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PAGE 4 GEORGIA BULLETIN BOOK SUPPLEMENT Fiction Is A Subject NEW YORKER ARTICLES “Xavier Rynne” Book Released CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 •ing, summarizing the story. Interested most intensely by stories about young people like themselves, the students flock ed to get this work of fiction. When they could not borrow it, they even went out and bought the paperback. 9th graders, 10th graders, 11th graders, and 12th graders— all were reading this story which so seriously in volved them as people. But it . was for the 11th graders that the ''miracle" happened—sud denly they understood Thomas Aiore's UTOPIA. The problem of the Ideal society which had been for thqm. something boring . dreameU up by Thomas More five hundred years ago just to torture the children of the 20th century, became a living ex perience. They understood it. They recognized the illusion and the delusion of the "ideal society" with which he dealt. ' * because of Golding's THE LORD OF THE FLIES, Thomas More's UTOPIA became for these children a living ex perience. FOR modern fiction is of deep interest to the young. It is by teaching modem fiction right along with the fiction of the past, that READING is taught and becomes a joyful instru ment. Anyone who believes that reading is vital to learning knows that reading must be taught not as a chore but ^ an art, as a subject with life— as an art of love I The child responds grateful ly to all that expands his capa city for understanding. This is why young people find the books of J.D. Salinger absorbing— not. because of dirty words in CATCHER IN THE RYE, but because the story is about them; about a young person wanting goodness but finding only phon iness. And even though he sees scribbled on every wall the dirty words that destroy love, he keeps on looking for purity and goodness. MISS O'Connor states a half- truth which is indeed valid, as a half-truth. The good fiction of the past should be taught, but to teach it without teaching the good fiction of the present is to anaesthetize the young person's taste for reading, to make read ing for him "flat, stale, and unprofitable," to turn him into the typical non-reader. We have done this with fair success in many <rf our schools, thanks to the objections of the many "conscientious objec tors." But in many others, teac hers of English do teach with dedication to truth, the kind of dedication expressed by Sister Petra, O.S.B. For these teach ers know that to bring a child to awareness requires not cau tion but risk, not anxiety for fear of being made uncomfor table, but anxiety for fear of not being made uncomfortable. Education's quest must be in the deepest Christian sense, a quest for holiness not a fear of heresy. "We are not meant to turn out children small and finish ed,” but children seriously "begun." NEW YORK (RNS) — "Let ters from Vatican City,” a vol ume detailing the background and debates of the Second Vat- can Counicl's first session, was scheduled for publication here May 28 by Farrar, Straus &. Co. The book is an expansion, with much new and unpublished material, of two long interpre tative articles by "Xavier Ryn ne,” reportedly an American Roman Catholic priest, in the New Yorker magazine. RECENTLY, the Catholic Press Association awarded a special citation to the New Yor ker for its publication of the Rynne articles. When the articles appeared Oct. 20 and Dec. 29 in the maga zine, there was much specu lation as to the author’s ident ity'. Xavier Rynne commented on this in a preface: "It should perhaps be made clear,” he wrote, "that Xavier Rynne is not a disgruntled Cat holic clergyman,’ nor "a Roman student who after failing his fin al exams criticized the Roman educational system,' nor 'afel low named Wilfrid Sheed, who used to write for Jubilee,' nor a mild Redemptorist professor of church history,* nor — as one or another of us has per sonally been told— 'an Ameri can bishop,' 'an English Domin ican,’ 'a New York Jesuit,' 'a writer inspired by the Vati can Secretariat of State,’ nor finally, believe it or not. * lack Kerouac.’ " A HINT at the possibility of multiple authorship appears in the preface with the statement: "The authors have no ecclesi astical, theological or other ax to grind." Difficulty experienced by most writers in characteri zing the positions of prelates who debated before the Coun cil was cited. Xavier Rynne noted news men's "recourse to terms com monly used in political debate, such as 'conservative,' 'pro gressive,* 'liberal,' 'middle- of-the-roader,' 'reactionary,' 'traditionalist,' and so on." He said that one theologian suggestet the terms "open door and "closed door” to remove political and personal connotat ions. "WHILE in agreement with this most desirable end, Xavier Rynne wrote, «« we find that the terms are too awk ward in actual usage: ‘Cardinal X, and open-door prelate, rose- to disagree with Archbishop Y, of the closed-door school.' We prefer the more familiar terms only for their convenience, but it should be made clear that the use of these terms is not intentionally tendentious.” The book provides summa ries at the close of each chap- ter, giving the names of each speaker to appear before the Fathers erf the Council. It also reprints in full, as appendices, d»e addresses of Pope John XXIII at the opening of the Cou ncil session and at the formal closing. ♦ * * JONES, ARNOLD H. M. Con stantine And The Subversion Of Europe. (Collier Books. 95^) paper. Revised reprint of the 1948 edition. LEONARDO DA VINCI. The Drawings. (Harcourt, Brace and World. $2.95 paper). With an introduction and notes by A. E. Popham. KEYS, FRANCES P. A Trea sury Of Favorite Poems. (Haw thorn. $5). An anthology cover ing such topics as motherhood, old age, philosophy of life, humor, nature, etc. MOFFATT. JOHN E. God Bless You, Sister. (St. Paul Publications, Derby, N. Y. $1 Paper) A series of appreci ative essays. Latin America WANTS YOU There are now 150 men and women Papal Volunteers serving in twelve Latin American countries. Requests on hand at the beginning of 1963 call for 183 more as follows: Business Administrator- 1 man Catechists- 1 woman, 2 men or women Catechetical and Social Welfare Workers- 2 men, 5 women Credit Union and Cooperative Organizers— 2 men or women Community Development Organizers- 3 men, 6 women Communications Media Personnel: RADIO STATION ADMINISTRATORS- 6 men PUBLIC RELATIONS- 1 man Engineers and Technicians: RADIO TRANSMITTER MAINTENANCE- 2 men RADIO RECEIVER MAINTENANCE- 1 man CONSTRUCTION ARCHITECT- 1 man CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER- 1 man LINOTYPISTS- 2 men or women NEWSPAPER LAYOUT- 1 man PRESS OPERATION and MAINTENANCE-! man Mechanics/Handymen— 2 men Medical Personnel: DOCTORS— 1 woman, 3 men or women DENTIST- 1 man NURSES— 16 women MEDICAL TECHNICIANS- 3 men or women PHARMACIST- 1 man Sailors (Coastal mission boat)— 2 men Secretary (English language)— 1 woman Social Workers (Juvenile program)— 3 men Teachers: ENGLISH LANGUAGE- 4 men, 11 women, 6 men or women VOCATIONAL end AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL- 16 men GRADE SCHOOL- 2 women HIGH SCHOOL (College Graduates)— 7 men, 11 women, 34 men or women UNIVERSITY (Sociology; Engineering; Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Electronic, Social Work; Physics; Chemistry.)— 8 men, 9 men or women Youth Workers- 4 men (3 with counselling experience) Requests for persons in many other categories are being received continually. The above requests have been received from the following countries: Argentina, 5; Boliva, 13; Brazil, 61; British Honduras, 34; Chile, 14; Colombia, 11; Costa Rica, 2; Ecuador, 10; Guatemala, 2; Honduras, 2; Panama, 4; Peru, 25. Papal Volunteers sent by the Church of the United States serve for a three year period. Persons joining the program are trained in the language and culture of the country in which they serve. FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Papal Volunteers for Latin America National Office 1300 South Wabash Avenue Chicago 5. Illinois OR Rev. Leonard F. X. Mayhew 204 Battle Street La Grange, Georgia