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CHAPLAIN IN GRAY
Our attention has been called
to an inaccuracy in our review
of Chaplain in Gray: Abram
Hyan, the twenty-first and- last
book by the Rev. H. J. Heagney,
who died on March 2, shortly
before its publication. Our re
view called Chaplain in Gray,
one of the series of American
Background Books (Kenedy,'
$2.50), “nine-tenths fiction.’’ Fa
ther Heagney’s sister, Miss Anne
Heagney, a well known author
herself, who helped with the re
search for Chaplain in Gray, has
sent us the following comments,
which we are pleased to print:
“Although the book reads like
exciting fiction,” she says, “it is
the result of much careful study
and research into wartime cor
respondence, records, and other
available sources. All of the
principal characters in this ju
venile book about the Civil
War were taken from real life.
“Youthful readers will thrill
to the courage and exploits of
Father Ryan and his beloved
younger brother Dave; little
Johnny Sloan, the 13-year-olc 7
bugler from Texas; Ted Roberts,
a corporal at 15, who could ride
and fight like a veteran; and
Chaplain Duck, the “Swamp
Angel” from Mississippi, who
carried a brace of guns but only
used them when necessary.
These real personalities were
discovered by the author in old
records of the volunteer soldiers
of the South.
“Three other soldiers in Jeb
Stuart’s famous calvary who ap
pear in the story were the an
cestors of friends Father Heag
ney knew when he was station
ed for a number of years as
pastor of St. Louis Church in
Camden, Arkansas. Often he lis
tened to the stories their grand
fathers had told them of the
war.
“Although no biography of
Father Ryan existed before this
book, Father Heagney had the
opportunity of gaining first
hand information about the be
loved priest-poet of the Confed
eracy from old friends who had
known him in their childhood
and later moved to Arkansas,
the author’s home. These had
been residents of Augusta, Ga.,
where Father Ryan was assist
ant at St. Patrick’s Church and
editor of The Banner of ihe
South, and of Mobile, Ala.,
where the former chaplain was
pastor of St. Mary’s Church and
made his home for many years.
He is buried there and a monu
ment erected by donations from
the children of the South, by
whom he was greatly revered
for his Conquered Banner and
other inspiring poems of the
Lost Cause.
“A copy of Chaplain in Gray
has been obtained by the United
Daughters of the Confederacy
for their library of Southern
books to be established in Rich
mond, Virginia.”
THE SPIRIT OF THE SPAN
ISH MYSTICS, an Anthology
by Kathleen Pond (Kenedy,
$3.95).
(Reviewed by Elizabeth Hester)
St. Ignatius Loyola, St. John
of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila,
all are names familiar not only
to Catholics, but also to any lit
erate non-Catholic the world
over. Less generally remember
ed is that they were all six
teenth-century Spaniards, and
hardly recalled at all is the mul
titude on whose shoulders they
were raised up. But as is nearly
always true of the great, they
were spawned in a pool of the
near great.
Miss Pond, an Oxford scholar,
has translated and assembled
the work of a representative ga
laxy of these lesser figures who
grew and wrote in the same
world with Teresa, John, and
Ignatius. She has included brief
selections (two to twelve pages)
from twenty-eight personalities,
including some infrequently
quoted work of the paramount
figures. Each writer is introduc
ed by a short but satisfactorily
c o m p r e hensive biographical
note.
The book throws into curious
ly vivid relief why, with such
great resemblance to the lessser
figures, the world-famous saints
are nonetheless dominant. Their
universality (or their very
catholicity) is immediately ap
parent. Yet for the individual
taste, the specific deviation from
the average, there are any num
ber of writers included who
might show one person or an
other a great deal more than any
of the three stars. Because,
above all, every writer included
is an individual unto himself
and not a pale parrot of every-
man. It follows, then, that this
book can be an adventure in
self-discovery. From this almost
violent individualism our own
age has, perhaps, a great deal
more to learn than we are con
ditioned to realize.
1958 CAMPION AWARD
The Campion Award, pre
sented annually to a Catholic
author by the Catholic Book
Club in recognition of a distin
guished and longtime contribu
tion to Catholic letters; was giv
en this year to the Reverend
James F. Brodrick, S.J., histori
an and biographer, at a testi
monial dinner at the Prince
George Hotel in New York City
on May 14th.
Father Brodrick, who resides
in London, flew to New York to
receive the tribute. This marks
the fourth presentation of the
Campion medallion to an out
standing Catholic writer; pre
vious . recipients have been
Jacques Maritain, Helen Con
stance White and Paul Horgan.
A writer of rigorous and
sound scholarship whose body
of work on Church history and
Saints is considered to be
among the most penetrating, il
luminating and masterly in its
field, Father Brodrick is the
author of the following books;
The Life of Saint Robert Bellar-
mine (1928; first published by
Kenedy and now issued by
Newman Press), The Economic
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Morals of ihe Jesuits (1934; Ox
ford University Press), St. Peter
Canisius (1935; published by
Sheed and Ward), The Origin of
the Jesuits (1940; Longmans,
Green), The Progress of Ihe
Jesuits (1946; Longmans, Green),
A Procession of Saints (1949;
Longmans, Green), St. Francis
Xavier (1952, Pellegrini and
Cudahy) and St. Ignatius Loyola
(1956; Farrar, Straus and
Cudahy). Father Brodrick is
presently at work, on the second
and final volume of his life of
St. Ignatius Loyola, which will
be published by Farrar, Straus
and Cudahy.
Born in Ireland in 1891, Fa
ther Brodrick joined the Society
of Jesus in London in 1910 and
was ordained a priest in 1923,
having taught school for five
years during the interval at
Stonyhurst. Since 1923, he has
held various posts within the
Church, devoting as much time
as possible to his writing.
In addition to being a scholar
whose contribution to Catholic
biography and Church history
has earned him fame through
out Europe and in the United
States, Father Brodrick has a
reputation for being one of the
most readable Catholic writers
at work today, his books mark
ed by style and humor. Some
thing of Father Broderick’s wit
(and modest opinion of his own
gifts) can be gleaned from an
excerpt from a letter to his pub
lisher, who had queried him
about his early career:
“I worked for a time with
Father Herbert Thurston, the
greatest scholar the English
Jesuits have produced, and by
watching his methods learned
a little of the arts of the histori
an. But Father Thurston could
not make another Thurston out
of Father Brodrick because I
had not the gifts and was, be
sides, of a rather romantic turn,
much addicted to poetry . . .
and my health has always been
bad, a fact which I attribute to
the delayed results of the Irish
Famine.”
After receiving the Campion
Award on May 14, Father Brod
rick is scheduled to give several
lectures in the New York area
before returning to England
next September.
VISION BOOKS
The Thomas More Association
Medal, awarded annually for
the most distinguished contribu
tion to Catholic publishing in
the previous year, has been pre
sented to Farrar, Straus and
Cudahy for Vision Books. Sheila
Cudahy, Vice-President and
Secretary of Farrar, Straus and
Cudahy, is Editor-in-Chief of
The Vision Books series.
“The series,” says Miss Cu
dahy, who, with the assistance
of Clare Costello, is responsible
for its publication, “grew out of
my feeling that there has long
been a need for biographies of
outstanding Catholics, interest
ingly written but nevertheless
based solidly on historical fact.
We believed that young readers
as well as parents, teachers, and
librarians would welcome books
so written and would support a
series which had a wide range.
Now that the series is two-and-
one-half years old, our faith has
been justified by the fact that
there are nearly a million cop
ies in the hands of young read
ers.”
The citation accompanying the
Medal which was presented in
Chicago on May 4 reads in part:
“For too long the Catholic
juvenile book has been the neg
lected step-child of Catholic
publishing ... It was not sur
prising that Catholic children
grew up finding little to attract
them in Catholic juvenile books,
or that they failed to acquire
the incentive to look further
into Catholic literature as adults
. . . Vision Books has dramatic
ally lived up to the promises
of its publishers. 1957 saw this
pioneering series permanently
established as a significant
achievement in Catholic litera
ture and Catholic publishing.
The combination of bold and
original planning and talented
authors, of reasonable prices
and high standards of format
and typography have produced
books that are worthy of the ac
claim and success they have
achieved. Vision Books, by their
general level of excellence must
be credited with opening new
vistas for Catholic youth . . .
For the skill and enterprise that
created and continues Vision
Books; for so emphatically rais
ing the standards of Catholic
juvenile books; for creating a
challenge to excellence that has
already resulted in more and
finer books for Catholic young
people from other publishers,
the Directors and Staff of the
Thomas More Association honor
Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy with
this medal and citation..”
Catholic Candidate Loses In
Japanese Elections; Reds Win
Only One Seat Sn Lower House
By Father R. J. Pelow, S.F.M.
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
TOKYO, — The only Catholic
candidate running for a seat in
Japan’s House of Representa
tives failed to win re-election
and the Communist party lost
one of its two seats in the lower
house.
The Catholic candidate, Mich
ael Jinkichi Shirahama, a Lib
eral-Democrat from Nagasaki,
lost despite the fact that his par
ty was returned to power with
a clear majority.
A total of 951 candidates ran
for the 467 member House of
Representatives in what observ
ers were unanimous in agreeing
was the most quiet pre-election
campaign of the postwar period.
Slightly more than 40 million
of the 52,030,395 eligible voters
cast their ballots, nearly three
million young men and women
voting for their first time.
413 Liberal-Democratic can
didates ran for office, as op
posed to 246 members of the
major opposition party, the So
cialists. The communist candi
dates numbered 114, with 178
minor party members of inde
pendents also seeking election.
Twenty-two Christians were
among the registered candidates
for the elections.
Election results showed that
the party headed by Prime Min
ister Nobusuke Kishi, the Lib
eral-Democrats, won 287 seats;
the Socialists, 166, the commun
ists, one and other groups, 13.
As predicted generally the So
cialists increased their holdings,
winning eight more seats than
they had held in the old House.
But their advance was not as
great as had been anticipated by
public opinion polls.
When Parliament was dissolv
ed April 25 the Liberal-Demo
crats claimed 290 seats, the So
cialists 158 and the Communists
two.
There seemed to be an ab
sence of any sharp difference
of opinion on the part of the
major parties as far as domestic
issues were concerned.
In foreign policy, the Social
ists especially urged the early
restoration of .normal relations
with communist China and an
early peace with the U.S.S.R.
Prime Minister Kishi’s party
emphasized peace diplomacy
based on the U. N. Charter, co
operation with the Free World
and an early ban on nuclear
weapons.
As could be expected, the
communists called for the
amendment and abolition of the
U. S.-Japan Security Pact and
administrative agreements, an
early return of Okinawa and
Bonin islands to Japan, the res
toration of relations between
Japan and communist China,
and the conclusion of a peace
treaty with the Soviet Union.
The mass withdrawal of com
munist candidates on the eve
of the 1955 elections was not re
peated this time. The Reds here
seemed to concentrate on mak
ing the people realize they were
getting stronger and urged the
establishment of “a new demo
cratic government.” Apparently
the Japanese voters were not
impressed because they elected
only one of the 114 Red candi
dates.
However, the communists did
receive over a million votes, as
compared to the 733,120 votes in
the 1955 elections. In the 1949
elections the Japanese commun
ists had their greatest success
when they gained 35 seats with
some 3 million votes.
Two events did not endear the
Reds to the people here during
the past few months. One was
the “Truck Corps Case,” and
the other the “People’s Fleet
Case.”
In the Truck Corps Case a
number of Reds and fellow-
travelers were arrested on sus
picion of having taken over con
trol of some enterprises to pump
money out of them illegally for
the party.
On March 12, in the People’s
Fleet Case, a Red central com
mittee member, Fumikichi Ok-
ada, was arrested for allegedly
organizing clandestine voyages
to communist China as well as
conveying party leaders back
and forth while they were hid
ing underground.
Shortly before the elections,
communist China and the Soviet
Union entered the political
scene here and were accused of
interfering in Japanese politics.
The Red Chinese savagely at
tacked Prime Minister Kishi
with having a “hostile attitude”
to China following two events.
One concerned the shelving of
the fourth unofficial trade
agreement between China and
Japan. The Red Chinese during
the negotiations for the trade
pact had insisted that their
trade missions in Japan should
be given the right to fly their
national flag. Nationalist China
protested vigorously when it
learned of this, and at one time
threatened to break off all trade
relations with Japan. The Japa
nese government then made it
clear that it disapproves the
right of the communist Chinese
to fly their flags in Japan and
that it is not going to recognize
the Peking regime.
On May 2 the so-called Naga
saki flag-incident occurred. A
Red Chinese flag, displayed at
an exhibition of postage stamps ,
in a Nagasaki department store
was ripped down by a Japanese
youth. The offender was arrest
ed. by the police but released
with a reprimand when it was
determined that he had acted
on the spur of the moment and
was not the agent of any po
litical organization. A week lat
er Red Chinese Foreign Min
ister Chen Yi launched a seath-
ing attack against Prime Minis
ter Kishi charging that the Nag
asaki incident was a grave at
tack on his country.
, The communist Chinese then
suspended all trade relations
with Japan and later seized
some Japanese fishing boats in
the East China Sea claiming
they were trespassing forbidden
waters.
Just one week prior to the
elections the Soviet Union made
an official enquiry about the
presence of nuclear weapons in
Japan. The Soviets, too, were
promptly accused here of at
tempting tc embarrass the Kishi
government in order to in
fluence the general elections.
In a radio and television
broadcast followed the elections
Socialist leader Mosaburo Suz
uki pointed out that diplomatic
moves by some countries aiming
to sway the elections tended to
“provoke the antipathy” of the
voters. He suggested that the
Soviet allegation about nuclear
weapons in Japan and Red Chi
na’s suspension of trade had not
aided his party in the elections.
There were no religious is
sues at stake in the election.
Freedom of religion is guaran
teed by Japan’s constitution and
the high regard the Japanese
government has for the Vatican
was evidenced in the recent pro
moting of its diplomatic mission
at the Vatican to embassy rank.
Services For
Dennis D. Leary
ATLANTA, -— Funeral serv
ices for Mr. Dennis D. Leary
were held May 31st at St. An
thony’s Church, Rev. John W.
Leahy officating.
Survivors are his daughter,
Mrs. John L. Ryan, Atlanta; sis
ters, Mrs. Mary Walker, Mrs.
Doll Bollin, New London, Conn.,
Mrs. Delia McGiboney, Norwich,
Conn.; brothers, Mr. Cornelius
Leary, New London, Conn;
grandchildren, Mr. Denis L.
Ryan, Mr. R. W. Hull, Orlander;
Mr. John L. Ryan, Jr., San Jose,
Costa Rica; Mr. Henry C. Ryan,
Orlander; 10 great-grandchil
dren.
Services For Mrs.
Cecelia M. Jackson
AUGUSTA, — Funeral serv
ices for Mrs. Cecelia McGinn
Jackson were held May 26th at
the Sacred Heart Church, Rev.
Joseph L. LeRoy, S.J. officiat
ing.
Survivors are one son, Robert
F. Jackson, and one grand
daughter, Miss Patricia Jackson,
both of Augusta.
Brunswick Services
For Miss Ammons
BRUNSWICK—Funeral serv
ices for Miss Frances Ann Am
mons were held May 29th at St.
Frances Xavier Church, Rev.
James Cummins officiating.
Survivors are her brother,
Mrs. Warren Atwater of Bruns
wick and one sister, Miss Rose
Mary Ammons, Tampa, Florida.
Mrs. Mary Collins
Services In Augusta
AUGUSTA — Funeral serv
ices for Miss Mary Collins were
held May 30th at St. Mary’s-on-
the-Hill Church, Rev. Ralph E.
Seikel officiating.
Survivors are a niece, Mrs.
John W. McDonald, Jr., and one
nephew, Henry Mura, both of
Augusta.
IS EVERYTHING
PICKRICK
See Drive
For Closer
Relations
(By John A. Greaves)
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
LONDON—An intense drive
for closer relations between the
Anglican Communion and Orth
odox churches will be made in
July at an international meet
ing of non-Catholic Christian
leaders in London.
More than 400 invitations have
been sent to Anglican-affiliated
and Orthodox leaders to attend
the convention. Known as the
Lambeth Conference, w h i c h
takes place every 10 years, it
will be held at Lambeth Palace,
London headquarters of the
Anglican Archbishop of Canter
bury, from July 3 to August 10.
Though the Orthodox dele
gates will take no actual part in
the discussions, they have been
asked to come to England a
week before the meeting opens
for exploratory talks with Ang
lican theologians, the longterm
aim of which will be full com
munion between Anglican and
Orthodox Churches.
Invitations have gone to the
Ecumenical Patriarch of Istan
bul, the Orthodox Patriarchs of
Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria,
Moscow, Bulgaria and Romania,
the Patriarch of the Serbian
Orthodox Church, and the Orth
odox Archbishop of Alhens.
An invitation which has caus
ed considerable controversy here
is that sent to Archbishop Maka-
rios, Orthodox leader in Cyprus,
Britain’s Mediterranean island
colony, who was exiled two
years ago for alleged collabora
tion with nationalists seeking
union with Greece. Dr. Geoffrey
Fisher, Archbishop of Canter
bury and Primate of the Church
of England, issued the invita
tions without consulting the
British government. He has been
criticized on the ground of polit
ical interference by inviting
Archbishop Makarios at a time
when talks on a new constitu
tion for the restless Cypriot
people are reportedly nearing
completion.
Archbishop Fisher himself told
a press conference that the in
vitations was “purely ecclesias
tical” and.that Archbishop Ma
karios was naturally included as
the church of Cyprus is one of
the most ancient of the Ortho
dox churches. It sent a represen
tative to the 1930 Lambeth Con
ference. The last such gathering
in this country was held in 1948.
The Orthodox prelates will at
tend the opening services in
Canterbury Cathedral and in St.
Paul’s Cathedral, London, and
will be formally presented to
the Protestant bishops at the
opening session.
Five main points are on the
conference agenda: the authori
ty and message of the Bible, the
progress of Anglicanism, inter
national problems such as dis
armament and nationalism, the
family in modern society and
the unity of the Church. The
last is expected to be the major
focal point of discussion.
Differences separating the
churches are “a scandal and an
impediment,” Dr. Fisher told
his press conference. “It is now
accepted that Jesus Christ, who
is the head of the Church, means
it to be one..Whereas 40 years
ago nobody but a few wild en
thusiasts thought it possible,
now every sensible member of
every communion knows it is
possible.”
Moves proposed for closer
union between the Anglican and
Presbyterian churches will be
studied.
The conference will be private
and any decisions it makes will
be offered as “solemn advice”
to each church. They will not
be binding. An official report
on the conference will be issued
late in August.
Among prelates taking part in
the meeting will be 101 from
the Protestant Episcopal Church
in the United States, 32 from
the Church of England in Can
ada and other members of the
Anglican Communion from all
parts of the world—including
five from communist China.
MARRIAGES
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I PRICE-WHITE I
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SAVANNAH — Miss Mary
Patricia White, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Patrick White
and William Joseph Price, Jr.,
son of Mrs. William Joseph
Price and the late Mr. Price
were married May 24th at the
Sacred Heart Church, Rev. Nor-
bert McGowan, O.S.B. officiat
ing.
Catholics Sweep
Belgian Election
By Father Joseph Windey, S.J.
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
BRUSSELS, Belgium —- This
nation’s Catholic-oriented party
—the Social Christians (PSC)—
has been swept into power by a
swing to the right which sur
prised even the party leaders.
After being the opposition
party in both the Senate and
the Chamber of Representatives
since 1954, the PSC won a clear
majority of the popularly elect
ed Senators, gained eight seats
in the house, and picked up 30
seats in the Provincial Coun
cils.
Socialist Premier Archille
Van Acker, who immediately
sent his resignation to King
Baudouin, was to head a care
taker government until the
formation of a new government.
The King was expected to ask
the Social Christians to form a
new government on the basis of
their sweeping victory, even
though the PSC does not have a
clear majority in the 212-mem
ber lower house.
Social Christian gains in Wal
loon areas and the industrial
province of Liege were not
enough to supply the Catholic
party the necessary 107-seat ma
jority. The PSC was expected to
offer some cabinet posts to Lib
eral delegates.
Greatest losses were suffered
by the Communist party, whose
power was cut in half in both
the Senate and the lower house.
The Reds lost one Senate seat,
two house seats, and seven seats
on the Provincial Councils.
Of the 106 Senate seats up for
direct election, the PSC took 54
-—a gain of five; the Socialist
party won 39—a loss of three;
the Liberal party, won 12—a loss
of one, and the Reds kept one
seat.
The remaining 69 seats of the
175 seat upper house are filled
by indirect elections. The elec
tion system called for a meet
ing of the Provincial councillors
on June 8 to elect 46 Senators.
When the Senate next convenes,
the 152 members will them
selves elect another 27 Senators
to fill all seats. Because the So
cial Christians have a majority
of the Provincial Councillors,
they are expected to bolster
their majority in the Senate.
In the lower house, where the
PSC is facer with 85 Socialists,
20 Liberals and two commun
ists, the Social Christians were
faced with the choice of form
ing either a minority govern
ment or seeking a coalition with
the Liberals. The one member
of the Flemish party, the Volks-
unie, traditionally votes with
the Catholic party, bringing the
PSC total to 105.
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