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Bishops and Leftism. Orbis Books is a line published by Maryknoll, the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of the U.S., which is sponsored by the American hierarchy. Orbis spring titles include Christian Political Theology: A Marxian Guide; two by John B. Chethimattam on how the Hindus can enlighten us, Patterns of Indian Thought and Consciousness and Reality, The Church and Revolution, wherein we learn why the Church has “so often identified itself with the forces of oppression”; Live with Yourself and Like It (“drawing on . . . the lives of such disparate people as Freud and St. Francis”); Missionaries to Yourselves (“the ground-breaking theology of the African catechist”); Mother India’s Children; and The Radical Bible. Orbis boss is veteran left-liberal Philip Scharper.

April Books. The late Bill Lawrence summed up forty years in Washington with Six Presidents, Too Many Wars (Saturday Review Press, $8.95). . . . Hannah Arendt’s new one is Crises of the Republic (Harcourt, $6.95). From the same house, a book about executive dropouts, Take Today by Marshall McLuhan and Barrington Nevitt ($9.95). . . . New Directions reissuing Pound’s opera, Le Testament, in a $75 facsimile edition from George Antheil’s original notations. . . .

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Bishops and Leftism. Orbis Books is a line published by Maryknoll, the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of the U.S., which is sponsored by the American hierarchy. Orbis spring titles include Christian Political Theology: A Marxian Guide; two by John B. Chethimattam on how the Hindus can enlighten us, Patterns of Indian Thought and Consciousness and Reality, The Church and Revolution, wherein we learn why the Church has “so often identified itself with the forces of oppression”; Live with Yourself and Like It (“drawing on . . . the lives of such disparate people as Freud and St. Francis”); Missionaries to Yourselves (“the ground-breaking theology of the African catechist”); Mother India’s Children; and The Radical Bible. Orbis boss is veteran left-liberal Philip Scharper.

April Books. The late Bill Lawrence summed up forty years in Washington with Six Presidents, Too Many Wars (Saturday Review Press, $8.95). . . . Hannah Arendt’s new one is Crises of the Republic (Harcourt, $6.95). From the same house, a book about executive dropouts, Take Today by Marshall McLuhan and Barrington Nevitt ($9.95). . . . New Directions reissuing Pound’s opera, Le Testament, in a $75 facsimile edition from George Antheil’s original notations. . . .