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THE THEOLOGY OF SEX
IN MARRIAGE, by Daniel
Planque, Fides, 1962, 187 pp.
REVIEWED BY REV. LEO
NARD F.X. MAYHEW.
This fourth volume of the
“Themes Of Theology” series
consists of several related es
says on various aspects of the
virtue of chastity in marriage.
Perhaps its greatest achieve
ment will be to convey the fact
that there ARE several aspects.
The author stresses the posi
tive side of the Catholic moral
attitude toward sex jointly with
the more familiar prohibitions
derived from the Natural Law.
The crucial point is raised in
the first chapter which attempts
to strike a balance between the
personal and social purposes
of sexuality and marriage. To
view fertility and the personal
perfection of the spouses as
“interdependent” purposes and
tasks in marriage is certainly
a beginning in the right dir
ection.
It is slight desparagement,
if any, to say that Dr. Plan-
que's efforts are only partially
successful. He is examining
an area which has been little
explored and is a good deal
more complex than the cus
tomary marriage manual treat
ment would indicate. He ap
proaches in a practical fashion
a subject which has not been
sufficiently examined theoreti
cally to permit complete
success on the level of prac
tice. Reservations aside, he has
made a distinct contribution and
his work should be of interest
and assistance to married
couples, those planning mar
riage and, especially, to priests
in pastoral work.
I WAS CHAPLAIN ON THE
FRANKLIN, by Joseph T. O’-
Callahan, S.J., Macmillan, 1961
153 pp., $1.25.
REVIEWED BY W. L.
SCHMIDT.
When Father O’Callahan re
ceived his orders on March
2nd, 1945, to “proceed immed
iately and without delay” to the
Comanding Officer of the USS
Franklin, he did just that. The
Franklin was about to enter the
battle zone, and a chaplain with
battle experience was needed
on her decks. Not many days
after, March 19th to be exact,
while only 50 miles off the Jap
anese coast, bombers attacked
her and blew her flight deck
to pieces, damaging her
throughout to such an extent that
how she managed to stay afloat
has been a mystery in naval
history. On that day, too, 1,102
men on board her were killed
or wounded, and when she fin
ally arrived at Pearl Harbor
under tow, she contained the
largest casualty list in all na
val history.
This book is Father O’Cal
lahan’s own experience of the
pain and horror and, most of
all, of heroism that took place
on board the Franklin during
that day of battle; heroism that
won for him, and many who
were with him, the Congres
sional Medal of Honor.
This fast moving story of
disaster and heroism in a cri
tical period of our nation’s
history will make exciting read
ing to lovers of war stories.
Indeed, it will generate pride
and thanksgiving for those who
suffered and died for their coun
try.
THE TRUTH ABOUT COM-
1UNISM, by Robert O. Bowen,
Colonial Press, 1962, 145 pp.,
P3.00.
REVIEWED BY CHARLOTTE
|K. GAFFORD
This slim volume is a lucid,
factual, and unemotional pre
sentation of Communism as a
:riminal conspiracy against the
WISE BLOOD, by Flannery
O’Connor, Farrar, Straus and
Cudahy, 1962, 232 pp., $4.50.
REVIEWED BY CHARLOTTE
K. GAFFORD
Reissue of Flannery O’Con
nor’s first novel, WISE BLOOD,
by her new publishers is an un
usual event in the publishing
world -- and one of no little
significance. Even the casual
reader recognizes that it is not
the practice of a top New York
publishing house to reissue a
first novel, must less one which
came out only ten years ago,
even less one by a young author
still very much alive and writ
ing.
Admirers and students of
Miss O’Connor’s work recog
nize that this action on the part
of Farrar, Straus and Cudahy
confirms what admirers and
students already know about
WISE BLOOD: it contains the
genesis of most of Miss O’Con
nor’s work which follows and
it is an explicit statement of her
Christian theme.
It would be presumptuous to
offer Georgians an explication
of a fellow Georgian’s work,
FLANNERY O’CONNER, of Milledgeville, Georgia, au
thor of WISE BLOOD, and her self-portrait.
which is doubtless well-known
and well-read in her native
state. But it is neither pre
sumptuous nor redundant to
urge the re-reading of this
novel by every orthodox Christ
ian around. It deserves to be
read and re-read from the van
tage point of as much Christian
orthodoxy as every Catholic
reader can summon.
Miss O’Connor’s concern for
today’s society, which has secu»*
larized the need for Redemption
plum’ out of its life and mind,
is dramatized in WISE BLOOD
so strongly and so beautifully
that an hour spent reading the
book is tantamount to a sock
in the jaw or a long look at
the Pieta.
To meet again Haze Motes,
the tragic hero of WISE
BLOOD, is to renew one’s ac
quaintance with one of the most
memorable characters in con
temporary American fiction.
Bequeathed a heritage of ig
norance, error, and fear, Haze
Motes sinks to the graceless
state beneath mere disbelief and
preaches the kind of peace he
seeks and promises in a
“Church Without Christ.” He
is taunted, tortured unto des
peration by the omnipresence of
Christ. All around him, his
friends seem to dance in a circle
like so many star-crossed nuts.
Then, in the turn of her plot,
at the end of her novel, Miss
O’Connor makes a magnificent
offering of her literary inten
tions. Where plot is concerned,
there is not resolution, but re
velation. And the sum of the
novel is not religion, but Re
demption.
RAM PARTS
the national catholic journal
RAMPARTS, published five
times yearly by the Layman’s
Press, 1178 Chestnut Street,
Menlo Park, California, one
year, $8.50; two years, $16;
five years, $35; twenty-five
years, $175. Vol. 1, No. 1 and
No. 2, May and September 1962.
REVIEWED BY CHARLOTTE
K. GAFFORD.
This national Catholic jour
nal, consisting of 96 pages in
the May and in the September
issues, is impressive in for
mat and content.
Published and edited by Cath
olic laymen, Ramparts aims to
serve as a “showcase for the
creative whiter and as a for
um for the mature American
Catholic.”
Fiction, poetry, art, cri
ticism, and essays are expec
ted to meet standards of lit
erary excellence and to pos
sess "the Christian vision of
man, his world, his God.”
Succinctly, RAMPARTS is for
the Christian intellectual.
The May issue included an
exciting discussion of "The
Finality of the Drama” by
French philosopher-playwright
Gabriel Marcel, and an eval
uation of M. Marcel by Sey
more Cain. The introduction to
a novella by RAMPARTS lit
erary editor, Harry Stiehl, to
be published in its entirety in
later issues, highlighted the
fiction selections. A portfolio
of art by Margaret Krebs and
poems by Conrad Aiken and
James Schevill were also in
cluded.
Criticism and the reviews
were more outstanding than the
other contents, as is alas, the
customary condition of today’s
literary journals. Most provo
cative of the critical writings
was a symposium on J.D. Sal
inger, featuring editors Keat
ing and Robert O. Bovteh, and
Warren Hinckle.
The September issue offers a
delightful study of Ronald Fir-
bank by Britisher Neville Bray-
brooke and a charming, though
frail, short story by Bray-
brooke’s wife, Isobel English.
This second issue is, if any
thing, more elegant than the
first—with a pictorial memor
ial to Robinson Jeffers and a
beautiful presentation of "The
Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens,”
illustrated by Ronald Hughes.
"Poetry and Prose by Brother
Antoninus” is also an attrac
tive feature.
Forthcoming in RAMPARTS
are symposia on Tennessee
Williams, Eugene O’Neill, and
William Faulkner — plus rev
aluations of Graham Greene,
Ford Madox Ford, Santayana,
Hart Crane, Lytton Strachey,
Isak Dinesen, Katherine Anne
Porter, and Edmund Wilson.
Poetry, letters, and fiction
will include the work of Mau-
riac, Teilhard de Chardin, D-
juna Barnes, Paris Leary, and
Rocco Fumento.
RAMPARTS appears to have
aimed high and, so far, to have
hit its mark. Issues in No
vember, January, and March
will round out the first year of
publication. It is to be hoped
that its reception by Christian
intellectuals will assure its
continutation, for here is a
worthy and handsome ad
dition to any home or office
library.
Protestant
Theologian
Hails Council
NEW YORK, (NC) - An Am
erican Protestant theology pro
fessor has written for U.S.
daily newspaper readers that
the opening service of the ec
umenical council "was probably
one of the most magnificent
services of worship ever held.”
This description of the coun
cil’s solemn opening was made
by Dr. Frederick Grant, pro
fessor of theology at Union
Theological Seminary, New
York, and an observer appointed
by the Anglican Archbishop of
Canterbury, England.
In a special article for Uni
ted Press International, Dr.
Grant noted His Holiness Pope
John XXIII’s prayer asking the
guidance of the Holy Spirit on
the council. Dr. Grant com
mented:
"A ChurchCouncil begun with
such magnificant vision on the
part of the spiritual leader of
the largest group of Christians
in the world, after the most
careful and devoted prepara
tions, so truly catholic and
ecumenical in aim, so all-em
bracing for all Christians
everywhere, and also for all
mankind, can scarcely fail to
enjoy the divine guidance and
‘bring forth much fruit.’ ”
POLL SHOWS
Believers In
Church Unity
Increasing
PRINCETON, N.J., (NC) -
A Gallup Poll has disclosed an
increasing number of both Cath
olics and Protestants believe
Christendom eventually will be
united into one church. How
ever, a heavy majority of those
polled said they did not believe
the day would ever come.
In 1959, a poll conducted by
George Gallup’s American In
stitute of Public Opinion on
eventual unification among
Catholics had these results:
23 per cent, yes; 62 per cent
no, and 15 per cent, no opin
ion. The same poll among Pro
testants showed: 13 per cent,
yes; 77 per cent, no, and 10
per cent, no opinion.
Another poll conducted on the
eve of the Second Vatican
Council had these results Cath
olics, 32 per cent, yes; 58 per
cent, no, and 10 per cent no
opinion. Among Protestants:
19 per cent, yes; 74 per cent
no, and 7 per cent, no opin
ion.
MOTHER E.M. O’BYRNE, President of Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart,
Purchase, N.Y., and Dr. Rufus E. Clement President of Atlanta University, walk in the
academic procession, between rows of students, following the Convocation at which Dr.
Clement received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at the women’s college, Oc
tober 8th. Mother O’Byrne is a native of Savannah. (Everett, White Plains, N.Y.)
COLLEGE HONORS GEORGIA EDUCATOR
PURCHASE, N. Y. - Dr. Rufus
E. Clement, who for twenty-
five years has been president
of Atlanta University, was hon
ored Monday (October 8) by
Manhattanville College of the
Sacred Heart, Purchase, N. Y.,
for his long career as an edu
cator of high distinction. Dr.
Clement received the Doctor
of Laws honorary degree from
the liberal arts college for
women at a special Convocation
attended by the faculty and stu
dent body in academic dress,
by trustees and administrators
of the college, and by guests
who included Mr. and Mrs.
Laurance S. Rockefeller, Dean
Emeritus and Mrs. Harry Car
man of Columbia University,
Miss Florence Read, former
president of Spelman College
(the women’s undergraduate
unit of Atlanta University), and
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Wyatt
(Mr. Wyatt is Director of the
African Scholarship Service).
Mr. Rockefeller is a trustee of
Atlanta University.
In conferring the honorary
degree upon Dr. Clement, Mo
ther E. M. O’Bryne, President
of Manhattanville College, call
ed attention to the growth of
Atlanta University under the
leadership of its president from
a student enrollment of 96 to
today’s 700-plus. Mother
O’Bryne said that Dr. Clement’s
contribution to the enlargement
of opportunities for education
20th century world.
Mr. Bowen is a Catholic
novelist (THE WEIGHT OF THE
CROSS, BAMBOO, SIDE-
STREET), as well as associate
professor of English at the Uni
versity of Dallas and an editor
of RAMPARTS.
No advocate of witch-hunting
and name-calling, no whollier-
American-than-thou kind of pa
triot, the author of THE TRUTH
ABOUT COMMUNISM simply
avers that "the price of liberty
is eternal vigilance.” And what
he means by liberty is not the
sort of freedom-in-excesscur
rently tolerated in America.
To be informed as individ
uals about Communism is, Mr.
Bowen feels, more important
than to depend on action groups.
"The most effective things the
citizen can do is to learn facts,
support the men and groups he
approves, and keep from sup
porting the groups he does not
approve. In the past the major
harm has come from giving
support to the wrong group more
than from withholding support
from the right group.”
He recommends the reading
of government reports avail
able from the U.S. Government
Printing Office in Washington,
as well as a careful perusal
of periodic lists of subver
sive organizations and front
groups, published by the Office
of the Attorney General of the
U.S.
Mr. Bowen’s book is a com
prehensive introduction to such
a reading program.
THE IMITATION OF CHRIST,
by Thomas A. Kempis, Daught
ers of St. Paul, 1962, 468 pp.,
$2.00 and $1.00.
REVIEWED BY E. MAT
THEWS.
This new translation of the
spiritual classic, is in contem
porary English but follows
closely the traditional trans
lation in wording and the chap
ter and verse format. Each
chapter has its short inter
pretation and colloquy. The type
style of this edition is large
and easy to read; the volume
is pocket size.
BECAUSE OF A PROMISE,
by A. R. Parr, Franciscan Her
ald Press, 1961, 199 pp., $2.95.
REVIEWED BY E. MAT
THEWS.
An action story of love and
war from start to finish, will
hold the interest of high school
teenagers. In following theher-
os, Tom Connolly, Art Larkin,
and Andy DeForest, the author
gives a good little history of
the Korean "police action.”
The love interest centers
around Marguerite DeForest,
and the whole is permeated with
faith in a promise she keeps.
A. H. Parr, after many years
in business, now devotes him
self entirely to Catholic Ac
tion and has written many mag
azine articles and books.
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To Schools Throughout Country
College Spreads Prayer Program
For President, Nation, World
MIAMI, Fla., (NC) - A col
legiate prayer program inau
gurated here last year to unite
persons of all faiths in daily
prayer for the President, the
United States, and the world
has now spread to college cam
puses, high schools and ele
mentary schools throughout the
country.
The Presidential Prayer
Heart Attack
Fatal For
U.S. Bishop
ROME, (NC) — Bishop Jos
eph A. Burke of Buffalo, N.Y.,
died here at Salvator Mundi
Hospital.
Death by heart failure came
for the 76 year-old Bishop (Oct.
16) just five days after the open
ing of the Second Vatican Ecu
menical Council, which he was
attending.
With him as he died, besides
his doctors and hospital atten
dants, were Auxiliary Bishop
Leo Smith of Buffalo and the
hospital chaplain, Father Cor-
mac Coyne.
Bishop Burke attended the
council opening October 11 and
its first general session Oc
tober 13. He suffered an ap
parent heart attack during the
night of October 15 and was un
able to attend the second gen
eral meeting of the council
scheduled for 9 a.m. Rome time
on October 16.
He called the doctor at the
hotel where he was staying and
was taken to the hospital, ar
riving 1:20 p.m. Rome time
(8:20 a.m. EDT) He died 30
minutes later.
Less than four months ago,
on June 27, Bishop Burke cel
ebrated his 50th anniversary
as Bishop of Buffalo.
Corps was organized a year
ago by students at Barry Col
lege in response to an appeal
for prayers made by President
Kennedy during his address
to the nation in July, 1961. It
has only one membership re
quirement- the promise to
offer some prayer daily for
Divine assistance for the Chief
Executive, the nation, and the
world.
Sponsored by the Sodality of
Our Lady at the college ad
ministered by the Dominican
Sisters of Adrian, Mich., the
PPC secured a campuswide
commitment to the daily pray
ers. The program was
suggested to other colleges.
As a result, 11 U. S. col
leges, as well as high school
groups, elementary school pu
pils, societies and individuals
through the nation, now are
participating.
According to Jean Stewart,
an Episcopalian who serves as
religious coordinator for the
PPC, the corps is now seeking
a religious-affiliated college to
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serve as a pilot institution to
promote the program on other
than Catholic campuses. Spe
cial membership cards and but
tons bearing the official insig
nia of the Presidential Prayer
Corps designed by Sister Mary
Damian of the Barry College art
department as well as a sug
gested prayer are issued to
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for young Negro men and women
of the South has been incal
culable; he has also played a
great part in helping Georgia,
in a critical period, combat
its social, civic, and education
al problems, as a member of
the Atlanta Board of Education,
the Atlanta Urban League, and
other civic and educational
groups.
Other honorary degrees have
come to Dr. Clement from the
University of Liberia, Living
stone College, and Virginia
Union University. He is a trus
tee of Atlanta University, More
house College, Spelman Col
lege, and Livingstone College,
as well as of several educa
tional foundations.
In response to Mother
O’Byrne’s citation,Dr.Clement
paid tribute to the Manhattan
ville College president for her
leadership in spreading under
standing among people of all
races. He said that in the "quiet,
cordial, and warm” reception
of the college, he sensed a
conviction that despite the "evil
forces which still try to domi
nate the good,” there can be
confidence that truth and the
right will prevail.
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Mother O’Byrne, a native of
Savannah, Georgia, is a gradu
ate of Oxford University, Eng
land. She has been president of
Manhattanville College since
1945.
Dr. Clement was first invited
to receive the honorary degree
at Manhattanville’s Commence
ment ceremonies last May, but
his previous commitments ne
cessitated a postponement of
the conferral. In granting the
degree October 8th, Mother
O’Byrne reminded the assem
blage that Dr. Clement was
nevertheless a member of the
"Class of ’62.” The university
president was presented for the
degree by Mrs. Edward C. Ho
gan, of Stamford, Connecticut,
an alumna trustee of Manhattan
ville, who was herself honored
by her Alma Mater last May
with an honorary degree for her
outstanding service to the col
lege.
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