The Catholic Worker: 'You go to where there is need'
Posted on May 8, 2008 16:03pm CST.
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The Catholic Worker: ‘You go to where there is need’
On the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Catholic Worker Movement (May 1), Tom Fox spoke with Catholic Worker veteran Louis Rodemann of Holy Family House in Kansas City, Mo. Rodemann tells Fox: “The Catholic Worker is such a nitty-gritty, down to earth expression of Christian Catholic life that -- I say this not out of arrogance, but out of pride -- I think this is what Jesus had in mind.”
Episode 1: Works of Mercy and Works of Justice (25 min.)
Rodemann tells Fox about the twin pillars of the Catholic Worker Movement: “The Works of Mercy are responses to the inhumanity dealt to our guests by different dimensions of poverty,” he says. “The Works of Justice is a way of living, nonviolently in resistance to the infrastructures that allows, cause and even enhances the mechanisms of poverty.” Rodemann also talks about the Midwest Catholic Worker Faith and Resistance Retreat.
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On the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Catholic Worker Movement (May 1), Tom Fox spoke with Catholic Worker veteran Louis Rodemann of Holy Family House in Kansas City, Mo. Rodemann tells Fox: “The Catholic Worker is such a nitty-gritty, down to earth expression of Christian Catholic life that -- I say this not out of arrogance, but out of pride -- I think this is what Jesus had in mind.”
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| Br. Louis at Holy Family House. In the frame behind him is a quote from Dorothy Day: "We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community." |
Rodemann tells Fox about the twin pillars of the Catholic Worker Movement: “The Works of Mercy are responses to the inhumanity dealt to our guests by different dimensions of poverty,” he says. “The Works of Justice is a way of living, nonviolently in resistance to the infrastructures that allows, cause and even enhances the mechanisms of poverty.” Rodemann also talks about the Midwest Catholic Worker Faith and Resistance Retreat.
Episode 2: How to start a Catholic Worker House (26 min.)
“How does one start a Catholic Worker House,” Tom Fox asks. “You go to where there is need,” Rodemann says. He also talks about 50 years as a Christian Brother.
More about the speaker
Christian Brother Louis Rodemann is the director of the Holy Family Catholic Worker House in Kansas City, Missouri. He has be been a Christian brother for 50 years and has been associated with the Holy Family Catholic Worker House for the past 26 years.
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Even without having a chance
Even without having a chance yet to listen, there is no doubt that the catholic worker movement has always been where it's at. Thank you for giving us all a better face while you do your good work.