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THE BULLETIN, December 26, 1&59-PAGE 7
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MODERN GLOOM AND
CHRISTIAN HOPE, by Hilda
Graef, Regnery, $3.50.
Miss Graef states that her
“present brief study of modern
thought and literature is in
tended solely as a criticism of
contemporary pessimism from
the Christian point of view,”
that its purpose is “to analyze
the works of some representa
tives of this thought and to
show its opposition to an au
thentic Christian outlook, with
its emphasis on hope and its
rejection of ‘dread’ and despair,
the pet subject of so much re
cent writing.” Her criticism im
plies no literary judgments, she
says, and her point of view is
“solely that of the Christian,
for whom hope is one of the
theological virtues and despair
a sin ...”
Anyone who has been puzzled
by such popular contemporary
terms as “existentialism,” “an
gry young men,” “outsiders,”
who has wondered about the
sources of the marked tendency
to gloom encountered in current
philosophy and literature, will
appreciate the light that Miss
Graef’s little book throws on
these perplexing questions. Af
ter sketching briefly the thought
of Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Sar
tre and others, she discusses the
“diseased, meaningless world”
reflected in the novels of Si
mone de Beauvior and Francoise
Sagan, the rebellious writings
of John Osborne and Colin Wil
son, the combination of “exis
tentialist attitudes and Chris
tian faith” found in such Cath
olic writers as Gabriel Marcel,
Francois Mauriac and Graham
Green; and finally two moderns
whom she calls “poets of Chris
tian hone,” Paul Claudel and
T. S. Eliot.
From Hollywood To Kenya
Is Story Of Lay Missioner
NYERI, KENYA, (NC)—From
a Hollywood sound stage to a
Kenya mission school would be
an impossible step for most
people—but not for Nora O’-
Mahony.
Miss . O’Mahony, formerly a
member of Dublin’s Abbey
Theater players, has in recent
years appeared on stage, screen
and television in the U. S. She
had roles in the Holywood films
“The Remarkable Mrs. Penny-
pocker” and “Darby O’Gill and
the Little People.”
Today she teaches English to
African girls in a Nyeri mission
school.
Miss O’Mahony became inter
ested in the lay missionary
apostolate after reading an
article in the Tidings, Los An
geles archdiocesan newspaper.
The article described the
work of the Lay Mission Help
ers Association. Last year she
took training courses at the or-
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T!f Accused Of Presenting
‘Basically Mediocre Image’
Of America And Americans
In her final chapter she
quotes at length from the
Epistle to the Romans in which
“almost two thousand years be
fore our present neo-pagan fash
ion of pessimism and despair,
St. Paul elaborated a theology
of hope,” and she concludes,
in opposition to the “contem
porary prophets of gloom that
even this world is not all pain
and frustration, that life holds
joy as well as grief . . . that
even the sufferings, of this life,
which so hypnotize our gloomy
contemporaries, can be com
pletely transformed by faith.”
Recommended for high school
libraries, as well as for adults.
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
WASHINGTON — Television
is presenting a “basically me
diocre image” of America and
Americans, a Catholic priest has
told the Federal Communica
tions Commission.
Father William F. Lynch,
S.J., also warned that the
“oceans of fantasy and dreams
and distortions” presented by
the mass media could eventual
ly make Americans “not willing
or able to face the political or
military decision history some
times calls for.”
Father Lynch made the state
ment (Dec. 11) during hearings
by the FCC on radio and tele
vision network programming
policies, and the extent of its
powers to regulate these pol-
The Jesuit educator, a mem
ber of the faculty at George
town University, is the author
of a recently published book,
“The Image Industries,” that is
strongly critical of the U. S.
mass media.
In his statement to the FCC,
Father Lynch urged the crea
tion of “a national group of
competent citizens” which
would issue periodic reports on
television’s “achievement or
lack of achievement ... in the
order of art, entertainment, in
formation and education.”
He said he is “deeply con
cerned” about the “qualitative
and cultural level of the pro
gram work of the TV industry.”
“It is the basically mediocre
image of ourselves and the im
age of this nation, as it is be
ing projected to ourselves and
to the world by TV, that is
bothering millions of Ameri
cans,” he stated.
Father Lynch contended that
the problem of television quali
ty “cannot be handled ade
quately by any regulatory pro
cess.”
He continued: “The really cri
tical problem is that of the qua
lity and balance of the pro
graming offered to a whole
nation in such a way as to cre
ate the danger of fostering a
national imagination and cul
ture that is not worth living for
and not worth dying for . . .
“We could make every possi
ble sacrifice to defend the na
tion, but it is necessary to ask
whether it is possible that, if
we do nothing about the state
of our most habitual images and
rhythms as they are being fos
tered by TV, we will have no
thing on our hands worth de
fending.”
Father Lynch said the nation
al citizens’ board he has in mind
to report on television would
actually help to “give the indus
try the freedom it needs to do
better work.”
“Now it is not free, though
it uses all the time-honored
terms of free enterprise,” he
said. He explained that the tel
evision industry is at present
under too much pressure from
advertisers to be truly free.
ganization’s Los Angeles head
quarters.
Then abruptly she was of
fered five jobs at once—two
movie roles, parts in two Broad
way plays, and a position in a
Kenya school operated by the
Consolata Fathers.
She chose the mission post.
Though primarily a teacher
now, Miss O’Mahony has not
lost touch altogether with the
world of the stage. As a side
project, she is directing an
operetta to be produced by
seminarians at St. Paul’s Semi
nary here.
The former actress thinks
more Catholics should try the
way of life she has chosen.
“If every Catholic who is free
of obligations would give a few
years to God in the missions,
the way many young men must
give years to military service—
what a benefit it would be in
the mission field,” she declared.
Indian Church
Facing ‘Dawn Of
Bright New Day’
STATE AWARD FOR
BISHOP GEROW
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
WEST BADEN SPRINGS,
Ind. — The Church in India fac
es “the dawn of a bright new
day,” said a Jesuit missionary
who has spent 32 years in that
country.
Speaking to theology students
at West Baden College, Jesuit
seminary here, Father John J.
Brennan, S.J., declared:
“Never before in the 400 years
of Jesuit missionary activity in
India has the field been so ripe
for the harvest.”
Recently returned from the
Patna mission conducted by the
Jesuits of the Chicago Province,
Father Brennan, who was sta
tioned at Krist Raja (Christ the
King) High School, cited the
following “recent develop
ments” as the basis of his op
timistic view:
1. Church leadership is pass
ing more into the hands of na
tive Indians. “In 1947,” he not
ed, “only eight, of the 40 Cath
olic Bishons of India were In
dians; today, 40 out of 65 are
Indians.”
2. Native vocations are on the
increase. “The South Indian
state of Kerala alone sends 400
missionaries yearly to other
parts of India,” Father Bren
nan said.
3. The Constitution of India,
drawn up in 1947, recognizes
“the right to practice, profess,
and propagate the religion of
one’s choice.” Moreover, it safe
guards the right of religious mi
norities to establish and operate
schools of their own, he said.
4. The caste system, “a great
obstacle to conversions,” is be
ginning to crumble. “In north
India,” said Father Brennan,
“Christianity could make head
way for the most part only with
the lower castes, so it became
chiefly associated with the ig
norant and the outcast, making
it an object of scorn for the in
tellectual and influential.”
5. Influential Indians are at
taching greater value to the in
stitutions and the teachings of
the Church. “Our schools,” said
the missionary, “are recognized
as among the best in the coun
try.”
Father Brennan pointed out
that Catholic schools “are ed
ucating many boys from the in
fluential families of India.”
“While comparatively few of
these boys are converted in
school, they are carrying away
with them a sound Christian
moral training and an appreci
ation for the Church which will
greatly influence their activities
and judgments as the leaders of
the country in the future,” he
said.
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
JACKSON, Miss. — Bishop
Richard O. Gerow of Natchez-
Jackson, Miss., has been named
a 1960 recipient of an award
given for outstanding service to
the state of Mississippi.
He was chosen to receive one
of the 1960 First Federal Foun
dation Awards, along with for
mer Gov. Hugh L. White of
Mississippi and Rex I. Brown,
chairman emeritus of the board
of the Mississippi Power and
Light Company.
Bishop Gerow’s selection was
announced by J. D. Williams,
chancellor of the University of
Mississippi, which administers
the program. The awards were
established by the First Federal
Savings and Loan Association,
Jackson.
The 1960 awards will be pre
sented to Bishop Gerow, Mr.
White and Mr. Brown at a tele
vised banquet here on January
29th.
Announcing Bishop Gerow’s
selection, Mr. Williams said he
is “well known and highly re
spected throughout the state
both as a religious leader and as
a man of deep patriotic and hu
manitarian interests.”
“Mississippi and its interests
has no more devoted advocate,”
he said.
Bishop Gerow, 74, was born
in Mobile, Ala., on May 3, 1885.
Ordained in Rome in 1909, he
held various posts in the Mobile
diocese until being named Bish
op of Natchez in 1924.
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