A Rare Kind of Freedom

[Cal_Catholic]

Why the L.A. Catholic Worker rejects tax exempt status.

Full article…

 

[vern_humphrey]

Accepting tax excempt status – and especially accepting government grants – is a very dangerous business. “Who takes the King’s shilling is the King’s man.”

 

[Dale_M]

Dorothy Day, however, didn’t reject all government; she paid local taxes because she “felt that local governments were closer to the people,” said Dietrich. “I asked Dorothy what she meant by ‘anarchist’ and she said she preferred the term communitarian personalist, because the term anarchist is so loaded. But she spoke out vigorously against what she called ‘holy mother the state.’”

I’ve got her autobiography - I really need to read it.

I’m not familiar with the philosophy of personalism, although I have read that John Paul II was strongly influenced by it.