Biography
Catherine Morris is a longtime Los Angeles Catholic Worker — celebrating 50 years at the LA Catholic Worker in 2022 — and has been arrested numerous times across five decades for civil disobedience at military installations, federal buildings, and corporate war-profiteer offices in protest of U.S. wars and nuclear weapons. The 2022 issue #200 of the Nuclear Resister honored her decades of resistance.
Identified community photograph
Catherine Morris is at left, beside Jeff Dietrich at right, in the unchanged original photograph captioned “Catherine and Jeff Celebrate” by the Los Angeles Catholic Worker. Mike Wisniewski photographed the August 10, 2024 fiftieth-anniversary celebration following the Vandenberg peace witness. Published August 13, 2024. This is a later identification photograph, not a photograph of the 1980 arrest. Copyright/reuse license is not asserted.
Source: Los Angeles Catholic Worker, Catherine and Jeff Get Arrested at Vandenberg Space Force Base; original photograph. The existing 1980 date entry remains unresolved: no admission or release endpoint for the cumulative short-stay summary is inferred from later events.
Separate source-documented custody episode
The October 30 issue individually names Catherine Morris with Chuck Teixeira, Jose Oaxaca and Sister Mary Rice in Rockwell leafletting arrests during the August 6–9,1981 Hiroshima/Nagasaki anniversary. All four spent the night in jail and were arraigned and released the next afternoon. Two-day time-served court credit is reported for all four; the article does not identify which two also received probation. Exact individual action/release days within that anniversary period are unknown. This is separate from her 1980 summary and 2024 Vandenberg action. No extra exact served-day counter is added to the existing cumulative 17-day summary, whose overlap with this stay is not independently established.
National No-Nukes Prison Support Collective newsletter No. 8, October 30, 1981, original page 3.
Dennis Apel’s court update individually names Catherine Morris, Jeff Dietrich, Frank Cordaro and Dimitri Kadiev as pleading guilty to trespass at their November 21, 2024 federal arraignment for the August 10 Vandenberg action. All four received two years of unsupervised probation, with no prison term or fine, and were allowed to return to the designated protest area. This update does not assign that outcome to the fifth August arrestee, Nuri Ronaghe.
Source: The Nuclear Resister, report 58.
The March 17, 2014 report individually lists Catherine Morris among those arrested after crossing the boundary at the Nevada National Security Site on March 10 during the Pacific Life Community gathering. The named participants were held in processing pens, issued citations and released a short time later. No statutory charge, individual jail admission, completed full day of custody or subsequent court outcome is supplied. The period during which the group crossed the boundary is not treated as an individual detention duration. The Nuclear Resister, March 17, 2014.
