“Building something new”: New York Catholic Workers bring new growth with rooftop garden
Inspired by Pope Francis’ apostolic letter on ecology, a garden planned for the roof of the movement’s historic Maryhouse has attracted new attention to Dorothy Day’s Catholic service organisation. FIONA MURPHY, of Religion News Service, reports…
Tom Cornell, Catholic worker and Dorothy Day lieutenant, dies at 88
United StatesRNS Tom Cornell, the longtime Catholic pacifist who humbly referred to Catholic Worker co-founder Dorothy Day as “my spiritual mother”, died on 1st August in a hospital near the Peter Maurin Catholic Worker farm that he helped run with his family in Marlboro, New York, where he lived with his wife of 58 years, […]
In the US, jury convicts seven Catholic pacifists of breaking into nuclear submarine base
RNS A US federal jury on Thursday convicted seven Catholic peace activists of three felonies and a misdemeanor for breaking into a nuclear submarine base in Kings Bay, Georgia, last year. They now face up to 25 years in prison each for breaking into the US Navy base that houses six Trident submarines carrying hundreds […]
US Catholic peace activists who broke into a nuclear base ask judge to drop the charges
RNS Seven Catholic peace activists who broke into a nuclear submarine base in Kings Bay, Georgia, last year stood before a federal judge Wednesday to argue that the charges against them should be dismissed. The activists, known as the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, are charged with three felonies and a misdemeanor and face up to […]
NUCLEAR WEAPONS: IN THE US, SEVEN CATHOLIC ACTIVISTS ARE UNREPENTANT AS THEY AWAIT TRIAL FOR BREAKING INTO A NUCLEAR BASE
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, reports…