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...Bernard Iddings Bell, Canon of Christian Education in the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, serves his God with a tough mind and a sharp tongue. Last week, in the unofficial Episcopal weekly, the Witness, High Churchman Bell was in top form at his favorite sport-mussing up ecclesiastical stuffed shirts...
Christians, says Canon Bell, have a tendency not only to exalt the Church as the end rather than the means of their religion, but "to make of it a covert in which to hide from Christ." All too many, he says, use the Church to cushion the impact of Christianity, as a small boy about to be spanked stuffs napkins in the seat of his pants. "Or, to change the comparison, we may seek to be inoculated against Christianity with a churchly solution of one part Christianity to 99 parts respectability and good-fellowship. Good-fellowship and respectability...
Norton Professor of Poetry Paul Rindemith will be guest conductor for half the program. He will conduct four of his own works: "Frau Musica," a canon for the 85th birthday of Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, "Apparebit Repentina Dies," and "The Demon of the Gibbet." The audience will be requested to sing the canon for Mrs. Coolidge...
...acting in "Saints and Sinners" is perfectly adjusted to the film's major purpose, the subtle comedy of the people's lives. Michael Dolan as the lovable old Canon and Maire O'Neill and Ma do particularly fine jobs. Kieron Moore is proud and handsome as Michael, and Sheila Manahan portrays Shealh with proper simplicity and charm. Tom Dillon plays a visiting New Yorker with a fine combination of noise and stupidity...
Freedom of Thought. We cannot have "real democracy," said Author Blanshard, "unless we have access to information on both sides of all important questions . . . The Catholic hierarchy, in Canon 1399, says that no Catholic can read, borrow, buy or sell . . . any book which attacks Catholic discipline or Catholic dogma...