Priest and Beggar: The Heroic Life of Venerable Aloysius Schwartz By Kevin Wells

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In 1957, at twenty-seven years old, Father Aloysius Schwartz of Washington, D.C., asked to be sent to one of the saddest places in the world: South Korea in the wake of the Korean War. Just a few months into his priesthood, he stepped off the train in Seoul into a dystopian film. Squatters with blank stares picked through hills of garbage. Paper-fleshed orphans lay on the streets like leftover war shrapnel. The scenes pierced him.Within just fifteen years, Father Schwartz had changed the course of Korean history, founding and reforming orphanages, hospitals, hospices, clinics, schools, and the Sisters of Mary, a Korean religious order dedicated to the sickest of the sick and the poorest of the poor. All the while, he himself—like the Sisters—lived the same hard poverty as the people he served and loved.Biographer Kevin Wells tells the story of a different kind of American hero, an ordinary priest who stared down corruption, slander, persecution, and death for the sake of God's poor. "What Father Al managed to do is beyond the pale", said his longtime collaborator Monsignor James Golasinski. "He was the boldest man I ever knew. He feared nothing."Known for his joy and his humor, even in the teeth of Lou Gehrig’s disease, Schwartz was declared a Servant of God by Pope Francis in 2015. By the time of his death in 1992, his work with the Sisters of Mary had spread to the Philippines and Mexico; and since then, the Sisters have founded Boystowns and Girlstowns across Central and South America, as well as in Tanzania. Father Schwartz died calling out to his beloved Mary, the Virgin of the Poor, saying, "All praise, honor, and glory for anything good accomplished in my life goes to her and to her alone."Includes 16 pages of photos.

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I have to disagree with other reviewers. I didn't finish the book because I didn't like it. I found myself disliking Father Al. He came across as judgmental.He's so critical of people, for instance, his aunt, a nun, who was influential in his formation and spent countless hours writing to him. And yet he "threw her under the bus," by judging her lifestyle as too opulent, even though she lived plainly in the inner-city and cared for poor children. In seminary, he's critical of the priests because they encourage the seminarians to become priests for the dioceses, not missionaries.Father Al labeled the Maryknoll community, where he went to college, with the same broad strokes of a condescending attitude. They, too, didn't live up to his ideals of total impoverishment. I didn't sense a lot of gratitude or humility in Father Al's attitudes towards those trying to help him.When he became an ordained priest and a missionary, it was vitally important for him to wear thread bare clothes, like the poor, and eat meager food, like the poor, and beg .- and he required the Sisters that were under him to do the same. However, how were they going to lift up the poor to have higher standards than they had? How were they going to offer role models if they were just as bereft as they were?Part of his reasoning is that Christ lived in poverty and among the poor. But is that even true? Christ said bless the poor in spirit. It wasn't about money. The overemphasis on money (either by Father Al or the author or both) reeks of liberation theology: The rich need to give up to the poor, and the poor are idolized, as in a false idol. And the portrait of Christ is erroneous and offensive: Christ ate with poor people and also rich people; He shared the Gospel with all, rich, poor, old, and young. He didn't live in threadbare clothes, starving, and begging. And remember when Mary anointed His feet with expensive oil? Christ didn't rebuke her as did his apostles. He said to allow her to perform this action of sacrifice and love; that the poor would always be with us, but not Christ. This idea that Jesus was just hear to live in squalor and serve the poor -- and that Catholics should too -- is a novel one from the l960s, and especially the l980s when liberation theology was popular, and Pope John Paul II condemned it as a heresy. It is hard to know whether this portrait of Father Al is a skewed one from the author or how Father Al actually was. But, in either case, I found it very offputting.There is something to be said for beauty: for instance, the grandeur of St. Peter's Cathedral; the magnificent churches in Europe; the beautiful statues and the lovely clothing worn to church to honor God. There is nothing wrong with wanting beauty in one's life or to share it with others. Ugliness, poverty, starvation. these are part of the human conditions and shouldn't be venerated.i should also add that the book has graphic stories of terrible poverty, suffering, war, hunger, and just plain horribleness stemming from the Korean War and other tragedies. Personally, I enjoy books that are uplifting, and this one felt depressing. As I said, I didn't make it through the whole book because I didn't like what I was reading.

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