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MEXICO. LAND OF MA
RY'S WONDERS, by Joseph L.
Cassidy, St. Anthony Guild,
1958, 192 pp., map, illus., $4.00,
and OUR LADY COMES TO
AMERICA, by Raphael Gras-
hoff, Grail, 1958, 37 pp., 35c.
Reviewed by
Leo J. Zuber
Less than forty years after
Columbus discovered this con
tinent, the Blessed Mother ap
peared to a Mexican Indian,
baptized as Juan Diego, and,
in a Veronica-in-reverse ges
ture, she left her image clear
ly imprinted on his coarse
cloak. Mary’s appearances and
her message and great gift to
the startled Aztec occurred in
December 1531. Lourdes? That
was over 325 years later. Fa
tima? Over 385 years later than
Giiadalupe. America had pri
ority.
That cloak, which the most
zealous doubters of miracles
cannot explain away, now en
shrined in the cathedral at
Guadalupe (Mary asked for a
chapel), greatly beloved as it
is and has every right to be
is but one of many Marian
shrines in that land. Nearly
thirty of these are described
briefly and individually illu
strated in Father Cassidy’s
book. Our Lady Comes io
America is exclusively on Our
Lady of Guadalupe. Neither
book is newly published yet
each, because of its subject, is
perennially new.
With the travel and sight-
“It is my wish that a chapel be built to me in this place.
Here I will show myself a loving Mother to all in these lands,
and to those who love and seek, me, implore my protection,
and call on me in their labors and afflictions. Here I will
manifest the tender compassion I feel for your people, listening
to their lamentations and supplications and giving them con
solation and relief. No?ie who seek me here in true need or
affliction shall go away unconsoled.” Words of Our Lady
of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas, to Juan Diego, at
Tepeyac, Mexico, December 9, 1531. Original charcoal sketch
by Marilyn C. Herrin, based on various sources.
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seeing season hard on us, with
avowed and overt Communism
at our very sills in season and
out, it is timely to recall our
priority, to remember and to
view with perspective some of
the riches which our American
Catholic heritage bears today
from its roots in the past.
Besides, May and Mary are
only one little letter apart.
AMERICAN CATHOLICISM,
by John Tracy Ellis, Rand Mc
Nally 1956, 208 pp., $1.25.
Reviewed by
Msgr. George J. Flanigen
For those who want a quick
survey of Catholic history in
the United States the 159-page
text of this little paperback
book is the answer. Only one
thoroughly familiar with the
field could have compressed
the intricate subject into so
few pages and made it intelli
gible.
Msgr. Ellis is professor of
history at the Catholic Uni
versity of America, secretary
of the American Catholic His
torical Asosciation and prob
ably the greatest living au
thority on American Catholic
history.
The four chapters are re
visions of the four Walgreen
Lectures Msgr. Ellis gave at
the University of Chicago in
January 1955. With quick but
masterful strokes the author
first paints the picture of
America from its discovery by
Columbus to the establishment
of the American hierarchy in
1790. His second chapter traces
the Catholics’ attainment of
religious liberty and their
growth in the young nation.
This section dealing with the
last half of the nineteenth cen
tury outlines the part that
Catholics played in the Civil
War and the great growth of
the Church in this country due
to the tides of immigration.
From 1908 on Msgr. Ellis
designates as the period when
the Church reached maturity.
The book is one of the
American Civilization Series
being published by the Uni
versity of Chicago.
A SHORT HISTORY OF
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH,
by Denis Meadows (Paper
back-book edition, All Saints
Press, Inc., N. Y. 246 pp., in
dexed, 60c; hard cover edition,
Devin-Adair Co., N. Y., $4.50.)
Reviewed by
W. L. Schmidt
The availability of a paper
bound, news stand type edi
tion of this book is significant
of one purpose. It is meant for
average laymen. Denis Mead
ows serves this person well,
for there are no deep theolog
ical discussions of controver
sies that raged at various
times during the Church’s
twenty centuries of growth
and development. There is, in
stead, a clear presentation of
the founding and progress to
wards its present state of
existence that is excitingly
readable.
One fact stands out in al
most every page. The Church,
though Divinely founded and
guided, is made up of human
beings. As its members in
cluded saints and sinners, so
were there among its Popes
and Ministers saints and sin
ners. There are no punch-pull
ing words, nor quick passov-
ers, in presenting those years
during which the Church’s
leaders were men of the world
rather than of God. But these
always occurred at intervals
during which some of them
became intricately entwined
in temporal affairs, and in
governmental patronages when
much sight was lost of man’s
spiritual needs. But that the
Church continued, and grew
nevertheless, and that no
fundamental errors evolved in
its teachings is proof that
Christ was always at the helm
of Peter’s bark, or at least
stood right behind it. The
many saints that lived during
"Light, Chief?"
From Brother Juniper At Work And Play, by Father Justin
McCarthy, Hanover House, 1960, 126 pp, $1.00.
these various perilous times
attest to that also.
There is a raising interest,
now, on all sides of us in the
Catholic Church. In the urg-
ings that every Catholic fa
miliarize himself more and
more with his Faith, and its
history, this book is eminently
timely and rewarding in its
reading.
ARE WE GOING SECU
LAR? by Joseph H. Fichter,
S.J., Marquette University
Press, 1960, 32 pp., paper cover,
50c.
Reviewed by
Joseph Power
One part of our civilization
and culture is the way we
think and the way we do the
things of our politics and so
ciety. Are we, as citizens, for
getting God when we think
and decide about politics and
about our way of living our
lives in the midst of our fellow
citizens?
The author uses his profes
sional field of sociology to sug
gest some of the answers:
“. . . it was one of the criti
cisms of (the churches in the
U. S. A.) ... as early as 1926,
that (our churches) perform
such a wide variety of non
religious functions in drawing
our people together.”
Father Fichter resolutely
holds up to view the B.Y.P.U.
of a Baptist congregation; a
Sodality sponsoring a fashion
show; the Hadassah busy about
a corporate work of mercy.
“Many of these activities have
the . . . function of making the
parish or congregation some
thing more than just another
formal association of human
beings. A case in point, clearly
demonstrated by research, is
the way in which a parochial
elementary school acts as a
focus . . . for the total parish.”
The brochure is eminently
readable. The reader must,
however, be a working reader.
THE CONVERSION OF
AUGUSTINE, Romano, Guar
ding Newman, 1960, 253 pp.,
$3.95.
Reviewed by
Flannery O'Connor
In his introduction to this
analysis of St. Augustine’s
adessey, Msgr. Guardini notes
two approaches usual in deal
ing with his subject, both of
which he has tried to avoid.
One of these sees the Confes
sions as a record of a conver
sion from evil to good, the out
come only being of interest,
FATHER JOSE LUIS DESCALZO, author of A PRIEST
CONFESSES (Academy Guild Press, 1961, 218 pp., $3.95),
ordained in Rome in 1953, is now alternately teaching in
Spain and studying and teaching in Rome. He writes of his
personal experiences and impressions during his concluding
days as a seminarian, of his ordination and first routine days
as a priest, and then his grisly but priestly experience at a
train wreck. At times emotional and at others times hard
and factual, the volume gives a sincere and convincing ac
count of an important segment in a priest’s life.
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Denies Break
Between Cuba,
Holy See
VATICAN CITY, (Radio,
NC) — The secretary of the
Cuban embassy to the Holy
See, Virgilio Suarez Carreno,
has denied reports that Cuba
is about to break off diploma
tic relations with the Holy
See.
A major news agency re
ported from here that Premier
Fidel Castro had recalled Cu
ba’s Ambassador to the Holy
See, Jose Ruiz Velasco. It also
quoted a Vatican source as
saying it is not known wheth
er or not the Apostolic Nuncio
to Cuba, Archbishop Luigi
Centoz, is moving about freely
in Havana.
A check with a competent
authority in the Vatican Sec
retariat of State revealed that
no such statement about Arch
bishop Centoz could have been
made authoritatively.
Mr. Carreno, who is also
functioning as charge d’af
faires at the Cuban embassy,
said it is true that Ambassador
Velasco had been absent for
several months, but he denied
reports of a diplomatic break.
the hesitations along the way
of no real significance. This
view leaves out of account the
living man, ignores his psy
chology and ends with merely
theoretical insights. The other
approach goes to the opposite
extreme and makes psychology
and the living process every
thing and ends seeing the sub
ject as a case history. Msgr.
Guardini has steered well in
between these two approaches
and has produced a psycho
logical study well informed on
spiritual realities. He unfolds
Augustine’s story on ethical
levels and on the levels of
mind and idea as well. The re
sult is as penetrating a study
of the saint as We are liable
to get.
The book is divided into two
parts, the first of which is de
signed to elucidate some of the
key Augustinian ideas. It
seems unfortunate that this
more abstract material had to
be put by itself at the begin
ning. The second part, which is
an interpretation of Augus
tine’s spiritual drama, is the
more readable section. In any
case, it is good to have a book
on St. Augustine by Msgr.
Guardini.
THE SOUL OF THE NA
TIONS, Addresses delivered at
the International Congress of
Universal Christian Humanism,
Bruce, 166 pp., $3.95.
Reviewed by W. L. Schmidt
To be good or bad is easy
for the Russian. To be indif
ferent is quite difficult. This
stems from the great Messianic
expectations long hidden in
the Russian soul, and the firm
conviction that the most pre
cious thing for a man is life,
and next to life is the part he
plays in the world struggle for
the liberation of humanity.
This struggle will be a victori
ous one simply as a result of
human and natural forces, be
lieves the Russian atheist. The
Russian with religious convic
tions knows it will come from
the hands of God.
This examination of the
Russian Soul by Professor
Irene Posnoff, daughter of a
famous Orthodox theologian,
and one of the ten contribu
tors to this book, cuts deep
into understanding of Russia
today. Other examinations are
equally enlightening.
Msgr. Vincent W. Jeffers’
analysis of the Soul of Amer
ica rests partly on the Declara
tion of Independence and its
expression of evident truths
that “all men are created
equal . . . with certain un
alienable Rights . . . Life, Lib
erty and the Pursuit of Hap
piness.” Reiligion is enjoying
great prestige in America to
day, Msgr. Jeffers says. But it
is a vague faith in faith, and
an expression of a desire for
material or psychological ben
efits, of acquiring peace of
mind. Though this is not
truly religion, it does mark a
break with the doctrinaire ma
terialism of twenty years ago.
It is a turning way from athe
ism, and much good can come
from this.
The Chinese Soul is centered
on six cardinal relations of
men: Father and Son, Broth
ers, Husband and Wife,
Friendship, Authority, and
Teacher and Pupil. The re
spect of children for parents,
and other human relationships
among the orientals is well
known. The turn of events in
China, steming from the strug
gle for the “liberation of hu
manity” or Russian atheists, is
pathetic. But it is hoped that
the traditional qualities of the
Chinese will not allow them
selves to be conquered.
Interesting expositions of the
Soul of India, of the Congo,
Latin America, and other
countries are contained in this
book. Limited space cannot
touch on all of them. The prin
cipal purpose of the presenta
tion of these addresses given
three years ago is to give lay
men, as well as priests and
missionaries, a deeper under
standing of other peoples,
their traditions and beliefs. A
purpose bearing equal weight
is that the Church’s mission-
use the traditions and beliefs
of the people in teaching the
Faith and making it practical
to their mode of living.
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kernes To Give It Up
Pope Receives Headdress
fmm Indian Braves
VATICAN CITY, (Radio, NC) — Six teenage American
Indians presented an Indian headdress to His Holiness Pope
John XXIII — and he refused to part with it.
The Indians, from St. John’s Indian Mission at Laveen,
Ariz., near Phoenix, were received in private audience by
the Pope (May 16).
In Italy as the guests of the Italian government, the
young braves, ranging in age from 14 to 18, were to take
part in the May festival at Sassari, Sardinia, to demonstrate
their native dancing and singing skill.
Their Christian and Indian names are: Leo Stevenson
(Apache Kid); Quentin Case (Timo); Ramon Riley (Aiche-
say); John Dawson (Running Hawk); Felix Thompson
(Khaye); and Fred Juan (Red Wing). All are Apaches ex
cept Juan, who is a Papago.
Pope John thanked the braves for the headdress, but
added: “You must understand that I will not wear it.”
A Vatican prelate standing nearby overheard the Pope’s
remarks and asked the Pope to let him have the headdress
for a Boy Scout troop he works with.
But the Pope replied, “No, it’s too beautiful. I want to
keep it as a memento.”
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