CASA CRY, NEWSLETTFR OF CASA MARIA C.W.
Catholic Worker
From: Don Timmerman
CASA CRY AUGUST, 2025
House Needs: prayers. Razors, bathtowels, washcloths,size 6 diapers. Bowls, bleach, deodorant, shampoo, baby wipes, cleaning supplies, milk, laundry detergent, 39 gallon garbage bags, toilet paper. Thanks!
“I spent 33 years and 4 months in active military service…And during that period I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for big business, for Wall Street and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico safe for Americnn oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue in. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown brothers …I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. I help make Honduras ‘right’ for American fruit companies in 1903. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints.” ---Major General Smedley Butler, USMC “The only law for a Christian is to love your enemy and do good to him/her.
This means that a Christian cannot make or use a weapon or financially support or agree to use a weapon in war. We all suffer pain, killings, and devastation of resources in the world because we have not followed this law. “You get what you pay for.” We must never kill another to save ourselves. All lives are sacred. Practice war tax resistance by joining Natonal War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee ---Don Timmerman
“Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for that country.” ---Bertrand Russell
“Gradually I came to gain a glimpse of what Jesus meant when he said that the Kingdom of God must be in everyone…To change the world by bullets or ballots was a useless procedure. Therefore the only revolution worthwhile was the one- man revolution within the heart. Each one would make this by himself/herself and not need to wait on a majority.” ---Ammon Hennacy (1893-1970)
"Never forget that the legal system is not the highest law. Our morality is. Another way to look at it is, just because it’s the law does not mean it should be obeyed or defended. Make no mistake, the oft repeated phrase by politicians that “we are a nation of laws” is not about order and harmony, it is meant to control and to subvert dissent.” Kai Huschke is the Executive Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
“We fear what we do not know, and we hate what we fear. The recent attacks on Jews in Colorado and DC, along with the continuing slaughter of civilians in Gaza, indicate that the killers knew little or nothing about their victims, except that those people are somehow the “enemy”. It is easy to dehumanize a person if you cannot recognize him or her as being like yourself in some way. In our world the hard thing to do, the courageous thing to do, is to reach out and attempt to understand others, especially those who seem to be our enemies. However, to end the violence that is what we must do.”----Chicago Tribune letter to the editor
DON’S JOKES
An older man was asked what his astrology animal sign was. He answered, Extinct. A farmer had never been to a big-city restaurant before and the maitre’d wouldn’t let him in cause he needed to wear a tie. The farmer had none so he asked if he could borrow a tie. They said they had none. So the farmer goes out to his truck to find something like a tie. He found some jumper cables and ties them around his neck. They said it was alright. But better not start anything. My friend took his dog to the movies. People were amazed that the dog had enjoyed the movie. My friend said, “Yes, he enjoyed the movie, but he thought the book was better/” What did one toilet say to the other?“You appear a bit flushed.” Why do historians call the Early Middle Ages the Dark Ages? There were a lot of knights. What do you call a nose without a body? No body nose. A man walks into an enchanted forest and tries to cut down a talking tree. “You can’t cut me down,” the tree exclaims. “I’m a talking tree!” The man responds, “You may be a talking tree, but you will dialogue.” Why is it that if you donate a kidney, people love you, but if you donate five kidneys, they call the police? At a party, a woman admonished her husband, saying, “That’s the fourth time you’ve gone back for ice cream and cake. Doesn’t it embarrass you?” He shrugged and answered, “Why should it? I keep telling them it’s for you.” “I’d like a bottle of wine,” a woman told her waiter. “What year, ma’am?” the waiter replied. She huffed and said, “Well, I’d like it right now.” My dog used to chase people on bikes a lot. It got so bad that finally I had to take his bike away. “It seems I have spent a lifetime of mouthing mechanically, ‘Say thank you. Sit up straight. Use your napkin. Close your mouth when you chew. Don’t lean back in your chair.’ Just when I finally got my husband squared away, the kids came along.” —Erma Bombeck A little boy was about to leave the house. His Mom asked him, “Where are you going? Boy: “I’m going out to make disciples of all men special today is calf’s tongue. He told them that he would never eat something from an animal’s mouth. So he ordered an omelet.
INTERESTING
FACTS
More
than 100 humanitarian organizations are demanding action to end Israel’s siege
of Gaza, warning mass starvation is spreading across the Palestinian territory ---Democracy
Now In Tel Aviv, thousands of
antiwar protesters marched on Israel’s military headquarters demanding an end
to Israel’s war. The official death toll in Gaza has topped 58,000 but probably
nowhere near the actual toll, as The Lancet also published
a correspondence one
year ago estimating a death toll near 200,000. Earlier this year Ralph
Nader plausibly
estimated the death toll at over 400,000. Recently an Israeli missile strike killed at least 10
Palestinians, including six children, at a water distribution point in Nuseirat
refugee camp. A new ship from the
Freedom Flotilla Coalition has set sail from Italy with hopes of breaking the
siege on Gaza. The Handala’s voyage comes just over a month after Israeli
forces raided and seized an earlier aid ship, the Madleen, in international
waters. the
consequences are tangible. Tens of thousands of tons of foreign food aid remain
stranded.
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In 2024, the nine nuclear-armed states spent $9.9 billion (11%) more on their nuclear arsenals than the year before, a total of $100.2 billion, or $3,169 per second on nuclear weapons. The U.S. had the biggest increase from 2023-2024, at $5.3 billion --- Democracy Now
Lawmakers blasted the horrific conditions in Florida’s new immigration detention jail in the Everglades, known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” The Trump administration has ignored or circumvented federal court orders in over one-third of the cases decided against it The government’s failure to comply with rulings has disrupted legal representation for minors, blocked public health initiatives, and delayed life-saving programs abroad. Judge Amir Ali recently ordered the administration to explain why it has taken “literally zero steps” to comply with a ruling requiring release of frozen foreign aid.---Nation of Change Congress approved some $45 billion to expand ICE’s immigration detention capacity, including the jailing of families and children, Corrections officers are to be paid up to $11,600 a month. Actions will be held on Aug. 7 calling for the release of Alejandro Orelan, a rights advocate. --- Fight Back! News. Nearly 60,000 people are believed to be currently detained at ICE jails across the country ---Democracy Now
NOTE
Wed. August 6---- LANTERNS FOR PEACE 6:30 PM – Gather at the Tenney Park, John Wall Family Pavilion & begin lantern-making. Everyone is welcome and we have all the supplies to make a lantern. 7:30 PM – Commemorative program begins. 7:45–8:00 PM – Lanterns launched at dusk onto the Tenney Park Lagoon. For event in Milwaukee contact Peace Action Wisconsin. 414-269-9525 We ask for forgiveness from the people of Nagasaki and Hiroshima..NEVER AGAIN!
🕯️ Lanterns for
Peace – Annual Hiroshima/Nagasaki Memorial
🗓️ Saturday, August
9, 2025
⏰ 6:00 PM – Lantern Making | 7:00 PM – Program | 8:15 PM – Procession
📍 Zao MKE Church,
2319 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI
🕯️ Lanterns for Peace – Annual Hiroshima/Nagasaki Memorial
Sat/. August 16 ---Tom Sitter’s 102nd birthday. Tom volunteered many years at Casa Maria among many other good deeds to help others for years. He asks for help for Casa Maria. Tom’s humor the best, except for Don’s.
Thurs., August 21 ---ANTI-ROTC VIGIL at Marquette U. Library, Noon to 1 p.m. No Christian school should be teaching killing rather than loving the enemy. Close it!
Sunday, August 23 ---Vigil to stop solitary confinement at Detention Center, 9th & Highland, 11 to 11:30 a/,m.
Thurs., August 28 ---ANTI-GUN VIGIL at Shooter’s Shop, 84th & Authur, from Noon to 1 p.m. Demand an end to making, selling and proliferating guns and banning ammunition. Guns lead to violence, death and great suffering. According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been 254 mass shootings across the U.S. so far this year.----Democracy Now
THE SPARROW SINGS: Recently I have been reflecting on the beauty of our neighborhood. We have a lovely rainbow of people who live here. Usually on Sunday evenings, when I am working in my garden, lovely voices fill the air from the church next door. The songs are sung in a foreign language, which sounds so beautiful. It always lifts my spirit. This week Sabine and Jake, both neighbors, offered to help me in my garden. Since weeds have taken over part of my garden, a load was lifted from my shoulders. Then last Sunday Tim and John hosted a mid-summer gathering in their garden. It was great to socialize with neighbors in such a lovely setting. Also, the friendly greetings from neighbors when we meet always cheer me. Milwaukee has been experiencing violence in the city. We too, have had some violence in our area. Yet the goodness and the kindness in the people who live here lightens my spirit. I believe the power of community can overcome the power of violence. May it be so. Peace, Roberta