Viva House

It was in its role as a gathering place for activists that Viva House hosted several of the Catonsville Nine during their trial, as well as many of the protestors who came on their behalf. 

It continued to be a meeting place for members of the Nine to meet post-trial, and the place where four of the Nine (Mische, Moylan, and the Berrigan brothers) made the decision to go underground, so it’s probably unsurprising that the FBI put the house under surveillance, believing that the fugitives might shelter there. When Mary Moylan was finally ready to surface from the underground in 1979, she did indeed reach out to Willa Bickham of Viva House to figure out how to surrender to the authorities. 

Viva House also hosted a 40th anniversary celebration of the Catonsville Nine in 2008.

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O'Neill, Patrick. "Catonsville Nine, an early model for religious protest." National Catholic Reporter (Kansas City) June 2nd 2008.

Peters, Shawn Francis. The Catonsville Nine: A Story of Faith and Resistance in the Vietnam Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Taylor, Barbara Haddock. "Viva House, a Baltimore blessing for almost half a century." The Baltimore Sun January 6th 2017.