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SECULARISM  \nBy JOHN HICKS  \n11  \nCONTEMPLATION IN A ROCKING CHAIR  \nBy THOMAS MERTON,O.C.R.-  \n15  \nTHE IMPOTENCE OF MONEY TODAY  \n26  \nBy PETER MICHAELS-  \nTHE POOR IN SPIRIT  \n33  \nBy ARTHUR T.SHEEHAN -  \nTHE END OF THE BOURGEOIS SPIRITBy CLAIRE HUCHET BISHOP  -37  \nIS THIS TOMORROW  \n43  \nBy ED WILLOCK  \n47  \nBOOK REVIEWS -  \nINTEGRITY is pubHshed by lay Catholles mddedicated to the task of discovering the nowsynthesis of RELIGION cmd LIFE for our tmes  \nAugust 1948  \nVol.II,No.1l  \nPublished Monthly by Integrity Publishing Co.,1556 York Avenue New York28 N.Y,PI 9-8313.Edited by Edward Willock and Carol Jackson.En-tered as Second Class Matter October 14,1946 at the Post Offce atNew York,N.Y.Under the Act of March 3,1897.All singlecopies 25 cents each;yearly subscriptions domestic $3.00,Canadian $3.50,Foreign $4.00.  \n# EDIT ORIAL\n\nERHAPS the Christian convulsion going on today,that has been gaining force throughout recent years,is a sort of vomiting out of tepidity.Some day inthe future,after heaven knows what strife and whattraffic of membership in and out of the Church,men's relations with Christ will be hot or coldagain.Then there will be an atmosphere in whichChristianity will be at ease.At present the Faithis trying to wade in a sea of marshmallows,is per-  \npetually frustrated by the passive resistance of the bourgeois spirit.  \nThe bourgeois spirit is the spirit of middle-class commercialism:respectable,conservative,appreciative of,and attached to the thingsof this world.It is the foundation mentality of The American Wayof Life.To the bourgeois man it is enough to explain of changing ajob that \"it pays more money,\"and it is sufficient praise of a piece offurniture,an office,a home or a car to say that \"it is comfortable.\"Hisvalues always are.taken in respect to the visible,the sensual,the exter-ior.He is the antithesis of the man of faith,whose values are set ineternity and whose standards conform to things unseen but yet be-lieved.The bourgeois spirit is the exact opposite of that poverty ofspirit which is exalted by the beatitudes.The poor in spirit are thosewho are detached from possessions,who will own things if necessarybut had rather not,who would be unperturbed at the theft of a coat orthe loss of a fortune because their happiness does not rest in thesethings.The bourgeois man delights in his possessions and schemesperpetually to acquire more of them.Those he has are hoarded,hiddenin safety deposit vaults,insured,and kept under lock and key.He maynot be rich,but if not he wishes he were,and if he is rich he wishes hewere richer.He is the man for whom,as they say in the advertisementsand solemn sociological reports,this year's luxuries become next year'snecessities.How can a luxury become a necessity except by a man'sbecoming attached to it?In the final analysis the bourgeois spirit isprecisely the spirit of attachment,and as such is at the opposite polefrom poverty of spirit,which consists essentially in detachment frommaterial possessions.  \nThere is no need to press the point particularly,America is over-whelmingly middle class,overwhelmingly bourgeois.It is interestingto note that the American middle class,to which all except some iso-lated or racial minorities of us belong,is not the in-between class.It's notmiddle because it's half-way between our aristocracy and our peasantry,  \nINTEGRITY -1  \nboth of these extremes being virtually non-existent here.America ismiddle class because of its spiritual orientation.It's middle class be-cause it has a business man's mentality,holding manual labor in disdain,and fearful of excursions into heroic deeds and poetic fancy.That's whyit hates the cross,which carries with it so much sacrifice.  \nSince our society is bourgeois our problem as Christians is not somuch to convert people to a comfortable pract","cbCaili3jQdX6Xf7","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaili3jQdX6Xf7","pdf",2109433,52,"English","# Editorial\n## Poverty and 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