Browse Interviews

Sister Catherine Walsh of the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine recollects her early childhood growing up on a farm in County Mayo, Ireland. Before she made her religious vows, Sister Catherine immigrated to Ohio in order to work. After she made her vows, she taught special education at Parmadale and worked in the Hough neighborhood of Cleveland. Sister Catherine then spent six years in El Salvador with the Cleveland Mission Team. After she returned to Ohio she helped establish the Akron…

Kristina Walter, an art educator, recollects her early life and how her faith has shaped her experience living in the greater Cleveland area. Walter notes the importance of religion and social justice throughout her education, which led her to join Cleveland's Catholic Worker Movement.

Twenty-five-year-old former German Action Reconciliation Service for Peace volunteer Line-Marie Eichhorst shares what it was like coming to Cleveland for a year in 2018 for ASRP while living at the Catholic Worker House. Eichhorst recollects her involvement with the Inter-Religious Task Force on Central America and the Witness Against Torture to protest the US military detention camp at Guantanamo Bay. She returned from Germany to Cleveland and the Catholic Worker House in 2024 to undertake a…