Intro: Phil Berrigan CW House, DM IA by FC, Spring Round Table 2005, St Louis CW newspaper   https://frankcordaro.wordpress.com/2019/01/17/phil-berrigan-cw-house-dm-ia-by-fc-spring-round-table-2005-st-louis-cw-newspaper/ 2003 Berrigan beg  https://frankcordaro.wordpress.com/2019/01/17/2003-berrigan-house-beg/ 2004 Berrigan beg https://frankcordaro.wordpress.com/2019/01/17/2004-berrigan-house-beg/ 2005 Berrigan beg https://frankcordaro.wordpress.com/2019/01/17/2005-berrigan-house-beg/ 2006 Berrigan beg https://frankcordaro.wordpress.com/2019/01/17/2006-berrigan-house-beg/ 2007 Berrigan beg https://frankcordaro.wordpress.com/2019/01/16/2007-berrigan-beg/ 2008 No beg 2009 No beg 2010 Berrigan beg https://frankcordaro.wordpress.com/2019/01/16/2010-berrigan-house-beg/ 2011 Berrigan beg https://frankcordaro.wordpress.com/2019/01/16/2011-berrigan-house-beg/ 2012 Berrigan beg https://frankcordaro.wordpress.com/2019/01/16/2012-berrigan-house-beg/… Continue reading 2003 to 2023 Phil Berrigan House beg letters.

Frank Cordaro (Iowa) is a lifetime career activist for peace and justice. He lives with and is a founding a member of the 32-year old Des Moines Catholic Worker (DMCW) community (www.DesMoinesCatholicWorker.org) providing daily hospitality to needy people. Cordaro subscribes to a long tradition of civil disobedience as a model and means for effecting social… Continue reading 2003 Aug BIO for STRATCOM conf

Fr Frank Jan 1, 2003 Update;   All goes well for me..   I am living half time at the DMCW and half time at St Mary’s rectory in Guthrie Center IA. My new assignment is a temp pastor of St Mary’s Parish in Guthrie Center and St Cecilia’s Parish in Panora IA until Easter.… Continue reading 2003 Jan 1 Fr Frank… to freinds

Aug 2003  Interviews A.Milen & P.Fitzgerald -Re “D.Day DM Vist Nov 1952” p. 5 DOROTHY DAY’S DES MOINES VISIT November, 1952 By Frank Cordaro Amy Millen and Pat Fitzgerald were the St. Joseph’s Academy students, who interviewed Dorothy Day in Des Moines in November, 1952.  Below is a recent interview with Frank Cordaro:     … Continue reading Aug 2003 Interviews A.Milen & P.Fitzgerald -Re “D.Day DM Vist Nov 1952” p. 5

Bishop Charron of Des Moines accepted Frank Cordaro’s request for a leave of absence effective August 1, 2003. Below is Frank’s statement regarding his leave. August 1, 2003 Dear friends; It is with great sadness I write I am leaving active priestly ministry. There were many issues that contributed to this decision, the most influential… Continue reading Aug 2003 v.p. Leave of Absence Statement p. 7

2003 Feb v.p. “In Memory of 4 Peacemakers: Fr Dick McSorely, Kassie Temple,  Ladon Sheats and  Fr. Mike Colonese”  p. 6   IN MEMORY OF FOUR PEACEMAKERS By Frank Cordaro   Fr. Dick McSorely, S.J.  Presente! Fr. Dick McSorely, a Jesuit priest from Georgetown University, died in October 2002, in Washington, D.C.  He was 88… Continue reading 2003 Feb v.p. “In Memory of 4 Peacemakers: Fr Dick McSorely, Kassie Temple, Ladon Sheats and Fr. Mike Colonese” p. 6

Feb 2003 v.p. RIP Phil Berrigan p.1 Phil Berrigan, the man who invented the nonviolent resistance wheel of life that I and so many other Catholic Workers and nonviolent peace activists live by, is dead. Rest in peace Phil. Life well lived! Your wheel rolls on. You left behind the legacy of a lifetime of… Continue reading Feb 2003 v.p. RIP Phil Berrigan p.1

  DOROTHY DAY’S VISIT TO DES MOINES By Frank Cordaro   Currently, I am the temporary pastor for the parishes of St. Mary’s in Guthrie Center and St. Cecilia’s in Panora, IA.  After finding out that I am a member of the DM Catholic Worker community, Fern Conrad, a member of St. Cecilia’s parish, brought… Continue reading May 2003 v.p. “Dorothy Day Visits DM” p. 1