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He [Peter Maurin] was full of patience, ready to look at me now: not as a Catherine of Siena, already enlightened by the Holy Spirit, but as an ex-Socialist, ex-IWW, ex-Communist, in whom he might find some concordance, some basis on which to build. But unions and strikes and the fight for better wages would remain my immediate concern. As St. Augustine said, "The bottle will still smell of the liquor it once held."
— Mar 20, 2017 07:52AM
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Evelyn Waugh does not recognize the anarchist-pacifist Catholic Worker as anything other than a movement that has to do with feeding people. And perhaps he is right.
— Mar 23, 2017 10:01AM
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It took me years to appreciate the Little Flower. I much preferred then to read about spectacular saints who were impossible to imitate. The message of Therese was too obviously meant for each one of us, confronting us with daily duties, simple and small, but constant.
— Mar 22, 2017 11:19AM
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Charity is only as warm as those who administer it.
— Mar 21, 2017 07:59AM

