Love in practice is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
Nice T&G article about Catholic Worker and Pie & Coffee contributor Scott Schaeffer-Duffy’s love affair with running:
He vividly remembers the date — Feb. 11, 2009 — when his mission to fitness began. That April, he ran in the Jay Lyons Memorial 5K and finished in a most-respectable 31 minutes, for a first-timer among the 50-59s. He was in the process of dropping 48 pounds from his 6-foot frame, yet he was now driven to drop his times considerably as well.
A new issue of The Catholic Radical, the oldest continuously-published progressive paper in Worcester, is online (PDF).
Topics include ROTC at Holy Cross, technology, the death of Michael Webster, Obama and militarism, the death of Robert Talib Douglas, mercy, the rule of law, and homelessness in Worcester.
Catholic Workers are constantly being profiled, but you gotta love this article, from Richmond’s alt-weekly Style.
An awesome cover and solid writing:
BILL FRANKEL-STREIT and his wife, Sue, did not fight once during their first year of marriage, largely because the state of New York was holding them in separate prisons.
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On Wednesday, April 14, 2010, Ken Hannaford-Ricardi, Julia Skjerli, and Scott Schaeffer-Duffy of the Saints Francis & Therese Catholic Worker in Worcester, Massachusetts went to the Boston Common where a Tea Party rally addressed by Sarah Palin was held. At the edge of a crowd of about 4,000 Tea Party supporters, the Catholic Workers held signs and distributed almost 500 leaflets. Ken held a sign which read, “A Tea Party the US Needs Now.†It depicted colonists throwing boxes labeled “WAR†into Boston Harbor. Julia held a sign which read, “Cut Government Spending, End the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Now.†Scott wore a tri-corner hat and colonial garb. He rang a bell and quoted James Madison and Patrick Henry on the evils of a standing army.
Their leaflet is reprinted below:
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The latest issue of the Catholic Radical, Worcester’s oldest progressive paper and the newsletter of the SS. Francis & Therese Catholic Worker community, is now online as a PDF.
Good articles on anarchism, conscientious objectors, and the Belgian Congo.
Nice profile in today’s New York Times of Fr Carl Kabat, OMI, a Catholic priest with longstanding ties to both the Plowshares and Catholic Worker movements:
At 75 he continues his crusade against nuclear weapons at missile silos across the United States, armed with a hammer and a pair of bolt cutters. He usually wears a clown suit, in homage, he says, to St. Paul’s words: “We are fools for Christ’s sake.â€
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Subsequent protests led to Father Kabat’s spending more time in prison than out, raising questions about the effectiveness of his approach.
Liz McAlister, who married Philip Berrigan, has an answer. “We live in a culture where we want to measure everything to know how successful things are,†Ms. McAlister said. “It’s beautiful to see people who don’t spend time wondering and worrying about that and are willing to do what they think is right regardless of the consequences.â€
Photo: Carl Kabat at the 2008 Catholic Worker National Gathering in Worcester.
From mass at the Mustard Seed Catholic Worker, Worcester.