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...from a grateful lion's paw. Scholars have long known better. In A Monument to St Jerome (Sheed & Ward; $4.50) nine Roman Catholic authorities have 'written a combined character sketch of one of the livehest, most learned and most cantankerous saints ever to be canonized a pummeling controversialist who could sniff out obscure heresies as a veteran fire-buff smells smoke...
Roman Among Peasants. Aside from his controversial letter-writing, Jerome kept his learning inside his monastery. In his 20s he had spent five solitary years as a hermit in the Syrian desert. After leaving Rome, he re-entered the monastic life for good. Inside the monastery, the razor-witted controversialist could be kind and inspiring to his spiritual charges. But he was uncompromising about the monastic rules, and had little patience with those who found them too severe. Writes Paulist Father Eugene Burke: "He never lost sight of the fact that the vocation of a Christian...
...easily the top intellectual argufier writing today. Still picking the tough ones, he has now written a novel about Palestine and the Jews who claim it as their home. Thieves in the Night will not add a cubit to the stature of Koestler the novelist. But Koestler the acrobatic controversialist is at home in Palestine...
Queen Caroline was a tireless walker, card player, controversialist. She appreciated Dean Swift, she corresponded with the Philosopher Leibniz, she promoted the great Berkeley to his Irish bishopric. Her courage was not fully known until she was on her death bed, when the King learned what she had desperately kept secret from him: that she had suffered for years from a painful umbilical rupture. An operation brought on gangrene. Quennell's re-creation of these full-blooded, uncomfortable people is nowhere more penetrating than in his account of the Queen's noble and terrible last days, during which...
...schism on their hands. But what the Church will not do, the U. S. radio industry has attempted. The new National Association of Broadcasters code, if enforced by the 51 stations constituting Father Coughlin's pickup chain, would effectively bar him from the air as a lone-ranging controversialist. One station (WIRE of Indianapolis) has already barred Father Coughlin, but the showdown on all 51 may not come for some months. And before then there may be a new choosing-up of sides. Said the liberal, anti-Coughlin Christian Century last week: "We regard this as the worst possible...