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...After 40 years in the Roman Catholic Church and 15 years as a Catholic priest, the chances are that I know more about the Church and more about the good & bad of Catholics than Paul Blanshard can ever hope to know. That's why I find his picture of the Church not just fantastic but hilariously funny, like a movie cartoon of the blind men and the elephant. The comedy is dulled, however, by the fact that his book [Communism, Democracy and Catholic Power -TIME, May 21] will be read by many people . . . and the results will be anything...
Like an adolescent going through the Decameron avidly picking out "the dirty parts" and missing all that makes it great literature, Mr. Blanshard seems to go through Catholic writing looking for juicy tidbits he can lift out between strategically placed quotation marks, that he may condemn the Church seemingly with her own statements. To anyone familiar with the contexts so used, to say nothing of the spirit of the Church, this device is amusing if contemptible; but to the naive or uninstructed it can be misleading to a degree prejudicial to justice...
...Many of my friends and I pray constantly for Paul Blanshard...
...Fence Club and the Yale Fence (part of which still is preserved in Pach Brothers' studio as a prop for the annual pictures of Yale team captains). In the last five years, with such men as F.S.C. (The Meeting of East and West) Northrop, Metaphysicians Brand Blanshard, Paul Weiss and Theodore M. Greene, Yale has built the best philosophy department in the U.S. On the Yale faculty are men like fiery Historian Samuel Flagg Bemis, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner (Pinckney's Treaty; John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy); cherubic Composer Paul Hindemith; Botanist Paul...
What worries Author Blanshard is "the Roman Catholic church-state, a unique blend of personal faith, human compassion, clerical exploitation, and submissive ignorance." He is not likely to convince anybody not already convinced. His claim that the church, in its long history, has often stood with undemocratic factions throughout the world is something too well documented for Catholics to deny. But Catholics can also remind Author Blanshard that Catholicism is to them a religion and not a political system; in all good conscience, they can be as good democrats as he is. Above all, in the embattled world...