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Thanks for the inspirational messages of Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen and Dr. Chao Tse-chen [TIME, April...
...Msgr. Sheen has brought forth a deeper meaning beyond the material security of peace of mind . . . Dr. Chao has revealed with peculiar penetration the dilemma of :.ll religion faced with the greatest challenge to civilization in a thousand years...
Would that men like Msgr.-Sheen ... could retire to the Middle Ages, where they belong in spirit! Such clever men serve merely to hinder what harassed modern man really needs: a reinterpretation of the nature of man on the basis of new psychological and philosophical insights. I refer them not only to Freud, but to the efforts of such truly significant men as Albert Schweitzer and José Ortega y Gasset...
...general election, 37 of their young people voted Communist. Saga's conservative toshiyori (elders) lost no time in calling a town meeting to talk it over. Up stood prosperous Farmer Sakuji Takahashi with a ready-made solution. In the big city of Kyoto, said Sakuji, he had heard Msgr. Paul Furuya, a Japanese Roman Catholic priest, preach to some new converts. The monsignor's brand of religion, he argued, looked like just what Saga needed. The villagers agreed. Farmer Takahashi and ex-Mayor Hitoshi Kataoka were commissioned to invite the Catholics to town...
Bishop Taguchi of Osaka and Msgr. Furuya accepted. Led by Takahashi and Kataoka, resplendent in dusty morning coats, 800 villagers crammed the town hall to attend Mass, while hundreds more, in their best go-to-meeting clothes, waited patiently outside. When it was over, a village spokesman pledged Saga's entire population to "throw away the world of superstition and embrace the true faith...