Guiseppe Conlon House

We are a community of the radical Christian “Catholic Worker” movement. The Catholic Worker is an ecumenical, pacifist, and anarchist movement founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in New York in 1933. As a community we are dedicated to living simply, in solidarity with those who are marginalised by society and in resistance to violence and injustice. The London Catholic Worker was brought together by the Jubilee Ploughshares 2000 disarmament action, in response to the need for a Catholic Worker community of hospitality and resistance in the world’s second imperial city. In June 2010 the London Catholic Worker opened Guiseppe Conlon House. At Guiseppe Conlon House we provide hospitality for destitute refugees and asylum seekers. We have a community meal every evening and other activities such as prayer, bible study and “round table discussions” which are open to all living in the house as well as friends, volunteers and visitors. We also run the Urban Table soup kitchen in Hackney every other Sunday. As part of our work of resistance we organise vigils and are involved in campaigns against war, arms trade, drones, and in solidarity with migrants and refugees. We take as our manifesto the Gospels, the lives of the saints, especially our CW founders Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, and the CW “Aims and Means”*. Our aim is “to build a new society in the shell of the old”, “a society where it is easier to be good”, bringing about a non-violent revolution by changing the world one heart at a time. *http://www.catholicworker.org/aimsandmeanstext.cfm?Number=5