Paul Hanly Furfey

The Code of the Catholic Clergy

Priests are divided into two categories, diocesan and religious respectively, whose status and obligations differ in important respects.2 Diocesan priests are attached to a particular diocese and are subject to the local bishop; religious priests are members of a religious community-the Jesuits, Franciscans, and Benedictines are examples -and they are subject to superiors who are officials of the community. Diocesan priests possess private property like ordinary citizens, whereas religious priests either renounce private property entirely or at least renounce the administration and private use of it, in either case living in community from a common fund. By and large, the chief

MOODY, JOSEPH N. (Ed.). Church and Society: Catholic Social and Political Thought and Movements, 1789-1950. Pp. 914. New York: Arts, Inc., 1953.

LEE, E. G. Christianity and the New Situation. Pp. 157. Boston: The Beacon Press, 1954.

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3.00. More adept at raising issues and problems than at solving them, this is an interesting book even though not a particularly satisfying one. The author, who is the editor of The London Inquirer, begins his discussion by pointing out the present day coexistence of the religious and secular orders. This coexistence is the

ATKINSON, R. K. The Boys' Club. Pp. 186. New York: Association Press, 1939.

count of the immigrant in America. Not restricted to success stories, such as the rise of Andrew Carnegie from bobbin-boy to the headship of the steel industry, it gives a more accurate picture that includes the more lowly millions and the roles they have played in our national life. Though neither idealizing nor defending the immigrant, his life is reconstructed with all its lights and shadows. Homeland back-