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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. IN ATLANTA BJR. 8-2583 BRONZE. • GRANITE • MARBLE FLOWERLAND GREENHOUSES Retail — Wholesale Greater Atlanta Deliveries Flowers for Every Occasion Chamblee-Dunwoody Rd. Chamblee, Ga. -- GL.7-3455 Cloisdt's Food Shop 1933 Peachtree Si., N. E. TR. 6-7523 * Atlanta, Georgia CATERERS TO ATLANTA W. C. Fannin, Jr. COLUMBUS — Funeral services for William Coleman 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 Mr. and Mrs. William C. Fan 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. A. J. BOHN COMPANY Brick, Building Tile, Spectra Glaze Concrete Blocks CEdar 7-6461, 3272 Peachtree Road, Atlanta 5, Ga. WITHAM’S FABRICS CENTER Let us help decorate your home with beautiful Colorama Fabrics, Famous Artloom Carpets, All Wool, Nylon and Acriclan Covers, Slip Covers, Carpets and Valances SAMPLES SHOWN IN YOUR HOME BY APPOINTMENT 2286 Cascade Road, S. W. PL. 3-8312 Atlanta, Ga. For The Finest In Non-Perishable Fancy Food Gift Baskets SNACK’N SHOP Variety of Wonderful Appetizing Snacks Served AT OUR SNACK BAR OPEN TIL 7 P.M. North Decatur Plaza ME. 6-4622 Decatur, Ga. (BOOKS (MAKE 1 1 (A ( HOME a vUrileri id i\each er5 EDITED BY LEO J. ZUBER 2332 North Decatur Rd, Decatur, Georgia A. M. D. G. For the greater glory of God and for the spiritual benefit of authors, publishers, reviewers and readers. 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 Polynesian And American Specialties Daily Luncheon Feast Table Private Dining Rooms Open 11a. m.-3 p. m., 5 p. m.-ll p. m. Beverages Served Until 2 a. m. DOBBS HOUSE LUAU 1999 Peachtree TR. 3-3531 i 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. 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