Jeff Dietrich

Jeff Dietrich, a member of the Los Angeles Catholic Worker, has lived and worked among the poor of Skid Row since 1970. He is the author of Reluctant Resistor, Good Samaritan and Broken and Shared. His fourth book will be published in fall 2024.

 

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Catholic Worker Jeff Dietrich, center, protests in Los Angeles in 2010. (AP/Reed Saxon)

A life of Catholic activism: Resurrection, resistance and answered prayers

When I heard about Catholic Workers, a light went on in my soul. I thought this is what Jesus would be doing if he were alive today: feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, sheltering the homeless — and burning draft files.

In 1990, Gary Palmatier painted the “Jesus of the Bread Line” mural, an interpretation of an etching by Fritz Eichenberg, on a wall of the Catholic Worker soup kitchen in Los Angeles. (Mike Wisniewski)

LA Skid Row anchors Catholic Worker 'to the suffering world'

LA Catholic Worker Jeff Dietrich has lived and worked among the poor of Skid Row since 1970. The work "keeps me in contact with reality when I become too complacent, too comfortable in my own bed," he said. 

A homeless man in Los Angeles is tested for the coronavirus disease at a fire department testing station April 21. (CNS/Reuters/Lucy Nicholson)

Skid Row anointing in the City of Angels

Perspective: I sit here holding out my bottle of hand sanitizer, and our guests in the food line shuffle past me to receive cleansing: dirty hands, clean pink hands, open hands as if begging to be sanitized.

This Epiphany, remember the dreamers

Times are changing under Pope Francis

Catholic Workers rely on grace, guts, luck in 80-year-old mission

New law means stripping certain protestors of their rights

Advent readings inspire Occupy LA arrest

In tough times, remember values of 'the commons'

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