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Narrow as an arrow but fetching as an etching, Geraldine Chaplin, 20, Charlie's unmatched little girl, paired herself off with British Actor Richard Johnson, 36, for a romp about Chilham Castle in England, where Johnson is playing Kim Novak's leading man in Paramount's production of The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders. "I think he's the most marvelous man," Geraldine rejoiced. "We're very fond of each other-it's obvious, isn't it?" Johnson responded. But, he added, there is "no question of an engagement-at least at this...
...parish life, renewal means a comprehensible liturgy with parishioner participation instead of novenas, family study groups instead of membership in the Holy Name Society (an organization formed in part to cut down profanity). It means the displacement of what Layman Michael Novak calls "nonhistorical orthodoxy"-the abstract, rationalistic theology that has dominated Catholic thinking since the Council of Trent-by a Gospel-centered Catholicism that is open to accept the insights of Freud, Camus, and even Marx...
...Novak covers his vagueness with a varnish of prophetic rhetoric in mystical language. The result is often powerful as when he talks about the civil rights movement: "Let us hope that many from among young Catholics join with their brothers, join the few, who work always and everywhere for justice." But more often his style is frustrating; it clouds his criticism and obscures his proposals...
...Where Novak is most eloquent--as in his chapters on "God in the Colleges" and "The Secular Campus," which speak with an intensity that could only come from personal frustration and irritation--he leaves too many ideas dangling, too many problems unconsidered. In these sections particularly I wish he had stated in more rational and specific terms what needs to be done. Had he translated his anger into recommendations, the result would have had meaning for all doubting Thomases as well as for Catholics...
...Novak has rightly seen that before Catholicism can become a truly dynamic force in America it must develop a more inquiring intellectual life and a more receptive attitude toward social change. Unless the Church continues to pursue these goals, continues to allow the example of Pope John, it will be threatened (in Monsignor Ellis's words) "by having the laymen's repressed zeal turned into a dillusionment and embitterment that will breed in our land the kind of spirit that has poisoned the relations of the clergy in so much of western Europe and in Latin America." But if Novak...