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By Joseph McLellan
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
BOSTON — Elesewhere in
Boston ceremonies commemo
rated Brotherhood Week but in
Tremont Temple the 12th Na
tional Conference on Church
and State opened — with a dull
thud.
Down the street from the
temple there was a competing
attraction — a movie house was
playing a Bridge tte Bardot
movie and drawing a larger au
dience.
The conference was sponsored
by Protestants and Other
Americans United for Separa
tion of Church and State
(POAU) and its theme was
“Religion and Public Affairs.”
The first session featured an
address by Dr. E. S. James of
Dallas, Tex., editor of the Bap
tist Times, followed by a panel
discussion on “True Tolerance
and False.”
Setting the pacq, Dr. James
declared: “Tolerance is a mar
velous virtue, but there comes
a time when tolerance can be
tragedy.” Fie explained that if
he was preaching in a pulpit
and a mosquito began sucking
blood from his veins, he might
tolerate the mosquito because a
slap would distract the congre
gation. But he. wouldn’t tolerate
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a venomous snake under any
circumstances, he said. No one
asked the significance of the
metaphorical snake — there
was no need.
Over and over again speakers
insisted POAU is not an anti-
Catholic organization. At least
tnree times during the first
two—hour session the expres
sion, "borne of my best friends,
are Catholics,” cropped up, each
time followed by the inevitable
“but . . .”
There were other “butted”
points:
—A Catholic has a right to be
elected President of the United
States, but . . .
-—Catholics have the right to
conduct their own schools,
but . . .
—There snould be respect for
the religious opinions of others,
particularly Catholics, but . . .
■—There, is a basis for re
laxing immigration restrictions
on southern European coun
tries, but ...
—The U. S. Bishops’ relief
agency, Catholic Relief Serv
ices — National Catholic Wel
fare Conference can distribute
relief supplies overseas, but . . .
Two speakers momentarily
deviated trom the central dis
cussion theme -— Catholics —-
and told about how a group of
Texas Baptists came close to
violating the policy of Church-
State separation in the conduct
of a hospital built with govern
ment funds — came close, that
is, until POAU stepped in and
prevented tne catastrophe.
Most of tne remaining time
in the non-anti-Cathoiic meet
ing was given over to discus
sion of tne Catholic threat to
American freedom. Anti-Cath
olic statements received loud
applause, jokes about popery
provoked the loudest laughter.
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at the meeting and all seernea
concerned about a recent arti
cle about the Catholic position
in the coming political cam
paigns as outlined by Father
John O’Brien of the University
of Notre Dame, in a Look mag
azine article, it was disclosed
mat virtually ail of the 300 had
written at least one lettef-to-
tne editor of Look and the con
census was that Father O’
Brien’s effort was “a slick,
suave, smooth collection of
guttering generalities with no
basis in history or fact.”
There was some concern ex
pressed over tne label “bigot”
with which POAU has been
tagged. One speaker asked: “Is
Libucism bigotry? At what
point does broadmindedness
become shallowness?” And
there was a speaker who iden
tified himself as a Baptist. He
sought to demonstrate his per
sonal freedom from bigotry. He
said he was willing to tolerate
t h e Methodist baptism by
sprinkling — as long as the
sprinkling was kept inside the
Methodist church.
One minister, denomination
unidentified, said many Protes
tant clergymen are reluctant to
discuss tne Church-State prob
lem these days because of the
“bigot” label. He said the cle
rics are victims of a “crusade of
defamation” and proclaimed
that POAU “represents the
great American tradition of tol
erance.” He insisted if POAU
did not exist “we would have a
massive resurgence of small
arm-Catiioiie hate groups.”
A delegate from Buffalo,
N. Y., said a program for wider
support of ministers had proven
successful in his area. Key to
tne program, he said, was to
“get our of hate-mongering and
drop tne anu-Cathoiic bit.”
A woman from New York,
speaking from the floor, , said
sue haa “many Catholic friends,
but “whenever she learned, via
POAU, of some dirty-deaiing in
the Catholic Church, then went
to her Catholic friends and asked
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PHENOMENON OF, MAN, The
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ment says, “There have been
men hardiy recognized in tneir
lifetime for whose acquaintance
later generations would will
ingly have sacrificed much.”
The name of Pierre Teilhard de
Chardin, to whom the Times
referred, is so little known in
America that in his introduc
tion to Claude Tremontant’s
study of Pierre Teilhard’s
thought, FT. Gustave Weigie re
gards it as not an impertinence
to tell us how to pronounce his
name: Tay-ahr. It is a name
will
about it; they invariably de
nied the charges.
The woman from New York
said her Catholic friends de
nied Catholics are trying to un
dermine the public schools; de
nied Catholics plan to close
Protestant church if Catholics
become a majority in the U. id.;
insisted it isn’t true that Catho
lics are trying to get support for
tneir Church through govern
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Catholics hate ail non-Catho-
lics.
The woman from New York
-said her Catholic friends obvi
ously are sincere about all of
this. She concluded: “Catholic
people do not even know their
own religion.”
Emerging from Tremont
Temple after the meeting it be
came apparent that Brother
hood Week was being commem
orated elsewhere in Boston ■—•
and that the Brigette Bardot
movie down the street was stiil
outdrawing the 12th National
Conference on Church and
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Pierre Teilhard was a Jesuit
and a paleontologist. THE
PHENOMENON OF MAN is a
work on evolution in which
human life is seen as converg
ing toward a point which Pierre
Teilhard calls Omega and which
he identified with Christ. Al
though Teilhard was allowed
to continue his scientific work,
the book was not allowed by
his superiors to be published in
his lifetime. It was completed in
1938 and published in 1959 by
the friends to whom Teilhard
left it. Only a man of pro
found Catholic piety could have
sustained his love for the
Church and his order under
these circumstances, but Teil
hard was a great Christian; his
vision of Christ was as real as
his love for science; his mind
dealt in immensities.
This is a work which makes
demands on the scientist, the
theologian and the poet. Its
scientific value is vouched for
by Sir Julian Huxley, who con
tributes an introduction in
which he says that Pere Teil
hard has effected “a threefold
synthsis — of the material and
physical world with the world
of mind and spirit; of the past
with the future; and'of variety
with unity, the many with the
one” and that the measure of
his stature is that he so large
ly succeeded in the search fot
human significance in the evo
lutionary process. Huxley, ol
course, regards Teilhard’s link
ing of Christianity with evolu
tion as merely a “gallant au
tempt,” but we could not expect
him to go further.
The theological aspects of
Teilhard’s work are ably and
sympathetically discussed by
Claude Tresmontant in his
book, PIERRE TEILHARD DE
CHARDIN: HIS THOUGHT.
Tremontant, while admitting
Teilhard was not a good meta
physician, vigorously defends
his orthodoxy. It is fortunate
that the two books have been
published at the same time in
this country, for the critical
book gives an insight into the
real greatness of Teilhard and
definitively sets out his contri
bution to Christian spirituality.
In his early years Teilhard was
oppressed by a caricature of
Christianity, one to a large de
gree prevalent today in Ameri
can Catholic life, which sees
human perfection as consisting
in escape from the world and
from nature. Nature in this
light is seen as already fulfill
ed. Teilhard, rediscovering bib
lical thought, “asserts that cre
ation is still in full gestation
and that the duty of the Chris
tian is to cooperate with it.”
Humanity, Teilhard wrote, “is
very far from being fully cre
ated, neither in its individual
developments nor, above ail, in
the collective terminus toward
which it is directed . . .” Tres
montant points out that asceti
cism in Teilhard’s view no long
er “consists so much in liberat
ing and purifying oneself from
‘matter’ — but in further spiri
tualizing matter ... in sancti-
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fying and supernaturalizing the
real which has been given to *
us, by ‘working together’ with
God.” Actually Teilhard’s work
is a scientific rediscovery of St.
Paul’s thought.
Because Teilhard is both a
man of science and a believer,
the scientist and the theologian
will perhaps require a long
time to sift his thought and ac
cept it, but the poet, whose
sight is essentially prophetic,
will at once recognize in this
immense vision his own. Teil
hard believed that what the
world needs now is a new way
to sanctity. His way, that of
spiritualizing matter, is actually
a very old way, one which
throughout history is always
being obscured by one form of
heresy or another. It is the path
which the artist has always
taken to his particular goals,
but which is set before our
minds now in a scientific ex
pression. THE PHENOMENON
OF MAN is a work which
should bring the worlds of
science, of art, and of theology
closer toward that convergence
which Pere Teilhard saw as
their luminous destiny.
THE BULLETIN, February 20, 1960—1.
die East is that of the Catholic
Church.” He does make con
tinued mention of the work be
ing done by the Dominicans, the
Franciscans and other groups
in the training of native clergy
and religious in the educational
field — interesting and very
heartening.
Somehow this book has not
had the attention from the re
viewing press (particularly the
Catholic Press) that it merits
from both its content and the
quality of its writing. Reading
it will give the American Cath
olic a comprehensive view of
the various lands, a deep appre
ciation of the mission field with
its accompanying needs and ac
complishment. He (the reader)
will at the same time be most
delightfully entertained.
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
IN THE MIDDLE EAST, by
Raymond Etteldorf, Macmillan,
$3.75.
(Reviewed by Cecilia L. Hines)
Books on the Church in the
Middle East, except those writ
ten about dogma and liturgy,
just have not been written in
English. Indeed, Monsignor
Etteldorf is the first to present
in that language any picture of
the Church, its workings and its
people, in the land where Christ
was born, lived and died.
Tvxonsignor Dtteiaori is quite
qualified to write this kind of
book. A graduate of Loras Col
lege, a former newspaper editor
whose seminary training was
obtained in Rome at the North
American College and supple
mented by additional studies at
the Gregorian University, he
holds a degree in Canon Law
from the Lateran University.
He is now an Official of the
Sacred Congregation of the
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fices of the Holy See).
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of a personal visit to Jerusalem
during Holy Week, the author
leads the reader on a journey
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the otner Countries of the Mid
dle East and tells about the
religious climate in each. This
book has the Imprimatur but
is not intended to be a defini
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aspects of the Middle East that
are little known in the Western
world. It has the feel of a trav
elog; reminds the reader of
Morton.
Monsignor Etteldorf writes
with a fluency wnich he accents
with fresh and perceptive com
ments. He does feel very deep
ly that Western Catholicism
has not been too understanding
of the situation in the Middle
East or very sympathetic to the
people who practice the Eastern
rite. He says “Perhaps the least
. known phase of life in the Mid-
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