"Your co-worker in Christ's Kingdom." (1877-1949) Co-founder with Dorothy Day of the Catholic Worker movement. All tweets are quotes, most from his Easy Essays.
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Charles Peguy used to say
"There are two things in this world,
politics and mysticism."
Politics is the struggle for power
while mysticism is the realism of the spirit.
Politics is...not worth bothering about
and mysticism is...worth all our striving.
Many people say that we cannot go back,
but I say neither can we go ahead,
for we are parked in a blind alley.
And when people are parked in a blind alley
the only thing to do is to go back.
When man is separated from his environment he becomes academic.
When man can think while he is in contact with his environment he becomes dynamic.
"A crisis of collapse is an economic crisis plus a psychological crisis."
We seem to have come to a crisis of collapse.
But we don't need to wait till capitalism has collapsed to lay the foundations of the new society.
We can create a new society within the shell of the old...
The world would be better off
if people tried to become better.
And people would become better
if they stopped trying to become better off.
I was discussing in Harlem with a Russian Red and an Irish Red. ...Having understood what I was saying, the Russian Red started to explain to his friend, the Irish Red... When the Russian Red had finished explaining, the Irish Red turned toward me and said that while he...
If it is true, as business men say,
that you can do nothing with human nature,
then we need fewer priests and more policemen.
But if God the Father sent His own begotten Son to redeem men,
then we need more priests and fewer policemen.
It is not true that the end justifies the means.
Good ends require right means.
To use wrong means to achieve good ends
is to forget the means for the sake of the ends.
Class struggle and proletarian dictatorship
are not the means to bring about a Communist society.
"I have lived in all the major dictatorships—Russia, Italy, Germany. My experience teaches me that democracy with all its faults is better than any of these.
In a capitalist society
where man is inhuman to man
people cannot keep from dreaming about a society
where man would be human to man.
Labor and prayer
ought to be combined;
labor ought to be a prayer.
The liturgy of the Church
is the prayer of the Church.
People ought to pray
with the Church
and to work
with the Church.
The religious life of the people
and the economic life of the people
ought to be one.
Easy conversation about things that matter would enable Catholics to understand Catholicism, to give an account of their faith, and to make non-Catholics curious about Catholicism.
This love was expressed through the daily practice of the Works of Mercy. To feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to shelter the homeless, to instruct the ignorant at a personal sacrifice was considered by the first Christians as the right thing to do.
In the Futilitarian States
everybody is told
“Mind your own business.”
In the Totalitarian States
everybody is told
“Do what we tell you
or out you go
to the Concentration Camp.”
The Pluralist State
does not try to solve the social problem
by passing laws or creating bureaus,
but by removing from the statute book
all the laws that hinder the activities
of the social movements
based on personal responsibility.