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Houses of Hospitality

Expulsion of the Merchants from the Temple , Monreale Cathedral, Palermo I am the newest volunteer at GCH, here for a short(ish) stay of six months. I’ve been invited to write about coming to the community, and I thought of contrasting this place to Camphill, since I volunteered in one of those communities for ten months. The quickest way to draw out the difference between the two is the following—at the end of January, I was arrested at a Palestine protest. If this happen

Eva Martinez

3 days ago

Let your Love Come to Me and I Shall Live

Harry Wills reflects on lasting riches. Great Resurrection, Wassily Kandinsky, 1913 Therefore I say to you, do not be anxious about your life, what you should eat or drink, nor about your body, what you should wear. Is life not more than food and the body more than clothing? Behold the birds of the sky, that they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them… Now, who among you by being anxious can add a single hour to his lifespan? And w

Harry Wills

Apr 2

Humans And Our Edges

Volunteer James Catterson reflects on living in community. Graphic by James Catterson Ove r the past two years, I’ve lived in three intentional communities. As my current chapter living at the London Catholic Worker (LCW) as a live-in volunteer draws to a close, I thought I might reflect on my time here and note a small handful of things I’ve learnt across my experiences in intentional community. I didn’t really know what to expect in coming to the LCW as a long-term volunt

James Catterson

Feb 6

To the Edge and Beyond

Alex Holmes writes about life and loss in the borderlands. Calais Draughts, Alex Holmes Water gang du Nord, Calais. The narrow stream that flows along the northern edge of the Courgain Est playing fields. Willow scrub on its southerly bank once sheltered many dozens of Eritreans’ tents. All that remains now is a broad carpet of wood shavings. Another campsite obliterated. The new site is an old site from which the Eritrean community was last evicted in 2022. Back then, it ha

Alex Holmes

Feb 4

God is a Starving Man

Thomas Frost on the Gospel of the poor.

Thomas Frost

Jan 28

To Shout or not to Shout?

Community member Naomi writes on noisy protest and what could be gained from a more disruptive Christian witness. DSEI Arms Fair Protest (9th September 2025), Credit: MaktoobMedia If we have ever met at a protest, you will know that I love making a bit of a ruckus. If someone jumps on the megaphone or starts singing a Billy Bragg song, I will be there singing it at the top of my lungs. While protest can take many forms, an essential part of protest for me is to be disruptive,

Naomi Orrell

Jan 21

Herod Built, Jesus Wept

A Home Office Vigil reflection given by former LCW volunteer Francisco Leitão. Gloria in Excelsis, CW (1947) It is a rare occasion when the slow and dusty work of archaeology manages to find an audience beyond the small world of academic journal subscribers. Yet, in 2007, the casual Daily Mail reader could have opened the paper to find the following bombastic headline: “A New Discovery May Solve the Mystery of the Bible’s Bloodiest Tyrant”. After 35 years of digging, the late

Francisco Leitao

Dec 31, 2025

Common Good and the Border

Community member Thomas Frost writes on his experience volunteering in the Maria Skobtsova House in Calais. Refugees in the Korem Camp, Sebastião Salgado, 1984 What surprised me most about Calais was how ordinary it was. You could easily spend a week or two there as a tourist, as people often do, and have no idea that it is the site of a humanitarian catastrophe caused by the brutal British-French operation, costing hundreds of millions of pounds, to prevent migration across

Thomas Frost

Sep 28, 2025

DSEI 2025 - No Faith in War

Community member Moya writes on the London Catholic Worker's presence at the DSEI Arms Fair, resistance, and the demand for justice. Police and Protestors at DSEI, Alisdare Hickson Ev ery two years, the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair transforms London’s Excel centre into one of the world’s largest marketplaces for the weapons industry. And amidst horrific conflict around the world, the sale of weapons is booming. The DSEI arms fair welcomes

Moya Barnett

Sep 25, 2025