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Subacr1ption1 Vol. XXXll No. 7 March, 1966 ~ Per Year Price le ...... ------On Pilgrimage THE CLOSING OF THE .GAP By DOROTHY DAl' By N. NAGE March 1966 them ln the hollow of His hand." On October 11, 1962, the day adions I'll the light of the Last Thi last weekend I have been Sally Corbin, who ls three, sings: following the opening of Vatican Judgment. They are i aught that visiting with my daughter Tamar "Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, Council II, Pope John XXIII stood in addition to the immediate indi and my seven grandchildren who the King of Creation" and "He before the Michelangelo fresco of vidual judgment after death, there are at home. (The oldest two are hold.I them in His hands." What the Last Judgment Jn the Sistine will be a general judgment, when away in nursing school and at the a comfort to hear her? Chapel. He faced diplomats from the works of all will be known State university.) Tamar worked Consolations of RelJ&"ion all the continents of the globe, and the justice of God will show Saturday, Sunday and Monday at Fr. Joseph Mcsorley, C.S.P., men who represented most of the forth to all His creatures. the ho pital where she is a prac my first spiritual•director, gave me peoples of the earth. The squat - In point of fact, the knowledge tical nurse, so I stayed through Caussade's Abandonment to Di figure in white made himself the of the test they have to face has Tue-day to have more oJ a visit vine Providence to read many trumpet for a war-terrified hu- served to give Christians not only
with her. It was a holiday for the years ago. We, who. are such acti manity in an appeal intended for clear direction for their lives but children too, since there was an vists, need more of this teaching. the world's political leaders: "Let consolation. Not only did they nual town meeting at Weathers No danger of Quietism with Cath them give ear to the anguished know the contents of the final field, a mile- up the hill. Right olic Worker enthusiasts. A little cry 'Peace, peace' " .The Church, examination at the beginning of after breakfast Martha, Hilaire, more quiet, a little more time to he said "has nothing nearer to t he school term, so to speak, but Maggie, Mary, Ronda and Katey read and digest might help. When her heart than peace and brother- they knew it, was an examination set out for the walk on a beauti I wu becoming a Catholic, I had hood among all men." that even the most unlearned and ful unny day, along the muddy only such books as the C._tealona Pope John then raised his arm insignificant could pass. Christ road p t snowdrifts which wen et st. A..,...&lne and ta. MIWIM anti pointed a finger in warning not only brought the good news welli,ng the t-ivul~t into brooks to begin on. Thera had always to the deep·hued fresco. "Michel- of a religion of Jove, but he gave : along the roadside. been Scripture, and even in child angelo's vast masterpiece ol the 'flesh to His teaching by showing Hilaire came back within an hood I almost had the feeling of Last Judgment,'' he told them, the explicit ways to express this hour or so wet to his hlps-he had partaking of a sacrament in hold "gives one much food for thought. live. During the time that He fallen into a real brook with the ing it and reading. The first time We must indeed render an account walked the roads of Israel, he exciting news that they were tap I went t~ jail with the suffragists to God, we and the heads of state met the needs of the people ping the maples up the hill and in Washington, at the age of who bear the responsibility !or around him. He fed the hungry, ·that he was going to get busy him eighteen, and asked for the only the fate of nations . .. May the gave drink to the thirsty (begin self. Hilaire is eight, and has book I knew they would give me thought of this reckoning spur ning with the thirsty guests at a been u ing a hatchet since he was to read, I wept over the Psalms them on ... to achieve this bless- village wedding! and healed those three, o be went about hi.; job wept with joy at' their comfort. ing (peace)." suffering from leprosy and other with efficiency, gathering pails, And at the same time felt ashamed The reckoning that awaited na- dread diseases. And always He spouts, hooks, augur and so on, at turning to religion when there tlonal leaders who did/ not k! ep met their ne~d for truth through ready to clamber again through was nothing else to turn to. the peace brought to mind the the ministry of the Word. snow and slide on ice to reach the Of course, there were, and al words of Willlams, the Welshman To meet another's need ls, for trees. He did change his already ways will be, great gaps in my un who sat on a bloody battlefield those who follow Christ, to express wet clothe , though he thought it derstanding of such questions as pondering the reckoning that kings the love that He taught them. unrea onable of me to ask him to, the problem of evil in the world would have to meet for thrusting He -urged on his followers the sim since be was going to get wet llnd God"s permission of lt. I men fnto unjust and unnecessary ple, direct ways ol meeting the again. The kitchen was filled with cringe still at Ivan Karamazov's wars. needs of others, clothing the kl hoes and snow shoes and ski portrayal of "a God that permits" "But if the cause be not good," naked, tending and helping ttie pole and skis and double tbick the torture of children, such tor said William.9 (ln Shalcespeare's sick, sheltering the stranger, giv nesse of socks and mittens and ture as is going on today in the HelUT V), "t-he king himself hath Ing the consolation of one's pres colorrul caps, not to speak of all burning alive of babies in Viet a heavy reckoning to maJce, when ence to him who is behind prison the other changes of clothing nec nam. Theologians debate situation all those arms and legs and beads walls. The very poorest members es ary for a family devoted to the ethics and the new morality (leav chopp'd off ln a battle shall join of the family of man can take outdoors. While I was there sev ing out of account the problem of together at the latter day and cry part in helping others, since even eral teen-aged boys added to the means and ends) while the screams all, 'We died together at such a the gift of a drink of water will confusion of the front rooms of the flaming human torches. place'-some crying for a surgeon, not go wi thout its reward. The where Eric, ·Nickie and Hilaire civilian and soldiers, rise high to some upon their wives left behlnd sharing of water generally requires were already sleeping. The skiers heaven. The only conclusion I them, some upon 1lhe debts they no more than a little effort, except got off at dawn, leaving a half doz have ever been able to reach 11 owe, some upon their children for the poorest of the poor. In , en children still in the house. that we must pray God to increase ·rawly left. I am sure there are their slums, on the outskirts of Whenever I start worrying about our faith, a faith without whlch few die well that die Jn a battle, the world's great cities, they often my grandchildren, who range In one cannot love or hope."Lord, l for how can they charitably dis- have to buy and carcy their drlnk age from five to twenty-one (or believe, help thou my unbelief.'' pose of anythlng when blood Is ing water. This basic work of about any of the other yo\Jng ones The debate I read recently wu their argument? Now if these mercy must be especially meri who swarm around the Catholic published in the Commonweal for men do not die well, it will be torious for the millions who live Worker these days), I comfort January 14th; it was between Dr. a black matter for the king that in t he hovels of the world. myself with the thought, "God, Joseph Fletcher, of Cambridge led them to it." The Last Judgment, then, is not who ls love, loves them much bet Theological Seminary, and Father Ohristians have been accustomed a dread scene filled with the ne\V ter than I possibly could. He holds (Continued on page I ) from chlldhood to viewing their (Continued on page 6)
... T HE CA T H 0 L I C· W 0 R KER i · March, 1966 Y.&. XXXIl No. 7 March, 1966 Random Reflections -On Poverty .CATHOLIC rtl!bwoRKER And. Selling Catholic Workers, Published Monthly September to Jane, Bl-monthly July-Auru& By THOMAS P. MURRAY ears. Before I rould analyze it or and save him the room he had OBGAN OF THE CATHOLIC WORKER MOVEMENT understand the dynamic ol. it I had the night before. PETER MAURIN, Jo'ounder . The custom of selling Catholic found myself, for . a time, una·ble After the man was registered DOROTHY DAY, Editor and Publisher Workers on the street began with Volume One, Number One, when emotionally to bring myself to I went back to the cab. The ·driver MARTIN J, CORBIN, Managing Editor that first "Catholic Worker-only asked if I knew him.. I told him AHociate Edito.ra: Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin distri•buted the paper a•t the May a penny-the Catholic, anti-war that I didn't but that the group CHARLES BUTTERWORTH, RITA CQRBIN {art), NICOLE paper--Only a penny." I would I belonged to regularly paid men d' ENTREMONT, EDGAR FORAND, JUDITH GREGORY, WILLIAM Day celebration of 1933 at Union HORVATHz'. CHRIST OPHER 8 . KEARNS. WALTER KERELL, KARL 'Square. Since then, many people stand mutely a.s station after sta info the hotels on the Bowecy when they had no place to go. MEY.ER., D1:.ANE MOWRER, HE-LEN C. RILEY, ARTHUR SH EEHAN, have gone out to .sell papers on tion went by, tpring to bring my ANNE TAILLEFER, EDWARD TURNER. STANLEY VISHNEWSKI. up When we got to the end of our the streets of New York. Ammon self to speak and at the same trip, and I paid the driver, · he New subscriptions and change of address: Hennacy had a regular schedule time trying to define whatever it 175 Chryatie St., New York, N. Y. 10002 atked me how much the flop bad for paper sales in various loca was that was keeping me silent. Telephone OR 4-9812 cost and offered me fifty-live tions, and sometimes I looked up I am only n<>w beginning to real Editorial communications to: Box 33 Tivoli, N. Y. 12583 cents, to pay half the cost. I hla &chedule in his book. The ize what my feelings were and started to reluse it, explaining Subscrlptton United States, 25c Yearly. Canad.a and Foreign 30c Yearly Book of Ammon. I would try. to what- their genesis was. that the · worker bad a fund for SUbacrtption rate of one cent per copy plus postage applies to bundles of one follow his schedule because the Voluntary poverty is hard to hundred or more copies each month for one year to be direct.e.d to one addra&. th.is purpose and that I would be location and timet1 were well test come by, and most often we really reimbursed., but he ill.sisted that ed and productive, and many of don't work as ,hard as we should Reentered u second class matter AuEUSt 10, 1939, at the Post Olfice I had to let him share in my giv his old friends still came by theae to understand and practice it. of New York, N. Y., Under the Act of March 3, 1879 ing to the man on the Bowecy. places. Living in commuqity helps some He was .right. I bad been all et Sevei-al months ago, money be what; because _you learn to accept to dello/ this man the joy of giv ing especially hard to come by, the disappearance of your per ing, the satisfaction ol being a I began to sell papers in order to sonal property into the commu· part of this act. Why? Beeause get carfare to get ar und the city. ni ty to meet the needs of others. of the same image of seli- ufii I would leave my place on Avenue But even this can happen without ciency which made selling pa:pers On Pilgrimage A and 14th Street an-d walk over that stripping of self which PoV in the subway so hard. I didn't to Broadway and 14th Street, erty demands ever taking p~ ace. (Continued from page 1) Voluntary poverty has to be a need bis help to give. I cou~d do where I would sell papeTS until it by myself-I could give without Herbert McCabe, the. English Do- tbat the sun is not "coming up" I had fifteen cents for a subway sharing in the lot of the poor. A great part of that poverty is the needing to take In this very per minican. From the conclusions of but that -this .so .solJd earth is token. On my way back from sonal way. I could not admit that many who wrote letters about the t urning. The snow i.s gone, here wherever I had gone, I would sell realization that you are poor, that you are dependent upon the giv I was as dependent upon the cab debate Dr. Fletcher won, )lands in New York State, and the deep fifteen cents worth of papers to driver as the man on the Bowery -Oown. He did not mention mor- lavender glow on the mountains get back. ing of others. If you are poor you become the beggar-not in enjoy· was upon me-in fact, we were .ality in connection with the cur- turns to rose and then to gold. One day I decided to walk all equally dependent upon each rent war, although he has long The ice has broken up and this through the cars of the subway ing the fruits of oth~' begging but In the humiliating stare'> of other. been active. in the non-religious morning the tide was coming in train and sell papers. I had al- Jan tells another story which peace movement, with which, ac- .and the ice floes were journeying people on the subway. What the brings this borne. Durio .~ t..lrn sub cording to a survey of the peace toward Albany. (The Indians used subways had that frightened me way strike, while she was walking movement among the clergy, it is to call the Hudson "the river was the stark confrontation with uptown, she was approached by more respectable to be involved which flows two. ways.") It is a the fact that I was a beggar-oot an elderly lady who asked if Jan than with the religious-oriented good time to read the Psalms, for ot;hers who were in need but would take her arm for the remain and "extremist" Fellowship of whJch always give one courage to for myself. The people sitting ing two blocks of her trip. The Reconciliation or the Clitholic face the day. there didn't see a soup line or a woman explained that she was an Worker movement. It was Father In his new book Seasons of - clothing room, they saw me, were McCabe who spoke of the morality Celebration, (Farrar, Straus and forced by my imposing chant to epileptic and the four blocks she had already walked had tired her of burning babies alive, among Giroux), Thomas Merton writes: see my need. One of the things but th.at she could make it the rest .other references to the war. The "The presence of Christ in the ll which brought me t<> see the per of the way if Jan would just take articles were difficult for the non- turgical celebration (and reading sonal nature of my fear was an her arm. The woman only lived a theological layttWi, but it seemed the Office is part of it) leads to encounter with a young college to me that Father McCabe's larger our discovery and declaration of girl We were standing on the block out of the way Jan was go vision was a far nobler, reasonable our own secret and .spiritual self. BMT platfonn at Times Square, ing, so Jan took her to her des tination-a cheap hotel. While they and faithful presentation. When Let us above all remember and and I was churning inside at the walked Jan mentioned that she was I have four days in Vermont with admire fue discretion, the sobrie prospect of selling papers on the on the way to buy a link for her the grandchildren who work and ty and the modesty with which the train. As it- pulled into the sta bicycle chain. When they reached play hard and get to bed early, 1 liturgy protects the Jli!rsonal w.it tion this girl saw my paJ>i!rS and read at night, •· go over the back is- ness of the individual Christian." asked if I was selling the current the hotel the worn.an reached into her handbag and took out ome sues of the Commonweal, and God ·in Russia issue. When she bought the paper change. She offered it to Jan to catch up on what I have missed. It This column is becoming some I wasn't as clearly-in my own buy the link - two quarters, a bas been exceptionally good lately. {bing of a book review but before mind-the blind beggar, but the nickel and a pennv. Jan could tell The best of the weekly Catholic I go on I must mention two other bearer of good news once again, and thl.s gave me strength to sell that the woman didn't have much newspapers· is of course the Na- books in which I have taken great --she was not richly dressed and joy and inspiration this past ways e.n.;oyed selling papers on papers after we got on the train. In the hotel she was living in was not UonaJ Catholic Reporter. Among month. One is With God Rus Now I like to sell papers on the magazines, the Critic is always the street, with pe<>ple whizzing an expensive one-and she didn't subway. It is still hard, but now good, as are Jubilee and Cross sia by Walter J. Ci.szek, S.J. with 'by. I would watch all of their re want tp take the money. Then, she Currents. Last month saw my Daniel L. Flaherty, S.J. (now in I understand it and it helps to re 1 aetions--ignCJring my outstretched realized that she had to take some mind me of who I am and what first copy of Slant, a bimonthly, Image paperback) and lt is one copy •ot the paper, pausing and thing. Even though the woman my poverty is. It helps me to published by a group of students of the greatest adventure stories deciding if they wanted it, telling didn't have mu«h, Jan couldn't re , I have read. Born in the mining gain more understanding of my 1 me they already had it at home, fuse or just take a nickel as a token m Cambridge, England, and find region ()f Pennsylvania of Polish relamonship both to those upon have missed only the first four parents, the boy Walter was a asking me what the paper had to gesture. She had to take enough for whom I am imposing ..my need ·numbers. Adrian Cunningham has "tough" as he described himself, say to Jewish workers, telling me the bicycle link-one of the quar a first-rate article in the Winter, in no uncertain terms that the and to those others wh<> are ters--because she couldn't refuse ·1965 Issue cin 'Christians and Marx- a bully, a leader of a gang, who paper wasn't Catholic and that if brought to impose their need. I the woman the dignity and joy of suddenly decided in the eighth have got to let this teach me the ists and a review of the Sociamt grade that he wished to be I was a worker I'd be out working giving. Even though the woman 8 necessity of letting others see my Register. Gordon Zahn has a priest. From prie.st to Jesuit to instead of standing on a street couldn't afford the quarter, she need and of letting them give. It striking article on "Unilateralism missionary to Russia, he stubborn corner doi.i:tg nothing. could even less afford to lose the is s,e easy fo hide our need, to as a Moral and Political Commit- ·ly made up his mind what he The - subway was different. I opportunity 1o give. disguise it-to ourselves as well ment," which we should reprint. wanted to do. It was in the Stalin am not sure I can explain com This is a real truth about our ~as t<> others. I i: is a convention of editors to era that ttlis dream possessed him, pletely how, but it was. On the voluntary poverty. We must con shun reprintings, but we feel th.at and his superiors helped him each streets people are in too much of This concept of letung other stantly allow ourselves to see that CJur eighty-'eight thou.sand . circu- step along the way. He went to a hurry t<> let a "newsboy" attract people give is also a "hard say we are beggars, that our poverty lation Chow many readers can the Russian college in Rome, was any more of _)heir attention than ing." It is really a part of our i.s a calling to allow others to give, .YOU count tQ a single paper) should .sent to Poland first and was there is comlorta-ble for them. On the poverty. One night, durjng a not to take pride in our own giv bave the benefit of Dr. Zahn's when it was invaded by the Ger subway they are trapped~they snowstorm, my wife Jan and I ing. We all must be humble fakers thinking. Peter Maurin never hes- mans and then the Russians. It have to notice you. On the street decided to take a cab home from so that our giving will be real in 'itated to rep,.eat and repeat again was this World War that gave him I am reminded of the self-suffi downtown. It was a bitter cold stead of self-serving. h i:s phrased essays. Good teacher bis opportunity, with several com cient CW "salesmen" like Ammon night, the snow was deep on the There is a Shaker hymn that Ed that he was, repetition meant that rades, to get into Russia, as .a la and Jim Forest, but in the subway ground and heavy in the air. It Mccurdy sings- sooner or later an idea got across. borer in the Urais. From there be I am e<>nstantly aware that the was late, with no bus in sight. 'Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a It is like reading the Psalms each went as prisoner, with thousands looks I get from people are the Our driver was a man with a full g'ift to be free-, d.ay ln the Office of the Church. ()f others, through the prisons of same ones I notice when a blind black beard, and he had a Bible 'Tis a &'ift to come down where Over and over again sudden light Russia: Lubianka and the Siberian or halt beggar m-0ves through the on the dashboard. I assumed th-at we ought to be, shines through on what had been camps of Dudinka and Norilsk -at car. he was an orthodox Jew, but he And when we find ourselves in passed over before as obscure. The the mouth of the Yenisei River, Pa-haps that is the essential told us be was a Jehovah's Wit the place just right, best explanations of the Psalms, deep in the Arctic regions. There difference. On the subway I am ness, As the cab came along the U will be in the valle7 of love , especially the warlike ones, are in is no bitterness, no condemnation a beggar. There is no getting Bowery to Houston Street we .saw and deli,g-ht. C. S. Lewis' book Reflection on in the story. It is all take)]. as part around it, no losing sight of it. a man lying across the traffic is the Psalms. of a life where war, revolution Sure, I am giving people some land in tqe mldddle of the street. When true simplicity is pined, Most of my reading at the dominate men, a recognition of thing worth much more that the He was struggling t<> get· up but Tu bow and to bend, we will not Catholic Worker farm i.s done the times of vast social changes penny it costs, but I am stll beg each time was thwarted by · the be a.shamed, . early Jn · the morning and since and struggles in which we live. ging. I am taking the nickels, snowy slush and his own inebria· To turn and to turn will be our my bed is by the window, I can The man is heroic in his endur dimes anil quarters because I tion. I asked the cab driver to delight, d raw back the curtain, .whlch ance and in his work, into which need them. I am thrown upon pull over and went over to help 'Til by turning, turning we come keeps out the cold air that seems he throws himselif with a zeal as these people, I am reduced tQ the man across the street to. the round right. to come right through the panes though he ·were fighting for bis asking them to give-not in the sidewalk. He was very drunk and I guess the subway was part of of glass, and watch the fading own country, bis own kind. As a impersonal exchange of a busi· bad nCJ home. He said that he the turning which leads to true stars and the emerging dawn. On matter cf fact, the impre.ssion all ness transaction, or the friendly had been st.aying at a flop house simplicity. Once it is gained, I a clear morning it_ is wonderful through the book is of a man who banter of the street, but in the nearby but had no money to .stay guess I won't be ashamed to be the to see mountains a.cross the river considers all men his brothei:S. bare reality gf my need and my there that night. I hel;>ed him bowing beggar. I guess that Is part first touched at t-heir · tips by ~he Over and over again , whenever he imposition of that ne-ed on largely upstairs and _pai.d him in for the of what my voluntarf poverty jg li&bt. One has the feeling then (Continued on page 6)· unwilling and captive eyes and night. The night clerk knew him for. THE CATHOLIC WO R KER ·- Page Three
burners, and therefore I think It iiliould be explained and clarified. Why I Broke the Law The first difference is my re A Farm With a View fusal to accept counsel or any By DEANE MARY MOWRER Here la U.. hll text ol Ute statement made by James E. Wilson, form of legal aid. The primary el Ute Catholic Worker, before Jade• Edwmrd Weinfeld, of the reason was identity with the poor The Lenten cast of the weather, Waiting for spring has been Ua1W State.I Dlatriet Court, on March 4, 1966, on the occasion of and the concept of voluntary pov as we drove to Mass on the third made a little easier for us here at ol 1aJa sentenclnr for draft-card burnlnr, to which he had pleaded erty. I refused to accept a courl Sunday after Lent, confirmed my the farm as a result of our con pllb'. appointed lawyer becaus'e I want conviction that the leonine roar tinuing flow of visitOrs. As usual, "On November II, 1965, I did willfully and knowingly burn and ed to set up some form of dia I had heard on the first day of the1·e have been too many to men destroy my dratt-classiflcation caro, as my Indictment by the logue wrth the judge and watch l\1;trch had not been mere rhodo tion, and once more groups <>f Grand Jury reads. I did this only after great thought and prayer. him emerge as a person from a montade. But the small rivers seminarians and sever.al priests have signed our visit-ors' list. It was performed as a religious act, and more specifically as a very rigid and impersonal system. oozing from the banks of new I believe that this was accom fallen snow, which had been Priests- who say Mass for us here Obristian act. thrown up alongside our lane in our chapel are, as always, most " As a Christian I am opposed to all war and violence. I plished, and would take the same position again. Many of us forget earlier in the morning by the ecu welcome. Included among our believe this is the teaching of Jesus Christ, and I must tak;e this menical snow-plow of Father Rog visitors were: Ruth and David po ition if my conscience demands it. Although there are many that, although a system may be evil, it is made up of people, and ers, our Epis,copalian minister good Collins, B. J. Richards, with her who may disagree with my beliefs, I am sure they respect my neighbor, inspired a hope that not parakeet, Tweetie, who proved to right to. hold them. that they will emerge as people if only we face ·them with love. even the March lion could hold be a most urbane and pleasant "The duty and responsibility of every Christian is to stand . When I was asked what my plea back spring much longer. Then as g u es t, Alba Ryan, Catherine up for Christ and speak out against injustice wherever it presents would be I told the judge that I we entered the church the clear, Swann, David Miller, Tom Fagan-, itself. We must do this even if it means breaking an existing wished to plead guilty, and would flute-like tones of the cardinal Roy Quigley, Pat Walsh, Terry law, for sQJiletimes It is the law itself that is the injustice we accept the consequences for my rose against the gl·ey chill' of the Sullivan, Betty Bennett, Mrs. Car must speak out against. The early Christians broke the law actions. By doing this I did not day a bright arch of song, a prom men Ham, (Rita Corbin's mother) when they refused to swear allegiance to the Emperor in the admit any moral guilt, but the ise of spring. Mrs. Lorraine Freeman and her Army of Rome. This was outright disobedience O'f an existing "guilt" of breaking an unjust and There· are, however, more prac children. Eight Italian cameramen law, which the Christians-Could not follow. There is a great immoral law. The sentencing was tical, down-to-earth signs of spring spent an af.ternoon here at the tradition of disobedience to unjust laws in the history of Chris set for February 25. I attempted, among us. As is his•custom about f.arm making pictures for a docu· tianity. This is also true of the forefathers of this country, who and was to a certain extent suc this time ol year, John Filliger has mentary on dissent in America. were looking ahead to an ideal. When the Stamp Act wu cessful in preparing myself for tilled small flat boxes with earth We have also added several new pas ed by England, the leader of this land burned the stamps the worst possible outcome (five and hopefully planted seeds there members to our family. John Sul: in direct defiance of the law. years in a Federal prison). About in. He has placed them near sunny livan, who was with us last "I believe this law, under which I was indicted, is unjust. twenty friends were in the court windows and will watch over them winter, is back with us again. This is why I broke it, because it is unjust, and I cannot sit back room on the 25th and they gave me with tender loving care until the Ursula McGuire, who is conva and accept an injustice the way so many of us do, who much of the strength I needed. plants have grown sturdy · enough lescing rapidly after a long hospi then suddenly realize that every right has been slowly taken The judge offered me the oppor for transplanting into the cold talization, is now living with us. from us. tunity to change my plea and frame outside. This time of year, Maxine Shaw has been with us "Is it necessar y to prove that this law is unjust, or is it pOstponed the sentencing until this pre-spring, is also pruning for several weeks ; now, and has obvious to every Christian, or to anyone who looks to the Con time; and two of our family-Jack given Rita some much appreciated stitution of this country? I think it should be obvious to every Joyce and Joe Ferry-have been help with the children, and Marty one of us that this law cannot exist, and it cannot be given its doing some pruning. .Our own some equally appreciated help exi tence by obedience. It cannot be ignored or honored. Rights few apple trees are probably too with the newspaper. Maxine, who have been taken from people on every corner O'f the earth old, ·too long neglected, to make is something of a ilnguist, has because bad laws were shrugged off as not important, or becau e much return for the labor be also been teaching -the Corbin people thought the law did not af.fect them. Tbis ls why totali stowed upon them, but we hope children Spanish: Sally, who i3 tarianism exfats, and with the passing of this law we took a big for more :from the trees Jack and not yet four, has piCked up a small tep toward totalitarianism ourselves. If we remain silent now, Joe pruned for the Rosenbergs. Spanish vocabulacy • just from we must face the consequences tomorrow. Last fall, Irving and Vivian Rosen listening to the others.· This, ..f!ow "Does a man have a right to his own political or religious be berg, who have a fourteen-acre ever, is not quite enougih for Sally, liefs? Do we have a right to free and peaceful assembly? Is place near Germantown with a who has read her sister's thlrd dissent a natural right of every human being? Do we have a right line :family-style orchard, let us year reader through and, like her to free spee6h? These are the questions this law has ralsed. have apples for the picking. Since erudite father, enjoys· consulting When we look to the Constitution we find that there is no doubt the Rosenbergs do not grow apples the dictionary. In the· ·midst of a that this law is unjust. When we look to the Gogpels we find commercially, and since they are simple vocabulacy · test, Sally out what we are to do when we are eonfronted with Injustice. ardent organic farmers and so do sbartled us all by inquiring We must speak out! We m•t act! not use spray, their apples are "What does Incitement mean In "This is wliat I nave tried to do. This is why I broke the ltw, March 4. BttlU e of the gr@at just about the most ftavorful I panlsh?" and for no other reason. I have pleaded guilty and will accept number of letters that were sent have tasted since my childhood. It The. most exciting n.ew arrivaJ1 the consequences for what I have done. This protest which I to the judge concerning my case, ii certainly a pleasure to be able are, of course, our newlyweds - have made does not end with the burning ol. an inexpensive pi.eee he took another week t-0 dellber- to eat an apple without worrying Tom and Jan Murray. Their youtn, ol paper-it beiios! The 1overnment have pa.ed thia law and ate. I wish to thank all those who about the various kinds of :Poison enthusiasm, and energy should dB now they must put ft into Jl'l'actice. This la their rMPODsibll.lty, wrote for their concern and help one may be absorbing into one's much to enliven our .house. Tom not mine: ±,hey must prove that this law elriats while I prove In my time of need. · blood and body tissue at the same has been active in civil right.a and it ls unjust by my moral protest. This .law must be enforced, or After · the postponement my time. As for worms, the Rosen the peace movement for the past it is in effect non-existent. I muat force. tibia issue on the 1ov greatest consolation was to arrive berga encourage the birds and let several yeara, and expects t<> help ernment. They are big enough to make their · own decision. back at Chrystle Street and receive the birds take care of this problem. us organize our sll1DUler confer "My freedom is very important to me. Freedom t-0 walk through warm handshakes from the men .On the basis of results, I think ences and help promote more_ the streets of every eity and catch the wind on my face. J'reedom in the family many of whom are we should all encourage the birds vital peace activity in this area. t.o gather with friends and drink ale and sing son•. Freedom veterans. At 'that moment I real- and stop poisoning ourselves with He is also a writer, and one of his to love people of every shape, color and size. Flreedom to bring h:ed what Chrystie Street is all insecticides. articles appears .in this issue or Joy to those· who are sad, and som~im_ea the freedom to cry with about. I was knocked off my porn- Since I. like the Rosenbergs, be the Catholic Worker. Jan. only those who are cryln_g. These are th• things that are important pous high horse and realized that lieve In the importance of ecology, eighteen, is not only charming to me, and in order to keep them for mysellf and others, I wm I was here to learn from them and think that mankind can hardly and · attractive with ,a sott and gladly go to .t_all. And otihera will follow me, and still others will We must learn how ' to love i~ hope to survive for many more pleasing voice, but is· also a good ff>llow them. For tti. free man and the Christian will soon real everyday situations, not ju&t on generations unless we learn how stenographer who gladly tyipes ize that he wlH have to go t.o Jail. So build mor·e prisons and peace demonstrations, where we to restore, conserve, and live with 11er husband's manuscr~pts. No makil them lar1e, and we will all be together. Tbtt freedom that sometimes use the word love as in that balanced plan of nature by wonder he married her-. With con la tingling In my bones and in my soul cannot .be held In by Iron an excuse for a war cry. which each form oI life-whether siderable ingenuity and taste, and bars." On the morning of the sentenc- vegetable or animal-serves to sus the help of a room divider and a ing, I arrived at Foley Square and tain or contain another, I, too, en bookcase, Tom and Jan have trans saw about fifty people milling In courage the birds. But then, why formed their single room Into the marble corridor. Many were shouldn't I? Do not the birds en what they like to oall their four very close friends and I was glad courage me? Every morning when room apartment. It ls certainly to see them all. When we went they come to my window feeding the most compact ·apartment I CHRYSTIE STREET Into the courtroom we nearly station and waken me with their h{lve ever been in.. It is under filled it. There were many more tuneful twittering-a true coun By JIM WILSON standable, I think, that Tom and marshals than usual. try-style alarm clock-I hear new J.an should be awaiting spring Chu.ck has been in the hospital will hold the reception at the The prosecutor, Mr. Peter Flem- voices Jommg In their happy with some impatience. For when for a numiber of weeks now with a House. Ing, began by telling the judge Lauds. Listening to them now, and the weather warms up sufficiently, bad case of TB. He seems to be Everything one can imagine that my action had been done remembering how God marks the they Wi11 move Into one of the improving, but will need a great happens here at Chrystie Street, willingly and knowingly, and had sparrow's fall, I think that if we roomier apartments In the old deal of rest. When he ls around and it is impossible to relate every been premeditated. He then m.ide could only, during this Lenten sea mansion and set up housekeeping the house, Chuck sits in Slloe detail of a month in the life of some very valid points about son, when we are traditionally in a more expansive style. House and tries to keep some the family, Often one event stands rights and responsibility. I want- urged to prune away our defects, kind of order when the room is out and rallies us all together to ed to interrupt Mr. Fleming and try to eradicate those perverse and Whatever the weather, whether packed full of men waiting for a bear witness, to suffer, to speak remind him that the fact that I antiquated attitudes by which man the lion roars or the.l~b gambols, bowl of soup, tea and bread. His or to act. At times like this the had shown up for these proceed- sees his relationship to nature in the routine work · of house. presence is missed, and we hope strength of the community is felt ings and was willing to take the terms of subjugation, conquest, kitchen, office, maintenance, etc. he recovers rapidly. by each of us and by those who consequences for what I had done and exploitation, we might at least must go on. Again we owe a par Tom Murray and Jan Weston come Into contact with us. This proved me responsible, but I make a start toward becoming the ticular debt of gratitude to: Alice were married on February 19th at past month has been one of those thought it mtgbt be a bit im- kind of people who could begin Lawrence, John Filliger, Hans St. Thomas the Apostle Church, beautiful experiences of Christian prudent. He began to go into a to make a world in which, as Peter Tunnesen, Fred Lindsey, Marcus in Harlem. After the- reception brotherhood-a time of love and lengthy discourse when the judge Maurin sald, it would be easier to Moore, Joe Cotter, Mike Sullivan, they left for Mount Savior, In El concern. cut him off and asked if I had any- be good. Perhaps this ls the way Joe Ferry, Jack Joyce, Arthur mira, New York. They remained I happened to be the rei:ipient thing to say in my own behalf. I -or at least, a way-to peace. St. Lacey, M.arty and Rita Corbin. there for a week's honeymoon and of these gifts from the community, then read the statement that I had Francis of Assisi knew this well, Dorothy Day's worl\ has taken have now· returned to the Farm. and I am '°grateful to each and prepared. (Reprinted on this page). I think. To St. Francis, all crea her once more on pilgrimage. She We hope they will be very happy every member of the family, The I believe that the most im- tion, all created things were sa has just completed a trip to New and that .they will remain with us subject of concern was my sen portant part of the statement is cred. The birds, the flowers, the England, and is, at pre ent writing, for ome time. tencing by Federal Judge Edward the point that; "rights have been flowing water, the air we breathe, in Washington. We are looking forward to an Wienfeld for the "crime" of burn taken from people on every cor- the sun and moon and stal-s were Peggy Conklin tells me a other wedding in the near future. ing my draft card. I did this in ner of the earth because bad laws as brothers to this gentle ' saint. hyacinth has now joined with last Dave Miller and Catherine Swann, November of last year at Unlon were shrugged ofl as not lmpor- And so they might be for us if month's precocious jonquil lo a both of St. Joseph's House on Square along with Tom Cornell tant, or people thought the law we would only stop making war still somewhat premature affirma Chry tie Street, have announced and three other young men. My did not aflect them." on nature, on our fellow creatures, tion of spring. We move towar,d their engagement. They plan to position was in many respects dif The judge then read a prepared on our very selves. St. Francis of April, shy and blossoming, and ,a be married on Easter Monday and ferent from that of the other card- (Contfnued on page 8) Assisi, pray for us. glorious Easter morning. Allehlla. • Page Four THE CATHOL~C WORKER Mar«!h, 1%6 ·POVERTY'S PROGRESS: The Shy Apostle By JOHN McKEON rows under the street lamps await silenty, and conversation Ian· aroun' here, man. Comes every mercy, but had always aeemed to ing summer and the long days -and guished as we broke into the night this time. Brings phinese fulfill the comment a frJend ol Ed. note: WJ}en "The Shy nights 1>f usage: the old men in the circle and held out our hands to food." ours had made of him: "The m()6t Apostle" was written back in 1950, mornings in their clean shirts and the fire. We stood silently for We lOoked at him with interest. dissipated man I know, In the clu Raymond Leach was stiJI alive, so pressed suits, retired from life, awhile, and then took out a pack A man, lately destitute, will some sioal sense: a .wHd and fruitless the story did not identify him. pensioned f.rom usefulness, sitting, of cigarettes and lit one slowly, times make a point, if he gets a dispersal 1>f energy." Ra7 had been our friend since listening to the heavy passage of and sl1>wly began to return the restaurant job, of bringing food to We remembered bow we had 1936, when the Catholic W01·ker time: the office girls at noon hour, pack to our pocket. A little Negro a buddy after work, perhaps to seen him often, late at night, family moved from Charles Street, the hasty sandwich gulped, sitting opposite in a torn Army blouse two, but rarely more. And never to When, unable to sleep, we had where we had a rented house, to with laces strained upward and with the blue, French helmet a mixed group. The destitute also gone into the kitchen for c1>ffee. the rear tenement, the use of legs conscientiously exposed to the patch of a famous colored regi- have their prejudices. The respec He would be sitting in a chair by which was given us by the House indifferent sun, the lovers in the meiit, lifted a finger and smiled. table "angels" on the Bowery are, the stove dozing, and would leap of Calvary, a cancer hospital for evening, the overflow Of the politi "You got one more, man?" We were, few, and gave money, not to bis feet with an apologetic the poor in the Bronx. Ray, who cal debaters, and then· through the passed the pack, and he liit one, food. There were only two withm smile, making way for us. And was living in Chinatown, was a long night tho e tenants to whom the eyes of the circle on him, and living memory-"Mr. Zero," the suddenly, now, we saw him as c&nstant visitor. He· was not a the benches -truly belong - the when he handed it back we eccentric millionaire, now dead, we had atways known him but Catholic but a New England homeless, the "far down, the city's shrugged. "Pass it around." When who used to appear and disappear never identified him as formally, Protestant, and I guess he came POOI. • it came back at llist, we put it in. along t.he Bowery periodically, a gentleman, "someone who is to us because he liked our Ideas, There were perhaps thirty peo our pocket, and after a while felt leaving a trail of dollar bills, and gentle · with all alike." When be our sense of family and com ple in the park, the bulk of them gingerly inside it with the tip of the unsung folk hero of our time, noticed us at the fire we held out munity. There was many a time concentrated around the speaker, an exploratory forefinger. There the young Italian bartender, who our hand, palm upward, for the when the group of us saying the one of rhe ~any C1>mmunist S>ym were three left. one Christmas, a couple of years food, and he almost dropped the rosary stretched the ·1ength of the pathizers who inhabit the place, The little Negro inhaled deeply back, gave away his savings, some package in startled emharrass store, but Ray never joined us, and who are., either too Ideological and then, holding the cigarette three thousand dollars, to the men inent. "I didn't knl>W you got up and no. one ever questioned him ly undeveloped or uncertain as t>arallel to bis fin~l.'tips , exhaled on ttie Bowery, and who was this far .. . I didn't see you," he about his religious beliefs. He was political elements to be of any use a flat forceful stream of smoke, promptly clapped in the Psychiat said. We shrugged, smiling and a gentle person and a gentleman to the Party save as volunteer bl1>wing the ashes from the glow- r1c Divisi~n of Bellevue on the took an omelet. It was good, hot, besides, always courteous, yet not speakers in their off hours. We ing tip. "Man, I'm beat. This strength of the· obvious proposi greasy, brown crusted and tasting diffident, most intellicent and paused, idly, on the outer fringe makes five nights I'm carryin' the tion that anyone who would give of shrimp, bamboo shoots and loving in his sense of service to of the group, listening to him as banner. I'm about g·ive out." The his hard-earned money to the men water chestnuts. He seemed a his Chlnese friends, teachlnc them we lit a cigarette. He was a. man of v1>ice held no plea for sympathy on the ,Bowery was undoubtedly Uttle distracted by our presence fo1· ty~five or fi1ty, short, robUS>t, English, helPinl' them in their and none was given. H was merely mad. His wife, God bless her, in and distributed the rest of the business. He once showed me a powerfully built and carryin·g the a sociable c1>mment. Among the obvious sympathy with his ges food quickly. We thought to offer inevita•ble zippered bl'iefcase of soy-bean-cake factory, In one of desUtute the value 1>f the sym- ture, got a court order for his re rum one of the remaining the basements down on Mott those who are aspiring to be mi pathetic word Is nil. It ls the ac- lease. · cigarettes but remembered that Street below Canal, where there nor Party functionaries, chair-man tion that counts. A figure oppOBite, No one said anything further, and be did not smoke. To have spoken was a huge grindstone mill. Durinc 1>f front meetings, organizers O!f half-hidden by the flames, said, further to him, identified him be the Second World War he worked protests rallies, recording secre the group fell silent. The political "Bout time you went home to your discussion had broken up and the fore the group, would have been on Welfare Island, but never taries of union meetings or spark a needless embarrassment, so we cashed the checks h.e received. plugs of rump caucuses. park was utterly quiet, except for the crackling of the fire. Night stood silently with the re t, eating He simply ipored money. His His approach was orthodox, his the omelet. He stood quietly, gred fault was that he was an man.ner heavy, and what he lacked pressed in, and the small noose of humanity drew tighter around the watching the men eat, nodding accumulator of things, and It must in delicacy of casuistry he atoned and smiling to those who e eyes for in the brutal sincerity of bis .ftames, united in common misfor have · been because the waste he met his. We watched their manner appea•l to the crowd, leaning heav tune, having advanced, In all their saw all around him drove him toward him. In the hierarchy of Hy on the tactic known as 'eXipos living, no farther than Neanderthal wild.' He collected. rags, clothes, the Bowery their place wa ery ing" the reputed political knavery, ·man in their quest for s~urity. papers, boo~verythlng- under near the bottom rung: scavengers, the acent provocateur tactics, the Outside the circle the whining the sun-and pa.eked them In the obviously psychotic per on fascist reactionary mentality in traffic lurched i;~st the drakened boxes and stacked them away in alities, those who would wear closets, under stairs, desks, cup herent in his opponent's view office buildings of Fourth Avenue point. like a herd of hunted, metal ani multitudinous layers of clothing boards; chairs, everywhere. Ray's if they could get them, the empty boxes were on hallways, basement His opponent, a shabbily-dressed mals wendirlg their way through a Little man with a strong Yiddish stone thicket, the re.ftected stop bottle, rag and wood picker . the and roof. Just clearing them away absolutely destitute and alone, : was a ·Job In Itself, but everyone accent and an obviomly anti-Sta light leaving behind a blood trail linist political background, baited on the gleaming asphalt. those whose margin of existence was fond of Ray, and th.e men of wile, boy.'' The little Negro smiled was knife-edge wide. Eccentric the house did what they could to him sly-ly, turning to the cr1>wd Footsteps with an exaggerated uplifting of mirthlessly. "You signifyin' to themselves, their attitude toward keep · up with . him. He never 1 shoulders at every new blast at hds the wrong man. My wife died in There was the sound 1>f footsteps him was of one more eccentric actually lived with us but stayed '23." He inhaied aga-in, and said ooming fast over the pavement than they. in the sen e of out at one of the Bowery hotels, and political antecedents, "I ask you, I as an afterthought, almost to him tihrougb the fog and the men half raging all known standards of It was there that he ·died last a.ppeaiJ. to you, did he enser me? Did he enser me? A tautofogist, se1f, "An' the women I had since turned and shifted as a stocky, conduct. And truly so, perhaps. nionth, ol a heart attack. We did det'a what he .is. Polemics with I wouldn't go h<>me to if they wuz middleaged man, bareheaded and we· had beard of the servanl:g of not know his age, perhaJlll sixty. himseLf he wants." •leepin' on a mattress of ten-.dollar with his arms laden ·with parcels; servants, but never had· we dreamt· When John McKeon came to biils." The circle shook with con came up to the f.i,re. He was breath- of meeting one who begged for Lonely Jive with us for a few years, he tained, appreciative 1 a u g ht e .r. Ing hard, as though he had cotne beggars. wrote a series ol articles whJeh The crowd grinned in apprecia acknowledg.ing their group failure a long d'istance without sparing We looked at him clo ely, eeing he ealled ·~Poverty's Proc-ress," in tion of ttie little man's antics. with all the women . they had e-ver himself on the way. "I'm late," he him for the first time in his new which he told the stories some of There are many lonely pe1>ple in known, ·1 o v e d, left, deserted, sa:id . "My friends were busy." We role, but he was still the .same the men who were oiir constant New York, and none lonelieJ," than buried or forgotten: those strange. looked at him starHed and almost Raymond, a man who must have companions. He had that gift of those who will stand late at night capricious creatures who demanded laughed a.Joud. It was Raymond. a bad a naturally powerful physique seein&" men and wrltln&" about in fog and c1>ld in a deseDted park sobriety, a regular pay check, casual acquain
delighted. th.a.t one ol the former head of the So.utih Bend House ot' H-ospibality, Julian Ne.asanifa, ON PILGRIMAGE wrote for their publication, Amen. Don't Buy Schenley's! (Continued from page 2) We lhiad our c<>mmundon p.roces I Si.nee September 8, 1965, forty-five hundred Mexican-American, ge'ta a chance he builds up a tiny when this little Incident occurred &ions, a·nd even the aMiar fucing th1! people, as far back as 1937- Filipino and Negro farm workers have been on 1trit. aga.iIYt parish which grows openly until and perhaps to the purist I should thirty-five Delano, California grape growers. The workers are he is transferred someplace else. have been put out. But I was try tbe : sttmrner ~. Jose"[)h W()ods, O.S.B. came to spend his V'aoa.tion represented by the National Farm Worlrerl Association (indepen Even after regaining his freedom ing to put down my problems -Of dent) and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee lAFL- he remains in Russia, work.Ing in this Immediate present, hoping wibh us, swea•tiog ln the fields (we s!WLl have a pich1re of him in 010). The strlke ill handled through a joint committee Of tne Kr noyarsk, until he finally gets that it would help me solve them unions. (For the background and detail! of the strike, cf. article• in contact with his sisters in the or make a beginning. Often I have the bean.field). in recent issues of the Catholic Worker, Commonweal, Ave Marl~ State , and they, with the help of done this, only to find six months I myself got Into trouble over that move, because the activists Natloa, New Bepublle, New York :Review ol Books, and other his order and the State Depart later that the problems bad some publications. The strikers' organ El Malcrlado (P.O. Box 1090, how disappeared (though sometimes wh<> were work.Ing on the :fami ment, arrange a transfer of prison Delano, California) is publi hed every two·weeb in Spanim and only by the persons that caused that ummer, wihen asked by ers between the United States and English. Sub criptions are two dollars a year.)' them disappearing from the imme Jiiather Joseph to help re.aroange the Soviet Union, which results in Schenley's the bigge t corporation in the area (with almost diate vicinity themselves.) Perhaps the farm chapel for the Mass, his being sent back to New York. five thousand acres), with 1965 profit. of seventeen million dol this is what I secretly want, but paswd the· buck by sa:ydng "Let's He lived through the Stalin era lars, sometimes pays its workers as low as thirty cents an hour. that is really no solution. This wait bill .Milss Day gets back," and through the great strikes that Hul).dreds of its workers have gone on strike. SC'henley bu morning radio news came that two where.upon he infurmed i;hem it took place in the prison camps refused the offers of the California Conciliation Service, min companions of Castro in his Cuban was his business, alnd he in. after the death of Stalin, which re isters, and civk groups to promote dis~ussion between the strik revolution had just been arrested formed me on my return fi'Offi the sulted in the betterment of the ers and the growers. Because farm workers have n-0 assistance on charges of conspiring to assu clty that 1 must be a tyrant in.cfeed conditions for prisoners and work from the government" to help bring about mediation of their sinate him, presumably with the lf they had to await my perrniss1on er t oo. It is a story of courage strike they are dependent upon the general public to pressure connivance of the CIA. The charge before tJhey oould 11$ist at re and endurance, and in the main of to sit down at bbe table and discuss wages and conditions. of plotting to assassinate In order ar.mngin-g bhe a1tar. He was n<>t growe~.s non-violence, since there was no So we ask for your help through a boycott Of ~henley pr:.od to overthrow governments has been very observant, living at p ibility · of arm e d revolt. ucts and through your letter to: Vice l'lresident James E. Wool brought so often agaln t "a United the Oathol-ic Worker Where the Throughout. Father Ciszek's main sey, Schenley Industries, Second St., San Francisco, California. States agency" that one wonders. motto was, "Love God and do as '5 thought, aside from his wiU to sur DO NOT BUY: Any Schenley product, including whiskey, Bour Were Bonboeffer and his compan you will." St. AugusUne said that. vive, is to serve his people, to of bon, and Scotch: CUTTY SARK; I. W. HARPER; ANCIENT AGE; ions in their plot to assassinate Hit I suppose I am rambling be fer the · liturgy, which he can do J. W. DANT; DEWAR'S WHITE LABEL; ROMA and CRESTA ler aided by such an agency? Assas cause I hate to get to the point, in the Russian rite, to give com BLANCA wines. sinations, by· whomsoever the~ are an.d that point Ls tJhat I am afnid munion, to hear confessions, ail Beware: moat table grapes n<>w on rhe market, and almost all attempted or perpetrated, are mur under the. most difficult conditions Emperors, are 9Cab grapes. iimaginable. Thank God for such ders and do not solve the problems, men as Father Ciszek! which are always deepseated, go Another book which I am car ing back into the past. Cut off the rying about with me is Father Er head of one tyrant and half a nesto Balducci's John, the Transl dozen others spring into place. THE CLOSING OF THE GAP tiooal Pope (McGraw-Hill). It is Nor do removals by· any other (Continued from_page 1) a book, like the Journal of a Solll, means solve problems which will_ which gives joy to the heart. always be witll us. The need is to and unlmow~ It is a simple test governments were not bound by change the minds and hearts of of whether we carried out the the same moral laws which bound Father Balducci is a profound men. Which is part of the tactics worb <>f love taught by the Son individuals. Nations, the majority thinker, of deep insight. He was of guerrilla war too, but unfor of Mao. He told us that we would of whose populations called them on trial and given a suspended tunately it is neutralized, wiped find Him in our neighbor, and selves Christian, obtained from sentence for advocating con- out by the violence and terror when He comes in majesty at the their citizens obedience to actions scientious objection in Italy, which accompanies it all. General Judgment He will identify which not only interrupted but re where It Is against the law. But St. John Chrysostom says in re Himself with the neediest of hu versed the wor)a of mercy. this book is all about John and gard to our Lord's sending us out mankind. "Fer I was hun&TY and The abyss widened between the his teaching, about the Umes he as sheep among wolves, that lf we you &"ave Me io ed; I was Ullnty norms of conduct incumbent upon lived in and how he reacted to become wolves ourselves, He is and you &"ave Me io drink: I was a person as a citizen, and those tho e times. There are many n
of us be too busy, or cold, or pr• occupied this night with our own POVERTY'S PROG RESS problems to go among the sodden1 On Pilgrimage failures, trying to get them to (Continued from page 6) stand up, to walk, to struggle, not The Shy Apostle to die tonight, that they may live their living by contributing to 16th last month, and that NDle and go out and get drunk and fall this beauty-Carl Paulson of Up- day I went with Ruth Collina to (Continued from page 4) down and freeze tomorrow night. ton with his stained glass and see a house on the Eaat Side ding at the men, held up his hand statue of the Father of His Coun Fool's Venture Michael Humphrey with his chal- hich ls just what we .need for in salute and walked quickly away. try, to be swallowed in the A fool's venture, any reasonable ices (as his father before him) our House of Hospitality, The coat "Angel' in a hurry tonight," the luminescent fog shrouding the man would say, and out of pr.ide Ade Bethune with her crucifixes is thirty-five thousand dollars, a old man with the turned collar neon signs of Fourteenth Street and distaste would withdraw from and pictured saints and stained modest sum when one considers said brightly. "Things to do, places and thought what an unorthodox contact with the diseased, vermin glass, not to speak of entire the cost of houses today for a to go." The small Negi;o licked his social worker God is: A mile r idden, ill-smelling bodies. And churches to her credit; Graham family alone. Our family is an fingers and fished the cigarette below the Square where Manhat no . one volunteers. But obviously Carey, silversmith, calligrapher, oversized one, and this house wm stub from his pocke . "I doubt that tan narrows to its tip, along those God counts the work valuable, be woodicarver, etc. mean two large apartments for boy knows he's living," he said. dim, dirty, ill-lighted side streets cause every now and then He takes We begin the Mass by the con- men, one for women, offices for The remark fo1· some reason of the Bowery, haunted by the a man or woman of strength, and fession of sins, admitting our the work and the usual dining evoked the story in our minds, one overhead rumble of the El and breaks them of the pride and rea creatureliness, and all the begin- room and kitchen. We have ten that had puzzled us before, of St. the whistles of tugboats from sonableness that they prize so nings of disorder that there are in thousaQd dollars, which we can u e Francis embracing the leper and nearby piers, in a dozen darkened much, and sends them forth to do us, and part of our thanksgiving as a down payment but the re t kissing his sores. What was the doorways, sodden with drink, for it,. and the work ·is done. is because of the fori~i veness of will h~ve to be mortgages, includ: leper's attitµde as · St. Francis gotten or unwanted by every We shivered involuntarily; the sin and· we do not dwell on falls ing repairs to conform to the Build di mounted, -ran acrnss the road social agency, hospital or relief fog was cold and the night ad and failures but go swirtly on to ing Code. If we can raise what to him, called him brother? Was bureau in town, will be lying the vancing. We left the fire and be the praye1·s of praise and adora- seems to us to be an enormous sum it, "Poor fool, were I as clean and bums, the unwanted, the far down. gan to walk to the subway tion and· thanksgiving. of money, we can pay it off each healthy as you I would have bet And among them Raymond will entrance, thinking of Raymond To me the Mass, high or low, is year in ·payments which will be ter use for my time than this self go, because the night is cold, the hurrying throuh the streets, hav glorious and I feel that though less than what we are paying now pitying behaviour" ? No matter, ground freezing and death to lie ing refused even carefare. We had we know we are but dust, at the for the rents of Cbrystie S treet the deed wa done, recorded, sped on exposed and without covering, no least doubt that Raymond's same time we know too, and most and the ten apartments, not to through time to serve forever as unconscious from drink. And he was the better portion, his re surely through the Mass that we speak of the heating of five apart an example of the lack of fear and will haul them to their feet when ward in store a greater one than are little less than the angels, ments and of the loft building at the wealth of love that those who he comes to them, b'ying to get we could ever hope for, and yet that indeed it is now not I but Chrystie Street. We have already trust in God possess. them to walk, talk to them, fight in weakness, looking around us at Christ in me worshiping, and in paid enough in the last five years Faith to fan the flickering flame of the fog, the high , uncaring build Him I can do all things, though to have bought the house as it is, We turned again to the fire and survival within them. And they ings, the whining traffic, on the without Him I am nothing. I that is without repairs. St. Joseph, the men around it. It was possible, will not thank him for dragging gleaming avenue, the casual1y would not dare write or speak or pray for us. In these inflationary looking on them and claiming them back from the dearly pur hurrying wayfarers, we confess try to follow the vocation God times it is no longer possible to brotherh6od, to envy the animals, chased fumes of unconsciousness. that the prayer rose unbidden in has given me t o work for the live as we did at the beginning of who live their given natures ex They will kick at him and· curse our throat and though we strangled poor and fo1· peace, if I did not the Catholic Worker. To try to be I plicitly and with the implicit him, punch him if he is unwary it quietly and no murmur of it have this constant reassur ance of poor in an affluent society is bard faith that transcends thought, un enough or persists. But he will escaped our lips t he echo of it the Mass. the confidence the Ma s indeed. tortured by the failure of reason persist, because that is Raymond's remained: Lord, Lord, allow us gives. (The very word confidence This month I spoke in Worce - to solve modern predicaments. For apostolate. Out of a great city of this. ·To accept Thy will voluntar means "with faith." ) ter, Boston, Kingston