Father Charlie Mulholland Catholic Worker House

Father Charlie Mulholland Catholic Worker House in Garner NC follows the long tradition of the Catholic Worker Movement started by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933. Founded and by Patrick O’Neill, Mary Rider and Sr. Kitty Bethea and now run by Mary and Patrick, the house members have been present in Triangle Peace and Justice initiatives for more than twenty five years and have won numerous awards for community service.

This year, the Peace Booth is proud to sponsor a webinar, Kings Bay Plowshares: Action and Hope on Sunday, Oct 25, 2020. Patrick, one of the Kings Bay Plowshares activists, will speak about his experience in the action of symbolic disarmament, and the hope for true disarmament in the future.

Below are folks outside the US Post Office on Fayetteville Street in downtown Raleigh at the First Wednesday Vigil to End the Arms Race on October 7, 2020. This vigil has been going on for decades and continues despite the pandemic. Photo: Mary Rider

A 75th anniversary witness to apologize to the people of Japan for the August 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
(Gathering outside the federal courthouse in Raleigh)

Photo from outside the Federal Courthouse in Brunswick, GA at the KBP7 sentencing.

A 75th anniversary witness to apologize to the people of Japan for the August 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
(Gathering outside the federal courthouse in Raleigh)

Mary Rider, Fr. Charlie Mulholland Catholic Worker House, outside Central Prison in Raleigh, with friends who vigil weekly to end the death penalty. The abolition of the death penalty has frequently been addressed at the Peace Booth through out many years.

Catholic Workers at Black Lives Matter protest in Raleigh

Peace Booth Steering Committee Member Patrick OŃeill

Protest against mass incarceration at the Cumberland County Jail

Protest against mass incarceration at the Cumberland County Jail

Patrick OŃeill at Central Prison, calling for Abolition of the Death Penalty

Black Lives Matter! (Downtown Raleigh)

Black Lives Matter (downtown Raleigh)

Black Lives Matter (downtown Raleigh) with Patrick OŃeill and Marsh Hardy, long time peace booth volunteers

Yes to Peace, no to War!

Favorite Peace Quotes

“The choice is no longer between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or non-existence.”

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Patrick writes: A week ago I prepared an obituary for Sr. Ardeth Platte, O.P., a Dominican sister who spent time in jail and prison for her anti-nuclear weapons resistance work. While researching Ardeth’s life, I found this quote from her in The Denver News:

I refuse to have an enemy. I simply won’t.

Sr. Ardeth Platte, O.P.

We who believe in freedom cannot rest!

Ella Baker

Imagine there’s no weapons.
It’s easy if you try.
No hell below us, above us only sky.
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say Iḿ a dreamer,
but I’m not the only one.
I hope some day you’ll join us!
And the world will live as one!

John Lennon

The greatest challenge of the day is:
how to bring about a revolution of the heart,
a revolution which has to start
with each one of us.

Dorothy Day, founder of The Catholic Worker

Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up.

Dorothy Day, founder of The Catholic Worker

Bringing the message of Peace to North Carolina fairgoers for over sixty years