Midwest Catholic Workers hold retreat and pipeline protest

April 14, 2018
By Maria Benevento
National Catholic Reporter

Duluth, Minn. — A Catholic Worker retreat culminated in an action at a pipeline storage facility April 9 in Carlton County, Minnesota, where 27 people risked arrest for trespassing when they occupied the yard with banners, signs, jars of blessed water and sacred objects in an effort to “transform” the space and oppose a pipeline project.