Catholic Worker Movement
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Sep 16, 2026
Tom VozzoHOST
... demonized and forgotten?
Mikala RahnGUEST
That was kind of where I went when you asked the question, 'cause I thought, "Okay, how did this all happen?" There was a culture of service in my family, but I was working at the Federal Reserve for 12 years, and I was living in East Oakland at the time, and I was part of the Catholic Worker, and I was doing community organizing.
Mikala RahnGUEST
And I felt like what I was doing in my day job lacked meaning, and I could feel the energy and the meaning in the others.
Mikala RahnGUEST
And so I shifted when I had the opportunity when I moved down here.
Eileen HayesGUEST
When I got Dame's House in 2001, we had 13 staff members.
Eileen HayesGUEST
Half of them were living in the staff house, which was kind of a Catholic worker model.
Eileen HayesGUEST
And staff were getting paid a $60 a week stipend and a pack of cigarettes a day.
Eileen HayesGUEST
Wow.
Eileen HayesGUEST
I know she did.
Eileen HayesGUEST
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
David CicillineHOST
So you mentioned this just a moment ago that Amos House and many of the kind of founders of those other organizations were rooted in the principles of what is known as the Catholic worker movement.
Eileen HayesGUEST
Mm-hmm.
Elaine HeathGUEST
We're shaped by early Methodism.
Elaine HeathGUEST
We're influenced by the Catholic Worker Movement and Definitely Bonhoeffer's work and a number of other, the Clarence Jordan and Cohen and Ea Farms.
Elaine HeathGUEST
So we're influenced by all of those.
Elaine HeathGUEST
We do
Ben WrightGUEST
I'm an a- agnostic, if not atheist.
Ben WrightGUEST
And I, but I f- I found myself connected with this group called the Catholic Worker Movement, started in the 1930s by a woman named Dorothy Day, who was a, a communist.
Ben WrightGUEST
And Dorothy Day believed in living life by the words of Christ, and that was something I could get behind.
Ben WrightGUEST
And, and that place I moved to was this house.
John DearGUEST
And, uh-
Martin SheenHOST
And people from the Catholic Worker as well.
John DearGUEST
Catholic Worker, of course.
Martin SheenHOST
Catherine, um, and Jeff, uh-
John DearGUEST
Jeff Dietrich
MJ SmithHOST
I grew up next to the Bowery watching people who worked there.
MJ SmithHOST
The Salvation Army, Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker Movement, all helping the lost souls.
MJ SmithHOST
They're the same sort of people.
MJ SmithHOST
And so I had never realized...
James MartinGUEST
Wow, that's a whole other story.
Virginia AabramHOST
The first time I ever found, uh, found out about, uh, like, the Catholic Worker house, it was 'cause I got invited to a lecture that someone was giving there about why Thomas Merton was killed by the CIA.
Virginia AabramHOST
So, [laughs] um-
James MartinGUEST
I read, I read that book.
Robert O. SmithGUEST
So that challenges and starts to change his perspective.
Robert O. SmithGUEST
But then he, as you say, winds up in Maryknoll of all places after coming back to the U.S. and being in all these Catholic spaces, living in the Catholic Worker in New York with Dorothy Day.
Robert O. SmithGUEST
And his first book was actually about his time at the Catholic Worker.
Robert O. SmithGUEST
He wasn't always focused solely on Israel-Palestine or the exploration of Jewish ethics.
Robert O. SmithGUEST
He was finding ethical frameworks and ethical experiences in lots of different spaces, including the Black Protestant Church in the U.S., the Catholic worker that he respected throughout his life.
Robert O. SmithGUEST
Dorothy Day was an absolute hero of his, Peter Marr and those folks.
Robert O. SmithGUEST
And so he was very broad in where he was willing to find his models, right? He didn't stick to only one community.
Gerald SitserGUEST
Exactly.
Gerald SitserGUEST
So she started the Catholic Worker Movement.
Gerald SitserGUEST
Yes.
Gerald SitserGUEST
and a Catholic worker newspaper that they distributed for a penny a day.
Colleen KellyGUEST
Well, John, I'm not just saying this because it's you, but I truly, truly want to thank you.
Colleen KellyGUEST
Because you may not remember this, but years ago you came and gave a talk at the Catholic Worker.
Colleen KellyGUEST
And you said one of the most profound things I have ever heard about Jesus and nonviolence.
Colleen KellyGUEST
You said... that in the gospels the last thing that jesus said to all of his disciples before he died all of them together was put away your sword they were in the garden of gethsemane and the high priests and elders were coming to arrest jesus there And the disciples were around Jesus and one of the disciples cut off the ear of a high priest servant.
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