Catholic Worker Movement Archives

Iowa bishop says pandemic should prompt release of Guatemalan detainees

May 28, 2020

Davenport Bishop Thomas R. Zinkula has asked the chief of Homeland Security in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to release three Guatemalan immigrant detainees because the COVID-19 pandemic “places immigrants being detained in a very vulnerable situation.”

By Barb Arland-Fye

Sainthood cause for Dorothy Day picking up steam in U.S.

Apr 29, 2020

The sainthood cause for Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, believes it could have all of the documentation prepared at some point next year to send to the Vatican Congregation for Saints’ Causes.

By Mark Pattison

Catholic groups step up to help most vulnerable during coronavirus pandemic

Mar 24, 2020

As the spread of the coronavirus forces restrictions on almost every sector of the economy, Catholic organizations are adapting amidst challenges to how they aid the most vulnerable.

By Jack Lyons

Panel assesses Dorothy Day’s impact on church and their own lives

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Feb 1, 2020

If you met Dorothy Day, you were changed, said panelists at a Jan. 27 discussion following an advance screening of a new documentary, “Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story,” which profiles the co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement.

By Mark Pattison

Bishop: Witnessing at ICE check-in is going to peripheries as pope asks

Dec 13, 2019

Bishop Thomas R. Zinkula of Davenport, Iowa, was among 18 people who packed the reception area of a federal facility in Cedar Rapids, keeping vigil as Alejandro Guzman checked in with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

By Barb Arland-Fye

If canonized, Dorothy Day would be a saint for a ‘polarized’ world

Nov 8, 2019

While U.S. Catholics currently claim thirteen official American saints of their own, experts at Marquette University’s Raynor Memorial Libraries are doing their part to aid efforts to determine whether that number may soon grow to include Dorothy Day.

By Nick Mayrand