I think you should consider doing a piece on Dorothy Day, the American Radical who founded the CATHOLIC WORKER Movement -- and maybe even consider putting her on your wall of heroes. (She'd probably be MORE radical than several of your choices.) That the Pope chose her and Thomas Merton as the two American Catholics to mention in his speech to Congress may be one of the most significant parts of the speech -- and the fact that this did not cause an immediate walk-out by the conservative Republican Catholics in the House may simply show their youth and inexperience, which kept them from knowing who she is. (You may simply have missed the reference, or may have been too busy in your previous career to have read up on her.) ' But that the Pope chose someone who had many notable affairs before entering the convent, bucked the Church on everyone from Franco -- who she opposed when the Church was backing him -- to both Fidel Castro and Ho Chi Minh after the Church was in full opposition, opposed Cardinal Spellman -- the most powerful American Catholic of his day -- for his attempts to strike-break a gravedigger's strike against the Church, was called, by Abbie Hoffman, 'the original hippie' and who had no death-bed retractions or regrets for her life-long struggle for unions and workers and the poor -- oh, and who had at least one abortion -- says as much about this current Pope as any other thing he did in Washington. ' I haven't checked his New York appearance yet, but I wouldn't at all be surprised if, in his mention of 9/11 he praised the Police Chaplain Mykal Judge (sp?) who was beloved, a true hero -- and also is now known to be gay. ' It's been over 50 years since I've been a Catholic -- and became an atheist first, before I left the Church, not in revulsion but because, while I admired many of their teachings -- except the sexual ones -- I simply could not accept the existence of a god. But my last experiences -- and mostly good ones -- were with my Jesuit High School teachers, and because I know something about Jesuits, Pope Francis doesn't surprise me at all. (And, btw, 'Francis' may refer to Francis of Assisi, Francis Xavier was the second in command to Ignatius Loyola when the order was founded.
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I think you should consider doing a piece on Dorothy Day, the American Radical who founded the CATHOLIC WORKER Movement -- and maybe even consider putting her on your wall of heroes. (She'd probably be MORE radical than several of your choices.) That the Pope chose her and Thomas Merton as the two American Catholics to mention in his speech to Congress may be one of the most significant parts of the speech -- and the fact that this did not cause an immediate walk-out by the conservative Republican Catholics in the House may simply show their youth and inexperience, which kept them from knowing who she is. (You may simply have missed the reference, or may have been too busy in your previous career to have read up on her.)
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But that the Pope chose someone who had many notable affairs before entering the convent, bucked the Church on everyone from Franco -- who she opposed when the Church was backing him -- to both Fidel Castro and Ho Chi Minh after the Church was in full opposition, opposed Cardinal Spellman -- the most powerful American Catholic of his day -- for his attempts to strike-break a gravedigger's strike against the Church, was called, by Abbie Hoffman, 'the original hippie' and who had no death-bed retractions or regrets for her life-long struggle for unions and workers and the poor -- oh, and who had at least one abortion -- says as much about this current Pope as any other thing he did in Washington.
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I haven't checked his New York appearance yet, but I wouldn't at all be surprised if, in his mention of 9/11 he praised the Police Chaplain Mykal Judge (sp?) who was beloved, a true hero -- and also is now known to be gay.
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It's been over 50 years since I've been a Catholic -- and became an atheist first, before I left the Church, not in revulsion but because, while I admired many of their teachings -- except the sexual ones -- I simply could not accept the existence of a god. But my last experiences -- and mostly good ones -- were with my Jesuit High School teachers, and because I know something about Jesuits, Pope Francis doesn't surprise me at all. (And, btw, 'Francis' may refer to Francis of Assisi, Francis Xavier was the second in command to Ignatius Loyola when the order was founded.