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...Steps, despite stiff competition, tops the list this week as the best movie in town (The Third Man is a very close second). Hitchcock's spy thriller is one of his most well constructed films and certainly the most enjoyable to watch. There are a whole bunch of terrific scenes in this movie; the neatest one is when Donat pretends to be a candidate for Parliament...
...Magnificient Ambersons is okay, but doesn't really belong with these classics. Monday night's Marx Brothers comedy, Room Service, is hardly one of their funniest and you should probably see Annimal Crackers in Boston instead. The 39 Steps, also playing Monday, is one of the best mysteries that Hitchcock (or anyone) ever made...
...James Hitchcock, 36, Renaissance-history professor at St. Louis University, is Communio's editor. A political liberal (he backed George McGovern) and disillusioned church reformer, Hitchcock has become perhaps the most effective spokesman for the conservatives. He is respected enough on the Catholic left to be welcome in such remaining progressive journals as the Jesuit weekly America, the Critic and the National Catholic Reporter. But his attacks on liberals can be acerbic. In his 1971 book, The Decline and Fall of Radical Catholicism, Hitchcock lists no fewer than 26 "heretical notions" of Catholic radicals, including several that strongly reflect...
Communio's first issue last April-crisply written and including articles by progressives-suggests that it will be the conservative journal most worth reading. But Hitchcock warns that the magazine will not be looking for novelty. "Vatican II was not a charter for endless change," he says. Some questions are "closed." Among them: whether homosexual acts can be morally permissible (no); whether divorced Catholics can be permitted to remarry (no); whether the Christology of the ancient church councils of Nicaea and Chalcedon can be modified...
...Hitchcock candidly concedes that the conservatives' fight is uphill. "The liberal catechetical establishment is so entrenched that it will take ten years for any theological recovery to take hold," he says. As for liturgy, "In some dioceses you can do almost anything you want to." Yet Hitchcock, at least, does not want to return the church to its monolithic, pre-Vatican II days-even if it could be done. "There is a substantial element in the church that has accepted the changes but is dismayed by the never-ending process of eroding the traditions," he says. It is this...