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Article: Real-world rain.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- September 17, 2004
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* I was shocked to read James Behrens' "Starting Point" (NCR, Aug. 13) in which he makes fun of religious men who had the courage to keep "right on marching into the world and [get] drenched." He even has the un-Christian rudeness to refer smugly to "what many of us lower folk might say [is] stupidity" in referring to their action. Perhaps these are safe words to write from the dry haven of his holy monastery. Perhaps he, like a lot of other holier-than-thou folks, need to get their feet--and the rest of their selves--good and soaking wet in the real world, where it rains like hell sometimes, despite what "our mothers told us"? What is Christianity all about, anyway, Fr. ...