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When Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen described the devil to his radio audience (TIME, Feb. 3), Unitarians were quick to note that Father Sheen's Satan sounded like nothing so much as a good Unitarian. Last week the Unitarians came out swinging. Hopping mad was jowlish, Netherlands-born Author Pierre van Paassen (Days of Our Years), a Unitarian minister (with no parish) since January...
...that broadcast, the Monsignor calmly divided the world of men into two opposing, irreconcilable sections . . . the believers, the camp of Christ, the servants of God; on the other side, the unbelievers, the camp of antiChrist, the servants of Satan...
...good deal about Syria, about archaeology, and about herself. Christie fans will find some clues to the origin of various matters in her mystery stories of the period. There is, for example, the gentle cult of the Yezidis, some of whom are hired as diggers. They worship Shaitan (Satan), whom they believe God has placed in charge of the world. No Christie reader will fail to recognize the prototype of Mr. Shaitana, a curiously devilish figure in Christie's Cards on the Table...
Georges Bernanos is France's most distinguished Catholic author-and his own Church's sharpest critic. His literary reputation rests chiefly on three religious novels : Diary of a Country Priest, Joy, The Star of Satan (TIME, June 17, 1940). Joy won the Prix Femina in 1929, and now appears in translation for the first time...
Once a pupil of Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism's founder, Roumeguere had branched off into "psychophysiological" investigations of esthetic principles. In a wood near Gif-sur-Yvette, Dr. Satan had a hut he called "the House of the Good God." It was used for amorous frolics...