Who we are: A small group of folks started meeting in January 2014 to formally begin the process of creating an intentional community in the Catholic Worker tradition. We are a community of people with diverse spiritual practices. We are primarily a non-residential community although we do have a house with a few spaces for communal living (and we hope to purchase the house next door). We take our
name from the spiritual “Ain’t Gonna Study War No More”. WHAT IS THE CATHOLIC WORKER TRADITION? This summary is from "A Brief Introduction to the Catholic Worker Movement" by Tom Cornell. For his whole article you can go to: http://catholicworker.org/historytext.cfm?Number=4. The Catholic Worker movement is made up of people motivated by the teachings of Jesus, especially as they are summarized in the Sermon on the Mount, and the teachings of the Catholic Church, in the writings of the early Fathers and the social encyclicals of the modern popes, to bring about a "new society within the shell of the old, a society in which it will be easier to be good." A society in tune with these teachings would have no place for economic exploitation or war, for racial, gender or religious discrimination, but would be marked by a cooperative social order without extremes of wealth and poverty and a nonviolent approach to legitimate defense and conflict resolution.
