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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA The Layman (Continued from Page 4) ceive from her. There are spiritual souls out side the Church which find it unbearable that a woman should be mother of God: for many such the way of escape is to speak of her as mother of the human nature of Christ. But natures do not have mothers. He who was born of her as man was God the Son. She was as totally Iiis mother as yours is yours or mine mine. The other truth we shall con sider in this connection is that God died upon the Cross. Here again I am reminded of another street-corner question of about the same vintage — “You say that God died upon the Cross; what happened to the universe while God was dead?” The sug gestion is made that it was not God who died on Calvary, but the humanity of Christ. But in death, it is always someone who dies, a person; and upon Cal vary’s Cross, only one Person hung, God the Son in the man hood that was His. Thus it was God the Son who died — not, of course, in His divine nature, which cannot know death, but in the human nature which was so utterly His. Death, remember, does not for any one of us mean annihilation. It means the separation of soul and body, a separation which at the last judgement will be ended. Upon Calvary, the body that was God the Son’s was separated from the soul that was likewise His. And on the third day, thereafter, they were united again. In His human na ture God the Son rose from the death which in His human had been His. In our reading of the Gospels, it is vital that we should never forget that every word uttered and action performed by Christ is uttered and performed by God the Son. With the words, perhaps even more than with actions, we shall find sayings we are often tempted to call hard. The one Person said I in the divine nature and in the human nature, in an infinite nature and a finite nature. He could say “ I and the Father are one;” He could say “The Father is greater than I” — it is the same Person, uttering the truth of distinct natures, but asserting each nature as truly His own. We shall look further at this. Meanwhile note that one value of reading the Gospels as I have urged is the new light the read ing will cast for us upon God Himself. We tend to think of the truth “Christ is God” as a piece of information about Christ, and so it is. But we shall suffer loss if we fail to see it also as infor mation about God. Apart from it, we should know God so far as our minds are capable of seizing Him, in His own divine nature. We should know Him, for instance, as Greater of all things from nothing; although this is true, it is just a little remote, we have no experience of creating anything from noth ing. But reading the Gospels we see God in our nature, coping with our world, meeting situa tions known to us. Outside Christianity there is nothing to compare with the intimacy of this knowledge. It is ours for the having. It is a wonderful thing to see God being God, so to speak; but there is a spe cial excitement in seeing God being man. Best Wishes SEAY'S IS MESSAGE OF FEAR, DISTDUST OF CHURCH HUGH JACKSON GENERAL CONTRACTOR AND ENGINEER Phone ADams 6-8279 224 WEST BAY STREET SAVANNAH, GEORGIA By Russell B. Shaw WASHINGTON (NC) — A movie with a message will be coming the public’s way this fall, courtesy of Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State. The movie is called “Captur ed.” Its message is fear and dis trust of the Catholic Church. “Captured” won’t win any Academy Awards. In fact, it won’t even be seen at neighbor hood theaters. But the POAU is hoping that Protestants in various commun ities will see in their church halls, this “documentary” on how the Catholic Church is try ing to “capture” the nation’s public schools. A small group of invited guests watched a pre-release of the movie here. With a little prodding from POAU associate director C. Stanley Lowell, they got the message. Speaking informally before the film was shown, Dr. Low ell told his audience that one of POAU’s biggest problems is making people believe that these “captive schools” exist. However, he added, the inci dents depicted in the film real ly have occurred — “usually not once, but many times.” Dr. Lowell stated that “POAU did not create these incidents.” Fie complained that POAU is often called an “anti-religious” or “anti-Catholic” organization. Instead, he said, POAU’s role is that of a “surgeon.” He ex plained: “We have not created these situations, but rather have tried to resolve them, to amel iorate them.” The film tells the story of a typical young Protestant cou ple, Bob and Mary Jackson, and their school-age son, Richard, who have just moved into the town of Pleasant Hills. At first all goes well. Bob is happy with his job as a lino- typist with the local newspaper. Mary finds her new neighbors friendly and courteous. But QUESTION BOX . (Continued from Page 4) was prophecy brought at any time; but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.” THE OLD TESTAMENT is replete with implicit references to the fact of its inspiration. Examples: the prophets spoke in the name of God, predicted future events in God’s name, which events were fulfilled; wrote down some of their words in accordance with God’s com mands. The New Testament contains similar allusions to its own inspiration (i. e., such phases as “according to the wis dom given him”; II St. Peter III, 14-16). FROM TRADITION, it is cer tain beyond doubt that the Bible was written by God. Thus, the Fathers constantly refer to it as “inspired by God,” or as “con taining indisputable truth.” Too, SS. Cyril of Jerusalem and Gregory the Great maintain that God is the Author of the Bible, and SS. Irenaeus, Jerome, John Chrysostom and Augustine wrote that God “dictated” the Bible and “spoke” to us through it. THE DOCTRINE of the divine inspiration of Scripture was for mulated by the Church as early as the fourth and fifth centuries, when the first significant denials of it were being widely pro posed. Q. Whal is the purpose of ihe altar cards used during Mass? Were they used in ihe early Church? A. The three altar cards (one in the center, one on the epistle side, and one on the gospel side) serve to assist the memory of the celebrant, and to spare him the inconvenience of moving the missal at various stages in the Mass. The principal card, placed before the tabernacle, contains such prayers as the Gloria, the Creed, the Offertory Prayers, the sacred formulas of Consecra tion, and the prayers said before Communion. On the epistle card are the prayers said by the priest as he pours the wine and water into the chalice, as well as the Lavabo psalm, recited as he washes his hands. On the gospel card is reproduced the Last Gospel (the beginning of the Gospel of St. John), which is read at the end of Mass. According to Father Nicholas Gihr in his classic work on the Mass, the altar cards ‘ “were gradually introduced only since the sixteenth century,” then complications begin. During a lunch hour chat with a fellow worker, Jackson learns that several years earlier the Catholics of Pleasant Hills moved in on the local public schools. Through a variety of maneuvers —- not clearly speci fied — they managed to have the school staffed with Catholic nuns. Their opponents were in timidated into silence. Bob’s friend tells him that the school bus now comes for chil dren an hour earlier than it used to — so that the Catholic youngsters may arrive on time for Mass. Protestant children ei ther have to “stand out in the cold,” or stay in the church basement — or go to Mass. The Jacksons soon find out what all this means in their lives. Their son begins making the Sign of the Cross before meals. He informs his startled parents that, according to what he has learned from the nuns in school, they are not really married, since their wedding was not performed by a Catho lic priest. Bob Jackson decides to act. He makes a trip to the “cap tive” school to have a talk with “Sister Corelli,” Richard’s teacher, who identifies herself as a member of “the Order of the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood.” During the conversation, the nun informs Jackson that his son goes to confession to a Catholic priest at the school. “Must he?” Jackson asks. “The other children do,” “Sister Cor elli” replies primly. Jackson’s next stop is the of fice of a local lawyer, who gives him a lecture on the history of Church-State separation — fol lowed by a brushoff and a warning that he may lose his job if he persists in his cam paign. From the lawyer, Jackson goes to the local superintend ent of schools. The superintend ent accuses him of being a “sec ularist.” He then adds that “the Roman Catholic Church is above the Constitution.” Bob Jackson is dumbfounded. The last resort for the indom itable Jackson is the editor of the paper for which he works. But the editor, identified as a Catholic, can only advise the young man to “get off the limb” he has put himself on. He him self would like to support Jack son’s stand, the editor says. But he has been cowed into submis sion by unnamed pressures. Jackson returns home dis heartened. There, his wife in forms him that they have bden blacklisted by the neighbors as a result of his one-man crusade. And someone has broken their front window, she adds. Jackson refuses to quit. “Maybe if this were Madrid or South America someplace, I would,” he says. In the nick of time, POAU appears on the scene. Jackson Puts in a call to POAU execu tive director Glenn L. Archer — playing himself in the film — and fills him in on the situation. Glenn Archer makes a flying visit to Pleasant Hills. In a talk with Jackson, he tells the young man that his situation is not unique — that there has been a “tendency” in recent years for sectarian groups to “cap ture” public schools. And, Mr. Archer adds, he has often heard the complaint, “I might lose my job if I try to enforce the Con stitution in my community.” From there on, the tide changes — although the film does not make clear why. The newspaper editor suddenly de cides to run a page — one edi torial denouncing “captured” schools. He takes this step de spite the pleas of “Sister Corel li,” who tells him: “We were counting on the salary money.” The editor’s change of heart mysteriously wins over the law yer who had formerly ignored Jackson. Even the school su perintendent joins the band wagon. The movie concludes with a scene in the editor’s office, where he, the lawyer and the school superintendent join in congratulating Bob Jackson for his courageous fight. Intones the editor: “As a Catholic layman, I think we should promote our own parochial schools. But we should not expect other people of other faiths to support our nuns.” During discussion after the showing of the film, the pre view audience agreed that “we ought to thank POAU for call ing our attention to this serious problem.” Several members of the audi ence complained that the change of heart of the editor, the lawyer and the school su perintendent had taken place all too easily. One man remark ed, “You made the Catholic ed itor give in too quickly.” Cath olics, he explained, are “ada mant” and “clinging.” “You have to beat them over the head,” he added. But no one disagreed with the basic premise of “Captured”— that there is a Catholic conspir acy to seize control of the na tion’s public schools, and use them for sectarian purposes. A POAU pamphlet distrib uted at the door to members of the audience as they left drove home this point. Entitled, “Cap- tive Schools, An American Tra gedy” it states in part: THE BULLETIN, September 19, 1959—PAGE 5 “A captive school is a public school which has been taken over by- the Roman Catholic Church and is operated as or.e of its own parish schools. . . “Roman Catholic priests be lieve that they should either (1) administer all schools, or, (2) direct religious training in all schools, or (3) failing in ei ther of these, develop their own private system of schools . . . “What is the real meaning of the captive schools? It is a sym bol and a warning. It is a sym bol of the control over educa tion which the Roman Church has always asserted for itself. It is a warning of what this church proposes to accomplish in nu merous areas where it has a large membership.” Services For Mrs. R. E. Lewis DECATUR, — Funeral serv ices for Mrs. Richard E. Lewis were held September 8th, at St. Thomas More Church. 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