Today’s One-Liner (#197)
To pray the psalms with even half a heart was to be comforted and discomfited, set in motion, set in stillness, set free, set on edge, led outside, led within. –Daniel Berrigan, Uncommon Prayer: A…
Category: Activists
What Makes Man Human: An Easy Essay by Peter Maurin
1. To give and not to takethat is what makes man human. 2. To serve and not to rulethat is what makes man human. 3. To help and not to crushthat is what makes man…
Today’s One-Liner (#186)
The “right side of history” is not in the madness of crowds, it’s in the clarity of solitude. –Elica Le Bon, X, 6.27.2025
Today’s One-Liner (#173)
In some radical circles the vehemence of one’s feelings against the hierarchy is taken as an index of genuine Christianity. –James Hitchcock, The Decline and Fall of Radical Catholicism, 1971
Each and Every
Therefore we take joy in all the living, the unborn, the rejected and despised, those declared expendable, the aged (so often also unwanted). We welcome them all! We rejoice in each and every one! –Daniel…
Working Through…
The next step in the process is for you to see that your even thinking about what you are doing is crucially important. You are probably striving to build yourself an identity in your work,…
Today’s One-Liner (#151)
My heroes showed me a source for strength far greater than myself.
Lessons from a Catholic Activist
Learn to Pivot Love the Ones You’re Given Embrace Mercy Learn to Grieve Find Your Heart Celebrate Life Unconditionally Beware of False Compassion Begin Anew –Lila Rose, Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change…
Life in the United States of Amnesia
So we plod along, more or less in the dark, more or less humiliated by the dreary quality of our prayer, our worship by turns inane and trivial, our sense of the holy vitiated, distracted,…
A Jesuit’s Advice
Part of the trouble is that so few who walked out landed anywhere. Frying pan to fire; they left the church and the culture swallowed them whole. It seems better, as a rule, to hang…