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Simone Campbell

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  1. “No, it's actually non school setting. So it was, I was the religious. Okay, I'm 23 years old, vast experience. And I'm the religious education consultant for high school and junior high school programs in non-school settings. So these are all the kids that go to public school.”

    2024-04-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 574— Sister Simone Campbell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Well, that was a big question. That was a big question. Some were, but so many were wrestling with drugs or with depression. This one, I think it's in my book, but this one kid had to tell his parents that he needed drug treatment. And I went with him to tell his parents. And we're in this house on the hills. The curtains are open and you see the whole LA valent, you know, that the basin. And I was so proud of him because he could, he said to his parents, I need drug treatment. I need help. And his mother's first words out of her mouth after he says this is the neighbors don't know, do they? And it just broke my heart. Here he had so much courage to talk of his need, and she couldn't receive it.”

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  3. “And so the story began, yes. But it was so exciting to learn that it's not just economic poverty that creates poverty. My teen group were in as much of a ghetto as the folks in East LA. And so I'd piled the teens in the car. We'd go off in small grooves. We'd drive around town. They'd never been outside of Beverly Hills. We drove. I'll never forget this wind kid. Paul, we're driving through East LA, and he goes, Well, there are kids on the street. They're playing ball. Why are they playing ball on the street? And I said, well, that's where they've got to play ball. Oh. But they're smiling. How can they be smiling? This is poor here. And it was like, Because happiness is not economics.”

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  4. “I know, isn't that hysterical? I know my first full-time assignment. Going to Beverly Hills. Yeah, right. And I did parish social work, which was I worked with a teen club and I did census, which is going door to door and, you know, asking who's there. And you went to the front doors to ask who lived in the house. And then you went to the back down the alley, to the back doors to find out who were the domestics, as we called them at the time. I ended up starting like a group for the domestics. I sort of got in trouble for that.”

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  5. “Well, it was so cool because I met this one guy who was obviously kind of tough and found out his name was Peter. And I go, you're Peter? Oh, that's fabulous. And I'm Simone. That's like Simon Peter. And it was in one of a church with the pastor and all this. And so we became buddies. But to hear and receive his story was so sacred. But that's what our community teaches us. It's about being open to receive people's stories and to know that each one is sacred and to be willing to ask for that story and to receive it. It's gift. It's real gift. But I think not many, there are not many religious communities who hold that listening and responding at the heart of their work. And so often, I mean, it's good to be a teacher and it's good to be a nurse and it's good to be organized. But for me, it's all about touching people's hearts.”

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  6. “That's a good question. I think for me, I joke about most things, but that Jesus injustice are obviously connected. They both begin with J. Hello. So they go together. But the other part is to my community, Sisters of Social Service, are all about working at the margins of our society, about being connected with those who are too often left out. To be in my community is to walk to the margins and be present. Let me give you an example from yesterday, I think it was day before, I've had a lot of experiences the last two days. But I was at Chicago CRED. One of the guys I was talking to.”

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  7. “Oh my gosh, absolutely. I mean, in many ways, she was younger than I, but she was even more determined hard to imagine been true.”

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  8. “Urgency because of Kate. And also I realized this, I don't know, a few years ago, that I've also in some ways lived both of our energies because we were both engaged in the civil rights stuff and we were engaged in our little protests around the neighborhood that we did stuff together. And so I think in some ways I have people tell me I have a lot of energy, but I think part of the reason is because I have Kate's energy too. Does that make any sense? It does.”

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  9. “Okay, but where it went really challenging was when my sister got sick. My sister Kate was a year and a half younger than I, and we were a team of two. And we were very close. But when she is a sophomore in high school and I was a senior, she was given three to five years to live with Hodgkin's disease. And she lived five years. But that Can I say that diagnosis, that reality made. Time of a precious commodity. There was no time to waste. It was too important. There were no guarantees. And so I think I've always had the sense of”

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  10. “Okay, well, okay, pardon me for taking over. No, that's okay. I'm really sorry. I try to be docile. No, no, I don't expect that. I didn't expect that.”

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  11. “Right, that's true. I hadn't really thought about how my folks dealt with our pastor, but the pastor was upset that they didn't make enough money in a bazaar or some such thing, that they'd worked really hard on. And then the other piece was we didn't go to the school in our parish. We went to a different school. And so we were in our Lady of Refuge parish, but we went to St. Bartholomew's to school. And my mother used to always call us the refugees because we came from our Lady of Refuge over there. So, the refugees made us realize that you could move and make choices, that you could choose what works for us, that it became a really a life-giving engagement. But the hard part, and you're probably able to talk about this because it's important, but I'm going to jump to it.”

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  12. “In Colorado, yeah, and so one day the Ku Klux Klan burned across on their front yard. And my grandfather, it made him mad. And they burned the cross because he was Catholic. But he hadn't been going to church. But after that?”

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  13. “My grandfather didn't go to church. My grandmother had been Lutheran and converted to Catholicism because she was German and then converted to Catholicism. But they'd have the priest over for dinner, but they never went to church. And then he was the publisher of a newspaper in town, The Aurora Democrat, and the Adams County News.”

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  14. “To that time of the struggle for civil rights, of the witness of standing up, of being engaged and speaking out from a faith perspective for the inclusion of all. That's what they brought when they have to know the Immaculate Heart Sisters ended up getting thrown out of the church because they were so progressive. But they gave me a faith that is always grounded in the now. Yes, it's historical, but it's grounded in the now and the consequences of now.”

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  15. “Was a Catholic school, St. Anthony's, but it was taught by Immaculate Heart Sisters who were so creative and so engaged. Always helped us know that Jesus wasn't historical Jesus is now. And so the Christian dimension of faith is about now, the application to now. And so all of our, you know, yeah, we learn things about, you know, Thomas Aquinas and those kinds of guys. But for me, the exciting part was the...”

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  16. “It's kind of regular speed, but then I could draw, I can't believe I did this. I drew on the board about how ostrich feathers have to be anchored in a very different way in the wing of the ostrich because they go so fast. I have no idea if that's true or not.”

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  17. “I learned something that I probably shouldn't have learned, but between, because I was a good kid, so they always put me in the back of the room. So between the back of the room and the front of the room, I made it up. Wow.”

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  18. “Get to that, but since you are on the school. History, you know, I'm interested because you're name Simone also means I mentioned to you before”

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  19. “I don't know how I thought that, but I did. And so I've always been a person who looks to make it better. And if there's a problem, well, let's deal with it. Want to talk in a minute about why the root of public life because you sort of you're not a politician but you Engaged with politicians. Your life, and that isn't necessarily the path And people of Leaders in the faith community always.”

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  20. “To have you in your school. It was a real joy. But the play then became around what was your, we fit in all of our Halloween costumes into the play so that we had costumes and we created a story about Thanksgiving. I forget the details of it, but we ended up putting it on for the whole school. And we were kind of proud of ourselves. But it was like. We could fix things.”

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  21. “Why I wanted to talk to you today But what are the roots of that in you? Because when people say Sister Simone, they say the activ Well, that's good. I take that. That's an honor. You know, I always felt like I could make a difference and didn't understand that I couldn't. So in third grade, we had a terrible teacher. And somebody said to me once, well, didn't you go to your parents about that? I go, well, heavens, no, I was the third grader. I was going to help. So what I did was I wrote a thing that made me mad about our teachers that he only called on a few of us, me included. But he didn't call on everybody. And that seemed wrong. And so I wrote a play where everybody was involved. And what I was trying to say is everybody needs to be involved. Now it was a play at Thanksgiving”

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  22. “About good trouble. Trouble, and you've been a good troublemaker And I'm sure there are bishops and others who would attest to the troublemaking”

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  23. “But confession is always good for the soul. So I come from an immigrant stock, but my parents left Denver to go to Southern California because my dad wanted to work with airplanes. And he ended up doing the Curtis Wright School of Engineering, which wasn't a degree program as such. But then became an engineer and then ended up being working in aerospace. But it was fascinating to me because I'm the oldest, so he and I were partners in making rockets and figuring things out. And he always nourished curiosity on my part. And my sister's part too. Your path Different in other ways than sort of the traditional path. You use the word troublemaker. John Lewis used to...”

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  24. “Canada, Ireland. Oh, yeah, the great one from Canada, who the story is, he got driven out of Canada for being a horse thief. But we won't go into that.”

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  25. “Lot of nuns, but here we're accustomed to nuns being the children of tavern owners and the children of brick layers and laborers and the children of maybe the occasional ward committee men. Which is a high office here, by the way. Not aeronautical You have a somewhat different story Family story. Well, that's true. My parents were immigrants from Denver to Southern California.”

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  26. “A hundred years ago in Budapest, Hungary, and the founders of our community, along with a cadre of about twenty women, was the first woman in the Hungarian parliament. So when she was ahead of our community, so we have politics in our bones. The sisters in Europe are credited with saving over a thousand Jews during the Holocaust. One of our sisters was martyred by the Arrow Cross in Budapest in saving Jewish families who were hiding in parts of the various convents around Budapest. Troublemaking and standing up for justice is in our bones. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now we have a robust”

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  27. “About the I didn't even know there was. Well, it's actually Sisters of Social Service. Service. Yeah. Though most of us do social work. I'm not a good social worker, so I went to law school instead. No, I'm going to get to that. Okay. We'll set that aside. But the great thing about my community is we were founded.”

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  28. “Right. That's true. And we're so grateful to have you. So you're. Mary. Oh, yes. That's true. Look enthused. No, I wasn't. But your chosen name when you took your vows and joined the Sisters of Social Work. About that in a second The name Simone Y. Right. Well, I chose Simone for Simon Peter because I'm sort of like Simon Peter. I have a tendency to jump out of boats if you know the Christian story about... You know, oh, there's Jesus. Oh, leap. Go and then get halfway out the boat, and all of a sudden you're thinking, oh my God, I'm sinking. I can be impetuous, but I also can be faithful. And so I picked Simon Peter as my patron. Mary was just entirely too boring for a name for me.”

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