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For the greater glory of
God and for the spiritual
benefit of authors, publishers,
reviewers and readers.
THE TRIUMPH OF CHRIST,
by A.M. Henry, Fides, 1962,
Dome Edition, 150 pp., 95£.
Reviewed by Theodora Koob.
This book, originally pub
lished in Paris in French, has
something of a double purpose
for the Catholic layman. First
of all, it presents a simple
and concise, yet sufficient
scholarly, organization of the
significant details of Christ’s
life, complete with very clear
biblical documentation. Then,
at the end of each of its three
major sections stands a por
tion called ‘Reflections and
Perspectives.’ In these lie the
meat of this little book, the
main course, so to speak. Pri
marily, Henry sees his Christ
as a truly significant Deity for
every man, close, necessary,
and vital to all. A particular
point is made of the humaniz
ing of our religion from Christ’s
own preaching down the ages to
the present time.
Especially interesting to
many readers will be the part
dealing with Hell. The expo
sition of the author's concept
is dynamic and modern, even
arresting at times. He makes
the point that 'the judgment of
the damned is not a human
judgment. . .’ nor can man
conceive of Hell in terms of
his human point of view.
In summation, The Triumph
of Christ is in His resurrec
tion and can rightfully be no
where else. The hope of res-
urection binds us in everlast
ing ties to the fundamentals
of our faith.
For a paper bound book The
Triumph Of Christ may be com
mended for its adequately large
and clear type.
BAATAN THE MARCH OF
DEATH, by Stanley L. Falk,
Norton, 1962, 256 pp., $3.95.
Reviewed by Sister Mary
Thaddeus S.S.J.
Much has already been
written on the infamous death
march of Bataan. After the
surrender in 1942, the remov
al of the American and Fili
pino prisoners from Bataan to
quarters out of the fighting area,
was an event which is still
deeply embedded in the mem
ory of many a World War II
veteran.
The cruelties, disease, ex
haustion, hunger, thirst, burn
ing heat, and death itself were
all experiences not easily for-
gotton by those prisoners who
survived the ordeal. These we
do not minimize. They hap
pened, and the memories re
tained by victims are, no doubt,
very real.
However, Stanley Falk’s ap
praisal of this historic inci
dent might be called one of
clarification. Viewing the over
all picture in retrospect, he
was able to use information not
available for previous accounts.
He corrects misconceptions of
Japanese atrocities, not by
denying them, but by present
ing facts indicating that these
atrocities were not experienced
to an equal degree by all pris
oners. All suffered inconven
iences to a greater or less ex
tent, but that all were sub
jected to constant and deliber
ately planned brutality is in
accurate.
Of special note is Mr. Falk's
convincing explanation of the
how and why of the death march.
He points out that the evacua
tion of prisioners was not mal
iciously planned, as so often
stated, but was the result of
a tragic combination of cir
cumstances and events. The
reader is left with a new and
less harrowing account of this
portion of the war in the Pa
cific area.
For those who may be skep
tical of this review of the au
thor’s treatment, be assured
that he omits none of the grim
and shocking details of the
march, gathered from
numerous official documents in
both American and Japanese
records. There are sections
of the book which would nor
mally instill hatred and the
desire for revenge, but Falk's
explanation of the Japan
ese character and training of
fers the reader a well bal
anced appraisal of the over
all circumstances.
Repetition of details tends
to make the account somewhat
tiresome, but this is almost
inevitable in a book of this
kind. Considering the diffi
culty of restating incidents al
ready confused in the mind of
the public, the author has given
us an informative, carefully
annotated, statistically accur
ate and very readable account
of our World War II heroes.
STORYBOOK
SHELF
By Michele Caraher
ALICE’S BIRTHDAY
One July day in 1862, the
Rev. Charles L. Dodgson, ba
chelor and mathematician, took
little Alice Liddell and her
ROME
sisters for a picnic trip on the
river near Oxford. He was
a cold and stiff man, some
times even to the children whose
company he preferred. But he
could — and did as they rowed
slowly along under the hot sun
— invent nonsense tales with
delightful ease.
This day he chose the charm
ing Alice Liddell, ten years old
and his special favorite, as the
heroine who “had never before
seen a rabbit with either a
waist-coat pocket or a watch
to take out of it.’’ All through
the afternoon and much later
than usual into the evening he
told them of Alice's marvelous
adventures underground:
And ever, as the story
drained
The wells of fancy dry,
And faintly strove that weary
one
To put the subject by,
“The rest next time’’ —
"It is next timel"
The happy voices cry.
That night, pestered by the
real Alice, he wrote out the
tale. Two years later, at the
urging of friends, he added new
jokes and stories to it, gave it
to Sir JohnTenniel to illustrate,
and sent it off without much
thought of fame.
But ALICE IN WONDERLAND
and, later, THROUGH THE
LOOKING GLASS, were to live
in one edition after another long
after the real Lewis Carroll
was dead. If some of the jokes
and puns must today wait for
the older child to appreciate
them, if the sly digs at govern
esses and moral poems lost
their tang with the end of the
Victorian era, the Cheshire
Cat’s smile still lingers on.
If the humor, as when Alice
cannot remember who she is,
is sometimes nightmarish, who
can resist silly Old Father
William? And finally, if John
Tenniel’s Alice seems a rather
prim, formidable little girl
with a head too big for her
body (as she did to me as a-
child), still she will always be
the lucky girl who found a magic
door and looking-glass, which
one might just find tomorrow in
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Council Gives
Sense Of Unity
ROME, (NC) — The Second
Vatican Council is a source of
“immense grace for the
Church,” said Maurice Cardin -
al Feltin, Archbishop of Paris,
“because it enables bishops
from all over the world to
live, pray and work together
for many weeks.”
In a pastoral letter to his
archdiocese, the Cardinal said
it would be premature to com
ment on what the council has
accomplished so far. However,
he talked of the general im
pression of the council and the
sense of unity it has created
among the world’s bishops.
“Our morning Mass gathers
in the Vatican basilica the heads
of all the dioceses in the uni
verse and thus renders tan
gible that universal communion
which is spiritually present at
every Mass but which is gen
erally invisible.”
THE BULLETIN, December 8, 1962—PAGE 7
FAMOUS PORTUGUESE CHOIR AT MARIAN SHRINE
The famed all-male Orfeon Choir of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, opened its U. S.
tour at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, D. C. The 85-
voice choral group from the third oldest university in the world is making its first
American tour under the sponsorship of the Free Concerts Foundation of Chicago. Be
hind the group is the Shrine’s canopied main altar. (NC Photos)
Expert Explains Church’s Difficulty In
Using Mass Media To Spread Gospel
ROME (NC) - A need for
funds and skill makes it hard
for the Church to use mass
communications media in
spreading the Gospel, an ex
pert of the Second Vatican Coun
cil said here.
Father Enrico Baragli, S.J.,
named by His Holiness Pope
John XXIII to help the council
Fathers in the field of com
munications, told newsmen here
that one of the main reasons
why the council is treating with
mass media is their ability to
carry Christ’s message every
where.
Father Baragli, who is on the
staff of the Rome Jesuit fort-
—Archbishop John J. Swint
of Wheeling , W. Va, died
(Nov. 23) of an apparent heart
attack at the St. Joseph’s Ca
thedral residence just three
weeks before his 83rd birth
day. The first native of West
Virginia raised to the epis
copacy, he was a priest for
58 years and a bishop for 40
years. Ordained in 1904, he
founded the Diocesan Aposto
lic Mission Band in Wheeling
in 1908. He was named auxil
iary to the Bishop of Wheeling
in February, 1922, and Bishop
of Wheeling in October 1922,
after the death of Bishop Pat
rick Donahue. Bishop Joseph
H. Hodges, new Bishop of
Wheeling, presided at the re
quiem Mass (Nov. 28) - (NC
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nightly magazine Civilta Cattol-
ica, said that the “wholeteach
ing Church. . . is concerned in
the matter.”
The Jesuit priest listed three
reasons why it is difficult to
harness mass media for the
work of spreading the Gospel:
—The great technical, phy-
chological and artistic compe
tence needed to use these means
well. — “The specialized con
tribution of laymen could help
in the solution of this difficul
ty,” Father Baragli comment
ed.
—The high cost of using these
means. — He suggested that
funds being used on churches,
hospitals and schools might be
used to solve this problem.
—Ownership or control of
the media by state authorities
or political factions. — Fa
ther Baragli once again sug
gested that the help of laymen
might overcome this difficulty.
Father Baragli said that it
would be an “oversimpli
fication” to say that the possi
bilities of using mass media to
carry out the duty of preaching
the Gospel everywhere “are
completely fulfilled in L’Osser-
vatore Romano (Vatican City
daily newspaper) and Vatican
Radio, however necessary and
praiseworthy their work is.”
A Second reason for the coun
cil’s interest in mass media,
Father Baragli noted, is their
influence on the cultural and
moral lives of those they reach.
He listed among problems
stemming from this aspect: the
limits of the authority of the
state and the family, civil, cen
sorship, Church classifica
tions, professional ethics, free
dom to inform and right to in
formation.
A third aspect of mass media
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is the pastoral problem of how
to cope with the social, psy
chological and religious con
ditions brought about by mass
media, he said.
But he added that he thought
the council’s project would not
try to deal with this problem
in full.
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said, “That it is not likely
. . . that the council will sac
rifice them within the narrow
limits of this project of ours,
but will probably refer them to
more general projects.”
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