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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

Martin Newell’s Home Office Vigil Reflection. “Woe to the rich” (Luke 6:24) Christ the Shepherd, Jaroslav, 2025 Those words are probably the least quoted words in the Gospels. They’re not popular, especially in rich countries. “Happy – or Blessed – are the poor” (Luke 6:20) is at least more popular. But who are the rich and poor today, in the world we live in? It helps to understand our context. Despite there being a debate about whether global inequality is rising or fal

Martin Newell reflects on the past, present, and future of the London Catholic Worker. Giuseppe Conlon House , Print, Sarah Fuller In May we celebrated the 92nd birthday of the Catholic Worker movement, launched as it was as a radical newspaper on May Day 1933. We also celebrated some other significant anniversaries that will pass this year: 25 years of the London Catholic Worker, 20 years of the Urban Table soup kitchen, and 15 years of Giuseppe Conlon House. Trying to se

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

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

Community member Harry Wills writes on the call to prefigure the Kingdom to Come. Christ Dividing the Sheep from the Goats , Mosaic, Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna Wh en the Son of Man comes in His honour and all the messengers with Him, then He will sit upon His throne of honour. And all the peoples will be gathered before Him and He will separate them from one another, like the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. Indeed, He will set the sheep on His r

Jesus Himself even relied on imagination, teaching in parables, stories and metaphors, calling His listeners to picture the images He cast. As such, the imagination is pivotal in helping us to comprehend and behold “the mystery of God” and faith, and therefore aids us to grow spiritually.

We are grateful to be able to share an article written on "The Peaceable Kingdom" by Fritz Eichenberg August 6th, the Anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, as well as the Feast of the Transfiguration. It is by Sr Katrina Alton CSJP, Chaplain to Pax Christi England and Wales, our national Catholic peace movement. Sr Katrina is also part of our wider Catholic Worker family. On August 6, the Catholics celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration, the moment when Jesus's divine

[Anthony V. Capildeo OPL is a Trinidadian Scottish writer of poetry and non-fiction. Recent work includes Polkadot Wounds (Carcanet,...