Excerpt from What They Ask About Marriage
Msgr. J. D. Conway"s Question Box is the most popular feature of The Catholic Messenger of Davenport, Iowa. Every week for nine years, Monsignor Conway has answered questions on faith and morals for readers of this diocesan journal. This in itself is not unusual. Most Catholic newspapers carry a Question Box. And most Question Box editors are at least as durable a breed as other editors and writers.
What is unusual about Monsignor Conway"s Question Box is the wide range of his answer-ability, the realism of his answers and the deftness with which he handles each question sent to him. Nor is this all. The Monsignor is endowed with a dry, astringent wit that gives to his already lucid style a literary flavor, an originality and freshness which mark the creative writer.
It is not easy for a moralist to combine pungent wit with serious instruction. He is always in danger of being remembered as a humorist rather than as a teacher of great truths; and what he teaches is always in danger of being lightly regarded unless he keeps careful rein on his wit, unless he makes sure that it clarifies rather than outshines the primordial truths of faith and morals for which people thirst.
Monsignor Conway writes with a smile. The smile does not soften the "hard truths" of Christian discipline. But it does soften the context in which he (and we) must express those truths, adhere to that discipline in our daily lives.
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