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The editorial frames the year as a time when ominous clouds gather and people are tempted to lose heart, introducing multiple contributors and their perspectives on hope, optimism, melancholy, and faith. The featured article “Hope” reflects on hope as facing sorrow, hardship, failure, and the future without delusion, grounding hope in God as “the Helper.”",{"@graph":69,"@context":122},[70,84,105],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":45,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/religion-spirituality/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/integrity-vol6-no4-hope-and-despair-january-1952/429102/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/integrity-vol6-no4-hope-and-despair-january-1952/429102.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"Jiven","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-07","2026-09-29",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":19},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",{"@type":106,"mainEntity":107},"FAQPage",[108,114,118],{"name":109,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":111},"What core idea defines hope in this issue?","Question",{"text":112,"@type":113},"Hope is presented as grounded in the reality of God, especially as “God the Helper,” and as the ability to face sorrow, misfortune, and failure without delusion.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"Why does the editorial say despair is a major danger in 1952?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"It describes gathering ominous clouds and widespread temptation to despair, arguing that many have “given way to despair” and that the need for hope is urgent.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"How does the issue distinguish hopelessness from hope?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"It suggests hopelessness can have two faces: what seems lifeless may still contain the hidden seed of hope, yet there is also a mass presumption—confidence not founded on God—that can masquerade as hope while actually opposing it.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},429102,1791095143,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":44,"category_name":45,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":19,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":139,"language":140,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":141,"faqs":142,"seo_title":143,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":144,"read_time":145},1099513958607,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/avatar/100002390cf8733938c?x-image-process=image/resize,m_fixed,w_180,h_180&k=1778829742770036399","INTEGRI  \n25 A COPY  \nTHIS ISSUE:HOPEANDVOL.6.N0.4DESPAIRJANUARY 1952  \nCO N T E N T S  \nEDITORIAL1HOPE  \nBy DOROTHY DOHEN2HOPE AND DESPAIR  \nBy DR.JOHN C.H.Wu -12OPTIMISM  \n15  \nBy PETER MICHAELS-  \nTHE CHALLENGE OF MELANCHOLY  \nBy ALAN KEENAN,O.F.M.23  \n“A CITY CALLED HEAVEN”  \n28  \nBy R.C.DoUGLAS -  \nVENGENCE OF THE FETTERED ELEMENTS  \nBy FRIEDRICH GEORG JUENGER -  \n37  \n42  \nBOOK REVIEWS .    -  \nINTEGRITY is published by lay Cathoics anddedicated to the fask of discovering the newsynthesis of RELIGION and LIFE for our times.  \nJanuary 1952  \nVol.6,No.4  \nPublished monthly by Integrity Publishing Company,243 East 36th Street,New York 16,N.Y.,MU-5-8125.Edited by Carol Jackson.Re-entered as Second Class Matter May 11,1950 at thePost Office in New York,N.Y.under the Actof March 3,1879.All single copies 25φeach;yearly subscriptions:Domestic  \n$3.00,Canadian $3.50,Foreign $4.00.  \nINTEGRITY is indexed in THE CATHOLIC PERIODICAL INDEX  \nE D IT O R IA L  \nE WISH our readers a Happy,a Holy and aHopeful New Year.Hope seems to be pre-cisely the virtue to practice in 1952,whenominous clouds are gathering and men every-where are tempted to despair.  \nSo fittingly,we have treated the subject inthis issue.Dorothy Dohen's article on \"Hope”  \nis one of her best,we think.For the benefit of new readers,Dorothy has a gift of presenting sound theology in a simple man-ner with telling illustrations.Sheed and Ward has published acollection of her previous Integrity articles under the title,Voca-tion To Love.  \nDr.Wu(\"Hope and Despair\")is our friend(of which weare proud),author of Beyond East and West(of which Sheed andWard is proud),translator of the Bible into Chinese,formerambassador from China to the Vatican,father of thirteen children,presently teaching law at Seton Hall College.His is the mystic'sview of our subject.  \nR.C.Douglas'article(\"A City Called Heaven”)might seemto be off the subject,but it isn’t.She is an American who has liveda long time abroad.Seeing her native land with fresh eyes,shesays its hope lies in its contemplative life  \n“Melancholy”and \"Optimism”are diseases related to despairand hope.Father Keenan,an English Franciscan,has intro-duced the psychiatric angle.Peter Michaels of our staff,has takenthe large social view.  \nFinally there is Friedrich Georg Juenger,the German poet,whom we reprint from time to time.The \"Vengeance of theFettered Elements”is one of those stabs into the heart of material-istic technology that should carry over for at least a month'sinvulnerability to propaganda about our brave new world.  \nGood reading!  \n■  \nHope  \nI have always taken the subject of hope personally.Thatis,ever since I was in the sixth grade and was chosen to play thepart of Hope in Pandora's Box.I don't know why I was cast inthat role.I remember clearly that the girl who was chosen to beSorrow was cheerful and light-hearted,and even at the time itseemed to me we were miscast.For in school especially I wasa woeful child,and not at all the one to step encouragingly outof Pandora's box to bring solace to mankind after the storm oftribulations and sufferings had been let loose on the human race.But perhaps it was all because T happened to look well in green,or because the costume fit me....  \nAnyway,the more I have thought about it the more I havecome to realize that hope is not necessarily the virtue of carefreemien.Hope knows the look of sorrow and of calamity and ofdeath.Hope does not close its eyes at the appearance of misfor-tune,nor pretend not to see the harsh realities of life.It canlook at failure unflinchingly and face the errors and evils of lifeas they are.Hope does not delude itself by any fanciful falsevision of Progress;neither does it hide itself in the security of atime that is past.Hope can breathe in the present while it looksto the future.For,hope is,because God is.  \nIt is the presence,the fact of,the reality of God that is thebeing of hope.Theologians put it that the formal motive of hopeis:Deus auxilians—God","cbCaipNcGCUICk32","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipNcGCUICk32","pdf",2048666,52,"English","# Editorial\n## Hope\n## Hopelessness Has Two Faces","[{\"question\":\"What core idea defines hope in this issue?\",\"answer\":\"Hope is presented as grounded in the reality of God, especially as “God the Helper,” and as the ability to face sorrow, misfortune, and failure without delusion.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the editorial say despair is a major danger in 1952?\",\"answer\":\"It describes gathering ominous clouds and widespread temptation to despair, arguing that many have “given way to despair” and that the need for hope is urgent.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the issue distinguish hopelessness from hope?\",\"answer\":\"It suggests hopelessness can have two faces: what seems lifeless may still contain the hidden seed of hope, yet there is also a mass presumption—confidence not founded on God—that can masquerade as hope while actually opposing it.\"}]","INTEGRITY - 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