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Chicago, June 8, 1971 (Cooler today here after two hot ones). (Sure a relief. Nice today).

Dear Jack:

    Thanks for your letter of June 4 and for the clippings.  I note the one clipping comes from Joe Diggles, whom I have for quite some time now considered to be trifling.  I don't think he can see humanity in other than R. C. hierarchy views.  I suppose his return to the fold - if indeed he ever left it - came with the death of his mother, a woman who had connections enabling Joe to get a job with Catholic Charities.  In a burst of enthusiasm about three years ago when I heard that Cathy Come Home (BBC-tv), the film that shocked England by exposing the treatment of homeless families, was about to be shown on W-T-T-W, channel 11 here, I 'phoned Joe.  He asked me why I thought he'd be interested in that sort of subject.  I replied that I thought he might still believe in more humane treatment of decent but unfortunate people, and particularly, the Irish had been suffering from the same conditions, notably at Dublin, where in 1966 troops had to be called out when married men insisted upon staying over the week-end at "hostels" where their wives and children were housed after tenements were "pulled down."