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Catholicism And The Modern Mind
Author: Michael Williams

Text extracted from opening pages of book: CATHOLICIS AND THE MODERN MIND By MICHAEL WILLIAMS Editor of The Commonweal LINCOLN MAC VEAGH THE DIAL PRESS NEW YORK MCMXXVIII LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO., TORONTO MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE VAIL-BALLOU PRESS, INC., BINGHAMTON, N. IT. MATRI IN SPIRITUALIBUS AUGUSTINAE DE MATRE DEI ... more »ORDINIS CARMELITARUM ARCTIORIS OBSERVANTIAE AD SANCTAM CLARAM IN CALIFORNIA PRIORISSAE ET REVERENDISSIMO DOMINO DOMINO EDMUNDO M OBRECHT MONASTERII B. M. V. DE GETHSEMANE ORDINIS CISTERCIENSIUM STRICTIORIS OBSERVANTIAE AD PORTUM NOVUM IN KENTUCKY ABBATT QUI HOSPES ME EXCEPIT HAS COMPONENTEM LAUDES SANCTAE ROMANAE ECCLESIAE CATHOLICAE ET APOSTOLICAE A JESTJ CHRISTO AETERNI - PATRIS FILIO FUNDATAE AB EOQUE IN SEMPITERNUM SUSTENTANDAE HOMINE VERO ET DEO VERO C0I LAUS ET GLORIA ET POTESTAS ET DOMINATIO ET AMOR NUNC ET IN SAECULA SAECULORUM AMEN CONTENTS PAGE PRELUDE: THE SHIP OF PETER i CHAPTER I THE CREDO OF A PROPAGANDIST 13 II THE CHALLENGE OF THE CHURCH .... 24 III THE CHURCH AND THE MODERN MIND . . 54-IV BISHOPS AND A NAMELESS PRIEST . . - 79 V THE PRESENT FOSITION OF CATHOLICS IN THE UNITED STATES / 95 VI SHOULD A CATHOLIC BE PRESIDENT? . . . .129 VII INTERLUDE: HOLY WEEK IN GETHSEMANI . .143 VIII DAYTON, TENNESSEE 171 IX R. L P 195 X PROFESSOR COCK-EYE 199 XI CATHOLICISM AND AMERICAN LITERATURE . .211 XII A PRAYER FOR MR. MENCKEN 223 XIII THE SINCLAIR LEWIS INDUSTRY 239 XIV THE DAWN OF THE GOLDEN DAY . . . .251 XV ARTISTOCRACY AND THE CHURCH . . . .261 XVI WILLA GATHER'S MASTERPIECE 270 XVII DR. DAWSON'S MYSTERY 280 XVIII THE IDOLATRY OF THE APPLE 2gz XIX THE SECRETS OF GETHSEMANI 3 11 POSTLUDE: EASTER IN GETHSEMANI B 33^ PRELUDE THE SHIP OF PETER I AM putting a new book together in a cell in a Trappist monastery the proto-abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, in Kentucky in Holy Week. It is one of those places celebrated, or made no torious, in novels and plays ( The Garden of Allah, for example) where you are supposed to walk near rows of open graves, each one dug by a monk in preparation for his own burial ( and measured daily) and where a perpetual silence prevails, broken only by lugubrious murmurs of Memento mori! Remember your death! as the cowled, cadav erous monks pass each other, barefooted or san daled. A place that really is a prison; where the monks strive ( but of course unsuccessfully, accord ing to the novels) to forget the violent scenes of their past, and particularly their love affairs. They either are fanatical ascetics or else, in another kind, they are just fat hypocrites, having the sort of good time they prefer at the expense of the credulous Catholic lay folk; possessing an enviable capacity for 2 CATHOLICISM AND THE MODERN MIND absorbing wine ( and always eating fat capons) 5 while the less said about their other habits the better ( but o course the novelists who know their business may and do hint in that direction: hints skilfully cooked and piquantly served are ever so much more attractive than bare abuse or scandalized indigna tion). Well, Gethsemani Abbey is not quite like that. Like a great many other things connected with the Catholic Church, the picture of this abbey in the popular mind is at once far more falsely romantic and far less vitally interesting than the real thing $ therefore, it is an appropriate place, it seems to me at least, in which to study or anyhow to glance at some of the many other aspects of the Church that are crookedly reflected, often grossly distorted, in the imagination of the modern mind. Gethsemani Abbey, indeed, is equally a symbol and a proof of many important things of the Catholic Church which are generally misunderstood 5 or which are not known as they ought to be known, by non-Catholic Americans sometimes, it must be reluctantly added, not even truly appreciated by some Catholics. This is my second visit to Kentucky's Catholic holy land, where Bardstown and Nazareth and Lo retto and Saint Catherine's and Gethsemani Abbey

ISBN-13: 9781406757354
ISBN-10: 1406757357
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 376
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Publisher: Williams Press
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