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PAGE 4—THE BULLETIN, May 30, 1959 JOSEPH BREIG THE WIFE AT WORK The man who loves his wife in the way that a wife ought to be loved does not want her working in an office or a factory. If it is inescapably necessary that she do so, then it is in escapably nec essary. But the right kind of husband . will not be content until the necessity has been ended. Neither will he lightly con clude that in his case the word “necessity” applies. To the con trary, he will be difficult to convince that it does apply. The right kind of husband is not a materialist who puts fur niture, or drapes, or carpeting, or an auto, or money in the bank, ahead of his wife’s true happiness. He is not a timorous soul, either, cowed by advertising or by public' opinion into feeling that he is obligated to keep up with the Joneses in worldly things. Far from if. The right kind of husband is a manly man with a mind of his own. He is far more concerned about his wife’s good than about what some neighbor might think. He knows that the good of his wife is not best served by send ing her out to work. He knows something about the temptations and the stresses of the workaday world. He does not choose to subject his wife to such strains. Nor does he forget that he has the primary responsibility for pro tecting his marrigae from harm. The manly and religious hus band knows that it is his duty to be the guardian of his marriage, and to safeguard his wife from dangers to her pure wifeliness. The right kind of wife, furth ermore, wants that kind of hus band. She wants a man who will be strong and industrious and courageous, and will reverence her womanhood. Unless she is very foolish, What she wants out of marriage is full wifehood—not mere con venient association and pooling of earning power. ; The right kind of husband secs his wife as some one in comparably more important than an additional bread-winner arid an occasional companion. ■He* * pays her the tribute of looking upon ner as wife and mother, and as the highest kind of maxer this earth knows—the maker of a home and family. Full wifehood means mother hood-even if it must be that very noble form of motherhood called “adopted.” It means the making of children not merely in bringing them forth; but m rearing them for mature perfec tion under God. It means surrounding God’s children with the right condi tions for their physical psycho logical and spiritual develop ment. Full wifehood means making the home into what a home ought to be. This and nothing less, is what the true and manly husband wants for his wife. And this is what the truly womanly wife wants her husband to want for her. For this cause, countless hus bands, measuring up to their husbandhood have worked long and hard and unremittingly; and in the process have achieved shining success. The wife who works when it is not an inescapable necessity is not doing her husband good, but harm. She ' is encouraging him to be less than he is capable of being. She is robbing him of the in centive for the kind of appiica-. tion and effort he needs if he is to achieve everything he ought to achieve, and grow to full stature of manhood. She is depriving him, too, of , the rich joy that coiftes in later years when a man . can look upon his children as they begin their own lives, and know that he made this possible. Nowhere is there a house im posing enough, or an auto gleaming enough, -to compensate a husband for the children he did not rear to maturity. Nowhere is' there any social, position, or any jewel or luxury, or financial preferment, that can make it up to a wife for the lit- ; tie ones she did not make a home for. Pope John appealed to us to “make every home into a shrine of religious feelings and a school of virtues” like the house of the Holy Family in Nazareth. This is what a 1 real husband and a real wife want. This is, what is permanent and happi ness-giving amid all the baubles of life. ' Theology For The Layman F. J. Sbeed SANCTIFYING GRACE (3) Faith is directed to God as su premely truthful, Hope to God as supremely desirable, Charity to God as supremely good. Faith w*e have already glanced at, it is the simple acceptance of God as our teacher. Hope is more complex. There are three elements in it; it de sires final un ion with God, sees this as difficult, sees it as attainable. The nature of Hope comes out more clearly as we see the two ways of sin ning against it, by presumption and by despair. Presumption ignores the difficulty, either by assuming that no effort on our part is necessary. God will save us what ever we do, or by assuming that no aid from God is neces sary, pur own effort can save us unaided! Despair will not be lieve in the attainability, the sinner seeing himself as beyond tire reach o f God’s power to save. The answer to both is St. Paul’s “I can do all things in Him that strengthens me.” Charity is simple again. It is love of God. As a necessary com sequence it is love of all that God loves, it is love of every image or trace or reflection of God it finds in any creature. Whatever the soul in charity loves, it loves for what of God is in it, the amount of God’s goodness it expresses or mirrors. This is true love, since it means loving things of persons not for what we can get out of them but for what God has put into them, not for what they can do for us but for what is real in them: it means loving things or persons for what they are, and it is rooted in loving God for what He is. (This we have al ready noted in the strongest rea son for learning what He is— that is for studying Theology.) Faith, Hope and Charity are called habits by the theo logians, and his is not simply a technicality. If we think over (Continued on Page 4) Jottings. (By BARBARA C. JENCKS) By David Q. Liptak Q. Lately there seems to be a renewed effort on the part of some individuals, probably act ing in concert, to build up a case for cremation. At a business luncheon the other day, for in stance, a few tried to convince me how "scientific" and "re spectable" the practice is. My own rebuttal, I fear, was a little bit weak, because I haven't looked up the matter in a long time, Would you please list for me the reasons why the Church is opposed to cremation? A. Cremation is not wrong in itself. If it were, the Church could never permit it, no matter what the circumstances. As it is, though, the Church can allow the practice in times of grave public necessity; as, for exam ple, during an infectious plague, when there is no time for bu rial, or when immediate dispos al is absolutely requisite. . As an- ordinary rule, however, the Church is strictly opposed to cremation, and forbids it under Severe penalties. There are two main reasons for this position. ; The. .firstJakes ' nto account the fact.that during life the hu man body is really (not meta phorically, the Temple of the Holy Ghp(st. The mortal frame of the-deceased Christian, after all, has , been sanctified many times over by the sacraments: it has been washed with the saving waters of Baptism, an ointed with the sacred oils of Confirmation and Extreme Unction, consecrated in a spe cial way by matrimonial con sent or the . imposition of hands in Holy Orders, glorified count less times through absolution in the confessional and the recep tion of the Holy Edcharist. It has been often blessed, too, by the sacramentals: by the Sign of the Cross traced on it, by holy water sprinkled over it, by a 'scapular or medal worn. It has been used finally, to assist the soul in functions of worship and TCont"ihue<f on Page 4) • CAN A POLITICIAN BE COME A SAINT? Certainly! It ( is a difficult road, however. Yet the public servant has more op portunity than most to set good,' example and to help others in temporal needs. In one of my first interviews with Clare Booth Luce, we discussed ' this, problem of politics and sanctity. She agreed that the road was indeed a rocky one. Yet there are the examples of Thomas More, Thomas A. Beckett and today’s saint, Catherine of Si ena. Some have made it you see! All during the recent con troversy of religion in politics I have thought of two quota tions. One was from Command er John Shea who before his death in World War II wrote to his young son, Jackie, and said; “Be a good Catholic, son, and you cannot help but be a good American.” The other c y a m e from the colorful Hilaire Belloc and is oft-quoted. When run ning for parliament in a non- Catholic district, he was warned carefully not to mention his re ligious affiliations for fear it would be fatal for his election. The unpredictable Belloc arose faced his audience and said: “Gentlemen, I am a Catholic, As far as possible,-1 gc* t6 : Mass every day,” • THE PUBLIC SERVANT (and I prefer this title to poli tician) has both obvious oppor tunities and handicaps in the battle of sanctity. Pride is a bar rier with us all but it would ' seem it, would be. the especial thorne of the public servant. It is hard to stand off from the plaudits of the crowds who shout your name and the news papers which carry your every word and to have law-making powers and not identicy your self with it all. The politician has a temptation to see himself as a little god. The presidency of the United States has also been called the ' highest teih- by Brian Cronin 1. A Cardinal is correctly addressed as: (a) Your Excellen cy? .(b) Your Eminence? (c) Your Worship? (d) Your Lordship? - 2. The first martyr of the Church was stoned to death in Jerusalem. His name was: (a) Stephen? (b) Simon? (c) John? (d) Paul? 3. After what event was a voice from heaven heard to say: “This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleeased.”: (a) The Crucifixion? (b) The Resurrection? (c) The Nativi ty? (d) The baptism of Jesus? 4. Zachary and Elizabeth were the parents of: (a) St. Joseph? (b) Our Lady? (c) St. Paul? (d) St. John the Baptist? 5. The Angelus commemorates the: (a) Annunciation? (b) In carnation? (c) Resurrection? (d) Immaculate Conception? 6. “Servant of the servants of God” is a signature that ap pears on documents issued by: (a) The Pope? (b) Card inals? (c) Religious brothers? (d) Bishops? 7. The letters A.M.D.G. meaning “To the greater glory of God” in Greek represent the motto of the: (a) Cictercians? (b) Capuchins? (e) Dominicans? (d) Jesuits? 8. Who was the first apostle appointed by Our Lord?: (a) Andrew? (b) Peter? (c) Judas? (d) Thaddeus? Give yourself 10 marks for each correct answer below. Rating: 80, Excellent; 70, Very Good; 60, Good; 50, Fair. Answers: 1 (b); 2 (a); 3 (d); 4 (d); 5 (b); 6(a); 7(d); 8 (a) Bad Effects Of TV Exaggerated? THE BACKDROP Br JOHN C. O’BRIEN SHARING OUR TREASURE Visit To Church Leads To Conversion By REV. JOHN A. O'BRIEN. Ph. D. (University of Notre Dame) — By Rev. John A. O'Brien, Ph. D, (University of Notre Dame) Do you w a n t to share the Faith with a friend? If so, bring him to Mass or some other serv ice, briefing him beforehand. Even if you are simply passing by a Catholic church, bring him in while you poral office in the world. In the words of Kipling, it would be hard to keep your head while all around you men are losing theirs. - Of course, Thomas More literally lost his head but in so doing he saved his soul. Cath erine of Siena in turn bore both the cheers and sneers of the crowd in the service to her God and her country. • THE SUPREMACY of God in our lives is not something pe culiar to the . Catholic, as one would think these days. Every created thing is bound to praise God above all things for He is our Creator and Redeemer. Senator Eugene McCarthy in his “America” article, quoted an Episcopalian dean as saying: “No Christian can grant to the state an absolute right over his conscience , I would- say that the allegiance given by Roman Catholics is not to a foreign power hut to the Lord, and this is virtually no different from the rest of us Protestants.” Pope Pius XII with one stroke of his pen did away with the question of. a double standard for public and private life. He left no doubts. God is God whether you are sitting in the president’s chair of office or the rocking chair in the family home. We would wish then for the ap pearance pf men of vision and courage, who see the role of public servant as a terrible re sponsibility and a glorious priv ilege and their dependence on the Supreme Legislator and Su preme Ruler. Where are' the men of stature who like Thomas More, cried: “The King’s good servant, yes, but God’s first!” ... or Hilaire Belloc who dared sgy to .the voters of his area: “If you reject me on account of my , religion, I shall thank God that he has spared me the in dignity of being your repre sentative.” Belloc won the elec tion. More became a saint. visit briefly with our Eu charistic Lord. Then explain to him some of the pictures and statues. Thus you May kindle his in terest in the Faith and help lead him into the fold. God seems to give some grace or blessing to all who come into His holy presence. This is illustrated by the ex perience of John M. Young, a young Englishman now with the Royal Canadian Air Force, Ot tawa, Canada. I first met John in September 1956 When he came as an International photo grapher to take some pictures of a motley crowd I was ad dressing for the Catholic Evi dence Guild in Hyde Park, Lon don. “I was reared,” began John, “in the Church of England, in which my mother was quite ac tive. After graduating from the Perse School in Cambridge, England, I joined the editorial staff of the Cambridge Daily News. Later I served with the British forces in Palestine and then went to South Africa where I worked for the Rhodesia Her ald and Sunday Mail. “Thinking that I had a reli gious vocation, I attended St. Paul’s Seminary, Grahamestown, to study for the priesthood. While there, an Anglican friend gave me a copy of The Road to Damascus, in which a dozen brilliant scholars, British and American, tell of their conver sion to the Catholic Faith. It made a profound impression on me, and I could not easily dis miss the reasons which these scholars gave for embracing the Catholic religion. “After reading more books on the Catholic Faith I discontin ued my studies at St. Paul’s and went back to England. I got a job in London as a photographer with the International News Service. One day with a couple of girls from the office I was walking along Leicester Square. On? of the girls invited us to visit the Catholic church, Notre Dame., recently erected there. “Entering t h a t“ Church was the turning point in my life. The beauty of the church, the atmos phere of reverence and holiness and the sense of God’s presence stirred me deeply. The taber nacle lamp burning before the alter proclaimed His presence in the tabernacle. Whether it was in Palestine, South Africa or Great Britian, whenever I en tered a Catholic church there was the tabernacle light pro claiming God’s presence and saying softly, ‘This is the house of God and He is at home.’ “This, I realized, but mirror ed her marvelous unity: in wor ship and belief the Catholic Church is everywhere the same. She speaks with the authority of her founder Jesus Christ, who promised to be with her all days. What a contrast to the divergencies of belief among Church of England ministers, many of whom were uncertain what to believe. “I took instructions from the pastor of that church, Father Paul Jacquim, and in June 1956 was baptized conditionally and received our Eucharistic Lord in Holy Communion. I had come home at last. My widowed mother had long been perplexed by the contradictory beliefs of our Episcopalian ministers. “Realizing that unity of be lief must characterize Christ’s true Church, she too took in structions and was received into the Church four months later. She is a devout Catholic, active in her parish in South London and a Tertiary of the Carmelite Order. God Grant that we may share our happiness with many others.” The debate about the effect of movies on children, so spi rited a few years ago, has shift ed to the effect of television. Just as critics of the movies used to contend that the rise in juvenile de- linquency could be at tributed to too much movie going by chil dren, today critics of tele- vision are blaming tele vision for crimes of violence by children, the decline of reading among children and the neglect of home work. Many parents refuse to have a television set in their homes because they think it is bad for the children. Television, we are told, is more harmful than the movies because it is avail able at almost any hour of the day. 'WESTERNS' IN BRITAIN A child’s movie going is rela tively easy to control, since he cannot attend a movie unless the parents give him the price of admission. But the child does n’t need a red cent in his pocket to see a television program; a turn of the dial brings it in. Now, we are told, the fears of parents about the baneful ef fects of television are largely groundless. This is the conclus ion of the Nuffield Foundation of Great Britain which recently made an exhaustive study of the effect of television viewing upon English children. The findings of the British ex perts, of course, represent only one point of view and sociolo gists can be found who would challenge their conclusions. American parents, in particular, may doubt that the conclusions of the British study would be valid for the United States, since British television pro grams are in many respects dif ferent from American programs. Yet the British networks show a great many American pro grams, particularly “westerns,” and the complaints considered by the British experts appear to be pretty much the same as those heard in this country. Take, for example, the charge that the watching of westerns, with all the gun slinging and violence, stimulates aggressive behavior in children. The Eng lish study found, comparing the reactions of children who view ed television with those who did not, that westerns and crime shows did not make the “view ers “any more aggressive or maladjusted than non-viewers,” except in the case of those few children who were emotionally disturbed. In fact, the experts reported, the stylized action in westerns was far less likely to disturb children than more realistic plays where the child identified himself with characters on the screen. Television presentations of the classics, they noted, were sometimes more disturbing. CURIOSITY AROUSED Another finding of the British investigators was that instead of diminishing a child’s interest in reading, television viewng stimulated interest in reading by arousing the child’s curiosity in a wider range of books than or dinarily he would be attracted to, including non-fiction. Television does not, so the British experts found, make children passive. Children’s love of activity and exploration, they reported, is very strong. When there was a choice between sports or hobbies and viewing, television often was the loser. Children tended to make room for viewing by cutting down on other ready - made entertain ment, notably the movies and radio, rather than on hobbies and play. Teachers interviewed by the British investigators reported that television appeared to have no influence one way or the other on the imaginativeness of children. They rejected the view, often expressed by par ents in this country, that tele vision dulled the imagination of the child. Another complaint oft e n made in this country is that children who watch television a great deal become jaded and lose interest in real life hap penings. The conclusion of the British survey was that, if any thing, the opposite was true. Children who watched tele vision had become interested in a wider range of subjects than the non-viewers. The dangers that a child may spend too much time before the living room screen was found by the investigators to be a real one. But where it occurred the investigators found the fault lay largely with the parents. In two-thirds of the homes which had television, it was noted that the parents left the sets on throughout the evening. By putting their own viewing on a more selective basis, the parents, it was suggested, could teach their children to make their television viewing more profitable. THE STORY LADY Maureen Wenk Hanigao THE UNHAPPY ROSE Once, oh not so very long ago, in a sunny garden, there grew a beautiful red rose bush. There were many other flowers in the garden too. There were some tulips and pansies and some Johnny-jump-ups and even a few tall straight snap-dragons that stood guard at the edge of the little white fence. Almost everyone stopped to look at the garden and admire the neat rows of blossoms and the beau tiful colors. They all looked so gay and bright that everyone thought it must be the happiest little garden in the town. But that was not quite true. ONE SAD FLOWER Over in the corner on the Impressive Religious Revival Is Venice’s Tribute To St. Pius X By Father Anionio Niero (N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE) VENICE, Italy, — The month-long visit of the remains of St. Pius X in Venice was the occasion of an immense and im pressive religious revival in the city of canals. What His Holiness Pope John XXIII has called the Saint’s “last pastoral visit” to Venice demonstrated the devotion which the Venetians have for their beloved “Papa Sarto,” St. Pius X, who was Patriarch of Venice before he was elected pope. An estimated 800,000 people filed past the gold and glass casket during the month the body was kept in the Basilica of St. Mark. Communions total ed more than 100,000. Venice has never lived through such solemn days in its history, although its history is studded with great religious moments. The number of visitors to the basilica increased gradually from day to day. Finally it reached unprecedented totals and disorganized all the care fully laid plans for order. The church had to be closed several times because too many people tried to enter it at once. Mass was celebrated without interruption from 6 a. m. until 10 p. m., with Communion avail able at all hours by special con cession of Pope John. In the morning there were people in front of the church before it opened, so eager were they to view the Saint. Two of the largest crowds assembled at the basilica on the Feast of St. Mark, always a ‘major occasion in Venice, and on May 1, Italy’s Labor Day. One of the largest pilgrimages was composed of 15,000 people who came from the diocese of Padua. Pilgrims came from every town in the north of Italy. As they floated in gondolas and boats down the canals, they chanted the Litany of the Saints like the pilgrims of old. On May 5, special pilgrims paid tribute to the late Pope. They were the Italians whom he had confirmed when he was Patriarch of Venice. All were more than 70 years of age. Toward the end of the month, crowds grew so large that police had to be called. Among others to come in pilgrimage was His Eminence Giovanni Cardinal Montini, Archbishop of Milan. Every Sunday morning Pope John telephoned the present Patriarch, His Eminence Gio vanni Cardinal Urbani, to learn how the observance was pro gressing. On May 10, the last day of the commemoration, Car dinal Urbani telephoned the Vatican to say that it was rain ing and that it looked like the final ceremonies of departure would be ruined. The Pope, through his private secretary, Msgr. Loris Capovilla, who is a Venetian, said he would pray for his Venetians and their celebration. In the af ternoon the Cardinal-Patriarch telephoned the Vatican again to report that there was sunshine over Venice. As the body of St. Pius was carried by train back to Rome, the faithful at all the main stops gathered in crowds to pay homage to him. The chapel- train halted 20 minutes in Bologna, Florence, Siena and other cities. Even at road cross ings there were clusters of peo ple who knelt as the train passed. beautiful red rose bush, there was one little rose that was more lovely than any of the others and it would surely have been the nicest flower in the whole garden except that it was always sad. Every day the little rose cried and cried because it had to stay in the garden and could not go out and see the world. The little rose knew that there must be a great huge world beyond the white fence because every day the little animals would come and tell all the flowers about +he places they had been and the wonder ful sights they had seen. Early, early in the morning a fat brown bunny would hurry by. “Wait,” the little rose would call, “Come and tell us where you have been all night.” “I have been at the edge of the woods,” the bunny would answer, “And a few minutes ago I made a visit to the lettuce patch on the other side of the hill. Oh my that is a fine place indeed, and such a fine break fast I can have there! Now, now, I must not talk any longer. I wish I had a nice safe place to stay like you have little rose, but I must scamper, scamper, scamper all the time!” When the bunny had gone the little rose cried more than ever. “Oh, I do so want to see the world—whatever am I going to do?” “Don’t cry,” said the other flowers, “We love living here in our beautiful safe garden with all the people coming to admire us. Why can’t you be happy here too? The animals will tell us enough about the world.” But the little rose couldn’t be happy just hearing about the things it never could see. And when the puppy dog came and told the flowers how it followed a little boy to school, and the kitten whispered to them about the kind old man that gave her a saucer of milk over in the big barn, the little rose wanted to see the world more than ever. Then, one day, a wonderful: thing happened! BILLY CAME A little boy named Billy came to look at the beautiful flowers, and with him was the lady who owned the garden. She was tell ing Billy that because he was such a nice polite little boy, and never took any of her flow ers without asking, that today he could pick whichever one he liked the best, and he could take it to his mother for her birthday. For a long time Billy looked carefully at every flower and the little rose could hardly believe it when it heard Billy tell the lady that he wanted the little rose with the dew drop on its cheek. How happy the little rose was! Billy carried the rose home very carefully, and when he gave it to his mother he gave her a big birthday hug and kiss too. She was so pleased, and she said she liked Billy’s flower bet ter than any present she had ever had. She gave the little rose a drink of cool water and then everywhere she went she put the rose on her coat and took it along to see the world with her. And each time she returned she gave the rose another cool drink. The little rose went to a quiet lovely church, and to the busy grocery store, and far across the town to visit Billy’s grand mother. And the little rose was happy all the time, for every day it saw something new in the great wide world! / i '4 Wc\t HuUrtut 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, May 30, 1959 No. 26 ASSOCIATION OFFICERS FOR 1958-1959 GEORGE GINGELL, Columbus President MRS. 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