The Catholic Communizer Dorothy Day.

Vic Biorseth, Friday, December 2, 2011
https://www.catholicamericanthinker.com

The Catholic Communizer Dorothy Day’s life work involved Marxist Community Organizing for future revolution, both in American culture and in Catholic culture, from within America and from within Catholicism.

The mental image of a thoroughly Communist Dorothy Day, who remained committed to Marxist notions of the overthrow of government, might be shocking to a lot of Catholics. But even after her conversion to Catholicism, she maintained her Communist and anarchist views, promoted them, and brought them into the Church Christ founded.

This is all based on a new book I just read; The Catholic Worker Movement (1933-1980) A Critical Analysis, by Dr. Carol Byrne; I recommend it highly, and I have added it to the Reference Material for this website.

While reading this book I had an epiphany regarding a question I have wrestled with before, which is the question of whether Marxism and its utopian ideal is predominantly evil, or predominantly stupid. This was addressed most recently in Evil and Nonsense page back in October. I had then felt that the leaders of Marxist movements – Lenin, Mao, Fidel, etc., and Marx himself – were infected with evil genius, and that only their useful idiot underlings suffered from varying degrees of sheer stupidity, blended with and/or manipulated by evil genius.

But what Dr. Byrne’s book showed me is that the leaders and instigators of Communist revolution of societies could be just plain stupid, even as they are seen to be somehow brilliant, by themselves and by others. This made me go back and re-read some other authors, to see if Lenin himself didn’t do the same things, although on a different scale, than Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin did, repeatedly – failure after failure after failure.

Another sort of epiphany brought to me by this book involves the relationship between Communism and Anarchy, which I had not correctly understood before reading it. Communism as defined by Marx is a hare-brained socio-economic system that cannot possibly work, does not exist, has never existed and is quite impossible. When brought into existence, it cannot possibly survive in the form described by Marx for very long. It must transform into something else, lest all members either starve to death or turn into cannibals.

But I had thought that anarchy is something else – only after reading this book did I understand that anarchy is, in fact, the state of Marx’s Communism. It is a stateless, classless, government-less, law-less, hierarchy-less, private-property-less, authority-less collectivist socio-economic order, based on the commune and communal living. The difference between an anarchist and a would-be Communist is that the anarchist wants the state of Communism right now, and the would-be Communist wants to move through stages of Socialism to eventually arrive at Communism.

My previous understanding of anarchy was of a black flag, and the motto Rape, Pillage, Plunder and Burn. Might makes right. The biggest bully or the most powerful gang rules the community. Simple barbarism, and barbaric rule. Open, outright, lawless piracy.

But what the anarchists associated with Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, and what indeed Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin themselves sought to accomplish was to move their Catholic Worker Movement communal cells right straight into the state of Communism (or anarchy) without benefit of Marx’s intervening evolutionary stepping stone of Socialism – the so-called Dictatorship of the Proletariat – which was supposed to “perfect” mankind by changing his nature and remaking him into a new image of non-authoritarian man ready to accept living peacefully as a happy worker in the Communist state.

My previous vision of anarchy, i.e., utter barbarity, is what the “commune,” unless it is bailed-out by some authority, must ultimately descend into when it economically fails – and they always, always, economically fail.

Permit me to continue this digression from the Catholic Communizers Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin to address my stupidity epiphany, because I think the utter stupidity of Marxism really needs to be addressed at every opportunity. The Evil and Nonsense page may not have been enough.

A long time ago I saw a movie about the life of Woody Guthrie, the famous folk singer who became famous as the Troubadour of the Dust Bowl. I don’t remember the name of the movie, or the names of the actors, or much about it, except one small scene that somehow stuck in my memory. Woody Guthrie had known and witnessed hardship and poverty. In this scene, Woody was invited into a sumptuous home, and was gazing at all the finery while being entertained by his hostess, a lovely young lady who lived in this seeming luxury. And he was moved to ask his hostess “Don’t you feel guilty?”

This, and this alone, is what stuck in my memory about this whole movie. Woody Guthrie had been convinced of the truth of the Property Is Theft Marxist stupidity that we spoke of in the Fatal False Premises page. He actually, truthfully believed that the simple fact that this young lady lived in a nice house with nice furnishings actually caused someone somewhere to be in poverty. And he believed it so fervently that he caused her to begin to believe it, and to feel guilty about it.

This is not just an isolated instance; this feeling, this emotion, this stupidity, is all around us. The super-rich, uber-bourgeois Beatles put this stupidity to music, when they sang “Imagine no possessions – I wonder if you can.” Yet, most of us probably could not imagine any filthy rich Beatle without any possessions, and in all probability, neither could they. They’re not even smart enough to recognize the open hypocrisy in their own lyrics, and neither are most of their fans.

Again, property is not theft; property is merely property. Violation of the right to private property is theft. So someone who owns something – say, a pair of socks – may not properly be called a thief merely because he has and holds personal property.

In the Refuting Marx page we exposed the open fraud of Marx’s whole Communist Manifesto for what it was. The whole goal was and is the ascendancy to dictatorship, pure and simple. Everything else is a flat out fraud, designed to recruit useful idiots who would sympathize, at least, and contribute to, and at best, actively participate in eventual violent overthrow of the existing regime.

For the purposes of this great fraud, Marx created many straw villains for his useful idiots to concentrate their attention on while they were being mesmerized into his political camp. The too biggees were the bourgeois class and the proletarian class, but there were many others. The bourgeois are supposed to be the holders of Capital and the means of production, and the proletariat are supposed to be the “wage slaves” stuck in perpetuity to a meaningless existence of work and poverty.

But here’s the thing: It’s all a Marxist fairy tale. The rigid class structures Marx described have not existed in Western civilization since feudal times. There are no such classes.

• There is no such thing as a bourgeois class.
• There is no such thing as a proletarian class.
• There is no such thing as a “wage slave.”
• There is no such thing as “Property is Theft.”
• There is no such thing as a “system of greed.”
• There is no such thing as a man-made system called Capitalism.
• Workers are not “exploited” by mere fact of being employed.
• Marxist “equality” can only exist at the expense of all liberty.
• Violating property rights is a violation of the Commandment to not steal.
• Promoting class warfare is a violation of the Commandment to not covet.

The Marxist fairy tale gets the useful idiots all up in arms and tilting at windmills. The thing Marxism rails against the most, and seeks to destroy, isn’t even a controllable man-made system – Capitalism is a natural thing – Capitalism just happens. It comes into being when men are free and enjoy liberty. Any attempt to control it destroys it. Wage controls, price controls, interest controls, controls on labor, controls on capital, controls on property, controls on fuel, controls on resources – any controls – destroy the natural workings of the natural Capitalist system. If it is not free of controls, if it is not natural, then it is not any longer Capitalism.

Capitalism equals a free market.

All you have to do is look at the number and size of all of the American bureaucracies, every single one of which controls some part of the economy, to see that we are most certainly not a Capitalist nation. Every single small part of the remaining “free” market is under bureaucratic and political attack. That is why we are in economic decline. We are no longer Capitalist. The market is no longer free.

If you look at the public rantings of America’s best known Marxists, all of whom seem to be super-rich uber-bourgeois Democrats, you will see that they all are always pushing some part of Marx’s idiotic fairy tale. Whenever you hear them, just change the word “rich” to “bourgeois” and change the word “poor” to “proletariat” and you will see that they are all talking right down the Communist Party Line. What they are purposely aiming us at is dictatorship. What I have a hard time believing is that there are so many American voters stupid enough to vote for them. But here we are.

Here’s an example of Democrat talking points using Marx’s class-warfare words.

In Marxist-Democrat Party lingo, there is no such thing as a mere tax cut. There are only tax cuts for the bourgeois class. And in their lingo, conservatives, the dirty rotten exploiters that they are, are always insensitive to the plight of the proletarian class. Pay no attention to the fact that these classes do not exist. Pay no attention to the fact that the only existing rigid social classes in America are the ones either invented or co-opted, and then fed and controlled by the Marxists. I mean Democrats.

We have the Homo-Nazi Movement.
We have the Femi-Nazi Movement.
We have the eco-nazi Movement.
I will have to do another page called the Racial Nazi Movement Racial Nazi Movement and put a link to it right here.
We have the Professional Liars (Journalists) Movement.
We have the SLIMC¹ .
And of course we have the Democrat Party.

Every one of these politically invented or co-opted “movements” or “fronts” is another purported “class” of so-called disenfranchised or somehow exploited victims, herded into a larger group, be it a Rainbow Coalition or whatever, to try to form a majority voting block out of multiple minorities. The goal of the Communist Community Organizer, like that of the Communist Labor Union Organizer, is to contribute to building a larger United Front against the existing regime, and to destabilize society.

Getting back to Catholic-Communizer-Dorothy-Day and her partner-in-crime Peter Maurin, they seem to have swallowed every bit of Marx’s supreme fairy tale, hook, line, sinker, rod, reel, fisherman, boat, motor, oars and anchor. I’ll bet you heard that Dorothy Day dropped her Communism after she converted to Catholicism. So did I. But Dr. Byrne’s The Catholic Worker Movement says otherwise, and this book is just too well researched, foot-noted and cross-referenced to just write off as alarmist or ignore. I looked up a bunch of the references and they were all accurate. Dorothy Day was a proactive Communist agitator and organizer throughout her career, long after her “conversion” to Catholicism.

Her goal, and that of Maurin, was to contribute to the eventual overthrow of the American government, and to the eventual overthrow of the Catholic Church hierarchy. I remember reading Dorothy Day’s periodical, The Catholic Worker, as a youngster way back in the 1950s, and I remember the uneasy feeling that this stuff was Communist. I still remember trying to understand how it could be both Communist and Catholic. As it turns out, my gut feeling was right, because by the 1970s the FBI dossier on the Catholic Worker Movement was some 581 pages long.

The list of Communist revolutionaries, anarchists and anti-Americans closely associated with Dorothy Day would rival even the list of Obama supporters, associates and friends. That is to say, in both cases, just about all of them. Dorothy Day’s list even included the Communist Party’s candidates for President and Vice President. It reads like a Who’s Who of the extreme radical Left. She was a Community Organizer, just like Obama, and she never stopped her grass roots Communist organizing.

The amorality of Marxism always draws the dregs of society to itself; from the worst of the lawless lowlifes to organized crime families. Dorothy Day was equally positively disposed toward and supportive of the mobster Jimmy Hoffa as she was the rabid revolutionary Saul Alinsky.

Like Walter Cronkite and so many others of his era, the Catholic Communizer Dorothy Day was an anti anti-Communist. This, if you parse the words carefully, is to say that she was a Communist. (Who else would be opposed to being opposed to the international Communist revolution?) It was her mission to oppose the anti-Communist sentiment, and the anti-Communist hearings in Washington, and to berate and ridicule those who opposed the Communist Revolution, while pretending that there was no such thing as a Communist Revolution, and that Communism was just another harmless political viewpoint. The fact remains, however, that wherever Communism does not rule, the strategic goal of Communism is, precisely, Revolution.

She wrote in the Catholic Worker “We are un-American, we are Catholics,” implying the existence of a Catholic duty to oppose America, to oppose Capitalism and to oppose the anti-Communist sentiment. Even the mere implication of this Catholic duty is a flagrant categorical lie. Dorothy Day was a MEJTML¹⁴ .

Dorothy Day’s Catholic Worker Movement (CWM) may have been the originating source of the perversion of Catholic Social Justice in the minds and hearts of many professed Catholics, both lay and cleric.

It perverted Distributionism from anti-trust, anti-monopoly sentiments toward Communist Redistributionism.

It perverted Solidarity from committing oneself to the Common Good, to committing oneself to Opposing Capitalism.

It perverted the sense of holiness and grace to the arrogant belief that one can only gain holiness through self-imposed worker-poverty, gainby renouncing the world and entering a CWM or CWM-like Commune, for life.

The CWM encouraged, supported and incorporated into itself Liberation Theology and Feminist Theology. Within the CWM the term Social Justice came to mean everything and anything that would or could be used to promote their anti-Capitalist Revolution, which is the one thing that the CWM was really all about.

Communizer Day on Catholicism.

Dorothy Day was quite a writer and quite a speaker, and in her written and spoken words she grossly miss-interpreted various Scripture passages to support the so-called Social Justice in her Communized version of Catholicism. Dorothy Day identified herself and her “Catholic” movement with the Old Testament Prophets who challenged the rulers of their time and called them to Justice, and who were persecuted for this. She was the modern Prophetess, and the Church and the State were persecuting her for her new prophesies. Note well that none of the real Prophets called for any revolution, or for the abolition of private property, or for the abolition of any “class,” or for the abolition of any government, whether temporal or ecclesial.

Day joined, supported and openly promoted the Third Hour ecumenical group that celebrated a plurality of faiths under the idea of cosmic ecumenism in which people of all faiths might meet on common ground in a “stretching out of soul to God.” See? This is, of course, condemned as religious syncretism.

She presented as Catholic the distinctly un-Catholic Liberation Theology concept that anyone working with and especially living with the poor thereby encounters the Divine and achieves salvation. By becoming poor and joining with other poor you contribute to and participate in a sort of collective salvation. So, if that’s true and that's all there is to it, no more need for Church; no more need for Sacrament; no more need for anything else; just work with and move in with the poor. See?

Communizer Day and the Worker-Priest Movement.

If any national branch of the Catholic Church might go soft on viewing Communism as a menace to the Church and to civil society, it would likely be the Church in France. So it should come as no surprise that the Worker-Priest movement started in early 1940s Paris. This new movement involved itself with priests taking off all clerical garb, wearing working-man’s clothing, leaving their parishes and their supplied housing, taking up residence among the poor, getting non-clerical, non-religious jobs and working in the neighborhood.

No fooling.

Priests, dressed indistinguishably from anyone else, working in factories, shops, docks, driving taxi-cabs, trucks or whatever. Living in cheap flats or whatever poor housing was available and paying rent out of their wages. They were very involved with trade unions, which, of course, were very involved with Communism. In this movement, it was no longer the role of the priest to bring salvation to the poor, but to receive salvation from the poor. See?

The whole idea was to move out of the bourgeois comfort of clerical life, seek salvation through poverty, and get out from under the bourgeois authority of the Church hierarchy. It was a resurrection of the old anti-cleric sentiment from the French Revolution.

I would not be surprised if this movement is where the idea originated for members of various religious orders abandoning religious attire, no longer living in community, no longer living by any discernable rule for their order, moving out and becoming “one with the people.”

Of course, the Catholic Communizer Dorothy Day jumped on this just as soon as she learned of it, gave it support abroad, and helped it to spread to America and elsewhere. This sort of thing was right up her alley. These priests and their “movement” supported the CWM, and the CWM supported them.

Christian Communism and the Worker’s Utopia.

Dorothy Day believed that Communism could be “rehabilitated” and toned down by making it more voluntary and less violent, achieving utopian ideals via evolution rather than revolution, and therefore be made more acceptable to the Catholic Church. She titled this new view “Christian Communism.” The CWM’s movement toward voluntary communal living, what Maurin called his Green Revolution still maintained four basic Communistic rules:

1. Opposition to Bourgeois values of private property, private business, big business and Capitalism in general.
2. Replacing all state and institutional authority with self-regulating communes independent of external authority and power.
3. Elimination of cities, city life and the social problems emanating from them.
4. Absolute and total pacifism.

Through the establishment of multiple voluntary communes they hoped to achieve, in the long run, a withering away of the existing regime. They were convinced that their Catholic Worker farm communes would be the seed of a world wide movement toward communal living, and that even the Church would be challenged to get on board. “We will lead and the Church will follow” was the motto.

The inspiration for the CW communal farm was the Israeli Kibbutz of the day. The Kibbutz was a collective farm in which the Kibbutzniks (members) submerged their personal ambitions and property into the collective cause. Members voluntarily joined, giving all they owned to the Kibbutz, and being assigned the basic furnishings necessary for life in their little corner of the Kibbutz. Even the family was submerged in the Kibbutz; children were cared for and raised by the collective, leaving mothers free to work in the fields. You would think that this would be a feminist’s dream, with women achieving total equality.

But here’s the thing: The Kibbutz system ultimately failed. None of them ever became economically independent. They couldn’t support themselves, let alone produce a profit – meaning, they could not produce more than they consumed. They couldn’t even produce enough to consume. (Workers producing profit – more than they themselves consume – is the only way on earth that wealth is created. Profit equals wealth.) Again, the Kibbutzniks could not produce enough to even feed themselves.

The Kibbutz was anarchistic - meaning members were free from authority over each other – only internally. They were never totally free from the government that launched them. The land they occupied and worked was leased to them, they always depended upon external funding, and they never were able to become successful enough to be independent of this funding. It was quite the other way round. They wound up dependent on government dole and bank loans, and became mired in impossible, and increasing, monumental debt. The Kibbutz system disappeared perhaps too quietly; it should be held up today as typifying the predictable failure of Communist economic organization.

The problem was the kind of people such an authority-less community attracts, besides the naive idealist with utopian leanings. It soon came to pass that many Kibbutzniks spent more time sitting around idling or discussing religion and politics than doing their share of the work, and those who worked harder and longer soon became embittered by all this. And, of course, this dichotomy increased over time.

Man needs authority.

The Kibbutzniks began to leave the Kibbutz system in droves in the 1980s, and those who remained changed things radically, with the most radical change involving the return of the normative family. Mothers preferred to raise their own children – imagine that – and Kibbutzniks started family businesses and took jobs outside the Kibbutz. The Kibbutzim as originally designed just faded away.

It was no different with the hundreds of voluntary CWM Catholic Worker collective farms that were started all over America. Even Dorothy Day herself could not point to a single one of them that was ever successful. Their first Distributist farm called Maryfarm in Pennsylvania was a particular disappointment. Like all the others, it could not provide enough to feed itself, let alone feed the urban poor, which was one of its planned purposes. Again, one of the problems involved the kind of person attracted to life without authority. Day remarked about Maryfarm that “the more people we have around here the less work gets done.”

The social order of all of the Catholic Worker farms eventually descended into depravity. Thievery, drunkenness, predation, bullying, assault, sexual licentiousness, all the things you would logically expect in a community devoid of authority, came to be. Reading about all these voluntary collective communities of yesterday is quite a bit like reading about the rather silly Occupy Wall Street movement that’s going on today, on a similarly small scale.

It appears that American Journalism had crossed the line and become mostly Leftist before I was even born in 1943. And we have the SLIMC¹ , including even the elite of Show-Biz, who also went predominantly Red.

I still remember the McCarthy Hearings, in which Senator Joe McCarthy accused hundreds of government employees of being Communist infiltrators. And I remember that the media, and the whole of the SLIMC¹ , ultimately won the day, and made him look like a fool. To this day, he is treated as a buffoon, ridiculed and used as an example of the stupid anti-Communists who actually think that Communism is some kind of actual threat, and not peaceful. SLIMC¹

But Dr. Byrne used, among her sources and footnotes, the opened Soviet archives that showed who the Communists in America were. And I remember learning that those same records showed that Joe McCarthy was right in what he said, in every respect.

Is it any wonder, then, that Paul VI is credited with saying that The smoke of Satan has entered the Church. ?

If you still think Dorothy Day is worthy of sainthood, or even if you don’t, I urge you to read this book.

Seek the Truth; find the Way; live the Life. Please God, and live forever.

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If you have looked into the facts behind the very heavily documented life of Dorothy Day, not as written by the CWM, or biographers, fans or fellow travelers, then you have gotten more than a glimpse of the real story. Look to alternative sources, not the “official” biographies. Begin with the reference material referred to in the book, and branch out from there.

Dorothy Day’s cause for canonization was put forward in 2000 by Cardinal O’Connor of New York and it has enjoyed the support of successive Cardinals since then. They have been fooled. The pious mask has to come off, in the full light of day.

I urge you to write to the Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to register your objection to the cause for sainthood of Dorothy Day, and explain how the Cardinals were misinformed about Dorothy Day, at the following address:

His Eminence Angelo Cardinal Amato
Congregatione per le Cause dei Santi
Palazzo delle Congregazioni
Piazza Pio XII, 3
00193 Roma
Italy

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SLIMC¹ Secularist Liberal Intellectual Media Complex
GESGOEAEOT² Gradually, Ever So Gradually, Over Eons And Eons Of Time
PEWAG³ Punctuated Equilibrium's Wild-Assed Guess
TTRSTF⁴ Them There Real Scientifical-Type Fellers
TTRSPTF⁵ Them There Real Smart Perfesser-Type Fellers
TTRSJTF⁶ Them There Real Smart Journalistical-Type Fellers
SNRTACBT⁷ Surely No Right Thinking Adult Could Believe Today
STNSEACPB⁸ Surely Today No Serious Educated Adult Could Possibly Believe
WDN⁹ We Don't Know
BMDFP¹⁰ Baboons, Mongrel Dogs, Filthy Pigs and ...
HBAACOTE¹¹ Human Beings Are A Cancer On The Earth
ACLU¹² Anti-Christian Litigation Union
FLORMPORIF¹³ Flagrant Liar, Or, Mindless Parrot, Or, Innocent Fool
MEJTML¹⁴ Marxist Ends-Justify-The-Means Liar
IEJTML¹⁵ Islamic Ends-Ends-Justify-The-Means Liar
MPAV¹⁶ Marxist Principles And Values
WBESSWG¹⁷ Wise, Benign, Elite, Super-Scientific World Governance
TRMITM¹⁸ The Reason Man's In This Mess
IYI¹⁹ Intellectual Yet Idiotic
TTRSCBTF²⁰ Them There Real Smart Catholic Bishop Type Fellers
IACMPVND²¹ Illegal-Alien-Criminal Marxocrat-Party-Voting Nation-Destroyers
PEJTML²² Palestinian Ends-Justify-The-Means Liar
PSYOP²³ "Psychological Operation" Mind Trick
CDC²⁴ Covid Developmentally Challenged
LGBTQ+ Every Letter Represents A Serious Psychotic sexual Identity Disorder
HEJTML²⁶ Hedonist Ends-Justify-The-Means Liar
SEJTML²⁷ Scientistic Ends-Justify-The-Means Liar

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Date: Fri Dec 09 23:22:18 2011
From: Jessica
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Comment:

What is a Luddite?

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Date: Sat Dec 10 10:20:26 2011
From: Vic Biorseth
Comment:

Jessica:

A Luddite is a person who opposes technological advancement that threatens in any way an established variety of productive work or labor. Luddites are not necessarily opposed to all technology, but technology that simplifies or eliminates the work of some specific variety of skilled workers.

Luddism has likely existed from the dawn of time, but it got its name in early 19th century England, led by a perhaps mythical Ned Ludd, or King Ludd, who famously smashed one or more mechanical looms in protest against the industrial revolution. Whether this person existed or not is irrelevant today; the point is that a violent movement began against the mechanical loom and what it represented: the elimination of the hand loom, and the livelihood of those who used them.

In fact, the industrial revolution employed far more people than it un-employed; they just worked in different ways. It has always been so, and it will always be so. In America, when Henry Ford invented the assembly line, there was a great protest raised by the Luddites of that day, because of the fear that it would put products produced by individual hand-craftsmen out of business, and workers would be reduced to mere cogs in a great machine, putting nuts onto bolts and so forth.

Again, as always, the auto industry employed far more workers than it displaced. Today we see the same thing in computer and communication technology. The Interstate Highway system, and the trucks that use it, largely put the big railroads out of business. Cell phones are putting the old land line giant corporations out of business. Computers are putting typewriters into museums. Big box stores are putting small shops out of business. But look at how many people are gainfully employed by such companies as Google, Apple, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, McDonalds, etc. In every case, employment has increased and per capita wealth production has similarly increased.

Comrade Obama, peace be upon him, is a Luddite; or he gives that appearance. He opposes such things as kiosks in airports and bank ATM machines, both of which, at this point in time, are quite old technologies. But he just discovered them. Perhaps he publicly pretends to be a simple Luddite to mask the more sinister nature of his Communism.

Luddites, like Communists, would prefer that we go back in time away from all technology that involves any kind of fuel burning, and any kind of open, free communication, because open communication helps technology to advance and spread. They would actually prefer to force society to go back to the days of lots of horse dung in the streets, and lots of flies commuting back and forth between the street manure and our food.

Regards,

Vic

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Date: Mon Dec 12 21:05:23 2011
From: Vic Biorseth
Comment:

The following is email correspondence with Dr. Byrne, copied here with permission:

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Wonderful! Vic, thank you very much for your thoughtful review of my work. You have obviously understood the spirit of the CWM and identified the real purpose of Day and Maurin.

I am impressed with your profound knowledge of Marxism and the Communist Revolution as well as its negative consequences around the world. As you correctly point out, anyone who follows the Catholic Communizers Day and Maurin must have a death-wish for the Church and society.

Their supporters, however, are to be found among unthinking Catholics, even in the highest positions of authority in the Church. As you may know, Day's cause for canonization was opened in 2000 by Cardinal O'Connor of New York, and has been supported by successive Cardinals ever since.

Last year (9 November) , Archbishop Dolan preached at the Church of St. Joseph in Greenwich Village. There is a video (see here) of this event which was co-sponsored by the Church of St. Joseph in Greenwich Village and Pax Christi Metro New York.

I sat through the ghastly talk with a mixture of indignation and incredulity. There was no substance to the Cardinal's words which revolved around fuzzy concepts of "love", mysticism and "prophetic" challenges to Church authority. This was obviously a cover for his basic ignorance of the real Dorothy Day who acted like many a left-wing politician, subordinating Christian principles to the cause of a Socialist revolution.

I had to chuckle at his reference to Day being influenced, through Peter Maurin, by the Sillon movement in France and by Emmanuel Mounier - he was probably not aware that the Sillon had been condemned by Pope St Pius X as an organization that "would bring Socialism in its train" or that Mounier was an anti-American admirer of Soviet Communism and wanted to bring about a Socialist society in the West.

The Cardinal described Day as "quintessentially American", but he failed to provide any evidence of this. His statement that she was critical of government secrecy as regards national security certainly does not give one confidence in her loyalty to America. And as you you know from my research, evidence exists to show her collaboration with anti-American spies and pro-Soviet activists, not to mention her admiration of almost every American-hating Socialist dictator around the world.

And yet the Vatican has conferred on her the title of Servant of God as the first step in the process of canonization! Again, many thanks for your kind support. Keep up the good fight against Marxist infiltration.

God bless,

Carol

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Dr. Byrne:

Thank you so much.

This news needs to get out where it can be seen. May I have your permission to publish your email among the comments below the new page on my site? There is just so much about Dorothy Day that people don’t know. This whole story shows and highlights the craftiness of evil and its mastery of sinister disguise. Since reading your book, I have found so many positive treatments of Dorothy Day, including even prayers and devotions that it almost makes me sick.

Just the fact that she supported and contributed to the “cult of Lenin” as if the bloody butcher Lenin himself was some kind of saint should be enough to tell any Cardinal all he has to know. But, perhaps more importantly, the people don’t know. You have done the heavy lifting, with your research and your book. Now what remains is to attack the falsehood just as publicly as possible, and spread the word.

May the Lord bless and keep you.

Regards,

Vic

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Date: Tue Dec 13 00:30:01 2011
From: Mary
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Location: Kansas, USA
Comment:

Hello Vic,

I am an acquaintance with the author of The Catholic Worker Movement (1933-1980) A Critical Analysis, Dr. Carol Byrne: https://www.catholicamericanthinker.com/Catholic-Communizer-Dorothy-Day.html who sent me this link to your site. We have been in sympathetic correspondence for nearly two years. Her book is excellent and should be a real wake up call to those in the business of creating "saints".

I was tickled to find that she linked to an SBI site…. I am an SBIer, too. I really enjoyed your article. I, too, have read her book and found it refreshingly well researched.

I am so glad that she included the info on the New Liturgical Movement. Too few people know that the foolishness of Vatican II was in print LONG before V2. Your approach is very fresh from a practical, common sense point of view. Yours is the first time I've seen anyone else publish that Day's and company's idea of economics is a sin against the Seventh and Tenth Commandments. I only mention it as per generalisms on our Catholic Ten Commandments page.

Have you considered selling Dr. Byrne's book? (I myself am not able to offer her book on our site because our site is geared toward those learning about the Faith, not those well versed and able to discuss finer points. Carol knows this and lauds this decision. I do promote her book in emails, though. We do link to each other's sites.) 'Just a thought. A holy Advent to you and yours!

Mary F. http://www.roman-catholic-catechism.com

P.S. In the time since I've read your article I've read what some list members from a Yahoo group have posted about your post that you might want to know. These are very good Catholics who've walked the walk and are not trouble makers, so I'm sending these notes to you FYI. I'll bet that, as a Catholic that is astute as you are, that you either did not catch these things to fix them or that you would like the opportunity to refute them on your page….

There are too many understandings of the term Distributism for me to pin! From one: " Anarchists want the dissolution of government NOW. Communists say the state must gather all property to itself to redistribute it equally among all THEN will come the state of anarchy. Vic Biorseth is arguing for Laissez-Faire capitalism which ignores original sin. Even Aristotle argued against Laissez-Faire capitalism because without government restraint, businessmen would seek profits to the detriment of their own country. So contrary to the author capitalism must be "tweaked, tuned and adjusted" otherwise you're attempting to baptize Original Sin as the proper natural state of Man.

The paragraph from "I, Pencil" which Vic Biorseth linked to, refers to Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand" from Smith's book, Wealth of Nations which advocates Laissez-Faire capitalism."

From another: " but the article also references papal writing in support of Distributism. "Dorothy Day’s Distributism, as Communism under yet another title, is a gross misinterpretation of the Distributism spoken of by multiple Popes. The Catholic Popes who addressed Distributism were, in my opinion, mistakenly attempting to find a middle way between Communism, which they condemned, and “unrestrained Capitalism,” which they believed brought about the huge discrepancy between the income and the wealth held by the poor, and the income and the wealth held by the rich. Following the lead of Marx, the Luddites, etc., they blamed this huge division on the Industrial Revolution. That, I believe, is erroneous." He is right. It is erroneous, because it is part of liberalism. The "multiple popes" are not the popes of a long line--thus showing transmission of truth--but rather the popes since John XXIII who wrongly understand Catholic social doctrine and confound it with modernist errors on these issues."

And from another: " No pope ever used the word "Distributism." Hillaire Belloc coined the term claiming it described the papal Social Encyclicals. Not surprisingly, Belloc's socialist background influenced his interpretation."

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Date: Tue Dec 13 06:07:10 2011
From: Vic Biorseth
Comment:

Mary:

Thank you for your kind words. If you have read Marx, you know that his revolution opposes a lot more than those two Commandments; it promotes a world of irreligion or anti-religion once the revolution is complete.

I have not considered selling anything on my site; I would have to refresh my memory of how to do it – establishing a new PayPal account and all that. A long time ago in a far distant galaxy started small businesses and created SBI sites for them, and they had the ability to take orders and payments; but the businesses didn’t go anywhere and were dropped. Once I knew how to build a site, this one was born, as a background enjoyable activity.

Long ago I had loads of graphic Amazon adds all over this site, but never received any money from them, even though there were thousands and thousands of clicks. When I saw how slowly my pages loaded on my sister’s dial-up connected computer during a visit with her, I took down all those adds and created the Reference Material page to let people know what my sources were and allow them to go find them on their own. The adds weren’t making me any money anyway.

I also had lots of Google “Add-Sense” adds, but they kept being, predominantly, adds for abortion, pornography, contraception and all things distasteful, to say the least. There was a limit of 250 “filters” to keep the trash off my site; that limit was quickly exceeded, and so I dropped all Add-Sense adds. I don’t want that filth on my site.

Now, regarding the Yahoo group comments you mention:

1. Re Distributism, Laissez-Faire Capitalism, Original Sin and Baptism: I do indeed champion Laissez-Faire Capitalism, which has nothing whatsoever to do with original sin. America is and has been from birth a Christian nation. In a Christian nation it may be expected that a majority of citizens will be Baptized Christians; in America, they will also be free. If you tweak and tune Capitalism, or seek to restrain it in any way, it will no longer be Capitalism. The more you tweak it, the more Socialist it will become. Men seeking profit are restrained by civil law from committing fraud or other crimes; otherwise, they are free to make just as much profit as they are able to make.
2. Re I, Pencil … , the Invisible Hand, Adam Smith and Laissez-Faire Capitalism:

   Quite correct. People who have read Smith’s Wealth of Nations should go a step farther and read his Theory of Moral Sentiments. Man is not bad; man is good. Even when a rich man is bad, he does good, without even intending to do so. Without even being aware of the good he does.

3. Re Distributism as described by Day versus Papal teaching:

   When a Pope addresses economic and political matters, he has stepped out of the confines of the Depositum Fide, which is to say that he speaks to us more or less as an equal, although from a position deserving of an attentive ear. There is nothing in the Deposit of Faith recommending a social order, an economic set of rules or a form of civil government for a nation or for the world. As I said in the article, I believe the Catholic teaching on distributionism, as I have seen it, is just another variant of Communism. Property is wealth. Wealth is profit. They are all different manifestations of the same thing. Man is either free, or he is not.

4. Re Hillaire Belloc, Distributism and papal teaching:

   Hillaire Belloc is one of my favorite historians; I was very surprised to read of his (and Chesterton’s) take on Distributism. Chesterton even went so far as to recommend a distribution of “a cow and three acres” to families. That was a recommendation that brings to mind the “forty acres and a mule” proposed (but not adopted) for America’s newly freed slaves. It would have been more reasonable than what Chesterton recommended, which would not have worked. An Amish farmer once told me that forty acres is about the limit that one man can farm using only animals. He should know.

   But no matter how you craft such a distribution, it will fail in the long run, because families grow, in free societies.

What needs to be tweaked, trained and restricted is man, not the natural existing economic system. Man needs Baptism, religion and moral upbringing. Government should, as a purpose, strengthen and fortify the Judeo-Christian Ethos of the people, rather than attacking it and restricting it, as the Democrat Party has done and is doing. The religions on which the nation was based, and the religions of the existing population should have solid support of civil government, if the government is truly representative government.

Regards,

Vic

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Date: Wed Dec 14 12:58:03 2011
From: Jose
Email:
Location: Sacramento CA
Comment:

Religions? Did you mean to use the plural? What religions?

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Date: Wed Dec 14 20:28:19 2011
From: Vic Biorseth
Comment:

Jose:

Our original thirteen colonies might have been better named the thirteen theocracies. Following the pattern established by post-Reformation Europe, they each had a state mandated religion.

Rhode Island was Baptist;
Pennsylvania was Quaker;
Maryland was Catholic;
Connecticut was Congregational;
Georgia was Church of England;
Massachusetts was Congregational;
North Carolina was Church of England;
New Hampshire was Congregational;
South Carolina was Church of England;
Virginia was Church of England;
Flroida was Catholic during the Spanish era, then Church of England during the Brithish era;
West Indies were Church of England.

You can see more details describing Christian America in the Separation of Church and State page.

Regards,

Vic

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Date: Sat Dec 17 17:31:20 2011
From: Kevin
Email:
Location: Boston, MA
Comment:

Vic,

You are correct, but you left out Delaware, New Jersey and New York; also, Florida and West Indies were not among the original 13 Colonies.

Delaware had no official religion, and allowed freedom of all citizens to worship as they saw fit, with no compulsion to worship, with full rights of citizenship so long as they professed belief in Jesus Christ.

New Jersey had no official religion, and allowed freedom of all citizens to worship as they saw fit, with no compulsion to worship, with full rights of citizenship so long as they were Protestant.

New York was Anglican/Church of England.

Here is the actual list of the original 13 Colonies.

Delaware, unspecified “Christian”,
Pennsylvania, Quaker,
New Jersey, unspecified “Protestant”,
Georgia, Church of England,
Connecticut, Congregational,
Massachusetts Bay, Congregational,
Maryland, Catholic,
South Carolina, Church of England,
New Hampshire, Congregational,
Virginia, Church of England,
New York, Church of England,
North Carolina, Church of England,
Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Baptist.

Great site.

Kevin

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Date: Thu Feb 16 06:04:13 2012
From: XXX
Email:
Location:
Comment:

Maybe the pope does not care that much that Dorothy Day was lefty. There is nothing in the deposit of faith that says of belief in Laissez-faire capitalism as a prerequisite for sainthood. In fact, the catholic social teaching has a decidedly lefty strand running through it. Just go through Rerum Novarum and other catholic social teachings issued by various popes through the centuries and see for yourself. Surely, things have not come to such a point that the pope needs the tea party permission to canonize someone.

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Date: Thu Feb 16 06:43:06 2012
From: Vic Biorseth
Comment:

XXX:

Perhaps the Pope doesn’t care that Dorothy Day was a Lefty; he doesn’t have to care about that. The Pope himself may be a lefty – see the The Pope On Globalism page for my take on that. The Pope teaches infallibly only when speaking on matters already concretized in the sacred deposit of faith laid down by our Lord and His Apostles, which was closed with the death of the last Apostle.

But that is not to say that Popes are somehow insulated or protected from political argument or from the smooth persuasiveness of the Marxist lie. They simply cannot teach it as an infallible teaching. Marxism didn’t exist at the time the deposit was sealed. Capitalism existed, as a natural thing, but remained to be clearly defined until Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations in 1776. Leo XIII showed that he did not even understand the nature of what you call Laissez-fair capitalism when he referred to it as “unrestricted” capitalism. He didn’t know that if you restrict it, it is no longer capitalism. To whatever degree it is restricted, it becomes something else; a state controlled thing, usually some form of Socialism.

He wrote, in Rerum Novarum, about “free agreements” made between employers and employees regarding wages, working conditions, etc. He did not write about national, international or global unions whose foundational purpose was aimed at the eventual overthrow and subjugation of the world. He talked about agreements between employers and employees – there is a very big difference. Read the last few paragraphs of the Communist Manifesto to see what Marx himself intended.

The proof is in the final pudding. Best intentions don’t matter; only the final pudding matters. Compare the condition of the North Korean citizenry with that of the American citizenry. There you see the two extremes.

Read The Catholic Worker Movement and you will see that Dorothy Day was not merely driving at the overthrow of the American government; she was also driving at the overthrow of the Catholic Church hierarchy. Any priest, nun, brother, bishop or cardinal who supports Dorothy Day for sainthood should be ashamed.

Regards,

Vic

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Date: Fri Jun 29 17:21:48 2012
From: minbee66
Email: minbee66@gmail.com
Location: Somewhere,NY, USA
Comment:

Want to let you know I have posted this article in full--previously it was just an excerpt included--with brackets to explain two abbreviations, as per your reprint policy, so "courtesy of Vic Biorseth." See http://dorothydayworker.blogspot.com/2011/12/must-read-article-about-dorothy-day-on.html.

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Date: Mon Jul 16 22:10:24 2012
From: HSR
Email:
Location: Malaysia
Comment:

Comment:: Below is my humble site with a sidebar on Dorothy Day's darker side with *verifiable* links to Day's own writings. http://www.freewebs.com/henry97/

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Date: Fri Dec 21 11:21:02 2012 
From:   anna
Email:   misstrish321@yahoo.com
Location:   New York
Comment:   

Hi,

I am a woman who resides with the catholic worker organization in nyc.

Though in the past I have found common ground there, today it is as discouraging as ever.  I would not have imagined it to be so at one time though I always saw discrepancies between CW and normal or other religious affiliations including the true catholic church.\ Of late, I find it nearly impossible to live with them, as they have become as deceptive and radical as ... well, it seems the reverse of all that is good, decent, fair, moral and ethical. 

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Date:  Day Mon 00 HH:MM:SS 2013
From:  Anarcissie
Email:   anarcissie@gmail.com
Location:  NYC/NY/U$$A
Comment: 

“Don’t make me a saint; I don’t want to be dismissed that easily.” -- D.D.

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Date:   Tue Aug 12 2014
From:  Vic Biorseth
Comment:  

Changes pursuant to changing the website URL and name from 
Thinking Catholic Strategic Center to
Catholic American Thinker.

Pulled the trigger on the 301 MOVE IT option June 1, 2014. Working my way through all the webpages.  . 

Regards,

Vic

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Date:  Sat Sep 27 13:44:54 2014
From:  Cristero
Email:   cristero@email.ru
Location:  
Comment: 

This is real nasty article. It is seems like wroten by some rich atheist liberal/conservative protopent of prosperity theology, who hates poors, because they are poor. I think you are not rich millionaire. Thant I do not understand your defense of rich capitalists. Capitalism was invented by godless Enlightment. Rich do not care about Christianity, they are in agreement with this antichristian society. Robespierre said taht atheism is for aristocrats. Rich people were the first who betrayed Christ. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.

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Date:  Sun Sep 28 2014
From:  Vic Biorseth
Comment:  

Cristero:

Normally I edit out simple spelling and grammatical errors in reader submissions, when and only when I am certain I can do it without changing the author's meaning.  But I don't even know where to begin that task here, so I'm just leaving it alone. 

First, it appears that you are the unseeing victim of Marxist disinformation, raised, steeped and stewed in it, to the point of having been made stupid by it. 

You charge free people with "Prosperity Theology", yet Marxists are proponents of "Impoverishment Theology".  Marxism "redistributes" nothing to the poor.  They simply take it, or control it, and spend it as they will.  Useful Idiots never see that; they are always distracted (or incited) by the Marxist disinformation program of the moment. 

Second, Capitalism is not an invention of man.  Capitalism just happens when men are free and have the right to actually own something, and free to do commercial transactions with each other.  Another name for Capitalism is a Free Market. 

Robespierre pursued popularity rather than truth.  Popularity means money to the writer.  He made himself into a popular high-society aristocrat through his writing.  

Third, difficulty does not equate to impossibility.  It was a difficult decision the rich young man faced, whether to keep his riches or give them up and enter the priesthood.  But that does not mean that it could not be done; many others have done it. 

The important thing to learn, Cristero, is that no form of Marxism - not National Socialism, not Communism, not Democratic Socialism - ever improved the plight of the poor.  Ever.  In all of history.  They brought the rich down - quite selectively - but they never, ever raised the poor up. 

Marxism is a lie, Cristero.  Every single part of Marxism is a lie. 

Regards,

Vic

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Date:  Wed Oct 22 18:39:30 2014
From:  ubipetrusest
Email:   
Location:  
Comment:

An excerpt from this article--with a link to the complete article--is now posted at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3218389/posts

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Date:  Thu Oct 23 14:26:04 2014
From:  packy
Email:   packy9875@yahoo.com
Location:  NJ USA
Comment: 

As a young student in the 1950s I read the CW newspaper and attended some meetings and came to realize that something was not quite right but was not then educated enough to come to an informed conclusion.  That is, until reading Peter Maurin describe how he stole books from the Public Library simply because he wanted them.  That was enough of a tip off.

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Date:  Wed Mar 18 16:47:21 2015
From:  Cristero
Email:   cristero@email.ru
Location:  
Comment: 

I am not Marxist. But Marx tried to do something for poor working people /you would say mob, yes?/. Church stayed quiet. It feared liberalism and did not see the problem. Marx got working class. That is reality. When I see people like you, i know why it happened. I feel ashamed, that you consider yourself Catholic. You are are in church of Ayn Rand, not Jesus.

"oppose Capitalism is to oppose the liberty of man" -  There are conservative monarchist, aristocratic enemies of capitalism. This article is only big business class propaganda. You are some kind of bourgeois mind. Like atheist free market - its utopia. There are always obstacles. Like atheist apostates.

"Robespierre pursued popularity rather than truth."  -You really do not know the context. You comments about the quote are nonsensical. You are only doing advocacy of rich people.You do not mind, that they are mostly atheist in USA. I see, that "for the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs."
But I believe, that Dorothy Day will be Catholic saint one day. Its starting with Oscar Romero now. And you will have to swallow the anger.

"There is no such thing as a bourgeois class. " - and what about the 19th and first half of 20the century. Was there no bourgeoisie? :-) PS. English is not my native language and I am European. I know, that you will delete my comment, because you do not want to see any disagreement with capitalist atheist Randian establishment.

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Date:  Wed Mar 18 2015
From:  Vic Biorseth
Comment:  

Cristero:

I hardly know where to begin. 

First of all, I highly recommend you read The Catholic Worker Movement (1933-1980) A Critical Analysis, by Dr. Carol Byrne, with special attention to all the footnotes.  This is a serious scholarly work; none of it is any invention or fabrication. 

Second, Capitalism is no designed, engineered or controlled system of man.  It is a natural thing.  It is merely a free market.  When not interfered with by government or by monopoly or fraud, it simply obeys the natural laws of supply and demand, which automatically set prices of goods and services, and prices of labor to produce them.  The only thing it demands is a liberated citizenry, recognition of the principle of private property, and the freedom to do commercial transactions.  That's all it is.  See the Anti-Capitalism Pages for the Marxist demonizaiton that falsely propagandizes against Capitalism = the Free Market and Private Property.   

Third, to properly understand Marx you have to understand who he studied, before he invented Marxism.  That would be Machiavelli, and Hegel.  Marxism is built upon Machiavelli's "The Ends Justify The Means" and the Hegelian Dialectic.  The whole goal of Marxism is the assumption of dictatorship, pure and simple.  Everything else is subterfuge, false history and propaganda for the recruitement of "Useful Idiots" and "Agent Provocateurs".  See the Marxism Pages.  

The whole history of Marxism is a history not only of mass murder and enslavement of whole nations, but persecution of religion in general and the Catholic Church in particular.  Marxism is absolutely anti-Catholic. 

Sorry, Cristero, but that's the way it is. 

Regards,

Vic

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Date:  Mon Dec 21 11:37:29 2015
From:  DonnaLois
Email:   Donnakracke@gmail.com
Location:  Birmingham AL. USA
Comment: 

I could are any number of points regarding this author's erroneous portrayal of Dorothy Day, the Catholic Worker movement,  etc.  However, as the grandchild of Southern white farmers, I found his contention that there existed no "Wage slaves" quite erroneous.  My grandparents were sharecroppers.  During slavery, share cropping was a form of slavery whereby the lower economic white workers were economically en-slaved via unjust wages.   Later, freed slaves became a part of that system too.  Read a little history of the U.S. southern worker.  It still happens.  Only it is better concealed.

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Date:  Mon Dec 21 2015
From:  Vic Biorseth
Comment:  

DonnaLois:

I never made any such contention, either in this webpage or in the Slavery page.  Point out exactly where I said any such thing, and I'll be happy to examine it and elaborate on the context. 

For the record, Sharecroppers do not work for wages, whether you consider them to be just or unjust.  Sharecroppers work by contractual agreement with the owner of the land for a share the harvest produced by the Sharecropper.  Sharecropping existed during slavery, and many slaves were Sharecroppers while being slaves. 

To this day, many farm families too old to farm any more, but unwilling to part with their land, rent their land to other farmers, many not for rent payment, but for a share of the produce.  Sharecropping is probably as old as history. 

And if, as you say, "It still happens.  Only it is better concealed." then,

1. Why do the Sharecroppers continue to work for "unjust" wages, or any wages if they're really Sharecroppers, and,
   
2. Why is it concealed? 
   

Shouldn't you call the police if something criminal is going on? 

I suspect that you are talking about farm workers being paid "under the table" because minimum wage laws have rendered it quite impossible for them to be hired legally and still allow the land to produce a profit. 

Let me know any of the points regarding my erroneous portrayal of Dorothy Day, and I'll be happy to respond. 

Meanwhile, wander through the Contents of this website, and you might learn something about the history of the US Southern Worker.  It's all tied up in the Democrat Party, which was all tied up in maintaining Slavery, then in Secession and the Confederacy, then in Segregation Forever and the Klan, and now is all tied up in anti-American Marxism. 

Sorry, DonnaLois, but that's the way it is. 

Truth only hurts until He is recognized. 

Regards,

Vic

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Date:  Sat Jan 12 23:32:02 2019
From:  gael
Email:   gaelgirl5@yahoo.com
Location:  Connecticut
Comment: 

What a great article - but terrifying! I am a Catholic Religious Education (Volunteer) teacher, responsible for preparing 10th graders for Confirmation.  In our assigned text, the students are asked to support and contribute to CCHD, CRS etc.  I try to keep up on which organizations are truly promoting Catholic teachings - these are not! Additionally, our text had a page devoted to celebrating Dorothy Day !!! The text (with Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur) called her a Catholic hero and the students are encouraged to "pray along with her " to one of her 'Selected Writings'!  I'm shocked - and dismayed.  My job is nearly impossible in today's society - without having to battle the deceit from within the church itself.  How do I combat the work of these people?!  how can I counteract these "infiltrators"?  It seems so hopeless.   I am grateful for your work, but feel overcome with the bleak hope for my students.

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Date:  Sun Jan 13 2019
From:  Vic Biorseth
Comment:  

Gael:

Teach from the old Baltimore Catechism series. It worked well way back when and it still works perfectly well today. Nothing has changed. Be prepared to be confronted, stand your ground, and be prepared to be fired. Somebody has to take a stand somewhere, we are it, and this is the place and the time. 

Join the Church Militant RESISTANCE. 

Regards,

Vic

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