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2016-02-08T09:51:36-05:00

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Bankers in Hell

Last updated on: February 8, 2016 at 9:51 am By Elias Crim

In 2009 I was working on a project in Chicago which put me in contact with an investment banker, an amiable chap who, as it happened, had left Lehman Brothers in New York for a Chicago job just before the New York firm’s collapse the previous year. I waited until we had a casual moment together and then asked him what he thought of the fate of his old firm in New York. “Here’s when I got a sense for... Read more

Alternative economics, worker and family empowerment, the spirituality of work, the economy of sharing

Catholic Social Teaching

Elias Crim

Poverty, economic inequality, consumerism, unemployment, underemployment, living wage

2016-02-08T09:52:40-05:00

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“Why Are You My Friend?”

Last updated on: February 8, 2016 at 9:52 am By Elias Crim

About four years ago I gave in to the temptation of speaking to a men’s retreat at my parish, the well-known Christ Renews His Parish program. I think of it as a temptation because it’s easy for me to want to parade my learning (such as it is), embellish episodes from my picaresque personal history, and promote myself as a regular pillar of sanctity. I gave my witness, as it’s called, near the end of the weekend. Afterwards one of... Read more

Corporal & Spiritual Works of Mercy

Elias Crim

2016-02-02T10:28:21-05:00

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The Mystery of the Poor

Last updated on: February 2, 2016 at 10:28 am By Mark Gordon

“Christ is at once rich and poor: as God, rich; as a human person, poor. Truly, that Man rose to heaven already rich, and now sits at the right hand of the Father, but here, among us, he still suffers hunger, thirst and nakedness: here he is poor and is in the poor.” -St. Augustine Christ “is poor and is in the poor,” says St. Augustine, providing a most succinct justification of the Church’s “preferential option.” Structurally, the poor share an... Read more

Catholic Social Teaching

Corporal & Spiritual Works of Mercy

Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, CW aims and means, spirituality

Poverty, economic inequality, consumerism, unemployment, underemployment, living wage

2016-02-01T08:51:07-05:00

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Journal Entry of a Working Man

Last updated on: February 1, 2016 at 8:51 am By Daniel Schwindt

I have abhorred work for as long as I can remember. I don’t mean that I’m against exerting myself. I do that all the time, but my exertions, it has always been made abundantly clear, do not qualify as “work.” Work, as an American institution—work with capital “W”—is something foreign to my nature. It isn’t just that I find it unpleasant and unfulfilling. It is also that I’ve never been able to force myself to respect it, even way back... Read more

Alternative economics, worker and family empowerment, the spirituality of work, the economy of sharing

Daniel Schwindt

2016-01-25T17:41:45-05:00

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Hospitality, Smallness and the Butterfly Effect

Last updated on: January 25, 2016 at 5:41 pm By Mark Gordon

The prospect of living with – as distinct from near or among – the poor is perhaps the most daunting aspect of the Dorothy Option, especially for a middle-class suburbanite whose “home is his castle.” It’s one thing to bring food and toiletries to a homeless person. It is something else altogether to negotiate cooking chores and bathroom time with that same person in a shared home. Dorothy understood that embracing radical hospitality had to be accomplished in small steps. In... Read more

Community building, models or forms of community, radical hospitality

Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, CW aims and means, spirituality

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2016-01-25T16:56:03-05:00

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Encountering “the Other” on the Road

Last updated on: January 25, 2016 at 4:56 pm By Mike Stafford

Strange as it may seem, my own journey towards the Dorothy Option began with Cormac McCarthy’s dystopian novel The Road. Certainly, neither the author nor the work are known for their orthodox Christian sensibilities, and yet, reading the book led me to reflect more deeply on three of the most critical aspects of life for people of faith today- our own complicity in evil, the struggle to live a moral life- to, in the words of the book, “carry the fire”- in the... Read more

Catholic Social Teaching

Corporal & Spiritual Works of Mercy

Michael Stafford

Peace, nonviolent resistance, conscience and conscientious objection

Benedict Option

Encounter

René Girard

2016-01-23T15:33:24-05:00

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A Better Paradigm for Class Analysis

Last updated on: January 23, 2016 at 3:33 pm By Daniel Schwindt

John Michael Greer over at The Archdruid Report has produced a great piece of analysis on the American economic arrangement an, as a consequence, the Trump phenomenon. He redraws the lines of political class and the picture he develops is useful: “It so happens that you can determine a huge amount about the economic and social prospects of people in America today by asking one remarkably simple question: how do they get most of their income? Broadly speaking—there are exceptions, which I’ll get to... Read more

Alternative economics, worker and family empowerment, the spirituality of work, the economy of sharing

Daniel Schwindt

2016-01-22T16:53:17-05:00

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Revisiting ‘Catholic Citizenship and the Dorothy Option’

Last updated on: January 22, 2016 at 4:53 pm By Mark Gordon

Welcome to the first post on Solidarity Hall’s new group blog, The Dorothy Option. Our title is taken from a June 2011 post of mine at Vox Nova titled, “Catholic Citizenship and the Dorothy Option.” For the historical record, it’s worth noting that my use of the now ubiquitous “Option” device appears to have been the first. Rod Dreher didn’t propose his Benedict Option, now the gold standard of the breed, until December 2013. In the wake of the BenOp, we’ve been treated to alternative... Read more

Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, CW aims and means, spirituality

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