The Round Table
Karen House has published The Round Table, a 24-page newsletter, from 1977-2020.
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2020
Final Issue: Love Letters to Karen House
2018
Journeys: There and Back Again 
2017
- Early Displacements: St. Louis and the Osage Nation (sources and further readings from Centerfold)
- Extended article: Voluntary Poverty, Race, and Class
Women’s Stories: Persistence and Resistance
2016
Islam: Living Faith Under Fire
2015 
Racism: Resources Toward Understanding
2014 
Ferguson: Voices from the Movement
From Paralysis to Possibility: Living with Climate Change
Catholicism and the Catholic Worker
2013
Meals: The Heart of Our Shared Life
Marching Towards a Police State
Looking Back, Looking Forward: 35 Years of the St. Louis Catholic Worker
2012
A People’s History of St. Louis
Life Together: Building Thriving Communities
A Revolution of the Heart: Occupy and the St. Louis Catholic Worker
2011
Hospitality: Walking the Path to Liberation
2010 
Distributism: Putting a Human Face in the Economy
2009
Immigration: Loving our Neighbors as Ourselves
2008
Barred from Life: The Criminal “Justice” System
Electing a Just Society? On Elections, Responsibility, and Resistance
Food: The Delicious Revolution
2007 
Awareness & Healing: A Discussion of Mental Illness
Living the Beloved Community: Homosexuality
2006 
Crossing the Divide from Privilege to Community
2005
End the Israeli Occupation; Free the Palestinian Territories
Practices of Hope, Practices of Joy
2004
Beginning to Live in a Different Way: Karen House and the Catholic Worker Movement
2003
2002
2001
2000
Experiments in Community Living
Africa: Cry, the Beloved Continent
1999
1998
Destructive Engagement, Expendable Peoples
1997
The World Will Be Saved By Beauty
1996
Dying and Death in the Light of Faith
1995
RoundTable Discussion on Homosexuality
1994
Hospitality in the Age of Crack
NonViolence in the New World Order
1993
1992
Conscience Doth Make Heroes of Us All
Gospel Response in Times of Social Collapse
1991
Catholic Social Teaching: 100 Years
1990
Recovering the Spirit of Healing
1989
Hope in Hard Times: East St. Louis
1988
1987
St. Louis CW: 10 Year Retrospective
1986
1985
Witnessing for Peace in Nicaragua
Let the Little Chidren Come To Me
1984
A Day in the Life of the Catholic Worker
1983
Love in Practice is a Harsh and Dreadful Thing
1982
The Just, Because of their Faith, Shall Live
1981
1980
1979
Questions…
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The St. Louis Catholic Worker: Prisons
1978