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Once inside one of the seminary's U-shaped, granite buildings, the energetic theologian turned to the question of church and state, and the discussion reached back to Thomas Aquinas and back to the transitional thought of 16th century St. Robert Bellarmine.* At one point. Father Murray had to interrupt the interview for his afternoon lecture to some 200 young seminarians. Mrs. Arno, who earlier in the day had mistakenly entered a cloistered area of the tree-lined campus, was not allowed to attend the class; Auchincloss went, admitted to his host that he had some difficulty keeping awake...
...times, the talks eased away from the deeper subject matter to such topics as the effect of drugs on the human consciousness, and the effects of Parisian restaurants on the palate. When his conferences with Father Murray were finished. Auchincloss returned to his Manhattan apartment to pore over volumes of research and finally to write. As is his practice, he wrote at home on his electric Olivetti, stopping from time to time to make himself some hot soup...
...Safe? It did not take the 1960 election to establish-though it well served to recall-what a unique encounter i diverse traditions is contained in the words "American Catholic." In the historical reality behind those words St Ignatius Loyola, founder of John Courtney Murray's order and soldier-saint meets Citizen Tom Paine, soldier-atheist. St. Thomas, the Angelic Doctor and patient builder of a great intellectual system, meets John Dewey, pragmatist and patient destroyer of systems. Monasticism, shielding a candle through the Dark Ages, meets the blaze of the Enlightenment. The Inquisition meets the Supreme Court...
...support it, is collapsing under the burden-"poor little conscience," says Murray. Only the monistic state threatens to remain. If this goes on, a spiritual vacuum will grow at the heart of life and into it will rush violence-"the mark of the Architect of Chaos, the Evil...
...considered view of the grave and learned man who wrote those words that is precisely what is happening to the U.S. John Courtney Murray sees his native America entering a new era of post-modern man" in a sorry state of ideological disarray that, unless repaired must doom the best political skill and dedication. His lucid, well-modulated concern for the U.S. has long ago earned him eminence among the cognoscenti with time for learned journals and debate Now in his first book, We Hold These Truths (Sheed & Ward; $5), he is entermg a new, broader area of influence...