The following was sent to me by a friend. It is taken from an article that she offered for publication in her day, but was refused. No doubt, had the blogosphere existed then as now, we could have read it here. I offer it for your consideration in light of my most recent post. A Jew came into the office of The Catholic Worker the other day and sat around and read for a while. He nosed through Cahill’s Christian State and condemned it for its anti-Semitism. Then he looked at a missal for a while and hummed through some of the Gregorian plain chant. “I cannot,” he said, “be a Communist because I believe in God.” And he said it sadly because he believed that the Communists were nearer to social justice in their efforts to bring about a proletarian state than were the believers in God. When he left he took with him the apocryphal books of the Old Testament and the autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila. People have been calling the office of The Catholic Worker and asking us if we ha...
Reflections from the pastoral ministry of an Evangelical Catholic Priest.