleyhouse.org

Haley House Home Page

Volunteers needed:
We are currently looking for interns and new community members. Check out our website for details.


Noonday Farm
PO Box 71
Winchendon Springs MA 01477

Phone: 508-297-1148

Consider contacting the Noonday Farm to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Rosie's Place
889 Harrison Ave
Boston MA 02118

Consider contacting the Rosie's Place to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


SS Francis & Therese Catholic Worker
52 Mason St
Worcester MA 01610

Phone: 508-753-3588

Publication: The Catholic Radical

Consider contacting the SS Francis & Therese Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


The Mustard Seed
PO Box 2592
Worcester MA 01613

Phone: 508-754-7098

Consider contacting the The Mustard Seed to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Michigan [Menu]

Day House
2640 Trumbull Ave
Detroit MI 48216

Phone: 313-963-4539

Email: dayhouse@flash.net

Day House Home Page

Publication: On the Edge

Consider contacting the Day House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Mustard Seed Catholic Worker
1325 Cherry St
Saginaw MI 48601-2619

Phone: 989-755-4741

Publication: The Seed

Mustard Seed Catholic Worker contacts:
Sr. Leona Sullivan
Maureen Coallier

Hospitality for women and children, resistance, urban housing issues and gardening. Catholic Worker scholarship. Weekly prayer Tuesdays at 7:30 a.m.

Consider contacting the Mustard Seed Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Minnesota [Menu]

Dorothy Day Center
183 Old Sixth St
St Paul MN 55102

Phone: 651-293-1919

Publication: House News

Consider contacting the Dorothy Day Center to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Dorothy Day Hospitality House
703 1st St SW
Rochester MN 55902

Phone: 507-282-5172

Publication: Dorothy Day Hospitality House

Consider contacting the Dorothy Day Hospitality House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Dorothy Day House of Hospitality
714 S 8th St
Moorhead MN 56560

Phone: 218-233-5763

Email: fmddh@cableone.net

Dorothy Day House of Hospitality Home Page

Publication: Dorothy Day Newsletter

Hospitality for 10 men and shower and laundry services available to non-guests.

Consider contacting the Dorothy Day House of Hospitality to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Loaves & Fishes Catholic Worker
Dorothy Day House
1712 Jefferson St
Duluth MN 55812

Phone: 218-724-2054

Email: loavesfishesduluth@riseup.net

Loaves & Fishes Catholic Worker Home Page

Publication: Loaves and Fishes Newsletter

Hannah House
1705 Jefferson
Duluth MN 55812
Phone: 218-728-4385

The Olive Branch
1614 Jefferson St
Duluth MN 55812
Phone: 218-728-0629

1) Hospitality. We open our houses to visitors and provide shelter and assistance to homeless men, women, and families with children.
2) Resistance. We organize vigils and protests against militarism, participate in nonviolent direct action, and support other environmental and justice causes.
3) Community living. We seek to move towards an organic and sustainable lifestyle, voluntary simplicity, sharing of resources, nonviolent interpersonal relationships, greater reliability, shorter meetings and more fun.
4) Spirituality. Not all are Catholic, not all are Christian - but all are encouraged to make progress along their spiritual path. We set time aside for prayer and meditation, rotate leadership in Sunday evening liturgy, and seek to provide an environment for spiritual growth. The only pay we receive is room and board. We depend on our own work and gifts from members of our extended community who give at a personal sacrifice. We neither seek nor accept government or foundation money. We are not tax exempt.

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Who we are& Loaves & Fishes is a struggling community - struggling to change ourselves and transform the world. We envision a world without hunger, homelessness, war, and all other forms of violence. The community seeks to be a catalyst for personal and global transformation. We live day by day inside this hope for change. Loaves & Fishes is rooted in the Catholic Worker tradition begun in 1933 during the Great Depression by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin. Like them, we seek to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." Our work focuses on four areas:
1) Hospitality. We open our houses to visitors and provide shelter and assistance to homeless men, women, and families with children.
2) Resistance. We organize vigils and protests against militarism, participate in nonviolent direct action, and support other environmental and justice causes.
3) Community living. We seek to move towards an organic and sustainable lifestyle, voluntary simplicity, sharing of resources, nonviolent interpersonal relationships, greater reliability, shorter meetings and more fun.
4) Spirituality. Not all are Catholic, not all are Christian - but all are encouraged to make progress along their spiritual path. We set time aside for prayer and meditation, rotate leadership in Sunday evening liturgy, and seek to provide an environment for spiritual growth. The only pay we receive is room and board. We depend on our own work and gifts from members of our extended community who give at a personal sacrifice. We neither seek nor accept government or foundation money. We are not tax exempt.

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Who we are& Loaves & Fishes is a struggling community - struggling to change ourselves and transform the world. We envision a world without hunger, homelessness, war, and all other forms of violence. The community seeks to be a catalyst for personal and global transformation. We live day by day inside this hope for change. Loaves & Fishes is rooted in the Catholic Worker tradition begun in 1933 during the Great Depression by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin. Like them, we seek to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." Our work focuses on four areas:
1) Hospitality. We open our houses to visitors and provide shelter and assistance to homeless men, women, and families with children.
2) Resistance. We organize vigils and protests against militarism, participate in nonviolent direct action, and support other environmental and justice causes.
3) Community living. We seek to move towards an organic and sustainable lifestyle, voluntary simplicity, sharing of resources, nonviolent interpersonal relationships, greater reliability, shorter meetings and more fun.
4) Spirituality. Not all are Catholic, not all are Christian - but all are encouraged to make progress along their spiritual path. We set time aside for prayer and meditation, rotate leadership in Sunday evening liturgy, and seek to provide an environment for spiritual growth. The only pay we receive is room and board. We depend on our own work and gifts from members of our extended community who give at a personal sacrifice. We neither seek nor accept government or foundation money. We are not tax exempt.

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2) Resistance. We organize vigils and protests against militarism, participate in nonviolent direct action, and support other environmental and justice causes.
3) Community living. We seek to move towards an organic and sustainable lifestyle, voluntary simplicity, sharing of resources, nonviolent interpersonal relationships, greater reliability, shorter meetings and more fun.
4) Spirituality. Not all are Catholic, not all are Christian - but all are encouraged to make progress along their spiritual path. We set time aside for prayer and meditation, rotate leadership in Sunday evening liturgy, and seek to provide an environment for spiritual growth. The only pay we receive is room and board. We depend on our own work and gifts from members of our extended community who give at a personal sacrifice. We neither seek nor accept government or foundation money. We are not tax exempt.

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Who we are& Loaves & Fishes is a struggling community - struggling to change ourselves and transform the world. We envision a world without hunger, homelessness, war, and all other forms of violence. The community seeks to be a catalyst for personal and global transformation. We live day by day inside this hope for change. Loaves & Fishes is rooted in the Catholic Worker tradition begun in 1933 during the Great Depression by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin. Like them, we seek to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." Our work focuses on four areas:
1) Hospitality. We open our houses to visitors and provide shelter and assistance to homeless men, women, and families with children.
2) Resistance. We organize vigils and protests against militarism, participate in nonviolent direct action, and support other environmental and justice causes.
3) Community living. We seek to move towards an organic and sustainable lifestyle, voluntary simplicity, sharing of resources, nonviolent interpersonal relationships, greater reliability, shorter meetings and more fun.
4) Spirituality. Not all are Catholic, not all are Christian - but all are encouraged to make progress along their spiritual path. We set time aside for prayer and meditation, rotate leadership in Sunday evening liturgy, and seek to provide an environment for spiritual growth. The only pay we receive is room and board. We depend on our own work and gifts from members of our extended community who give at a personal sacrifice. We neither seek nor accept government or foundation money. We are not tax exempt.

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1) Hospitality. We open our houses to visitors and provide shelter and assistance to homeless men, women, and families with children.
2) Resistance. We organize vigils and protests against militarism, participate in nonviolent direct action, and support other environmental and justice causes.
3) Community living. We seek to move towards an organic and sustainable lifestyle, voluntary simplicity, sharing of resources, nonviolent interpersonal relationships, greater reliability, shorter meetings and more fun.
4) Spirituality. Not all are Catholic, not all are Christian - but all are encouraged to make progress along their spiritual path. We set time aside for prayer and meditation, rotate leadership in Sunday evening liturgy, and seek to provide an environment for spiritual growth. The only pay we receive is room and board. We depend on our own work and gifts from members of our extended community who give at a personal sacrifice. We neither seek nor accept government or foundation money. We are not tax exempt.

" COLS="50" ROWS="5"> 1) Hospitality. We open our houses to visitors and provide shelter and assistance to homeless men, women, and families with children.
2) Resistance. We organize vigils and protests against militarism, participate in nonviolent direct action, and support other environmental and justice causes.
3) Community living. We seek to move towards an organic and sustainable lifestyle, voluntary simplicity, sharing of resources, nonviolent interpersonal relationships, greater reliability, shorter meetings and more fun.
4) Spirituality. Not all are Catholic, not all are Christian - but all are encouraged to make progress along their spiritual path. We set time aside for prayer and meditation, rotate leadership in Sunday evening liturgy, and seek to provide an environment for spiritual growth. The only pay we receive is room and board. We depend on our own work and gifts from members of our extended community who give at a personal sacrifice. We neither seek nor accept government or foundation money. We are not tax exempt.

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Who we are& Loaves & Fishes is a struggling community - struggling to change ourselves and transform the world. We envision a world without hunger, homelessness, war, and all other forms of violence. The community seeks to be a catalyst for personal and global transformation. We live day by day inside this hope for change. Loaves & Fishes is rooted in the Catholic Worker tradition begun in 1933 during the Great Depression by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin. Like them, we seek to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." Our work focuses on four areas:
1) Hospitality. We open our houses to visitors and provide shelter and assistance to homeless men, women, and families with children.
2) Resistance. We organize vigils and protests against militarism, participate in nonviolent direct action, and support other environmental and justice causes.
3) Community living. We seek to move towards an organic and sustainable lifestyle, voluntary simplicity, sharing of resources, nonviolent interpersonal relationships, greater reliability, shorter meetings and more fun.
4) Spirituality. Not all are Catholic, not all are Christian - but all are encouraged to make progress along their spiritual path. We set time aside for prayer and meditation, rotate leadership in Sunday evening liturgy, and seek to provide an environment for spiritual growth. The only pay we receive is room and board. We depend on our own work and gifts from members of our extended community who give at a personal sacrifice. We neither seek nor accept government or foundation money. We are not tax exempt.

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Who we are& Loaves & Fishes is a struggling community - struggling to change ourselves and transform the world. We envision a world without hunger, homelessness, war, and all other forms of violence. The community seeks to be a catalyst for personal and global transformation. We live day by day inside this hope for change. Loaves & Fishes is rooted in the Catholic Worker tradition begun in 1933 during the Great Depression by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin. Like them, we seek to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." Our work focuses on four areas:
1) Hospitality. We open our houses to visitors and provide shelter and assistance to homeless men, women, and families with children.
2) Resistance. We organize vigils and protests against militarism, participate in nonviolent direct action, and support other environmental and justice causes.
3) Community living. We seek to move towards an organic and sustainable lifestyle, voluntary simplicity, sharing of resources, nonviolent interpersonal relationships, greater reliability, shorter meetings and more fun.
4) Spirituality. Not all are Catholic, not all are Christian - but all are encouraged to make progress along their spiritual path. We set time aside for prayer and meditation, rotate leadership in Sunday evening liturgy, and seek to provide an environment for spiritual growth. The only pay we receive is room and board. We depend on our own work and gifts from members of our extended community who give at a personal sacrifice. We neither seek nor accept government or foundation money. We are not tax exempt.

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2) Resistance. We organize vigils and protests against militarism, participate in nonviolent direct action, and support other environmental and justice causes.
3) Community living. We seek to move towards an organic and sustainable lifestyle, voluntary simplicity, sharing of resources, nonviolent interpersonal relationships, greater reliability, shorter meetings and more fun.
4) Spirituality. Not all are Catholic, not all are Christian - but all are encouraged to make progress along their spiritual path. We set time aside for prayer and meditation, rotate leadership in Sunday evening liturgy, and seek to provide an environment for spiritual growth. The only pay we receive is room and board. We depend on our own work and gifts from members of our extended community who give at a personal sacrifice. We neither seek nor accept government or foundation money. We are not tax exempt.

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Who we are& Loaves & Fishes is a struggling community - struggling to change ourselves and transform the world. We envision a world without hunger, homelessness, war, and all other forms of violence. The community seeks to be a catalyst for personal and global transformation. We live day by day inside this hope for change. Loaves & Fishes is rooted in the Catholic Worker tradition begun in 1933 during the Great Depression by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin. Like them, we seek to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." Our work focuses on four areas:
1) Hospitality. We open our houses to visitors and provide shelter and assistance to homeless men, women, and families with children.
2) Resistance. We organize vigils and protests against militarism, participate in nonviolent direct action, and support other environmental and justice causes.
3) Community living. We seek to move towards an organic and sustainable lifestyle, voluntary simplicity, sharing of resources, nonviolent interpersonal relationships, greater reliability, shorter meetings and more fun.
4) Spirituality. Not all are Catholic, not all are Christian - but all are encouraged to make progress along their spiritual path. We set time aside for prayer and meditation, rotate leadership in Sunday evening liturgy, and seek to provide an environment for spiritual growth. The only pay we receive is room and board. We depend on our own work and gifts from members of our extended community who give at a personal sacrifice. We neither seek nor accept government or foundation money. We are not tax exempt.

Consider contacting the Loaves & Fishes Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Maryhouse of Little Canada
456 E Little Canada Rd
Little Canada MN 55117

Phone: 651-481-0907

Email: atbiscig@aol.com

Volunteers needed:
Consider contacting the Maryhouse community to volunteer your time or to participate in the community life. We are currently in need of a resident housemother.


Solanus Casey House of Hospitality
314 West St Croix Ave
Stillwater MN 55082

Phone: 651-275-0339

Consider contacting the Solanus Casey House of Hospitality to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


St Francis House
1219 N William St
Stillwater MN 55082

Phone: 651-430-0306

Email: tom@peacehouse.org

St Francis House Home Page

Consider contacting the St Francis House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Winona Catholic Worker
PO Box 102
Winona MN 55987

Phone: 507-454-8094 & 507-457-3451

Email: winonacatholicworker@gmail.com

Winona Catholic Worker Home Page

Publication: Winona Catholic Worker

We are two houses of hospitality in the Catholic Worker tradition offering drop-in hospitality and evening meal for anyone in need, Monday thru Friday at the Dan Corcoran House (802 W Broadway). We also offer overnight hospitality for single men at Bethany House (832 W Broadway). We publish a newsletter, hold monthly roundtable discussions on topics of current interest, and occaisionally organize community events of prayer and protest. All are welcome to join us for weekly Eucharistic lturgy on Mondays at 5:00pm, folowed by community supper.

Volunteers needed:
We are seeking live-in community members to share in intentional community and the works of mercy. If you are a light-hearted, compassionate, spiritually grounded person you might enjoy sharing your life with the poor in our small, family style houses of hopsitality. Winona is a small city in southeastern Minnesota, located between the Mississippi River and its bluffs. The scenic beauty of the area helps to strengthen our awareness of rural life and farming issues, while maintaining a global justice perspective. If you are interested, please contact us by phone at 507.454.8094, or email at winonacatholicworker@gmail.com, or by our PO Box 102, Winona, MN 55987.


Missouri [Menu]

Carl Kabat House
1450 Monroe St
St Louis MO 63106

Phone: 314-621-7099

Email: kabathouse@gmail

We do hospitality for men and women with a focus on immigrants and Spanish-speakers. We also do a lot of activism.

Consider contacting the Carl Kabat House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Cherith Brook Catholic Worker House
3308 E 12th St
Kansas City MO 64127

Phone: 816-241-8047

Email: cherithbrookkcmo@yahoo.com

Cherith Brook Catholic Worker House Home Page

We are a community that practices the works of mercy, peacemaking, and hospitality. We offer temporary housing, showers, clothes, and a warm meal to our friends from the streets.

Consider contacting the Cherith Brook Catholic Worker House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Columbia Catholic Worker Community
913 Rangeline St
Columbia MO 65201

Phone: 573-875-7874, 573-442-4502 (Fax)

Email: sfhcw913@aol.com

Publication: Harvest of Justice

St. Francis House-901 Rangeline St - 573-875-7878 and 573-875-4913

Z. Lois Bryant House- 913 Rangeline St - 573-875-7874 and 573-443-0096

Loaves & Fishes Soup Kitchen- 616 Park St

Contacts : Lana and Steve Jacobs

Fax:573-442-4502

Our community houses 30-40 homeless people nightly. About 10 of our guests are long term. We do hospice with guests from the streets and the prisons. We are a consistent life community working in justice issues around life issues. Currently working to close the SOA and end sanctions in Iraq. Disability rights and oppostion to assisted suicide with Not Dead Yet. (Lana and Steve's daughter Heather DeMien is a national Disability Rights leader.) The core community has been together 16 years.

Consider contacting the Columbia Catholic Worker Community to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Ella Dickson House
1538 N 17th St
St Louis MO 63106

Phone: 314-231-2039

Consider contacting the Ella Dickson House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Holy Family House
912 E 31St St
Kansas City MO 64109

Phone: 816-753-2677

Publication: Kinship

Consider contacting the Holy Family House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Karen House Catholic Worker
1840 Hogan St
St Louis MO 63106

Phone: 314-621-4052

Karen House Catholic Worker Home Page

Publication: The Round Table

Consider contacting the Karen House Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Loaves and Fishes Soup Kitchen
613 Park Ave
Columbia MO 65201

Phone: 573-875-0826

Publication: Harvest of Justice

Consider contacting the Loaves and Fishes Soup Kitchen to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


St Francis House
901 Rangeline St
Columbia MO 65201

Phone: 573-875-4913

Email: sfhcw913@aol.com

Consider contacting the St Francis House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Montana [Menu]

BitterRoot Catholic Worker Farm
4724 Hoover Lane
Stevensville MT 59870

Phone: 406-239-5379

Email: errb333@hotmail.com

We are a 4 acre farm/orchard in Southwestern Montana - south of Missoula (location of the University of Montana). We are an intentional community practicing simple, sustainable community living and exploring renewable energy and recycling. We offer individual retreat space to Catholic Worker workers. We manage an orchard and an expanding garden to produce our food and excess for the homeless shelter in Missoula. Community members work with fragile children, for the church's Newman Center and at the homeless shelter. We are able to host two individuals or two couples at a time or a family (especially in the summer). There are monthly Clarification of Thought meetings to expand the knowledge of Catholic Worker ideas in the Montana community. To participate in any of the above please contact Becky Bishop at errb333@hotmail.com or at 406-239-5379.

Consider contacting the BitterRoot Catholic Worker Farm to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Nebraska [Menu]

Dorothy Day Catholic Worker
801 N 20th
PO Box 31022
Omaha NE 68131

Phone: 402-341-2400

Consider contacting the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


MaryFarm
RR 2 Box 78
Wisner NE 68791

Phone: 402-529-3294

Consider contacting the MaryFarm to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Omaha Catholic Worker Community
1104 N 24th Street
PO BOX 20111
Omaha NE 68120-0111

Phone: 402-502-5887 Ask for Jerry Ebner

Email: cwomaha@gmail.com

Omaha Catholic Worker Community Home Page

The OCWC is an intentional, Christian community of folks who are committed to living out the Gospel and nonviolent teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, in their daily lives.

We find these teachings especially in the Sermon on the Mount, the Gospels, and Church teachings. We are a living continuation of the Catholic Worker movement started in 1933, New York City, by our co-founders Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin (www, catholicworker.org)

The history of the Catholic Worker in Omaha, Nebraska began in the 1970s and this new adventure is an attempt to restart and continue what others have started.

Our aim is to live in voluntary poverty; do the works of mercy; advocate for justice for the poor; be a prophetic nonviolence witness of Christ against injustice, militarism and all weapons of mass destruction belonging to any nation-state and military. We strive to live in a simple nonviolent lifestyle, pray daily, celebrate liturgy as often as possible and offer hospitality for 6 homeless men on a temporary basis.

We encourage others outside of our small community to help us, and work with us, in a nonviolent spirit. We invite all seekers of peace, nonviolence and peace to stop by the house and visit, share a meal, pray with us, and together do the work of building the reign of God as Jesus says: on earth as it is in heaven

We are not tax exempt and we decidedly choose to be otherwise, as our co-founders have asked us to be, and to ask people to give accordingly of their abundance at a personal sacrifice while never asking Caesar to acknowledge and give us a tax credit for our gifts, but only ask that God alone recognize them. We are not governed by any government, or church institution or denomination. We are governed by the core-community of folks taking the responsibility of running the house. We do not get paid for our work. Our Work is our life in living Christ-like as possible recognizing our failings, while seeking forgiveness from one another, in a nonviolent loving witness with the poor.

Volunteers needed:
We are in great need of 1 or 2 people for full time live-in responsibility. We are looking for people with a pioneering spirit, prayerful attitude and presence. We have just opened the house 9-5-2006 and we are in the process of cleaning and painting and old house and making it beautiful and suitable for our guests, hopefully by October/November of 2006. This is a very exciting possibility of faith in action, enfolding each and everyday toward our goal of serving the poor of God, with lots of extended community support in Omaha, Nebraska.


Nevada [Menu]

Las Vegas Catholic Worker
St John the Baptist House
500 W Van Buren
Las Vegas NV 89106

Phone: 702-647-0728

Las Vegas Catholic Worker Home Page

Publication: Manna in the Wilderness

Consider contacting the Las Vegas Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


New Jersey [Menu]

Elizabeth Catholic Worker
118 Division Street
Elizabeth NJ 07201

Phone: 908-355-2060

Email: junebieniasz@earthlink.net

Interfaith, community group that has monthly gatherings focusing on social justice, peace, the environment. We have a bi-monthly newsletter & many of our members already work within the homeless community. We are currently working toward a house for hospitality, but in the meantime will continue our peace & justice work.

Consider contacting the Elizabeth Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Leavenhouse
644 State St
Camden NJ 08102

Phone: 609-966-4596

Publication: Leavenhouse

Consider contacting the Leavenhouse to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


New Mexico [Menu]

Casa de las Comunidades Catholic Worker
923 Pacific SW
Albuquerque NM 87101

Phone: 505-247-1387

Email: catholicworker@musicforprogress.com

Publication: La Voz de las Communidades

Provide food, clothing, advocacy, and limited hospitality.

Consider contacting the Casa de las Comunidades Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Trinity House Catholic Worker
PO Box 4099
Albuquerque NM 87196

Phone: 505-242-0497

Trinity House hosts free community picnics twice per week, supports nuclear abolition, and is an intentional community just beginning in Albuquerque. Homeless guests will receive room and board when our house opens.

Consider contacting the Trinity House Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


New York [Menu]

Bethany House Rochester Catholic Worker
1111 Joseph Avenue
Rochester NY 14621

Phone: 585-454-4197

Email: rbethan1@rochester.rr.com

Publication: Day by Day

Volunteers needed:
We are a Catholic Worker House of Hospitality serving homeless women and children is in need of a full-time, live-in staff person. We offer room, board, health insurance, and a stipend plus, the opportunity to live out the philosophy of Catholic Worker. If interested contact Donna Ecker at 169 St. Bridget's Dr. Rochester, NY 14605 or call (585) 454-4197. E-mail is rbethan1@rochester.rr.com.


Casa de la Paz
34 Jamaica Ave
Wyandanch NY 11798

Phone: 516-491-9601

Consider contacting the Casa de la Paz to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Catholic Worker of Niagara Falls
931 Niagara Ave
PO Box 297
Niagara Falls NY 14305

Phone: 716-282-8683

Email: cwniagara@sysr.com

Consider contacting the Catholic Worker of Niagara Falls to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Dorothy Day House
PO Box 77
Syracuse NY 13205

Phone: 315-474-7011

Publication: Dorothy Day House Newsletter

Consider contacting the Dorothy Day House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Emmaus House
Albany Catholic Worker
45 Trinity Place
Albany NY 12202

Phone: (518) 482-4966

Email: fred.acw@gmail.com, dianaconroy@gmail.com

Fred Boehrer & Diana Conroy

Consider contacting the Emmaus House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Friends of Dorothy Catholic Worker
212 Wayne St
Syracuse NY 13203

Phone: 315-471-6853

Hospitality with people with HIV/AIDS.

Consider contacting the Friends of Dorothy Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Hesed House
167 Palmer Ave
Syracuse NY 13204

Consider contacting the Hesed House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Holy Family Catholic Worker
26 South Goodwin
Elmsford NY 10523

Phone: 914-762-3914

Email: HolyFamily7123@aol.com

Holy Family Catholic Worker Home Page

Consider contacting the house to volunteer, and help with visiting the homeless, distributing food, seeking shelter for them, accompany needy to hospitals and Social service appointments, visiting the jail, and the sick. We are seeking a permanent home were we can have a house of hospitality, the one we have now is limited to women.

Consider contacting the Holy Family Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Maryhouse
55 E Third St
New York NY 10003

Phone: 212-777-9617

Publication: The Catholic Worker

New York Catholic Worker Records, 1915- at Marquette University

Consider contacting the Maryhouse to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Peter Maurin Farm
41 Cemetery Rd
Marlboro NY 12542

Phone: 845-236-4774

Consider contacting the Peter Maurin Farm to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Rosa House Peace Community -- Troy Catholic Worker
PO Box 1511
Troy NY 12181

Phone: (518) 272-1468

Publication: The Sower

Visiting address: 2251 Old Sixth Avenue Troy, New York 12180

Contact: Geralyn McDowell

Consider contacting the Rosa House Peace Community -- Troy Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Slocum House
208 Slocum Ave
Syracuse NY 13204

Phone: 315-424-1877

Publication: Thursday's Obligation

Volunteers needed:
Slocum House/Jail Ministry, Syracuse, NY: Seeks justice workers Slocum House is a Worker-inspired house with a rich tradition of hospitality, anti-war peace and justice work, as well as the home of Jail Ministry, a full-time organization working with those arrested and held in the local jail. The house has opening for a couple or a couple of individuals to live in the house, share the living/working space and make their contribution to the work of justice. Those living here are asked to contribute a modest monthly amount (depending on ability and needs, from $150-200) to help cover house costs and to contribute 3 hours a week for house chores. The house is busy during the day and generally quiet during the evening and on weekends. Groups such as Pax Christi and Nosotros (a local radio station) hold their monthly meetings at the house. Long distance phone lines and internet access are here in the house. The house offers a great opportunity to live simply and to work for justice. We seek those how are spiritually grounded, as Catholic Worker, Buddhist Worker or perhaps a Worker Worker. Call and leave your name and phone number so we can discuss possibilities: paul frazier: 315-475-2811.


St Joseph House
36 E First St
New York NY 10003

Phone: 212-254-1640

Publication: The Catholic Worker

Consider contacting the St Joseph House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


St Joseph's House of Hospitality
402 South Ave
PO Box 31049
Rochester NY 14603

Phone: 585-232-3262

Email: cathwork@frontiernet.net

St Joseph's House of Hospitality Home Page

Publication: Rochester Catholic Worker

At St. Joseph's House of Hospitality, the sources of our spirit and the direction are the teachings of Jesus and the founding work of Dorothy Day. Since 1941, we have been an independent, non-profit organization, sustained by the donations and financial contribution of individuals and groups. We accept no funds from the government. We are rooted in the belief that through God we are provided with our daily needs.

Consistent with the philosophy of the Catholic Worker Movement, we share our hope for a "new society," a new way of being with one another. People who come to this house are "guests," ambassadors of God. We attempt to form the community through commitment to the following:

  • Acceptance of the personal
  • Obligation of attending to the needs of our brothers and sisters
  • A daily practice of the works of mercy - feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, visiting the imprisoned, comforting the sorrowful
  • The practice of non-violent witness for peace and justice.

Volunteers needed:
Our Catholic Worker House of Hospitality serves a hot meal daily for about 100 people. We provide hospitality year round and winter emergency shelter. We are in need of full time, live-in staff. We can provide room, board and stipend. If interested contact: Tom Malthaner at PO Box 31049, 14603 zip code, or call the house: 585-232-3262, email: cathwork41@frontiernet.net.


St. Fiacre Gardens
364 Merchants Rd
Rochester NY 14609

Phone: 585-288-1073

Email: fiacregardens@yahoo.com

St. Fiacre Gardens Home Page

Daily work, prayer and meditation in the spirit of St. Benedict's "ora et labora" at a Microfarm & Agronomic University.

We run a small CSA 12 months/year with a diverse orchard, hundreds of vegetables, herbs, and cutflowers. There are 7 urban and suburban gardens around the county, 50+ "adopted" fruit trees, year-round fresh produce with our greens hoophouse and root cellar. We also host a Peter Maurin Study Group, cooperative educational events on local food sufficiency (canning, pickles, tofu-making, etc.), and organic farming apprenticeships which are available mid-February to mid-November.

Volunteers needed:
We are now accepting Farm Apprenticeship applications for 2011. We are also looking to recruit a full-time Catholic Worker Farmer to join in the community work and prayer, and the management of the expanding orchard and gardens


St. Francis Farm
136 Wart Road
Lacona NY 13083

Phone: (315) 298-2844

St. Francis Farm Home Page

Consider contacting the St. Francis Farm to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Unity Acres
2290 Co Rte 2
Orwell NY 13426

Phone: 315-298-6215

Publication: Unity Acres

Providing lon-term hospitality to approximately 100 men.

Consider contacting the Unity Acres to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Unity Kitchen Community of the CW
385 W Onondaga St
PO Box 650
Syracuse NY 13202

Phone: 315-478-5552

Publication: Unity Grapevine

Consider contacting the Unity Kitchen Community of the CW to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Utica Catholic Worker
PO Box 8128
Utica NY 13505

Email: UticaCW@aol.com

Utica Catholic Worker Home Page

Consider contacting the Utica Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Zacchaeus House
89 Pine St
Binghampton NY 13901

Phone: 607-773-0246

Publication: Zacchaeus House

Consider contacting the Zacchaeus House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


North Carolina [Menu]

Fr. Charles Mulholland Catholic Worker
124 Perdue St
Garner NC 27529

Phone: 919-779-1912

Consider contacting the Fr. Charles Mulholland Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Nazareth House Catholic Worker
2720 Poole Rd
Raleigh NC 27610

Phone: (919) 231-9752

Email: nazhouse@att.net

Nazareth House Catholic Worker Home Page

Publication: Instrument of Peace

Consider contacting the Nazareth House Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Silk Hope Catholic Worker
3355 Woody Store Rd
Siler City NC 27344

Phone: 919-663-4334

Consider contacting the Silk Hope Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Ohio [Menu]

Casa San Jose
2040 W 41st St
Cleveland OH 44113

Phone: 216-631-4726

Consider contacting the Casa San Jose to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Catholic Worker Community of Akron
838 Princeton St
Akron OH 44311

Phone: 330-384-1112

Email: akroncw@yahoo.com

Catholic Worker Community of Akron Home Page

Publication: Catholic Worker Community of Akron News

Houses and work of the Catholic Worker of Akron:

House of Peace
838 Princeton St.
Akron, OH 44311
330-384-1112
Contact: Aine Donovan
Hospitality for women and children.

Casa Maria Jose 834 Princeton St.
Akron, OH 44311
330-376-8301
Contact: Sr. Catherine Walsh
Hospitality to the Hispanic community.

Matthew 25 House
842 Princeton St.
Akron, OH 44311
330-253-9372
330-384-1425
Contact: Joe May
Hospitality for homeless men.

Dorothy Day House
865 Princeton St.
Akron, OH 44311
330-384-1430
Contact: Aine Donovan
Volunteer house.

Volunteers needed:

We are looking for full-time live-in volunteers as well as part-time volunteers.



Colette Marie Infant Home
38135 Colorado Ave
Avon OH 44011

Phone: 216-934-5390

Consider contacting the Colette Marie Infant Home to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Columbus Catholic Worker
1614 Oakland Park Ave
Columbus OH 43224

Phone: 614-267-3322

Email: bruces1296@aol.com; franklesko@yahoo.com

Columbus Catholic Worker Home Page

We are an intentional Christian community living in the former convent at St. James the Less Catholic Church in Columbus, with many community members also living off site. We are newly moved in as of January 2009. Our ministries are evolving but so far include the following: We pray regularly together as a community. We offer our 20-bedroom facility for retreats and workshops. We started offering fee meals to the community and regularly host a Hispanic legal clinic. Plans are underway for ESL classes, community garden, and hospitality for the homeless. Our community has been involved in activism against the death penalty. We share a building with a food pantry of the St. Vincent de Paul Society and are looking for ways to add more services such as hot meals, clothing distribution, free store, etc. We are eager to offer hospitality to traveling Catholic Workers and activists.

Volunteers needed:
We are excited to welcome others as either full or part-time Workers, including those who want to live with us in community. We welcome your input in either developing new ministries or supporting the ones we currently have! Come talk to us!


Dorothy Day House
Xavier University
3800 Victory Pkwy
Cincinnati OH 45207-2910

Phone: 513-745-3046

Email: urmston@admin.xu.edu

We are a center on the campus of Xavier University where students can read about, study, and act on social justice issues. We are not a house of hospitality but staff and faculty of Xavier serve on the boards of St. Francis and St. Joseph Catholic Worker houses in Cincinnati.

Consider contacting the Dorothy Day House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Dorothy Day House of Hospitality
PO BOX 863
Youngstown OH 44501

Phone: 330-301-8698

Email: annhm@me.com

Dorothy Day House of Hospitality Home Page

The Dorothy Day House, at 620 Belmont Ave in Youngstown, offers hospitality four times a week. Dinner is served Monday-Thursday from 5:00 to 6:30 PM, and free showers are offered on Tuesday evenings from 3 to 4:45 PM. Roundtable discussions of social justice topics are held on the fourth Thursday evening of the month beginning at 7 PM. Volunteers are welcome to assist with chefing, serving meals, showers, gardening, and miscellaneous tasks around the house. We are a relativley new Catholic Worker community (we opened our doors in November 2009) who strives to be grounded in the works of mercy, hospitality and non violence.

Consider contacting the Dorothy Day House of Hospitality to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Grace Place Catholic Worker Community
6037 Cary Ave
Cincinnati OH 45224

Phone: 513-681-2365

Email: graceplacecw@fuse.net

Grace Place Catholic Worker Community Home Page

Publication: Grace Notes

The mission of Grace Place is to provide temporary shelter and hospitality for women in transition from homelessness in a setting which is homelike, healthy, loving and supportive, and to educate and advocate to create a just society. Our house is in an old racially and economically diverse neighborhood.

Consider contacting the Grace Place Catholic Worker Community to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Mary Queen of Peace House
Dayton Catholic Worker Movement
1046 Huffman Ave
Dayton OH 45403

Phone: 937-227-1365

Email: http://devols@woh.rr.com/

The Dayton Catholic Worker Movement operates a house of hospitality for six homeless guests labeled working poor, mentally ill, ex-felon, and addict. We mentor social cooperative business development - helping people to help themselves. A cooperative is defined as an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise.

MISSION: The mission of Mary Queen of Peace House is to introduce homeless people labeled working poor, mentally ill, ex-felon, and addict to relationship with God.

VALUES:  Mary Queen of Peace House core values are guided by faith in Jesus Christ and Catholic Social Teaching, to include: (1) life and dignity of the human person; (2) call to family, community and participation; (3) human rights and responsibilities; (4) preferential option for the poor and vulnerable; (5) the dignity of work and rights of workers; (6) solidarity; and, (7) care for God's creation.

METHOD: Mary Queen of Peace House community life is ordered daily by the ancient monastic rhythm of Mass, community prayer, work structured as social cooperative and 12 Step study groups.  

CO-OP PROGRAMS:         Stay-at-Home Mom Call Center Cooperative

            Paint Contractors Cooperative

            MS Office Live Design Partner Cooperative

            Print-on-Demand Copy Center Cooperative

            Catholic Internet Television Network Cooperative

            Catholic Creative Commons Cooperative (Peacemakers College Social Documentary)

Volunteers needed:

Mentors with relevant industry experience who want to experience God's love in relationship with His homeless ambassadors.  



St Francis / St Joseph Catholic Worker
1437 Walnut St
PO Box 14274
Cincinnati OH 45250

Phone: 513-381-4941

St Francis / St Joseph Catholic Worker Home Page

Publication: St. Francis/St. Joseph Catholic Worker

The St. Francis/St. Joseph CW is a house of hospitality for 15 homeless men, open since 1984. We also provide a soup kitchen 3 days/week and host an AA meeting 2 times/week. We are interested in receiving newslettes and sending our newsletter to people interested in our house. We can house a guest who is interested in the Catholic Worker Movement or one who would like to visit from another Catholic Worker House.

Consider contacting the St Francis / St Joseph Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


St Herman's Monastary & House of Hospitality
4410 Franklin Blvd
PO Box 6448
Cleveland OH 44113-2896

Phone: 216-961-3806

Consider contacting the St Herman's Monastary & House of Hospitality to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Whitman House
3601 Whitman Ave
Cleveland OH 44113

Phone: 216-631-3059

Publication: Inherit the Earth

Drop in center at 4241 Lorain Ave.

Consider contacting the Whitman House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Oklahoma [Menu]

Archbishop Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House
1524 NW 21St
Oklahoma City OK

Phone: 405-557-0436 Help Line

Email: robert@justpeace.org

Archbishop Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House Home Page

The OKC Catholic Workers deliver food to people in need who don't have transportation. Call us at 405-613-4688 for information about dates and times of deliveries.

Other calls: 405-613-4688

Consider contacting the Archbishop Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Enid Catholic Worker
1812 W Oklahoma Ave
Enid OK 73703-5411

Phone: 580-242-0691

Email: neehi@aol.com

Enid Catholic Worker Home Page

Publication: The Works of Mercy Newsletter

The Enid Catholic Worker runs The St. Monica Project, a baby furniture pantry. We are particularly interested in cribs, changing tables, and rocking chairs, as well as basic baby care items like diapers, powder, shampoo, and lotion, all of which is donated free of charge to families in crisis.

Consider contacting the Enid Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Oregon [Menu]

CW Farm of Sts. Isidore and Maria
91575 West Fork Rd
Deadwood OR 97430

Phone: 541-964-3012

Consider contacting the CW Farm of Sts. Isidore and Maria to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Portland Catholic Worker
PO Box 11193
Portland OR 97211

Phone: 503-287-4230

Email: portlandcatholicworker@gmail.com

Dorothy Day House: We are a small house which offers hospitality to single women experiencing homelessness or transitioning out of prison.

Consider contacting the Portland Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


St. John Bosco House
4488 Knoop Ave
Eugene OR 97402

Phone: 541-683-7517

Email: boscohouse@comcast.net

St. John Bosco House Home Page

Consider contacting the St. John Bosco House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Whitefeather Catholic Worker Community
3315 N Russet
Portland OR 97217

Phone: 503-327-8250

Email: pcwtom@gmail.com

Whitefeather CW started in 2005 and is a community devoted primarily to nonviolent resistance,militarism, and injustice. We are named for Whitefeather of the Ojibwe, a Plowshare veteran and CW who crossed over in 1999.

Consider contacting the Whitefeather Catholic Worker Community to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Pennsylvania [Menu]

Duncan & Porter House
1332 Sheffield St
Pittsburgh PA 15233

Phone: 412-231-2766

Duncan & Porter House Home Page

Publication: Resistance and Contemplation

Consider contacting the Duncan & Porter House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Germantown Catholic Worker
459 E Walnut Lane
Philadelphia PA 19144

Hospitality primarily for teen mothers, then others as space allows.

Active in local and national resistance.

Week roundtable and liturgy.

Consider contacting the Germantown Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


House of Grace Catholic Worker
1826 E Lehigh Ave
Philadelphia PA 19125

Phone: 215-426-0364

Publication: House of Grace Newsletter

Catholic Worker Free Health Clinic, hospitality, roundtable discussions, liturgies, resistance, and Community Garden.

Consider contacting the House of Grace Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Jubilee Soup Kitchen
PO Box 42251
Pittsburgh PA 15203

Phone: 412-261-5417

Consider contacting the Jubilee Soup Kitchen to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Lighthouse Scranton Catholic Worker
PO Box 199
Scranton PA 18504

Phone: 570-341-5858

Email: lNmRL1@AOL.COM

We do hospitality and some resistance.

Contact person: Lindy Morelli

Volunteers needed:
Contact us for volunteer opportunities.


Mary the Apostle Catholic Worker
621 E 22nd St
Erie PA 16503

Phone: (814) 459-2529

Email: matthew_ochalek@riseup.net

Mary the Apostle Catholic Worker Home Page

Mission - Mary the Apostle House, in the tradition of the Catholic Worker movement founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, and inspired by monasticism is a community committed to prayer, nonviolence, and environmental sustainability. We are learning an alternative way of life  one that is in tune with the Gospel. We stand in solidarity with those who struggle in and against poverty and systemic injustice. With profound hope for a renewed and transformed world, we resist forces of destruction, death and oppression by living hospitality, reverence for all creation, and witness for justice and peace.

Works - Active resistance to war as a community and in concert with other local peace and justice organizations, food pantry, shared meals, and experimenting in urban gardening.

Consider contacting the Mary the Apostle Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Sr Peter Claver House
430 W Jefferson St
Philadelphia PA 19122

Phone: 215-232-7823

Publication: Common Life

St. Peter Claver House is a Catholic worker community located in North Philadelphia and extending hospitality to its neighbors in the form of an after school program, a food and clothing distribution program and a summer youth program.

Consider contacting the Sr Peter Claver House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


St. Martin de Porres Catholic Worker
1440 Market Street
Harrisburg PA 17103

Phone: 717-230-8328

St. Martin de Porres Catholic Worker Home Page

We work with men who are addicted and coming out of jail and we do street outreach ministry. Visitors are always welcome (but call first).

Consider contacting the St. Martin de Porres Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Thomas Merton Center
Ministry for Justice & Peace
5125 Pennsylvania Ave
Pittsburgh PA 15224

Phone: 412-361-3022

Publication: The New People

Consider contacting the Thomas Merton Center to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Rhode Island [Menu]

Amos House
415 Friendship St
PO Box 72873
Providence RI 02907

Phone: 401-272-1531

Consider contacting the Amos House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Blackstone Valley Catholic Worker
PO Box 197
Central Falls RI 02863

Consider contacting the Blackstone Valley Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Tennesse [Menu]

Dorothy Day House of Hospitality
1429 Poplar Ave
Memphis TN 38104

Phone: 901-726-6760

Consider contacting the Dorothy Day House of Hospitality to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Emmanuel House
51 N Auburndale St
Memphis TN 38104

Phone: 901-272-0509

We've been handing out sack lunches on Mondays to folks at a labor pool near our house, serving at some churches that offer meals, and about once a month offering transportation to a family to visit their son/brother/father on death row.

Consider contacting the Emmanuel House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Nashville Greenlands
2407 Heiman St
Nashville TN 37208-2415

Phone: 615-322-9523

Email: karlmeyerng@hotmail.com

Contact: Pam Beziat or Karl Meyer

We are a non-sectarian community, not based in prayer or religious doctrine, affiliated with the Catholic Worker movement through many years of personal association, and a deeply shared ethical and social vision. Our common purpose is to explore and demonstrate an ecologically sustainable way of life within a city, based on agricultural use of open land, and a simple common life to minimize our consumption of world resources. We also practice radical direct action for justice and peace, and use our houses and land for education about peacemaking and the nonviolent life we seek to develop.

We own four houses in an inner city Nashville neighborhood, with about an acre of arable land and housing for a total of seventeen community members. Each household is semi-autonomous. We welcome visits and inquiries from people who might be interested in joining us, or investing in similar land and houses that are available at very reasonable cost, nearby in our neighborhood. We also welcome visits from travelers interested in our vision and work.

Volunteers needed:
Occasional openings for long term community members or intern volunteers. As of 2010, weve begun looking for a young family, committed to similar ecological and social values, who would consider settling here permanently and becoming heirs to the land and vision of our community, as our founding members approach an age when they will want and need to pass on basic responsibility to others. Inquire to Karl Meyer at 615-322-9523 or karlmeyerng@hotmail.com


Texas [Menu]

A Simple Life

Bells TX 75414

Phone: 903-965-9862

Volunteers needed:
Is God calling you to assist in the gentle birth of a new Catholic Worker House? Is He calling you to grow food and help others form a new agronomic university? If so, please respond by praying for A Simple Life. This new Catholic worker house is 100 years old located in Bells, Texas on 3 acres.This ministry can presently support only one experienced worker resident who is good at begging or can hold a part-time job. The catholic Worker lifestyle is simple, practicing voluntary poverty, being obedient to conscience(God and gospel), and chaste in christian virtue. The gentle birth of this house requires much labor and multi-tasking abilities of homemaking, gardening and carpentry/building skills.Living space will be evolving with growth. Volunteers are needed at every level and stage of growth.We are begging. Please send monetary gifts.


Casa Juan Diego
PO Box 70113
Houston TX 77270

Phone: 713-869-7376

Email: info@cjd.org

Casa Juan Diego Home Page

Publication: Houston Catholic Worker (in English and Spanish)

Consider contacting the Casa Juan Diego to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Jonah House
1011 Hutchins Road
Dallas TX 75203

Phone: 214-941-6558

Publication: Jonah's Wail

Consider contacting the Jonah House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Mary House Catholic Worker
PO Box 684185
Austin TX 78768

Phone: 512.447.0963

Mary House Catholic Worker Home Page

Publication: Jeremiah's Stutter

Mary House Catholic Worker of Austin (Texas), founded in 1991, is a small Catholic Worker community which offers housing to homeless adults with critical and/or terminal illnesses who have no other resources. Ours is the ONLY free housing available to these people. We live and work in the tradition of the Catholic Worker movement, referring to the Gospel of Jesus, the social teaching of the Catholic community of faith, and the writings and experience of our founders, Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin.

Consider contacting the Mary House Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Maurin-Day House
1608 Leopard St
PO Box 3315
Corpus Christi TX 78463-3315

Phone: 361-882-1202

Maurin-Day House Home Page

Publication: Conversion

A day shelter, we supply some coffee and food in the morning and guests can take a shower, do their laundry and have somewhere to sit and watch tv during the day.

Consider contacting the Maurin-Day House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


San Antonio Catholic Worker
622 E Nolan St
San Antonio TX 78202

Phone: 210-224-2932

San Antonio Catholic Worker Home Page

Consider contacting the San Antonio Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Tabor House
PO Box 1482
El Paso TX 79948-1482

Note: hous is in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Consider contacting the Tabor House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Texas Catholic Worker
148 Acapulco Drive
Lakeway TX 78734

Phone: 512-300-0238

Email: fourthorderfranciscans@yahoo.com

We focus on jail ministry.

Consider contacting the Texas Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Tomorrow's Bread Today
845 CR3704B
Slendora TX 77372

Phone: 832-202-9922, 866-234-8707 (Fax)

Email: donmcco@tbt.org

Catholic Worker lay religious order with goal of doing the corporal and spiritual works of mercy and a current mission of providing physician and home health care services for the poor in Houston who do not qualify for public assistance or do not have insurance or money to pay for care.

Consider contacting the Tomorrow's Bread Today to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Virginia [Menu]

Charlottesville Catholic Worker
PO Box 52
Charlottesville VA 22902

Email: cvillecw@gmail.com

Charlottesville Catholic Worker Home Page

We are a family creating houses of hospitality and an urban farm, together with a supportive community. We welcome help with gardening, cooking, home repair, and fund raising. We hope to have space for live-in volunteers in the coming year.

Consider contacting the Charlottesville Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Freedom House
PO Box 12144
Richmond VA 23241

Phone: 804-649-9791

Consider contacting the Freedom House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Little Flower Catholic Worker Farm
16560 Louisa Rd
Trevilians VA 23170

Phone: 540-967-5574

Email: littleflowercw@wildmail.com

Publication: LIttle Flower Catholic Worker Farm

Little Flower is a small CW homestead in rural VA, about a 1/2 hour east of Charlottesville. We grow food, and practice community, hospitality and resistance. We spend our days working--mostly manual labor, sometimes for pay; protesting war, building giant puppets, weeding the garden and responding to the needs of the moment. We welcome visitors, whether in need of shelter or looking to experiment with an alternative lifestyle of precarity, community and taking personal responsibility for addressing systemic violence. Send us an e-mail and we'll eventually check it on our slow dial-up, or call or write.

Volunteers needed:


Norfolk Catholic Worker
Sadako Sasaki House
1321 W 38th St
Norfolk VA 23508

Phone: 757-423-5420

Publication: Simplicity

Small hospitality house offering short- and long-term hospitality to homeless men and women; serves 100+ folks four mornings a week, bringing "breakfast-to-the-streets;" faith-based intentional community; supports Plowshare movement for disarmament; involved in non violent civil resistance against militarism locally and with Atlantic Life Community

Volunteers needed:
Looking for students on break or for full-time live-in volunteers interested in living in community with homeless people at our hospitality house, working on our soup line, prayer and Scripture study, and participating in anti-war activism. Drivers license preferable. Please contact Steve Baggarly.


St Francis Catholic Worker
9631 Peppertree Rd
Spotsylvania VA 22553

Phone: 540-972-3218

Publication: St. Francis Catholic Worker

The St. Francis Catholic Worker is a one-page, home-spun newsletter, offered free of charge, mailed faithfully February, May, August, and November to all who request a copy.

Born in Washington, DC in 1979 as a hospitality house for single adults, both male and female, we missioned and helped to start the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House for families. Several members of our community prayerfully became its core community in 1981. Experiencing a new call to service from Jesus we embraced a long held vision of a spiritual retreat center for folks living in shelters and transitional houses. Thus, in 1993 we moved to the above address and began hosting non-denominational, directed, group retreats (with the assistance of volunteer retreat directors). Our 12 bedroom retreat house and separate chapel with the Blessed Sacrament, located on a ten acre wooded property, is an oasis of love for our sisters and brothers who come.

Our community house, separate from the retreat house, has room for 5 people: 2 couples and a single person. Each bedroom has its own bathroom and quiet space. Simple living, in solidarity with the poor, requires much change from the average American lifestyle. Our wood burning fireplace gives winters warmth along with baseboard heat backup, used only as needed. Food bank shopping, limited use of community vehicle, Mass daily at our local parish are a few examples of our attempt at simple living. We are a mix of Martha and Mary: we meditate each day and we do laundry too.

Volunteers needed:

For our ministry of hospitality and love coupled with a retreat ministry for the homeless who are longing for a stronger connection to Christ. We seek a couple and a single person approximately between ages 45 and 65 to join our faith community and work with our retreatants. We look for willing hearts to make a long term commitment to engage in all aspects of life here -- from bookkeeping, letter writing, gardening, bed making, retreat direction and faith sharing with our guests, to community prayer and a little laughter.

We take seriously the command, "Come follow me" and because of that we live a faith fulfilled life.

HISTORICALLY SPEAKING

Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day often went on retreats, themselves. Dorothy wrote of her own retreat experiences and urged others to make retreats. "Food for the soul," she called them. Her writing clearly shows she envisioned Catholic Worker retreat houses --"... It is certainly a dream for the future." We are humbled to be part of the lying out of her dream.

Inquiries Welcome. Please contact John or Polly Mahoney, or Pumpkin, our cat, at the above address and phone.

PEACE -- PLEASE PRAY FOR US.



Washington [Menu]

Bethlehem Farm Catholic Worker
508 Coal Creek Rd
Chehalis WA 98532

Phone: 360-748-1236

Publication: Bethlehem Peace Farm

Consider contacting the Bethlehem Farm Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Bread & Roses Catholic Worker
Bread & Roses Catholic Worker
Olympia WA 98501

Phone: 360 754-4085

Email: admin.breadandrosesolympia@gmail.com

Bread & Roses Catholic Worker Home Page

Consider contacting the Bread & Roses Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Pacem in Terris
The Family Kitchen
331 17th Ave E
Seattle WA 98112

Phone: 206-322-2447

Consider contacting the Pacem in Terris to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Tacoma Catholic Worker
Guadalupe House of Hospitality
1417 S G St
Tacoma WA 98405

Phone: 253-572-6582 and 253-627-4347

Email: tacomacatholicworker@gmail.com

Tacoma Catholic Worker Home Page

Publication: Tacoma Catholic Worker

Jean's House of Prayer (253)627-4347.

Consider contacting the Tacoma Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


West Virginia [Menu]

Alderson Hospitality House
203 High St
PO Box 579
Alderson WV 24910

Phone: 304-445-2980

Email: aldersonhospitalityhouse@gmail.com

Alderson Hospitality House Home Page

Publication: The Trumpet

We provide housing, meals, transportation, information and support to families and friends of women inmates at the Federal Prison Camp. It's a lot of cleaning, cooking, drawing, planning, maintenance, organization, communication, local community involvement (food pantry, Habitat for Humanity, Ministerial Assoc). You'll sleep well in the cool mountain air, a must for anyone who lovese a challenge and lives on the edge with the marginalized.

Contact persons: Brian and Kathleen DeRouen

Consider contacting the Alderson Hospitality House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Family Worker Farm
659 Big Ugly Creek Rd
Harts WV 25524

Publication: The Family Worker

Consider contacting the Family Worker Farm to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


St. Isaac of Nineveh Gift of Tears Catholic Worker
213 Orchard Run Road
Spencer WV 25276

Phone: (304)-927-5798

Email: cwfarm@citynet.net

St. Isaac of Nineveh Gift of Tears Catholic Worker Home Page

Publication: The Inner Voice

The Gift of Tears is a faith-based, seamless garment Catholic Worker Farm attempting to meet the challenges of the Appalachian Bishops’ two Pastorals. We host service groups, retreats, and interns, provide educational programs and a free summer camp, and do personalized food and clothing outreach. Cottage industries are free-range eggs, traditional tacked quilts, and Catholic Worker icons, note cards and bookmarks. Our community consists of many people while one lives here full-time. We are not tax exempt.

Consider contacting the St. Isaac of Nineveh Gift of Tears Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Wisconsin [Menu]

A Place of Peace
1248 Portage St
Stevens Point WI 54481-2737

Phone: 715-345-2345

Email: rusty@portesi.net

Daytime Hospitality: Meals every Thursday.

Roundtable discussions after meals on the First and Third Thursdays of each month.

Consider contacting the A Place of Peace to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Anathoth Community Farm
740 Round Lake Rd
Luck WI 54853

Phone: 715-472-8721

Anathoth Community Farm Home Page

Publication: Anathoth Community Farm News

Consider contacting the Anathoth Community Farm to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Casa Esther
107 S. Webster Ave
Omro WI 54963

Email: casaesther@charterinternet.com

Consider contacting the Casa Esther to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Casa Maria Catholic Worker House
1131 N 21st St
PO Box 05206
Milwaukee WI 53205

Phone: 414-344-5745

Casa Maria Catholic Worker House Home Page

Publication: Casa Cry

Consider contacting the Casa Maria Catholic Worker House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Catholic Worker Archives
Memorial Library, Marquette U
PO Box 3141
Milwaukee WI 53201-3141

Phone: 414-288-7256

Email: Phil.Runkel@marquette.edu

Catholic Worker Archives Website

Consider contacting the Catholic Worker Archives to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Gilbert House Catholic Worker
433 East Oak Street
Glenwood City WI 54013

Phone: 715-265-4070

Email: gkc.catholicworker@gmail.com

Gilbert House Catholic Worker Home Page

Consider contacting the Gilbert House Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Martin Luther Catholic Worker
2803 N 51st Street
Milwaukee WI 53210

Phone: 414-444-7771

Email: martinluthercw@sbcglobal.net

Our theme is "Grace and Works of Mercy" and every effort is made to connect the preaching of grace to the actual walking the walk of works of mercy. Coming from both Catholic and Lutheran backgrounds, this is a prophetic message that goes both ways.

Our mission is "Ending homelessness one family at a time." We offer education groups with Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction; Peaceful Ears (nonviolent communication in the tradition of Marshall Rosenberg); a Treatment Foster Care Parenting Support group; Work Ministry program for neighborhood youth, and HIV+ Women's support group and retreats.

Visitors to Milwaukee for retreats, service, workshops, urban outreach, research (e.g. at Marquette and the Catholic Worker Archives) are Welcome.

Founder - Cindi Vian, Outreach Preacher (interfaith, (cell - 414-213-9533)

Consider contacting the Martin Luther Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Mary House Catholic Worker
3559 Co Hwy G
Wisconsin Dells WI 53965

Phone: 608-586-4447

Consider contacting the Mary House Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Place of Grace - A Catholic Worker Community
919 Hood St
La Crosse WI 54601

Phone: 608-782-6224

Open Tuesday and Wednesday 1:00 - 5:00 and Thursday 1:00 - 8:00 with a meal from 4:30 - 7:30.

Consider contacting the Place of Grace - A Catholic Worker Community to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Rising Sun Garden
RR 1 Box 1110
Soldiers Grove WI 54655

Phone: 608-624-5730

Consider contacting the Rising Sun Garden to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


The Jubilee House
1105 S 10th Ave
Wausau WI 54401

Phone: 715-845-8030

Email: scurler@aol.com

Providing hospitality and meals every Thursday afternoon and evening.

All are welcome to pray with us every Monday at 5:30 PM. Volunteers needed for preparing and serving meals on Thursdays.

Consider contacting the The Jubilee House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Waukesha catholic Worker Community
931 Caroline St
Waukesha WI 53186

Phone: 262-524-8278

Publication: Waukesaha catholic Worker

Statement of Purpose

The purpose of the Waukesha catholic Worker is to do works of mercy:

  • shelter the homeless
  • feed the hungry
  • clothe the naked
  • visit the prisoner

The Waukesha catholic Worker community is called to be a sign of the presence of God.

Hospitality and Peacemaking

We are a house of hospitality and peacemaking. We welcome refugees and others with special needs and we take a spiritual stand for peacemaking. Our hospitality extends to people from foreign countries who are here for medical needs.

Education

In the Catholic Worker tradition we hold peacemaking forums on current Issues. These forums are frequently co-sponsored with the Waukesha Peace Center and local churches. We also hold educational events in local churches and schools regarding the strengths and needs of our refugee guests.

Spirituality

The Waukesha catholic Worker is ecumenical and includes Jews, Muslims, Protestants, Hindus, Catholics, and others. Out of our deep faith each of us brings life to the community.

Worship

The Waukesha catholic Worker holds periodic ecumenical worship services to deepen our bonds with God, each other, and our guests.

Respite

We offer respite for Catholic Workers from large cities, like Milwaukee or Washington, D.C., who need a rest from their demanding work.

Consider contacting the Waukesha catholic Worker Community to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.


Belgium [Menu]

Catholic Worker Ghent
Kluizenaarstraat 25
9000 GENT BELGIUM
Belgium

Phone: 00 32 9 223 60 65

Email: johannes@catholicworker.tk

Catholic Worker Ghent Home Page



De Katholieke Werker
Pleinstraat 1
B - 8000 Brugge
00 32 474 77 61 13
Belgium

Email: info@catholicworker.be

De Katholieke Werker Home Page



Canada [Menu]

Benedict Labre House
308 Young St
Montreal PQ H3C 2G2
Canada

Phone: 514-937-5973

Publication: Unity



Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Worker
576 Westvale Drive
Waterloo ON N2T 1K4
Canada

Phone: 519-747-1740

Publication: Ordinary Time



Peterborough Catholic Worker
197 Hunter St W #29
Peterborough ON K9H 2L1
Canada



The Vancouver Catholic Worker - Samaritan House
1143 E Pender St
Vancouver BC V6A 1W6
Canada

Phone: 604-255-1555, 604-251-0920 (Fax)

Email: vancouvercatholicworker@yahoo.ca

The Vancouver Catholic Worker - Samaritan House Home Page

Publication: The Christian Radical



Thomas Merton House
53 Merton Street
Ottawa ON K1V 1V6
Canada

Phone: (613) 724-2962

Email: mertonhouse@hotmail.com

Publication: The Ottawa Catholic Worker



Toronto Catholic Worker
Zacchaeus House
5 Close Ave
Toronto ON M6K 2V2
Canada

Phone: 416-516-8198

Email: zacchaeushouse@sympatico.ca

Publication: Out of Hand

Zacchaeus House is part of the Toronto Catholic Worker; a community formed in 1991 which now consists of six households on one block, including two Houses of Hospitality and a support house for the Houses of Hospitality. One main focus of our common life at Zacchaeus House is to engage in hospitality in the Catholic Worker tradition. We have about 8-10 beds in this house, and about the same in our other House of Hospitality. We have open suppers two nights a week, and all who stay here share evening meals together regularly and share in the upkeep/cleaning of the house. There are currently several War Resisters/Army Deserters from the U.S.A. who are seeking refuge in our community.

We hold a regular evening ecumenical Christian liturgy/prayer time; as well as community morning prayer three days weekly. We hold occasional roundtables on a broad range of topics. The Toronto CW publishes a 'zine/newspaper (Out of Hand). We also run a small-scale organic bakery called "Bread for Everyone" where we bake bread for the community, as well as to make some funds to support our common life. We also have a good number of gardens on our house lots. We are a bisexual, lesbian, gay and transgender / queer positive community. We engage in nonviolent direct action to nonviolently challenge structures of violence, injustice, dominance and oppression. Some of the other things we dabble in / dream about doing include: music learning collective for neighbourhood youth, direct action, t-shirts / silkscreening, organize the SOA trip, arts and crafts nights, food not bombs, creative worship, and other grassroots projects of resistance and hope.



Germany [Menu]

Bread and Roses - Base community
Fabriciusstr. 56
22177 Hamburg
Germany

Phone: 49-(0)40-69 70 20 85

Bread and Roses - Base community Home Page

Publication: Brot und Rosen

"Bread and Roses" was founded in 1994 by german volunteers returning from experience in US-Communities such as the CW, the Open Door Community (Atlanta, Jubilee Partners (Comer, GA), and CCNV (Washington, DC). The 6-member base community started a 12-room house of hospitality in 1996. Guests are mostly refugees. Members live in community of income, have a daily common prayer and try to educate on justice and refugee issues.



Kana Gemeinshaft
Mallinckrodtstr 108
D-44145 Dortmund
Germany

Phone: 0231-839853

Kana Gemeinshaft Home Page



Great Britain [Menu]

London Catholic Worker
c/o 14 Deal Street
London E1 5AH
Great Britain

Phone: + (44) 20 7249 0041

Email: londoncatholicworker@yahoo.co.uk

London Catholic Worker Home Page

Publication: The London Catholic Worker

Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House
Hospitality: Accomodation for refugees, community cafe, soup kitchen.
Resistance: weekly peace vigils, work with Trident Ploughshares, Campaign Against Arms Trade, local activist groups, etc.

Catholic Worker Farm
Old Uxbridge Road
West Hyde, Hertfordshire WD3 9XJ
(44) 1923 777201
thecatholicworkerfarm@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.thecatholicworkerfarm.org/
Scott & Maria Albrecht
Hospitality, resistance, permaculture gardening, and community building.


St Francis House
Oxford Catholic Worker
227 Cowley Road
Oxford OX4 1XG
Great Britain

Phone: 01865-248288

Publication: Strangers & Pilgrims

Hospitality, organic garden, roundtable discussions on peace and justice issues.

Morning prayer weekdays.


Mexico [Menu]

Casa Colibrí
J. Manuel Hernandez E.
Ocampo # 2
Hostotipaquillo, Jal 46440
Mexico

Phone: 386.744.5063

Email: jmhe76@gmail.com

Casa Colibrí Home Page

We are a newly established community in rural Mexico, founded by former LACW community members. Casa Colibrí: We are an intentional community in the Catholic Worker tradition. Our projects include: a small organic farm; child, teen, and adult English classes; traditional folklorico dance classes; artistic and cultural workshops; round table discussions; prayer; and monthly in-house liturgies. In addition to our efforts to connect with and build community in the rural town of Hostotipaquillo, we are committed to maintaining our physical, emotional, and spiritual health. This we believe is essential to the Catholic Worker philosophy of ¨building a new society in the shell of the old.¨



Coatepec Mexico Catholic Worker
Casa de Hospitabilidad Fray Bartolome de las Casas
Moctezuma 31, Zona Central
Coatepec, Veracruz, Mexico CP 19500
Mexico

Phone: 522.816.3608

Email: dignidad@prodigy.net.mx



New Zealand [Menu]

Joseph Cardijn CW
18 Feilding St
Christchurch
New Zealand

Phone: 03-388-0768

Joseph Cardijn CW Home Page



Suzanne Aubert House
8a Cotterill St
Addington
Christchurch 2
New Zealand

Phone: 03-328-7105

Suzanne Aubert House Home Page



Thomas Merton Catholic Worker
PO Box 173
Lyttelton
New Zealand

Phone: 03-328-8207

Thomas Merton Catholic Worker Home Page



Sweden [Menu]

The Fig Tree CW in Hammarkullen
Fikonträdet
Sandeslätt 60
SE 424 36 Angered
Sweden

Phone: 46(0)31-330 67 11

Email: annikaspalde@hotmail.com

The Fig Tree CW in Hammarkullen Home Page

Contacts are Annika Spalde, Jonas Olsson and Per Herngren.

Active support for several programs serving recent immigrants and addicts, resistance to the Swedish arms trade, and more!



The Netherlands [Menu]

Amsterdam Catholic Worker
Klieverink 125-126-127
1104 CC Amsterdam
Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Phone: 020-6994 320

Email: noelhuis@antenna.nl

Amsterdam Catholic Worker Home Page

Publication: Dynamite!

Jeannette Noel Huis, Dantestraat 202, Postbus 12662, 1100 AP Amsterdam, Tel: 020 -699 8 996:
We live together with about a dozen illegalised refugees, hold vigils at the nearby refugee-deportation-prison and in other ways advocate a more loving way of dealing with Christ incarnate in the least of our brethren. Also vigils a the stock exchange against the arms trade and occasional anti-nuclear actions at USAF bases.

Rhimou Communauteit, Kikkenstein 224, 1104 AK Amsterdam, Tel: 011 31 20 6956 203
The community shares the house with illigalised women and children.


Harriet Tubman Huis
Dantestraat 196
Amsterdam 1102 ZR
The Netherlands

Phone: 020-4166-004 & 4166-005





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