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According to Blanshard, the U.S. public school is "the basis of democracy." Catholic canon law, he pointed out, rules "that an American Catholic mother who sends her child to an American public school over the objection of a priest can be denied absolution in the confessional." This, he said, was "theological coercion" and added: "Segregation on the basis of creed can be just as damaging to American democracy as segregation on the basis of color...
...Shadow and Substance" gives a spiritual picture of Ireland by confronting several variations of Roman Catholicism with modern unorthodoxy. The story concerns the reactions of several members of a small Irish town to the scandalous book of a local schoolmaster. The action centers about the local Canon, who, with classical dignity, decides the provincial efforts of the townspeople to burn the txe publically with malicious ceremony--but he dismisses the teacher. The balancing force in this conflict is Brigid, the Canon's maid, who is in communication with her namesake, St. Brigid, and who has a longing to become...
...mind, author Vincent Carroll's major achievement in this play is the character of Canon Skerritt. After a too leisurely opening scene, his entrance is a refreshing one; the play seems to change its caliber immediately. In him, the play wright's command of limpid, precise prose is very powerful. And more, the Canon is a rounded character whose pomposity and reverence of classicism are explored in skillful detail. This character receives full understanding and appreciation in the hands of Thayer David. David gives a performance which is remarkable for its restraint and technical perfection. And Julie Haydon, the guest...
...lawfulness" refers to Roman Catholic Church law; the question appears in the current issue of the American Ecclesiastical Review, a learned monthly for the priesthood published by the Catholic University of America. The published reply, by the Rev. Francis J. Connell, top U.S. expert on the secular applications of canon law, might seem to many a fight fan like an ecclesiastical rabbit punch...
...first place, the characteristic campaign letter-to graduates, nobles, prelates and merchants-was admirably blunt. If the money was to repair a building, the writer left nothing to the imagination. "No one dares to enter the building," ran one appeal for the school of canon law. "It is surprising that the wind does not bring it down, for the foundations are so far gone as to be beyond repair...