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APRIL 27, 1957.
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
SEVEN
BOOK REVIEWS
EDITED BY EILEEN HALL
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Each issue of this Book Page
is confided io the patronage of
Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces,
with the hope that every read
er and every contributor may
be specially favored by her
and her Divine Son.
IMAGE BOOKS
THE STORY OF THE TRAPP
FAMILY SINGERS, by Maria
Augusta Trapp, 85c — the “fas
cinating adventures of a fascinat
ing family,” first published by
Lippincott in 1949, was a selec
tion of the Catholic Book Club
and also of the Catholic Literary
Foundation. It has gone through
12 printings besides the British
and German editions.
THE WISE MAN FROM THE
WEST, by Vincent Cronin, 85c —
Catholic World called “a thing of
beauty” in its original Doubleday
edition which has had 14 print
ings.
THE WORLD, THE FLESH
AND FATHER SMITH, by Bruce
Marshall, 65c—a popular Catholic
novel since June 1945 when it
was a Book-of-the-Month Club
selection. Houghton, Mifflin Com
pany’s edition has seen 14 print
ings.
A GRAMMAR OF ASSENT, by
John Henry Newman, 65c, review
ed by Margaret G. Smith—Car
dinal Newman’s classic originally
appeared in 1870. In his introduc
tion to this edition, Dr. Etienne
Gilson calls it “the most technical
ly elaborate of all his writings and
the most difficult to understand
for readers whom pressure of
Officers Named
At Sacred Heart
BELMONT — Sophomore Class
officers have just been chosen at
Sacred Heart Junior College in
Belmont, N. C. They include:
President, Claire Sack of States
boro, Ga.; vice-president, Mary
Lenz, of Brunswick, Ga.; secre
tary, Estella Pena of Charlotte,
N. C.; treasurer, Mary Lepscier
of Murphy, N. C.; and social
chairman, Nancy Pickerell of
Whiteville, N. C.
the true story of the man who modern life has made unaccustom-
first brought Christianity to fabl
ed Cathay,” Father Matteo Ric
ci, S.J., first published by Dutton.
SAINT FRANCIS XAVIER, by
James Brodrick, S.J., 95c—con
densed version of the magnificent
and scholarly biography first pub
lished by The Wicklow Press in
1952.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, by
G. K. Chesterton, 65e—which The
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ed to the pleasure of leisurely
reading.” In this scholarly work,
Newman attempts to make clear
his doctrine, to analyze religious
assent, to determine what a dog
ma of faith is and what it is to
believe it and to show that Cath
olicism alone offers complete ful
fillment of all our religious needs
both, naturally and spiritually. It
is not easy, reading but a decided
challenge to the intellect, definite
ly not for the casual reader but
rather for those who enjoy the
perfection of fine writing and the
excitement and mental stimula
tion of argumentative thought.
THE WORLD'S FIRST LOVE;
PEACE OF SOUL; LIFT UP
YOUR HEART, all by Fulton J.
Sheen, 75c each, reviewed by Mar
got Atwood: These three reprints
of Bishop Sheen’s most popular
works are welcome. Each has
previously gone through numer
ous printings and been included
in many book clubs.
“The World’s First Love” is a
beautiful work of love. It gives
the reader a living picture of
Mary’s life, through examination
of her six “words” as recorded in
the Gospels, of the mysteries of
the Rosary and her seven sorrows.
It also discusses various problems
of contemporary life in relation
ship to Mary’s example.
“Peace of Soul,” since its pub
lication in 1949, must have led
millions of frustrated people,away
from materialistic, false peace of
mind and brought them to a patch
of love and true peace, which
Bishop Sheen defines as “love of
the tranquility of order, wherein
the senses are subject to the rea
son, the reason to faith and the
whole personality to the Will of
God.”
“Lift Up Your Heart” amplifies
many of the ideas presented in
“Peace of Soul.” The author dis
cusses prayer, meditation, self-
discipline, atonement for sins,
abandonment to God’s will, the
sanctification of the present mo
ment. He uses Francis Thompson’s
“Hound of Heaven” to illustrate
man’s steps from the ego-level
(selfishness) to the Divine-level
(Divine love).
RELIGION
THE SPIRIT AND FORMS
OF PROTESTANTISM, by Rev.
Louis Bouyer, (Newman $3.75),
Reviewed by Flannery O’Connor.
Father Bouyer, a priest of the
French Oratory, was brought up
a Protestant and was for some
years a Lutheran minister. In
seeking the heart of. Protestant
ism, he was led to the Church
and found in Catholicism the
only Church where the positive
principles of the Reformation
could find fulfillment. He makes
it plain that he has never reject
ed his Protestant upbringing or
those positive principles of Lu
ther and Calvin or the later
Protestant revival of John Wesley.
He begins by affirming that the
Reformation must be understood
in the light of certain positive
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the Catholic Church has never
denied. His explanation of why
a reform which set out from
such principles could end in
schism and heresy is that em
bedded in the positive principles
were certain negative ones that
came from the decadent scholas
ticism of the 15th century. The
apologists of the Counter-Refor
mation era, being themselves im-
| prisoned in this nominalist phil
osophy, were unable to offer ef
fective criticism. The real issues
could not be seen by either side.
This is a book which should
be important in the education of
every Catholic. Too often books
issuing from Catholic sources on
the subject of Protestantism are
narrow, overbearing and totally
ineffective by virtue of the type
of polemic which aims to crush
rather than understand the op
position. Father Bouyer’s book
has the merit of his experience
and he sees as opposed to the
Church only those elements in
Protestantism which oppose it to
itself.
THOMAS MORE MEDAL
The Thomas More Association
Medal for 1957, awarded annually
for the most distinguished contri
bution to Catholic publishing in
the previous year, has been
awarded to P. J. Kenedy & Sons
for its four-volume “Butler’s
Lives of the Saints”.
Last year the Thomas More
Medal 'was awarded to Alfred A.
Knopf for “The Cypresses Believe
in God.” In 1955, the Association’s
first medal went to Doubleday &
Company for its Catholic paper
back series, Image Books.
The citation which accompa
nied the medal described “Butler’s
Lives of the Saints” as “the finest
history of the saints ever pub
lished in the English language—
truly a supreme work by any and
every standard.”
Among the books nominated
for this year’s Thomas More Medal
v/ere “The Last Hurrah” by
Edwin O’Connor (Little, Brown),
“Played by Ear” by Daniel Lord,
S. J. (Loyola University Press),
“The Presence of Grace” by J. F.
Powers (Doubleday), “Atlas of the
Bible” by L. H. Grollenberg, O. P.
(Nelson) and “The Book of Cath
olic Quotations,” John Chapin,
editor, (Farrar, Straus and
Cudahy).
Confirmation
At Ft. Oglethorpe
FT. OGLETHORPE—On April
9th at 8 p. m., his Excellency,
Bishop Francis Hyland, D.D.,
J.C.D., administered the Sacra
ment of Confirmation at the Re-
demptorist Church of St. Gerard
in Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.
The eleven adults confirmed on
that day were Mr. Joseph Cul-
lum, Mr. George Neale, Mrs. An
na Alfaro, Mrs. Betty Sue Buck,
Mrs. Nelle Buck, Mrs. Alice
Farmer, Mrs. Nona Gattis, Mrs.
Ruby Keck, Mrs. Alberta Med
ford, Mrs. Lora Suggs, and Mrs.
Hazel Watson.
The eighteen children confirm
ed were: Jon Allison, Linda and
Loretta Bass, Dorothy Brewer,
Constance Brown, Linda Gattis,
Martha Gilbreath, Carleen Hunt,
Robert Keck, Teresa Medford,
John Neale, Michael Neale, Glen-
don Sherrill, Daniel Smith, Geral
dine Swanson, Diane Suggs, Joyce
Suggs and Gerard Tinker.
On the morning of April 10th,
Bishop Hyland went to the Swan
son home to confer the Sacrament
of Confirmation on Mr. Walter
Swanson, who was well advanced
in years (72) and critically ill.
One week after the Confirmation,
Mr. Swanson died.
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to these countries) has Moscow
deeply worried.
The Reds are said quite flatly
to be violating the armistice terms
by building up 1 strength in north
ern Korea. We are not likely to
complain, as it does not seem to
presage war, but probably we will
go on and build up southern Ko
rea.
The UN is still defied in Hun
gary. Russia, it is widely agreed,
has built up a huge submarine
fleet and is using it to pry into
matters in widely scattered places
round the globe.
There are other points of ir
ritation and deeply conflicting
interests—almost without num
ber. But things which, only a few
decades ago, would have touched
off wars between nations, seem
now to be encountered and ig
nored almost every day.
That is the “cold war.” It is a
relatively new—and very costly
innovation.
Youth Rally
At Convention
(Continued from Page 3)
following members of the Youth
Committee of Savannah Deanery:
Hospitality, Mrs. Mel Prouty,
Mrs. Robbie Collini, Mrs. Thomas
P. Lang, Mrs. Anthony Ingrisano.
Mrs. Bernard Hartle, Mrs. R. L.
Linton, Mrs. Joseph A. Battle, Jr.
Mrs. Arnold Seyden, Mrs. Ellen
Barfield, Mrs. P. D. Joines, Jr. and
Mrs. M. E. Lenz; registration, Mrs.
B. W. Cunningham, Mrs. W. J.
Sullivan, Mrs. Edmond Flaherty
and Mrs. P. D. Trost; breakfast,
Mrs. Joseph Winders, Mrs. J. B.
Williams, Mrs. Joseph Dillon,
Mrs J. H. Garwes, Mrs. W. F.
Fennell, Jr. and Mrs. Louis Por-
zio. Members of the Catholic
Young People’s Association who
will assist with the youth rally
are: hospitality, Miss Patricia
Prouty, chairman, Miss Fay
Crump, Miss Judy Lamar, Miss
Patsy Winders, Miss Donna Beck
er, James Ramsey, Dan Keane,
Karl Holmen; dance, Miss Dale
Fuhrman chairman, Miss Mary
Pacifici, Miss Kathleen Flaherty,
Miss Fay Smith, Miss Carol Bal-
c o m, Miss Peggy Gavin, Miss
Pauline Fitzpatrick, Arthur Davis,
Joseph Ebberwein.
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