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It puzzled him he had met no Christians. Where were they? Where is that Jerusalem community Luke writes about?

A reflection on the importance of renunciation and rest in our lives

Rida Vaquas discusses the sacrifices of those protesting against Elbit Systems

Br Johannes Maertens on the journey of personal spiritual growth and conversion

I Stand Here Ironing  – Tillie Olsen ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.’ – John...

Looking after God’s creation and realising how we have affected our natural environment, we will be able to reconstruct our relation wih God

As a guest at the Giuseppe Conlon House, I find homelessness depressingly damaging. The population of refugees, asylum seekers with the...

Members of the new Government have told us several times over the last few months that we have entered an “age of insecurity”. Keir...

A repost of Dorothy Day’s 1936 Catholic Worker editorial on pacifism   The Catholic Worker is sincerely a pacifist paper. We oppose class...

In this book, David Craig, real life poetry professor, becomes James, self-styled beatnik and narrator, in order to tell the story of his...

We want to share with you the powerful statement from Palestinian Christians to western churches, having heard the truth and love it...

The first time I ever picked up a copy of “The Catholic Worker” newspaper from New York, it was two of Peter Maurin’s Easy Essays that...

I grew up in an inn with three guest rooms and a pub attached; my parents are the owners and the only staff. My everyday life has always...

Br Johannes Maertens and his co-workers report on their time in Calais and Dunkirk Thursday afternoon I was in the Eritrean Refugee tent...

Martha Hennessy is a prominent US peace activist, Catholic Worker and granddaughter of Dorothy Day. Here she talks to Tom Dennehy-Caddick...

In a Christian context, the question of suffering has always been difficult. How does one reconcile the idea that ‘suffering and death -...

We have two new priests at our local parish of St John Vianney. Fr Jerome Oduntan and Fr Vincent are members of the Spiritan Religious...

On 29th December 2023, my husband Chris (Cole) and I went to Downing Street with two bottles of red poster paint. When we arrived, we...

I went to Palestine, to the city of Nablus in the West Bank (under Israeli military occupation) for a holiday, from September 18th to...

A few weeks ago, a group of pregnant women were driven into the desert by Tunisian authorities and abandoned there. Their phones were...