Happy Easter! April is a special time for us at the StL CW. This month marks 3 years since we first publicly announced our dream of starting a new Catholic Worker project in St. Louis and two years since we got the keys to our CW community house! Thanks for helping us make that dream come true and for all your continued support. We couldn’t keep on feeding and housing those in need or fighting the “filthy rotten system” (as Dorothy Day is said to have called it) without you. We hope we’ll see you at a protest, burrito prep morning, or one of our April community events soon! -CW Clarification of Thought Movie Night: Godzilla Sunday, April 12 Soup at 6PM, Movie at 7PM 8617 Mora Ln. A critique of nuclear warfare, and thus considered too controversial for American audiences, Ishiro Honda's 1954 'Gojira' did not receive a wide release in the United States until 2004. A classic of pacifist cinema, the film deftly uses metaphor to explore the themes of war and weapons...
Start reading now for our Lenten book discussion of Catholic Worker founder Dorothy Day’s autobiography The Long Longlines . On March 2nd we’ll get together at the StL CW community house ( 8617 Mora Ln. ) to discuss parts 1 and 2 of the book and will gather again on March 23rd to discuss the rest. Theo will have soup starting at 6PM with the discussion beginning at 7. Please RSVP to StLouisCatholicWorker@gmail.com if you plan to come or just show up if you decide to at the last minute! We were just sitting there talking when Peter Maurin came in. We were just sitting there talking when lines of people began to form, saying, “We need bread.” We could not say, “Go, be thou filled.” If there were six small loaves and a few fishes, we had to divide them. There was always bread. We were just sitting there talking and people moved in on us. Let those who can take it, take it. Some moved out and that made room for more. And somehow the walls expanded. We were just sitting there ta...