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Your excellent article on Pope Pius XII made me prouder than ever to be a Catholic and a Catholic priest. Now it will be amusing to read the bitter letters it will evoke from bitter little men with bitter little minds...
...seemingly unwinnable war in Indo-China, and its tendency to fear a dying colonialism more than an expansive Communism, remained the hot battlefield of the cold war. Appropriately, it had not one Man of the Year but three-men diverse in almost every respect: Jawaharlal Nehru, the exasperating high priest of neutralism; Ramon Magsaysay, the young and dynamic, U.S.-loving man of action who became President of the Philippines; wrinkled old Syngman Rhee of Korea, the angry ally of the West. Syngman Rhee's intractability towards his allies, and his ruthless quelling of domestic rivals, led many to dismiss...
...successful fund-raiser in New York's Westchester County reckoned that he and his family would realize $75,000 this year for operating half a dozen smalltime charities. Another admitted he had posed as a priest and a policeman in telephone soliciting. In The Bronx, six "nuns" in rented habits and their self-styled "bishop" were arrested for rooking the public in door-to-door campaigns on behalf of themselves. A commonplace practice is to inundate the mails with cheap ballpoint pens (the D.A.V. mailed 32 million in one year), punch cards, nail files, copies of the Lord...
...Bard) College in Annandale-on-Hudson. He decided to learn a bit more about the Christian influence on sociology, and took a six-month leave to study at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill. The six months stretched to two years, and John Heuss became an Episcopal priest. In 1947 Heuss began to make a national name for himself as first chairman of the Episcopal Church's education program. Five years later, he received the call to Trinity...
...praise from the poets' critical claque for Brother to Dragons, but the sad truth was that this long narrative poem about a frontier murder was dull and prosy. In A Hopkins Reader, there was plenty of evidence, though not easy to read, to show why a Victorian Jesuit priest, Gerard Manley Hopkins, is still an influence on poets writing today. And of U.S. poets today, no better sampling came along than New Poems, ably edited by Rolfe Humphries. The price...