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...Mont Television put the question to Roman Catholic Bishop Fulton J. Sheen two months ago. How would the bishop like to have a television program? Bishop Sheen said he would like it fine. Details were ironed out (e.g., the bishop preferred to broadcast from a church, but Du Mont convinced him that a studio-set library would be better) and last week the new series, Life Is Worth Living (Tuesdays 8 p.m., E.S.T.), was aired over Manhattan, Chicago and Washington stations. Half an hour later, at program's end, Du Mont was swamped with 250 congratulatory calls...
...Bishop Sheen's message in his TV debut: man yearns for life, truth and love. The human forms of these things are imperfect, ephemeral. But in God, man finds pure life, pure truth, pure love-"that is the definition of God." After a 20-minute talk in which he stressed Christian fundamentals rather than specific Catholic dogmas, the bishop answered questions from the studio audience. Sample: "Why does God permit evil in the world?" Answer: in giving man freedom, God gave him the freedom to choose between good & evil. Without the devil, there could be no saint; without...
Money worries were flicked aside: "We'll be two little silkworms and live on mulberry leaves." Every dawn brought a poet's bonus in beauty: "The air is like silk today and there is a sheen upon the world like the sheen on a bird's wing. It's very quiet except for the gardener and his spade and warm as fine wool...
...Euryanthe overture and Mozart's Symphony No. 39. Edinburgh applauded but was hardly swept away. But in the second half, Walter & Co. won a real ovation with Mahler's powerful Symphony No. 4 (1901). Fusing strings perfectly with the horns, the visitors gave Mahler* a sheen that few Britons had heard before. They whistled and shouted, called Conductor Walter back to the podium six times...
...most conspicuous degree-winners were the nation's bishops. By last week, there had been at least eight. Among them: Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill, a D.D. from the University of Rochester; Fulton J. Sheen, auxiliary bishop of New York, a Litt.D. from Fordham University; Bishop Glenn Randall Phillips of Denver, an LL.D. from the University of Southern California...