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QUESTION
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But sometimes severe means
such as the death sentence are
necessary.
ADMITTING that the death
penalty is moral for serious
crimes, such as those for which
Caryl Chessman was judged
guilty, what room is. there for
discussion concerning the use of
capital punishment? The answer
is that there are still two points
which are debatable in this mat
ter.
THE FIRST IS whether, in
our modern society, capital pun
ishment is actually a deterrent
to serious crimes. Or, more prac
tically, it is more of a deterrent
than life imprisonment or im
prisonment at hard labor? This
is a question which properly be
longs to social scientists, crim
inologists, penologists and pol
ice agencies. As the issue now
stands, a considerable differ
ence of opinion exists as to the
right solution.
THE SECOND POINT is whe
ther or not a lengthy detention
in a death-row cell is not equiv
alent to death itself. In other
words, is not the mental torture
experienced by a condemned
man, compelled to wait year af
ter year until all legal processes
relating to his conviction have
been exhausted, comparable to
death itself? In the Chessman
case, of course, the protracted
legal maneuvering was instig-
nated by the condemned man
himself. But even under the pe
culiar circumstances of his case,
should not all legal questions
and appeals annexed to a death
sentence be expedited as much
as possible, perhaps within a
certain stipulated time, insofar
as this is possible?,
AT ANY RATE, those who
keep crying that capital pun
ishment is immoral would do
better to lend their energies to
something more useful — such
as condemning the .murder of
innocent human beings in the
satellite countries of Europe, for
example. Or yet closer tq home,
why doesn’t the anti-capital
punishment bloc begin a cru
sade to rid this nation of the
thousands of abortions, perform
ed falsely in the name, of medi
cine in our own hospitals year
after year; and similarly, to cut
down the millions , of, so-called
“illegal” abortions perpetrated
here yearly, over anti beyond
those performed in , hospitals?
IS TURNING a delivery room
into a morgue any less revolting
than strapping a convicted crim
inal into an electric chair?
Q. Are milkshakes considered
liquid nourishment and may
they be iaken between meals
without breaking the Lenien
fast? If they may be taken with
out breaking the Lenten fast,
are they allowed within the
three-hour communion fast?
A. This is a most difficult
question to answer. As a general
rule light milkshakes are per
missible. The thicker mixtures,
so popular today are not. As a
light milkshake would not break
the Lenten fast, it would not
break the communion fast
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Theology for
The Layman
(Continued from Page 4)
A century ago the Church
made this doctrine the subject
of an infallible definition. For
century upon century before
that Catholics had held it for
certain truth. Once the Church
had formulated with all pos
sible . clearness the doctrines of
the Trinity and Incarnation, so
that Catholics could live day in
and day out in the full aware
ness of who and what Christ is,
they began to see it as unthink
able that He should have allow
ed His mother to exist for so
much as an instant without
sanctifying grace. Yet for many,
devoted lovers of the Blessed
Virgin, a troubling question re
mains. Our Lady had said in the
Magnificat “My spirit doth re
joice in God my Saviour.” How
could God be her saviour, what
was there to save her from, if
she had had grace always.
Gradually they came to see
the answer, or rather the two
fold answer. To save men from
their sins is a great mercy of
God; but to save this one wom
an from ever sinning was a
greater mercy, but still a mercy.
Not only that. Sinless as she
was, possessed of grace at every
instant, she was still member
of a fallen race, a race to which
heaven was closed. The Sav
iour’s redeeming act opened
heaven to her as to all members
of the race.
Roughly a hundred years after
the definition of the Immaculate
Conception came that of the
Assumption of Our Blessed
Lady. In the dogma, the word
Assumption has no relation to
its ordinary English meaning of
something one assumes because
one cannot prove it. It means
the taking of Our Lady, body
and soul, into heaven. It is, if
anything, earlier than the be
lief that she was conceived im
maculate; and it is not to much
to say that it never raised any
serious doubt, or even problem,
in the minds of Catholics.
It was an almost inevitable
result of living with the full
truth about her Son. For the
ordinary man, there was the
simple feeling that Christ would
want His mother with Him in
heaven, not her soul only but
herself, body and soul. Any son
would want that, and this was
the one son who could have
what He wanted! For the more
..instructed, probably, there was
another element. It is a doctrine
of the Church that all men
would receive back the bodies
from which their souls had been
separated at death. The gap be
tween was a result of sin, and
Our Lady was sinless.
Men, of course, cannot pre
tend to know what God will or
will not do. For all of us the
temptation occasionally arises
to decide s o m e question with
the confidence that the decision
is God’s, when all that we have
done is to decide what we could
do if we were God. But when
the vast mass of Catholics see
a conclusion as certain over a
space of some fifteen hundred
years, the risk is not great. It
vanishes altogether when the
Church gives its infallible
definition.
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GOING STEADY . . .
WHAT DOES IT DO FOR YOU?
THE BULLETIN, April 2, 1960—PAGE 5
Dear Doris:
Everybody tells us we should^
n’t go steady. But if we don’t
go steady we don’t get dalc^
We don’t get to go to dances or
anything. It’s no fun not to have-
dates. What do you think about
going steady?
Joan M.
Dear Joan:
Going steady is a fad. It is a
fad like the sack dress, the
pointed toe and the pony tail.
But there is a big difference.
Going steady effects one emo
tionally and influences one’s en
tire life; while blue jeans and
white lipstick are forgotten like
the summer heat.
Why not pull “going steady”,
apart like you did the sack dress
and chemise and ask yourself:
What does it do for me?
Going steady upsets you emo
tionally. It makes demands upon
you that can’t be fulfilled in a
proper social and moral way.
Thus a steady dater may very
likely become nervous and irri
table. She will probably become
inattentive at school and neg
lectful of her duties at home. A
“steady” in your life makes you
preoccupied and causes you to
lose out on the legitimate care
free joys of youth.
On the other hand, occasional
dates, with different friends free
you from the tensions and re
strictions imposed by a “steady.”
Occasional dating gives you a
fine chance to develop social
poise. It teaches you to distin
guish between different kinds of
people and personalities.
Thus, you are .able to make
important judgments which will
help you in later years as a wife
and mother. Yes, Joan, the va
riety of social experiences you
get by occasional dating actu
ally teach you the easy grace
and charm you want as part of
your personality.
Steady dating endangers your
soul. It is a real threat to the
love of God that is in your soul.
It threatens you because you
are putting yourself in a situa
tion that encourages liberties
and familiarities which easily
lead to serious sin.
By being an occasional dater
you are practicing Christian
charity — real love. Your time,
thought, interests and affections,
rather than being concentrated
on one person are given to
the many you come in contact
with.
UNDERSTAND HOUSE RULES
Dear Doris:
I’m 18 but no matter where I
go my father insists that I be
home by midnight. Sometimes
I even have to leave a movie
before it is over. Some of the
girls I date are allowed to stay
out later than I am. Don’t you
think parents should make con
cessions once in a while?
Bob C.
Dear Bob:
The time limit set by parents
depends on many things. It de
pends on where you are going,
with whom, and the means of
transportation. Most of all it
depends on you.
A family, like any organiza
tion must have house rules or
discipline for peace and com
fort and in this instance, holi
ness. Discipline is a good word
to understand because it is al
ways with us. Try to under
stand the house rules or disci
pline of your home. Don’t con
fuse it with punishment.
When your parents are re
laxed and have time, sit down
and go over the rules with them.
Ask them to judge each occasion
separately by the WHERE,
WHO and HOW method. But
above all honor your parents’
reasoning and cooperate with
them. In this way your house
rules will have a sensible de
gree of flexibility. Then when a
real special occasion pops up
you can ask permission to re
main out later.
Your father’s decisions about
your activities are based on his
experience and knowledge of
you as an individual — not your
friends. He has only your in
terests at heart. To do his job
well he must have great wisdom
mixed with understanding, pa
tience, intuition, etc. God has
given him these. God has given
you the responsibility of abid
ing by his decisions.
I think, Bob, parents will
make concessions when you
have proven yourself worthy of
them. So keep your end of the
bargain. When it comes to mov
ies how about getting there a
little earlier? When delayed
show consideration and phone.
Associate with friends stamped
with your parents’ approval.
First strengthen their faith in
you — then — ask for conces
sions.
Doris Revere Peters answers
letters through her column, not
by mail. Young readers are in
vited to write to her in care of
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Devotion - -
How Deep Is Yours?
by
Rev. Gervase Brinkman, O.F.M.
When the Palm Sunday pro
cession returns to the Church
the following antiphon is sung:
“Jewish children . . . carrying
olive branches, cried, ‘Hosanna
in high heaven’.” The procession
then moves in triumph back into
the sanctuary. It is a visual re
minder of the scene described
by St. Matthew and read on this
day:
“And most of the crowd
spread their cloaks upon the
road, while others were cutting
branches from the trees, and
strewing them on the road. And
the crowds that went before
him, and those that followed,
kept crying out, saying, ‘Hosan
na to the Son of David! Blessed
is he who comes in the name of
the Lord!’ ”
This following of Christ was
not a deep-rooted devotion. Six
days later, the same evangelist
records:
“But the chief priests and the
elders persuaded the crowds to
ask for Barabbas and to destroy
Jesus . . . Pilate said . . ., ‘What
then am I to do with Jesus who
is called Christ?’ They all said,
‘Let him be crucified!’ The pro
curator said . . ., ‘Why, what
evil has he done?’ But they kept
crying out..., ‘Let him be cruci
fied!’”
A gentleman who had spent
18 years in prison came to the
monastery about a year after his
release. “Father, I just don’t un
derstand people. I’m working on
my third job right now. I quit
the first two.
The first job was with a com
pany that manufactures pin-ball
machines. Some of the fellows
were regularly taking marbles
and tools away from the shop
ought I to have done for thee
than I have done?”
By
Rev. Gervase Brinkman, O.F.M.
The next two weeks are call
ed Passiontide.
It is a time of special thought
on the Passion of our Lord. The
first four and a half-Weeks of
Lent did not emphasize this.
These weeks were devoted to
the idea of mortification.
We were asked to look into
ourselves and, looking into our
selves, try to discover our main
faults — those faults that were
keeping us away from God.
Once we found the fault, we
were asked to kill it by the
practice of the opposite virtue.
This first part of Lent ful
fills the first part of a prayer
by St. Augustine: “Lord may I
know myself.”
But there is a second phrase
to Augustine’s prayer. It is:
“May I know Thee.”
Passiontide tries to realize the
second part of this prayer. In
Passiontide we are asked to
think of God. God Incarnate,
Jesus Christ: Who so loved us
that He sweat blood for us; was
mocked and ridiculed for us;
was scourged for us; was crown
ed with thorns for us; carried
the cross for us; was murdered
on the cross for us; and from
the cross, pardoned his mur
derers; promised heaven to the
repentant thief; gave us His own
mother to be our mother.
God so loved us that from the
cross He could justly say to us:
“O my people, what more
and carrying them home. They
didn’t think it was wrong and
laughed when I said it was
stealing.
. Next I was on a school con
struction job. One man tiled
several rooms of his house from
the tile he took from the job.
What’s wrong with it? The
school can afford it. They get
plenty tax money.’ And he’s an
officer in the Holy Name Society
in my parish. Do those men
think they’re fooling Christ
when they go to Mass and Com
munion and profess loyalty to
Him?
It’s so easy to join an enthus
iastic crowd. It’s so easy to cry
Hosanna when it’s popular to
do so. It’s so eeasy to say: “I’m
a Christian, a follower of
Christ.” But saying it isn’t the
test. More is demanded.
“Do you love Me?” he asks.
“Oh, yes,” we shout.
“Then keep my command
ments” — all of them, big and
small.
Do we go on our way when
we hear the condition of His
love and then, by our non-ob
servance of His commandments,
join with the crowd before Pil
ate demanding His death?
Or shall we stand beside Him,
with Mary and John, despite the
ridicule and opposition of the
mob. Ours to decide. And no
better time to make a decision
than this week which we call
Holy. May it lead us to holiness.
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will always be a very unsatis
factory kind of arithmetic.
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the proper question for Passion
tide.
Chirst is nailed to the two-
branched tree.
His blood runs fast, His blood
runs free.
Where have all fled?
Where are the sick His love
made well?
Where are the lost He kept
from hell?
Where are the living He rais
ed from the dead?
Lazarus, His friend, where is
he?
Where is the son of the widow
of Naim?
Where is she?
Where are the blind He made
to see?
What of His lepers, His sick,
His lame,
His deaf, His dumb, His sore-
distressed,
His poor, His lambs, His devil-
possessed?
Where are all He kept from
Hell?
Where are all His love made
well?
Where are all on this lonely
day?
Where are they?
Christ is nailed to the two-
branched tree,
His blood runs fast, His blood
runs free.
Where am I?
What of me?
“Oh my Lord, what ought I to
have done for Thee than I have
done?”
Now is the time to renew
Lenten resolutions. If you have
felt yourself weakening, medita
tion on the Passion of our Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ will
help you to persevere.
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