Radical Sharing and Mutality
by living in community, we are living at odds with an individualistic, extractive, and capitalistic society. In such a society, each nuclear household needs one of everything – a car, a lawnmower, a shovel, etc. In community, we reject this dominant paradigm by sharing our resources.
Spring 2022 News: After 35 years, we decide to file for 501(c)3 status.
We have news! After careful discernment, the Catholic Workers have decided that our community and our mission are best served by filing for 501(c)3 tax exempt status.
Becoming a tax exempt organization will not change the low-income and transitional housing we provide, our community building mission, our consensus decision making, or our community structure. In the process of making this decision, we consulted with experts and gathered our elders and supporters with differing perspectives. Working our way through this question has helped us strengthen and clarify our vision as a community.
A Deeper Look at Our Community Discernment: Q&A
For the last two years, we have been consulting with attorneys, non-profit leaders and experts, our elders, and long-time supporters. We have invited input from different perspectives. Our discussion has brought out many questions. Among them….
Fall 2021 Community Update
We are grateful for the many years of care and support. We are providing stability for people who need it. And you are that stability for us.
We Are Not Good Samaritans.
But I am grateful that these stories continue to reveal a depth and richness as we carry them around, embody them, and hold them up in different kinds of light. None of these other layers of meaning are lost in asking a different question that occurred to me as I walked: What about this innkeeper?
Community Update Advent 2020
tenderness can be our methodology; that a place that holds each person in tenderness is a place where powerful change can happen.
Field Trips, Radical Love, and a Compelling Vision
These are not the Christians that you see in the news or in the media. Certainly not in the latest and greatest of Christianity superstars. They won’t make the headlines or trend on Instagram. And yet, what a beautiful thing to see a community living out the welcome and love of the gospel in such a simple and yet powerful way.