Category: Activists

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,…

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…

Today’s One-Liner (#135)

The dire state of the Palestinian movement today suggests that there is an inverse relationship between the use of terror and the achievement of freedom. –Susie Linfield, The Return of the Progressive Atrocity

Today’s One-Liner (#129)

My idea in my story telling is to make Jews better Jews, and Christians better Christians, and in general, if possible at all, make man a little bit warmer, so he will not feel crushed…