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TWENTY-TWO THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA JULY 20, 1957, BOOK REVIEWS EDITED BY EILEEN HALL 3087 Old Jonesboro Road, Hapeville, Georgia Each issue of Ihis Book Page is confided fo fhe patronage of Mary, Medialrix of All Graces, with the hope that every read er and every contributor may be specially favored by her and her Divine Son, BIOGRAPHY THE HOLY FIRE, Robert Payne, (Harper, $5.00) reviewed by Flannery O’Connor. This is a book containing short biographies of ten Fathers of the Eastern Church, beginning with Ciement of Alexandria in the second century and closing with Gregory Palamas in the four teenth. As the author points out, the Fathers, of the Eastern Church sometimes seem remote from us. “Their Christianity is anger, more sudden . to praise. They stressed many things we have left unstressed.” However this may be, these early Fathers probably contributed as much to the development of Christian thought as Augustine and Je- r o m e, and certainly Dionysius the Areopagite, as the author himself declares, influenced mys tical theology in the West as much as any Western Father. Al together, the separation the au thor makes between their Chris tianity and ours would seem to be exaggerated. The Catholic reader will also mark the author’s loose use of such words as “worship.” In several instances he gives the impression that relics were wor shiped in the early Church, rath- not the same as ours. They were a I er than venerated. Excessive de people of w arm imaginations,! votion may have been tolerated more incandescent than the Fa thers of the Western Church, fiercer in denunciation, quicker in SEE US FOR . , . • Formal wear renials for men and ladies too! ® Our exquisiie selection of wedding dresses, veils and bridesmaids dresses. * Men's and boys' cutaways and strollers. All types of formal evening wear. Black shoes available. “The South’s most complete formal wear wardrobe” OlKJLj 1 JL„ Established 1919 PHONE JA 2-9960 219 MITCHELL ST., S. W. ATLANTA locally at various times, but he does not make it clear that image and relic worship are not parts of Christian doctrine. The best parts of the book are contributed by the Eastern Fa thers when Mr. Payne allows them to speak for themselves. Fortunately, he is liberal in his | use of quotations | EDWIN VINCENT O'HARA: | American Prelate, by James G. Shaw. (Farrar, Straus and Cuda hy, $4.00) reviewed by Leo J. Zuber. In September 1956. 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A native of Minne sota, he spent the bulk of his 75 years in our Midwest, His inter ests, inclinations, opportunities, and abilities were, of such nature that neither geographical nor topical limitations delimited him. Archbishop O’Hara was involv ed in most significant ways in the establishment of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference and of the National Confratern ity of Christian Doctrine, in the revision of the Baltimore Cate chism and of the Ne.w Testament, as well as in the undertaking to render the entire Bible into English directly from the original languages, and in introducing: the use of English into the ritual in this country. Very evidently he had superb powers of organiza tion, a rare ability to grasp a whole situation, to see the parts in the whole, and to get all the parts done. Difficulties were not precisely hindrances or impedi ments; they were merely part of the route to be followed to ach ieve any desired objective. The biography is not remotely d.efinitive in scope and nature, nor could one expect it to be with an interval of only some eight months between the arch bishop’s death and the book’s; ap pearance in print. It does give, in comparatively few pages, an interesting and sympathetic sweep of the archbishop’s life and work. Beyond that very real ser vice, the value of the biography is limited. THE RELUCTANT ABBESS, by Margaret Trouncer, (Sheed & Ward, $3.75), reviewed by Mary Harty This is a rather startling bi ography of an unusual and com plex . character, the notorious Mere Angelique of Port-Royal. With the deliberate falsification of her age, Angelique’s avaricious father forced her into a convent at the age of seven. She becomes Abbess of the famous Port Royal des Champs at the age of eleven. Mere Angelique, through a tor mented and yet strangely earnest pursuit of spirituality, wrought a phenominal influence on the France of the 17th century. Psy chologically speaking, her life and actions followed perfect ly the pattern of the. frustrated individual. Due to her lack of education in the fundamentals of her faith and the decadence of the times, Mere Angelique was easy prey to Jansenism and died just before she would have been excommunicated. The author unfortunately leaves Us with a feeling of an excess of facts concerning her subject: and the times and with a dearth of feeling and interest. Even the close friendship of Mere Angelique and the great Jane de Chantel fails to bring the con trast and perspective that are so badly needed. However, in spite of this, the book is well worth reading if but for the account of the ease with which a heresy can insinuate itself into a convent. BLOODY MARY, by Theodore Maynard. (Bruce, $4.95). Theo dore Maynard, who died la^t year, had a long list of excellent biographies to his credit before his writing career ended. This one, published in 1955, is the sto ry of the unhappy daughter of Henry VIII of England and Cath erine of Aragon. When Henry divorced Catherine and married Anne Boleyn, Mary’s life became miserable, She was not even al lowed to bid her mother fare well when Catherine died. She was in constant danger during the brief reign of her half-bro ther, Edward VI. In her own five-year reign, she attempted to restore the Catholic faith, with the assistance of her prince-con sort, Philip of Spain. Mr Maynard wrote this bi ography for the general reader, but students of history and pro fessional historians find it profit able ,too, The author attempts, in his vivid and detailed picture of Mary and her times, to show that Mary, who was a firm and faith ful Catholic, had the spiritual welfare of England at heart and tried to follow the light of truth, even though she made some se rious blunders in the methods she used. 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