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Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, potent Roman Catholic orator who has struck many a telling blow in the spiritual battle of East & West, showed little respect for his chief ideological foe. "Stalin," said Sheen, "is possibly the most stupid politician in the history of the world...
Thanks for the inspirational messages of Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen and Dr. Chao Tse-chen [TIME, April...
...Msgr. Sheen has brought forth a deeper meaning beyond the material security of peace of mind . . . Dr. Chao has revealed with peculiar penetration the dilemma of :.ll religion faced with the greatest challenge to civilization in a thousand years...
Would that men like Msgr.-Sheen ... could retire to the Middle Ages, where they belong in spirit! Such clever men serve merely to hinder what harassed modern man really needs: a reinterpretation of the nature of man on the basis of new psychological and philosophical insights. I refer them not only to Freud, but to the efforts of such truly significant men as Albert Schweitzer and José Ortega y Gasset...
Dominion of Satan. Much of psychiatry, Sheen argues, only gives man a false sense that all is well with him, when in reality things could not be worse. The psychiatrist's patient may indeed gain peace of mind, but the Christian gets something far better-peace of soul. "There is a world of difference between [them]. Peace of mind is the result of bringing some ordering principle to bear on discordant human experiences; this may be achieved by tolerance, or by a gritting of one's teeth in the face of pain; by killing conscience, or denying guilt...