Fr. Baxter is a professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame and a Catholic Worker. In 1917, Senator Hiram Johnson said that “the first casualty when war comes is truth.” Given that the attacks last week on New York and Washington have been widely described as acts of war, and seem to have… continue reading
After September 11, 2001: What Should We, as Catholics, Do? Patriotism and Pacifism
November 1, 2001 by
A Homily on the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross, Three Days after September 11, 2001
November 1, 2001 by
Numbers 21: 4-9 Psalm 78: 1-2, 34-35, 36-37, 38. Philippians 2:6-11 John 3:13-17 With their patience worn out, the people complained against God. Why have you brought us to this desert? Why do you give us this food, this drink? We are disgusted at this wretched food and drink. Why have you allowed this… continue reading
Call to Prayer: Reflections on September 11, 2001
November 1, 2001 by
Tom Cornell, Catholic Worker and Catholic deacon, writes from Peter Maurin Farm, Marlboro, New York. The following is a talk he gave at Marlboro Presbyterian Church at a prayer service on September 13, 2001. The skies have been empty over our valley these days, except for birds, geese and hawks, and they strangely few, as… continue reading
Responding as Catholic Workers to the Violence at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001
November 1, 2001 by
The horrifying events of September 11, 2001, when suicide-mission pilots flew airplanes loaded with passengers into the two towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and another attempt against the U.S. was foiled by passengers, lead one to ask, after the tears have dried: Why do people hate us so much that they… continue reading
G.K. Chesterton and Dorothy Day on Economics:Neither Socialism nor Capitalism (Distributism)
October 1, 2001 by
The following is a talk given at the American Chesterton Society annual conference in St. Paul, Minnesota, in June 2001. Dorothy Day and G. K. Chesterton were contemporaries. Both came into Catholicism in the 1920’s, Chesterton in 1922 at age 48 and Dorothy five years later at age 30. Both spent years of reading, studying,… continue reading
Religion – Ally or Enemy of Change
August 1, 2001 by
Old-fashioned Marxists considered religion to be a major obstacle to social economic change, branding it as the opiate of the people. In a debate in the 70’s with a representative of the Communist Party in New York, I proposed the contrary. I claimed that the Marxist sense of revolution was shallow and that the Theistic… continue reading
John Paul II: Globalization Must Not Be a New Form of Colonialism
August 1, 2001 by
In recent months John Paul II has been critiquing the economics of globalization, raising serious ethical questions about the way it is implemented. It is almost as if he knew that some prominent Catholic writers, especially in the United States, were advocating in the name of the Church an economics based on using people as… continue reading
NO TO PLAN COLOMBIA: Land Reform Essential for Desperate Campesinos
June 1, 2001 by
Once again, the first casualty of war has been the truth. Over the last two years, lost somewhere between blaring media headlines of Elian and Napster, elections and the Oscars, miniature paragraphs and news bites on the escalating crisis of Colombia’s civil war have been vainly competing for the attention of a sensation-hungry, otherwise-occupied public…. continue reading
Madeleine Delbrel–a French Dorothy Day–writes We, the Ordinary People of the Streets
April 1, 2001 by
Review of Madeleine Delbrêl, We, the Ordinary People of the Streets (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2000). Last August during a catechesis delivered to French-speaking youth in Rome for World Youth Day, the president of the Jubilee Committee, Roger Cardinal Etchegaray, en-couraged young people to take up “the arduous battle of holiness” (le… continue reading
