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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
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
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
Phone: 520-624-0312
Publication: Guadalupe
Consider contacting the Casa Maria to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
Quixote's Garage
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.
California [Menu] Beatitude House
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
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
Phone: 408-297-8330
Email: sanjosecatholicworker@yahoo.com
Volunteers needed: Casa San Miguel
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.
Catholic Worker Farm
Phone: 209-728-2193 Catholic Worker Farm Home Page
Publication: Earth Abides
Consider contacting the Catholic Worker Farm to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
Dorothy Day House CW
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: Elizabeth House
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
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
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
Phone: 714-835-6304
Email: occw@igc.org Isaiah House - Orange County Catholic Worker Home Page
Publication: Call to Faithfulness
(714) 835-6304 message
Consider contacting the Isaiah House - Orange County Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
Los Angeles Catholic Worker Community
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: Magdalene House Coastside Catholic Worker
Phone: 650-726-6606 Magdalene House Coastside Catholic Worker Home Page
Magdalene House provides hospitality to homeless families and works with migrant farm workers.
Consider contacting the Magdalene House Coastside Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
Martin de Porres House of Hospitality
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
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
Phone: 510-533-7375
Email: ocw@prodigy.net 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: Peter Maurin Catholic Worker
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
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
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
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
Phone: 619-298-3755
Email: info@catholicworkersd.org San Diego Catholic Worker Home Page
Publication: The San Diego Catholic Worker
Consider contacting the San Diego Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
San Pedro Catholic Worker
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
Phone: 707-575-8342
Consider contacting the Santa Rosa Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
St. Benedict Catholic Worker
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
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
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
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
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
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
Phone: 860 437-8890
Email: stfrancishosue@mindspring.com
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
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
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
Phone: 202-882-9649
Publication: The Little Way
A Community of Hospitality and Resistance
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
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
Phone: (352) 271-6941
Email: johnnypcusa@yahoo.com
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
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
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
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
Email: hkkrewer@spro.net
Publication: On Earth As In Heaven
Mailing address: PO Box 9722, Boise ID 83707
Consider contacting the Corpus Christi House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
Illinois [Menu] Clare House of Hospitality
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
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
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
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
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
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 practising the Works of Mercy. 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. Monthly meeting first Saturday of each month; Mass at 8:00 a.m. followed by community meeting.
Consider contacting the St Jude Catholic Worker House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
Su Casa Catholic Worker Community
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: Indiana [Menu] Cesar Chavez House
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
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
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
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
Phone: 515-243-0765
Email: franafuller@hotmail.com Des Moines Catholic Worker Home Page
Publication: Via Pacis
Bishop Dingman House Msgr. Ligutti House Lazarus House
Consider contacting the Des Moines Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
Emma Cornelis Hospitality House
Phone: 319-372-3983
Consider contacting the Emma Cornelis Hospitality House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
Hope House
Phone: 563-326-0735
Email: pandurani5@hotmail.com
Consider contacting the Hope House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
Hope House
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.
St Francis of Assisi Catholic Worker
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
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
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
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
Phone: 316-275-2008
Consider contacting the Emmaus House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
Shalom Catholic Worker House
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: Kentucky [Menu] Woodbine Catholic Worker Community
Phone: 502-636-5461
Email: MScharfenberger@sevencounties.org
Consider contacting the Woodbine Catholic Worker Community to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
Lousiana [Menu] El Santo Niño de Atocha Catholic Worker House
Phone: (504) 710-8653
Email: mbnola@cox.net
Publication: Brother's Keeper El Santo Niño de Atocha Catholic Worker House offers comfort to those in crisis and who are in need of safe refuge. There are five beds available: two for men and three for women, each with separate bathrooms. There is a community kitchen and laundry. We serve three hot meals a day. We can arrange job placement and transportation within the Greater New Orleans area. Guests may stay for up to three months or depending on their individual needs.
Consider contacting the El Santo Niño de Atocha Catholic Worker House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
Maryland [Menu] Catholic Worker Community
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
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
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
Phone: 617-236-8132 FAX 617-867-.0018
Email: info@haleyhouse.org
Volunteers needed: Noonday Farm
Phone: 508-297-1148
Consider contacting the Noonday Farm to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
Rosie's Place
Consider contacting the Rosie's Place to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
SS Francis & Therese Catholic Worker
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
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
Phone: 313-963-4539
Email: dayhouse@flash.net
Publication: On the Edge
Consider contacting the Day House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
Jeannine Coallier Catholic Worker
Phone: 989-755-5867 or 989-790-4380 Jeannine Coallier Catholic Worker Home Page
Contacts:
Volunteers needed: Mustard Seed Catholic Worker
Phone: 989-755-4741
Publication: The Seed
Mustard Seed Catholic Worker contacts: 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
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
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
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
Phone: 218-724-2054
Email: loavesfishesduluth@riseup.net Loaves & Fishes Catholic Worker Home Page
Publication: Loaves and Fishes Newsletter
Hannah House The Olive Branch
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: 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"> 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:
Volunteers needed: Volunteers needed: Loaves and Fishes is looking for interns (especially for this summer of 2007) and prospective community members. Interns come for a specified period of time to live in our houses of hospitality and help with our work, while prospective community members come for a period (usually about 3 months) to consider joining us for a year or more. Maryhouse of Little Canada
Phone: 651-481-0907
Email: atbiscig@aol.com
Volunteers needed: Solanus Casey House of Hospitality
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
Phone: 651-430-0306 & 651-439-2555
Email: tom@peacehouse.org
Consider contacting the St Francis House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
Winona Catholic Worker
Phone: 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 temporary shelter to homeless families, women, and children at the Dan Corcoran House, 802 W Broadway, 507-457-3451. The Bethany House of Hospitality, at 832 W Broadway, 507-454-8094, offers hospitality for single men. We also publish a newsletter, hold monthly roundtable discussions on topics of current interest, and occasionlly organize community events of prayer and protest. All are welcome to join us for a weekly Eucharistic Liturgy on Mondays at 5:00 pm followwed by a community supper.
Volunteers needed: Missouri [Menu] Carl Kabat House
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.
Columbia Catholic Worker Community
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
Phone: 314-231-2039
Consider contacting the Ella Dickson House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
Holy Family House
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
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
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
Phone: 573-875-7878
Consider contacting the St Francis House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
Montana [Menu] BitterRoot Catholic Worker Farm
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
Phone: 402-341-2400
Consider contacting the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
MaryFarm
Phone: 402-529-3294
Consider contacting the MaryFarm to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
Omaha Catholic Worker Community
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 1970 s 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: Nevada [Menu] Las Vegas Catholic Worker
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] Corpus Christi Ministries
Publication: Our Common Ground
Consider contacting the Corpus Christi Ministries to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
Elizabeth Catholic Worker
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
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
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
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
Phone: 585-454-4197
Email: rbethan1@rochester.rr.com
Publication: Day by Day
Volunteers needed: Casa de la Paz
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
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
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
Phone: (518) 482-4966
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
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
Consider contacting the Hesed House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
Holy Family Catholic Worker
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
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
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
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
Phone: 315-424-1877
Publication: Thursday's Obligation
Consider contacting the Slocum House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
St Joseph House
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
Phone: 585-232-3262
Email: cathwork@frontiernet.net
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:
Volunteers needed: St. Francis Farm
Phone: (315) 298-2844
Consider contacting the St. Francis Farm to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
Unity Acres
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Phone: 330-384-1112
Email: akroncw@yahoo.com
Publication: Catholic Worker Community of Akron News
Houses and work of the Catholic Worker of Akron: House of Peace Casa Maria Jose
834 Princeton St. Matthew 25 House Dorothy Day House
Volunteers needed: We are looking for full-time live-in volunteers as well as part-time volunteers. Colette Marie Infant Home
Phone: 216-934-5390
Consider contacting the Colette Marie Infant Home to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
Dorothy Day House
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.
Grace Place Catholic Worker Community
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.
Volunteers needed: Grace Place Catholic Worker Community in Cincinnati, Ohio is seeking a full-time Worker to live with us in community. We offer hospitality to women in transition from homelessness, some with children. We especially would like someone who will take initiative to participate in local social justice activism. For more information contact Joyce at 513/681-2365 or graceplacecw@fuse.net St Francis / St Joseph Catholic Worker
Phone: 513-381-4941
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
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
Phone: 216-631-3059
Publication: Inherit the Earth Drop in center at 4241 Lorain Ave.
Volunteers needed: Oklahoma [Menu] Archbishop Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House
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
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
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
Phone: 503-287-4230
Email: portlandcw@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
Phone: 541-683-7517
Email: lccatholicworker@efn.org 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
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
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
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
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
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
Phone: 570-341-5858
Email: lNmRL1@AOL.COM
We do hospitality and some resistance. Contact person: Lindy Morelli
Volunteers needed: Mary the Apostle Catholic Worker
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
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
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
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
Phone: 401-272-1531
Consider contacting the Amos House to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
Blackstone Valley Catholic Worker
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
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
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
Phone: 615-322-9523
Email: p_beziat@hotmail.com
Contact: Pam Beziat or Karl Meyer We are a non-sectarian community, not based in prayer or in 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 available 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 land and housing sufficient for a community of eight members. 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. Needed as of Summer 2007 - One volunteer/intern to work on Iraq peace advocacy organizing with us and the Nashville Peace and Justice Center. Inquire to Karl Meyer at 615-322-9523 or karlmeyerng@hotmail.com. Texas [Menu] Casa Juan Diego
Phone: 713-869-7376
Email: info@cjd.org
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
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
Phone: 512-693-8246
Publication: Jeremiah's Stutter
Consider contacting the Mary House Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
Maurin-Day House
Phone: 361-882-1202
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
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
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
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
Phone: 713-868-4330, 713-861-3981 (Fax)
Email: charitybt@aol.com
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] Freedom House
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
Phone: 540-967-5574
Email: littleflowercw@wildmail.com
Publication: LIttle Flower Catholic Worker Farm We offer hospitality as well as meaningful work on the land. We live very simply--no TV, no computer, vegetarian, and the cabin which our immediate family lives in has no electricity or plumbing. We serve a meal once a week in Richmond on the Street and we work and demonstrate for peace when ever necessary. Summer interns welcome.
Volunteers needed: Norfolk Catholic Worker
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: North Avenue Catholic Worker
Email: northavecw@yahoo.com North Avenue Catholic Worker Home Page
Publication: Revolution of the Heart We are a group of people who work for churches and charitable organizations in the community. Outside of our jobs we work with our homeless and low-income neighbors as advocates.
Consider contacting the North Avenue Catholic Worker to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
St Francis Catholic Worker
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
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.
Pacem in Terris
Phone: 206-322-2447
Consider contacting the Pacem in Terris to volunteer your time or to participate in their community life.
Tacoma Catholic Worker
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.
Volunteers needed: West Virginia [Menu] Alderson Hospitality House
Phone: 304-445-2980
Email: ahh@charterinternet.com
Publication: The Trumpet We provide houseing, 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: David and Rebecca King.
Volunteers needed: Family Worker Farm
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
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
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
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 Maria Catholic Worker House
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
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
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
Phone: 414-444-7771
Email: martinluthercw@sbcglobal.net
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