Last month, I began to introduce the Catholic Worker’s main critiques of our modern social order.
I noted the way that, in agrarian cultures, life tends to form one organic whole of work, tradition, religion, education, morality, care for the land, community and local economy. Under such conditions of holism, it is difficult to develop a “throw away culture,” as Pope Francis has called it, because each person has an interest in maintaining health in the local environment, local people and local communities.
