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...ashes out of his pipe against the fireplace or consult one of the fat books stacked on the massive antique table before him. At last he stood up, pulled the paper from his typewriter and closed his reference books with a ceremonious bang. His nine-year labor was finished. Monsignor Ronald Knox had completed his translation of the Catholic Bible...
...Knox's Old Testament was published in the U.S. (Sheed & Ward; $7). Volume II will be out next year (his New Testament was published in 1944). Some Catholic authorities have long regretted that the job of re-translating the Vulgate* had not been given to Cardinal Newman. In Monsignor Knox they found another master of scholarship and prose...
...born of a compromise. A century ago, Ottawa, known as Bytown, had a festering rivalry between Irish and French, and one lone Catholic school that catered to the Irish and ignored the French. A bilingual college would provide for both. As its founder, and the first Bishop of Bytown, Monsignor Joseph Eugene Bruno Guigues, put it: "These young men living and growing up together would soon come to know and to esteem each other, and while preserving their national idiosyncrasies, would learn to wage side by side the good fight for God and country...
...wish to take this opportunity of expressing my objection to the tone of your article concerning Monsignor Ronald Knox's book The Mass in Slow Motion [TIME, Sept. 20]. I have always enjoyed and appreciated the light vein in which you presented our erstwhile serious world affairs, but as a Catholic I wish to affirm that the Mass is a very sacred subject to us, and to hear it alluded to as a "mumble-jumble" is not only disedifying but most revolting...
...Monsignor Knox, a longtime Roman Catholic chaplain at Oxford University, has lately been practicing what he calls "a highly specialized art form, that of sermons to schoolgirls." His detailed close-up of Catholicism's chief ceremony is a set of these sermons, starting with the assurance: "The Mass is really a kind of religious dance." Sample Knoxisms...