Los Angeles Catholic Worker

Although we are constantly praying for an end to the death penalty, and clemancy for Michael Morales, it looks like there will be an execution at a minute past midnight on February 21. The Los Angeles Catholic Worker will be holding a vigil on February 20, the eve of the execution, from 4 - 6 PM on in front of the Superior Court House at Temple and Spring Streets.

Thank you to Lawrence Tripp for finding this list of other vigils in California: http://www.deathpenalty.org/index.php?pid=events

Last Friday, January 20, Martha’s long time friend and cat, Bella, passed away. Bella was over 21 years old and has lived at the Los Angeles Catholic Worker for the last thirteen years. Bella was laid to rest in our rose garden here at the house. Her presence with us will be missed by Martha and the rest of the LACW community.

I just dropped off the January issue of the Catholic Agitator at the printer. With any luck it will be in the mail by next week. It is also available online at: http://www.lacatholicworker.org/agitator/CatholicAgitator2006-1.pdf

In this issue:

• FBI Spies on the Los Angeles Catholic Worker
• Sr. Ardethe Platte Released
• St. Patrick’s Four Sentenced
• Witness Against Torture march to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
• Jeanie Wylie-Kellermann, R.I.P.

The Summer Internship may still be several months away, but we have already received two applications, and many more requests for information about it. For those interested, this year the program will run from June 25th - August 8th.

Note: the due date for the 2006 Summer Internship applications is March 15th

For those who are interested please visit: http://lacatholicworker.org/summer-internship-program/

Also take a look at the 2005 Summer Intern Photo Gallery

The new volunteer stories, originally apearing in the December, 2005 issue of the Catholic Agitator are now online at: http://lacatholicworker.org/visiting-and-volunteering/volunteer-interviews/.
The 2004 interviews are available at: http://lacatholicworker.org/visiting-and-volunteering/volunteer-interviews/volunteer-stories-2004/.