HOUSE NEWS: Going to the SOA

Dear friends,
Thanks so much to all the students from AED who did such an incredible job helping out with the cafe yesterday. And thanks too to all who made soup and dropped it off at the house. It was delicious!
Later this week, about 15 of us with ties to the GCW will be heading to [...]

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ROUNDTABLE: Jon Sobrino, SJ and liberation theology

The following reflection is from Patrick Cashio, a GCW community member doing the Metanoia Semester with us. He gave a Roundtable on October 30th on the latest book by Jon Sobrino, SJ, No Salvation Outside the Poor: Prophetic-Utopian Essays. 
At first impulse, the title of Jon Sobrino’s latest book, No Salvation Outside the Poor, sounds [...]

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HOUSE NEWS: Dorothy Day’s birthday, dignity and Kali Blount at the Roundtable

Dear friends,
(To see what is happening This Week at the GCW, click here.)
This past Saturday, November 8th, was Dorothy Day’s birthday. Dorothy was the co-founder of the Catholic Worker and is perhaps the most influential Catholic of the 20th century. So much of what Dorothy wanted the CW to be revolved around one word: dignity. Dignity is at [...]

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OPINION: Hope, yes; but real change is still up to us

After watching the movie The Great Debaters with some folks waiting to take showers at the house this afternoon, one of the guests remarked:
“My mother is white and my father is African-American.  I’m kind of like Obama!”
This, if anything, gives me hope. Change doesn’t come from the top, and no politician or administration is going to begin [...]

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HOUSE NEWS: Roundtable, concerts and compost

For a complete list of what is happening at the GCW this week, click here.
Dear friends,
Thanks so much to everyone who contributed blankets last week! We gave out probably around 50 blankets last week, and when the next cold snap hits, we’re well-provisioned to help folks looking to stay warm. Many thanks again!
Thanks too to the [...]

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