A readiness for martyrdom, red or white, will form the inner ethos and the outward horizon for the Christian, and anything less is a compromise that will negate this. There is no halfway readiness for martyrdom. You either are ready or you are not…

—Larry Chapp

from his book Confession of a Catholic Worker

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JESUS IS THE ANSWER

In a cold, dying world choked by greed, the Gospel calls for radical love and radical living according to the Sermon on the Mount. Using the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar, Peter Maurin, and Dorothy Day, Chapp argues that the real remedy to the disease of sin is not niceness, not political liberation, not fancy liturgical dress, not technical rigor, but a free decision to live totally and joyfully in Jesus Christ, without compromise.

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