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Fabulous Ancestor Erected by Other Countries Cannot Geography of Hunger, CATHOLIC WORKE~ Subscri pti on 1 Vol. XX No. 7 FEBRUARY., 1954 25c Per Year Price le The Pope And Peace By Dorothy Day On New Year's day I began to read the Pope's Christmas message which was printed partly in the New York Times, and noticed that directly under his message, on page one, column one, the Soviet wishes the world a merry Christmas. Christmas, the broadcast said, al­ • ways conveys the finest cherished hopes of plain people and their deep rooted faith in·the possibility of. a peaceful happy life, but no time in the past few years has the conversion of that possibility into reality been so close and so real as at the present time. The broad­ cast added that certain "govern­ ments of the west have been forced to pay heed to the popular demand that the spirit of negotiation pre­ vails over decisions based on force." More than half the Pope's mes­ sage of 5,000 words was discussion of the materialism that results from technological progress and particularly from the "spirit which finds what is to be most highly prized in human life is the advan­ tages that can be derived from the forces and elements of nature." The Times went on to say, that the Pope's message was one of the _wi. gl~iest of modern times. He is .--- -,.... ..,•• '>le ...., sucb- mtisfic:d \\itli the l>togress ~ - ·is peace and regards what pe.... - we have as a very fragile af­ fair. "Many people were astonished , that the Pope did not speak of Catholics who suffer persecution behind the iron curtain except for a brief reference to them in the blessing which concluded the mes­ sage." Perhaps the Holy Father thought the persecuted ones were in a better spiritual way than those who were living under the mate­ rialism of the west. There were two columns of ex­ cerpts of the message and they .. were most provocative of thought. They were about work and leisure, the nature of man, the .need for and the blessings· of technological advance but also the futility in placing our hopes in these, and the dangers of men becoming spiritual pygmies, the need to do away with the inequalities in living standards , ·and the fallacy of hoping to gain peace by raising the standard of living and increasing productivity. Pope Pius said many of the things we have been saying over and over again in The Catholic Worker but the concluding para­ graphs of the Times two columns, dealing as it does with Utopias, authority and State, might seem to be especially for our meditation. As we are told by St. Peter to be ready to give reason for the faith · that is in us, I must in all humility, Receive, 0 Simeon, h im whom Moses foresaw on Sin ai hatb become incarnate for ou r sakes and saved man. as publsiher of the Catholic Work- below the clouds laying down the law, becoming a child, Him let us worsh ip.-From Vespers, Presentation of our er, try to comment on it and ex­ and obeying the law. He it is wh o u ttmeth the law. He Lord- Byzantine Liturgy~ plain again what anarchism and pacifism means to me, and what I it is n ow wh o was symbolized by the proph ets. Who think it meant to Peter Maurin. Bob Ludlow and Ammon Hennacy certain. He is guilty of this fault rest of France and her opposition It is thrust upon one by ability and present day, Don Luigi Sturzo, in can speak for themselves. who thinks he can experiment with to a united Europe. , But my com­ recognition of that ability by oth­ the past and the present mayor of We have often enough been ac­ the social order, and especially he ment will be in reference to our ers, as it was . in the case of St. Florence, in the present from all cused of taking quotes out of con­ who is not resolved· to make the own attitudes to the State and its Peter, St. Ambrose, Pius· XII and account of him, was pushed into text, or taking what words appeal authority of the state and the ob­ laws. so on. office. to us, or agre~ with us. Here are servance of its laws prevail among Our Lord said, "He who will be In Christian statesmen, where The problem of authority and the Pope's words which seem not all classes of society. It is perhaps the leader among you, let him be there are such, the11 it would seem freedom is one of tfie greatest to agree with us. necessary to demonstrate that the servant," and on washing the necessary to cultivate humility, problems. of the day. Russia cer­ "The Christian statesmen does weakness in authority more than feet of his disciples, "As I have ~oura ge, holy indifference, holy tainly cannot be accused of lack of not serve the cause of national or any other weakness undermines done, so do . ye also." "Christ be­ poverty, in order to fulfill one's authoritarianism. Though they may international peace when he aban­ the strength of a nation, and that came obedient unto death, even to high office. And perhaps one would he said to be "experimenting with. dons the solid basis of objective ex­ the weakness of one nation brings the death of the Cross." Be ye sub­ not stay in that office long. To lead the social order," they· are certain­ pe'rience and cle11r cut principles with it the weakness of Europe and ject to every living thing, 'st. Paul by example rather than by law ly resolved to make the authority and transforms himself as it were, imperils the general peace." says. :\eems to have always been the of State and observance of the into a divinely inspired herald of Observation is made in the New . To be a follower of Jesus, one .Christian way.· St. Francis, hum­ laws prevail among all classes of a new social world, helping to con­ York Times that is thought at­ would cer tainly not seek after au­ bliest, poorest · of men, was pushed society. The _Soviet union is no fuse even more minds already un- tention is being called to ,the un- thority, or look for political office. into a position of authority. In the (Continued on page 7) /. THE CATHOLIC WORKER February, ~' oL XX No. 7 February, 1954 Chrystie The Fallacy -of the Wage System CATHOLIC rtl!bwoRKER (Easy Essays bJ Peter l\laurin) Street "Capital," says Karl Marx, PaltUmed Hon&hly ·September to Jane, Bl-monthly .lal)'-A•l'm• By TOM SULLIVAN is accumulated labor ( Member of Catholic Prn1 AHoclationl I Jan. 14, 1954. not for the benefit ORGAN OF THE CATHOLIC WORK.ER MOVEMENT of the laborers, PETER MAURIN. Founder Last Saturday aft~rnoon a good but for the benefit Ass ociate E'd itora: friend phoned me from Chicago: of the accumulators." TOM SU LLIVAN AM MON H ENNACV "Would you like to take an ocean Managi ng Ed itor and P ublisher: OOR01 HY DAY liner to Europe? It will consist of And the capitalists succeed 223 Chry1tie St., New York City-2 a round trip ticket to and from in accumulating labor Telepbone GRamercy 5-8826 Europe-gratis. All you have to for their O\Vn benefit liubscnptiun. Unltea States. 25c Yearly Canada ana ~ · uretgn . 30c Yearil' say is, yes." In the exact tempo by treating labor l ubscrlptton rate of one cent per copy plus postage a ;>plies to bundiell of one with the offer I was agreeing with not as a gift _ bundred or more cop!.!9 each month one year to be directed to one erldre• for all my he~rt. However, at the but as a commodity, same I was realizing that I had no buying it Reentered as second class matter August 10, 1939. at the Post OfAce right to be making this trip for like any other commodity, of New York. N. ¥~ Under th'" Act of March 3. 1879 the second time within a · year, at the lowest possible price, while "others here had never been And organized labor .~: to the continent. However, I kept plays into the hands t.hem in mind while I w.as being a of the capitalists, yes man since I was told over the or accumulators of labor, phone that the ticket would prac­ by treating their own labor tically go to waste if it wasn't _Catholic Worker Positions not as a gift used on the 15th of January. The general aim of the Catholic Worker Move:r;rient_ is to re~lize in but as a commodity, the individual and in society the expressed and implied teachmgs of • * • selling it Christ. It must therefore begin with an analysis of our present ~ociety The two people ·that I had in like any other commodity to determine whether we already have an order that meets with the mind were Dorothy Day and Bob at the highest possible price. requirements of justice and charity of Christ. Ludow who were mt>re in need But the buyers of labor .... The society in which we live and which is generally called capitalist and deserving of such a visit than 1 at the lowest possible price, (because of its method of producing wealth> and bourgeois (because of · However, I was reminded that and the sellers of labor its prevalent mentality) is not in accord with justice and charit!y. neither was able to make the trip at this date.
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