In all these years I've learned, I hope, "not to take what is not given."
Brother David Steindl-Rast

Caught Red-Handed

Caught Red-Handed

Aug 8, 2016-- Benedictine monk, Brother David Steindl-Rast rises to the challenge of reporting on what he has stolen for a magazine's issue on Theft. Check out his heartfelt confessions, that range from stealing a bird's egg from a nest at age five, to swiping food when he was starving ("Stealing in wartime was a far more pragmatic matter. Motives and consequences were plain. You stole because you were hungry. If you were lucky you got away with it; if not they shot you dead"). (11158 reads)


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