Hospitality- we offer a temporary home to an average of forty to sixty short and long-term guests per year. We help long-term guests find legal and medical assistance and employment, and reconnect them with faimily and friends and the recovering community.

Peace and Justice According to the Catholic Social Teachings- The Catholic Worker has been involved in resistance against the death penalty and other pro-life issues that are part of today's culture of death. We are involved in monthly vigils at the governor's mansion to call attention to the injustices of the death penalty.

Corporal Works of Mercy- The Harrisburg Catholic Worker has inititiated a community garden in the Allison Hill area with the support of local neighbors to provide fresh vegetables to low income families. This garden along with our food pantry provides much needed assistance to these families.

 

Future- Currently we are working on rehabbing an apartment building that will be used for low income housing women and children that find themselves unable to afford decent housing. Please pray for the success of this new mission.

We are not tax exempt--all gifts to the Harrisburg Catholic Worker House go to a common fund, which pays for the daily expenses of our works of mercy. As a faith community that depends on the province of God, we never sought tax-exempt status since we are convinced that justice and the works of mercy should be acts of conscience which come at a personal sacrifice, without govern entail approval, regulation or reward. For more information call (717) 230-8328.