North American Electric

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    Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of sacralizing person and community.
    Ivan Illich (b. 1926)

    As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    Suddenly I’m not half the girl
    I used to be.
    There’s a shadow hanging over me . . .
    From me to you out of my electric devil....
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)