The Lineage of a Minnesota 15 Activist

By: Maisie Wright and Mikki Morrissette

Outlets: Minnesota Women's Press

Published: August 19, 2026

Words: 1,315

Last Updated: 2 months, 1 week ago

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In the 1940s, after hearing Dorothy Day speak in New York City about the Catholic Workers Movement, Elizabeth Finegan (Betty) and her older sister Mary Katherine helped start the St Joseph House for Hospitality in Rochester, New York. Eventually, they joined an artist community in Newport, Rhode Island, run by Adélaide de Bethune, a Belgian-American artist associated with the Catholic Worker Movement.

A stone-carving business nearby employed Carlos Cotton, who had graduated from the Minneapolis …

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