Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.
Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.
All the work of the Campion Propaganda Committee, its study and its activities against extreme nationalism, against racial hatreds, against social injustice has its basis in an understanding of the liturgical movement and a participation in it.
I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.
Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
My radical associates were the ones who were in the forefront of the struggle for a better social order where there would not be so many poor.
We and the Communists have a common idea that something else is necessary, some other vision of society must be held up to be worked for.
The basis of the liturgical movement is prayer, the liturgical prayer of the church. It is a revolt against private, individual prayer.
Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.
I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.
Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy.
We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.
We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.
The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But we are destroying crops, setting fire to entire villages and to the people in them. We are not performing the works of mercy but the works of war.
We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.
The Liturgy, then, is common worship, concorporate worship, worship in one mind and with one heart, and with one mouth.
As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.
Our common action in the Sacrifice of the Mass, impersonal, anti-individualistic is the best weapon against the world.
Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.
If we do not keep indoctrinating, we lose the vision. And if we lose the vision, we become merely philanthropists, doling out palliatives.
Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
