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PAGE 4—THE BULLETIN, August 23, 1958 JOSEPH BREIG With Oak Leaf Cluster The first winner of the covet ed Joe and Mary Breig Marriage Wisdom Citation (which we have just this moment thought up) goes to Father John Fahey of Winnetka, 111. Father Fahey gets the honor for his talk on marriage at the Buffalo convention of the National Catholic Fam ily Life Con ference. H e uttered the following neg lected truths: Although the father holds final authority in the family, he does so “under the unwritten Constitution of love.” (Speak softly and carry a big heart, Dad.) THE SPIRIT of obedience works both ways, because it prefers the good of another and the will of another to one’s own. “Husbands and wives must train themselves to seek the good of the other person.” (Prescription for a joyous mar riage.) The spirit of obedience is des troyed if the husband either ab dicates his duty or becomes ty rannical, or if the wife is “a rebel and a pretender to the throne.” (A home that’s the theater for a cold war is no fun.) A husband must learn to see in himself God's chosen instru ment for the salvation of his wife and children, because mar riage is a vocation and he is giv en sacramental powers. (Think about that after the kids are in bed.) A WIFE MUST REALIZE that her role is a life-giving one— not just in bringing children into the world, hut in preparing them for the life of Heaven. (Large or small, a family ought to be holy.) Husbands must be chaste in deed, thought and desire. They have a duty to shun entertain ments, reading and jokes which degrade sex and thus destroy the meaning of their own mar riages. (How you doin’ at the club, the tavern, the golf course, chum?) WIVES ARE equally under the duty of chastity, which gives deepest meaning to the role of wife, and is nourished by loyal ty to husband in thought as well as in action. (What kind of magazines and books do you read, Ma’am?) Chastity is not weak, but strong, courageous, noble; it is “the virtue which enables us to subject our sexual powers to God’s will. It provides the con text in which these strong and precious capabilities find their true value.” (Love’s not love unless it in cludes God.) It is wrong for a wife to com pare her husband critically with other men. Why? Because it’s disloyal. (He’s your husband, remem ber?) A HUSBAND and wife should love the real each other, not some “fictional picture of what each could be if they really tried.” (Dreamers are sleepers. Wake up and live.) A family should have the spi rit of poverty. This does not mean seeking destitution, but realizing that the pleasure of one should yield to the need of another. Wife and children share husband’s ownership. Both husband and wife must gear their desires to the family’s needs. (Including the family’s need of the blessings that gifts to charity can bring.) IT IS PART of a wife’s job to help her husband to recognize the human factors involved in family life. (The husband’s head of the house, but the wife’s the heart.) Husband and wife should strive for the unity expressed in the marriage ritual — “one in mind, one in heart and one in affections.” Yep, the Joe and Mary Breig Marriage Wisdom Citation goes to Father Fahey — with oak leaf cluster, yet. Theology For The Layman si b a n g e b in m u Htle-Known Fqct* for Catholic* E (By F. J. Sheed) The production of a Second Person does not exhaust the infinite richness of the divine nature. Our Lord tells us of a Third Person. There is a Spirit, to whom Our Lord will entrust H i s followers when He Him self shall as cended to the Father. “I will ask the Father and He will give you an- other Parac lete, that He may abide with you” (John xiv. 16). The Spirit, like the Word, is a person, He, not It. “But the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, He will teach you all things” (John xiv.26). As we have already seen there is one huge and instant differ ence between God’s Idea and any idea we may form. His is Someone, ours is only something. With an idea which is only something, there can be no mutuality: the thinker can know it, it cannot know him; he can admire its beauty, it cannot admire his; he can love it, it , cannot return his love. But God’s Idea is Someone, and an infinite Someone; between Thinker and Idea there is an infinite dialogue, an infinite interflow. Father and Son love each, with infinite intensity. What we could not know, if it were not revealed to us, is that they-unite to express their love and that the expression is a third divine Person. In the Son, the Father utters His self-know ledge; in the Holy Spirit, Father and Son utter their mutual love. Their love is infinite; its expression cannot be less. Infinite love does not express its very self finitely: it can no more produce inadequate expression than infinite know- (Continued on Page Five) (By David Q. Liptak) Q: I just saw a reference to the "four principal truths of Christianity, belief in which is necessary for salvation," Would you explain this phrase further? A: The four principal truths of our Faith are: 1) God exists, 2) God rewards the just and punishes the evil, 3) the Mystery of the Holy Trin ity (i.e., in one God there are three divine Persons: the Fa ther, the Son and the Holy Ghost, and 4) the Mystery of the Incarnation (i.e., God the Son, the Second Person of the Bless ed Trinity, became Man and re deemed us for love of us by suf fering and dying on the cross). In order to be certain of say ing one’s soul, one must believe in these four truths. (“To believe,” as used here in its proper theological sense, means to accept a certain truth precisely because God has re vealed it — taking God’s word for certain truths, in other words “Believe” does not signi fy an emotional assent, there fore, nor mere confidence.) ACQUAINTANCE WITH the four principle truths of Christi anity is certainly but the mini mum knowledge requisite of the convert. Ordinarily no one may be received into the Church un til he understands these truths according to his own intellectual capasity and the circumstances of his case Even then, his en trance should be deferred until he has sufficiently learned other major doctrines basic to Catholi cism. Thus, the prospective con vert should have knowledge of: the Apostles’ Creed, at least as regards its substance, the Com mandments of God and the Pre cepts of the Church, the nature and effects of the seven sacra ments, the essential duties of his own state in life, the Our Fa ther, the sacred liturgy, etc. Also, after the above, the com mon prayers, the sacraments, Catholic practices and customs, etc. IN AN EXTRAORDINARY INSTANCE, nonetheless, expli cit belief in the four principal truths alone would suffice for reception in the Church. Thus a (Continued on Page Five) SHARING OUR TREASURE "Winning Converts Not Hard" By REV, JOHN A. O’BRIEN, Ph. D. (University of Notre Dame) “Helping a person to find his way into the Catholic Church is not a particularly difficult job. • It doesn’t require great learning. All that is needed is a little un derstanding, kindness and a willingness to to tell people in a friendly and tactful manner of the sense of secu rity, peace of mind and hap piness which the practice of our holy religion gives. Follow this by telling them about some of its beautiful teachings, bring them to Mass and soon God will give them the wonderful gift of faith.” Such was the answer given by Mrs. Margaret Doxey at St. Patrick’s parish, Glen Cove, Long Island, when I asked her the secret of her remarkable success in winning converts. She has been instrumental in leading nine converts into the fold and in having an infant baptized. One of her converts became a priest, Father Howard Bowne, a member of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, now teaching at St. Anthony’s Junior Sem inary, San Antonio, Texas. “My first coriverts,” began- Mrs. Doxey, “were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Williams. “After be coming acquainted with this couple, I noticed that they weren’t attending any church, so I invited them to the services at St. Patrick’s. They came, their interest deepened, and I brought them to our pastor, Fa ther Edward J. Kelle, who in structed them and baptized them on October 30, 1935. “My next convert was Mrs. Howard Bowne. While visiting me one evening, she mentioned the narrow escape she had when a kettle of boiling water was accidentally tipped over. She was grateful to God for escap ing unharmed and wanted to express her gratitude in the best By M. J. MURRAY „o'S CLOCKS, STRIKE THE "A3™ HOUR"- 7HE 13 CHIMES SIC NHL THE V|V£ MARIA'' HOUR " MARKING Sundown. «PT***t. WO, X.C.W C. Jt«w» ton** L’* *- — ~Zn YEARS UNTIL THIS calvary SARTENE, CORSICA, yeMzJssio* * Ily led by a T ‘°i n nYMous ex-coNvicr , CELTIC CROSS AND CROWN Surmounts the 11^ rosary h ItP&TS Off^THAT ST FRANCIS ^ mSm0L >"^i4 BASILICA, LOURDES, It nils a, cjift from, the second Irish. NATIONAL. Pilgrimage to LOURDES. ^ fiM Jottings... (By BARBARA C. JENCKS) way possible. “I explained that she could do this by offering Holy Com munion in thanksgiving. I then explained some of the beautiful teachings of our holy religion. She was much interested. Then I brought her to the Novena devotions at St. Patrick’s. She was greatly impressed by the piety and faith of the worship pers and wanted to learn more about Catholic Faith. “I decided then that it was time to bring her to an expert. So I brought her to Father Kelle. He gave her a good course of instruction and received her into the Church on April 14, 1938. As so often happens, this started a spiritual chain reaction and her son Howard was received in May and her husband three years later. “Charles Hill, a World War I veteran, was accustomed to drop in on us whenever he visited his mother who lived nearby. While at the Veteran’s Hospital, he was given a badge of the Sacred Heart by a patient. He showed it to us, and this gave me a £?ood opportunity to explain our devotion to the Sacred Heart. When he wanted to learn the whole story, I brought him to Father Kelle who instructed and received him. . • “l noticed Mrs. Lindsay, a neighbor, at the Novena devo tions in honor of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal. I in quired if she was a Catholic. ‘N^,’ she replied, ‘but I would like to become one in time, if, possible, to' receive Holy Com munion at Christmas.’ I assured her it was entirely possible. Soon Father Kelle had another customer. “I went with Mrs. Lindsay to the instructions, and learned a lot. Indeed it would be good for every Catholic to attend such a course. Father baptized her in November 1957 and she is now a devout Catholic and frequent communicant. My little experience shows that God will give the grace of faith, if we but do our part.” • BY THE TIME this column appears in print, I’ll be far from the feverish pitch of the pub licity world. In all probability, I’ll be in a boat in some coastal cove with hand line overboard awaiting a catch which I can talk about all winter long. Theres’ something about the sea, fishing and boats which has a spiritual motif to it. These loves of mine have been given sort of a celestial imprimatur, it seems. Numberless are the scriptural references and they add extra appeal to my favorite vacation pursuits. We remember how the first apostles left their fishing nets to become “Fishers of men.” We remember their fear in the sudden storm and Christ’s walking upon the waters and calming the seas. We remember, too, how in faith they were di rected to cast their nets on the other side of the boat for a worthwhile catch. We would wish St. Peter were along many a tims to give pointers. In Helen Walker Homan’s “By Post to the oft sea — a rose or a rose coral, ter on St. Peter, “Take Me Fish ing Please, St. Peter.” What oth er form of recreation boasts such lofty patrons as the first apos tles? And a fish used to be the very symbol of Christianity. • MANY are the meditations, hymns and spiritual poetry con centrated on the sea. Mary, Star of the Sea, is patroness for sail or and fishermen alike. Those who sail the seas or earn their livelihood from the sea are nev er apt to be atheists. The ever- beating, ever-flowing, depthless immense, mighty sea is a source of great wonder and meditation. Clare Boothe Luce wrote beau tifully of her experience of won der in regard to her deep sea diving in Bermuda last summer. She says: “I am grateful to the sea depths for reminding me that there is nothing on land or on sea — a rose or a rosecoral, a star or starfish, a cat orcrab, a flight of birds, a school of fish, a pebble or a pearl—which is not a miraculous mirror of the whole universe.” She found an almost “holy stillness” in the watery depths untouched by the hands of man. In her sea-diving account, Mrs. Luce remembered not only the apostle fishermen but the shipwrecked Saint Paul and the early biblical sufferer Jonah. We thrill with her when she says: “No power of strength on earth gives you the sense of nobility and freedom you feel beneath the sea.” • IN REGARD TO SHIPS, this sense of sacredness contin ues. We are reminded that each ship is solemnly christened and given a name. Few vehicles to day carry this tradition consist ently. Each year the fishing fleets at coastal centers are sol emnly blessed. (In holy Ireland we pause and remind that not only the ships but the planes in her fleet are solemnly blessed and named for an Irish saint.) Archbishop Cushing also fol lows the custom of blessing the pleasure crafts of the Boston area at the beginning of the season. There’s something ad venturesome and awesome about a ship. Perhaps this is why the ship is always referred to in deference as a “she.” • INVOCATIONS to Mary, star of the sea; lines of poetry such as Joseph Plunkett’s “His Great Heart stirs the ever-beat ing sea” and the simple Irish prayer: “May the luck of John and Peter be upon the nets” will be with me on the adven ture, the pursuit and the rest. It is comforting indeed to know that I will be following one of the most ancient of Christian pursuits as I embark to the deep waters with hook and line and hope for a good catch. U. S. BYZANTINE RITE LEADERS Pope Pius XII has erected an ecclesiastical province for Ruthenian Catholics of the Byzantin rite who have their origin from Galicia and now reside in the United States. The Apostolic Exarchy of Philadelphia has been elevated to the rank of Metro politan See, and has assigned to it as its Suffragan See the Apostolic Exarchy of Stamford. Archbishop Constantine Boha- chevsky, (left) Apostolic Exarch of Philadelphia, becomes the Metropolitan of the new province. Bishop Ambrose Senyshyn, OSBM (right) is Exarch of the Suffragan Exarchy of Stamford. Territorially, Archbishop Bohachevsky’s jurisdiction extends to all the lands under the sovereignty of the United States, except New York and New England, which are subject to Bishop Senyshyn.—(NC Photos). "The Flying Saloon" THE BACKDROP The nation’s air line pilots seem to be getting nowhere with their efforts to induce Congress to prohibit the sale or consump tion of alcoholic beverages on airplanes during flight. A bill providing for such a ban was passed by the House in 1956, but it struck a snag in the Senate. Extensive hearings were held in the Senate trans portation sub committee last Spring but the bill has not been reported and there is little chance that it will be at this session. In their fight to prohibit the “flying'saloon,” the pilots have had the backing of organized dries and of many patrons of airlines, drinkers as well as non drinkers. Senator Strom Thur mond of South Carolina, one of the backers of the proposed leg islation, reports that his mail on the subject exceeds that which he has received on the integra tion issue. Most of his corre spondents, he says, favored a prohibition against drinking in the air. From neither the airlines nor the Civil Aeronautics Board, however, have the pilots receiv ed much support. While the rev enue derived from the sale of al coholic beverages in flight is small, the airlines argue that many passengers want a cock- By JOHN C. O’BRIEN tail or two before dinner and they must serve them in order to meet competition. The CAB, which is charged with investigation of all hazards to aviation, has maintained that the evidence that drinking aloft has imperiled the safety of pas sengers is too slight to warrant a finding that drinking is a navigation hazard. To the contention of the CAB the answer of the pilots has been, in effect, “Just how much evidence must you have?” At hearings on the bill, C. N. Sayen, , of the Air Line Pilots Association, produced a fully- documented list of 23 drinking incidents aboard airlines, which, in the pilots opinion, had seri ously endangered the safety of passengers and crew. Among these was the case of one intoxicated passenger who pointed a gun at the stewardess as he demanded coffee. On an other flight a man under the in fluence of liquor started toward the cockpit yelling that he was going to kill the captain. Crew members, with the help of a male passenger stopped him at the cockpit door. He put up such a struggle that the crew members had to take off his belt and tie him down with it. The bill of particulars submit ted by the Pilots Association listed four instances of drunken passengers forcing their way into the cockpit and distracting the crew. In eight other inci dents flight crew members were forced to leave the cockpit to quell inebriated passengers, cre ating disturbances in the cabin. On three occasions pilots were forced to make unscheduled emergency landings in order to remove a drunken passenger whose behavior was threatening the plane’s safety. In three in cidents intoxicated passengers damaged windows, doors or pressurization devices in flight. In five other cases drunken pas sengers created fire hazards while the plane was in the air. The pilots readily concede that the airlines, as a rule, al though not always, limit each passenger to two drinks and that most of the trouble is given by passengers who carry bottles of liquor aboard and drink from them during • flight. That, the pilots contend, is the reason why they are asking for a ban on consumption, as well as sale, of alcoholic beverages on planes in transit. Those who have never flown with a drunken passenger aboard may not feel the urgency about banning the sale of liquor that the pilots experience. But it is difficult for even a drinking man to disagree with Senator Thurmond’s dictum, “There is a time and a place for everything, but the time and place for con suming alcoholic beverages is certainly not while an aircraft is in flight several thousand feet above the ground.” The Mystery Of Suffering This We Believe (By FATHER LEO TRESE) From a speculative point of view the doctrine of the Blessed Trinity is the greatest mystery of our faith. Yet from a practi cal point of view suffering, pro bably is a greater mystery,. because it : touches us more person- ally. Even though far be yond our un- ders tanding, “three Persons in one God” puts no real strain upon our faith because it doesn’t cost us anything to believe. Suffering is a different matter. Suffering can unleash a whole chain of, “Why? Why? Why?” to test the very roots of our faith. Oddly enough it seldom is the person who suffers who finds his faith being subjected to strain. The sufferer seems to possess hidden sources of courage which the non-sufferer cannot fathom. There would appear to be something almost sacramental about suffering. It is as though an inner grace were attached to the outward sign of pain, much as an inner grace is attached to the water of bap tism. He who finds himself tempted to question the good ness of God usually is the per son of compassionate heart who is moved at the sight of suffer ing in others. This is likely to be especially true when the suf ferer is an innocent child. Most of us know human nature well enough to realize that there are few of us adults who would dare to say of any suffering, however intense or prolonged, “I don’t deserve it.” Those of us who for some un known reason have been spared a heavy burden of suffering just feel that we have been for tunate; perhaps in purgatory we- shall be wishing that we might have paid our debt during life. But when it is a sinless child or a saintly mother in pain, then we ask, “Why must the innocent suffer so?” First of all we have to re mind ourselves that God has made us for eternal happiness with Himself. He has bound Himself by promise to give us that happiness, if we will let Him. But not by any title does God owe us freedom from suf fering in this world. Indeed, if we lived to be a hundred and spent every second of the time wracked with pairi, it still would be a small price to pay for the ecstasy that will be ours in eter nity. Nevertheless suffering was never a part of God’s own plan. It was not God’s idea. It was Adam’s sin which deprived humanity of that special gift of impassibility, or freedom from suffering, which God in the be ginning conferred upon un spoiled human nature. Suffering is the heritage of Adam’s sin, and of the sins of all of us who have followed in his footsteps. We know that the worst suf ferings are not those caused by natural disasters and unavoid able illnesses and accidents. The sufferings that wring our hearts the most as those caused by man’s own inhumanity to man. We may ask, “Why does God let evil and perverted people cause suffering to others?” Yet even as we ask it, we know the answer. If God struck dead ev eryone who caused unnecessary suffering to another, you and I would not be alive today. (Or dare we say that no one ever has known pain because of us?) If God was going to allow the human race to continue to ex ist at all, He had to permit the suffering that man would inflict upon man in his passage towards eternity. For us it was either that, or not to be at all. God however turns even hu man evil to His own purposes. And so He has made human suf fering the very instrument of man’s salvation. On the cross, as He let Himself be made to suffer and to die through the malice of men, Jesus gave meaning and infinite value to suffering. All of mankind’s suf fering, before and after Calvary, never would have been suf ficient of themselves to pay the infinite price of sin. So Jesus “wrapped up into one package” the sum of human pain and united it with His own agony. He gave to human suffering the redemptive value that only a tortured God could give. Now when we suffer, unless we positively refuse to God the value of our sufferings, our tor ment is not wasted. It plays a part in mankind’s salvation. The anguish of heart or the pain of limb that is in me today, is gain ing the grace of repentance and the assurance of redemption for souls that rnay not even be known to me. Most powerful of all suffering is that of the saint, and precious in its own right is the suffering of the innocent child. True, the child is too young to under stand and to make conscious offering of his suffering, even as he was too -young to make an act of faith at his Baptism. Yet in spite of his voicelessness, he became in Baptism a member of Christ’s Body, and so too does his inarticulate pain become a part, of the great sum of Christ- consecrated suffering. In Mary’s arms at the foot of the cross the suffering infant is pushing back the tide of human sin with strength that is greater than yours or mine. There must always remain in this life an element of mystery in the phenomenon of suffering. Explain as we may, there al ways will be a “Why?” left over. Yet Good Friday has given us the answer: “It shall not be wasted!” It is the answer we need most to know. Abstinence Union Re-elects President NEWARK, N. J. (NC) — The 86th annual convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America reelected Father John W. Keogh of Philadelphia as president for the coming year. 3% lullrtttt 416 8TH ST., AUGUSTA, GA. Published fortnightly by the Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia, Inc., with the Approbation of the Most Reverend Arch bishop-Bishop of Savannah, The Most Reverend Bishop of Atlanta and the Right Reverend Abbot Ordinary of Belmont. Subscription price $3.00 per year. Second class mail privileges authorized at Monroe, Georgia. Send notice of change of address to P. O. Box 320, Monroe, Georgia. - REV. FRANCIS J. DONOHUE REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN Editor Savannah Edition Editor Atlanta Edition JOHN MARKWALTER Managing Editor Vol. 39 Saturday, August 23, 1958 No. 6 ASSOCIATION OFFICERS FOR 1957-1958 GEORGE GINGELL, Columbus President E. M. HEAGARTY, Waycross Honorary Vice-President MRS. DAN HARRIS, Macon Vice-President TOM GRIFFIN, Atlanta Vice-President NICK CAMERIO, Macon Secretary JOHN T. BUCKLEY, Augusta Treasure,. ALVIN M. McAULIFFE, Augusta Auditor JOHN MARKWALTER, Augusta Executive Secretary MISS CECILE FERRY, Augusta Financial Secretary