CATHOLIC WORKER
Subacr1pt1on1 Vol. XXIX No. 11 JUNE, 1963 25c Per Year Price le ON PILGRJMAGE. By DOROTHY DAY From Rome news of th& Pope's death at· three Monday, June third, I landed in the afternoon. It had been a from the Vulcania Italian Line Ship long agony and daily I had prayed at ·45th Street New York, at eight the Eastern rite prayer for " a o'clock in the morning to find Nina death without pain" for this most Polcyn of St. Benet's Book Shop beloved Father to all the world. of Chicago waiting for me with But I am afraid he left us with Stanley Vishnewsky, Tom Cornell, the suffering which is an inevitable Terry Becker, Arthur J. Lacey part of love, and he left us with (with dispatch case and letters), Joe fear, too, if the reports of his last Maurer, and Chris. Irish-American words are correct, fear that his playright and actor, and Cesare a children, as he called all of us ·in , young Argentinian. We had been the world, were not listening to his getting only the most meager re cries for pacem in terris. He was ports as to the Pope's health on offering his sufferings, he had said board ship where the news was before his death, for the continuing given out each day in Italian on a Council in September, and for tabloid news sheet. Each morning peace in the world. But he had at Mass the chaplain had asked our said, almost cheerfully, that his prayers for the Holy Father, and bags were packed, that he was each afternoon at Benediction we ready to go, . and that after all had repeated those prayers. death was the beginning of a new Death of The Pope life. "Life is changed, not taken We were still sitting at our lunch away," as the Preface in the mass with people coming and going in for the dead has it. And just as the little apartment on Kenmare Therese . of Lisleux said that she Street, when someone came in with (Continued on page 2 l Alabama J!'reedom Walk By TOM CORNELL The murder of Washington post and Gore. When Bob Gore got man William Moore in Atalla, Ala back to New York, I lost no ti.me bama, as he walked through the in visiting him. His reaction to South to his native Mississippi to Eric Weinberger's use of non present a plea for peaceful inte- cooperation with the jail authori 11ration to Governor Ross Barnett ties particularly impressed me. • ia Jackson, sh()CJI:~ Uie world. Bob admit that hi& personal con Some of our friends in New York servative instincts made it diffi were so moved that "ttrey deter cult for him to consider non .. mined to continue Moore's work. cooperation. I sympathize with Bob Gore of the Congress of Racial him. since Ii~ most people, I Equality, and Eric Weinberger, shrink from such action as going who has· been working on a band limp as being offensive to per craft industry to support Ne!!ro sonal dignity and against my New tena·nt farmers who were turned F.nglandcr's conservative instincts. off their lands because they h~rl Even Ammon Hennacy counsels dared to register as voters, went people not to go limp, because down to Tennessee to lead one few people can carry it off with Walk. dignity. The value of this kind Our May issue bad a brief ac of intransigent witness was borne count of the arrest of Weinberger !Continued on page 3l Guardian Angels By DOM ANSCAR VONIER Part of the Guardian Angel's activity Is outside us: keeping us from any possible dangers, which only a higher intellect could foresee; or bringing about circumstances that would make for our ultimate happiness, and which it would take a genius more than human to arrange. Another part of our Angel's activity is within us. First of all, he may be the originator of a new train of thoughts that will lead to what is good. We all know from exi>erience what it Is to have our mind put on a new track. We shall find in most cases that the new suggestion comes from something that is not ourselves; it may be human words, oral or written; it may be some external event. Looking back, we feel thankful to the man, or the book, or the circumstance, that make our former thoughts . leave their accustomed groove, and started us on a new line altogether. Without excluding such inferior influence, or origins of new · trains of thought, according to Catholic theology there is a spirit that has been appointed to be for us a source of new lights. We all have to confess to a constant tendency to direct all our thoughts into one specific channel. It comes from the limitations of our nature. The heavenly spirit who is our partner is just made the other way; bis is a most elastic mind; he makes us think new thoughts. And yet this influence doesn't stand in the way of human initiative al!d responsibilityr Another way the Angel helps us is in the sphere of the practical decisions of everyday life. Here too, .the Angel doesn't inter fere with man's free will, yet his presence is Indispensable, if our life is to be a success in the eyes of God. St. Thomas remarks that even if all virtues had been liberally infused into the soul by God, and He bad made man perfect, the virtue of prudence would make a higher, an external assistance necessary, Prudence has to de.al with facts about which there are no universal rules. To know what is best in a given case is, not infrequently, guess work for the holiest, wisest, and most experienced. At such times we want a counsellor, and we do not feel that his advice is an intrusion, a curtailing of our freedom or responsibility. Theology points to the Angel who guards us a• the born adviser and counsellor of man In affairs that have no other rule than their e.ndiess variability. Page TIM THE CATHOLIC WORKER June, 196S VoL XX1X No. 11 June, 1963 way over from New York. She had waited outside in the square, two the American Friends Service Com typed up many copies of concise of our members in wheel chairs. mittee, the Peacemakers, the Wom biographies of the American wom We passed through the gates show en's Inten:iatlonal League for en concerned and had them ready ing our unprivileged tickets, and Peace and Freedom, have been CATHOUC~WORKER for that first meeting. back past the bureau of excava free from Communist membership. But the acceptance of that one tions and through one of the side But undoubtedly with the thous P11•ltshed Monthly September lo Jane, Bl-monthly July-Auru& page message caused the most doors and around into a section al ands now participating mass dem ORGAN OF THE CATHOLIC WORKER MOVEMENT trouble. It meant a meeting that ready packed with people. onstrations around the country, PETER MAURIN. Founder lasted from the time the women Klare Fassbinder, the leader of this is no longer true. Associate Editors: assembled until two o'clock in the the German group had managed It was because of this "certain CHARLES BUTTERWORTH, THOMAS CORNELL, EDGAR FORAND, morning and though it was finally four special tickets; the Japanese ty," an American priest stationed JUDITH GREGORY, WALTER KERELL, KARL MEYER, DEANE accepted as revised, there was re representative, dressed in her in the Vatican told me, that the MOWRER,ARTHUR· SHEEHAN, ROBERT STEED, ANNE TAILLEFER. newed discussion early the next lovely costume and bearing gift pligrimage of women was not offi EDWARD TURNER, MARTIN CORBIN, HELEN C. RILEY . morning, another meeting right for the Holy Father, and the two cially received. I could only reply Managing Editor and f'ubli•her: DOROTHY DAY after breakfast and then the hasty women in wheel chairs were put that if we understood the Holy Fa 175 Chrystie St., New York City-2 departure to meet the Cardinal ther' last pleas, he wished a closer Telephone GR 3-5850 near the front. But the large body who was going to bring it to the of pilgrims of our group were far association, a seeking for concord Subscr1ptlon United States. 25c Yearly Canada and Foreign 30c. Yearly Attention of the Holy Father. to the rear, and unable to see over ances, and the opportunity to dis Subscription rate of one cent per copy plua POSta•e applies to bundles of one This was only the first of con It cuss oppositions. How could we nundred or more copies each month tor one year to be directed to one addreu. the heads of the multitude. was tinual meetings, meetings about the only by searching around individ know our brothe:-, keeping so Reentered as &econd ciasa matter August 10. 1939, at the Post Olflce letters to be presented, about other ually that we were able to get a aloof? I would like to go through o1 New York. N Y., UndPr the Act of March 3. 18711 people to see, influences to be ex better view. Two other women and the encyclical on pe:i ce and count erted, meetings as to whether one I were pulled llY a gay young Ital the number of times the word trust 1ector or another of the group of ian girl up into one of the tribunes was used, how many ti:nes we were sixty or seventy women were being where there was a tremendous urged to work t:ige:her for the properly understood or treated. view of the crowd and where we common good. We were to go into The language barrier made every would be able to see the Pope come the world as- sheep among wolves, thing harder. We were from so in and ascend the throne, but that Jesus himself said, and St. John ON· PILGRIMAGE many countries, so many faiths, so space was only cleared a little be Chrysostom commented on that by many backgrounds. Some of the (Continued from page 1) cause a huge pillar was in the way writini that if we ceased to be women had so litUe money that of seeing the Holy Father, him$elI "Admittedly, those who are en would spend her heaven doing good they actually did not have enough when he was seated before the al deavoring to restore the relations ID a crucial passace In Put V upon earth, so in his love, John to pay the extra costs of lunches tar, ready to speak. XXIII will be watching over us. of social life according to the cri and the one sightseeing trip that of the eneycHcal Pacem in Terris It was long to wait. Probably we are reminded that "false It was on the day before I sailed teria mentioned above, are not we all took together which came many; to them We express Our people were standing two hours philosophical teachln'!s reprd for New York, May 22, Wednesday, only to about seventy five cents and it was not until twelve-twenty that I had the tremendous paternal appreciation, and we apiece. Certainly there was too ln&" the ~ture, ori~ and de9- earnesUy invite them to persevere that finally there was a surge in tlny ol the uni•erse. ::.nd man," privilege of being present at little time for us to get acquainted that vast mob and a sudden silence his last public appearance. He in this work with greater zeal. with each other. But I think most should not "be idcntaied with And We are comforted by the hope followed by almost a roar of greet historical movemen·:.S { iat ha•e stood in his window looking out of us have lists of the women who ing. Borne aloft on bis chair, !and over the crowd in front of St. that their number will increase were there, and mo t of us hope to eeonomie, social, cultural or especially among those who be bow could any have seen him it political ends, not e.en wllen Peter's. An audience had been see each other again and perhaps he were not conducted in this way,) 1cheduled as usual for that Wed lieve. For it is an imperative of get acquanited better through cor these mo•emenu hne orl&"f duty, it is -a requirement of Love." the proces ion proceeded around nated from thoee teachinp and nesday at ten-thirty, and the great respondence of one kind or an the columna and then the Pope, 'Basilica was crowded to the doors Applications other. There is so much peace liter have drawn and sWI draw their blessing all, was conducted up to Inspiration therefrom. when the announcement was made Yes, we will meditate on his ature being gotten out and one his throne where he sat while a ''Besides." the e n c y e 11 e a l that the Pope had been too ill the words to us all, because he said thing it does is to draw us together. list of all the groups of pilgrims Pacem in T err i s continues, night before to make an appear he was addressing all men of good Most of us felt we knew Virginia was read aloud. As tlie names of ..Who eaa deny that thOM' mcrre ance that day but that he would will, and we will know too, as we Naeve, for instance, just through the villages of Italy, and the meats. In so tar u they conform come to the window and bless the have known in the past, how diffi all her short notes by which she schools on the Continent, and of kept us together before the pil to Ute dlt'tate9 of right reason crowd, as he was accustomed to cult it is to apply these words to England and the United States was do each Sunday noon. grimage began. ancl are Interpret rs ef the i.w individual situations. We need all read out, applause came from va hal uplratiom of the h1Ullall I had bad an appointment that the gifts of the Holy Spirit, for our ~ The Aud.Jenee rious parts of this vast group. And penen, coabin element& · tha& morning for t~n-tbirty at the office work, we need all the help of our The day of the audience arrived our pilgrimage was not mentioned! are podtive ud daervill&" of of Cardinal Bea, to see his sec guardian angels, and to make our and the big busses came to the But then the Pope began to appnyal' It ean bappen, tlaen. retary, Fr. Stransky, the Paulist, non - Catholic and non - believing door, and it did not seem that we speak and the words that fell from &lllt 1 dr1winr nearer to1eUler about a meeting I was to have with readers know what these words were being treated u of any more his llpa seemed to be directed to ••• for &lie a&talnmen& el ...e the Cardinal that night and was mean, we are printing together importance than the bus loads of us, to our group, speaking u he pnetleal .... wllJdl .... , __ leaving the No. 64 bus at the col with this usual column of pilgrim school children who were coming did about the "Pilgrims for Peace" ~deemed~. annade to the left of St. Peter's. age, definitions of the gifts of the from all over Europe during their who came to him, and hJa gratitude mlcllt new • • • be eouldered I noticed that the people leaving Holy Spirit, as well as what the Easter holiday to see Rome and for tbeir eratitude and encourage opportune." the bus were hastening to the guardian angels mean to us who attend the large general audience ment. The youne woman who had square. Word gets around Rome believe. And not to know these which took place each Wednesday helped us find our places was sheep we no longer had the Good quickly and when I inquired I was things, for those of us who do be at St. Peter's. translating his words as fast as he Shepherd with us. What have we to told that the Holy Father would lieve, means not to know the treas We waited as everyone else spoke them and writing them down fear? be at the window in a moment. I ure we have, the resources we have while two of us read over her "That 1uch trust would be used hastened to a good position in the to draw upon. THE GIFTS OJ' shoulder. She kept beaming at us, for political purposes by the Com square and was there in time to The Pilgrima&'e THE HOLY GHOST and all those around us, seeing our munists," was the only reply that see the curtains stir and the Pope To report further about the trip The gift of Wisdom is an llhi buttons, large almost as saucers, I 1ot. appear. I had not realized how tre to Rome which came about be mina tion of the Holy Ghost, bright blue and bearing the legend Cud.Jnal Bea mendous that square was until I cause a group of women, mostly of thanks to which our Intellect ls "Mothers for Peace" in Italian, also However I was a sured by "Vati saw how tiny the Pope's figure other faiths, and including those able to look at revealed truths smiled and indicating the Holy Fa can sources" War Resisters League, report may not be <:.s exact as I task of bringing about true peace Missal.> in the order established by God. board the ship in our cabin on the the Fellowship of Reconciliation, {Continued on page 6) .r .....'' Jane, 1963 THE CA1BOLIC WORKER p_,,, Three closer look at American houses of hospitality might make it easier tor him to make a go of it in Lon CHRYSTIE 5TREEr don. Dan Shay of Detroit is with Pope John BT TOM CORNELL us for a brief stay again, as he AJ I began writing this ChrysUe "In the Fairt\eld University cafe makes plans for his pilgrimage to Street column, Pope John waa re teria." Rome. Terry Becker from Hart and Integration ford, Connecticut, spent a week ported to be near death. As I fin Polish Walter haa been assisting with us, brightening the Chrystie ish 1t the College of Cardinals 1s Arthur J. Lacey to distribute "The conviction that all men are faffiilies can eat. If they return Street scene significantly. preparing the Conclave, 10 that clothing to the men on the line, equal by reason of their natural home on occasion to pay a visit, when you read it, we will prob and Darwin Prichett has been A young Argentinian ls visiting dignity has been generally ac and a child ls born thereafter, it us, Cesar Rutigliano. He has been is looked upon as "illegitimate" •bly have a new Pope. Everyone's faithfully assisting with the files cepted. Hence racial discrimina thoughts here at Chrystle Street and greeting our many visitors. working as a laborer in Montreal and . the family is looked upon as have been centered on the drama Phyllis Masek is still sorting out to support his mother, little sisters tion can no longer be justified, at delinquent. Such "scandals" were ·at the Vatican these past few clothing for the women's clothes and brother in Argentina. While least doctrinally or in theory. And part of the Newburgh, New York weeks. We are very happy that room, helping Anne Marie Stokes, he was in Montreal he came into this is of fu~damental importance welfare scandal some years back, contact with many CW friends, and have long been recognized but Dorothy is back with us from our "couturiere of the Bowery." and significance for the formation especially Fr. Cantlus Mantura, not remedied in other parts of the Rome, and that she had the op Phyllis has a new project. She of human society according · to portunity to see Pope John in his bought a tank of helium and a and the Little Brothen of Jesus, country. last public appearance, at his load of balloons. She paints mot Roger and Manuel. those principles which we have Poverty and unemployment and apartment window overlooking the toes and designs on the balloons Columbia on the Bowery outlined above. 'For if a man be lack of educational opportunities · Piazza di San Pietro. Pope John and sells them in Greenwich Vil comes conscious of his rights, he have made necessary the great was the most beloved man in the lage. She spent three dollars- for Chris, Cesar and I were walk must become equally aware of bis demonstrations which are taking world today and we felt it as a a "basket peddler's license." She ing down Chrystie Street a few duties. Thus he who possesses cer place in the South. severe personal loss, this death of makes an exotic sight near Wash days ago when a young man in tain rights bas likewise the duty The non-violent resistance, - the our beloved father. His pontificate ington Square Park peddling her what looked like old army fatigues to claim those rights as marks of courage and endurance of these undei-scores the importance of the balloons with peace mottoes on asked us for "a nickel or a dime his dignity, while all others have men, women and children of the individual in history. An old man, them. This ls to pay her rent. to get on my feet." "Sorry, Bud." the obligation to acknowledge South in the face of torture in an "interim pope," a "safe" man, Visitors The standard reply. I got to feel those rights and respect them." •prison, fire hoses turned on them by opening up lines of communica Sister Mary France1 of Mary ing guilty about brushing him off. These words of Pope John XXIII on the streets and the use of tion between fellow Christians, knoll and about seven other sis He was young, a Southerner by call attention to what is going on trained police dogs to attack them his accept, nro"abh• •n •~- · · t'' " and .between all men of good will, ters came to St. Joseph's House these months in the South, in Mis is something which makes the army to escape the poverty f/I the sissippi, Alabama, North Carolina heart swell with pride that these South, au ... ilOW ue s ou., .. , !OvJc and in all those states where the fellow Americans can rise to such ends, needs a place and a meal, Negro population are engaged in heights of bravery. and he being Ynonviolence of the stapding on Chrystie about thirty the country. In Chicago there has demonstrators in the face of police minutes later, and stopped to talk. been a cessation of payments in provocation. She got out of He had four days growth of light the Aid to Dependant Children prison the night the bombs ex 'beard, was grimy, and smelled of program largely financed by the ploded in the home of the brother muscatel. But the southern ac Federal government, which worked of Dr. Martin Luther King, Mrs. cent became fainter, and he let me dire hardship on the Negro popu King was almost killed. She had know that he was a Columbia Uni lation in that area. It may be that rushed to the rear of the house versity sociology student studying grown men can subsist on a star where the first bomb exploded to llfe on the Bowery, directly. He vation diet, but not growing chil see if her children were hurt, and got more than he bargained for in dren and it was the children who immediately . afterward another three sleepless days and nights were suffering. The way the law bomb was thrown into the room out of doors, and certainly more works around- the country, such where she had been, demolishing than he had bargained for when aid is given only to mothers and it." he found the Worker. Brent Mop children if there is no husband and The violence that did break out aln's sociology paper for Columbia father to support them. When men in Birmingham was not among the will be, at least, original. He can find no work, or get such trained demonstrators but among stopped by again, looking this time meager pay that they cannot sup the onlookers. There are grave like a university student, to say port their families, they often fears that this violence is liable (Continued on page 8) take off in order that their to come this summer in the north· ern cities where diacriminatlon la Alabama Freedom Walk on even a larger scale.
youngsters from sixteen to twenty understanding of what is to be lence. It was lucky I did not do tention to an article by Father Peru five years of age. done. But George's job was only him serious injury. Also, about this Briere in the current issue of Re Forty different countries were casual and he .was laid off after a time, Philip decided to move out. storation (Combermere, Ontario) E. Die ~ ca s eco 447 represented, including the U.S.A. few days. I got him taken on in He had started with me at Brock entitled the "Power of Love.'' It Miraflores, Lima with a "California Republic" ban the string factory where I was ley, and had previously attempted is a gem. Peru ner, Pakistan, Punjab with gay working, and although the work to become a monk. He is a great Please say hello to Dorothy and April 18, 1963 dancers and colourful costumes. was a simple matter of brute force, admirer of The Catholic Worker, Dear CW: Charles McCormack when you see A Jamaican band played on up unsuitable to an elderly man, he but it ' had been obvious for many them and give them our good I just finished reading the ar ticle turned dustbin lids. held the job. When his right months that he had lost interest in wishes, as well as to yourself. · of Herv'e Chaigne, O.F.M., "The All our English Universities sent shoulder hurt too much to use, he this particular project. He said that Keep up the good work. Cuban Revolution: A Mirror of Our big contingents and, of course, learned to do the work with his I was very difficult to work with, May God be with you. Times.·• I thought it was really every town sent their local C.N.D. .other hand. He was iin honorable which is true. These two events Daniel, Marcia and excellent. I congratulate you for Trade Unions, Theatres and, of man but held the pernicious notion had such a weakening effect on me Kathleen O'Hagen. publishing it, and of course I think course, all Christian der.omina• that destitution was morally wrong that it became clear that the whole the best of the author. tions. The Quakers were the larg and his guilt and shame were very project would fail unless I could I have only one observation to est, the Catholics numbered about disturbing. I was unable to con get some assistance. I talked with make: In section 2 the author fifty-a poor response from a pop vince him otherwise. After about many, but the only people at the Michiga_n writes " ... there will be room for ulation of five million in ·England three months I quit work through moment, who seemed interested in Livonia, Michigan a "socialism" that will be humanist, and Wales. Priests were ccmspicu sheer exhaustion (I was leaving community are a group in the Com Easter M{)rning and not Marxist, in the exact sense ous by their absence. I feel a Car the house at 6 a.m. and getting mittee of 100. They were formerly Dear Friends: of the term." Irr- this respect I dinal should have walked in front, back at 6:30 p.m.) and George members of Lanercost Community, "This is the day the Lord has would like to point out a very clad in full .regalia. found himself some lodgings near which although proceeding from a made, let us rejoice and be glad good book by Erich Fromm: Marx's Many of the spectators clapped, the factory. purely secular, even athestic and in it." Three weeks ago I started 5 Concept of Man, published by but a woman shouted, "You should We had a good Christmas, and anarchist basis, nevertheless prac back to work after a long period Frederick Ungar Publishing Com be ashamed of yourselves. Catho Philip bought a turkey for those ticed some ·degree of property in of seasonal unemployment. On pany, N.Y ., in which the "Eco lics shouldn't be united with common and voluntary poverty, In March 22 23 and 24, four of us nomic-philosophic manuscripts of who liked their animals dead on a 1 C.N.D." Another pithy comment plate. An"d those that prefer their otder to support those taking part Catholics from the Newman Club, Marx are commented upon. 1 do from the crowd: ''I don't know animals alive and flying or walking in direct action projects at Holy Young Christian Workers and a girl not believe that Fr. Chaigne has> what you R.C.'s are doing in C.N.D. Loch, against Polaris. They prac from Argentina, a high school for read the manuscripts or the book. around ate well of cheese and vege - you're always fighting among tables. The evening before there ticed hospitality to those in need eign exchange student, took part Perhaps through you I can find yourselves.'' even if they were outside the in a Quaker work week-end in. a this out. had been a Vigil organized by Jack At Westminster Abbey all the Bowles of the Christian CND in peace movement. Negro slum area. On the 19, 20 and I suggest that you make a special Christian -contingents went into a front of the Wormwood Scrubs I have only one of my former 21 of April we will take part in printing of this article. If you special service for peace, but we Prison for "all prisoners of con guests left here at the moment, another one, and then we hope to decide to do so let me know, for Catholics marched on alone. Many science." Des Locke and Terry and Ian Dixon and Terry Chandler start our own, sponsored by Catho I would be very interested Jn hav of our group (not J} felt that they Chandler and Trevor Matton were of the Committee of 100. Also lic youth and work through the ing a number of them. I plan to couldn't worship with non-C~tho Inside as a result of their Com parishes. have this article translated into Ingar Oskarrson, who was on the lics. In this country we do not do mittee of 100 activities. Helen On Good Friday, fourteen of us Spanish and have it published in Moscow Walk with me, and his so, but hope to later. As we Allegranza, who had also served a Catholics held :i silent vigil at this country. wife, Ayril. We are giving hospi marched on we had a little verse in tality to a French C.O. who faces Selferedge Air Force Base CSACl. I want to use this opportunity Plain Chant to sing "Dona Nobis the possibility of ten years im To our amazement, most all the to congratulate you on the wonder Pacem." prisonment If he returns to France. reception we got was sympathetic. ful work you do, and of course on The March proceeded to White I shall write soon about the Alder On Holy Saturday we had our the publishing of the paper. hall where one thousand cops were maston March. I consider It to be Easter Peace Walk with 1,000 Yours truly, waiting. The Anarchists had some a "rite of spring" and will jeer in people. The John Birchers picketed Ricardo Letts fights with them, all exaggerated a friendly way my atheist friends us and passed out hate literature (We have a limited number of by the Press and TV. We were for taking part in a religious rite. along with some of the more fan reprints.-Ed.) dog tired by this time; some of us Yours, atical elements of the Socialist were barefoot. Kids of all ages Peter Lumsden Workers. I was able to read about were sleeping in prams, bless them. seven minutes from the new Ency London We're doing this for them. clical, from the Disarmament sec Pax Christi Pennsylvania tion. Many non-rathol ics have 16, Central Mansions Sh-"il• Redmond been asking me about it. Greg Lon.don, N.W .4, Englnnd R.D. 1, Narvon, Pa. Leszczynski planned to walk, but 18th, Aprll, 1963 Dear Charles, . Flat 3 Colville Houses had the fiu. Dear CW, Reading other than in winter is Next week the Li ttle Brother• Chris Peditto suggested you London, W. 11 a pleasure a lot of country people England Emmanuel and Roger will arrive might like to have a letter on the find hard to sandwich-in, what with in Detroit to do factory work. They Aldermaston March. I 11m a Lon- Dear Dorothy: spring chores and the hurry to get will live in the YCW ·house until don Catholic, and an ardent mem- Karl Meyer tells me you would the garden in plus all the outdoor they can find a rent. I will visit ber of C.N.D. be glad to hear more about what I jobs postponed in winter. Then you in three weeks, on my way to In typical English Easter weath- am doing here. I mentioned In my summer is too busy with keeping Rome. er, we mustered outside the gates last letter how I had rented this ahead of the weeds . . . up early In the Risen Christ, DAN SHAY of the Atomic Station at Aldermas- apartment and the first people we and to •bed late, working after sup ton, all of us eager to walk the gave hospitality to came from the per . . . and of course, fall . . . sixty miles to London. I found crypt of an Anglican church in the the harvest and making sure things the Catholic group small, and, I East End of London. Here on week- Columbia are ready for the blows and snows New York City ' must admit, not particularly friend- ends a few friends and I used to of winter. They don't have to Jan. 26. ly. I asked about arrangements for feed and give clothing to the des drive themselves. They could take Mass on Easter Sunrlay and was titute who came there. ·They used Dear Dorothy Day: time out for reading or writing, Some kind person is send-ing me met by blank looks. With the cold to ask us for somewhere to spend but somehow their spare time is shoulder given, I went back to my the night and were glad to sleep the Catholic Worker. I would pre long sentence for similar "offenses" used .in other ways. local group of C.N.D. on the floor under one blanket or was also ·on the demonstration, and fer to pay for it, and. so I enclose The Catholic Worker was · rep- an old coat (we had no beds to this was only a month or so before Little Kathy has been a great a dollar. I always read the paper resented by a small Irishman who spare). But we accumulated furnl she died, by her own hand, it blessing and Marcia anq I have as soon as it arrives, and I must held a Lollipop Banner displaying ture slowly. seems. This was a great loss to the with pleasure re-learned our old say I appreciate the spirit in ·"C.W." movement. May she rest in peace. nursery rhymes -and stories and which most or all of the articles are , On Saturday. one thousand Mar'- About this time George, who songs. With Kathy everything is was unemployed, and Maurice, who There were only two Catholics on written. T'1ere is a sense here tbat chers broke off from the main pro- was sick, came to stay with us. We this Virgil, Catherine Swann and fresh and new . .. and oh, my, we should not be aiming at Vic cession and staged a demonstratfon were lucky to h!lve two· such good myself. After going to midnight how interesting! Whether it be an tory, nor yet at Defeat (though a outside a ~ecret Fall-Out Shelter! icicle, or hair, or a knot in a piece special modern sickness commits They had found out about it from people as our first two permanent Mass I had had enough and went off home. I had to endure Cather of pine. She.is, like all little ones, many to the latter melancholy pamphlets distributed by the guests. A few days later Eddy the essence of that saying, "Hope Linden, one of the founder mem ine's good natured jibes the next ideal), but at Peace. The preseat "Spies for Peace." I don't know bers of the Catholic CND and its day, !or she stayed until" the end, springs eternal in the human Pope has made this clearer than the origin of tl;le pamphlets, but first secretary, convalesced with us 8 a.m. Christmas morning, so the bfeast," ~d, "For such is the king any other world leader whatsoever." the Government is in 8 great hurry after coming out of the hospital. Church was not totally disgraced dom of heaven.'! And so many of us non-Catholics to find out. Eddy is one of those people who before our fellow Christians! One thing we got around to this are feeling our brotherhood whb We made up numerous rhymes winter was to restore and use an Catholics at this time. like this: (to the tune of "l Had a "knows everybody.'' He advertised But alas, for Christmas and all that it should mean! old wool-wheel Robert and Ann Very sincerely, Sausage" or "I Love a Lassie") the house widely with the r.esult Stowell very thoughtfully gave us. Eric Bentley "I've got a secret, a nice official that guests and furniture came A few days later there was a fight What a delight to use the wool of secret, flooding in. I managed to iitop him between two -0f my guests and food And I've published it for all· the before we were overwhelmed but was scattered all over the kitchen a neighbor's sheep . . . card it and w.!>rld to see; some of those who came and said, and a few things were broken. But spin it, wash it and wind it up for California Now this nice little secret ls not a very loudly, that they had come to no one was hurt beyond stopping a knitting! Such a simple, qulet, way CATHOLIC COUNCIL ON little secret and :M.1.5 are after help, proved a bigger burden than few· punches. ·I cleaned the place to get socks and mittens, caps, or CIVIL LIBERTIES me! those who came for help. E811ly up and replaced the broken things scarfs! Box 67 They've got a shelter, a nice Of- November, George and Bernard, and didn't say much but gradually Work in the shop has been brisk Lawndale, California ficial Shelter, who has come to help, went olit the source of discord revealed it •••· Always, an order or two (or April 19, 1963 And it's got no room for you and looking for work and George found self. A self-styled "social worker" three) on hand while some other Dear Dorothy Day: . me!" _ etc. some and Bernard didn't. As who said he had come to help me piece is being made. I've lately I wonder whether you · will be Bertrand Russell said how pa- George is elderly and Bernard is had been terrorizing those members been. working on a pine chest of kind enough to find room for this thetic was the Government and how eighteen, I felt it was one up to of my household who were weaker, drawers ... and when all the work, plea In the pages of The Catholie inadequate the shelters-Atomic Ge rge but Bernard was wearing both mentally· and physically, than or. near y (this wood was planed Worker? Along with Ammon Hen Bombs bring devastation; no one , an ND button, which doesn't help him. They were reluctant to tell at the miU> is done by hand, it nacy and his work in Utah, the escapes. when looking for a job. One woman me this themselves. As most of it takes a long time. But because of Catholic Council on Civil Liberties The climax of the March was manager said, "O God, another of occurred when I was either asleep this the odd-matching dovetails, is much too progressive for our Ea~ter Monday and a holiday for those!" and didn't take him on. or at work, I learned of this only the differences in the kriobs turned own good_. particularly in the Los all in England. We were on the Alas, that night one of our one. through someone who was not on the foot-lathe, the unevenness Angeles area. Nevertheless, CCCL outskirts of London, about seven- night guests, 'we think, took off affected. I told him to leave, but of the draw knife marks, all these exists and our national headquar teen miles to walk to Hyde Park. with Bernard's wallet and he had he did not. Late one night when things somehow give the piece an ters is in the Los Angeles area, a The streets were lined with spec- had enough of London and houses he had awakened me with his entity, a uniqueness, which forever place where it is vitally needed. . tators. The whole procession took of hospitality and went back home noisy truculence, I lost control of separates it from the mass-pro CCCL ls the successor of the four hours to pass, seventy thou- to Prf's•o,. l wa~ sad as he was a myself and threw him out with duced piece. American Freedoms €ouncil or sand marcher-s, •and most of ihem real fire-ball and had a very good considerable and unnecessary vio- In closing may I call your at- (Continued on page 8) June, 1963 THE CATHOLIC WORKER + + + BOOK REVIEWS + .. + +
aiming at fundamental changes in Doukhobors, and the Essenes are Equality the structure of society and par claimed en masse, and the French The Great Hunger ticularly-for this is the common Tolstoyan Lechartier has by no "There are no humen beings element uniting all its forms-at means been alone in declaring that THE GREAT HUNGER by Cecil live. The peat in winter gave heat who by nature are superior or in the replacemen$ of the state by 'the true founder of anarchy was and there was dancing and singing Woodham-Smith. Harper & ferior, but all human beings are some form of non-governmental Jesus Christ and . . . the first and conversation and the Faith. llow: New York and Evanston. equal in their· mttural dignity. Con co-operation between free in anarchist society was that of· the The potato too fed the animuls but $6.95. 510pp. 80 pages of refer sequently, neither are there politi dividuals." apostles.' Two recent historians of it wouldn't keep from year to year. ences. Reviewed by ARTHUR cal communities which by nature "The anarchist sees progress not anarchism, Alain Meslier and SHEEHAN. In .1846, the potato blight i;pread are superior or political communi in terms of a steady increase in Claude Harmel, have discovered ties .which by nature are inferior. from America across to the isle of material wealth and complexity of the first anarchist in Jean Meslier, This is the grim story of the All political communities are equal Wight, into England, Ireland and living, but rather in terms' of the the 18th century cure of Etre Irish potato famii;e of 1846, really Europe. in their natural dignity since they a famine within a larger famine, moralizing of society by the aboli pigny; whose resentment against The book raised in my mind are bodie1,1 whose limbs are formed tion of authority, inequality, and the failure of crops throughout by human beings themselves." the ecclesiastical and civil author Europe. Ireland was chiefly de many thoughts. The odd bit of in economic exiploitation. Once this ities of his time festered into a formation for instance, which the Pace in Terris, 'Pope John XXIII. pendent on potatoes. It's other has been achieved, we may return great Testament which he left to author doesn't mention, that the crops went to pay the exoDbitaint to a condition in which natural his rural parishioners (it was In potato crop in New York was so rents, exacted by landlords, pres processes resume their influence tercepted after his death by the blighted that a new SJ?.ecies, the ent and absent. The terrible irony Anarchism over the lives of societies and in Church authorities and never Chilean Purple potato, had to be dividuals, and then man can de reached the farmers for whom it of the story was that shiploads of ANARCHISM By George Wood brought in. velop inwardly in accordance with was meant) and in which he de grains were leaving Ireland as cock, World Co., 2231 W. 110 St., millions starved. The British Gov Since so many Irish immigrated the spirit that raises him above nounced authority of every kind into this country, the story is very Cleveland, 0 ., 1962, $1.50. the beasts." ernment under Prime Minister Reviewed by AMMON BEN· and advocated a bucolic society much part of American history. Early Christian Anar chists based on friendship among peasant Robert Peel felt the iron laws of NACY. economic liberalism had to be Some say the Irish-born or those Upon my release from Atlanta communities." "Anarchism has thriven best. in preserved. A nation of paupers' with Irish blood in them in 1850 prison in 1919 I declared myself And Gerald Winstanley, a dis the lands of the sun, where it is dependent on government largesse amounted to forty-five per cent of a Christian anarchist. The Chris senting preacher in April 0-f 1689 easy to dream of Golden ages of , was not to be tolerated. This cal the population. The immigrations tians said I couldn't be both and Jed · a congregation, nicknamed of !800 after the Irish uprising of ease and simplicity, yet where the lous disregard of the Irish was to most of the anarchists echoed this The Diggers, because they dug up clear light also heichtens the leave a century of bitterness and 1798 and the Napoleonic Wars criticism. In 1954 when my book, waste land and planted "wheat, brought the Irishmen who dug the 1hadows of existing misery." to help, as the author notes, to Autoblocraphy of a Catholic Anar parsnips, carrots and beans." They Erie Canal and settled so many The average person when he wards Ireland's reluctance to aid chist, was published I found few were beaten by mobs led by the places along the Great Lakes, hears the word anarchist confuses England in the terrible days of Catholics and fewer anarchists who clergy and fined and imprisoned down the Mississippi and on across it with the word atheist. Or else World War II. felt that it was possible to be by the state, but they did not re the prairies. Chicago with only both a Catholic and an anarchist. taliate with violence. Census figures are not to be five inhabitants in 1830 became a I feel today that I am a better Jacques Roux, a country priest, trusted but it seems that over two metropolis. Thanks to them half EDMUND•CAMPION Catholic because I am an anar In 1709 Jed a group called the En million Irish men, women and of the first sixteen Governors of chist and that I am a better anar• rages, said that the land belonged c~ildren either .died of hunger and J Illinois had Irish blood in them. chist because I seek to follow the to all equally, but he cheated the sickness or emigrated to England, Douglas, Lincoln's opponent, was early Christians. This book of Australia. Canada and the United Irish. guillotine by killing himself, say Woodcock's tells of priests and ing, "to die placing liberty above States. When the ships landed, Herndon, Lincoln's campaign the people were often forbidden other clergy who took the anar law Is the death of an anarchist.'' manager spoke of the opposition of chist stand. He says: "In Italy on Aui. 1, 1877 Father to disembark for fear of the fever. "those damned Irish" to his can So many died within sight of free "Religious movements like the Fortini, the priest of Letino, wel didate. The Republicans saw that Apabaptlsts, the Hussites, the ( Continued from page 5) dom. they couldn't Ignore the Irish so Since my own people came to they began to "butter up" Arch this country and Canada at that bishop Hughes through one of their time, this story was part of my leaders. The New England wealthy meal-time experience. My father, ones saw in the Irish a chance to Catholic C.O.'s full of Irish lore, told so many get in on the Gold Rush of 1849 CATHOLIC CONSCIENTIOUS Jews and slaves who were not en terrible tales of those days, inci without going West. They gave OBJECTORS: by Carol Perry rolled in the Roman legions, there dents describing minutely the days their servants money for a stake Gorcen; 64 paces; available were few, if any, Christians known of sadness. Especially do I recall but asked in return a share of the thro11«h the Catholic Worker: definitely to have served. his story of the monument erected gold. And the Irish did find gold 75c; Reviewed by JAl\IES FOR This does not mean that there at Grosse Isle in the St. Lawrence in the streets of the New World as EST. were not occasional attempts made River where many died. Orphan the song says but it was mostly In In a century of organized and in various locales to change this. children were taken into French California. All of which explains un-paralled slaughter, here is a One case noted in the study which Canadian families to be brought in part today why San Francisco subject of the most cardinal im is of particular contemporary in· up as French-speaking persons. is San Francisco. portance: whether or not to par terest is that of St. · Maximillian, Today, if you run into Irish-named This book will probably become ticipate in the mechanics of war a conscientious objector martyred persons in Quebec who cannot a pocket book and have endless and its preparation, whether or not in 295 A.D. in the North African speak English you probably are readers. It should. The author is to carry a gun or buy the bullets consulate 0-f Tuscus and Anulinus. amoni;? the descendants of these to be congratulated and the Amer for it, whether or not-using the Maximillian was brought before children taken in by the kind ican Irish owe here a special vote unpopular word-to be a consci the proconsul and informed he Quebecois. ef thanks. entious objector. must "serve or die." The author spent nine years re- Throughout both the "free" and "I will not serve. You can cut 1earching this book. Every line "communist" worlds, It is a deci off my head, but I will not be a shows it. Yet it isn't a heavy tell- Pope John XXIII sion which must be faced, either soldier of this world, for I am a ing. Each sentence is tersely he thinks that anarchists are directly or indirectly, by all. In soldier of Christ." formed to give the most lnforma- "The need, poverty and hunger bomb-throwers. Nearly everyone most countries men, and sometimes "Join the service .. . or else you tion, and the cumulative power of th a t grI P · m i l IIons and millions of believes in and/ or' practices vio boys, are faced with some form of will perish miserably/• this plus the emotional Impact of compulsory military service. (It "I shall not perish: my name ls the story makes a master telling. lives ls the problem that enoges Jenee, so why pick on the anar- should be noted, however, that In even now before God. I refuse to "'This book will .remain for a Jong the anguished attention," of the chists as being the especially vio the U.S. there are provisi0-ns for serve." time the definitive story. The au- Pope, according to his own state- lent ones? In fact the government , religious CO's, including Catholics, "You are a young man and the thor is an historian and she bal- ment at the 70th anniverr;ary eele- is the biggest bomb thrower. to be either "non-combatants" or profession of arms befits your ances each sentence carefully, giv- bratlon of the encyclical "Rerum So it is well to give some defini years. Be a soldier.'' ing all sides their just due. Her No'll·arum" of Pope Leo XIII. Be tlons. The article in the Encyclo to do civilian alternative service "My army ls the army of God, .... description of Queeen Victoria's spoke on that occasion to tens of pedia Brlttanlca on anarchism -If the lndividual satisfies his and I cannot fight for this world. visit to Ireland at the time master- thousands of workers represcntin&' written by Kropotkin, and since draft board of the claim's validity I tell you I am a Christian." fully shows the conflict of emotions 58 countries from all over the his death added to by Harold Laski and his sincerity.) Women, though between a people hoping for the world. should be read by those interested. rarely subjected to a military ex "There are Christians soldiers serving our rulers . . ." best from their London-based gov- "The principle of solidarity be- The following definitions are taken istence themselves, must too be ernment and the terrible reality tween all human , beings must be from Woodcock's understanding of concerned as not only is it their "That is their business. I also they were· passing through. "The emphasized and exalted," he said. anarchism, and it is thorough, world which is readying itself for am a Christian and I cannot serve." darling little Queen" John xxm BASTER 1961 "The sift of peace will clYe On Pilgrimage to each one an awareness of CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE responslblllty and of obllptlom, (Continued from page 2) that he may &"rant to his fellow A letter to Arthur Harvey, Editor of The Greenleaf, and would like it to be. I remember the of the great reUglous artist Wil men what the,. expect and have his reply. Subscrpitions from A. Harvey, Raymond, N. H. Cardinal's speaking of the Foeo liam Congden who lives in Assisi. a rig-ht to posseu." lari, and how impressed he was I crossed the mountailll to the I wonder if civil disobedience element of decency the British with their movement which has Adriatic, to the little village on is quite the moral force that The had, but it must be cultivated. grown from its beginnings in the the mountain, San Giovanni Ro itself to song, and indeed Peter Greanleat assumes. This rather When those soldiers were with bomb shelters during the Forties tondo, to see Padre Pio, all in six seemed like a troubador to us, milibant form of pacifism is pre drawn, and new troops unfamiliar going about in public squares de- sented being not only right and 10 that now it has spread all over weeks, and I cannot poss1bly get as with the true situation replaced claiming his ideas in what most of good, but effective as well the world. it down on paper in time for the them, the rebellion was crushed. My general impression was, all June issue of The Catholic Worker his hearers considered to be blank 19 c.d. moral? Plato thought Russian soldiers who are taught during my stay in Italy, that the which goes to press late as it is, verse, or free verse form. not, when he quoted the laws of to respect the proletariat will not clergy did not know too much on June 12. There ls much more I Patrick is probably about 22 and Athens to this effect: "But we say indefinitely support unjust occupa about any lay movements in the could write, and much more I will has great talent as actor and pro- that every man of you who re tions. Today, Hungary is reliably world that questioned either the write in the July-August issue, to ducer and with his mother man- mains here, seeing how we admin reported to be as free as any Com injustices of· the social order by try to give some idea of the work ages the old Goldoni Theater, the lster justice, and how we govern munist nation with the exception direct action, or that tried to edu of the lay apostolate, by groups oldest in Rome. It ls a delightful the state in other matters, has of Poland. I think this ls a result cate the people in the ways of and individuals in that heart of place, down a very narrow street agreed, by the very fact of remain of the heroic, even if violent, re peace, which would include refusal the Church, Italy, which is now by filled with the s.hops of small art!- ing here, to do whatsoever we tell bellion, but it does no credit to the of· conscription or the payment of plane only six hours away from us sans and near the Tiber. They both him." (Crito, 5ld). He does not various !lo-called "Hungarian free taxes for war; and in the racial here in the United States. I went live there in improvised rooms claim that laws are absolute. He dom fighters" who ran away and struggles the confronting of the by boat and so spent more than built into the wings, and when they does rule out civil disobedience who try so hard to mold American enemy \vith non-violence and a two weeks on the sea during the are not putting on shows them- on the part of a citizen in a free public opinion. sharing of poverty which would be most holy seasons of the Church, selves they rent out the theater to society. It ls the purpose of nonviolent the beginning of true courage, the Easter and Pentecost. During both others for concerts and recitals. It Gandhi's India is often cited as civil disobedience to encourage readiness to face suffering and periods there was daily Mass at was here on a Saturday afternoon an example of c.d. in action, as the slow process of education that I spoke to a large -group of moral and forceful. But the In death. tended by 400 tourist passengers which overcomes, in the minds of seminarian's who lingered long dians had not freely adopted the Conclusions and members of the crew, and in soldiers, the belief that their oc the afternoon Benediction and the after to ask questions about volun- iaws which governed them. C.d. cupation is just or "defensive." It I came away from Rome more rosary, not to speak of sermons and tary poverty and personal respons- in Gandhi's case was the instru- takes many years of hard work and convinced than ever that the par conferences by the ever present ibility. ment of a dedicated few who were suffering-in one word, courage. ticular vocation of The Catholic chaplains which are part of the Little Sisters expresslnr the desire of the many. A higher form of courage than Worker is to reach the man in the crew of every Italian ship. I lived Fr. Urban took me one afternoon Such is not the case with the pro "better dead than Red." street, to write about the glorious to see the motherhouse of the little grams of c.d. advocated in The for the last eleven days with im For hundreds of years the early truths of Christianity, the great ad migrants, from Egypt, Croatia, Italy Sisters of Jesus, whose fraternity Greenleaf. Here, c.d. is the instru venture of the spirit, which can Christians, a minority, practiced and Sicily, most of whom were get was founded in 1939 in the Sahara ment of a few who are trying to effect so great a transformation in c.d. in refusing to pledge allegiance ting off at Halifax, Nova Scotia, change the minds of the many. the lives of men if they would con to the government. Often the Em to try to find work in Canada. India is interesting from another sent to the promptings of the peror who had little respect for I am happy to be home in the viewpoint, too. However merciless Spirit. We must write about men human life, would have the Chris midst of a busy community again, they were to individual Sepoys, like Mayor Giorgio La Pira, a Si tians eaten alive by lions as a planning our summer season of va the British could never have per cilian whom 1 met in Florence, who sport. Can we say that c.d. in cations at the beach houses for the petrated reprisals on the scale of ls a third order Franciscan, who that case was not moral or effec Puerto Rican families in our neigh those visited upon the Warsaw tive. lives in poverty and simplicity in Jews in 1942 or the Budapest borhood, and conferences for Sun Perhaps the problem of the Nazi a small hospital room, who took rebels in 1956. I doubt that Gan (by right of eminent domain per days and some week-ends at Peter brutalities is more difficult to over Maurin Farm. I am still a bit dhi would have survived a month haps) the unused homes of the rich come than Roman, British or dazed, I have not begun to Jook if India had been occupied by Nazi and gave them to the poor, who American butchery. Gandhi an through the suit cases of letters or Communist, rather than British, preaches and teaches the poor as swered a similar objection as awaiting me, though thanks to imperialism. St. Francis did, and who is so be follows: Marge Hughes, they have been I suggest that c.d. can be an el loved in his city of Florence that "You may be right. ~story has acknowledged. fective and moral force only when he has been voted into office time two conditions are met: when It no record of a nation having Peter Maurin Anniversary and again, and ,also by the Com expresses the majority ~ill in a adopted non-violent resistance. If munists of his city. Fr. Urban, Trappist, stationed at nation which ia denied other means Hitler Is unaffected by my sul'ler "No, I am ·not afraid of the the House of Studies at Tre Fon of expression, and when the people ing, it does not matter. For I shall Communists," he told me. "I went tana in Rome, offered the Holy doing the denying possess a highly have lost nothing worth. My honor twlce to Russia, the second time Sacrifice of the Mass on the anni developed sense of values and re is the only thing worth preserving. purely on a pilgrimage to visit versary of Peter Maurin's death in spect for human life. Such a com That is independent of Hitler'• some monasteries." I met this ex a chapel to our Lady in the crypt bination is extremely rare. C.d. pity. But as a believer in non traordinary public official while I close to the tomb of St. Peter might be both effective and moral violence I may not limit its poss!· was in Florence on the invitation under the altar in the great Basil in Okinawa, perhaps, but altogeth bilities. Hitherto he and his likes ica of St. Peter. Mae Bellucci, old of Jean Goss of the European Fel er I think that there more have built upon their invariable friend of the Catholic Worker are lowship of Reconciliation to speak suitable means of political action. experience that men yield to force. to a small group of Protestants whom I encountered in Rome most Unarmed men, women and chil unexpectedly, was with me. I had and which now comprises 200 fra Dan Ford first, then later at the Major Sem Rt. 1, Durham, N.H. dren offering non-violent resistance inary where George Lorimer was spent the night at the convent of ternities numberini about 850 pro without any bitterness fn them my interpreter. Jean Goss himself our Lady Raparatrix and we were fessed sisters, who now work in Anluar Barve,.•a lteplJ' will be a novel experience for was speaking those nights to large up at the crack of dawn hastening Asia and Africa, in Canada. the I cannot agree with the veneered them. Who can dare say it is not States, and South America H well audiences and he too had to have through the deserted streets to totalitarianism of Plato. Surely in their nature to respond to the as in Europe. The slJ~t"l'll earn an interpreter because he spoke get to St. Peters' in time for the Socrates had the higher wisdom, higher and finer forces? They have seven o'clock Mass which Fr. their living by manual work in only French. He is a warm and if not majority support, when he the same soul that I have." (Harl· Urban, at the request of Alice factories, in hospitals, on the land, ardent speaker and I had heard practiced c.d. at the cost of his jan, October 15, 1938). Kathryn Caspar of Louisville, Ken in some cases they are co.asecrated him (with Interpreters) and was life. To reside In one's place of tucky, was saying for Peter. Peter to prayer in the fraternities of much impressed. birth is a natural right, and I do died in 1949, and May 15th was his adoration, to manual work in A man who seems to me truly not accept the authority of Plato anniversary feast of St. John Bap worker, rural or .artisan frater a prophet was Lanza Del Vasto or anyone else to make obedience Pope Pius XII tist de la Salle, founder of the nities, and to more direct tasks of a· condition of residence. Is this who had come to meet the pilgrim "It is an entire world which Christian Brothers with whom charity in fraternities of mutual not what criticize in some Com age women in Rome and who talked we must be rebuilt from its foanda Peter had taught in Paris for a help or service. "Specialized" fra munist nations? to us all one morning. His wife ternities of various types are con tiona, transformed from saTa&'e to few years. For a time he w11s a It is true that Gandhi became was there, a most beautiful woman member of that great teaching secrated to the sick, to nomadic human, from human to divine, that the spokesman for India's masses and a great singer who trains the order. peoples, to prisoners, etc., or to fs io aay accordinf to Ute heart of against British imperialism. But community in France which Del Fr. Urban certain specialized work, such as God. Millions are plead.in&" for a in the earlier part of his campaign Vasto founded to sing, and whose After the Mass, I prayed at the handicrafts, for example. than&'e of course as they look voice I brought back with me on he had few followers. Gandhi led towards the Church, as to the only tombs of Pius XII, Pius XI and So reads some leaflets given me c.d. in South Africa on behalf of a record. Benedict XV., the pacifist pope as by one of the Little isters who atronl' pilot who, with all due re· I brought back also some of the a small minority. In 1914, after 20 !IPect for human liberty, c•n take he has been called, and of St. Pius showed us the new baracks which years of struggle, the tide of white writings of Lanza del Vasto which X. Thanks to Fr. Urban who gave were being put up to accommcdate the lead In so vut an undertek.ltlr. I hope to get translated into Eng supremacy was checked. ' Now it Is Her guidance Is asked for witb ex us generously of his time, we also all the little sisters who were go again advancing, but the resistance lish to bring out in The Catholic had a trip down into the most re- Ing to make the headquarters in plicit words, and even more, takes the ordinary forms. The re -Worker, perhaps in a series and cent excavations, with an archeol- Rome their "Maison Genera!e." through tears which hne been sult will undoubtedly be a tragic which made a great impression of ogist as a guide and saw not only Some of the Little Sisters were shed, through wounds itill smarti.nr, blood bath. many of our readers. At least we the old pagan tombs but the earli- doing heayy work, carting stones while men point to the endless can publish enough of del Vasto's est Christian ones, and we came and earth and helping in the bulld Britain in the 1840's had watched cemeteries which orranised and material to acquaint people with as near as any one could to the site Ing, and others as we talked came cold-bloodiy as 2,000,000 Irish militant hate have spread over Ute his thought so that they can go on of the burial of St. Peter himself. up the hill with laden shopping neighbors starved to death, and world." Pope Pius XII, Feb. 10, from there and get his books them I could not help thinking as I bags which were their luggage. was ruthless enough to enslave a 1952. selves. Among his writings, the saw thes.e tombs of those who pre- They were Italian sisters who had vast empire. Nevertheless, the Return to the Sources, has had a ceded the Christian era, what· had to go to their birthplce to vote British refrained from killing Donations of sheets. towela, circulation of a hundred thQ.Usand great veneration there was for the in the recent elections. Gandhi partly because they had and tea towels will be greatlJ' copies; From Ghandl to Vlnobha dead. What wealth and art was The tiny sitting room scarcely some respect for human life. But appreciated at Peter Maurin however, is the only book which expended on the deceased. There accommodated the four of us who it was also because Gandhi alone, Farm. According to Agnes has been translated into English were carvings of exquisite beauty sat there, but the chapel was much of the revolutionary leaders, re Sydney, who takes care of such and was printed only in England. and I remember thinking at one larger, beautiful in its simplicity strained his followen from harm matters at the Farm, our sup I do not know whether it is still tomb that the carved marble looked and taste. And then we were taken ing the British. Had he been ply is too tattered to last in print. as warm and glowing as old ivory. to another chapel, down long, long killed, the British rightly foresaw throll&'h the summer. Donations But I must conclude this instal Easy Essays flights of steps carved out of the a more violent agitation for inde should be sent to: Peter Mauri.a ment of On Pilgrimage. I travelled But what Peter would have loved tufa down ·the side of the mountain pendence. Farm, (69 Bloomingdale Rd.. thousands of miles, visited Naples, in Rome was the work of Patrick and which, with the help of some During the Hungarian rebellion Staten Island 9, N.Y. It will take Rome, Assisi, Florence, Siena, O'Reilly-Persichetti who had trans- German seminarians, they had en in 1956, it was found that Russian many sheets and towels for the Milan; spoke to American semina lated his essays into Italian and larged to form a most impressive soldiers who had occupied the many visitors we expect this rians at· the Goldoni Theater and who sang them with great and joy- and beautiful place of worship. country for ten years, were refus Summer, especiallJ' durin&' our to the Holy Cross seminarians at ful enthusiasm to improvised tunes The Little Sisters are settled in ing to fire on Hungarian workers mid-Summer Retreat and our their college out near the hospice on his guitar. The phrased writ- Rome too, in one of the poorest and students, and in some cases Pacifist- Weekend. May Goel Domus Pacis, and to university Ing, with its re"!'titions which we districts, but I did not have time to donated their guns to the rebels. bless au donors. students in Milan; was the guest are still printing in the CW lends (Continued on page 8) Russian soldiers have- that same . . . Jaa~ 1961 THE CATHOLIC WORKER .. purpose, H Its ftnt exponents Huell Madden Report! would have agreed, by the impact Anarchis111..,_ ol I.ti truths on receptive minds