St. Benedict Catholic Worker

Meanwhile the Central California Food Bank is out of food. Last year the St. Benedict Catholic Worker purchased and distributed 60,000 pounds of food from the Food Bank. In 2026 the Food Bank cupboards are bare with little hope of food to fill their shelves.

We’re getting creative as to how to feed our folks.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker criticized the Donald Trump administration for what he called hypocrisy in federal spending, contrasting cuts to SNAP benefits with Pentagon expenditures. Pritzker cited reports that the Defense Department under Pete Hegseth spent about $6.9 million on lobster tail and $2 million on Alaskan king crab during a $93 billion September 2025 spending surge.

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🎵 “We don’t want no more deportations” 🎶 A choir found a clever way to spread the word about the “We Ain’t Buying It” boycott — happening now through December 1st ❌ Friday, they stood in front of Home Depot singing “Feliz Navidad” with a few purposeful lyric changes, like “we don’t want more deportations.” This boycott takes direct aim at three big businesses in particular: ❌ Target — for caving to this administration’s biased attacks on DEI ❌ Home Depot — for allowing and colluding with ICE to kidnap our neighbors on their properties ❌ Amazon — for funding this administration to secure their own corporate tax cuts It’s Small Business Saturday anyway! SHOP SMALL 🛍️ 🎥: Courier