Welcome to the official website of The San Diego Catholic Worker
Seeking Justice - Serving People in Need - Promoting Peace
We’re part of a nationwide movement of some 250 similar groups initiated by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, in response to widespread hunger and homelessness at the time of the Great Depression in the early 1930s.
Who We Are and What We Do
The San Diego Catholic Worker is composed of a group of people inspired by the Sermon on the Mount and the instructions of Jesus to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless and clothe the naked.
For close to 40 years now with lots of volunteer help we have provided a delicious lunch for 100 or more mostly homeless people in Pacific Beach every Friday.
In recent years we have also been taking hot soup, sandwiches, boiled eggs and water at nighttime, directly to people living on city streets.
We have also been collecting and distributing used clothes once or twice a month to the same men, women and children.
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Signs of the Times
“What we would like to do is change the world—make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do. And, by fighting for better conditions, by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute—the rights of the worthy and the unworthy poor in other words—we can, to a certain extent, change the world.”
— Dorothy Day