It had articles about poor and exploited workers in the USA. He sent me the Catholic Worker with a note saying that they were doing the kind of thing that we had been trying to with our tracts, only it seemed that they had succeeded in actually doing things that we were only talking about. He encouraged me to publish a series of tracts to try to stir up people in the church, and one of the tracts, which he himself wrote, can be read here, as well as more about him. I had met Brother Roger four years previously, and had got to know him fairly well. I was then a student at the University of Natal, and it had been sent to me by Brother Roger, of the Anglican religious order, the Community of the Resurrection, who had recently returned to the mother house at Mirfield in England after serving in South Africa for several years. It was clearly not a Sundays-only hobby for them, but something for every day and every hour. It impressed me greatly as a publication produced by people who seemed to take the Christian faith seriously. That evening I read it all, and the following day wrote to the editor, one Dorothy Day, and sent off a subscription to it. On I opened my post, and there was a thin tabloid newspaper called the Catholic Worker. Love Is the Measure: A Biography of Dorothy Day by Jim Forest
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