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PAGE 2—THE BULLETIN, June 24, 1961
OBITUARIES
Philip Nostasi
SAVANNAH — Funeral
services for Philip Nastasi
were held at the Blessed Sac
rament Church May 27th.
Survivors include his wife,
Rosa M. Nastasi; son, Joseph
P. Nastasi, Orange, Calif.;
daughters, Mrs. W. C. Harley,
Palatka, Fla.; Mrs. T. L. Mil
ler, San Jose, Calif.; Miss Rosa
Lee Nastasi, Savannah; two
brothers, Joseph Nastasi,
Rockford, Ill., and Roy Nas
tasi, Bogaslusa, La.; a sister
Mrs. Mary DeCarlo, Bogalusa,
Louisiana.
Rev. Patrick A. Ryan, S.J. Miss Kate A. Walsh
Fr. P. A.
Dead At 88
The
S.J.,
SPRING HILL, Ala. -
Rev. Patrick A. Ryan
88, in his 70th year as a mem
ber of the Society of Jesus,
died May 31 at Spring Hill
college, Mobile, Ala. The fu
neral was held June 2 in the
college chapel with Father
Michael F. Kennelly, a cousin,
cffociating. Burial was in the
Jesuit plot on the campus.
Father Ryan was pastor of
Sacred Heart Church in Au
gusta during the late teens and
early twenties. He was wide
ly known throughout Catholic
circles of this.state.
Although it has been many
years since he worked in
Georgia, Father returned
many times on visits and al
ways manifested a keen inter
est in the Church in this State
and in South Carolina, where
he was, engaged in missionary
work from 1928 until 1933.
Father Ryan retired in 1957
and spent his last years in the
Jesuit house at Spring Hill.
Mrs. Hendricks
. COLUMBUS — Funeral
services for Mrs. Madeline
Yarbrough Hendricks were
held May 17th at the Church
of Holy Family, Father Law
rence A. Lucree officiating.
Mrs. Hendricks is survived
by one son, James, T. Hend
ricks, Waycross.
SAVANNAH — Funeral
services for Miss Kate A.
Walsh were held at the Cathe
dral of St. John the Baptist.
Miss Walsh, a retired school
teacher, had taught 49 years
at St. Patrick’s and Oglethorpe
Avenue schools.
Survivors include several
cousins.
Miss Mary Ann
McKenna
SAVANNAH — Funeral
services for Miss Mary Ann
McKenna were held at the Ca
thedral of St. John the Baptist
Survivors include her mo
ther, Mrs. Annie R. McKenna
and two brothers, James Tho
mas McKenna, Jr., and John
H. McKenna.
Frank J. Whire
ATLANTA — Funeral serv
ices for Frank Joseph Whire
were held at St. Anthony’
Church June 5th. Father Jos
eph Beltran officiating.
Surviving are his wife, the
former Miss Blanche Wyche
of Gay, Ga.; sisters, Mrs. Louis
R. Gailmard, Tampa, Fla.; Mrs
Charles W. Schribner, Rich
mond, Va.; Mrs. J. W. Mock
Albany, several nieces and
nephews.
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COLUMBUS — Funeral
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Fannin, Jr., were held May
29th at the Church of Holy
Family, Rt. Rev. Msgr. Her
man J. Deimel, officiating.
Mr. Fannin was the victim
of an automobile accident on
Saturday, May 27th.
Survivors are his parents
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inn, Sr., and one brother, Tru
man Fannin, all of Columbus
Mrs. Julienne Bairc
COLUMBUS — Funeral
services for Mrs. Julienne
Baird were held May 23rd at
the Church of Holy Family
Father Walter DeFrancesco
officiating.
She is survived by her hus
band, John Baird, Sr,, and one
son, William Baird.
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FRANCIS THOMPSON, by
J. C. Reid, Newman, 1960, 232
pp., $4.25.
Reviewed by
Elizabeth Hester
There is in this vast world
room for both major ,and min
or sights, sounds and talents.
The adventure of obtaining a
good vision of life and of God
predominantly lies in learning
without ceasing — to tell
the majors from the minors,
and, most important, of giving
to both their appropriate cre
dit. It is from ghettos, those
hard little cells of smug or
hysterically defensive social
groups whose members are
satisfied that they know ev
erything worth knowing, that
come distorted undereducated
assessments. What ghetto
members take to be the action
of their lives is merely the
sterile agitation of defending
a totally static basic vision.
Numerous assessments of
the work of Francis Thompson
are excellent examples of the
wild errors that hop like fren
zied fleas from the ghetto
mentality. They have flown
with equal absurdity both
from the Catholic camps and
the opposing ones of art move
ments. (It is not the Protestant
nor even the liberal humanist
which here represents the op
position because Thompson
stood only for two things:
Catholicism and poetry.) Con
sistently, he has been exag
geratedly praised by Catholic
partisans and exaggeratedly
scorned by devoted poetry stu
dents. The static Catholics
would have him a major poet;
the static poetry students
would have him nothing hut a
Catholic. Probably, he was a
minor poet with an uneven
limited talent and neither as
wretched as his detractors
would have him nor as won
derful as his enthusiasts pro
claim.
Mr. Reid’s assessment is a
joy. It is sane enough to dump
a little cold water on the over
wrought enthusiasts and fair
enough to give comeuppance to
the cavalier detractors.
Thompson’s character both as
a Catholic and a poet is ex
amined with scholarly pains
taking care, and the result is a
clear picture of a minor but
fascinating personality.
Through Reid’s insights on
Thompson’s failures — both as
man and as poet — a consid
erable incidental light is
thrown on the qualities of
greatness itself. Reid’s study
of Thompson’s impotent es
sentially actionless life is ;
fine searching of the theory
that an artist — no matter how
talented — has nothing to say
unless he has had deeply ex
periential contacts to reflect.
With many more biogra-
pies such as this one, the Cath
olic ghetto could become an
obsolete concept.
be most helpful to others as
a result.
Fr. Sullivan has had a splen
did idea in Divine Masterpiec
es. He has collected and trans
lated short studies by well-
known European > ascetical
writers on ten women of he
roic virtue — six saints, one
beata, one venerable and two
whose cause is under scrutiny.
The studies are intended to
point out their approach to
virtue and its development
with a view to equipping the
reader to imitate and follow
their example — edification in
the real and beautiful sense of
the word.
Sad to say, the book as a
whole just does not come off
and cannot be unreservedly
recommended. There are pass
ages and even whole articles
which are excellent. But for
some reason the book fails to
make the expected impact.
The translation gives rise to
some clumsy syntax and word
ing. Most of the chapters, orig
inally articles in a periodical,
are perhaps too short to do
their subjects justice. There
is real treasure in these stu
dies but it will require a not
easily discouraged reader to
unearth it.
JOSEPH, SON OF DAVID,
Sister Emily Joseph, C.S.J.,
St. Anthony Guild Press, Pat
terson, New Jersey, 95 pp., 75c.
This pamphlet contains
meditation of St. Joseph for
each week of the year, each
meditation written by a dif
ferent person, and they as dif
ferent as Cardinal Vaughan
and Dorothy Day. Material
from the apocryphal writings
has been avoided and some
attempt has been made to con
sider diversity of approach and
literary excellence. Not much
diversity of approach is pos
sible however, and not a great
deal of literary excellence is
to be found on this subject
F. O’C
DIVINE MASTERPIECES.
edited and translated by John
J. Sullivan, S.J., St. Anthony
Guild, 1960, 211 pp., $2.50.
Reviewed by
Rev. Leonard F. X. Mayhew
The art of writing a palata
ble hagiography is a rather re
cently developed skill. The ca
reer of a lively, active saint
written in a fast-moving re-
portorial style makes very
good, even exciting reading
Still to be resolved, however
is the more complex problem
of communicating the “saintli
ness” of the saint to lesser spi
rits in an intelligible and in
telligent manner. Conceded
that the workings of grace are
ineffable, there is such a thing
as the spirituality of a particu
lar saint which should be com
municable in words and would
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VENERABLE JOHN NEU
MANN, by Joseph M a nt o n
C.SS.R., Catechetical Guild
1960, 160 pp., 50c.
Reviewed by
Msgr. George J. Flanigen
This thin pocket book
which can be easily read at
one sitting, is the life story of
the fourth Bishop of Philadel
phia whose cause for canoni
zation is pending:'Father Man-
ton’s larger work has been
revised and edited by Francis
Novak, C.SS.R., in a racy
readable style for the average
reader.
People who live uneventful
lives of hard work will' find
this popular account of the
saintly Bishop of Philadelphia
who died in 1860, a consola
tion and an inspiration.
THE RED BADGE OF
COURAGE, by Stephen Crane
Dell Publishing Co., 1960, 351
pp., 50c.
Reviewed by
Msgr. George J. Flanigen
Stephen Crane, an import
ant innovator in American lit
erature, died before he was 29
yet his scant legacy is a rich
one. Besides his masterpiece
this pocket book contains four
other of his great stories. The
introduction by Ralph Ellison
analyzes Crane’s peculiar style
and his place in American lit
erature.
CATHOLICS AND PRO
TESTANTS. by Leon Chris
tiani and Jean Rilliet, New
man, 1960, 161 pp., $3.95.
Reviewed by
Elizabeth Hester
A series of letters between
a noted French Catholic scho
lar and a Swiss Calvinist pas
tor, this book formally under
takes to propound the main
points on which Catholics and
Protestants agree and, corre
spondingly, those on which
there is no agreement. Both
writers are excellent, Canon
Christiani’s letters being par
ticularly distinguished by their
cool reasonableness and Pastor
Rilliet’s by their passion. This
is not to say that Christiani is
without passion or that Rilliet
is without reason; it is merely
to point out what appears to
be each man’s strong point
The Catholic isi reminded of
his Church’s contention that
God’s reality may be inferred
by reason, and Of Ronal ’
Knox’s book, Enthusiasm, in
which he attributes this quali
ty to the birth &f all heretical
sects.
The point in the conception
of Calholics and Protestants
seems to have been to deline
ate the conditions that pre
elude unification of all Chris
tians, and thereby, perhaps, to
put a little light on the possi
bilities of uniting. The former
point is well carried, with the
resounding result that the lat
ter possibility sterns, if any
thing, more remote than ever
“Don't worry, Miss, I'm sure the groom
will show up."
From Brother Juniper At Work And Play, by Father Justin
McCarthy, Hanover House, 1960, 126 pp., $1.00.
What becomes progressively
clearer on each successive page
of this dialogue is that the
Church is an objective un
changing reality, whereas the
Protestant position is a per
sonally subjective one, the
very breath of whose life is
change itself. These qualities
may exist as parallels, but by
the evidence of this book, it is
impossible to conceive of their
ever touching.
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
IN SOUTH AFRICA, by Wil
liam Eric Brown, Kenedy,
1960, 384 pp., illus., maps, $7.50.
Reviewed by
Msgr. George J. Flanigen
American readers of this his
tory will find the section on
apartheid — South Africa’s
brand of racial segregation
of timely interest. The hier
archy’s stand on the thorny is
sue of race relations is fully
documented.
Father Brown, an English
convert, studied at the Scots
College in Rome and spent the
last eleven years of his life in
Africa gathering material for
this book. His work begins
with the appointment of the
first Vicar Apostolic to the
Cape (1837) and ends with the
coming of the first Apostolic
Delegate in 1922. Michael Der
rick, editor of the Dublin Re
view, edited Dr. Brown’s post
humous papers and added a
prologue giving a history of
the Church under the Portu
guese and Dutch before 1837
and an epilogue describing de
velopments since 1922.
The Church’s struggle to
keep its school going in spite
of the withdrawal of govern
ment support and the coming
of the Trappist, Marinhill and
other orders makes a splendid
addition to church history.
is a non-specialist has, be
cause of his overall view, a
great deal to contribute to this
subject. He traces the evolu
tion of the human species up
to the present where he sees
man facing a crisis. Dr. Wal
ker’s contention is that man’s
future evolution will be along
spiritual lines. Teilhard is nev
er mentioned in this book,
which is a peculiar oversight
since he is one of the few mod
ern evolutionists who believes
in spiritual evolution and a.
much greater exponent of it
that Dr. Walker.
This may be explained by
the author’s obvious distaste
for the church’s stand on birth
control which Dr. Walker be
lieves should be one of the
chief factors in our effort to di
rect evolution. No attempt is
made to do justice to or even
to understand the Catholic pos
ition on this subject. It is dis
missed as superstition and the
fatuous observation is made
that the church sanctions death
control but not birth control.
Dr. Walker apparently sees
this as a grave inconsistency.
There is much of value in
this book. As long as the doc
tor sticks to his science, he has
something to offer. When he
becomes a philosopher and so
cial planner he oversteps his
limits.
LIFE'S LONG JOURNEY,
Kenneth, Walker, Nelson, 1961,
185 pp., $3.50.
Reviewed by
Flannery O'Connor
This is a book on evolution
written for the general reader.
It’s author, a medical doctor,
believes that the scientist who
ISAIAS TO MALACHIA,
VOLUME IV OF THE OLD
TESTAMENT, St. Anthony
Guild Press, 1961, 776 pp., $7
Reviewed by
W. L. Schmidt
This is the fourth volume of
the Old Testament, covering
the 18 books from Isaiah to
Malachia, translated from the
original languages. It marks
another milestone in the task
begun on the recommendation
of. Pope Pius XII in 1943 by
the Catholic Biblical Associa
tion. The purpose of the task,
still continuing is to bring the
Bible to the people in current
idiomatic and readible English
from original manuscripts.
Volumes one, three and now
four are completed. Volume
two is yet to come. This will
contain the historical books of
the Old Testament and was
thought by the translators to
be kept for last in favor of the
more important sapiential
books.
An example of the transla
tion of the present volume
Chapter 14, v 12 of the book of
Isaiah, reveals the beauty of 1
the work:
How have you fallen from
the heavens,
O morning star, son of
the dawn!
How are you cut doivn
to the ground,
You who mowed down the
TLCltlOHS !
Contrast this with the Douay-
Challoner version:
IIoiv are thou fallen from
heaven, O Lucifer, who
didst rise in the morningf
How art thou fallen to the
earth, that didst wound
the nations?
Preceding each book is a
brief historical sketch of the
author and his times to help
the reader, and instruct him.
Appended to the work are
textual notes that would be of
value only to the Biblical scho
lar. In the introductory section,
the Catholic is reminded that
for every fifteen minutes of
reading the Bible, at whatever
time of his choosing, there is
an indulgence of three years.
FATHER AND SON RECEIVE DEGREES—Governor David L. Lawrence of Penn
sylvania and his son, Gerald, compare the degrees both received at the 98th commence
ment exercises of La Salle College, Philadelphia. The Pennsylvania chief executive receiv
ed an honorary doctorate of laws and gave the principal address at the commencement,
while his son received a bachelor of arts degree with some 600 other recipients.—(NC
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