CORRESPONDENCE
CORRESPONDENCE Mass Audlet~es Liege, Belgium To the Editors: Please do not take "d la ]ettre" Henri Fesquet's assertions, "Today few French citizens enter a church unless for a christening, a...
...REV...
...EUGENE C. BIANCHI Emery University Correction Some lines of manuscript were garbled by the printer in J.M...
...To the Editors: John Kotre lodges important critiques against modern psychotherapies for their failure to promote "skills" of permanence/fidelity and generativity in limited persons [May 12...
...They do not discriminate how religious motifs pertain to the varying needs of different stages of personal maturation...
...It may be that the Beatitudes, for instance, make telling sense only in middle Hfe, whereas an idealistic imitation of Jesus as hero figure speaks mainly to youth...
...JEAN OGER, O.P...
...Professor Meyers is wrong if he thinks well-informed modern critics would accept his jibes about Chesterton's "anti-semitism" and "fascism...
...But it is worth pointing out that there is no evidence that Chesterton had any personal anti-semitic feeling of any kind...
...Here we do not consider Henri Fesquet as a prophet...
...We regret the error...
...The alleged anti-semitism is too vast a subject to be dealt with briefly...
...These thoughts stem from my reading of developmental psychology...
...r Chestertom Saskatoon, Saskatchewan To the Editors: I hope it is not too late to add a comment to the interesting exchange of opinions between Professor Jeffrey Meyers and Robert Knille about Chesterton and Margaret Canovan's new book on him (Commonweal, 26 May, 1978...
...I~ noN, Editor The Chesterton Review Be!gmad Sgmboi~ i Atlanta, Ga...
...Personally I am surely more often in French churches than Fesquet and everywhere I find a good audience at Mass, even in the suburbs of Paris...
...The attendance at Mass has diminished in France as everywhere since Vatican Council II...
...But Kotre's presentation of sample biblical symbols makes a common mistake of religionistg who apply their heritage to human growth...
...Commonweal: 543...
...News & Views, May 12...
...And as Rabbi Stephen Wise has pointed out, the essays Chesterton wrote towards the end of his life, made him one of the first English authors to protest the Hitlerite persecution of the Jews in Germany...
...The charge of fascism against this (Continued on page 543) Commonweal: 515 CORRESPONDENCE (Continued/rom page 51.5) great Liberal writer would be even more difficult to sustain...
...weh's fidelity" as though these themes spoke to the problems of 20-year-olds as well as to those of 50-year-olds without crucial differences...
...On page 439, the second paragraph in the middle ~column should have opened: "Intervention by the public authorities to remedy social evils, an intervention certainly motivated in part by the received analogy between the human and political bodies, is an old practice . . . etc...
...CORRESPONDENCE Mass Audlet~es Liege, Belgium To the Editors: Please do not take "d la ]ettre" Henri Fesquet's assertions, "Today few French citizens enter a church unless for a christening, a marriage or a funeral...
...I also agree that symbols from religious traditions can complement and transcend the ways of psychotherapy...
...But it is true that almost half of Chesterton's closest and life-long tnends really were Jews...
...Canovan has demonstrated conclusively, both in her book and in her other writing, is that Chesterton was among the most effective opponents of fascism in his age[ See, for example, her article in the Chesterton Review (III, 2) "Chesterton's Attack on the Pro-Nazis...
...Cameron's essay "Doing Poorly at Doing Good" in the July 7 Commonweal...
...One of his earlier poems was a protest about the persecution of Jews in Russia...
...I am presently involved in a study of four major world religions to find resources applicable to the particular problems and potentials of the middle adult period of life...
...In fact what Dr...
...It is not enough to talk about "spiritual parenthood" or "Jail...
...Although anti-semites always claim that some of their best friends are "Jews, this, of course, is seldom true...
...My remarks, therefore, extend Kotre's fine points into a yet uncharted terrain...
Vol. 105 • August 1978 • No. 16
