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...world. Charting the physical decline of one civilization after another, Historian Arnold Toynbee took comfort in what he called the "etherealization" of mankind: the tendency of advancing societies to encounter internal rather than external challenges, to move from a material existence to one that is more spiritual. Similarly, the Jesuit philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was persuaded that evolution has brought civilization to a higher state of consciousness-a "noosphere" that will ultimately unite man, at the "Omega" point, with...
...most famous peace criminals. Fathers Daniel and Philip Berrigan, jumped bail and eluded FBI agents for weeks before their capture last year. Despite their confinement in the minimum-security federal prison at Danbury, Conn., the two Roman Catholic priests are still bucking the system. Daniel, 49, a Jesuit and poet, is serving a three-year sentence and working as a dental assistant. Philip, 47, a member of the Josephite fathers and a polemicist, is in for six years and doing office work. Together they lead a great books seminar for their fellow inmates. But the imprisoned priests' main interest...
Kinsolving is not the only ordained minister writing religious news for the secular press. New York Times Religion Editor Edward B. Fiske is an ordained United Presbyterian minister, although he does not advertise the fact. James Bowman of the Chicago Daily News was a Jesuit priest; Roy Larson of the Chicago Sun-Times was a Methodist minister. William Wineke of the Madison, Wis., State Journal was even specifically ordained by the United Church of Christ to the vocation of religious reporting. Many of the best laymen writing religion are personally devout. A.P.'s George Cornell and U.P.I...
...survey of 2,400 baptized Catholics in 31 quarters of Rome, Jesuit Sociologist Emil Pin and lay Sociologist Dr. Cesare Cavallin, both of the Pontifical Gregorian University, tested, among other things, the acceptance of eleven Catholic dogmas. They found that papal infallibility ran a poor last: only 38.7% of the Romans accepted it. Belief in the existence of a hell for unrepentant sinners fared better (53.7%). Belief in the divinity of Christ was high (79.9%) and in the existence of God highest...
...Ramsay's friends gives the flavor: "He was the quintessence of the Jazz Age . . . It was characteristic of Boy throughout his life that he was always the quintessence of something that somebody else had recognized and defined." Davies' minor characters-in particular an outrageous old Jesuit-are excellent. His work, including three other novels, six plays and much criticism, deserves to be known better...