CATHOLIC WORKERS DO IT AGAIN!

I don't really have any facts, but I understand there was a protest last weekend at the Kansas City Federal Building against anti-immigrant policies. The Catholic Workers were apparently behind it. How do we know? Zorro works alone. Actually the coverage I saw was sparse, free of educational value pretty much. (Even Zorro has a trouble with the corporate media.) [Forgive me, believer, and forgive me, atheist, for I am an atheist who says, "Thank God for the Catholic Worker folk and their noble movement".] Warning, these people are very nice.!

Forgive me if I think that it should be obvious as to why the Catholic Worker community should be considered progressive. To put it succinctly, the Catholic Worker folks agree with the Pope when the Pope has a progressive position but disagree with him when he does not. I think they obviously side with the poor and try to serve them quite devoutly. Most of these Catholic Worker people are against all the militarism so U. S. Imperialism loses all of its potential support just with that. They are often feminists even if many remain inside the Catholic church proper or Catholic holy orders. I don't know if the catholic worker workers regard themselves as in a holy order but it would be interesting to find out.

Here is a living progressive community in many cities across the nation.

Of course the Catholic Worker communities are also political. They engage in various forms of public education, protests and organzing. I think of them as being cousins of the Catholic Plowshares Movement, truly committed antinuclear and antiwar activists who have served decades and perhaps centuries for their exemplary acts of civil disobedience. I hope to add some documents from a local Catholic Worker group to this blog in the future.