Lifestory: His parish was the poor – Rev Tom Lumpkin spent 40 years ministering to Detroit’s homeless
RENÉE RODEN, of Religion News Service, speaks with Rev Tom Lumpkin about his life of service in a Catholic Worker community he co-founded in the Detroit neighbourhood of Corktown…
In the US, Dorothy Day’s grand-daughter sentenced to prison for nuclear base break-in
RNS Martha Hennessy, a grand-daughter of Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker movement, was sentenced on Friday to 10 months in prison for breaking into Kings Bay Naval Base in Georgia two years ago to protest its stockpile of nuclear weapons. Hennessy’s was the lightest sentence given for the break-in at the Navy […]
Postcards: On LA’s Skid Row, Catholic Worker’s ‘Hippie Kitchen’ adjusts to COVID-19
ALEJANDRA MOLINA, writing for Religion News Service, reports on how a Catholic Worker soup kitchen continues to feed people in need in Los Angeles…
The Interview: Martin Doblmeier, maker of ‘Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story’
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, speaks with film-maker Martin Doblmeier about his new documentary on Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker movement…
Saints of Past Ages: Dorothy Day
In an article first published on The Conversation, US scholar SANDRA YOCUM looks at the life of Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker Movement…