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'7 / i 1$ 3 - »...» POAU Speakers Insist ‘Some Of My Best Friends Are Catholics, But 99 ■ ■ BOOK REVIEWS EDITED BY EILEEN HALL 3087 Old Jonesboro Road., Hapeville, Georgia 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 CXTERMINATOBS CE. 7-8634 Free Inspection Atlanta, Ga. 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. There were some 300 persons Distributors and Underwriters of Investment Securities Since 1894 RHODES-HAVERTY BLDG. Jackson 1-0316 ATLANTA 1, GEORGIA Long Distance 421 \ Sutter & 1023 MORTGAGE GUARANTEE BUILDING JAckson 5-2086 ATLANTA, GEORGIA Where Insurance Is A Profession . . . 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See the entire Precision line! 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 Each issue of ibis Book Page is confided io the patronage of Mary, Mediatrix of All graces, with the hope that every reader and every con tributor may be specially fav ored by her and her Divine Son. T H E PHENOMENON OF Kna, J. Teiinard. ue Chardin, Harpers, $5.0U. riLiilui TEILHARD DE ChAhuU'i, Clauae Tresmoni- ant, neiicon, JjiJ.UO. (.Reviewed by Flannery O’Connor) In a recent review of TFIE PHENOMENON OF, MAN, The London Times Literary Supple 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 ment funds, and denied that 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 State. 4^0 ft Pays To Know Your STATE FARM Ago* DOUG STEPHENS INSURANCE SERVICE Auto • Life • Fire 125 Trinity Place Decatur, Ga. DR. 3-4424 y 2 Gallon of SWEET CREAM in every pound of LAND O’ LAKES Sweet Cream Butter which future generations know better than we do. 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- ESTABLISHED 1898 Complete Banking and Trust Facilities The Liberty National Bank & Trust Co. SAVANNAH,GEORGIA MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION 225 BUCKHEAD AVE., N. E.. ATLANTA, GA. PHONE CE. 3-1133 PRECiSiGN PAINT COUP. 4900 PEACHTREE INDUSTRIAL BLVD. CHAMBLEE, GEORGIA GLENDALE 7-2577 CHAMBLEE CHAPEL Mrs. Geo. W. Marchman, Licensed Catholic Funeral Directress George W. Marchman, Jr., Catholic Funeral Director GL. 7-3101 North Peachtree Rd. Chamblee, Ga. 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 Oriental Church (one of the of fices of the Holy See). Starting with a description of a personal visit to Jerusalem during Holy Week, the author leads the reader on a journey througn Jordan, Palestine and 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 tive work; it rather presents 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- BOOKS FOR CHILDREN New additions to Sheed and Ward’s Patron Saint Books se ries, which has previously in cluded stories about Mary, Jos eph, Margaret and Richard, are: BARBARA, by M. K. 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