"there is no chance of rehabilitation, no chance, so far as we see, of changing them; certainly no chance of adjusting them to this abominable world about them, and who wants them adjusted anyway?"
[We repeat, there is nothing that we can do but love, and dear God—please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.
Dorothy Day, Love is the Measure, 1946]
OK. But this love implies that we cannot justify a Catholic school system that is so expensive, while we leave the poor in the public schools. We must love, but we must take some action while doing so.
so deeply relatable. love and solidarity from the Olive Branch house of hospitality in Duluth!
Your writing is such a consolation--and a call to action. Thank you!
[We repeat, there is nothing that we can do but love, and dear God—please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.
Dorothy Day, Love is the Measure, 1946]
OK. But this love implies that we cannot justify a Catholic school system that is so expensive, while we leave the poor in the public schools. We must love, but we must take some action while doing so.