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The 2025 Summer Internship program officially ended with our annual trip to Vandenberg Space Force Base, this year commemorating the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80th anniversary, followed by a liturgy in the park, with Fr. John Dear as the celebrant.| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
This LINK is to the original posting of this op-ed piece by Scott Fina, our longtime friend and volunteer at our Sister House, the Guadalupe Catholic Worker, recently published in the Santa Maria Times, the Hanford Sentinel, Lompoc Record, & Santa Ynez Valley News. By SCOTT FINA This year, on August 6 and August 9, … Continue reading The post A Matter of Time at the Edge of Human Existence appeared first on Los Angeles Catholic Worker.| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
The L.A. Catholic Worker Hospitality Kitchen (aka Hippie Kitchen) will be closed on Saturday, August 9, and Sunday, August 10. The community will be traveling to Vandenberg Space Force Base on the central coast to commemorate the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s 80th anniversary and protest against U.S. nuclear policy and its imperial war-making. … Continue reading The post Hippie Kitchen Closed August 9 – 10 appeared first on Los Angeles Catholic Worker.| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
The August 2025 Catholic Agitator is now online. In this issue: Swords Into Plowshares Will You Protect Your Neighbors?– By Matt Harper Bonhoeffer: A Conscience For Our Time – By David DeCosse Direct Action And Mutual Aid – By Elle Alvarez A Marian Well For Grief And Joy – By Becky McIntyre Celebration As Resistance – … Continue reading| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
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We had a great pool party to start the summer program. Mary Nalick again hosted and provided a wonderful atmosphere and delicious food. We thank Mary for her gracious and generous hospitality. The post First Summer Pool Party appeared first on Los Angeles Catholic Worker.| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
Our annual summer internship program has commenced. We have eight energetic interns this year. See their names below.| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
This LINK is to the original posting of this op-ed piece by Scott Fina, our longtime friend and volunteer at our Sister House, the Guadalupe Catholic Worker, recently published in the Santa Maria Times, the Hanford Sentinel, Lompoc Record, & Santa Ynez Valley News. By Scott Fina On June 22, the day after the U.S. … Continue reading| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
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Theologian, author, and longtime LACW friend, Wes Howard-Brook, has created a YouTube channel called “Radical Bible.” During the pandemic, Wes began making short videos to introduce a new form of “Bible commentary” for the 21st century. He began with four texts: the Book of Genesis, the Books of Samuel, the Gospel of Luke, and the … Continue reading The post Radical Bible Study appeared first on Los Angeles Catholic Worker.| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
The LACW went to the freeway overpass near our house and maintained a presence during the immigration raids and sweeps protests.| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
The June 2025 Catholic Agitator is now online. In this issue: CELEBRATION AS RESISTANCE Conspiring To Live The Hope Of The Resurrection – By Tensie Hernandez Obituaries: Sister Elizabeth Rodkewich, Michael Walli, Fr. Richard Estrada, Pope Francis – By Mike Wisniewski I Told You So! – By Jeff Dietrich An Impossibility Without Everyone – By Matt … Continue reading The post June 2025 Catholic Agitator appeared first on Los Angeles Catholic Worker.| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
The Hippie Kitchen will be closed for full-service serving on Saturday, June 7. However, the dining garden will be open for limited service. We will resume full-service serving on Tuesday, June 10, at normal hours. The post Hippie Kitchen Closed Saturday, June 7 appeared first on Los Angeles Catholic Worker.| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
This LINK is to an excellent discussion between Gabor Maté and Chris Hedges, narrated by Aaron Maté, on the moral issue of our time, Gaza and the West Bank. Chris Hedges and Gabor Maté deliver speeches, engage in a two-way discussion, and take questions from the audience. (One hour and 27 minutes total time.) WELL … Continue reading| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
This LINK is to the complete LACW 55th Anniversary Celebration video (thanks to John Dentino). Click on “Watch on YouTube” in the lower left.| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
This LINK is to the original posting of this op-ed piece by Scott Fina, our longtime friend and volunteer at our Sister House, the Guadalupe Catholic Worker, recently published in the Santa Maria Times, the Hanford Sentinel, Lompoc Record, & Santa Ynez Valley News. By Scott Fina I once studied to be a Catholic priest … Continue reading| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
The April 2025 Catholic Agitator is now online. In this issue: THE CALL TO “FOLLOW ME.” Answering The Call – By Mike Wisniewski Unlearning War, Learning Peace – By Claire Lewandowski This Work Is A Love Story – By Matt Harper My Pearl Of Great Price – By Brian Young With You (poem) – By … Continue reading| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
Israel has begun the final stage of its genocide. The Palestinians will be forced to choose between death or deportation. There are no other options. The excellent article behind this LINK exposes the lies, upon more lies, and lays bare the catastrophic reality of Gaza’s imminent future. An excerpt: By CHRIS HEDGES This is the … Continue reading| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
This LINK is to the original posting of this op-ed piece by Scott Fina, our longtime friend, and volunteer at our Sister House, the Guadalupe Catholic Worker, recently published in the Santa Maria Times, the Hanford Sentinel, Lompoc Record, & Santa Ynez Valley News. By SCOTT FINA President Trump’s State of the Union Address on … Continue reading| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
Join us each Lenten Friday to stand against these FASCIST policies of hate and violence.| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
This LINK is to the live-streamed Coalition of Faithful Resistance REPENT and RESIST Ash Wednesday vigil at the downtown Federal Building, where 40 people braved the rain to oppose Musk/ Trump’s unjust and immoral chaotic madness. This LINK is to KTLA channel 5 News coverage, including an interview with Matt Harper.| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
At our Wednesday evening liturgy on February 19, we joined Jeff and Catherine in celebrating 51 years of marriage. May they enjoy many more.| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
This article originally appears behind this LINK, which is an eye-opening glimpse into today’s reality in the United States and where we are headed in the coming months. The full article is below First we got a mafia economy. Then we got a mafia state. We must rid ourselves of the ruling criminal class or … Continue reading| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
The Heresy of Christian Zionism By Lisa Sharon Harper What does Donald Trump’s proclamation about the U.S. “owning” Gaza have to do with Christian Zionism? Here’s what. Dr. Mitri Raheb, Palestinian Christian Theologian and President of Dar Al Kalima University on the West Bank, called the world’s top scholars focused on Christian Zionism and dozens … Continue reading| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
The articles behind this LINK and this LINK tell the story of the Israeli massacre now taking place in the West Bank, including photos. The GENOCIDE of Palestine continues! This LINK reveals all the diseases and illnesses that are rampant in Gaza. This LINK and this LINK detail the dramatic drop in life expectancy for … Continue reading| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
Redwood City (California) Catholic Worker community member Susan Crane has been released from a German prison after serving 7.5 months for protesting against U.S. nuclear weapons in Germany. Read the story and view several photos behind this LINK.| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
Behind this LINK, this LINK, and this LINK are three good reads on the Plough website about Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement, and nonviolence. “Still going strong after nine decades, a radical movement of sharing and caring proves it’s possible to escape and resist capitalism, to a point.”| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
This LINK is to the original posting of this op-ed piece by Scott Fina, our longtime friend, and volunteer at our Sister House, the Guadalupe Catholic Worker, recently published in the Santa Barbara Independent. The Risks of War Will Always Outweigh Its Supposed Benefits. The recently released movie Conclave has garnered substantial acclaim. Surprisingly, a … Continue reading| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
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Yet another excellent commentary can be found behind this LINK (click on Watch on YouTube in the bottom left corner). We are all responsible for the GENOCIDE in Gaza by our silent acceptance. We cannot deny it. “We the people” must own it, repent, and act to end this diabolical madness. WE MUST!!!!!!| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
The excellent but infuriating commentary behind this LINK exposes a demonic and sickening ideology that cannot be ignored or denied. (Click “Watch on YouTube” in the lower left corner.)| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
This LINK and this LINK provide two great oral commentaries on current issues relating to life in today’s world. Click on “Watch on YouTube,” in the lower left, not the red arrow in the middle. Together, both are nine minutes long.| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
Click on this LINK and this LINK to view the live-streamed “Catholics For Palestine” action at Our Lady Queen of Angels Cathedral and banner drop above the US 101 Freeway in downtown L.A., where 25 people gathered for the caroling and the “Do You See What I See In Palestine” banner drop.| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
From our house to yours, we wish you a blessed and holy Christmas. Pray and act for PEACE with JUSTICE! (click on each photo to view in a higher resolution)| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
The December 2024 Catholic Agitator is now online. In this issue: CHRISTMAS APPEAL Who We Have Been And Who We Might Be – By Matt Harper God On Skid Row – By Maeve Rodriguez Rings– By Meg Milligan The Great Disarmer: Laughter In The Catholic Worker – By Claire Lewandowski Letter To A Magistrate – … Continue reading| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
The EXCELLENT commentary behind this LINK is very truthful. It is about time everybody realizes it.| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
This LINK is to an excellent spoken commentary. It is a MUST-listen/read–words below. Take it to heart. Think about it. This LINK is to an interview with a U.S. doctor who went to Gaza. By Caitlin Johnstone Some days it’s hard to say which is more horrific: the Gaza genocide itself, or the moral decay … Continue reading| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
At 11:45 pm on Election Day, November 5, activists will gather at Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Central Coast to witness and protest the test of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). During such tests, which occur several times a year, the weapons are launched from the Vandenberg base and aimed at Kwajalein … Continue reading| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
Here is this year’s Day of the Dead Altar. We had pictures set up around the room because we had too many pictures of friends, relatives, and other notable people to have it centralized in one location.| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
This LINK is to the original posting of this op-ed piece by Scott Fina, our longtime friend, and volunteer at our Sister House, the Guadalupe Catholic Worker, recently published in the Santa Maria Times By SCOTT FINA The Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, was unjustified and monstrous, but the response by Israel … Continue reading| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
Please note that our dining garden will be closed on Sunday, October 27, therefore, we will NOT be serving coffee and sweets. We will again be open on Sunday, November 3.| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
Below is a reflection from a Palestinian currently living in Gaza. This LINK is to the original article on Substack. Nothing New To Hold Onto. Nothing Old To Return To. In the Suffocating Grayness Of Annihilation… By Mohammed Mohisen Our clothes have withered to shreds like the ragged tents barely holding over our heads. The … Continue reading| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to two excellent 5-minute and 40-second commentaries by Caitlin Johnstone and read by Tim Foley at this LINK and this LINK. Read “Israel’s Shared Values With The West Are Tyranny, War, And Genocide” at this LINK, and “Politicians In Dystopialand Warn Other Candidate Will Cause Dystopia” … Continue reading| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
This LINK is to an EXCELLENT commentary on the tragic and distressing whitewashing of the GENOCIDE for which the U.S. Empire–under Biden/Harris–is RESPONSIBLE. It is a four-minute listen. It can be read at this LINK. It is unconscionable where this nation now stands. A crime against God and humanity is shoved under the carpet.| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
This LINK is to the original posting of this op-ed piece by Scott Fina, our longtime friend, and volunteer at our Sister House, the Guadalupe Catholic Worker, recently published in the Santa Maria Times By Scott Fina Donald Trump’s nomination acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC), in which he provided a detailed retelling … Continue reading| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
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The August 2024 Catholic Agitator is now online. In this issue: Situating Skid Row In The Larger Moment – By Matt Harper Rev. James Lawson, Jr. Obituary – By Mike Wisniewski When The Streets Seem A Better Option – By Megan Ramsey For Whatsoever You Do… – By Mike Wisniewski Living In The Borderlands – By … Continue reading| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
This LINK is where this excellent and truthful commentary originated. Below is the full commentary. By Chris Hedges Joe Biden was discarded by the same billionaire class he assiduously served throughout his political career. Barely able to stumble his way through the words on a TelePrompter and not always cognizant of what is happening around him, his … Continue reading| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
This LINK is to the original posting of this op-ed piece by Scott Fina, our longtime friend, and volunteer at our Sister House, the Guadalupe Catholic Worker, recently published in the Santa Maria Times By SCOTT FINA In recent times, have there been more troubled regions bearing conflicts with the potential to instigate nuclear war, … Continue reading| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
Our 2024 Summer Internship Program has begun. Below are this year’s interns. All are excited to be here and eager to learn about the LACW and our work and deepen their faith commitment to working for justice and peace. (Left to right) Luke Fina (Santa Maria, CA), Eve Harrison (Los Angeles, CA), Joseph Schneider (Chicago, … Continue reading| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
The Hippie Kitchen will be open for regular serving–9:30 am –12 noon–on Thursday, July 4. Volunteers, please arrive between 7:15 and 7:30 am| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
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Greetings to Young People: You are Automatically Registered for the Draft Conscription without Representation? Where and WHY are we sending our Kids to War? This article appears at this LINK. By Dennis Kucinich / Substack Our government is planning a big draft, conscripting millions of young people for an even bigger war! I call to … Continue reading| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
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If you are interested, we invite you to join us online live-streamed on our Facebook page for this year’s Good Friday Anti-Nuclear/Anti-War Stations of the Cross at this LINK at 3 pm (PDT) on March 29. To follow along with our script, please use this LINK.| Los Angeles Catholic Worker
The April 2024 Catholic Agitator is now online. In this issue: Sheer Diabolical Insanity – By Mike Wisniewski Digging Up Art Archives – By Sarah Fuller & Becky McIntyre War Tax Resistance: A Catholic Worker Tradition – By Lincoln Rice The Nuclear Family Crisis – By Matt Harper Every Last Thing That Divides Us – By … Continue reading| Los Angeles Catholic Worker