Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

Pope's First (Continued from Page 1) tude of “neglect and extreme carelessness” that works against the truth, and termed “ridicu lous” the opinion that all relig ions are equally true. Passing on to the general sub ject. of unity, the Pontiff de clared: “A sincere love of truth then is essential for all, whether private citizens or those who hold destinies of nations in their hands, if they wish to attain that harmony and peace from which arise true prosperity, whether of individuals or of whole peoples.” He warned that “if nations do not aim at fraternal unity that must rest on the precepts of justice and be nourished by charity, conditions of gravest crisis remain.” “As a result,” he continued, “all prudent men complain and grieve that it seems to be un certain whether the same events are moving toward the establishing of a solid, true and genuine peace or are slipping in complete blindness toward a new and frightful warlike con flagration. “We say complete blindness for if — which God prevent ■— a new war breaks out nothing else will await or confront all peoples, (such are the dreadful armaments which our age age brings into play), but ap palling destruction and ruin, and this whether they are vic tor of vanquished. “We therefore ask all, and statesmen in particular, that they ponder these matters pru dently and earnestly before God the judge; and, as a result, with genuine good will, be rea dy to try every approach which may lead to the essential uni ty .. . SERVICES FOR MRS. AAGESEN ATLANTA — Funeral serv ices for Mrs. Nora Shannon Aagesen were held June 25th at the Sacred Heart Church, Rev. Joseph Biggers officiating. Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. A. H. Albertz, and a son, Ber nard Aagesen, Jr., both of St. Petersburg, Fla.; sister, Mrs. W. Rice of Los Angeles, Calif., and several grandchildren. UN. 4-3671 Gastonia, N. C. BRUCE'S IRON & METAL Gastonia-Clover Rd. BRUCE W. WOFFORD, OWNER GASTON POULTRY COMPANY WHOLESALE Dressed Poultry aud Sea Food GASTONIA, N. C. NORRIS SUPPLY & MACHINE CO. NORRIS ENGINEERING CO. Gastonia, N. C. ORANGE CRUSH DOUBLE COLA BOTTLING COMPANY GASTONIA, NORTH CAROLINA QUESTION BOX (Continued from Page 4) BOOK REVIEWS EDITED BY EILEEN HALL 3087 Old Jonesboro Road, Hapeville, Georgia all the keys to personal happi- * ness and world peace; it holds them exclusively. But these keys were never meant for just a chosen few; they must be shared with all men of all ages, everywhere. CONCRETELY th i s means that Catholics are bound to “talk-up” the Faith whenever a good opportunity to do so pre sents itself. When they prudent ly can, they must inject the Catholic viewpoint, correct mis conceptions about religion or Christianity, uphold Christian morals, doctrine, discipline, practice, etc. ENTRANCE INTO religious discussions should be always guided by certain restraining norms, however, because of the highly pi'ejudicial circumstances surrounding the subject. FIRST, A CATHOLIC can never hope to justify himself in explaining the Faith out of motives less worthy than a pure desire for the greater glory of God and the salvation of souls. Personal ambition, intellectual pride, bigotry or anger, all ren der religious discussions largely worthless form the beginning. THROUGHOUT, more over, charity must prevail. Dialogues about religion can never be allowed to deteriorate merely into critiques, of persons pro fessing the beliefs being dis cussed. Sarcasm, cynicism, ridi cule, and the like, are out of place, if any lasting good is to be accomplished. EVERY religious dialogue, finally should be governed by true knowledge. Rather than misdirect an inquirer, a Catho lic should readily admit his de ficiency on a point, promising at the same time to look into the truth of it. All of this under scores, obviously, the need of being well informed about reli gion. In turn, this implies a duty on the part of adult Catho lics to read about their Faith in both books and journals. DISCUSSING R E L I GION, then, is fundamentally a good and useful occupation, provided it is carried on in charity, wis dom and prudence. Each issue of this Book Page is confided fo ihe patronage of Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces, with the hope that every read er and every contributor may be specially favored by her and her Divine Son. STORM OUT OF CORN WALL by S.M.C., Kenedy, $3.75. When, in 1548, the English Crown imposed the Book of Common Prayer as a substitute for the Mass, the Cornishmen of the West rose up in rebellion. This unsuccessful uprising, call ed the “Prayerbook Rebellion,” provides the historical frame work for this newly published novel. S.M.C. is the pen name of a Dominican Sister of the English Services Held For Mrs. C. E. Gambrell ATLANTA, Ga.—F u n e r a 1 services for Mr. Claude E. Gam brell were held June 17th at St. Thomas More Church, Rev. John W. Leahy officiating. Survivors are Claude Brice Gambrell, U. S. Navy, Great Lakes, 111.; Mr. and Mrs. Rich ard Hartley, Pittsfield, Mass.; Dr. Elizebeth Gambrell, Decatur, Dr. and Mrs. N. R. McEwen, Ashland, Va„ aunts and three grandchildren. Services For J. S. Chisnell ATLANTA, Ga. — Funeral services for Joseph Syl Chisnell were held June 18th at the Im maculate Conception Church, Rev. Rayner A. Dray officiatfriff. Survivors are his wife the former Julia Phillips; sisters, Mrs. Agnes Nelson and Miss Mary Lockridge; daughters, Mrs. Frank P. Castellano and Mrs. Johnnie Vanderburg, and three grandchildren, all of Atlanta. Theology For The Layman (Continued from Page 4) thing, too. It is the picture making power by which we can mentally reproduce sights seen, sounds heard, textures touched, tastes, scents. For the intellect, the knowing power, it is a neses- sary servant. Made as we are we could not very well live in a material universe without it. But all too often it is a master, substituting its pictures for the hard effort the intellect should be making, refusing to let the intellect accept spiritual truths simply because imagination can not make pictures of them. It is worth our while to pause here and think over this domi nance „ of imagination in our selves—the times when we meant to think some problem out and imagination so distract ed us that at the end of an hour we realized no thinking had been done; the times when we made some good resolution, and the mental picture of a girl or a drink shattered the resolution in an instant. And all because in Adam we lost the gift of integrity. But it is not only as individ uals that we were all involved in the catastrophe; we were in volved as a race too. In Adam the race was tested. Before his sin the race—in him—was united with God: after, the uni ty was broken. There had been unity between the race and God, now there was a breach between them. Remember that, for God, the race is a fact, a reality. Each man is not only himself, he is a member of the race. Because Adam broke the uni ty, his children were born mem bers of a fallen race, a race no longer at one with God—a race, therefore, to which heaven was closed. A given man might be virtuous; but he was a virtuous member of a fallen race. Loving God, he might gain sanctifying grace, which means the power to live the life of heaven, but he still belonged to a race to which heaven was closed. Only if the breach between his race and God could be healed, could' he attain his own destiny, reach heaven; even naturally we are members one of another. This is ihe problem created by congregation of St. Catherine of Siena. Most of her religious life has been devoted to teaching, with writing as a sideline. This sideline, however, has resulted in several novels, including the very popular Brother Peiroc's Return, and biographies of Princess Margaret of Hungary, St. Vincent Ferrar, and others. An early book of folklore, Once in Cornwall, preceded this novel laid in that section of the British Isles. Unlike earlier re bellions against the Crown, the Western uprising' of 1548 was fermented by the people, Corn wall's artisans and peasants. They were first driven to revolt when the King’s commissioners desecrated the statues in their churches. Twelve months after the revolt was put down, when the Common Prayer service was introduced, they rose again. A great march, planned to carry the Cornish cause to London, ended at Exeter where the Cor nishmen were crushed by the royal army. It is in terms of the Cornish common folk, characterized by the novel’s pivotal figure, the youth Michael Penlee, that the drama builds to its climax. Michael, after fleeing from the scene of the struggle, joins the beseiged army in time to per form a final act of courage be fore the ultimate disaster over takes the rebel cause. This new novel is a welcome addition to the store of historical fiction from the Catholic point of view; and those who enjoyed Brother Peiroc's Return will be happy to hear more from its au thor who hides her personality behind so shy a pen name. Mrs. James Ragon Atlanta Services ATLANTA — Funeral serv ices for Mrs. James (Julie) Ra gon were held June 30th at the Sacred Heart Church, Rev. Cla rence J. Biggers officiating. Survivors are Miss Leonora Ragon, Miss Rosalee Ragon, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Coursey, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Ragon, Mrs. E. R. McDonald, Charleston, S. C.; Mr. and Mrs. William G. Ragon, Mr. and Mrs. Don Dug ger, Deland, Fla.; Mr. and Mrs. James R. Leidgen and great grandchildren. Four Georgians Graduate From Catholic University WASHINGTON, D. C. — The Catholic University of America recently graduated four resi dents of Georgia: Three from Atlanta: James Marshall Schafer, 850 Starlight Circle, N.E., received the Bach elor of Mechanical Engineering degree; Lucy Benedict Hep burn,1388 Harvard Road, N.E., was awarded the Bachelor of Arts degreee; and Sister M. Raymond McMahon, C.S.J., 64 Baker Street, N.E., received the degree of Master of Arts from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Charlie R. Harvey, 721 Fourth Avenue, Columbus, was award ed the degree of Master of Science in Library Science. The presentation took place at Catholic University’s 70th Annual Commencement Exer cises, held June 7. LIGHT IN SILENCE, by Claude Koch, Dodd Mead, $3.50. This i is a distinguished, some times very funny, occasionally tedious novel, set in a commun ity of brothers on the heights above the Niagara Gorge. Worldly interests and pride of intellect have impinged on what was once a simple mendicant or der. The action of the novel is built around the events which, restore its original spirit to the Community of St. Bardolph. What is required to get rid of the evil is sanctity and Mr. Koch’s portrait of the saint — an old brother known as The Pirate — is both believable and appealing. With great ease he accomplishes one of the most difficult tasks a novelist can set himself. The Pirate, who teaches English and attends condemned movies, disguised in an ancient sweater — embarrasses the “progressive” elements of the community by having a vision during the week when the state examiners are to arrive. Character’s outside of the or der are less successfully treat ed, the book is about a hundred pages too long, but a very fine performance withal. —F. O’Connor THE HISTORICAL AND MYSTICAL CHRIST, Theology Library, Volume V, edited by A. M. Henry, O.P., Fides, $7.50. CHRIST IN HIS SACRA MENTS, _ Theology .Library, Volume VI, edited by A. M. Henry, O.P., Fides, $5.95. Release of these final two vol umes marks the long awaited completion of the Theology Lib rary, a six-volume synthesis in theology, produced by forty-one eminent European theologians, edited under the direction of Fathehr Henry, an editor of La Vie Spiriiuelie, and translated into English under the direction of the Rev. Louis J. Putz, C.S.C., of the University of Notre Dame. Volume V, The Hisiorical and Mystical Christ, concentrates on the great themes of the Incarna tion, the life of Christ and the Redemption. An outstanding feature is the full scriptural, patristic and historical develop ment of these themes. Included AUTHOR (Continued from Page 4) difficulties that arise and the heroic demands that are made on those who follow their voca tion. The three Sisters — identified only as an Ursuline, Sister of Charity and Sister of Notre Dame ■— were critical of the film, all expressing the opinion that it fails to picture the true spirit of religious life. The Ursuline commented that she hopes non-Catholics will dis tinguish that the story is of one nun in one order, “but I don’t know how they can keep from making generalizations if they have had no previous contacts with nuns, unless they are un usually open-minded . . .” She said some Catholics “will have a struggle not to put them (nuns) into the same category . . The Sister of Charity writes that she regrets the film was made. “This is convent life as seen by a girl who, despite her manifest sincerity, was most de cidedly not called to religious life,” she says. The Sister of Notre Dame also expresses the fear non-Catholics will take “The Nun’s Story” as a picture of all religious life. “It is almost impossible for them not to form this judgment,” she writes, adding: “As portrayed here, the religious life seems grim, friendless, lacking in spi ritual life and warmth.” The magazine’s film critic, Moira Walsh, says that the film is “a masterly job of conveying the book’s spiritual essence in a medium which usually defies ef forts to use it as a conductor for a spiritual theme.” Pointing out that some of the events in the family of the book’s main character do not conform to the truth regarding the real family of the woman on whose life the book was based, Miss Walsh comments: “Miss Hulme is correct in claiming an author’s privilege of selecting and inventing de tails. However, she would prob ably admit that, had she any idea that the book would achieve its overwhelming success and would therefore be placed under a searching microscope, she would have been more careful that her fictional embroidery was not susceptible to this charge.” THE BULLETIN, July 11. 1659—PAUtt is a study of the Second Com ing of Christ. Volume VI, Christ in His Sac raments, studies the Sacraments as seen in the context of the modern liturgical revival, fur thering the understanding of the Sacraments in Christian life, and tracing the development of the Sacramental life of the Church up to the present day. The Theology Library was conceived and written for the modern reader who is either unable to study the complex Latin manuals or unsatisfied with the simplified textbooks. As Father Henry says: “From St. Thomas we draw the plan and the inspiration. Taking that for granted, each contributor has tried to re-think the questions and present them under a form and in terms accessible to the modern reader. ; II High Masses Daily Redemptorist Purgatorian Society Pius Other Benefits 1225 E. Eager St. Write Baltimore 2, Md. SALES SHOE SHOP SERVICE • QUALITY SATISFACTION CE. 3-2223 3988 Peachtree Rd., N. E. Atlanta HAGAN OIL CO. L. V. HAGAN/ Distributor Gastonia/ North Carolina Goodnight Brothers, Inc Wholesale Fruits, Eggs and Vegetables PHONES UN. 5-34S6, UN. 5-3497 310 E. MAIN ST. GASTONIA, N. C. FRED S. RHYNE DANES S. RHYNE J. ALBERT RHYNE D. SAM RHYNE M. A. RHYNE AND SONS DAIRY and PRODUCE DIAL UN. 4351, UN. 4-4352 Established 1885 GASTONIA, N. C. 3 Georgians On Belmont Dean’s List BELMONT — Three students from Georgia were named to the Dean’s List for the second semester at Belmont Abbey Col lege, Belmont, N. C. They are Frater Clement Por- zio and Thomas A. Hennessey, who received their degrees in June, and Philip J. O’Conor, a rising senior at Belmont Abbey College. the sin of the representative man. The race had been at one with God; it was no longer at ‘ one; the central problem was at- one-ment, a word whose mean ing we disguise by pronouncing it atonement. With at-one-ment all the rest of our theology is concerned. CALDWELL'S DRUG STORE "Service For The Sick" Prescriptions Called For And Delivered ® Quick Delivery 611 E. FRANKLIN AVE. GASTONIA, N. C. JIM LONG, Inc. LENNOX - WESTINGHOUSE 508 W. SECOND AVENUE GASTONIA, N. C. P. O, Box 1261 Phone UN. 5-882 Factory Authorized, Factory Trained TALLEY S FLORIST Warranty Briggs-Stratton, Clinton, Springfield, INCORPORATED Homelite, Simplicity, Jacobenson Third Avenue At Avon Southern Supply Box 166 — Gastonia, N. C. Company, Inc. Dial UN. 5-1234 258-64 EAST MAIN ST. • PHONE UN. 4-4321 GASTONIA, NORTH CAROLINA