Jeff Dietrich

Jeff Dietrich, a member of the Los Angeles Catholic Worker, has lived and worked among the poor of Skid Row since 1970. He is the author of Reluctant Resistor, Good Samaritan and Broken and Shared. His fourth book will be published in fall 2024.

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In 1990, Gary Palmatier painted the “Jesus of the Bread Line” mural, an interpretation of an etching by Fritz Eichenberg, on a wall of the Catholic Worker soup kitchen in Los Angeles. (Mike Wisniewski)

Feb 02, 2024

LA Skid Row anchors Catholic Worker 'to the suffering world'

LA Catholic Worker Jeff Dietrich has lived and worked among the poor of Skid Row since 1970. The work "keeps me in contact with reality when I become too complacent, too comfortable in my own bed," he said.

A homeless man in Los Angeles is tested for the coronavirus disease at a fire department testing station April 21. (CNS/Reuters/Lucy Nicholson)

Jun 06, 2020

Skid Row anointing in the City of Angels

Perspective: I sit here holding out my bottle of hand sanitizer, and our guests in the food line shuffle past me to receive cleansing: dirty hands, clean pink hands, open hands as if begging to be sanitized.

Jan 06, 2015