NEWS OF SOCIOLOGICAL INTEREST.

This section presents several research and publications on theology and other topics on social sciences. Anita Yourlich, assistant professor of sociology at Seattle University has just completed a research project on aged institutionalized women. She has recenty written the text, Dynamics of Social Interaction and articles on Catholic nurses' conflicting attitudes. The Catholic Mind magazine (December 1955) reprinted Donald J. Thorman's address on "The Catholic Press and Catholic Social Action" given at the National Catholic Social Action Conference in Cleveland on September 8, 1955. In time for the twenty-fifth anniversary commemorations of Quadragesimo anno, the Catechetical Guild is publishing the Pope Talks About Labor Relations, a sixty-three page, fifteen cent booklet written by Father William J. Smith, of the St. Peter's Institute of Industrial Relations in Jersey City. Doctor Gladys Sellew, chairman of the sociology department at Rosary College, published with Sister M. Ethelreda Ebel, the third edition of their book History of Nursing. The book Demographical-sociological Research at Loyola College, Baltimore: Basic Ecclesiastical Statistics for Latin America, 1954 compiled by Thomas K. Burch and Donald J. Burton and edited by William J. Gibbons, reports on a portion of the statistical work done at Loyola College under a grant for demographic research from the Population Council Inc.