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...Wolf in the Sheepfold. To their artistic differences, master and disciple then added political ones. David was a passionate partisan of the Revolution; Ingres seemed wholly indifferent to the comings and goings of monarchies, republics and empires. He painted Napoleon as First Consul and Emperor, and when the Bourbons came back, he painted them too. He did a portrait of Louis Phillipe's oldest son, and during the Second Empire he turned out more Napoleons...
...that great painter who has ruined every thing." He flatly refused to let his students even look at the Rubenses in the Louvre. When, years after Ingres was elected to the French Academy, Delacroix was also chosen. Ingres roared with indignation: "Now the wolf is loose in the sheepfold...
Overwhelming all else was an alarmist screaming, a warning of one dire menace after another detected within our own sheepfold. The Black Tide of Reaction. Bourbonism. The Pentagon Mind. Red Hysteria. Neo-Fascism. Finally these nightmares were to materialize into twin super-menaces of such terrifying dimensions as to eclipse totally such trumped-up bogies as Stalin...
Father Lortz feels that Protestants and Catholics must also share responsibility for a formidable task before them. "We must recognize that our Lord knows of only one church. He wills that there be but one sheepfold and one shepherd. In one of the most solemn moments of His life He prays with moving intensity that we may all be one . . . It is high time that we, who through four centuries have so lightly taken the presence of this division for granted, pay sincere heed to the warning which these His words contain for us. And there is a further task...
Said Archbishop Mclntyre last week: "The office of shepherd of a flock is a responsibility of highest dimension. . . . When that sheepfold is the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the responsibility becomes a challenge of magnitude...