CATHOLIC WORKER
lub1cription1 Yol. XXVII No. 6 January, 1961 ll5o Per Vear Price le ON PILGRJMAGE_ ED WILLOCK DIES By Dorothy Day 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 Boston 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 Catholic Worker movement 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, Chicago, 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 the age 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 Sacco and Vanzetti, 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 Icarians 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. 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 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 "' .. 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