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...HACK by Wilfrid Sheed. 279 pages. Macmillan...
Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts is the saga of a cynical writer of a newspaper agony column who is sucked into emotional involvements with his correspondents and almost against his will achieves a kind of faith. Author Wilfrid Sheed's funny, sad, perceptive novel turns the story upside down. It recounts the fate of a magazine writer who starts with a serene, uncluttered faith and, as it slips away from him, tries desperately to become a cynical hack...
...Staffa has little liking for Küng's ideas is easy to see. In his new collection of essays and papers called The Council in Action (Sheed & Ward; $4.50), Küng pleads for such reforms as internationalization of the Roman Curia, reduction of its power, greater authority for regional councils of bishops. He speaks of "reactionary doctrinaire tendencies" in certain council fathers, and dismisses the agenda items drawn up for the council by the Curia-dominated preparatory commission as "ill-prepared, partisan schemata...
...most promising theological talent to appear among German Catholics since World War II. Born in Switzerland, he went to Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, became full professor at Tübingen when only 32. His suggestions for Catholic renewal are published in The Council, Reform and Reunion (Sheed & Ward; $3.95), which contains approving introductory messages by two cardinals. Among Protestants, President Henry Pitney Van Dusen of Union Theological Seminary praises its liberal, ecumenical spirit, and San Francisco's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike was so impressed that he has ordered copies for every priest in his diocese...
What It Could Be. One cure for secularism in schools is suggested by Christopher Dawson's The Crisis of Western Education (Sheed & Ward; $3.95), a brief for the restoration of Christian culture in learning, by Harvard's first professor of Roman Catholic Studies. Philip H. Phenix's Education and the Common Good (Harper; $4) is a Presbyterian's plan for teaching religious values in secular schools without violating laws or liberties. John W. Gardner's Excellence (Harper; $3.95) is an eloquent case, by the articulate president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, for high...