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CATHOLIC WORKER

lub1cription1 Yol. XXVII No. 6 January, 1961 ll5o Per Vear Price le ON PILGRJMAGE_ ED WILLOCK DIES By BJ' ARTHUR T. SHEERAN We left Staten Island, Wednes­ our Catholic Worker farms. It 11 Ed Willock, co-editor with Carol he helped them to start houses of manner and a remarkable ab1Uty day morning, December 28, right now not only the home of the Jackson of Integrity magazine, died hospitality in and Wor­ to -think. He was to become one of after Mass without stopping for Gauchats and their own six chil­ at Pearl River Hospital on Sunday, cester and a farm commune in Up­ the m o st thoughful Catholici breakfast other than a cup of cof­ dren, but also of ftve other little December 18 after a nine-year ill­ ton, Massachusetts. writers of our time. A bishOll fee, and crossing the bridge into ones, spastic, cerebral palsy, mon· ness and many paralytic strokes. He was shortly out of high school friend once told me he had passed Perth Amboy, (Outerbridge Cross­ gollan, hydrocephalic, etc., some of In a much commented-upon arttcle when he first Joined the Our Lady on copies of Ed'1 writing iri ing) we were soon on the Jersey them active such as one little alx­ in ~Splrltual Life; a Carmellte of Perpetual Help hospitality Integrity to every priest in his Turnpike which within a few hours year-old boy suffering from cere­ magazine, in its September, 1 9 ~7. group in Boston. He was eager for diocese. I could see his admiratiori led us directly to the Pennsylvania bral palsy who ls now going to a issue, Ed told of the physlo· discussion and a practical par­ for me going up a few points when Turnpike. There was snow on the school in Lorain, started by a theraphy methods used to regain ticipation in the works of mercy. he learned I knew him 'Personally. fields. but none on the road, and it group of volunteers for three his speech. He compared the tech­ He'd stay at the house from time IntegrUy was often quoted at was bitterly cold. But the car, a mornings each week. When Doro­ nique in detail to progress 1n the to time and serve the morning length in other countries and some 1956 Ford, bright blue, whlch Fr. thy took him at two years old he spiritual life through grace. breadline, meet the men and foreign editors noted that it Kern of Detroit gave me to travel weighed eleven pounds, and was New England members of the engage in pleasant and stimulating marked an lntellectd'al coming of fn had not not only a heater but pronounced hopeless by the doc­ remem­ conversation. He had a tremendous age of the American Catholic a radio, and we proceeded with tors. But now he is a handsome lit­ ber him with special affection for sense of humor, an unaffected Church. much comfort, taking an occasion­ tle fellow, exuberant, laughing, Two early incidents ln his life al weather report from the radio. and very happy playing with the gave him direction. First was his It was a, sunny day and we re­ ot'her children. So many of these creation of a poster for a notice Joiced . It was good to get started children are so dull at birth that board at Mission High School in on this long trip, and we both the first job is to see that they Roxbury, Massachusetts. This re­ prayed, Mary Lathrop and I, that take nourishment. They are fear­ sulted in a great increase in stu­ all would be well at home, t'hat ful. timld and very sad. But they dent- communions which pleased every ones' guardian angels would respond to the love of this Chris­ the school authorities. They com­ look after them and that I would tian family who are "on the aide mented on this to Ed and he saw not be called back as I have been of life" and respect this gift of the beginnings of his vocation. The 1n the past, by some emergency. the Lotd. It seems to me to be the reverse side of the picture was his We got as far as Greensburgh most holy optimism too, to hope belni offered a job by a national the first night and next morning that science and research may find tea and coffee company. This com­ {lWOke to a heavy snow and icy ways to help these little ones. pany prided itself on its dated roads. Radio kept repeating omi­ It was so good to spend a couple coffee so housewives knew they nously "driving hazardous," but of nights with Dorothy and Bill, were getting the fresh thing. Ed we found the turnpike well' sand­ whom I have not seen for several was asked to take the packages ed, though the speeds poste'd were years. They have always opened returned from the stores as unsold 35 miles an· 'hour. Starting out at their home to so many destitute and place the coffee in newly­ ten thirty we were able to reach ones but these seem to me to be dated bags. This hanky-panky so Avon, Ohio by 2:30 in the after­ the Holy Innocents whose feast we amused him he ever, after made noon. had just celebrated. Victims too, funny cartoons and comments on Our .Lady of the Wayside Farm of a cruel Herod, but in another business and advertising practices. It Is no longer a farm, this home way. Later Julian Pleasants of No­ His Jingles and cartoons were often of William and Dorothy Gauchat tre Dame was to tell me that un- reprinted and a book of his car­ toons eventually were put out ill although it started out as one of CContinued on page 2) (Continued on page 4) ( • Gauchats Practise Hospitality WALK FOR By STANLEY- VISHNEWSKI' The dictum that every home a need for human affection and 1hould have a Christ room and that quickly respond to the fact that PEACE By JERRY LEHMANN every fainilY should practise per­ they are loved. sonal responsibility to those in Whenever Dorothy Day or the I promised to write you about need is adm:irably illustrated in the Stpff of the Catholic Worker visit the San Francisco to Moscow Walk homeiife of the Gauchat family of Avon, Ohio they always make it a for Peace, which started in San Avon, Ohio. point to visit with the Gauchats at Francisco on December 1st and We are especially proud of the has now covered 235 miles of the 38135 Colorado Ave. It is a large I Gauchat family because we feel 14 room brick house situated on a 6,500 miles we expect to walk. that the~' are part of our world­ five acre plot with a small pond Drop down dew, you heavens, from above There are ten of us who are full­ wide Catholic Worker family and ideal for fishing and swimming. tlme walkers, besides a few people also because during the depression There is plenty of room for the and let the clouds rain the juat J who go ahead to inform the police, Bill Gaachat was the director of six Gauchat children and the six stimulate the press, find housing, the Blessed Martin de !Jorres handicapped boys and girls to play. let the earth be opened arrange meetings, scout out mili­ House of Hospitality in Cleveland, tary bases and defense plants and The Gauchat children, Anita, Ohio and was personally respon­ and bud forth a Savior.~ so forth. And many who join us sible for the hospitality given many Helenmarie, Suzanne, Colette, Eric on week-ends or offer encourage­ thousand of homeless and jobless and David have accepted as part of ha. 451 8 ment, and many thousands whose their family the six handicapped men. , children. There is Donald, 9 .=------..:.______contributions to the Committee for Dorothy Gauchat was then a Non-Violent Action will make th11 student at N:otre Dame Academy months, a critical hydrocephalic.· walk possible. We are walking on and spent her spare time working Susan, 11 months, a mongoloid. Mi- , in faith, calling on all men ill with the Catholic Worker move­ chael, 7 years, who is completely America, in England, France, Ger­ retarded and cannot communicate A FAREWELL TO SHAKERS ment in Cleveland, After their mar­ man)', Czechoslovakia, Poland and riage the Gauchats di?clded to turn with anyone. There is Todd who By BYRON R. BRYANT- Russia to consider the moral im­ their home into a hospice for the ls 6 and is confined to a wheelchair "She ls as serene and cheerful quarters (which we saw only from plications of their activities pre­ with cereoral palsy. Kim 14 taking care of handicapped chil­ as a nun," a member of our party the outside) contained the simple paring for war. The time to-protest months, is a hydrocephalic. Kelly dren who would otherwise, be said as we looked back into the but beautifully proportioned furni­ is now, when they are only build­ who is 4 is hydrocephallc and ls forced to languish 1n state institu- Interior of the Shaker museum at a ture for which the Shakers are still ing the bombs, missiles, subma­ tions. confined to a wheelchair. little woman in white cap and famous. rines, chemicals and germ warfare The first child they adopted some . The children play with one an­ plain dress who stood smiling A young man in a garishly devices; not after the atrocities are fourteen years ago was a young boy other and there is an acceptance benevolently after us. I thought of colored sports s hi r t _ emerged committed and the world is dead suffering from a severe brairi in- and a sharing of games and also her as a withered corn flower, thin, s'uddenly from one of the smaller or dying. We are asking men in jury whom the doctors considered part of the ,work in taking care of dry, in danger of being blown white houses. He was obviously one all these countries to refuse to as hopeless and who had to be kept the large household. It is this away, but with fading colors well of ourselves, and later we learned serve in the armed forces, to refuse allve because in their words, "there mutual love and sharini that is' the preserved. She is one of eleven why he was there. All the Shaker to work in the war plants making was nothing else to do." But the clue for the joy and happiness that women still inhabiting what is left men of the colony are dead, and the instruments of death, and to Gauchats discovered that the child pervades the Gauchat family, of a 011ce large Shaker colony near the eleven little ladies needed a refuse to pay taxes makipg possibl& was still responsive to Uae love of The state has asked the Gau­ Canterbury, New Hampshire. man to fix lights when the fuses for the governments to build the a family and to the feeling that it chats to enlarge their house and An hour and a hall earlier, .as burned out, to lift heavy things, or push-button weapons. We are now wa.s wanted. to take in many more children, but our group approached the wooden to drive to town for articles that going from San Francisco to Los It was the care of this first child the Gauchats feel that this would buildings of the colony, two things even Shakers can no longer make Angeles and walking about 23 (who eventually died) that led the destroy the entire purpose of their had especially impressed me. One for thejllselves. miles a day, in spite of sore feet, Gauchats to their vocation of tak- work which is to provide a home was the quiet, an outward sign of Such dependence on an outsider blisters, swollen ankles and the ing care of the children whom no for children. They pray and hope depths of quietness within the emphasized the pathos of the like. From Los Angeles we will one wanted, The Gauchats deplore that their example will inspire inhabitants. The other was an ef­ Shakers' situation. This movement turn east to Phoenix, White Sands, strongly the tendency of many pro- other families to take in one or fect of cleanliness bordering on the of primitive American communism Kansas City, , Cleveland, fessional social workers to cail chi!- more of these severely handi­ immaculate: buildings painted and democratic religion had more Pittsburgh, Washington, Philadel­ dren suffering from brain injuries capped children and give them a white and in good repair, the lawns than 6,000 members a century and phia and New York. On June_ first as "vegetables:• Rather as Dorothy share in the love and friendship and walks well , kept. It was no a quarter ago. Today there are we expect to fly from New York points out they are individuals with of a family. surprise to be told that the living Continued on page 3) (Continued on page 3) Page Two THE CATHOLIC WORKER January, 1961 Yol. xxvn No. 6 January, 1961 noon and after lunch there wu a four o'clock meeting again. After a 1ood night's sleep we left aeain the next morning for Macomb, Illinois' where Father Haddigan had In­ vited us to meet his curate, Father B7 AMMON BENN.ACY Kelly, who was chaplain of the The Canadian Broadcasting Com­ Published Monthly September to Jane, Bl-monthly Jul1-Aa1u1t Newman Club of Western Illinois for CW'• and wished u1 well, and pany Interviewed me on the picket ORGAN OF THE CATHOLIC WORKER MOVEMENT University. Father Kelly's brother no one called us names or oppoa.d line at the Civil Defense head­ PETER MAURIN, 1''ounder · is one of the chaplains at the Uni­ us. I had fasted since morning, thlt quarters asking If I thought that A11oci•t• Editol'91 versity oi Illinois at Champaign being Thursday when I fast unUl AMMON HENNACV DEANE MOWRER our picketing would stop civil de­ Friday nfeht, . but as we 1hlvere4 ROBERT STEED STANLEY VISHNEWSKI and Urbana. The western Illinois branch of the university bas only fense, and why we were opposed I felt that I could do as Mille - CHARLES BUTTERWORTH ARTHUR SHEEHAN to it. My answer was that If a Kovalall: 1ays, "dispense my1elf,.. JUDITH GREGORY STUART SANDBERG two thousand students and so the bomb hit New York City there so Mary and I went to a Negro Man•ging Editor •nd Publisher: DOROTHY DA~ Newman Club is not very large. 39 'Spring St., New York City-12 While we were at lunch Father would be no one left and therefore restaurant up and down tb.t. 71 Telephone CAn•I 6-9504 Haddigan began telling us about the whole civil defense idea was a steps again for some bean soup ind the Mormons, knowing Ammon's fraud. other nourishment. At 9:30 we li81d Subscription United States. 25c Yearly. Canada and Foreign 30c Yearly interest in the group, and it was Of course we had "marched the Rosary for Chapman and about Bubscrlptlon rate -0f one cent per copy plus postage applies to bundles of one around the walls" for months and hundred or more copies each month for one year to be directed to one address. interesting to learn that they bad five minutes of 10 we knelt on our had their big Illinois settlement of they had not even begun to fall. srgn on tile cold pavement and Reentered as second class matter August 10. 1939, at the Post Oll'ice twenty five thousand people not Shelters in the outskjrts might pre­ prayed silently for courage for of New York, N. Y.. Under the Act of March 3. 1879 more than fifty miles away at vent death for a Ume but what him, and for grace for him in his Nauvoo, Illinois. It was hard to would they use for air when they agony. It was not until the next believe that Nauvoo then was a came out of the sbel ers? morning that we knew for sure larger town than Chicago, which . I was asked if I believed in that he had been executed. I cry at that time had a population of unilateral disarmament and II I very seldom but I could do nothin1 only five thousand. did then wouldn't the Russians all morning but shed tears of pity Nauvoo destroy us if we disarmed first. and rage because of this cruel and "You should visit the Benedictine If we disarmed and ceased our inhuman practice of our Christian exploitation of most of the non­ On Pilgrimage Sisters at Nauvoo," he said. "They nation. The paper said that no own some of the old property of Communist world this would be friends or relatives came to ee (Continued from page l) the Mormons, and the old arsenal the power greater than a mill!on Chapman. Wherever I am In the doubtedly the testing of atomic offices. Their home Is always ex­ is part of their buildings." Father H-Bombs: that soul force that future the first thing upon my weapons was having something to panding of course, but they have Edmund, 0.S.B. who is chaplain Gandhi spoke of and 1exempli.fied, program is to picket and pray do with the-crippling of mind and ample land, and it was a happy of the sisters is the greatest expert for all tyrants ask for a plebiscite whenever there is an execution in body of eo many newborn babies. thing to see too the groves of trees on_the Mormons in the country, and from ~heir subjects these days. the state In which I am Jiving. As While I visited with the Gau- that Eugene bas planted, groves of bas been studying their history for They cou1d not win with love Tolstoy said when he first saw a chats, Mary Lathrop went into pines, and other trees too. Eugene a long time. lie knows their abroad in the world. With modern guiJJotine work in Paris, "there ia Cleveland to visit the Hennacy like another famous publisher, radio and television the glorious no such thing as progress." family, Ammon's mother and sis- Frank Sheed, Is the author too of news that the principles of Cbri t South American Catholic Unionist. ter, Ammon's mother plays the ac- a number of many books, on family were being practiced by the only November 11, the night that cordian, at of 85, and she life and certainly be knows wbere­ nation which bad used the Atom Rose Pe otta spoke to us on the Js strong and most active though of be speaks. I felt that my vi it Bomb would upset all tyrants. 73rd anniversary of the execution a tiny creature compared to her short though it was with him and But don't worry, we will be the of the anarchist Haymarket mar­ strong sons and daughters. Josephine, was a blessed one, and last ones to give up our gold and tyrs, we were fortunate to have South Bend thinking of my own large family, our exploitation. If Christ couldn't ten Catholic trade union leaders The route to South Bend Is an I asked them to pray for David change this bad world we surely from Chile and Brazil speak to us easy one, and we got there well and Tamar and their nine children can't do it, but we are going to .through an Interpreter. They knew before dark and were met near too. keep on trying in His name. I was of the Pinkertons at Homestead, the turnpike by Terry McKiernan The Nuttinp asked to give a definition of anarch­ of the Molly Maguires, of Moyer, ism and said that it was "voluntary Haywood and Pettibone, of Debs who had to guide us to his home, Willis Nutting and his wife bave cooperation, with. the right of a comfortable roomy old house long been our friends, and Peter and of , and secession. Laws, good people don't they were going to visit the graves with five acres around it with or- Maurin never failed to visit there. need them, and bad people don't chard and plenty of room for gar- We talked of Melbourne Univer­ of the anarchists in Waldheim theology as well as their economic obey them, so what good are they?" cemetary in Chicago before they den. Terry earns his living by sity, which is in the process of set-up." This interview will be broadcast in running the House of Bread, which being built up near Melbourne left. They told of the American When we found out that we January and onJy in Canada. These labor leaders who came to vi it his wife Ruth started with a group Village in Florida and , bich was could make the trip to Nauvoo and same folks interviewed my Douk­ them and who stayed in expen ive of Grail women, just as she start- started by Ralph Borsodi and con­ back in time for the evenin-g meet­ hobor friends. I will be speaking hotels and worked with the im­ ed our bakery in Staten Island. tinued by Nutting. It is at present ing, we set out at once and passed on television March 5 in Saskatoon, perialistic American Emba sy_ There are three little ones, Miri- a seminar to discuss philosophical the little town of Carthage and saw and on the 41h to a convention of Where peons are paid 30c to 70e am, Margaret and Christine. problems of the day and Nutting is the old jail where Joseph Smith the Doukhobors there. We had breakfast next morning enthusiastic about the interest a day by Catholic employers, and met his death by mob violence. Sine Sine where those who organize unions with the Pleasants, Mary Jane and shown by the older, retired people "The community did not collapse, We are pacilists who are against are beaten and killed as U1cy were Julian, and their fine family, John, of the town. y 0 u n g people, and Joseph Smith was not lynched eleven, then Peter, Jimmy, Mi- scientists, working at Cape Ca­ war, and we are also against per­ In the old days in this country, and because of polygamy," Father Ed­ as they are in the South now. They chael, Mary Ann, Martha and navarel, deeply troublM by the mond said later, but because the sonal violence when one person Madeleine, who is eight and a half problems of the time, discuss k.il1s another. I was always theo­ knew something about the prob­ Mormons felt themselves to be the lems of migrants in this country months old, and is in a way, one fundamental truths, and as Peter chosen people, had a militia of Ietically opposed to capital punish­ of these Holy Innocent$ I was Maurin said always, clarification ment but on December 1st when too. They visited the headquarters their own of five thousand men and of Ul\ions here which wefe more speaking of. It was a breakfast of thought was basic to action. raided the surroundine country. Mary Lathrop and I went to Sing whlcb lasted until noon, and we ''There can be no revolution with­ Sing prison and picketed the death luxurious than that of bankers In They were, in fact, cattle thieves, their own countries. They said that talked of many things, home and out a theory of revolution,'' Peter but they believed, of course that house from 4:20 to 10 p.m. I have parish and work. The Common- used to quote Lenin as saying, and entered a new phase of my life the first organizers of unions In God was with them and that they South America were anarchists. weal has just published one of it is on this fundamental level that had right to take their neighbors' -so that now I regard as unutterably Julian's latest articles Religion Willis Nutting works. All year he stupid and vicious thls eye for an After the meeting they were property: pleased to -ltear Mary Lathrop Jead and Science. The parish they live teaches at Notre Dame, and in the It is astounding the growth of eye policy which cold-bloodedly near bas a beautiful new church, summer, be goes to Florida to con­ says that upon a certain date man in singing J.W.W. and other labor this large community · in Illinois songs, saying in Spanish after they St. Teresa's and there is either a tinue his teaching. I have beard in so few years. They were strong shall do to man this terrible thing. dialog or sung Mass each day, many young men speak of how We had expected to find some left, "You are the best in New believers in education, ar.id they York." with an offeratory procession. profound an influence in their were the first community to have Quakers picketing but none were Children are educated for their lives their contact with Nutting there. We came late because Mary Later we went to a reception at a municipal charter for a municipal ttie Grail Jn Brooklyn and heard first Holy Communion by their has been. university. They bad their own bad picketed from 12 until 2 at parents, and examined by the TJle Hamels the Civil Defense and I bad been a Bishop from Chile tell of the court and none could try a Mor­ problems of the lay apostolate in priest, receiving Communion as a I bad met the Geisslers, the mon but themselves. After the helping lay a wreath at the Bud­ his and other South American family group. McKiernans, the Pleasants and the murder of Smith, when their char­ dhist Temple at 105th Sb:eet and countries. The Church and State Julian Is the only scholar I Nuttings before, but a new family, ter was withdrawn, they began Riverside Drive along with others are separate in Chile and Brazil know who has built .his own home, the Hammels, (and I am not even their move to the west, leaving to a saint of Hirosblma in penance to shelter his own family, a job sure of the spelling of their name) everything behind them. They for our bombing. We carried our while in most of the other coun­ which is never finished, so that came to breakfast at the McKiern­ tried to sell their land and build­ sign up the 71 wooden steps which tries there the Catholic Church as be said, bis sons can boast that an's New Year's morning, just ings and then their whole town shortened the distance up the hill being the state church provides a they helped build the house they before we set out Cor Peoria, for two bund1·ed thoosand dollars. to the prison. We did not know reason for Protestants making were born in. He, together with Illinois. -The husband teaches in The temple alone, which they had just where to picket and asked a much propaganda and many con­ Norrie Merdizinsky as students at Notre Dame. It was due to an build, cost a million dollars at that guard who was coming off duty: verts. He said that because Catho­ Notre Dame ran the John and Paul "exceptional child" in the family time. Finally, the place WJis sold to "They always piclcet there, but lics had not been active in solving house of hospitality years ago, and that Angela, the wife, was able to the who were atheists and there isn't really much capital social problems Communists were Julian stayed on to teach at No- get a school started for retarded communists for a thousand dollars punishment any more, just four or gaining in Cuba and elsewhere. I tre Dame. Together with other children, another one of the many They had a common nursery where five a year," and he pointed to a bad never met Irene Mary Naugh­ Young Christian Students, he pur- small schools which are so neces­ the ehildren were taken care of roadway at the entrance to the ton, on our etaff for years, until chased an eighty acre tract on sary. It is a great illusb·ation of and a common dining room where prison. I had spoken to Ronald this evening and I was happy to which half a dozen families or the Bishops' call for "personal twelve hundred people could be Chapman's lawyer who bad got a make her 8CC11'aintance. more, have built their homes and responsibility" which they made in fed. Later the temple burned down, _reprieve for Chapman several Meeung-s , raised their families. Being teach- their message this year. at least the wooden parts of it, months ,ago after he bad spent I spoke to the Muhlenberg Chris­ ers, many of them, there bas been Knox College and a tornado destroyed the rest nearly a year in the death house. tian Association in Allentown, Pa .• Borne turno er but nevertheless Jt We set out right after breakfast of it. The stones which made it up This young man age 21 bad mur­ having been there several years Is a community of a kind. and reached Peoria that evening, became a quarry and the parochial dered a derelict in a quarrel over ago. One · young man engaged me Eugene Geissler, who is head of where we were the guests of Janet ~chool, situated down the road now, 35c and somehow not having in conversation in a restaurant at the Fides Press which published Burwasb's family. It was good to be was made from these very stones. friends or money had come to length after the meeting, and my THERESE a few months ago, is able to stop for a day and catch up The Icarian community did not this dead end. It was hoped that finally 18id that be worked for a the builder and has not only built on some mail. Then Janet had to last long and now in addition to he might get a reprieve yet today. finance company. All present knew his own house, helped others build return to New York, and we went the small Mormon community So as we marched back and forth it but me and he inferred that he theirs, but has supervised the build- on to Galesburg, where I spoke there is one of the finest Benedic­ and cars came from town to view felt better now that he had come ing of part orthe headquarters of that morning at eleven o'clock tine high schools that I have ever our sign and turned and went back across with the chief obstacle to the Press. They have a family of before eight hundred students. visited, an academy which serves again we. hoped and prayed for his sph;itual and intellectual prog­ twelve, and on the afternoon we That afternoon and evening there not only the surrounding country, the best. None of the employees ress. Another young man had a ,visi_ted _them ~nd the press, one of. were o.ther meetings, not to s11eak but itlso has students from other koew if the reprievci Jt,ad come or considerable 1Um of money in U1e .their girls who was helping out at of lunch and dinner meetings, but OOU)ltries. The nuns sing the office if they did know they wouldn't bank that he had worked for an:i .~ides, made coffee for us at the the next day we were. free until

!anaary, 1961 THE CATHOLIC WORKER portant means of contactlng poten­ tial converta. I suspect that recent generationa of Shakera have been AFarewell to Shakers remiss in faillng to give educa­ CCootlnued from page 1) tional work its proper important BT DEANE MOWRER about twenty-nine left in the United communist groups In this country, emphasis. Our party visited the States. One of these fa male, but where many such experiments have schoolhouse in the Canterbury to the cold, to recount their owa community and found it in an excel­ It was the big •nowfall, that he ls very old and deaf and lives been tried. Their handicrafts and version of the storm and take a lent state of repair. The iron fence blizzardlike storm which began on in another coloey--0ne near Po­ i>lher products were successful Gaudete Sunday, the rosehued day cup of coffee for warmth and so­ land, Maine, I believe. even by commercial standards; the around the schoolyard is freshly painted black, and the bell with its of rejoicing at the approaching ciability. And the snow-laden wind There are, perhaps, tour almost Shaker reputatien for quality ls birth of the Christ-Chlld, that howled and whistled more fiercely still well remembered. The auster­ rope attached still hangs over the depopulated Shaker communities door. But the building was con· brought a decisive end to the lin­ around our old frame house, and in the United States; seventy-five ity of their lives was broken par· gering Indian Summer of our fall. we felt the chill of drafts that ticularly by their famous practice verted into a museum many years rears ago there were 58. ago. - We had had a quiet Sunday morn­ blew in through the crevices of of carrying on some of their re­ ing at the farm, with breakfast doorir and windows, and listened Some Ide.a of the origin of thls ligious services by dancing-like So we found it impossible not to 1ect can be gained from their ask the Shaker lady whether there after eight o'clock Mass at our to the incomparable music of Ber­ David before the ark of the Lord, parish Church, and had only one lioz, and thought of those who original name, Shaking Quakers. or so they said. They also offered were times when she doubted the For the Shakers began during a wisdom of Ann Lee's doctrine of guest for our noontime dinner­ might be out in the storm with a musical training to all their mem­ prayer for their safety, and were great Quaker revival in-Eng1and in bers who had any aptitude. Has celibacy. She smiled with the pa· J osephine Jenco who had brought 1747, at a time when orthodox tient air of one who has often been a delicious cake for our dessert. glad we were not out in the storm anyone recorded the reputedly but had warm beds to sleep in. Christianity was at an exception­ beautiful hymns of the Shakers? asked this question.· "Well.'' she But Josephine left shortly after ally low ebb and produced very said quietly, "we may be dying out dinner. The skies became lncreas· Next morning through the still But there are probably many to few saints. -and not peace- religious order he attempted to fully either." . higher as the short December aft­ nothing was as it had been but join and achieved sainthood upon absolute celibacy for all true We had nothing to reply to that ernoon wore on. Dorothy, Jean, believers. Monastic orders draw had suffered a snow change Into through a painful process of indi­ remark. And after we had left the Ed and Ralph had all gone to the something white and strange-en­ vidual, prayerful iptroverslon.) The their membership, of course, from colony and had gone a few miles meeting of the Charles de Fou­ a larger religious body of laymen chanted scenes from a remembered failure of the Catholic and Anglican further down the unpaved road cauld group in Brooklyn. There who are encouraged to marry and book of childhood where a snow churches to arouse the support of that had brought us several miles was a pleasant Sunday kind of queen reigns forever over a snowy the middle and lower classes in to raise families. The Shakers evi· from the main New Hampshire quiet in the house. The work of dently assumed that the general fairyland. But most of the men England produced such phenomena highway, we passed a much more after-dinner cleaning-up was fin­ Christian religious community at the farm did not look so kindly as the Methodism of John and recent structure than any we had ished. Molly and Agnes had gone on the snow; they knew It meant Charles Wesley or Emmanuel would function in much the same way in regard to them, and they seen among the Shaker buildings. to their J"Oom to nap or to read; work, hard work, not in the com­ Sweden b or g's vulgarly literal It was a long, rambling house with most of the men had gon~ to their fort of the house but in the windy visions of heaven, which, neverthe­ are now paying the price of their optimism in supposing they could many porches, on which lounged a little cottages. Slim had retired biting cold outside. Hans Tunne­ le , inCluenced William Blake and, group of men and women in a indefinitely offer sufficient attrac· to his favorite corner to read the son, Joe Roa.ch, and Joe Cotter had later, the New England Transcen­ welter of children, dogs, and dirt. New York Times. I had brought to have the drifts shoveled from denlali ts. The yearning for rell· lions in an increasingly material· A derelict sign informed us that islic -and prosperous America to the radio downstairs and was card­ before their doors before they giou experience remained great; keep new members coming in. this was a Beulah True Gospel So· ing wool in the diningroom while could emerge from their cottages. the poet Christopher Smart sud­ ciety. Here within a few miles listening to a symphony, and had As is the case with Cathollc re­ John Fllliger, Hans, Andy Spillane, denly falling on his knees to pray along the same dirt road two very just finished saying to Stanley that Shorty and Slim were out shovel· in the middle of a London street ligious orders, the Shaker schools divergent types of Protestantism I thought we should have no more were for many generations an im· ing snow most of th.e day. trying or William Blake looking out his ironically confronted each other. guests when Anne Marie Stokes to make paths from the cottages back window to see a tree in his arrived with cheeks aglow and wet to the barn and the main house, yard full of angels were extreme ex­ snow.flakes glistening on her coat paths which the high winds filled amples of a search fQr a spiritual and bat. Bloomingdale Road, over with snow again even before they reality of which the orthodox Walk for Peace whlcb she had walked from the were cleared. Joe Roach, Joe Cot­ seemed to know little. This was the train station In Pleasant Plains, ter, and Bill Keane did the essen­ (Continued from page 1) time when the middle and working was rapidly filling with wind­ tial kitchen work. Shortly after cla e began openly to leave the to England and began the Euro­ drifted snow, and the wind grew dinner Anne Marie Stokes set out orthodox churches, and s e c t s pean phase of the walk. more lnsistent and colder. But the indomitably to wade the waist-high multiplied faster than before. There ls an American proverb house was warm and comfortable, snowdrifts which lay between OlLr It wa a woman, Ann Lee, an "you don't get something for noth· and more cheerful now that there house and the train station so that Uliterate daughter of a blacksmith, Ing" which Gandhi has restated was a guest to talk with and bring she might arrive hours later-late who made the Shaking Quakers a that "social gains are paid for by one the news of the eventful city. but not too late-at the special UN di tinct religious organization and the suffering of the people." Peace Without the windows, however, the meeting where her _ Algerian who brought some of her follow­ is something everybody wants but dun and fawn-dappled landscape friends awaited her. No mail came er to New York in 1774 when few are willing to pay the price ot late autumn was hidden under that day and no supplies from the they found the English too intol· for. We hope that our sacri6.ce a snowy covering whlcb itself was grocer. Nor did any cars get erant. The first regular Shaker and other peace workers' sacrlfl.ce1 almost hidden under the fury and through on Bloomingdale Road. society was founded at New Leba· Jn direct action and civil dlsobedi· thickness of the down-coming, Tuesday morning Stanley tramped non, New York; the property was ence projects will encourage othera wind-whirled snow. up to a little store not far from sold In 1951 because all the mem­ to strengthen their convictions for That evening we were relieved us and bought a few necessities; ber were deceased. Other Shaker peace even though this means up­ and glad when Dorothy and Jean but we needed little and were settlements ranged from Maine to setting and revolutionizing their drove in. Ed and Ralph had gone glad to stretch the supplies we Kentucky and Indiana. lives. Violence ls built into our back to St. Joseph's Loft to help had by making cornmeal mush and Shaker communities resembled !'ociety and maintains the living with the paper. Dorothy said the hot breads. Dorothy spent her monastic orders in many way . The and working condltlons of some roads were getting much too haz­ time answel"ing her volufninous pro pective member had to make a of us at the expense of the living ardous for Anne Marie· to think correspondence and preparing copy general confession of sins to an and working conilitlons of migrant ot going back. So that night we for the next issue of the paper, Elder of the community, and he farm workers, the city slum dwel· said the rosary in the house, and and was glad to enjoy an interval had to agree to donate his labor lers ,and the many millions in th• afterwards listened to Berlioz' of peace and quiet uninterrupted and po sessions to the common world who provide food and raw Damnation of Faust on the radio. by running here and there to keep stock with the understanding that materials or who consume our man­ When Anne Marie remarked that engagements. A few in the com· there would be no recompense If ufactured goods in exploitative since her reputation as a knitter munity became more nervous and h e decided to withdraw. Members transactions. Until we are ready to had been established ln the De­ irritable; some relieved the ten­ of each sex dfessed uniformly and give up these things we wlll always cember Catholic Worker, she sion by arguing. Two young women all were supplied with the same have violence and wars with ua. would ha;ve to try to live up to visitors--JacqueJlne and Kathie­ article of furniture. All were ex­ Americans who say that we are her reputation, Dorothy found became restive and homesick un· pected to work at useful occupa­ arming to defend "freedon" and our yarn and needle.s for them both. der the pressure of snowbound t ion : weaving, wood-turning, pre· more honest spokesmen who aay Now and then one of the men isolation and had to be escorted paring medicines, producing gar­ that we are defending "our way of came in from outside, with red to plane and train by Stanley Vlsh· den seed , printing, farming. Mem­ life" are really saying that we are cheeks and noses bearing witness newski as soon as any kind of bers were not allowed to take part preparing to defend our wealth and in wars and, particularly during travel was possible. Every evenin! privilege. That ls why Americans Leonard came in from hia llttl the Civil War, many Shakers were are apathetic about peace even Ing arrest for refusal to report for hermitage, .bundled up and '°l inlprisoned for their pacliist stand. when it is apparent that one awful a pre • induction physical. Brad looking, like someone who ha4 The most famous ot all Shaker mistake will probably kill most of Lyttle, executive secretary of stepped from the page.a of All old teachings was, of course, the one us. Like Eichmann we go about .A.de Bethune CNVA, Is a Unitarian and I am romance about pioneering ill th~ concerning absolute celibacy. It our jobs and don't actually kill a Quaker and you might say frozen wood.I of tile Nortblan was argued that in an ideal Shaker anyone ourselves and hope lt will has been very extensive, and has represent the old pacifist position. Each night at supper .we llahtt community the condition of go on forever. included a lot of the content of Gido Guenther is a young German the candles of the Advent wreat Heaven, "where there ls neither So far we have had no trouble our Ideas. Many local papers and from Darmstadt who will walk with which Tom Caln had made fof marrying nor giving in marriage," with the police, in fact they have radio stations give us such large us in California and perhaps rejoln us, and after supper, at '1:00, aal~ should be anticipated on earth. been very friendly and helpful. coverage, I suspect, because there us in Germany. Allan and S11san the rosary, St. Joseph'• lltanr, and Furthermore, Ann Lee, in what Only ln the little town of Millbrae isn't much else interesting going Hoffmatt are young newlyweds tak· compllne 1n the house ao that th• might be considered a forerunner a policeman asked us not to pass on that day in their town. But ing a rather rigorous honeymoon. older and more lnftnn member• of the modern idea that all of us out leaflets or he would have to it does present our ideas to many Susan is only' five teet two inches of our familY. would not have t' are combinations of masculinity arrest us. At all the military bases people. After the first day we found and so has to work twice as hard to make the trip down the icy path and femininity, taught that God ls that we vigil in front of or picket that every one we meet has already keep up. The Hoffmans, Scott·and to the chapel. female as well .as male and that we have received considerable heard of us thru the press media. Julius, are from New York while The week of the big snow co11- while Christ embodied His male­ attention from base security men. We are quite a diverse group the rest of us are from California, tlnued cold and crisp and clear. ness, Ann Lee "rounded out" His Usually they photograph everyone in background and experience but Florida, ~assachusetts, New Hamp- But whatever the inconvenience to manifestation and thereby pro­ present, and the photographer quite unified in our concern· for ·shire, Oh10 a_nd Illinois. Thousands adults, the neighboring children vided the Second Coming, which stands by whoever ls passing out peace. Scott Herrick enlisted in of people give us encouragement_ and our snowy geese could be 11ell required a female embodiment. leaflets to discourage people from the navy in World War II; his first as we pass or they driv.e by and frolicking in the snow or tryinC Suell audacious unorthodoxy accepting them. The MPs also en­ activity In the pe1ce movement m~ - people are inqulrmg about to skate on the snow-covered llttl• doe seem to have produced one· deavor to keep traffic from slowing was two years ago, refusing to take jo~nmg. We hope to walk the 3000 pond. Gradually roads were made fntere ting effect: Although it was to read our signs or accept leaflets. shelter in one of tho e civil defense mlles to Chicago by our round- passable, though hardly good ln Impossible to deny the fundamen­ In their anxiety to keep people games they play in New York. Jae about route at a vigorous pace and el hbo h d a d life became tal differences between the sexes, from seeing our message, they even Glynn in another ex-navy man, then slow down to 17 miles a day our n g r 00 • n such a theory did tend to produce dispensed with the normal car .Julius Jacobs an ex-army man, and encourage more people to walk more normal. a greater sense of equality between checking procedure at Mare Island Dave Lee has spent two years in with us for as much as they can The big 1now certainly ut th' inen and women. Naval Shipyard and just wave all the. aJ:r force. Barton Stone has between Chicago anil New York, tone of ou.r days· du.rJng moat of The Shakers were certainly one the cars · thrbugh.I · Many people, recently resigned lrotn the reserves· 1000 miles to be covered between December. Yet there were other of the most successful Christian both civilian and military, do read and ls walkin& with us while await- April first and the end of May. {Continued on page 'I) .. THE CATHOLIC WORKER January, 1961

could easll7 have written aketcbe1 latl aD amulngly utlsfying experi­ tor the stage. At Marycreat, he ence. Community then become• a wu Intent on creating a feeling of sublime reality. A GENTLE PROPHET community, a mo1t dl1ficult thing Ed tried to translate that mood for personalltle1 are dltl'erent, (Continued from page 1) and Idea Into an Intellectual and tastes are dltl'erent and the dally 1K>ok form. A typical one on busi- He was most penetrating and I of tl1e magazine'§ editors, 11ug­ spiritual community of readers IA rubbing together of shoulders Integrity and a fraternal group bl 11.ess was: began to understand a lot about gested to Carol Jackson, a convert causes frictions but he felt these Marycrest. Lament of an aging tycoon craft work, the importance of the to Catholicism from Wellesley Col­ could be overcome through frater­ appropriate material for the ap­ lege that she meet him. She bad He leaves besides bis wife, Dor­ With tired eyes be watched the nal charity. propriate task. Ed would explain four hundred dollars, an• immense He bad gotten a sense of his· vi­ othy, a valiant helper, twelve chil· crowd how an artist must work with the enthusiasm for her new-found faith dren, Ann, Marie, Michael, ;paul, As it moved about in the street sion of a community from his days material according to its nature, and a zeal to start a magazine of in the house of hospitality. There Elizabeth, Peter, Clare, Joseph, below hlm. be it •paper or wood or metal and integration. She visited him and Ellen, Rita, Vincent and Gerar d. ..So many people to do," he sighed ls nothing that makes one think then must think and act differently after a short time, they and two more of the Judgment and the final The older ones remembered him "And so little time in whlch to according to the kinds of each others, John Murphy and Doreen when he was able to help them do them." sentence of Heaven or Hell than material. He u n d e rs t o o d St. O'Sullivan began their venture. serving food on a breadline and more physically. The younger ones And one on politics: Thomas's idea of analogy and he The year was 1946 and the maga­ then going to Mass to be served saw hlm doing the work of spiritU• I fear we need more drastic was always going from the material zine oon reached a circulation of the Eucharist on the liturgical al penance. Prayer and penance, means to 'the spidtual, showing how grace ten thousand, going higher with "breadline." Christ'• words about the two notes of Ed's life were so peculiarly appropriate to the needs Than periodic missions works with nature and not against special issues. the helping the ~ungry, naked and To curb the nasty habits it. I Its impaGt was Immediate, espe­ thirsty, quoted In St. Matthew's of this day as the Popes have told of Catholic politicians. He had the same method of cially on editors and writers. Peo­ Gospel, take on the ultimate poig­ us. . His analysis of Boston in one thinking used by Chesterton of ple took sides violently for It or nancy. One realizes the meaning Ann, the eldest, proud as the hsue was a masterpiece, one which looking at a subject from many against it and"-- there were many of the Gospel phrase that In giving others are of their father, would hasn't been equalled for discern­ different sides and noting the enthusiasts to help along with the hospitality we may have served like to draw his writings together . ment. paradoxes. Until we reach this kind mailing and writing. Some of its angels. In a sense a breadline is a Into a book for publication, a fit­ On first coming to the Boston of thinking, it seems to me, we writers later tried to start a Cath­ foretaste of Judgment Day and ting memorial to a remarkable house of hospitality he studied the cannot fathom very ·deeply the olic daily newspaper, The Sun- oddly aa it may s~em to material- father. labor encyclicals of the Popes closely and illustrated them In cartoons. These were hung around the walls and in the large store window. They attracted great at­ tention and gave him further encouragement. A note in the January, 1938 issue of The Catholic Worker notes that he would prob­ ably be heard from a lot In the future. Peter Maurin bad a great Influ­ ence on him. Close students of Integrity will find many of Peter's ideas elaborated and analyzed in a very original way. They were great Gospel andespecially the teachings Herald In Kansas City, Missouri. _.------­ friends· and when Ed was staying of St. Paul. Ed was never quite satisfied with virtue, but the disposition to It 11 need for the development of m1 at home and holding a night job, Most of hls writing and discus­ the academic. In 1950, he began to ditl'erent. Ai rellgioui experience argument. be would be out early in the morn­ sion revolved around a phrase that work with a group who were plan- ing to meet Peter on bis Boston "work is prayer.!' Peter Maurin's ning to build their homes coopera- matures, 11 it passe. from the Religion 11 loyalty to a God Who visits to spend the day together in insistence on the works of mercy tively. Their place ls named Mary- elementary 1tage of psychological can be conceived of as a Person conversations. A favorite place was gave him the key to see bow the crest and ls situated In Rockland and Intellectual union to sanctity (for He 11 a Person) or a Cause around the furnace In the house. doctor, nurse, farmer, carpllnter, County, New York in West Nyack. and mystical union, the appeal and (for He ls the Good). Peter told Ed a few tricks about performing their work as a work of Twelve families have so far bunt response tend to become the same The aalnta know God as He h keeping the furnace going. They mercy are truly praying. As Ed their homes through this group ef- regardless of sex. Until spiritual often laughed that their vocation grew older be delved more and fotl. Seventy-five children belong maturity is achieved, however, the in Himself, 89 both the Person in life was to start "little fires" more into the thought of St. to the families. psychology of the sexes is an Im- Who loves and Is loved, as the going in the Intellectual 11nd Thomas, explaining it in popular At the lJpton farm and ln the portant instrument in conversion Cause to be pursued and l• · company of .11rophets amon& American Catholic men!" same .Faith, it evokes the same tunately, they are the only fact• 1 j can b41 categorized loo ly , undez .. - .- --- January, 1961 T HE CATHO L IC WORKER

the headlni of secularism, and sibilities in pursuit of sports. war. In the open market, for every­ and oriented to God on the Eucharist but yet Lord of the uni­ 1eeularism has resulted in: Even in the hierarchy of psycho- one to see, the jewel of Faith is spiritual level. Just as the saint, verse, particularized in His Church 1. The relegation of religion to logical urges there is usually some- marked down to a price lower than as an isolated phenomenon, demon­ yet the proper object of the adora­ one phase of human activity. thing higher to appeal to than that of loyalty to mammon and strates the orientation of human tion of every nation. vanity and playfulness. The lady loyalty to the state. It is difficult personality to God, Catholicism The mature participation of the 2. The confinement of re1igion parishioner who puts on the latest for the uninitiated to see that the lived is a community of persons men b;y the same token will en­ t41 the area of the church and the creation is less disposed iI any- jewel is worth more than the price which demonstrates the orienta­ large the field of the women's re­ 1cbool. thing to put on her Creator. The quoted. tion of human society to God. The ligious perceptions. They will 3. The regarding of the religious virility of sports is not so con- The key to the problem of mas­ aspiration to personal sanctity is recognize my God as the Good. ect as a personal secret quite di­ tagious that religion will get it culine piety, to my mind, is found implied in it and is the vitalizing They will see the direct relation­ vorced from any vital social sig­ by contact. I realize that these in the word Catholic. The word factor, but it is the group testi­ ship between social justice in un­ njjicance. things are merely "come-ons" to Catholic as an adjective to describe mony of integrated Catholic living ions, for the Negro, for the Jew, 4. Tbe divorce of faith from rea­ att~act .the people and are. usually the meaning is, that as a way of which is the immediate end or for the poor, and the my God of son as though they were irrecon­ quite d1stastefu~ to the ~nest who supernatural life Christianity is such an organization. their spiritual devotion. The be­ cilable. use~ the techmque. It ts my ex- for all mankind, and that the When the newcomer enters the holder will see in the activity of It is obvious that religion tele­ penence that such methods ac- fruits of the Incarnation and the climate generated by a Catholi­ men and women living the Faith &coped to such narrow dimensions tually repel the people who would Idoctrine of salvation are meant cism lived, the paradox that the reconciliation of the paradox of focuses undue emphasis upon the go t~ get P1:1r~ and unadulterate~ for all men at all times. The bothered him will be resolved. The a God Who ls the familiar object aspects of the Faith most appeal­ religious .trammg. 1! religion does Church was Instituted to spread Good which he sought will soon of devotion and the Good under ing to the feminine psychology. not attract people m a day .whe.n the Faith across the globe and be recognized as a personal, in­ whose banner armies of men will The home, the church and the people are hungry for a faith it down the centuries alive in sub­ timate God, loca"lized in the march forever. &cbool become for the Catholic !s not because religion is lacking stance, precise in doctrine, heal- mother the angles of a familiar 1? .secu.lar g.lamor . but be.cause re- ing and uplifting in its effect. The triangle. She tends to direct her hgu:~n is bemg spiked with adult- vertical meaning is that the nature II religtous perceptions almost ex­ erating syrups. of the Faith is to reorient all men clusively to that enclosure. These If the male or female psychology and all things to God. There is are her daily and particular con­ nothing to which the Faith is ir­ Response cern because they involve the chil­ relevant, and the relevance of dren and are within the scope of everything is found in the Faith. her normal interests. Any pa­ This vertical aspect of the Faith And Responsibility rochial activity not specifically for is seldom revealed in the atti­ By ED WILLOCK men is, per se, for women. The tudes and habits of today's Catho­ Ideal, that concept of God psy­ lics. When it is understood and Isn't the boy who finds a rusty I There is an old saying. "The chologically attractive to man, can acted upon, men will see clearly nail, filches his father's hammer best is enemy of the good." Which only touch him when it is made that Calholicism is the ideal. They from the family tool box and means'. among other thi~g~, that a manifest in the work world, pro­ will see that Catholicism demands d · th il b t d d man intent upon fastidious ac- nves e na en an woo - complisbment may come to despise fessional world, scientific world, that Christ be the center and and political world with which he orientation of all our acts and all scarred into the corner of the and avoid the merely adequate. is in contact. The secularist di­ our desires. The jobs that we hold, house, father to the man who will This kind of scrupulosity is called vorce which sets the mystical the vocations we choose, the later drive nails sure and sti·aight? "perfectionism." against practical, and the facts of studies we pursue, the companions Maybe. The modern aberration is some- - we keep, the recreation we enjoy, thing different. The criterion im- revelation against the facts of sen­ Isn't the boy who, when parents' po:.'\:d upon human works is not eible observatioU: by inference the ambitions to which we aspire, backs are turned, resumes his own human perfection but mechanical pushes religion over to the distaff only make Christian sense if they &ide of the table. This localization are orientated to God and this not way of doing things even if "that's perfection. Mother is reluctant to •• of religion to the secret inter­ RACIAL STRAIN merely by intention but by their not the way to do it!" still rings in try her hand at baking biscuits be­ course and the parish buildings nature and end. his ear, father to the man who cause the availability of uper- To summarize, we can say that pretty, machine - made biscuit• has produced the ghetto-Catholic- It's a lways a stra in, a gain and later will act responsibly when make her efforts appear ridiculous. i m very apparent in many quar­ men fail to see in Catholicism as again, th.ere ls no one to tell him what The sad thing is not that we ters. It would not be bard to prove generally practiced the all-em­ When deali ng with races in­ bracing Ideal which is their first t o do? It's possible. lack the home-made product, the that the ghetto complex is basic­ ferior: ally effeminate even when it ex­ immature concept of God. They Hutchins onetime bead of the amateur musicale or the novelties To NOT be a snob's a d ifficult fail to see it first, of course, be­ . ' . . of noviceship. We can get along presses itself in violent!~ defen­ Umversity of C~icago , put it this I without them. But the availability Bive apologetics. The Ideal ls iob, cause of their spiritual immatur­ ity, but also because the Faith as way: if you want men to mature, of the ready-made ls discouraging catholic and of cosmic scope; it While knowing that WE a re you must let them ·make fools of something we cannot afford to be is affirmative and universal, im­ generally practiced has become superior. effeminate and localized. We can­ th.emselves. Man,. in whatever he without. It is di couraging people patient of ghettos, desiro11s of a - not very well inct'ease their ma­ tnes to . do, begms as a sopho- from trying. It is discouraging that &milating all things, assured of does not prescribe the technique more (wise fool). exercise of continuous effort which its universality. The spiritually lm- of appeal, then of what use is the turity until we have fir!it attracted them to the spiritual director and This ls a fact ·easily overlooked makes people mature. mature man can be sympathized inquiry into the peculiarities of in an age when the machine does It is my thesis that this thwart­ with when he is disheartened by each? The answer is simply that the Sacraments. So the first step must be a testimony to them of so well. We are so used to receiv- ing of human effort in a techno- a restricted, particularized, sensate, Catholicism lived (not doctrine, ing splendid things, beautifully logical age is having grave and · .,, localized and maternal religiosity not a technique, nor a movement, austerity (as against effeminacy) and catholicity (as against localiza­ packaged, ready for service at the even irreparable effects on the lay go at variance with the Ideal to nor a view), a living presence in tion). turn of a switch, that we are im- apostolate. which he clumsily aspires. The a person, in a family, in a com­ It must be understood that in patient with the fumblings of the Lay apostolicity as we know it eight of such a facade is enough munity, an appeal to both men and learner. We can flick Qn our magic today came as a call of the modern to drive him away before be has women equally. Men may dis­ this particular case we cannot let lhe patient prescribe bis own boxes and see and hear genius full- popes to the lay Catholic to exer­ time to enter and discover that like devotional services, women medicine. In other words, we are blown. We can purchase ready- cise a certain influence in society. there ls less contradiction in lo- may dislike study clubs, but they not looking for tricks and tactics made homes with coffee percolat- This effort to which he has been calized Catholicism than he first both like supernatural charity. artificially devised with which to ing on the electric range. With the called is something new to the lay­ ampposed. The fact that the Faith Men may dislike sugary hymns lure the men into the churches. ftutter of a check the shopper man ~ts a higher price on citizen­ being done is no more' than affix- other ls parochial emphasis on ship through the levying of taxes, 'ingi new names to pious ocieties sports for men who are already 'the 01ioerfng' of '<>Ur •Jives I and the in the , parish which ·are 'Tio more 11eglecting theii Christian respon- 'askjng tlf the same life 1~ time of ~ I 611£SS -WE'kE ALL ALIKE DEEP /)OWN INSJPEJ "' (Continued on page 'l) THE C AT H OLIC WORK E R JanaU,., 1961 every killing with a quotation from Portrait of an Officer the Bible ("I asked him why he did not quote the New Testament"), \SPRING STREET By PIERRE-HENRI SIMON are marvellously accurate. The - PORTRAIT D'UN OFFICIER. By battalion. There Kadour will prove By STUART SANDBERG . soliloquies on war and its necessi­ Pierre-Henri Simon-Editions du himself another Sadoun in effi­ ties must be read and read again. New York jumped into winte.r and ls happily willing to do almost Senil - 27 rue Jacob - Paris, ciency and valor, but not in The high level of Christian reflec­ this year with the suddenness and anything that ls helpful. Whether France. Reviewed by A n n e temperament. French civilization tion, the historical impact-this Is completeness of an obliterating it be taking packages to a .family, Taillefer. has marked . him. More French the true history o! France in its snow-storm; for everyone with jobs vislUng one of our men in Bellvue, than his father, he is lllso more psychological consequences - the to go to or worldly obligations, for "If the State, by drafting me by antagonistic to France. Colors are call to truth, are deeply upsetting. or finding a 'P·lace for a mentally everyone not as free from respon­ force during a time of war, makes getting mixed up In the picture; Some passages are deceptively siJn­ disturbed old man to sleep when me a murderer, it takes over my nothing remains clear. ple, such as, " ... The soul of the sibility and perhaps as foolhardy none of the Bowery flop-houses will conscience; but if through my re­ From gory pilgrimage to gory Church! I well think I might have as children, the snow was an un­ take hlm in, he ls always asking or fu al it makes me a traitor, it also pilgrimagl! in this ghastly Quest of despaired of it In those days if I welcome intrusion. All the same, suggesting what he can do and takes over my conscience. These the Grail, these two soldierly com­ had not seen it, by chance glitter­ inconvenience though it be, it was truly alive with charity. We are, decisions ought to be left up to the panions will find themselves boot ing upon the face of a young man delightful to see the city brought to at least, thankful for his good irldividual." to boot in front of the irreparable. -a drafted seminarian who did its knees, humbled and quiet in humored help and his Christian Thus spoke Professor Paul After refusing to torture prisoners, not seem brighter than anybody snow-bound innocence. eccentricity, part of our gift of joy Ricocur, one of the editors of to shoot suspects, to punish or jail else, an honest student rather than Walking down Delancey Street this Christmas. "Espril," in a pithy and lucid lec­ without motive, running the gaunt­ a doctor; I met him on the edge of with two big bags of food for a Also certainly we must thank ture on the Ethics of Distrust given let of blame from superiors and a village where the Foreign Le­ family of seven whose mother ls Sister Thomas More and her girls last year at the Union Theological running risks for the whole gion had been at work; he was pregnant and whose father is out from St. Mary's High School In Seminary. His words could be the battalion, -Larsan is possibly faced seated on the ground near a little of work with an eye operation, Greenwich, Connecticut, for the digest of Portrait d'un officier. by retribution for his humanity. A Kabyle boy who ha just been hor­ through snow up to your knees pleasure of their visit and the Anyone who is French, anyone trap ls set for one of the best of ribly beaten and whose father had with paths wide enough for only many colorfully wrapped presents who loves France and understands the French officers, a real un­ been shot; he did not even console one to pass, and through the dark they brought· to be given out at it-which is another thing-should thinking hero. He Is killed and him, he was weeping with him and and still falling snow, it was fun read this book. Undlsting-ulshed as mutilated. In Larsan's absence a when I asked him why, he replied Christmas. Always grateful too are to think oneself an Indomitable we for the continual supply of pro­ to style and not remarkably good beast of a Saint Bernard whimper­ as fiction-the characters are more visions brought down from Mary­ ing through with sustenance, if not knoll by Ed Gerlock. Our delight abstract than alive-it still remains rum. a profound and beautiful book, for when hearing that Maryknoll Is Encomium Back at the Ion such snow-born here ls only slightly dlminlshed by It explores the implications of war illusions are quickly extinguished in the souls of men rather than in Un memory of the Non-Violents praying outside camps for political our foresight of the cartons of their bodie's, in their honor rather pz:!_soners: Vincennes, Marigny, Dijon, Marseilles; France, 1900.) by the recognition of needs and clothes, bags of flour and boxes of than In their dishonor, and narrows I have tasted the slightest taint of blood problems. One concern is that at dishes and canned goods that must d-0wn the conflict to two men, a And now the nettles close around the heart any moment our gas heater may be carried up our two long fl.lghts French officer and an Arab non­ In buttoned uniforms ... blow us all up. For some. as usual of stairs. Knowing some of the com, whose personal loyalties are Caught in the waters where the sands make faces, around the loft, unknown, reason people who received their gifts: I racked and sundered by their Violent expressions • • • the automatic turn-off has been also know that Sister Thomas More patriollc obligations and who end The sun like a woman with wild red hair removed from the heater; this and her girls and Maryknoll were up finding themselves always fac­ Lighted In the madness of her laughter means that if the flame ls turned responsible for some extra happi­ ing treason, wherever they turn. Watches her broken husbands homeward . • • more than half-way on, a tempta­ ness this Christmas. The narrator has met Lt. Jean tion to many who came in to escape Late Into the cold Thursday from the cold, a slight breeze can de Lirrsan, a Catholic aristocrat in Outside, the snow Is banked between the houses night before Christmas, Anne­ an Oflag (officer pris!>n camp) after It Kneeling in Its peaceful demonstration . • • blow out, the gas continuing to Marie Stokes wrapped presents as the defeat of 1940. The only one Hearing a sc.liooner creaking on the water pour Into the room until someone I attempted again to bake pies; to have bad the chance of fighting enters with a lighted cigarette. Carrying its saviour 0£ composure ••• there were brilliantly colorful bravely instead of being trapped Because the heater ls too old to like a rat, Larsan, hearing another hand-knitted afghans and bed The weapons her disciples lost, obtain fQr it the. automatic shut-off, socks, In purple, green, orange, red man bragging of having shot two and a new heater ls so expensive, Their parent11 laid their lives against, and blue; for the more pr.actical German prisoners before his cap­ we have been leaving our survival Surrender prayers for Indulgences . . • minded there were white shirts and tur~. stigmatizes hlm as a mur­ lungs ••• And now the taint has oceaned in her to ·Divine Providence. Twice ,I have underwear that was brand new; derer. The next day he effects a found the ftame extinguished and apectacular escape . .R.umor now and O the rains are coming joyously to drown there were pajamas for those who us ... the gas hissing out merrily. believed ln them, and an elegant then reports him to have fought While a great t out blocking the doorway Charlie called up• another plumber bravely In Indo-China and in Stands alcoholed In moonlight wine-red smoking jacket for to see If he could maybe find a Smokey Joe. Algeria; therefore the narrator ts Hearing an Indian rhythm cheaper price. and being told of aurpri ed at meeting him on a Loving its dead companion. • • ·• the problem, the plumber sald that Hopefully everyone was remem­ train trip 18 years later In civilian he had a second-hand gas radiator bered at our party on Christmas clothes going home to his family O why Is Immortality so mournful • •• Eve when we handed out the pres­ He suspects a tragedy. The tragedy which he would be glad to give us. Looking back over the shouldH, This he did, and we now, !laving t>nts. We had readings by actors unfolds during this night-journey. The mountain, for the voice thc:t answers: who because · of unions prefer to After the war with Germany, looked all over for two missing Birds dye the distance with blue and yellow light. parts, hopefully await Its lnstalla­ remain nameless and carols sung that some might have called a The final tidal leaves no prisoners, by Ralph Madsen, Mike Kovalak, "just" war and also a "simple" one, tion. Draining away to shadow even tears. •• • A more oppressive, if somewhat Charley O'Keefe and others who opposing French foe to German Herbert Mason competed. A{ter hot spiced cider enemy, had come Indo-China. less dangerous problem, is the and farm-and-loft-made cookies we There the foe had really been stoppage In our drain pipe which all sang Christmas carols and tried CQmrounism-an abstraction-and young violent and headstrong with purity: 'I am ashamed in causes all of our sewage to over­ civil war had cut in two the ftow into the cellar of the building to remember that God had really subaltern burns a whole village in front of this child'." been born a man. · Indigenous population, p I t t i n g reprisal, sowing -death and misery But the place in the book where we are in. Not only ls It a question brother against brother and as­ Afterwards a number of us went among the people. Before this de­ the Christian writer really falls over to the Women's House of De­ sociate against associate. American vastating picture Kadour challenges upon his knees is throughout the financial interests, looking ahead, his superior: Is this a civilizing tention to carry on our caroling. a whole Kadour episode, ror Kadour Christmas Eve tradition at the CW. built bridges over the French back; mission? To the answer that the is the F.L.N., the dreaded Algerian native princes resorting to exile mutilated officer had done nothing When we arrived, having sung our Front of Liberation at its best, way over from the loft, Ammon watched the dlrection of the wind. amiss Kadour flings back that war kept as a last bulwark of resist­ and Mary Lathrop, Jack Baker, and Local heroes, drunk with the sud­ is th; culprit, to know that would ance by French mentality: "Yes, den taste of independence and be to see into all hearts. the Algerians want Independence Judith Melina, £undress of The power, worked for their own ends. A little later he deserts with a but these are assassins, looters, Living Theater and originator of And then defeat and the silent, supply of arms. Larsan finds him gangsters. They do not represent our caroling, and a group of her bitter contempt of those oppressed wounded, hiding in the hut of a the Algerians!" Kadour Js the friends were waiting in1PatienUy to Chri tians one was sworn to de­ terrified family; with the same im­ Algerian tragedy, no more no. less. begin, so we began. Our voices fend. The feudal lord chewed a pulse neither fires at the other, And one recalls the gentle, dig­ were loud If they were not pure, soured cud. although their arms are leveled. nified tones of Ferhat Abbas, the and the women Inside the high In his story, describing the But Kadour must be made captive; Algerian premier-in-exile, telling bleak building, which Jt was diffi­ corrupt or realistic colons, the war so ordains the honor of war. His a Frenchwoman a few years ago at cult to imagine contained human heroes In all their cruelty and in­ superior officer cannot plead the U.N., "France is 'a beautiful beings, cried out their windows difference to life, the profiteers, a t t e nu at i n g circumstances, for great lady, but I prefer my old of keeping the pipe clear, but also "Thank you," and "Merry Chrl t­ Larsan ls followed by his ~hadow Kadour bad assumed full re­ mother" and "I was a moderate, of shoveling up the sewage which mas." Having gone through all the and companion, an Arab non-com sponsibility in their last conversa­ you threw me Into prison time and has already amassed and disposing songs we knew on each side of the officer Brahim Sadoun, devoted tion together, and then it would be time again; against my will I am of it. While this ls not the most building, and bellowed for almost squire to this shining knight. But disparaging to his military pres­ an extremist." exquisite form of labor, those of an hour and a half, some- drifted one day, Sadoun balks: things are tige. On the day of Kadour's execu­ He is echoed in our memories by us who have Indulged in It, Charlie oft to parties, some to midnight getting too hideous and slimy, tion Lt., now Maj., Larsan resigns. his counterpart Abbe Berenguez, Butterworth, Walter Kerrel, Ralph Mass and some to bed. values confused. He ls beginning to It is on his return from this long~ an Algerian French priest con­ Madsen, Ed Forand, George John­ identify himself with these Asia­ Christmas day was quiet, as I long journey that he ls met by the demned to ten years of prison by son and myself, find it a worthy suppose it always is without chll­ tic and asks to resign. Larsan talks Pierre-Henri Simon, who became the French. army for the crime of purgative and reluctantly antici­ him into staying on for the honor dren. The ham dinner which Larry famous In France for his essay opposing war: "It is since I have pate future catharsis. prepared with the help of Jim was of France that he has already Contre la Torture (Against Tor­ seen men tortured and listened to As a•complement to our sordid worthy of the best family; with served so well; a few days later ture), has written here a sober and the confessions of their tortured cellar penance this Advent and ia George Pete and Harty waiting on Sadoun killed ·uselessly in an searching tale. There Is very little consciences that I know compas­ Christmas time I must also mentio:i ambush. horror or hideous detail to be sion." And the low sigh of that the tables, the men who came in the blessing we received in the were .served simply and well. Mem­ It is his son Kadour whom Lar­ found, and this Is what gives the tender victim, a young girl, person of George Johnson, who san will have for companion in the ories of better Christmases made book its full force. War in itsell, Djamila Bouhared: "They have like an elf appeared from nowhere new war, the· Algerian one. The its very essence, is horrible be­ humiliated my body but they have the day a nostalgic one for many: superior officer has been very kind cause it has opposed brother to humiliated their soul." conversations were brief and to the bereaved family and they brother since Cain, friend to friend Who can judge any but war it­ • FRIDAY NIGHT silence common. At - the dlnner are deeply grateful to him. He even when they are noble and self? And who can judge all things MEETINGS table one women burst into tears overcomes the doubts and hesita­ pure. Not even a knight can remain In eccordenco with Peter Maurin'• and crying softly, in anger aod­ but God. The title page of the desire for clorlflu tlon of thought, tion of the mother and two uncles just and honorable. The little book . carries an Arab proverb ono of tho plenks ,In his pletform, ln sorrow spoke of her husband THE CATHOLIC WORK&R holdl unwilling to sacrifice a beloved thumb-nail -sketches of the dif­ quoted by Kadour to Larsan in mottln11 ovory l'rld•y night et 1:30. who had left her with a retarded boy of eighteen to so ambiguous ferent types of soldiers, from . the their fateful conversion before his Flrat there 11 • lecture end then child. and alarming a situation. Larsan ls e question .,.rlod. Afterwards, te;o general in Germany who obvl­ desertion: "The black ant, the end coffH ere served end tho tlll• On Christ's birthday we should asks that the son be worthy of the ous'ly Delattre de Tasslgny, up to black rock, ·in the black night, O.l\lY cusslona ere eontlnuetl. •very_ 11 know that true joy has its core of father, and geta him for his own the warrior-monk who j ustifies God Illes." · Invited: 110rrow. pary, ·1961 THE CATHOLIC WORKER RespOns i bility ON PILGRIMAGE Peter Maurin Farlll (Continued from page 2) (Continued from page 3) (Continued from pa&• &> In English and their chapel 111 one events. On Ember Saturday, Daisy tain sadness mingled with the joy tollo than their nineteenth­ cldent wa1 advanced in the la­ of the most beautiful I have ever Mae, our cow, bad a calf, with of Christmas. Some-as in our tury counterparts. conic, sentenceless pigeon-English seen. We would have liked to have John Filliger-as he says-acting own community-will be separated • have almost reached the with which most people express spent a few days in this delightful as midwife. We also celebrated from home and family because of t where we are convinced we themselves. Her profession of faith i;ectlon of Illinois, which is right some feast days-the birthday of age or the inexorable Circum­ e answered the papal call, was awkward and (if you wanted on the Mississippi River, St. Mary's Leo Bauerlein who spent a period stances ol our life on this earth en we actually have hardly to be fussy) theologically inac­ Priory ls a most hospitable place. of convalescence with us, and which is no abiding city. Here at d it. This failure to respond curate. We all nodded our heads in Personal Responsibility Shorty's baptismal anniversary. We the farm there seems to be more ectively is in great part due to sympathetic agreement, rejoicing One reason we are so much In­ had the usual cake and candles, tension at this time of year. There impatience with noviceship. in her first attempt to be articu­ terested In the Mormons Is they thou_gh Molly may have thought are minor flare-ups; 1;ome giv way retard maturity because we late. But the young priest, who have the most perfect set-up for that the cake .Timmy Jones baked to self-pity, -forgetting that this is not permit the layman to was sitting in, feeling called upon mutual aid, and accept no handouts for her. was more ol an artistic a very real home to all of us who ake a fool of hJmsell." to defend the faith, ponderously from the government. or any other triumph than those Ralph and I live here; some of the men who e want a respectable laity yet 1et forth the reasons why "one outside aid such as that offered baked for the other two; and in- have this p~blem drink a litUe are impatient {if not intolerant) must be careful how one ex­ by the Red Cross in time of dis­ deed it was, for Jimmy is an art- too much; now and then omeone their initial response. It is presses the truths of the faith, aster. They tithe themselves, they ist as well _as a baker. In spite oI becomes a little weepy. Yet Christ­ ugh a mother wants her especially to non-Catholics." Ac­ set aside some of their land for the inclement weather, Charles mas is with us first of all a reli­ ghter to be a concert pianist tually, under the circumstances God, there is common 'Work con­ Butterworth managed to get out gious festival.- We do not try to t will tolerate no practicing of she had described 1ha had been tributed by the parishioners for with movies one evening. The farm go to Midnight Mass, as there are ales. more competent in the situation the common good, and where there family, the Hughes' childre~, and too many older and infirm persons. his happened many years ago. than be would have been. ls a surplus in one section of the Elizabeth McFee from next door But there were three c rsful for e same thing still happens Isn't 1t true that the attitudes country ft goes to supply the need enjoyed three colorful and inter- Dorothy .and Ed to drive to the ay in many parishes. Another and remarks of most laymen about of another section. Their store­ esting documentaries on Morocco,· eight o'clock Mass on Chri tmas ng man and myself beard that religion will seem strange, limp­ houses are always full, and there Venice, and Ghana, but the film morning. Jonas and Mike Duman­ new curate in a neighboring ing, bold and improper in contrast are no needy amongst the Mor­ which elicited the most approving askey bad come down on Christ­ · b was starting a "Catholic to the studied phrases of "profes­ mons. Also, when Mormon students tion group for young men." All laughter from Molly and the chll· mas Eve. It was a special treat sional" Catholics? Yet if lay Catho­ finish their formal education they dren was a Dr. Doolittle cartoon. to have Helen Iswolsky with us erested parties were invited. llcs talked habitually of their give two years to missionary work, ce this was up our alley, we We are especially grateful to who, though she had spoken often faith like trained philosophers and supporting themselves and going Fr. Wendell for taking time from at the loft and had spent much nt. to different parts of the world. theolo1ian1, wouldn't this make his many duties to give us a day time at the farm a few years ago, The meeting was held in a class­ This ts an example ol building a of recollection on the fourth Sun- had not been able to aet out since m. The curate, eager and new society within the shell of the day of Advent. The day began she had started teaching at Seton endly, started by addressing a old. Both Father Edmund and with confessions and Mass at 9:30. Hill College In Pennsylvania. She mon to the· handful of laymen Father Haddlgan see the virtues Father gave three conferences- too had come out the night before o had answered the calL His of these former neighbors and are ortation went on for a long interested in Ammon's plans to lucid practical discussions of the and had helped Dorothy wrap e and then he began to tire. work among them in the future. prayer life-and the day concluded presents to put under our tree bought to myself, "Someone else - My visit with Father Haddigan and with benediction. Hans Tunneson which John Filllger had set up gbt to say something so he won't Father Kelly was a most unex­ prepared an excellent dinner; and decorated. Early Ch1·istmas t the feeling he's talking to hlm· pected pleasure as Father Had­ Stanley Vishnewski read from Pa- morning Larry Evers arrived, like Jf." I was itching for lay action! digan wrote me at the last minute pini's Life of Christ durini the a juggler of Our Lady, as Helen ·nd you, I was wholly with the inviting me to stop by on my way noon meal It was a day of quiet Iswolsky remarked, to go to Mass ·est. I wanted to see him get his from Galesburg to St. Louis. and prayer, but at supper, which with us, have breakfast with us, k Into an apostolic sweat. He St. Louis . was served buffet style and had and entertain us through Christ­ td just remarked something We are now in St. Louis and been prepared by Joe Roach and mas morning with a Christmas ut a current topic, the Child staying at Rogers Hall which ls a Joe Cotter, conversation was re- bagful of tricks. Beth and Frances bor Amendment. This registered women's residence connected with suined. Stuart Sandberg, Walter came to spend the holy Day with th me because I had just made St. Louis University. I have already Kerell, Michael Dumanaskey, and their family. And to complete our thorough inquiry into this bit spoken at The Center where Eve­ Geo1·ge Johnson came out from the family, Anne Marie Stokes arrived, proposed legislation. lyn Gilson and o.thers of the old loft; others attending included after singing with the carollers ~ter he had nodded to my Catholic Worker group have built Janet Burwash, Josephine Jenco, before the Women's jail on Christ­ tifully extended hand I arose up a bookshop, art center and Virginia Whelan, Anne Marie mas Eve, helping Stuart with the d outlined my ideas about the meeting place. It would have de­ Stokes, Jim Berry, Maurice Flood, preparations for Christma at the · d Labor Amendment. I had JJghted Peter's heart because he a.nd Mr. Hennabray, a neighbor. loft, and singing in the long and ped for a response but, like the Wiii alwaY1 talking of the need for The only sad note of the day was beautiful Russian llturgy on est, my efforts were unreward­ such a center near every big uni­ that .Jean Walsh, who had done Christmas morning at S. Michael's . Actually the atmosphere had versity in the country. so much to make the day go Chapel. Everyone at the farm had ome hoslile. The rest w111 de­ We went to Mass this morning smoothly, had to leave right after ?elped in Christmas preparations. mement. We floundered home, an at Monsignor Helriegel's Holy Mass to visit her father who was m one way ·or another. Hans out­ lll Jn the hospital. Two days later did himself in cooking the Chrlst­ -- egenerated laity. Cross Church and were welcomed, w I .knovr why my apostolic 11 usual with the kiss of peace. Jean took the plane to Florida to mas dinner. All in all, it was a orts flopped. It ju t so happened o, comes from such a church spend tile next two months carin& good d$ly. We only wish that we at my opinion and that of the S! ftOi ""C "- 0 feelfnc- that· God has been prl1sed tor her lat.Ji~ · 9 had been. or- could. al~s remember that the shop of the diocese were com- r J. l ' """"·r and honored intensely by pastor dered to s}>end several months :gq - ol Christmas Is God'a etely at variance on this one and ftock. It made me happy to Florida's warm climate. We miss gilt of HhnseH, to all ef us; to atter of the Child Labor Amend- eee Father with two enthusiastic her, pray for her fath~r's recovery, each of us. ent. I had quoted many Catholic them unlntelll1ible to 1helr con­ young curates and to feel the full­ and hope for her return. ------lthorities on my side, including temporaries? ness of joy in the Holy Family The only other sad note of our '11 e famous economist, Monsignor It ts not my point to defend Mass of the day. We had breakfast snowbound days was .the news of Speaking Schedule 1hn A. Ryan. But this was missed. either the immaturity of the lay­ with Monsignor and then went on Ed Willock's death. Because of. January 23. AnUoeh CoUen. ie only Impression I had con- man or Imply that the behavior of to meet with a group of families. the Inclement weather, no one ~ed was that I differed from the two prie11t1 is typical. (For that To be continued. from the farm was able to attend January 2f, Purdue Unlv. irdinal O'Connell! Therefore, as matter young priests should also his funeral which was held in St. January 25. Indianapolis. ght follows day, I was a renegade be allowed the oppDrtunit):. of 1m- Margaret's Church in Pearl River. Januari %6-27, Notre Dame. 1th9lic. It . apparently didn't. mature attempts.) My point is that He had been a close friend of the January 28-31, Detroit, LaDslnl'. atter in the least that millions the laity will have to act lm- INTHE Catholic Worker, had done much Aun Arber. Catholics both lay and clerical maturely while they- are -learning work In the apostolate, and had February 1-%, Clllul'o. roughout the country differed to be mature, articulate Catholics. suffered much. We join a multi· ~m the Cardinal about this mat- As Iona as this is true (given MARKET tude of friends in sending love February 3, Urbana. r on which he was no expert. today's climate) the layman will and sympathy and prayers to his February C-7, Milwaukee. Several years later, my wife in- always be discouraged if his de­ family. February 8-10. Madison. rmed me that before our mar- portment and speech are con- ·PLACE Aside from colds, attacks of a February 11-13. Minneapolis. 1ge she had been warned against trasted with that of well-turned­ (Continued from page 2) mild virus, and the arthritic aches February H, Iowa City. e by this same curate because I out seminarians. now he wondered what to do with and pains which some of aur fam­ February 15-16, Omaha. ras a communist attempting to J ~an hear Chesterton' roar: It. Giving money to organizations ily suffer from and which seem to February 17-18, Kansas CftJ'. ke over parish organizations." "What is worth doing, is worth only perpetuated bureaucrats he get worse in bad weather, our February 19-22, St. Louis. tis Intelligence was based entire- doing badly." Here we have a knew. I suggested that he put it farm family has continued In rea­ February 23-2f. Denver. upon my behavior during the situation where the amateur is des­ in a safety depoeit box without sonably good health. Albert Check, Februaq 25-26. Cheyenne. ~sode I described. perately needed. Professional fas­ drawing any interest, and give it who spent so many weeks in the Februaq 27 to March 1, WlnnJpe.. I am not defending my tactics at tidlousness Is of as much use In out slowly bit by bit as wisdom hospital, is now home at the farm, March 2-6, Saskatoon. at time. I was immature, wordy, lay apostolicity as in the abandon­ :1;bould tell him how to get rid of and-thanks in great part to Jean March 7-12, Doukhobora iash, and at variance with a ing of a sinking ship. Are we not It. A few sights before I spoke to Walsh's care and good nursing­ March 13, Spokane. ~ical opinion. But isn't im- preventing the period of trial by • group of young people at the is much lmpr-0ved. March H-16, Anaconda; aturity a necessary prelude to forbidding a -period of error? Unitarian church in Brooklyn and To many adults there ls a cer· March 17, Salt Lake Cfb'. 1turity? Isn't wordiness an ex- The alleged complacency of the "iad a very Interesting discussion led beginning to articulate- laity is to a great extent the out­ with them. I also spoke to the s? Isn't brashness an almost in- ward appearance of a people over­ Newman Club at Brooklyn Poly­ (Quarterly) :table accompaniment to the whelmed by a sense of utter in­ technic. I had been there four PAX }JULLETIN rcoming of hyness? Isn't a adequacy. The role they find bard­ years before. There being no Sponsora of PAX Include DONALD ATIWATD, MICHAEL DE . LA riance with clerical opinion a est to imagine themselves in ls speaker on the night-of the 16th IEDOYERE. PAMELA FRANKAU, Do111 BEDE GRIFFITHS, O.S.I., CHRIS· ger whenever a layman begins that of apostles. Yet a few try it. at our place I told of how I be­ TOPHER HOLLIS, COMPTON MACKENZIE, ARCHBISHOP IOIEITS, think for himself? The rest of the parish sits back came acquainted with the CW. I S.J., Ytlf"/ Rn. HENRY ST. JOHN, O.P., Fr. F. STRATMANN, O.P. ~ake another example, of a and occasionally shouts advice. have four meetings around Balti­ CURRENT ISSUE s µ-istian Famlly meeting I at- Ideally lay apostolicity involves more when _I leave here Jan. 2, bded a few years ago. We had many things: the traditional vir- and three Jn Washington, D.C. and THE MORALITY OF THE - NATO DETEIRENT POLICY !from the Cler9f ouraged a young mother to tues, the art of human relati(>ns, then westward. I am glad that lnlewl-Rn. Dr. L.L. McReovy ime who felt that "only priests in addition to numerous sciences my friend Udall was appointed COMMENTS by Conon F. H. Drinkwater and Keltll Mltcllell uld talk about religion." Dur- and techniques. All this must be Secretary of the Interior and I SPODE HOUSE CONFERENCE and ANNUAL 4HNUAL MEEllNG g the proceedings this bashful acknowledged. Sanctity and com­ hope that it means justice for the Reports IU.ng lady_ offered a comment. petence are the ultimate goal and, Indians at last. Those who wish to e described how she bad at- in a certain sense, a re.al Cat'.hoUc learn of the time and place of my THE "SKIP-A-MEAL" PLAN ...... ~. LmERs TO THI EDITOR pted to encourage a neighbor Action will not exist until they are meetings as listed elsewhere can IS NUCLEAR WAR JUSTIFJAILE7 . . •••••••••• IOOK REVIEWS, etc. th some kind, Christian words, achieved. But they c;m only come write to the CW and I will tell $1,00 a year fro111 Hon. Secretary of PAX, 37 Nortllla11t, L~adoa, N. 12 r hesitant description of the in;- as a result of experience. them. · ·' ·

"' .. I ,. THE CATHOLIC WORKER January, 1961 ask of you and your fellow workers which w111 require the expenditure Letters From Two Families of time and effort, like Thoreau I Help Needed believe "every writer should give Resurrection Farm garage which anyone interested In an account, simple and 1lncere, of Apartado 218 • as they themselve1 feared the AD­ November 6, 1960 community life on the land could his own life." However, since an Rio Amazonu dean natives. 80 one ftnds hardly Dear Ammon, have, or come build here, there is account of how every man and Iquitos, Peru any cultural relationship betweell After ten years of discussing the plenty of land for a few more. woman arrives at the "moment of 8.A.. the two peoples. possibilities of life on the land, Life has been nmch more satisfy­ truth" and the ftnal fork in the Dear Friend, About four hundred mllea of we finally made the big move the ing here in the country and also road does not matter so much as Greetings from the Amazon! waterways In the heart of the Peru• first of June. We are located in the mor.e of a challenge to ourselves the fact that they do arrive, there­ Year round heat and high humidity vlan Jungle give the setting to the middle of 200 acres of marginal and the children. fore, I will let you off with a few in the jungle ls something of a Mission of Tamshlyacu. A total hill land, ¥.! mile off a hard sur­ Love 1n Christ, sentences. I am a "cradle Catho­ polar change from the dry cold of population between ftfteen and faced road. About half the farm Pat & Mary Murray lic"; at sixteen I worked as a Rivet the high Andes. · It's another mar· twenty thousand live in eighteen ls in cut over timber and the re­ New Address: R.D. #7, Box 14 Catcher Jn Todd's Shipyard in vel of Providence, the facility with villages. The Amazon people are mainder crop land and pasture. Chillicothe, . Ohio Brooklyn during summer vacations which the human body accommo­ very poor, ignorant, and suffer Expl red the possibility of sheep from high school, at 26 I sat in an dates itself to climatic extremes from many diseases and the drudg­ raising but were dlscouraged 1n My small family and I have been Air Force Control Tower some­ and a complete change of food; ery of eking out a living in the this venture by the County 'Agent, r ceiving The Catholic Worker where Jn the South Paclftc ~lands; while the animal kingdom, suffer­ jungle. At the same time I ftnd who warned us of the great loss for over a year now and have man­ at 36 I was a newspaper reporter ing the same, weakens and dies. them very clean, receptive and of sheep In this area from packs aged one visit to Spring St. There 'and later a Public Relations Direc­ The Andean Province of Huaro­ lovable. of stray dogs. We have decided we met Ammon and a man named, tor for the local County Demo­ chiri, my ftrst ml&11lon, was elven Peter Maurln's doctrine, "Grow that · the best use we could make Jack, both of whom made our visit cratic Committee; at present I am over with other territories to the what you .eat and eat what you of our land would be to attempt thoroughly enjoyable. From friends 43, a free·lance writer (unsuccess­ spiritual administration of "Opus grow," never could be for the to raise beef cattle. This, of course, and at the library I am able to ful), rich in the sense that I have Del." a S11anl11h . Society. With jungle. Only a thin crust of good can not be undertaken until read, or to peruse, 25 periodicals earth covers the clay, limiting put our fences in order. .a month, among them America, fanning almost exclusively to the We have acquired. two milk cows, Commonweal, and others, I can cultivation of yucca and tropical which give us a super abundance of truthfully say that the only maga­ fruit trees. And the few vegetable milk, cream and butter, which with zine in which I read every word is plants that would grow are stripped 8 children ls a luxury we never yours. , by ants before they even flower. before enjoyed. Have a little bull Your column and the excellence People eat hardly more than yucca · calf that we will butcher next fall of the October issue ls responsible root, rice and bolled green ba­ and two heifer calves. The children for this letter. The debates and nanas. Almost everyone is serious.­ have developed a fondness for the Rethinking CW Positions I found ly anemic, death.I are frequent. animals which we feel is quite sur­ absorbing; the issue was the best Though government and mis­ prising for children ralsed in the I have read to date because of the sioners work hard to maintain free city. Chores are divided among the amount of material devoted to the elementary · schools illiteracy is older children with Joe and Pat Back to the Land movement. You still high. Education's worst enemy doing the milking and caring for st:e, I am a Johnny-Come-Lately to seems to be difficulties in transpor­ cows, calves and two pigs. Sue the whole concept of the Worker tation and poverty. When a child manages the chickens and Kathy, movement and the Green Revolu­ ta big enough to row a canoe to a her goat, Rachel. tion. Your editors and correspond­ school center, his father usually a house almost paid-for, and poor We were able to put in a garden ents are usually so steeped in what Archbishop Howard's kind permls­ needs him to help keep the creep­ in the fact that, like the man wnoae you called CW Positions, I fear slon I took a new mission last ing jungle ways from the farm. which yielded a plentiful supply of 21-room house '1 can see from my that a new subscriber like myself March, th• District of Tamshiyacu Three Canadian Lay Mjssion­ fresh vegetables during the sum­ window, we are both two jumps on reading his first few issues feels in the Vlcarlate of "San Jose del mer and from which we were able ahead of last September's bills and arles, two nurses and a school as though he has arrived in the Amazon.as." It's a long way from teacher, are here with me and work to preserve 400 quarts for the the Sheriff, but we owe the middle of an eight man, two-team, Huarochlri, but the people from tirelessly on the mission. After at­ winter months. Our farm ls badly October oil blll, overgrown In brush but yielded debate and is not sure which side ls the old mission write often. Two tending more than a hundred pa­ berries in large enough quantities, Pro or which side ls Con. In fact, Last night I reread the October young men. of the first graduating tients in the dispensary, making not only for our use but we were he does not know proposition or issue until three in the morning. class of Santa Cruz, the school you home visits, and teaching in the able to give a good many to our subject under debate but he knows U it were at all possible, I would helped me to keep going, are in tropical heat, they have to cook friends In town. We are badly in both sides contain friendly class­ be on a bus to Chicago in a month's the major seminary, four more of and wash more primitively than need of a root cellar, but could mates. time to answer Karl's appeal for that first group are in normal our grandparents did. a Worker on that farm, or farm-to­ school and two are in the National not complete that project this year. However, it does not take the We at the mission are grateful be, near South Bend. But I would Unlv~rsity. I feel very proud of Can see daily what Peter Maurin reader with little for your kind generosity in th• a common.sense have to leave the responsibility of them. meant when he said there was no long to catch on; it ls necessary past. We have no income to con­ selling the house to my wife. This · Now I am with a new people who unefilployment on the land. So 'though that back issues be saved tinue our work for Christ's poor I could not do and on sober re­ have a different way of life and many things to put ln order and for reference in order to get a and neglected other than your .flection and deep reflection I know other problems. Here the parish­ so little time to accomplish the clear picture of the CW movement personal charity. the time will not be ripe for some ioners are mestizo descendants of task. In order not to give the and its principles. Like a philoso­ time. What I need ls to learn as many jungle tribes who in history May God bless and keep you, impression that we are successful pher looking at the world of today much as possible about life on the were feared by the Incas as much Father Francis W. Kennard farmers, I am stlll employed full with one eye weeping and one eye land from the people who are time as a psychiatric nurse at the laughing I noted the part played trying it, or know how to proceed. ' local VA hospital. (in the debates you mentioned) This · is what I wish to ask of you by "Ammon alone" debating the We are still talking -about the and your fellow workers. I would Idea of community, but have never role of the "One Man Revolution." Encouragement be glad to hear from anyone who been able to interest anyone in On my team Ammon would be can tell an ex-Brooklyn boy how Dear Dorothy Day, is a small way of saying "thank this phase of the Catholic Worker. playing "way out in left field" but a man gets back to the land and you" for The Catholic Worker We We would enjoy hearing from then again the team could not /Your letter arrived in the midst a small farm. "Back to the land," are subscribers of less - than a other readers of the paper as to function without a leftfl.elder, could of a very joyful time for us. Our I say; but I have never been on year's duration now (ever since their ideas on the subject. Have it. • 1 the la9d. Can it be done? Surely, eleven-and-a-half-month-old Heidi­ Father Boyle conducted his inter­ a 3 room apartment over the Since I have a large favor to I can buy a piece of land upstate Marie has a little brother, Mark view with you on KPFA) and ln and a small house, but what then. Anthony Leo, as of October 3. every issue we have discovered I ho•pe I have not taken up too new truths and new reasons to at­ Having been so richly blessed we tempt in every way to live as much of your time and hoping to should like to Share our joy and The·Whalens hear from you, and I plan to visit Christ taught us. We are far from blessings with you. The enclosed approaching a true humility and RFD an effect these could have, and the Staten Island farm one of these days. check is not so large as we should far from having the courage to re­ Ontario, New York how real Blessed Martin could ject the materialism which still November 7, 1960 become. Yours in Christ like to make it, but we hope that C.J.Q. it will help you in your work. It permeates our lives, but we are Dear Miss Day, The Whalens devote nine months trying. of the year to their own support Do you remember Dan and Marg We have both taken part in as Whalen? They are from East Avon through a small business they many demonstrations for peace and and have been members of the have. The simplicity of their life disarmament as we could, and be­ Rochester group for a long time. makes possible the Mexican trip, Letter From Africa sides working on the Marin Com­ but for their materials they have Their real work, however~ is a kind St. Benedicts Seminary of the ' drawer and are seldom if mittee for the Abolition of the of outgrowth of this. Namupa, Box 6, Lindt - ever used. · _ Death Penalty have joined· the Each year they go to Mexico T.ananyika, E. Africa All sizes are welcome. We have Friends in their vigils at San from Christmas to Easter and each December, 8, 1960 boys !rom 12 to 21 in our seminary Quentin (about five minutes from year find themselves more com­ -tiny tots and tall ones too. our home) before each execution. pletely given to apostolic work. Dear Dorothy, If any of your good readers care Before we started to receive the Last year, for example, they en­ About a year ago you very kindly to send a parcel they should be CW, we had very little social con­ abled twenty-one children to make published an appeal for books for sure to write on the parcel "Used science or concern indeed. And their first Comm¥ion, handling me. The response has been -most Shirts-Not for Resale-For Use of as I say, we have a long way to the instruction and preparation gratifying. Today we have almost Mission." Otherwise we may have go. But we do owe you a good deal completely. They also gave classes 2,000 books in our library. to pay duty-two shillings (thirty for having brought about what lit- in art, knitting and English for But to vary th.e Scriptural quo­ cents) per shirt. I would ask too tle awareness there ls now. Cer­ forty adults. They gave a scholar­ tation-"not by books alone does that no one sepd new shirts-be­ tainly in relation to Catholicism ship to an eighteen year old boy to depend on their friends. There man live." This time I am appeal· cause they would certainly be you have helped us crystallize why at the Marist Brothers School and are a few who send them donations ing for- used Tee shirts and sleeve­ taxed. such awareness is necessary. We distributed bread to the poor. for yarn and paint and paper but less track or basketball shirts for The Catholic Worker comes reg­ must admit tilat KPF A had already Dan and Marg's efforts are aimed especially for their scholarship. my 210 youngsters. We give each ularly and as I said before it is the awakened some interests · in us at teaching tile life of Blessed This is the prize at the end of boy two white shirts and two pair best spiritual reading yet. It is with their stimulating and non­ Martin de Porres, first by imitating their stay to their best student. - of khaki shorts-their total ward­ always so refreshing to read it­ commercially influenced programs it themselves and by sharing it Do you think that any of the robe. Our African seminarians go especially "On Pilgrimage" and "In of discussion and public affairs. It with those whom they teach. They readers of the paper would be barefooted. But they must wear the Market Place.'' I am sure God was important to us that we could ha11e a few rules which the chil- interested in this specific charity the shirts during work and recrea­ 1s very pleased with your work­ see all this in relation to Christ, . dren must follow to belong to St. in honor of Blessed Martin? The tion too-and it is rather hard on and your ideas. and that fs. the part the CW has Martin's Society. Here are three address ls the shirts. A Merry Christmas to you and helped us with admirably. We hope / of the most stimulating: 1. Per­ DAN AND MARG WHALEN It occurred to me that the aver­ all. Please remember us in your we can succeed in passing on what form an act of charity AT HOME EAST A VON, NEW YORK age young man probably has a good prayers. We need things-but we we have learned to our children. each day. 2. Give an alms to a Their mail is forwarded to them in number of 0Tee shirts and ls always need everyone's prayers much God bless you and help you in beggar each day. 3. Perform an Mexico. getting more. Those that are a bit more. His work. act of charity for an animal each Ever gratefully, shabby or without their original Sincerely in Our Lord, Gratefully, day. You ·can readily imagine what Jim Connor lustre are usually put in the bottom Father Anthony, O.S.B. Bob and Paula White