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...Catholics agree with Msgr. Fitzgerald, and many would not quarrel with Fischer's basic point: it is one thing for a minority to persuade readers not to read certain books, but it is quite another to in effect deprive all readers of books the minority declares unsuitable. Fischer quotes the eminent Roman Catholic moral theologian, Father John Courtney Murray, S.J., of Woodstock College, Md. "No minority group has the right to impose its own religious or moral views on other groups, through the use of methods of force, coercion or violence," says Father Murray. It is especially unwise...
Fischer's target is the National Organization for Decent Literature, headed by Msgr. Thomas Fitzgerald, director of the Chicago Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women. NODL's method, according to Fischer, is to put pressure on newsdealers, booksellers and drugstores to remove from their counters all books on a blacklist, which includes work of such literary mandarins as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Dos Passes, George Orwell, Emile Zola, Arthur Koestler and Joyce Gary. "In some places-notably Detroit, Peoria and the suburbs of Boston," Fischer writes, "the organization has enlisted the local police to threaten booksellers...
...Chicago last week, Msgr. Fitzgerald retorted that Editor Fischer and NODL were really in "substantial agreement" on how to deal with the problem. Threats or boycotts should never be used, he said, but only "persuasion." NODL was no pressure group he insisted but merely a "clearinghouse for information, suggestions and current news for the men and women who generously devote their time and energy to the fight for decent literature...
...Died. Msgr. Lorenzo Perosi, 83, longtime (since 1898) director of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel Choir, and foremost Italian composer of sacred music, who wrote 14 oratorios (most famous: The Resurrection) and 30 Masses, destroyed much of his work in despair during a mental breakdown (1922); in Vatican City...
...Going steady" was banned last week for students at Saint Mary's High School in Lynn. In announcing the move, Msgr. Joseph McGlinchey declared that going steady leads to "forced marriages" and violation of the sixth and ninth Commandments...