Voting in a Time of Fascism
Should Catholic Workers vote in the 2024 election, despite the movement’s long-standing aversion to participating in partisan politics? Matt Harper wrestles with hard questions and asks for forgiveness in advance.
Should Catholic Workers vote in the 2024 election, despite the movement’s long-standing aversion to participating in partisan politics? Matt Harper wrestles with hard questions and asks for forgiveness in advance.
The following article is reprinted from the August 2024 issue of the Catholic Agitator, newspaper of the Los Angeles Catholic…
We can all identify the ways the Spirit has helped us “see the light,” helping transform us from who we were then to who we are now, Matt Harper writes in this essay from the Catholic Agitator. But how often do we move with the recognition that the Spirit is never done weaving through our lives? How often do we live with an openness to whatever shifts She has planned next for us?
What if we had a roadmap that promised to help move people from the streets into housing? Would that inspire more of us to accompany and help unhoused people on that journey? Matt Harper interviews two longtime housing advocates to create such a roadmap for L.A.’s Skid Row. This article originally appeared in the August 2023 issue of The Catholic Agitator.