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some more germane concern than whether the niceities of the system were being observed. The ship was going down and Miss Porter casts herself in the role of one rushing about arranging the...
...We are thousands of miles from Johannesburg and we look at South Africa as a troubled land torn by the conflicting dreams of its black and white inhabitants...
...Incidentally, Miss Porter in her book has Judge Thayer speaking in the past tense, a confusion of time that may help her explain ex post /actO the nature of her witness, but it does nothing for accuracy...
...one knew they couldn't get one with Judge Thayer...
...In general, Hastings deplores the fact that renewal worldwide has not sufficiently taken into consideration the diversity of cultures, social conditions, and individual and group needs...
...Spread over many countries and only loosely united by links of mutual interest and informal communications, this broader charismatic movement oilers (in Ford's view) great promise for the revitalization of Christianity...
...The case is too clear and too much is at stake for that...
...Hopefully they will match the level of careful analysis and presentation that is present in these two volumes, and so help all of us to understand and evaluate more accurately the pentecostal aspect of Christianity...
...In her final chapter Ford proposes what she calls "strategies for keeping the Pentecostal movement charismatic, flexible, and well within the bounds of the Catholic Church...
...Letters o] not more than 250 or 300 words naturally have a better chance o/ being published...
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...BERNARD J. COOKE teaches in the Religious Studies Department of the University of Calgary, Canada...
...The reader who looks for more will probably share this revJewer's disappointment...
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...A three-decades interest in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, and an acquaintanceship with a late defense lawyer of the trial, has long since left me convinced of the innocence of the pair...
...She was the voice of her party, the outspoken conscience of the antiapartheid dream...
...However, as in other collections consisting of reprinted articles and lectures offered to different audiences for diverse occasions, there are insights which suffer repetition but remain undeveloped...
...Not the biography--it is too early for that, but a book that will hearten its readers with the knowledge that the Philip Harts and Helen Suzmans walk among us...
...From 1961 to 1974, that was the position in which Helen Suzman found herself...
...But, of course, Miss Porter has confused the attempted Bridgewater robbery of December 24, 1919, with the South Braintree robbery of April 15, 1920, an evidentiary connection attempted by police and prosecution in an effort to establish a similarity of purpose, vehicle, method and ethnic background Of the perpetrators involved in the two incidents...
...but even this omits some standard items...
...Vanzetti had been charged and convicted of the Bridgewater crime, despite all the testimony that he had indeed been selling eels that day...
...It is sometimes said that while liberal theologians have been formulating heresies with impunity a conservative like Archbishop Lefebvre is shot down immediately...
...That should have come out, "none of our patients has died during an interview...
...It is an opposition that sees its destiny in a South Africa in which all groups share the power and the riches of that courtCommonweal welcomes letters on subjects treated in its pages...
...Objective: to encourage prisoners worldwide to turn to Jesus for help, love, etc...
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...But a declaration that "Goebbels shot his wife, six children, and himself" when, in fact, the parents poisoned the children and were then shot, at their request, by a compliant orderly is not so easily forgiven...
...Sacco and Vanzetti were the victims of a political hysteria that was no less real, only less sophisticated, than that of the McCarthy era thirty years later...
...As the last of keen eyewitnesses, she could have left behind an important historical document...
...the essays are thoughtful and well-balanced, the style lucid and attractive...
...Beyers Naud~ have become legendary...
...isn't that the point...
...This is a curious statement from someone who otherwise hammers away that Churchmen have to be aware of cultural and social differences and not expect in liturgy or life to ignore or transcend them...
...As for the missionary bishop involved (Lefebvre's see is Dakar), remember Archbishop Roberts...
...An even more serious flaw is the carelessness of the accompanying text, particularly so since Rhodes has done creditable history in the past...
...A background as an opponent of the war may have made this reviewer hypersensitive to the more obvious propaganda appeals to "the .home front" that affected almost every aspect of civilian life...
...DOROTHY IX)HEN A CRICKET IN THE THORN TREE: HELEN SUZMAN AND THE PgOGaESSlVE PARTY, by ]oanna Strangwayes-Booth, Indiana University Press, $12.50...
...On the other hand, the treatment ranges far beyond recent happenings in the Catholic Church and studies the occurrence of glossolalia (and reaction to it) in the various Christian Churches in the last few decades...
...Whatever scholarship merit this volume can claim ~-ests in the two essays (by other authors) included as appendix material...
...Box 121, Jenkintown, Pa...
...centers in every town of any size and the publicized "obligation" to provide private hospitality for lonely servicemen so far away from home...
...I f McDormelrs conclusion is correctmand he does support it carefully and in detail-- it means that the present charismatic revival is essentially OOOOOO OOO REVIEWERS JOHN DEEDY is Managing Editor of Commonweal...
...This is, of course, a rather obvious approach, since so much of the suspicion or criticism of pentecostalism centers on the question of psychological abnormality and social deviance...
...The murders were committed at South Braintree, and although Vanzetti had an alibi for what he was doing that April day of 1920, it wasn't that he was selling Christmas eels...
...Both are witnesses to the attention paid by seriousminded scholars, particularly within Roman Catholic circles, to the contemporary emergence of charismatic forms of Christianity...
...Its very prominence and its "strangeness" have made it an object of suspicion and controversy...
...C l a s s i f i e d RATES: 60c a word, one time...
...aJ~-PH MCINEm, rY teaches in the philosophy department at the University of Notre Dame...
...Ford's little volume is written out of the anguish that accompanies the present split within Roman Catholic charismatics in North America, a split that has received wide publicity in the past two or three years...
...Class;fled payable with order...
...Both have long-standing and immediate acquaintance with the pentecostal movement...
...Address Dale Berfhon, Rosebud International, Box B-284S5, St...
...a force for the renewal of the Church...
...Now that I have struck my blow for the English language and have engaged in the kind of irrelevant pedantry for which academics are noted, I will shut u p . NICHOLAS l t . CLIFFORD P.S.: I resisted the temptation to correct the editorial in the Vermont Catholic Tribune this week, which, in attacking Hans Kiing, deals with the tensions which exist between "theologicans" and the "episcopy...
...Vincent Millay, Willie Gropper...
...Though McDonnell is basically a theologian and his ultimately theological purpose is quite apparent, he still deals very extensively in this volume with sociological and psychological studies of pentecostalism...
...Instead of the "definitive" collection promised in the promotional material, this is little more than an interesting, but clearly unsystematic, sampling of propaganda items including--in addition to the posters already mentioned-selected movie stills, phonograph record labels, postage stamps, and the like...
...and sped off...
...Propaganda: The A r t o f Persuasion: World War I I ANTHONY RHODES, VICTOR MARGOLIN, Eds...
...Kilian McDonneil's book is quite other...
...Lefebvre says the Pope is out of step with the Church and thus in heresy...
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...Elizabeth Kubler-Ross is quoted as writing that "one of our patients had died during an interview...
...the robbery was foiled by guards, and the would-be robbers jumped in their touring car...
...On the whole, Hastings displays admirable common sense, the exception being when he allows himself to be carried away by mixed marriages: "Nothing is more truly sacrament than a loving, persevering marriage covenant which crosses the bounds of faith or race...
...the Army/ Navy "E" pins so proudly worn by workers in the defense industries...
...This is rather the ideal of human and Christian marriage than the Catholic Fireside union of boy and girl from the same parish, the same street, the same sodality: as a model of marriage the latter may appear to border on the incestuous...
...He writes from his place "well inside the Roman Catholic communion," but with sympathy for those who have gotten discouraged and left it, and with hope for eventual union with those Christians who have never been inside it...
...men heading their committees were "chairmen" and women filling the same roles were "chairpersons...
...One didn't have to wonder whether Sacco and Vanzetti were getting a fair trial...
...As has been pointed out a number of times by pedants interested in maintaining the integrity of the Queen's English, the suffix "--man" is sexless...
...Unfortunately, except for very occasional comments upon the aesthetic quality or the extent to which a given poster was or Was not effective, no attempt is made to discuss or compare the different techniques or approaches in any depth...
...Thus, her present book is written to make a case, written with passion and pain, but without rancor and with scholarly care...
...That is, the principles he invokes, quite rightly, to establish that Archbishop Lefebvre et sequaces eius have put themselves outside the pale, would, if constantly applied, give the good archbishop lots of the kind of company he does not want to keep...
...One wonders...
...Ford is very careful to point out, however, that there ~s another important and quite diversified manifestation of charismatic renewal in the Roman Catholic Church...
...Which Way f o r Catholic P e n t e c o s t a l s ? J. MASSYNGBERDE FORD Harper & Row, $6.95 Charismatic Renewal and t h e Churches KILIAN McDONNELL Seabury, $8.95 BERNARD COOKE However one may wish to evaluate it, there is no escaping the fact that the charismatic movement has become one of the most striking phenomena in the traditionaliy non-Pentecostal Churches...
...One variation that is fixed in my mind is a shocking report of grammar school children being permitted to inscribe their names on a "bomb for Berlin" as a reward, or inducement, for buying war stamps instead of candy...
...But what are we to make of the confusion compounded which refers to Hitler visiting "his native land at Oberammergau" and mingling there with "the Austrian crowd...
...Whether one sees them as worries or as accusations, Ford's descriptions of the negative aspects of the more systematized charismatic movement (what Ford calls "Type I PentecostaIs') do raise serious questions...
...A correction might at least relieve future patients...
...Most prospective buyers, I assume, will ,be interested (and satisfied) in paging through the book and looking at the pictures...
...One feels that Hastings hasn't done justice to them and one knows he could if he tried...
...Perhaps the last of her rules for Pentecostal poise reflects best the basic balance of Ford's presentation: "All of us must develop a sense of humor, particularly about our mistakes...
...But there are so many other examples: the blue-(often enough gold-) starred service flags in the windows...
...Too many very important areas are left virtually untouched...
...By maintaining an unswerving allegiance to that dream--by standing for conscience, opposition members such as Alan Paton and C.F...
...Vescey would do well to substantiate his material in the future before making inaccurate statements which will be accepted by most people as authoritative...
...of Sacco's wife and Vanzetti's sister, the latter over from Italy to plead her brother's cause, receiving the "savage sympathy" of demonstrating crowds...
...Joanna Strangwayes-Booth has written a biography of Helen Suzman...
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...We are certain to have many more books about the charismatic movement in the next few years...
...of anarchist Emma Goldman holding court years later at the Select in Paris...
...His stance toward renewal is that of a moderate...
...Especially interesting are his comments on the Church in Africa which he sees as having suffered particularly from efforts to streamline the liturgy...
...If, as it appears, the author and editor had more scholarly objectives in ,mind, it misses the mark by a wide margin...
...There is no sense in fooling around with invincible ignorance...
...Gifts for the Derec hospital should be sent to: Missionhurst, 4651 North 2Sth Street, Arlington, Va...
...Since apparently the need to develop some responsible attitude towards this new pentecostalism is unavoidable, books like those of J. Massenberde Ford and Kilian McDonnell are most welcome...
...Viewpoint Viewpoint to Roe v. Wade-The Legal Principles of the rounding Fathers and the Supreme Court by Edward J. Melvin C. M. $1 to Pro Life Coalition of Pennsylvania P.O...
...But the books of the two authors here being reviewed are very different...
...There is something to the complaint...
...The Italian tradition of eating eels on Christmas Eve occupied his time all that day...
...Since 1948, when the Afrikaners won power and instituted apartheid, there has been a white opposition...
...Nurse T r a i n i n g In Derac~ Haiti...
...Plus fa change, etc...
...For 13 years, Helen Suzman was the only member of the Progressive Party able to win a seat in parliament...
...Judge Thayer betrayed his bias in 1921, while the trial was in progress, and his remarks quickly became a cause cdl~bre all their own...
...more predictable, perhaps, are the gross and at times obscene portrayals by all nations of the respective enemies as subhuman, raging beasts of prey...
...67c, three times...
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...A modern society without them is too ghastly to contemplate...
...But the point is this: No one was hurt, much less murdered, at Bridgewater while Vanzetti was off selling his eels...
...In the Association for Asian Studies, to which I belong, men and women who fill such positions are both "chairpersons" but i have never yet heard any member of that organization refer to the Great Helmsman as "Chairperson Mao...
...Instead she wills the world a thin and garbled memoir, beautifully expressed and deeply felt, but so much less than we might expect of anything from Katherine Anne Porter...
...Miss Porter writes with regard to Vanzetti: It is proven by testimony that he was innocent of murder...
...A pitifully small group, to be sure, but needed now more than ever before...
...OOm~ON C. Z ~ , a professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, is the author of War, Conscience and Dissent...
...He called on all the families he knew who were his friends, to deliver their orders f o r eels, and during the trial these people, when questioned, told exactly the same story...
...I wince, therefore, in deflating any argument, including Miss Porter's, that just one of the two was innocent...
...The trend towards fundamentalism in faith, the submissiveness to male leadership required of women, the dogmatism and anti-intellectualism of the small leadership group, the separatist tendency towards forming conventicles of "true" Christians who have received Spirit baptism--these elements, if they really do exist, make one ask whether all that is happening in this "official" wing of the charismatic movement is fired by the Spirit of Christ...
...Wartime propaganda from all the major combatant nations is represented here, and for some reason a few of the early Nazi political posters are thrown in for good measure...
...For box numbers add S0c per insertion...
...and to offer qood readlnq mater|e| to prisoners free of charge...
...Why in the name of all that's holy does Sylvia Crane on p. 395 of your 24 June issue, in her very interesting article on China, refer to Hua Kuofeng, a man, as "chairman," and Teng Ying-chao, a woman, as "chairperson...
...RALPH MCINERHY 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CORRESPONDENCE (Continued ]rom page 547) As a history professor, I would think that Mr...
...She was one of the earliest leaders in the movement, especially as it gained prominence on the Notre Dame campus...
...WILLIAM J . KELLEY, S.V.D...
...Consider these parallels: as ostensible point of contention, the Mass of Pius V or contraception...
...Its scope is much more limited in that McDonnell concentrates on Commonweal: 573 the phenomenon of "speaking in tongues"--though he situates this within the broader charismatic context...
...Is this a celibate's excessively romantic view of marriage...
...Those massive bond drives, for instance, always seemed to coincide so conveniently with dramatic battlefield developments...
...It is clear enough from this oddly excited little book that Yves Congar does far more than he wishes to do...
...But even if the abomination "chairperson" must be used, then let's use it both for men and women...
...The ship was going down and Miss Porter casts herself in the role of one rushing about arranging the deck chairs...
...There is a useful bibliography, too...
...The parliamentary opposition to apartheid was in the hands of South Africa's Progressive Party, formed in 1959...
...19046...
...However if either or both are to be declared "innocent of murder" let it not be on the basis of some befuddled facts...
...and he traces a progression---both in outside judgment on pentecostalism and to some extent within the movement-from considering pentecostal forms of Christianity as odd enthusiasms which arise in reaction to psychological or social deprivations to seeing pentecostalism as a heightened expression of what is basically normal religious behavior...
...Those who expected a healthy respect for pluralism after Vatican II have been disappointed...
...When Philip A. Hart died, his friends memorialized him as "the conscience of the Senate...
...He was selling eels on that day, for Christmas...
...To be the conscience of any group is a strange, perilous and probably unwanted occupation...
...Common Cause used to do the same thing...
...P r i s o n e r s ' Magazine m In process of formation: Rosebud International Magazine...
...A more substantive confusion occurs in Miss Porter's "afterword," the wrapup section in which she wavers between the possibility that both Sacco and Vanzetti were guilty, that both were innocent, that "maybe" Sacco alone was guilty (this being arrived at with the help of Francis Russell's exotic hypothesizing over the "superhuman or subhuman silence" of Sacco's son Dante), and finally that Vanzetti surely was innocent...
...To the Editors: In my July 22 column there is a confusing typographical error...
...Vignettes such as these make Miss Porter's failure so much more agonizing...
...Children art dying from disease, hunger and lack of medical care _9 . . our missionary hospital is their only hope-we are equipped end ready to serve but cannot afford to train native girls to serve as nurses...
...Some themes find expression in all settings: the "loose talk sinks ships" warnings seem a universal concern...
...If this is true in the United States, how much more frightening it must have been to be the conscience of a society as troubled as that of South Africa...
...Judgments on it range from those who see it as the nucleus of a revitalized Christianity to those who consider it a dangerous deviation from authentic religion...
...the real point of contention, the refusal to accept the teaching authority of the Church...
...I recall reading that Paul VI, not accepting the "consensus of the faithful" on contraception, was a heretic...
...Chelsea House, $30 GORDON C. ZAHN As a coffee-table conversation starter or off-beat nostalgia item, the quality paper and the lavish color reproductions of propaganda posters may make this volume worth its price...
...However, it is rare to have the topic treated with as much care and balance as this book demonstrates...
...Passages of her book, particularly those describing the death-watch outside Charlestown State Prison, are gripping in their suspense and almost poetic in their beauty...
...It is increasingly clear that the buggies with the fringe on top are to the right and the left of us, and pretty well indistinguishable besides...
...In the opening chapter alone there are enough slips to lead one to suspect that this finished product is actuary the aborted version of a more ambitious project that went sour...
...Divine Word Missionary REPLY: I thank Reverend Kelley for his promotional statement regarding the Society of the Divine Word...
...These essays are Father Hastings's reflections about the Church and society a decade after Vatican II...
...He has the ideas for an excellent book and it is frustrating that he hasn't written it...
...Funds and correspondents needed...
...but along with a number of that early group of charismatic pioneers she has become alienated from the controlling "hierarchy" of the movement within the U.S.--though espousing still an essentially charismatic approach to Christianity...
...however, I do not understand his contentiousness, since he agrees with my statement that American SVDs were officially segregated until the 1950s...
...O tempora, o mores...
...CHRISTOPHER VECSEY Patienee, Patients Springfield, I11...
...Both Ford and McDonnell have unquestioned academic credentials, the first as a New Testament exegete, the second as an historical and systematic theologian...
...sTu COHEN is a free-lance journalist living in Cambridge...
...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IN BRIEF THE FACES OF GOD: REFLECTIONS ON CHURCH AND SOCIETY, by Adrian Hastings, Orbis, $4.95...
...Surely any one of these deserved at least as much attention as the Disney cartoon, Der Fuehrer's Face, which gets no less than live mentions...
...STU COHEN CHALLENGE TO THE CHURCH: THE CASE OF ARCHBISHOP LEFEBVRE, by Yves Congar, Our Sunday Visitor, $1.95...
...Finally, in 1974, six more of her fellow Progressives were elected...
...Not all blacks share the same dream, nor do all whites...
...Later analyses suggest that their 2 September 1977:572 purpose was more to contain inflation than to furnish the fighting forces with the tools to "finish the job"--~a conclusion which, if true, should, enhance their importance for a book like this...
...McDonnelrs basic approach is chronological, examining the successive scholarly and official church reactions to the charismatic phenomenon...
...JOHN GARVEY Queeu's English Middlebury, Vermont To the Editors: How annoying it must be to edit a magazine and then have to read niggling comments like the one that follows...
...Obviously I read Miss Porter's book with great anguish--but I read it also with a certain fascination...
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