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...THURSTON N. DAVIS, S.J. Editor-in-Chief America New York City...
There is a spiritual bond of brotherhood between two religious groups in the U.S.-Roman Catholics and Jews. This is the contention of Father Thurston N. Davis, editor of the Jesuit weekly America. Catholics and Jews, "immersed in a pervading Protestant culture here in the U.S., have at least some inkling that we share, in divergent yet strangely cognate ways, a common inheritance from the centuries...
...sources of Protestant-Roman Catholic tension in the U.S.? Last week the Jesuit weekly America listed three areas of friction in a lead article (written for CBS's Church of the Air radio show, but denied clearance because it was judged too controversial) by Editor in Chief Thurston N. Davis. The sore points as Jesuit Davis sees them...
...might seem all in the day's work-and not only in Bosco's Italy. Even in supposedly sober England, rectories appear hardly less haunted than castles. Perhaps the greatest expert on those teasing, furniture-tossing, ructious ghosts called poltergeists was the late British Jesuit, Father Herbert Thurston, who wrote two books and various pamphlets on the subject. Just published are two more notable studies by Roman Catholics: Shane Leslie's Ghost Book (Sheed & Ward; $3) and Occult Phenomena, by Father Alois Wiesinger, an Austrian Trappist (Newman Press...
...century Christians, who did not have the grotesqueries of horror comics and TV. A prodigiously diligent pillar of British Roman Catholicism, Hagiographer Butler labored on his lives for 30 years of spare time and published them anonymously in 1756. The present edition, drastically edited by the late Father Herbert Thurston, S.J. and British Author Donald Attwater, is virtually a new work, contains the lives of 2,565 saints, up substantially from Butler...