Communications
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A COMMENTARY ON MR. ATTWATER
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TO the Editor:—The issue of The Commonweal for July
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cruise in the eastern...
...from solid foundations and eventually to reduce it to the level...
...TO the Editor:—Week by week I read The Commonweal...
...society is superb, no less, and it is, as all art should be, magnif...
...Chicago, 111...
...of ensuring future social stability is receiving the attention...
...simply being a colossal consumer," did not the artificers of...
...ing divine ideas and saintly souls, that sing and fly round...
...render of fundamental truths to temporary and probably...
...Attwater's premises...
...ought he not also to urge that the liturgy should be translated...
...Some of us are afraid...
...cruise in the eastern Mediterranean, and I did not see Mr...
...and I earnestly beg other artists of all sorts to make the same...
...That is per...
...The towers of Babel may scrape the...
...form, it would seem, is necessary...
...or not, in a civilization and organization of society which owes...
...for means of social betterment...
...In his advocacy of...
...to the soul of the Church...
...Catholic Reformation...
...of modern tendencies of thought that the humanist is seeking...
...come of which is scientific materialism, or as applied to human...
...tried...
...I have known...
...genesis of which Mr...
...moral personality of the individual and the latter's responsi...
...men of great genius have devised to express the quality and...
...most part its advocates are sincere and constructive...
...morning coats and grey trousers and the music made conform...
...naturism" and inanity, its intellectual and moral confusion...
...In the East the hierarchy simply dominated art...
...eternal amid a changing world...
...fessor Irving Babbit has said, will never be satisfied with mere...
...personal contacts with them...
...It was indeed a delight to read this splendid account of one...
...in the West...
...Attwater is not wholly consistent...
...Now, therefore, this being so, archi...
...GEORGE LOUNSBURY ROCKWELL, SR...
...lic art of a thousand years, from Hagia Sophia to Salamanca...
...until it was recently called to my attention by an indignant...
...ticism...
...pagan antiquity, is essentially a product of Catholic faith and...
...temporary and condign eclipse...
...Desbriere Irwin is worth while commending...
...for better, so, by her patronage and munificence fostering art...
...did not foster "art for art's sake," she simply took the best...
...manifest itself...
...which the humanist is seeking—and the application of the criti...
...G. K. Chesterton has recently pointed out, human...
...hoped that some Jesuit father, or other learned authority, will...
...convince one that if the Catholic Church takes up this sort of...
...I HAVE MET THE ARCHBISHOP...
...thus directed toward the development of sound individualism...
...They are all unostentatious...
...reason why under no circumstances whatever can it be used...
...human and social values...
...absurdly named device, giving an appearance of stability to...
...the other hand, it was Catholicism as a spiritual entity and...
...apostasy...
...new" art when it is offered them...
...I simply deny his conclusions...
...RALPH ADAMS CRAM...
...moment no one else seems willing or able to do so...
...draw from every source of life and knowledge in the develop...
...anti-Catholic society...
...tune with the Zeitgeist, this building up of temples from blocks...
...Washington, D. C...
...at all, while they are most invincibly, and therefore damnably...
...all right but our inferences and deductions do not follow from...
...quite convincingly shown in one sentence that, in itself, is as...
...for it is pointed out that life...
...this established order, a crude and barbaric modernism without...
...and never-to-be-finished Sagrada Familia in Barcelona and the...
...eventually something far finer and...
...while within were the saints keeping perpetual vigil, surrounded...
...words which, with your permission, I will do, as follows...
...teristics are self-control and a willingness to sacrifice personal...
...Q. E. D...
...WALTER CHARLES COPELAND...
...expressed a similar thought when he said that there can be...
...alone can fulfill the purposes of its sponsors, or be kept from...
...It may be noted that it was this same pre...
...Thus conceived humanism doubtless has its ethical and moral...
...In this sense not the Church, truly, but the Catholic faith (and...
...four centuries of artistic dark ages) to recover some of the...
...of Christianity and to the innermost ideals of God...
...is showing itself in so many other categories of life...
...beginning, has been made...
...As Mr...
...be capable of an enthusiasm which is over and above his rational...
...gratitude of time amid the glories of eternity, and the cuckoos...
...must confine themselves solely to the form and the spirit of...
...product of about twenty years of ingenious activity on the part...
...that there is another side to the subject...
...Attwater suggests the results may be found in...
...Crusade and the sack of Constantinople, furnished the basis...
...only gloss I would make on Mr...
...service of religion that has been going on now for twenty-five...
...history lies in the extent to which it has fostered and presumed...
...water's premises...
...American Negro, in addition to their numerous other occu...
...Attwater has so admirably described...
...about Art, by Donald Attwater, which appeared in a re...
...than the "alive, distinctive, up-to-date, unecclesiastical" art...
...They are...
...The devils...
Vol. 10 • September 1929 • No. 21
