and a person who the Catholic church canonized as a saint. They direct people's ideas of a hero to a woman who served the poor and the lepers, but the church promotes having as many children as happens naturally. They certainly don't promote birth control.
So you live in India, Wow.
I have read a lot of books and essays by the Catholic Trappist monk Thomas Merton and he did address the ideas about the American myths of conquering the wilderness, which I thought was good he had some opinions on this. By the way, he was my father's novice master at Gethesemane monastery in Kentucky and also my Godmother is Dorothy Day, a good friend of my father's who knew her well and she visited our farm in Missouri in the 1950s. Dorothy Day is being considered for canonization too.
From Thomas Merton essay in The Catholic Worker 1968 called The Wild Places
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Now one of the interesting things about this ambivalence toward nature is that it Is rooted in our Biblical Judeo-Christian tradition. We might remark at once that it is neither genuinely Biblical nor Jewish nor Christian. Nash is perhaps a little one-sided in his analysis here. But a certain kind of Christian culture has certainly resulted in a manichean hostility towards created nature. This, of course, we all know well enough, the word manichean has become a cliche of reproof (like communist or racist.) But the very ones who use the cliche most may be the ones who are still unknowingly tainted, on a deep level, an unconscious level. For there is a certain popular, superficial and one-sided "Christian worldliness" that is, in its hidden implications, profoundly destructive of nature and of "God's creation” even 'while It claims to love and extol them.
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