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new,improved translationsof the Bible)are available to us if we want touse them.  \nCATHOLIC BIBLE WEEK,which begins thisyear's Catholic Press Month,could causemost of us some uneasiness,if we let ourselvesthink about it;for if we did think about it,wewould have to face the question of why we don'tread the Bible—and most of us do not read it.Ifwe were honest with ourselves,we would seethat this failure to take the Bible seriously hasa simple cause:it requires too much of us—just as taking Christ seriously seems to requiretoo much of us.To act upon the belief thatGod actually spoke to men through this col-lection of ancient books that we can now pickoff any drug-store book rack,is just as hard forus as to act upon the belief that God becameman in the person of Jesus Christ.  \nAnd that,again,is the question:do we want toread the Bible?We will if we want to lead a fullChristian life,and if we want to take the painsto find out why and how the Bible plays an in-tegral part in that life.  \nPortrait of an Editor3Warren G.BoveeCross Section8Prospect for School Papers IIJames M.SheaWritten with Greatness 14Doris GrumbachThe Essential Vocation 18Rev.Leo J.TreseIntegration and the South 20Millard F.EveretfMovies 24Donald P.CostelloTelevision 26Frank GetleinWhy Lent?28Carl MerschelWashington Comment 29Kerran DuganS+.Peter's Chair at Antioch 31Rev.Rollins LambertA Pattern for Living 32Julian PleasantsThe Night of the Red Moon 35short story contest winner)Joanne ParrottFront Cover—Virginia BroderickBack Cover—Margaret DagenaisTODAY  \nIf,however,we have the wisdom to acceptChrist,God's Son,we will also have the wisdomto accept the Bible,God's Word.Starting toread the Bible may be as difficult for us as start-ing to imitate Christ,but if we begin the taskwith determination and use all the helps we can,we will soon see how satisfying an experience itis.Our rewards will besuch things as the under-standing that only in the Bible is the meaningof history made clear;the realization that weourselves,as Christians,are members of a greatfamily going back to Adam and Eve and in-cluding the Patriarchs and Prophets,and—miraculously—God himself;and,finally,thejoy of coming closer to Christ himself,of mak-ing his acquaintance as a person and not merelyas a dogma.  \noday  \n★  \nCECURING THESE BENEFITS from theBible is,of course,primarily a matter of read-ing it;it also is a matter of obtaining wiseguidance and assistance (the \"helps\"men-tioned above)in understanding just what itsays—for the Bible is by no means always asimple book to read.  \nFEBRUARY,1956  \nFortunately,we are in the midst of one ofthe greatest boom in bible studies that has evertaken place;new books on the subject are pub-lished every day,many of them of great aid inunderstanding the Bible.Such studies as FatherJones'Unless Some Man Show Me,Abbe Poel-man's How To Read the Bible,Dom Winzen's  \nVOL. 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