I love Dorothy Day. I pray for her canonization. But I love her prophetic voice.
I feel that, as in the time of the Desert Fathers, the young are fleeing the cities--wandering over the face of the land, living after a fashion in voluntary poverty and manual labor, seeming to be inactive in the "peace movement." I know they are still a part of it--just as Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers' Movement is also part of it, committed to non-violence, even while they resist, fighting for their lives and their families' lives. (They, together with the blacks, feel and have stated this, that birth control and abortion are genocide.)I agree with them and say--make room for children, don't do away with them.
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