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TERROR ATTACKS IN PARIS: ANGER & SOLIDARITY

Casa Maria March 9, 2015

8 min read This is reprinted from the February 2015 Catholic Agitator, the newsletter of the Los Angeles Catholic Worker. _________________ Each of these drone attacks are worse than the attacks in Paris. Yet we act as if the attacks in Paris were somehow unrelated to this drone warfare. TERROR ATTACKS IN PARIS: ANGER & SOLIDARITY The following is an interview with Blase Bonpane, longtime social justice, human rights, and peace activist. Blase is Director of the Office of the Americas, which he co-founded with his wife Theresa in 1983. He is a former Maryknoll priest, author of several books, and host

MARIA AGUIRRE

Casa Maria March 5, 2015

2 min readMaria Aguirre is the mom of Casa Maria’s Cesar Aguirre (little Cesar), grandma of Alissa and Jasmine, and wife of Cesar Aguirre (big Cesar). Recently she moved here for about three months, to provide much needed help in the Free Kitchen. She has been a real inspiration, and her tacos dorados are to die for! Here are her words! _________ Que Ondas Brian, Thank you for your letter. It is wonderful to turn 60, but what do I know I’m 10 years behind you. I really do understand about your knee pain (ouch!) You shared a bit of what you

COMPASSION AND GENEROSITY TOWARD THE SUFFERING

Casa Maria March 4, 2015

3 min readThis story by Eric Debode, fellow Catholic Worker is dedicated to the homeless residents of SAFE PARK and Councilman Steve Kozachik and his colleagues on the City Council, for NOT ACCEPTING THE STATUS QUO and instead trying to find short and long term solutions to inequality and human suffering on the mean streets of Tucson and America. HALF MOON BAY CATHOLIC WORKER COMPASSION AND GENEROSITY TOWARD THE SUFFERING February 2015 by ERIC DEBODE On Christmas Eve morning one of our regular guests, Madelia, called me to tell me that she had been in the hospital the night before

BLAMING IT ALL ON THE POOR PEOPLE…

Casa Maria March 2, 2015

3 min readHumberto Lopez Owner of Hotel and HSL Properties Hotel Downtown By Brian Flagg, I just got my new National Catholic Reporter (2-27-2015) and was enjoying the front page article about how Pope Francis challenged the hell out of 160 cardinals from around the world during a homily at a Mass on February 15. He told them that the credibility of the Church rests entirely on how Christians serve those marginalized by society. “Dear brothers”, Francis told the cardinals, “I urge you to serve the church in such a way that Christians – edified by our witness – will not

GUEST SPEAKER AT SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY

Casa Maria February 26, 2015

2 min read By: Gilberto Contreras I have been honored by a professor in the gender and women’s studies department of San Diego State University to speak in his graduate class about my involvement in the Raza Studies Movement. Being a gender and women’s studies class, many of my favorite feminist activist authors are talked about. The ideas of Gloria Anzaldua, Audre Lorde, and Cherrie Moraga supplied the content for this class. Theory in the Flesh was the main topic from last Friday. Theory in the Flesh, coined by Cherrie Moraga states “A theory in the flesh means one where the physical realities

HUGO CHAVEZ

Casa Maria February 24, 2015

2 min readBy Brian Flagg, I/we don’t have a Catholic Worker job description that details how we go about a practice of faithful discipleship, one that moves in the direction of the spiritual and material liberation of those whom we serve every day. So we have to be creative. And we have to be inspired. One day a couple of years ago I had a flash of enlightenment. I realized that what I really wanted was not Pima County Interfaith Council organizers, but serious, dedicated revolutionaries. The organizers here, Jimmy Ojeda, Cesar Aguirre and now Gilberto Contreras have generally agreed with this

I turned 60 on Monday, February 16

Casa Maria February 19, 2015

2 min readBy Brian Flagg, It really pissed me off, for weeks leading up to the day. I successfully avoided celebrations and instead went by myself to camp and read and walk into Cochise Stronghold in the Dragoon Mountains east of Benson. It was the most perfect and most sacred place I could go to. I spent time reading about and reflecting with Cochise, Fr. Jon Sobrino and Fr. Ignacio Ellacuria, Hugo Chavez and Simon Bolivar, St. Ignatius and of course mi novia, Jesus! The first reading from the mass on my birthday was from Genesis 4, the story of Cain and

Bravo to TUSD Board Member Kristel Foster

Casa Maria February 18, 2015

< 1 min readBy Brian Flagg, Bravo to TUSD Board Member Kristel Foster for her heartfelt, courageous and confrontational (in an extremely positive way) letter to the editor (Star, 2-15-2015). http://tucson.com/news/opinion/mailbag/letters-to-the-editor/article_6e9438b4-70b6-5639-be2b-25a171936fb5.html If you missed it, she calls out fellow board member Mike Hicks for his support of SB1371, which would eliminate $64 from the district. He isn’t the only one seeking to put down TUSD and destroy public education. May Kristel Fosters’ willingness to speak out help to transform us all into spirit warriors in defense of public education.

THE REGGIO EMILIA APPROACH AND WHAT THE RESEARCH SUPPORTS

Casa Maria February 16, 2015

3 min readSpecial thanks to the Tucson Children’s Project, Mimi Gray, Pauline Baker, Ben Mardel, Teresa Acevedo, and especially Lella Gandini of Reggio Emilia, Italy for making this all possible. by Cesar Aguirre As an avid supporter of public education and an extremely involved parent at Ochoa Elementary, I have done a lot of research and studied best practices of early childhood education. Over the weekend the Tucson Children’s Project held a conference titled “What the Research Supports”. I was in attendance, along with many dedicated teachers from Ochoa. Ochoa is a Reggio Inspired Magnet school. It’s the only public school of

A LITTLE INSPIRATION FROM…

Casa Maria February 12, 2015

2 min readA LITTLE INSPIRATION FROM… Pedro Arrupe Superior General of the Society of Jesus (1907-1991) Pedro Arrupe, who was elected Superior General of the Jesuits in 1965, oversaw a renewal of the Society so profound that he is revered by many Jesuits as a “second founder.” Specifically, he was instrumental in defining the modern mission of the Jesuits in terms of “faith that does justice.” Arrupe’s sense of solidarity with a suffering world had roots in his early years as a priest. Assigned to Japan in 1936, he was serving only four miles from the center of Hiroshima on August 6,

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