Central Minnesota Catholic Worker

03/29/2026

Reminder!

🌿 Palm Sunday was a protest. And this , Christians nationwide are taking action to reclaim our faith.

We are called to love our neighbors, feed the hungry, care for the sick, welcome the stranger, & speak the truth.

But some politicians are twisting our faith in order to divide and distract us — while showering billionaires with more tax breaks.

We refuse to let them.

📍 Take a stand at an action near you: palmsunday2026.com

03/04/2026

Daniel Berrigan (1921-2016)

“Every war in history, in the minds of practically all those who prepare for it or initiate it or respond to it or make money from it or propagandize it or research it or deploy it or go off to kill in it or are wounded in it or survive it—or write encyclicals about it or mount the pulpit to sanctify it—all of these find a way to set down the same thing.

Namely. The current war is a good war. It is a virtuous war, a just war, an oil war (self-justifying), a war to end all wars.

And the above justifications, from the point of view of biblical understanding, are pure scandal. At the flash point, when religion once more plays its immemorial role and falls in line, a stone is fastened about the neck of churchgoers and taxpayers and priests and popes. And they are cast into the sea.

It is better that way, says Christ. They are a scandal.”

~ Berrigan, To Dwell in Peace

Daniel Berrigan was a prominent American Jesuit priest, poet, and writer who became a leading figure in the anti-war movement of the 1960s. As co-founder of the Plowshares Movement, he famously burned draft files in 1968 to protest the Vietnam War, later becoming a leading voice against nuclear weapons.

~ image: Daniel Berrigan (Paper Cranes: Icons of Peace), block print, ink on handmade paper; 8”x8”, Kreg Yingst, 2026

01/07/2026

TODAY-!
Prayer Service to Support Immigrants - 4:30-5:30 pm at St. Benedict’s Monastery. Free community meal to follow.

01/05/2026

All are invited

The Saint Benedict's Monastery is hosting a prayer service for the just treatment of immigrants. Learn more: https://wjon.com/st-joseph-prayer-service/

12/02/2025

Never forgotten… ❤️

Today, we remember the churchwomen of El Salvador, murdered 45 years ago today: Sr. Maura Clarke, M.M.; lay missionary Jean Donovan; Sr. Ita Ford, M.M.; and Sr. Dorothy Kazel, O.S.U.

They were returning from the airport in El Salvador when the Salvadoran national guard pulled their vehicle over, r***d them and shot them to death for their work to serve the country’s poor. http://ow.ly/RZrm50LTwkY

12/01/2025

Both Dorothy‘s birthday and death anniversary are in November. May her faith and actions continue to teach us. Dorothy Day, pray for us!

Today is the feast day of Dorothy Day. Recently, Pope Leo shared about her life at his jubilee audience.

"In a certain way, Jesus takes away our peace, if we think of peace as inert calm. But this is not true peace. Sometimes we would like to be left in peace, for no one to disturb us, for others to cease to exist.

This is not the peace of God. The peace that Jesus brings is like a fire and demands a lot from us. Above all, it asks us to take a stand against injustice, inequality, where human dignity is trampled on, where the fragile are silenced.

Take a stand. To hope is to take a stand. To hope is to understand in your heart and show in your actions that things must not continue as before. This too is the good fire of the Gospel.

I would like to remember a small, great American woman, Dorothy Day, who lived in the last century. She had fire inside her. Dorothy Day took a stand. She saw that her country’s model of development did not create equal opportunities for all. She understood that for too many, the dream was a nightmare, that as a Christian she had to get involved with workers, with migrants, with those discarded by an economy that kills.

She united mind, heart, and hands. In this way, to hope is to take a stand. Dorothy Day involved thousands of people. They opened houses in many cities, in many neighborhoods. Not large service centers, but houses of hospitality—places of charity and justice where people could call each other by name, get to know each other one by one, and transform indignation into communion and action.

This is what peacemakers are like. They take a stand and bear the consequences, but they move forward."

Dorothy, pray that we may be like you with a fire inside of us.

11/08/2025

Happy Birthday,Dorothy Day!
“We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it”.

11/08/2025

Consider attending this workshop to understand more about current outreach, and what communities can do.

10/29/2025

This!

Across Canada, kindness doesn’t always speak. Sometimes, it simply hangs quietly in the cold. Every winter, as temperatures drop and snow begins to fall, ordinary people begin doing something extraordinary. They tie coats, scarves, gloves, and hats to trees, fences, and park benches. No notes. No names. No cameras. No questions asked.

Just a simple message tucked in the folds: “If you’re cold, take one.”

In Winnipeg and Regina, community groups have turned this small gesture into entire “winter wear campaigns.” In Victoria Park, hundreds of handmade scarves appear overnight in bright colors against the frost, waiting for anyone who needs them.

In Kamloops, one volunteer spends her evenings crocheting toques and scarves, then quietly hangs them on trees before the first snow.

And in cities like Ottawa and Winnipeg, “scarf bombing” has become a seasonal tradition, people wrapping public spaces in warmth, one branch at a time.
There are no collection bins. No paperwork. No requirements.

Just compassion hanging in plain sight, turning the harshness of winter into something gentle, human, and hopeful.

10/19/2025

Prayer Vigil for the Just Treatment of Immigrants Wednesday, October 22nd - 10:00-11:00 am
St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church (219 2nd St N, Sartell MN)

Catholics across the country are gathering to publicly witness and pray for our sisters and brothers being unjustly treated in our communities with mass arrests being carried out by ICE without due process. Gather with others to pray, hear testimony and learn more about how we can take action as people of faith and justice. For more information, contact Molly Weyrens at 320-828-4465 or [email protected]. Sponsored by One Church/One Family, a national initiative for a "Catholic Public Witness for Immigrants

10/08/2025

From Dylan Corbett, executive director of the Hope Border Institute:

"Today, with Bishop Seitz and members of the immigrant community, Hope Border met Pope Leo and gave him messages and a video from those fearing Trump’s mass deportations. ‘The church cannot stay silent before injustice. You stand with me. And I stand with you,' the pope said."

04/20/2025