[Magdalen] Dorothy Day

[Jay Weigel]

I thought it was kind of cool that he cited a Cistercian, a Catholic
socialist, and two Baptists as examples <g>
And you know, Scott, some people are never happy. As far as not liking the
Pope, most of my Catholic friends were eye-rollers about B16, so there you
are. We obviously know a different class of Catholics, that's all.

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 7:56 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have heard from two friends in the last few hours who never heard
> > of Dorothy Day before yesterday. What are we teaching these kids?
>
> Some online RC acquaintances pooh-poohed the Pope's mention of the
> four great Americans including King, Lincoln, Merton, and Day. No
> complaints about King or Lincoln, but about Merton and Day they said,
> "We can't seem to get out of 1973." And then they listed the
> imperfections in what Merton and Day did and wrote. I made a comment
> about how apparently issues and ideals are now like shoe styles and
> asked why we can't still learn from Merton and Day.
>
> And separately with the same folks, I wondered how Benedict XVI was
> always "the Holy Father," never contradicted nor complained about, and
> this Pope is simply "this Pope," disliked by some of the same folks
> whose eyelids formerly fluttered as they mentioned "the Holy Father"
> Benedict. For RCs, I believe popes are not available for liking and
> disliking: they simply are, and must be listened to and heeded. At
> least in theory.
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>