HOUSE NEWS: Help the GCW and come to our Christmas party!

Dear friends,
We don’t often do this, usually just once a year over the email list (twice when we’re desperate), but we hope that you might consider giving a gift to the Gainesville Catholic Worker during this holiday season. I think that most of our readers on the site and over email know that we are [...]

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HOUSE NEWS: Thanking Iris and Patrick as their Metanoia semester ends

The days at the end of semesters are always sort of rushed and harried. At the the GCW, we’ve tried to ritualize these endings by taking stock of what we are doing and what more we need to do; asking ourselves how well we are living and how our lives (individually and communally) can better [...]

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HOUSE NEWS: Photos from our trip to the SOA Vigil and Action

In what is becoming an annual ritual for our GCW community, about 20 of us went to Ft. Benning, GA from November 21-23, to attend the action and vigil to close the School of the Americas (SOA). Eric Lecompte of SOAWatch had spoken at an early November Roundtable at the GCW, telling us about the [...]

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HOUSE NEWS: Going to Haiti, Anarcho-Primitivism, Advent and more!

Dear friends,
Our apologies for the recent lack of communication from us at the GCW. Things got a little busy, we went to the SOA (we’ll have photos up next week), then Thanksgiving week was upon us, and we simply didn’t find the time to get on the website and keep everyone abreast of what was going [...]

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