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2332 North Decatur Rd. Decatur, Georgia
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For the greater glory of God
and for the spiritual benefit
of authors, publishers, review
ers and readers.
CHRISTIAN INITIATION,
Louis Bouyer, Macmillan, $3.50.
(Reviewed by Flannery
O'Connor)
This very short book is a re
statement of religious truth,
beginning with first percep
tions of the spiritual and con
tinuing through the discovery
of God, of the Divine Word, of
the living Church and the
Eucharist, and finally of eter
nal life. It is intended to show
the reader how faith takes
root in the intelligence, but it
is perhaps too summary a book
to do this successfully.
Louis Bouyer is one of the
most interesting theologians
writing today. This particular
work, however, has the quali
ty of an exercise. It lacks the
excitement of Fr. Bouyer’s
other well-known works, “The
Spirit and Forms of Protest-
ism,” and his biography of
Newman. In a short introduc
tion, the author says that it is
a book written not so much to
read as to reread. It is possi
bly a book best suited to fur
nish the basis of meditations
on the Christian mystery.
TO HEAVEN WITH DIA
NA! by Gerald Vann, O.P.
(Pantheon), 1960, 160 pp.,
$3.50.
Reviewed by Elizabeth Hesler
Jordan of Saxony was the
first Master General of the
Dominican Order following
the death of the founder him
self. Diana D’Andalo founded
a convent of Dominican nuns
in Bologna, Italy. The monk
and the nun were extremely
close friends, and for many
years a lively correspondence
went on between them. Only
Jordan’s letters are extant.
Father Vann has selected a
group of them written be
tween 1222 and 1237 and has
used them to illustrate a point
he apparently feels rather ur
gently needs to be made. The
title of his little book — TO
HEAVEN WITH DIANA! —- is
the point in a phrase. Note
that it is not “in spite of
Diana.”
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Father Vann is much con
cerned with the aridity that
can grow up in the souls of
those who have no genuine
communication with others.
He reasons that if you spend
your days in prayer and soli
tary devotions simply because
you happen to like , that kind
of practice, while you avoid
others because they annoy or
fail to interest you, this may
not be obedience to the will
of God as much as obedience
to the will of self. Father
Vann considers that in expos
ing ourselves to the needs and
affections of others there may
sometimes be dangers, but he
suggests God did not put us
here to he safe. He further
suggests that prudence is
what we must employ to cir
cumvent the dangers we are
required to risk. The Lord put
us here, says Father Vann, to
love Him with and through
one another and all things
which inspire pure affection.
With Jordan’s letters to Dia
na, he illustrates how it can
be done beautifully.
In defense of Father Vann,
it should be added that his
book is not an insidious advo
cation of “togetherness.” In
stead, it is a very fine — if
minor -— exposition on the
profoundly intelligent plain
between the carbuncle of “to
getherness” and the opposed
pimple of disgusted reaction.
We are invited to consider a
world beyond Norman Vin
cent Peale or Jean Paul Sarte.
And it is a heartening one.
(Reviewed by
Msqr. George J. Flanigen)
SEEDTIME ON THE CUM
BERLAND, by Hariette Simp
son Arnow, Macmillan, 449
pp., $7.50.
What was life like among
the early settlers in Kentucky
and Tennessee in the Cumber
land River region? This is the
question which Mrs. Arnow
answers in great detail in this
nonfiction work which is a
valuable addition to early
Americana.
As background, the author
gives the geology, archaeology,
Sociology, and history of the
Cumberland region. But this
is no dry-as-dust scientific
treatise but an interesting,
readable account. Mrs. Arnow,
author of such best sellers as
Hunter’s Horn” and “The
Dollmaker,” is a native of the
region and her writing has a
homey, autobiograhpical fla
vor. A school teacher for many
years, she knows how to keep
the interest of her readers.
She recreates in vivid de
tail the life of the settlers of
1730-1803 who came tq the
Blue Grass and limesttfilS* val
leys of the Cumberland basin,
how they built their houses,
what they wore, what they
ate. Here are all the characters
from Martin Chartier to Cor
dell Hull and Alvin York. Un
like some earlier works, prop
er emphasis is given to the ex
plorations of the early French
in the area. Unfortunately,
Mrs. Arnow did not have the
benefit of Cate’s researches on
Timothy Demonbreun, which
came out after her book was
published.
To help follow the story,
the book has eight maps, some
of which, would have been
clearer had the draftsman not
tried to crowd so much de
tail into a small space.
Sailors Of 7th Fleet
cdieal $m\
To Formosa Nun-Doctor
By Father Ivar S. McGrath
Society of St. Columban
(N.C.W.C. NEV/S SERVICE)
KAOHSIUNG, Formosa —
Personnel of the U. S. 7th
Fleet have given $10,000 worth
of medical supplies to Sister
Hilda Meier of St. Joseph’s
Hospital here. .
The supplies were delivered
by the USS Uhlman, whose
crew donated an emergency
generator, to the hospital
earlier this year.
Ships of the 7 th Fleet,
which patrols the Formosa
Straits, often anchor in Kaoh-
siung, Formosa’s largest har
bor. Officers and men have
not only witnessed Sister Hil
da Meier’s work for the people
of Kaohsiung, but have had
many occasions to be grateful
for her medical skill. During
one year she operated on nine
navy men stricken with acute
appendicitis.
Dubbed “The Healing Sister
of Formosa” in an article in
the August issue of the Read
er’s Digest, Sister Hilda is
German-born and U. S. train
ed. A member of the Francis
can Missionary Sisters of the
Immaculate Conception, whose
motherhouse is in Paterson,
N. J., Sister Hilda obtained
her medical degree at George
Washington University, Wash
ington, D.C., in 1938.
She was sent by her su
periors to China in 1941.
Preparatory Theological
Commission For Ecumenical
Cennsii Holds 1st ileeti
VATICAN CITY — The
theological commission set up
to prepare for the coming ecu
menical council has held its
first meeting here.
It is one of the 11 prepara
tory commissions and three
secretariats for the council es
tablished by His Holiness Pope
John XXIII.
Among the members attend
ing were Bishop John Wright
of Pittsburgh, Auriliary Bish
op James Griffiths of New
York and Msgr. Joseph Fenton
of the Catholic University of
America, Washington, D.C.
Before the meeting, com
mission members and consul
tants met in the chapel of St.
Paul V in the headquarters
building of the Sacred Con
gregation of the Holy Office
to take an oath of loyalty and
secrecy.
His Eminence Alfredo Car-
Over estimate your ability
and you’ll sometimes lose —-
under estimate your ability
and you’ll never even start.
TURN TABLES
ON SHARKS
ALEXISHAFEN, New Guin
ea, (NO—New Guinea school
boys at the Divine Word Cath
olic mission here are eating
the sharks That have been try
ing to eat them.
In a space of 31 days the
schoolboys' caught and ate 31
sharks, from two-foot babies
to seven-foot hammerheads.
They began setting their
nets for the sharks early this
year after a series of attacks
cost several schoolboys the
loss of a limb. Previously the
natives and the sharks had
shared Alexishafen Bay in
peace.
dinal Ottaviani, Secretary of
the Holy Office and president
of the commission, opened the
meeting.
He told members that their
task will be to present to the
council “a thorough examina
tion of the difficult theoretical
and moral problems of our
times so that the Roman Pon
tiff, together with the bishops,
may provide a solution for
them under the guarantee of
infallibility made by divine
promise.”
Commission secretary, Fa
ther Sebastian T r o m p, S.J.,
also addressed the meeting.
There was no immediate in
dication as to how long the
members and consultant of the
theological commission will
remain, in Rome for their first
series of meetings. Vatican
observers, however, have said
that individual question would
probably be apportioned
among members, for detailed
study. In this event, non-
Italian members would be
able to return to their home
countries while still working
on the questions assigned to
them and come back to Rome
at a later date for further
meetings.
THE BULLETIN, November 12, 1960—PAGE 7
Bishop
Consecrated
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Good intentions will wind
up an alarm clock, but it takes
will power to get out of the
sack.
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Bishop Alfred P. Mendez, C.
S.C., was consecrated as the
first bishop of the new Puer
to Rican diocese of Arecibo
at Notre Dame University on
October 28. His Eminence
Francis Cardinal Spellman,
Archbishop of New York,
was the consecrator in cere
monies at Notre Dame’s Sa
cred Heart Church. Bishop
Mendez, 53, a native of Chi
cago, has been engaged in
development work of Holy
Cross Fathers who conduct
the university. His new
1,200-mile Diocese of Arecibo
was established July 30 by
His Holiness Pope John
XXIII. (NC Photos)
Forced to leave the China
mainland by the communists,
Sister Hilda came to Formosa
in 1948 with other Sisters of
her congregation. The sisters
opened a dispensary in 1949,
and a hospital two months
later.
While gynecology and ob
stetrics are Sister Hilda’s spe
cial fileds, circumstances have
made the 49-year-old Sister a
competent all-round surgeon.
During her ten years at St.
Joseph’s she has delivered an
average of 300 babies and up
to 200 major operations each
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