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ONE MAN'S OPINION Sees Charity as Common Bond In Priest's Critique of Merton Dale Francis, Charlotte, N. C. Writing in the Atlantic Monthly a couple of months back, Dom Alered Graham was mighty hard on his fellow-priest, Thomas Merton. You got the idea, reading the Benedictine’s criticism, that Thomas Merton not onlv wasn’t much of a writer but that he was a proud and confused man along with it. Now to be perfectly honest, I didn’t get through all of “Seven Storey Mountain” and I only read skimmingly through Merton’s oth er books so I had no way of knowing whether some of Father Graham’s criticisms were justified or not. But now I have read “Sign of Jonas” and the way I feel about it is that Dom Alered Graham seri ously misjudged a priest who is very humble and very much in love with God. There are some Catholics who are afraid of seeming too holy or sentimental. The soup they were burned on is real — there can cer tainly be too much sentimentality — but they sometimes blow on cold later. There’s nothing wrong with loving God openly, there’s nothing wrong with feeling that love. Thomas Merton is in love with God. That’s plain and he goes around like a schoolkid chalking a sweetheart’s name on the fence. If that is wrong then maybe Mer ton is wrong. But it isn’t pride that makes a man. talk about his love for God, it’s the love that makes him talk about it. Some people aren’t built that way, what they feel most deeply they hold so deep within their hearts they can’t bring it out. That’s all right, they can love as deeply as anyone else. But they shouldn’t expect other people to be made in their own image. Probably that’s the cause of the one-sided dispute between Father Graham and Thomas Merton. They both are equally in love but they just differ in the way they express it. Only I hope that if Dom Gra ham feels the need to write about Thomas Merton. again he’ll do it with charity. 20,000 Jam London Cathedral to Hear Bishop Sheen Preach LONDON. — A congregation of 20,000 persons — biggest in its 50 year- history — crowded in to Westminster Cathedral here for a special Good Friday service at which the preacher was Auxiliary r Bishop Fulton J. Sheen of New York. Many hundreds who had come to hear America’s television “Man of the Year’’ had to be turned away. So great was the crowd inside the cathedral that the Stations of the Cross procession had to be modi fied. Bishop Sheen appeared later on a nationwide Good Friday British television program. He was sched uled to leave London on Faster Monday for Rome. From that point he was due to go to Southern Italy for a rest before returning to the United States. ■, * " ■... 'Faith, Hope and Hogan New Christopher Rim Of Stars Donating Talent NEW YORK. — “Faith, Hope and Hogan,” a film starring Golfer Ben Hogan, will be released for television in Mid-April, The Chris tophers have announced here. The film, a copy of which will be sent to each television station, was made on a golf course at Palm Springs, Cal. by Father James Keller and his Christophers. A million dollars worth of act ing talent supported Hogan who made a great comeback as one of the nation’s outstanding profes sional golfers following a near fatal auto crash in 1949. Because he believed Hogan’s amazing comeback would give courage to millions of people faced with handicaps, Father Keller took his cameras to Palm Springs and set about making the picture, us ing no script. The master golfer, just laying whatever came to mind, more than held his own with such masters of the ad lib as Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Phil Harris. All donated their services. Hogan told Father Keller he was able to make his comeback by “just working a little harder than he ever had before.” Korea War Reporters Say Truce 'Real Thing' But Remember Past Acts SEOUL, Korea. — “This looks like the real thing.” That’s what correspondents on the press train in Munsan are saying about the latest communist proposals for a truce in Korea. High hopes prevail that at least the sick prisoners will be exchanged. Old-timers among the Korean war correspondents however rue ully recall the illusion of sum mer, 1951, and later/ The recent change in the com munist attitude gives rise to hope Catholic and Protestant mission aries and other civilians seized by the communists in North Korea may also he released soon. But what about the 40 or more German Benedictine priests, Bro thers and Sisters arrested in North Korea in 1949? What about the Korean Bishop Francis Hong, Vi car Apostolic of Pyongyang, his priests and other Korean civilians arrested in 1949 and 1950? The United Nations command would be blameworthy if it failed to press for the release of these prisoners. Patronize the friendly merchants W(ho advertise in the North Caro lina Catholic. * National School Supply Co. Incorporated ★ ★ AUDIO-VISUAL EQUIPMENT • FILM STRIPS SOUND SYSTEMS • STAGE EQUIPMENT Film Sales and Service Darkening Shades and Drapes ★ ★ OVER A DECADE OF SERVICE TO SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES OF THE SOUTHEAST 14 Glenwood Avenue • Raleigh, N. C. - - -■■■ - -■ ■ RECOVERED BY THE FBI Two FBI agents in Chicago look over several ol the valuable religious paintings stolen months ago from St. Joseph’s Cathedral; Bardstown, Ky. Included were three masterpieces, a gift from King Louis Phillippe of France. The nine paintings, cut from their frames, were damaged considerably. Three Arrested by FBI As 9 Paintings Stole From Church Are Found CHICAGO. — Three men, one a former Assistant U. S. Attor ney, have been arrainged here in connection wit hthe theft of nine oil paintings stolen last November from St. Joseph’s Old Cathedral in Bardstown, Ky. Announcement of the arrests and recovery of the paintings was made here by the Federal Bureau of In vestigation. The agents said the paintings were damaged considerably. Thankful for Paintings In Bardstown, Msgr. James H. Willett, pastor of the I}d Cathe dral, said: “Thank God we have the paintings back — it is a most wonderful Easter present.” Th agents said art experts de clared a minimum value of $675, Citizenship Upheld WASHINGTON. — The State Department plans no action on the further demands of Paul Blan shard, anti-Catholic writer and lec turer, that Archbishop Gerald P. O’Hara be deprived of his Ameri can citizenship because he is serv ing as Papal Nuncio to Ireland. The department says there is no “appropriate” action that can be taken. Mr. Blanshard recently made public that he had filed a second demand with the State Department that the Archbishop be stripped of his citizenship, and indicated that he would go to court if the depart ment failed to answer him. LENNOX WARM AIR HEATING More families bay . . . LENNOX heating than any other make. There is a Lennox Gas-Coal or Oil Model , to fit your specific needs. Piedmont Sheet Metal Co. "Your Certified Lennox % Dealer” 232 N. Liberty St. Dial 2-1752 WINSTON-SALEM 000 had been placed on the paint ings. ^r'’" ' Three of the paintings were the gifts of King Louis Phillippe of France. They were identified as “The Flaying of St. Bartholomew,” by Rpbens; “The Coronation,” by Murillo, and “The Descent of the Holy Ghost,” by Van Eyck. The Diocese of Bardstown was erected in 1808 and originally em braced the States of Kentucky and Tennessee. The episcopal seat was transferred to Louisville on Feb ruary 13, 1841. Diocesan Priest Vital To Church, Youth Told NEW YORK. — “Where there are no vocations to the diocesan priesthood, there the Church be gins to crumble,” declared the Rt. / Rev. John M. Fearns, S. T. D., rec tor ol St. Joseph’s Seminary, Yonk ers, New York. In an address to the entire stu dent body of Fordharft College Monsignor Fearns sai dthat the greatest need of the Church to day is a holy, zealous and aposto lic clergy. “We need missionaries,” he asserted. “We need scholars. We need contemplatives. But, above all, we nee dparish priests.” He went on to remind his hearers of the position of the Church in France. “The eldest daughter of the Church has hundreds ofpar ishes without a parish priest. France is rapidly turning pagan.” Monsignor Fearns said that such a thing could happen here. “The duty of the parish priest is not only to keep the faith in areas where it is established. His duty is to preach the faith in areas where it does not exist.” World's Largest Post Control Co. 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