Fwd: CASA CRY, NEWSLETTER OF CASA MARIA C.W.
Catholic Worker
From: don2r...@yahoo.com <don2r...@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Subject: CASA CRY, NEWSLETTER OF CASA MARIA C.W.
To: Don Timmerman <don2r...@yahoo.com>
CASA CRY SEPTEMBER, 2025
Currently, there are 8 Catholic Workers living in the Casa Maria House, Harmony house, Sr. Pat’s house, and Mapendo House along with the guests. They are
Kesha, Michael, Desiree, Sabine, Shawn, Josh, Jasmine, Taz (Latrell) and Jessica. Others like Amada ,Lincoln, Caitlin, Ellie, Don, Roberta, Jim, Chris, Tate, Doug, Joe, Kevin and others who help in various ways. We thank all these and former workers in the Casa Maria Community who have kept the doors open for 60 years for hospitality to the homeless and others who are very needy. They are the true heroes of today who give away their time and energy toward bringing nonviolence and peace to the world. We are very grateful to them and to God who has helped us to find love and joy in serving others. God blesses all those who helped the community with donations and moral support for so long. May this continue for many years to come. Peace and Love, Don Timmerman
Your donations help keep our houses of hospitality humming and guests feeling at ease. Here is a list of our current needs: *PRAYERS,39 GALLON GARBAGE BAGS, LAUNDRY DETERGERNT, CEANING SUPPLIES, DIAPERS,BLEACH , MILK, (esp. shelf stable milk)*PASTA SAUCE, DISH SOUP, PIZZAS, PAPER TOWELS, and tiuket paper.
“I see no point in working within an evil system. Christ was never a reformer. He didn‘t advocate voting for one corrupt politician over another. He never urged people to embrace the state. He told parables about putting a patch on an old garment that would soon unravel. He preached that we should dismantle, not attempt to patch, the state.” -----Phil Berrigan
DON’S JOKES
Dis you hear they named their pig Ballpoint, tut it was just his pen name.
Where does the sheep get his hair cut? The baa-baa shop! I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked at me surprised. My girlfriend treats me like a god. She ignores my existence and only talks to me when she needs something. What type of sandals do frogs wear? Open-toad! How do you count cows? With a cowculator. Why couldn’t the bad sailor learn the alphabet? Because he always got lost at “C.” I told my doctor that I broke my arm in two places. He told me to stop going to those places. Why are the Irish so wealthy? Because their capital is always Dublin. This is my step ladder. I never knew my real ladder. What do sea monsters eat? Fish and ships. How did the two cats end their fight? They hissed and made up. How many beans should you put in a pot of chili? 239. One more would be too farty. Can February March? No. but April May.
Interesting Facts
“We live in the richest country in the history of the world, yet we remain the only major country not to guarantee health care to all people as a human right. ”-Bernie Saunders..The military outlay is close to $1 trillion, consuming nearly half of the discretionary budget. No audit was ever done on U.S. military spending. Three percent of our military budget would feed the world.---Popular Resistance
The shortest day ever recorded was July 5, 2024, which was 1.66 milliseconds under the usual 24 hours.--- Interesting Facts
The uranium used for nuclear weapons comes from the Shinkolobwe mine in the present-day Democratic Republic of Congo. Union Minière, owners of Shinkolobwe in the then Belgian Congo.--- PopularResistance Another ignored link is the disastrous health effect on Congolese miners who handled the uranium as virtual slaves of the Belgium mining. President Trump said he wants to destroy our holy ground of Oak Flat so a foreign-owned corporation can send copper to China," Brown University research, calculates that the United States has paid for 70% of the Gaza war. PopularResistance
Norway’s $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund has divested from Caterpillar and five Israeli banks, citing their roles in unlawful property destruction in Palestine and financing illegal West Bank settlements.-- Drop Site news
The private military contractor and Trump ally Erik Prince will soon deploy nearly 200 mercenaries to Haiti as part of an agreement with the Haitian interim government to conduct lethal operations against gangs who’ve seized Port-au-Prince and vast swaths of territory across the island ----Drop Site News
The State Department is reviewing the records of more than 55 million immigrants who hold valid U.S. visas, threatening to revoke protections if any violations are found. ----Democracy Now
The New York Times reports the Trump administration is ignoring a congressional directive to fully fund PEPFAR, an HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention program credited with saving 26 million lives and has canceled a grant providing millions of dollars for a California sex education program after educators refused to remove all references to gender identity, trans and nonbinary people from its curriculum. The program seeks to help prevent unwanted childhood pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections. ---Democracy Now
The War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee has witnessed a surge of people making the connection with the U.S. arming and making the genocide in Gaza possible. In the 1 year, 10 months and 1 week that the war in Gaza has been going on at least 62,000 Palestinians have been killed, 83% of whom were civilians. In that same period of time over a thousand people have attended WTR 101 sessions. ----NWTRCC
Starting soon, the U.S. could unlock over $100 trillion in federal land, oil, gas, and mineral wealth – perhaps the biggest resource push in modern history.---BBC
In 2023, someone was killed by a gun every 11 minutes. .The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data shows, 46,728 individuals died from gun violence in the United States
The government of Norway said it would divest its $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund from 11 Israeli companies, citing the “serious humanitarian crisis” in Gaza.--- newspaper Aftenposten
Average net worth of a household in the bottom 50 percent of income earners in the United States: $4,805 In China : $9,760
Minimum value of the investments in U.S. clean-energy projects that have been canceled this year : $15,500,000,000 ----Harper’s Index
NOTE
September 11-14th, 2025 Sugar Creek Catholic Worker Gathering at Saints Mary and Joseph Catholic Church 3218 110th St. - Preston, Iowa 52069
Thurs Sept. 11 ----ANTI-ROTC VIGIL at M.U. Library from noon to 1 p.m. No Christian institution should be training our youth to kill or maim others.
Tues. Sept 23 ----11 to 11:30 a.m. Detention Center, 8th & State Sts. No More solitary confinement for inmates. They need a helping hand, not more suffering.
Thurs.Sept. 25 ---ANTI-GUN VIGIL at The Shooter’s Shop, 84th & Authur, from noon to 1 p.m. More guns means more death and misery for all. There have been 286 reported mass shootings so far this year, as of Aug.27, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
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As I write this, I am sitting in my back yard. I have been pulling weeds for the last couple of days. This is the first time this week that I relaxed in my backyard. I watch the clouds floating across the blue sky, Iisten to the birds talking to each other. The breeze is cool and gentle. I just heard that there was a school shooting in Minneapolis this morning. There are 2 young people who won’t be able to enjoy this late summer day. We pray for all the children who suffer from the effects of having a proliferation of guns in our society. Tomorrow we have our monthly anti-gun vigil in front of the Shooter Gun shop. I usually carry a sign saying “Support gun control, save children’s lives’. Children should not have to worry about someone carrying a gun coming to harm them. I want them to be able to sit like I am, watching the clouds drift across the blue sky, feeling the gentle breeze and planning their next adventure on a beautiful late summer day. May the day come when people will understand that guns well not make anyone safe. They are made to do violence. Peace, Roberta