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@sidewayskoyote @gracie88888 @RizomaSchool Depends how you identify. I'm all for fully grounding the Catholic communion. Every resurrection is local, after all. Peter Maurin: "The future of the Church is on the land." This, the front page of the Calaveras Enterprise (big paper, small county) June 2020 #CatholicWorker

Front page of the major newspaper in Calaveras County describing the Catholic Worker foundations of the Calaveras County Poor People's Campaign Farm
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Front page of the major newspaper in Calaveras County describing the Catholic Worker foundations of the Calaveras County Poor People's Campaign Farm

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 11 Jun 2022

@ShaneClaiborne So lovely. Once got into an 'abandoned' Catholic Worker garden. Clearing it up, the pattern of an extensive Franciscan iconography, lost in the dense, overgrown thicket, showed itself. Shockingly beautiful, the deepening discovery of a Franciscan Brother's passion for Creation.

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Quoted byMorning at my makeshift plant nursery nestled in the Sierras, where I once farmed. New hands tend the earth here now—the art, books, icons of old have been swept away like autumn leaves. Yet one bronze bell remains, a faithful sentinel to seeking the Kingdom among furrows.Quoted by@RichardRohrOFM @CACRadicalGrace 2/ "You're right," I'll answer. “I have wiggle room where you do not." And I'll also quote the Quaker, Jim Corbett, speaking specifically of Francis' errantry: “To open the way, a cultural breakthrough need not involve masses of people, but must be done decisively by someone."