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Thanks to Michael Iafrate, at Catholic Anarchy, for pointing me to this quote from Dorothy Day: “The word anarchist is deliberately and repeatedly used in order to awaken our readers to the necessity of combating the ‘all-encroaching state,’ as our Bishops have termed it, and to shock serious students into looking into the possibility [...] my original post on Romans 13 This pertains, actually, to Paul’s immediately previous statement about repaying evil with good. Could it be that Paul has in mind that the Christians, as a sect with subversively dangerous ideas to the Empire, should keep their noses so clean, as it was, that the officials could legitimately find [...] Tags: authority, Bible, Catholic Worker, domination, government, history, Paul, Romans |
One comment  Email This Post |  Trackback URL |  Print This Post J.S. (not the Watergate felon) Macgruder said: I’ve been arguing for years that actually carrying out the Works of Mercy would likely result in an FBI file on you. Especially if one is involved with a Catholic Worker house. I had a conversation this summer with Brian Terrell, Executive Director of the Catholic Peace Ministry in Des [...] |
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