Robert Ellsberg, editor of Dorothy Day’s diaries, speaks at the 2008 Catholic Worker national gathering, July 10, 2008, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel/St. Ann parish hall, Worcester, Massachusetts.
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There’s been a public art exhibit in Elm Park for the past few weeks. According to the Telegram & Gazette, one of the metal statues, Fern Cunningham’s “Massai Warrior Adorned,” was stolen.
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The authorities think that “It was swiped from its pedestal sometime Saturday night or early Sunday morning,” but it was missing when I walked through the park Saturday after lunch.
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The first quote is from NNT’s book The Black Swan:
These were the days when it was extremely common for traders to break phones when they lost money. Some resorted to destroying chairs, tables, or whatever would make noise. Once, in the Chicago pits, another trader tried to strangle me and it took four security guards to drag him away. He was irate because I was standing in what he deemed his “territory.” Who would want to leave such an environment? Compare it to lunches in a drab university cafeteria with gentle-mannered professors discussing the latest departmental intrigue.
This reminds me of part of the reason I miss living in a Catholic Worker community in those times (like now) when I’m not. The world of finance gave NNT plenty of firsthand opportunities to practice his philosophy of uncertainty, just like a CW house gives someone interested in ethics/religion/politics more than enough real world confrontation with these issues in a given day. Praxis, praxis, praxis.
Also reminds me of a quote from this interview with Steve Van Evera on Iraq:
I felt the neoconservatives were the wrong crowd to be assigned a tough task like this. I think they’re almost congenitally incompetent. For reasons having to do with the way they function as a group. They’re kinda like a cult. They don’t talk much to outsiders. They have great suspicion of the rest of the foreign policy community, so they don’t rub shoulders with others. They don’t share thoughts with people they don’t agree with. And to me, if you want to be smart, you’d better talk to people you don’t agree with. Cause that’s the way you get smart.
The second quote comes from the profile “Nassim Nicholas Taleb: the prophet of boom and doom.” He explains why he’s still a practicing Christian:
Scientists don’t know what they are talking about when they talk about religion. Religion has nothing to do with belief, and I don’t believe it has any negative impact on people’s lives outside of intolerance. Why do I go to church? It’s like asking, why did you marry that woman? You make up reasons, but it’s probably just smell. I love the smell of candles. It’s an aesthetic thing.
I admire his honesty and self-awareness.
Homily from the Mustard Seed, July 18, 2008. Feast of Saint Camillus.
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Brendan Melican, Cha-Cha Connor, Kevin Ksen, and Bruce Russell.
There is a surprising amount of activity around proposed restrictions on Worcester street vendors. The Catholic Worker national gathering was held in Worcester last week. Worcester is trying to get people to buy homes.
See also: Morris Day vs. a wild animal.
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A few remarks from a granddaughter of Dorothy Day. July 10, 2008, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Íngrid Betancourt is free! She remains strong and has given interviews to many media, including the BBC and the Guardian. She is a modern saint who showed us how to be Green, how to be Christian, even how to be human. I hope when she recovers, she will become a great president of Colombia.
My friend Nándor Tánczos, one of the few rastafarian parliamentarians in the world, gave his last speech (text) in the New Zealand House of Representatives recently. He will not stand in the general election later this year, but I hope the Green Party of Aotearoa will have some new blood to take his place. Relatedly, that country re-nationalized its railway earlier this month and called it KiwiRail; it also has a state-owned retail bank, Kiwibank.
By the way, I ♥ the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, who is now presiding the Lambeth Conference.
The Center for Christian Nonviolence has released a new version of the Franz Jägerstätter movie The Refusal, with clearer English subtitles.
Every time I’ve screened this, people have complained about the subtitles, so this is a welcome improvement.
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Catholic Worker National Gathering, July 12, 2008, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Sung by the congregation, backed by a great choir. The recorder was 2 feet from Fr. Carl Kabat, and you can hear him loud and clear.
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Catholic Worker National Gathering, July 12, 2008, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Father Bernie Gilgun is a long-time Catholic Worker. I would welcome a transcription of this homily.
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