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PAGE 3—The Georgia Bulletin, November 26,1981
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institutions, most of
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maintain
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te for a life. The circumstances of our time surely challenge
in Georgia, Monsignor Noel us to apply a more lasting and effective solution. Legal
g statement before the Senate destruction of our problem has not forced it out of
iI: existence. It has come back to haunt us with" greater
: of some of our vigor.
essful restitution These rehabilitation houses - like the Women’s
areas to house Restitution Center on West Peachtree Street in Atlanta -
These havens for emen and have demonstrated the surprises that are in store if oUr
le law, prevents their descent leaders accept the challenge. Not only are these women
federal and state penal going back to society as mended, productive members,
> hell-holes of violence. It is they are making restitution to victims and to tax payers
non-violent criminal, ^ they heal. They are a credit to a leadership that has
tten decided something can be done.
institutions,
violent, inhuman Merely snuffing out human life in retaliation is an
admission of disgraceful defeat. The state, watchful for
the common good of all citizens, must give the example,
no matter what the cost,
ace. I personally heard I speak as a minister of the Christian Gospel. Our faith
nit that rehabilitation is no | s a proclamation of forgiveness, acceptance and undying
em. Our institutions merely hope. Our moral imperative most definitely dictates
punishment for the criminal, but the punishment, laid
ind exists because we have down by our society and administered by our leaders,
ed with violence. We must gd beyond the passing satisfaction of inflicting
* of violence by taking a life injury that is terminal on the guilty.
PUBLISHER-LECTURER
Frank Sheed Dies At 84
BY JOHN MAHER
NC News Service
Frank Sheed, author, lecturer, founder of a publishing
company and pioneer in the modem Catholic lay
apostolate, died Nov. 20 at St. Francis Hospital in Jersey
City, N.J. He was 84 years old.
The author of such books as “Theology and Sanity” and
“Society and Sanity,” which explained theology in a lucid
style, Sheed in 1926 founded with-his wife, the late Maisie
Ward, the publishing company of Sheed and Ward, a major
Catholic publishing house for nearly 50 years.
Sheed developed his talent for discussing religion and
theology in down-to-earth terms during his years as a street
corner lecturer in London with the Catholic Evidence
Guild.
He was born to a Catholic mother and a non-Catholic
father in Sydney, Australia, on March 20,1897. His father
had abandoned religion in favor of Marxism, but his
paternal grandparents were staunch Presbyterians. Sheed
attended public schools before going to Sydney University
to study law.
Midway through law studies, he went to England “for a
year.” Though he later returned to complete work for the
law degree, he took up permanent residence in England.
Working with the Catholic Evidence Guild, he met Maisie
Ward, whom he married in 1926. They had two children,
Wilfrid, who became a novelist and critic, and a daughter,
Rosemary.
In an interview last August, Sheed recalled the thorough
training members of the Catholic Evidence Guild received
before going out to speak about Catholic doctrine on street
corners. After an initial 26-week course, they attended a
two or three-year course in Catholic theology.
Sheed and his wife, Maisie, founded Sheed and Ward in
London in October 1926, six months after their marriage,
with a capital investment of 2,000 pounds (then about
$8,000).
In addition to Hilaire Belloc and G.K. Chesterton, two
major figures in an English Catholic intellectual revival then
in progress, authors published by Sheed and Ward included
Christopher Dawson, a cultural historian; Edward I. Watkin,
a philosopher; Dominican Father Vincent McNabb; Msgr.
Ronald Knox and Jesuit Father C. C. Martindale. The firm
also published translations of such Continental authors as
philosopher Jacques Maritain: poet Paul Claudel: and
novelists Francois Mauriac and Leon Bloy. In later years, its
authors included French theologian Father Henri de Lubac;
the controversial Swiss-born theologian Father Hans Kung;
philosopher Etienne Gilson; and German theologian Father
Karl Rahner.
In “Theology and Sanity,” published in 1947, Sheed set
forth his thesis that if human beings and the universe in
which they live are part of a greater reality and a greater
purpose, then they cannot hope to live sanely without
knowing their place in that reality and their part in that
purpose.
To explain that concept, he once used the analogy of a
coat hanging on a wall, hiding the hook from which it hangs.
“If a man is not aware of the hook,” he said, “then he is
wrong about the nature of coats, of walls, or gravity. He is
not living in the real world. But everything is held in
existence by God: not to be aware of Him damages sanity
more than overlooking a hook.”
In 1973, Universal Press Syndicate, founded three years
earlier by James F. Andrews, a former Sheed and Ward
editor, and John T. McMeel bought Sheed and Ward and
changed the name of the company first to Sheed, Andrews
and McMeel and finally to Andrews and McMeel. The
imprint Sheed and Ward is now used by Andrews and
McMeel for reissues of “Sheed and Ward classics.”
Of the publishing venture, Sheed said, “We did what
needed doing at the time. And we had a lot of fun doing it.”
And commenting on the decline in Catholic publishing, he
said, “One unintentional result of Vatican II was that
Catholics thought they could write what they like and many
began writing about their doubts, to the extent that in the
late ’60s it seemed that the three theological virtues had
become doubt, hope and charity. But no one’s going to
spend money on books about someone else’s doubts. He has
his own.”
In the years after the sale of the company, Sheed devoted
most of his time to lecturing at universities and to other
speaking engagements.
On his career as a teacher of the faith, he said, “My own
view is that my witness to Christianity is so poor that I’d
better try to teach it straight. People who think their own
lives give witness don’t know themselves very well.”
After Maisie died in 1975, friends were surprised by
Sheed’s continued cheerfulness. But his son, Wilfrid, who
was not, commented, “My father really believes what he
writes about.”
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THE GOLDEN TOUCH of the St.
Pius X student newspaper staff has
again reaped honors for their
publication. Pictured (1-r) are
Celonia Dent, Thad Gould, advisor
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CeCe Fields receiving
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Evening Of Song Planned
At Corpus Christi Nov. 29
The DeKalb Choral Guild and the Corpus Christi
choir will present an evening of song Sunday, November
29 at 8:15 p.m. at Corpus Christi Church in Stone
Mountain.
The DeKalb Choral Guild, founded in 1978, is an
independent, non-profit community chorus dedicated to
the enjoyment of great choral music and has performed
throughout the metro-Atlanta area.
At the Corpus Christi concert, the chorus, under the
direction of William O. Baker, will sing the Gloria and
Beatus Vir by Vivaldi and Beethoven’s Hallelujah Chorus
from the Mount of Olives.
The Corpus Christi choir, under the direction of Mrs.
Lori Jungers, will perform two Shubert selections, the
Ave Maria and the Twenty-Third Psalm. Both choirs will
combine to sing the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s
Messiah.
Robert Rylander will accompany the singers on the
organ and Michael Blackburn will be the piano
accompanist.
The public is cordially invited to share in this musical
evening at Corpus Christi Church, 600 Mountain View
Drive in Stone Mountain. Admission is free.
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