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ATLANTA, GA. FRED WALTERS OLDSMOSILE THE NEWEST AND FINEST OLDSMOBILE SALES.. .. Service OLDSMOBILE FACILITIES IN THE SOUTH USED CARS YOU CAN TRUST GROWING THRU COURTESY AND QUALITY SERVICE 3232 PEACHTREE RD„ N. E., ATLANTA, GA. Call CE. 7-0321 For Free Pick Up and Delivery Finding Of 10 Million-Year-Ofdi §, Manlike Skeleton No Challenge To Catholic Teaching, Article Says VATICAN CITY, (NC) — The recent discovery of a 10 million- year-old manlike skeleton does n’t challenge the truth of the biblical account of the Creation or of Catholic teaching, accord ing to an official of the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office. The official dealt with the re cent anthropological discovery in an article in L’Osservatore della Domenica, Vatican City week ly. Using the pen name “Cro- ma,” he answered a reader’s let ter concerning the finding of the skeleton of a manlike crea ture in a coal mine at Baccinel- GORDON’S "Magic-Pok" Potato Chips Fresher! 25c McCARTY & COMPANY P. O. BOX 340 ATLANTA, GA. BOOKKEEPING SERVICE ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS AUDITS TAX REPORTS Phone Office PO. 6-7953 ResidsJftce DR. 8-3288 BUCKHEAD MEN'S SHOP Arrow Shirts Stetson Hats Jarman Shoes McGregor Sportswear Haspel Suits CE. 3-6759 3047 Peachtree Rd., N. E. Official Boy Scout Trading Post Roller Skating Center 4405 Buford Highway ATLANTA'S NEWEST! GLendale 7-881T lo, in the mountains of Tuscany about 90 miles north of Rome. Its discoverer, Dr. Johannes Huerzeler, a Swiss paleontolo gist, has identified the skeleton as belonging to Oreopithecus— from the Greek word for moun tain ape. Scattered bits of fossils of the same species were found in Tuscany as long ago as 1872, and were originally believed to represent an extinct type of monkey. The scientific team headed by Dr. Huerzeler maintains that the finding of the complete skeleton of the four and a half foot crea ture proves that it is a huma noid, or manlike, species, wholly separate from the ape. It is, they hold, “the earliest progenitor of man yet discovered.” In answer to a reader’s letter concerning the find, “Croma” wrote in L’Osservatore della Do- ■ menica that there are two ques tions involved: 1. Do the assertions of modern scientists regarding the age of the earth and of man contradict the Bible? 2. Is the theory of evolution, particularly in regard to the origin of man, in contradiction to Catholic teaching? Answering the first question, the author stated: “The calculation of the age of the universe by scientists as be ing millions or billions of years old (and hundreds of thousands for man) has never been in con tradiction to the Bible.” He said that the geneology given in Genesis, which ac counts for only a few thousand years, is not intended to repre sent a determined number of successive generations but merely alludes to some of the principal personages of the his tory and prehistory of the Jew ish people. Pope Leo XIII, in his encyc lical Proventissimus Deus, rec ommended that the problem of determining the earth’s age be left to scientists, the author re called. He said this same advice was repeated by. His Holiness Pope Pius XII in Divino Af- flante Spiritu and Humani Gen eris. Turning to the second .ques tion, the writer pointed out that the Bible and Catholic theology demand belief in the fact that the human soul was created di rectly by God and that man’s body was'formed through a par ticular divine action. “In short, the appearance of the first human couple was the deliberate object of Divine Pro vince and was not left solely to the development or evolution of the forces of nature,” he said. “Admitting these premises, several Catholic authors have written and write today that it would be possible to admit the derivation of the human body from that of a higher animal.” In conclusion, the article re ferred again to Humani Generis. In that encyclical, the Pope pointed out that the Church does BOOK REVIEWS EDITED BY EILEEN HALL 3087 Old Jonesboro Road, Hapeville, Georgia FRED A. YORK PEST CONTROL SERVICE Our Slogan — Nearly Right Won't Do Our Service — Always Guaranteed Our Products on Sale at Office CALL FOR FREE INSPECTION OR INFORMATION 766 State St., N. W. Atlanta, Georgia CLARK LAUNDRY—DRY CLEANING TWO COMPLETE PLANTS 1107 Peachtree St., N. E, 2967 Peachtree Road HEmlock 4466 CHerokee 5311 ATLANTA, GEORGIA Y'ALL CALL 225 BUCKHEAD AVE., N, E., ATLANTA, GA. PHONE CE. 3-3113 Each issue of this Book Page is confided to the patronage of Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces, with the hope that every read er and every contributor may be specially favored by her and her Divine Son. THOUGHTS IN SOLITUDE, by Thomas Merton (Farrar, Straus & Cadahy, $3.00). Father Merton’s books be come more and more difficult to read and review. And that is good, because they are not meant to be read and reviewed. They are meant to be meditated, bit by bit, sometimes sentence by sentence. His earlier books combined this quality with ac counts of his own or other peo ple’s activity; the later ones eliminate the activity more and more, retaining only the “thoughts in solitude,” the echoes of this unutterable con versation with God. By these echoes, however, he still teaches those who care to listen to him and with him; this is the price less overflow of his contempla tion. Practically any page of this small, rich volume could illus trate the point, so almost at random we choose one: “My life is a listening,” he says, “His (God’s) is a speaking. My salva tion is to hear and respond. For this, my life must be silent. Hence, my silence is my salva tion. The sacrifice that pleases God is the offering of my soul— and of other men’s souls. The soul is offered to Him when it is entirely attentive to Him. My silence, which takes me away from all other things, is there fore the sacrifice of all things and the offering of my soul to God. It is therefore my most pleasing sacrifice. If I can teach others to live in the same silence, I am offering Him a most pleasing sacrifice. . . .” Who can read that and turn the page? Only the person who has no inkling of what he means, or does not care to learn. Others must stop and ponder it and learn from him how to live a little more in such a silence as he describes, a listening, an attentiveness, . to God who speaks only in such profound silences. READINGS IN THE HISTO RY’ OF WESTERN CIVILIZA TION, Volume I, selected by Thomas P. Neill (Newman, $2.25). “At its best,” says Riley Hughes in the June-July 1958 issue of The Critic, “history is a MARRIAGES O- I o- -o DELK-HIGGS — o ATLANTA, Ga. — Miss Sally Irene Higgs, daughter of Mrs. Vance J. Higgs, Jr. and the late Maj. Higgs, and James Carol Delk, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clay ton P. Bradley, were married August 9th at the Cathedral of Christ the King, Rev. Mulroy officiating. O O | RIDGEWAY-LAFITTE | O O ATLANTA, Ga. — Miss Vir ginia Lafitte, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Lafitte. and William E. Ridgeway, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William E. Ridgeway, were married August 2nd with a Nuptial Mass at the Sacred Heart Church, Rev. Rob ert Ripp, officiating. mode of contemplation; the past clamors for interpretation, espe cially in an age of crisis such as ours. Yet, since most of the past has vanished, how can we be sure that what we read as history really is history? ... Through malice or through ignorance a historian may make a mistaken judgement because the true meaning of a fact has been lost....” “The historical process,” says Edward Gargan in the same issue of the same magazine, “is to be understood as the move ment of all great societies either toward or away from union with God. All who believe agree with this idea....” Judged by these standards, much of the material in text books and supplementary read ing used by secular colleges is not history at its best; nor do the authors view history as be lievers. Hence the necessity of such books as this one, assem bled by Doctor Neill, of the De partment of History at St. Louis University, to present the Cath olic attitude on frequently mis interpreted subjects, for stu dents in non-Catholic colleges, as well as for other readers interested in history as the movement of society toward union with God. We have actually used this volume, the first in a proposed “college readings series,” in connection with the survey course in the history of western civilization given at Georgia State College, and found it immensely helpful. Doctor Neill’s own introduc tion is one of the most inter esting chapters in the book. “The essence of history to the Christian,” he says, “is the dra matic story of creation, of God’s challenge to the one creature made to His image and likeness, and of man’s response to this challenge.” Non-Christian his torians miss this essential fact completely. The twenty-four chapters which follow are selected from the writings of such authorities as Pope Pius XII. Chesterton, Belloc, Dawson, Hollis, and others whose interpretation of the past is reliable. The subject range includes prehistoric man, Catholicism and the religions of mankind, the fall of the Roman Empire, the Inquisition, Church and State in the Middle Ages, Byzantine civilization, Islam and the Koran, the Italian Renaissance, the origins of the Reformation, Protestant ism in England, Christianity and capitalism, the Council of Trent, Galileo, and the cultural aspects of the Catholic Reformation. 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The article noted however, that the encyclical adds qualifi cations to this freedom, namely that the human soul was created directly by God and that the reasons for and against the theo ry of evolution was weighed and judged with the necessary seri ousness, moderation and balance and that all are ready to sub mit to the judgment of the Church to which Christ has en trusted the office of interpret ing Sacred Scripture authentic ally and the defense of the dog mas of Faith. BUCKHEAD KIDDIE KOLLECE DAY NURSERY CE. 7-4007 234 PHARR ROAD, N. E. ATLANTA, GA. For Only $10.00 Per Week, We: 1. Pick your child up in the morning. 2. Drive him home in time for supper. 3. Juice and cookies at mid-morning. 4. A hot lunch at noon. 5. Sleep or nap from 12:30 till 2:30 p. m. 6. All activities supervised by Mrs. Clark, Registered Nurse, State of Georgia. 7. 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