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PAGE 4—THE BULLETIN, November 12, 1960 CASTRO'S INVASION SCARE THE BACKDROP By JOHN C. O’BRIEN Most Americans are com pletely baffled by Fidel Cas tro’s studied efforts to make it appear that the United States is getting ready to attack his island by force. He trotted out the invasion goblin in his four- hour tirade before the UN gen eral assem bly. Back on home soil he exhorted his people to get ready to defend their homeland against the “Yanqui invaders.” The imminence of an American invasion has been the constant theme of Raul Castro, chief of his bro ther’s armed forces, and Dr. Paul Roa, the foreign minister. HELP FROM K In whipping up the invasion scare, Castro has had a help ing hand from Nikita Khrush chev and his puppet press and radio. While he was attending the UN meetings, the Soviet leader warned about the sup posed aggressive intent of the United States toward Cuba. And more recently the Soviet press and radio predicted an invasion would be staged be fore election day and suggest ed that Havana would be bombed by American planes, “in a few days.” One explanation of Castro’s invasion scare is that he is merely resorting to the well- known tactic of dictators when they are unable to make good on promises to their people. To aHay discontent among the Russians, Khrushchev has made his people believe that they are in constant danger of aggression . by , the United States and other Western pow ers. To rally his own people around bis revolutionary gov ernment, Castro, it 'is suggest ed, is resorting to a similar tactic. But some State Department observers believe that both Castro and Khrushchev have another aim in mind. They suggest, that.the invasion scare is being used as an excuse for putting in the hands of the Cuban army the type of mili tary hardware needed, to put down a popular rebellion. Conclusive evidence has been amassed by the State De partment of a massive build up of armaments by the Castro regime. Within the last few weeks the Soviet Union has been pouring into Cuba MIG fighters, helicopters, 90-ton Stalin tanks, heavy artillery, mortars and machine guns. In order to justify such an .arms build-up among his own people, Castro, State Depart ment observers suggest, felt the necessity of convincing them that they were threat ened by invasion from the United States. To give plausi bility to the threat, the Cuban dictator organized the peons into “people’s, militia” and armed them with rifles of Second World .War vintage. CUSTODY OF ARMS But many State Department experts suggest that the heavy arms are to be used against the Cuban people if they rise in revolt, not to protect the island against the hypothetical invasion from the United States. In support of this conjec ture, the experts point out that Castro has taken care that the tanks and heavy artillery and the military aircraft have not been entrusted to the “people’s militia.” These destructive weapons are in the exclusive custody of the regular army commanded by Raul Castro. In any battle between the Cuban people and the military forces, the experts note, the military power would lie with the army. Peons armed with rifles would be wholly inef fective against devastating fire from tanks and heavy ar tillery. It was the tanks and big guns which the Soviet Un ion sent back into Hungary, when it seemed the freedom fighters had won, which crush ed the revolt and put the Hun garian people back under the communist heel. The Russians, it is believed, have cautioned Castro against the danger of a revolt, signs of which have already been ob served in mountainous parts of the country. The communists also have impressed upon the Cuban dictator that he must have heavy armament to sup press a general uprising. Cas tro, apparently, is welcoming Soviet help in insuring his hold upon Cuba by making ready to deal effectively with a widespread rebellion, should one come. The Great and the Small MARINE WINS HIS SWEETHEART JOSEPH BREIG SHARING OUR TREASURE Poor Souls That's Us Reverend J. A. O'Brien, University of Notre Dame Don’t you have some non- Catholic friends? Wouldn’t you like to share with them a pre cious treasure? What is the greatest treasure you possess? It’s your holy Catholic Faith. It is wo-rth more than all the gold and dia monds in the world. It is the di- v i n e truths which show you how to live in this world so that you will save your immortal soul and achieve eternal life and hap piness in heaven. It was because a young ma- ranie, George Thomas Bull of Rochester, New York, had a non-Catholic friend whom he loved that he took pains to share his most precious treas ure with her. The girl is Doris Fennell of St. Simon Is land, Georgia. “I was a fervent Baptist,” rfelSted Doris, “and went to the Baptist Sunday School in the morning, to the Community Church in the af ternoon and to the study club of the Baptist Training Union in the evening. “Later on I went to Miami, where I worked. I belonged to the U.S.O., where I met a young marine, George T. Bull. We took a liking to each other and soon were dating quite often. When our friendship be gan to blossom into love, George explained many points of his Catholic Faith to me and brought me to Mass; “It was a neiv experience for me, as there are but few Catholics in Georgia and I knew virtually nothing about the Catholic religion. As the Mass was in Latin. I didn’t understand too much of what was going on at the altar. But later with the aid of a prayer- book, I was able to follow the prayers fairly well. “An Inquiry Class was be ing conducted at St. Mary’s Church and I attended it reg ularly. I felt at ease as there were about 25 others in the class. I was somewhat startled to learn that the Baptist Church was not founded by John the Baptist, as I had naively imagined, but by John Smyth in Amsterdam in 1600. This is explicitly stated in ‘Religious Bodies: 1936 U. S. Religious Census,’ published by the U. S. government. “I began to see that the var ious Protestant denominations all came into being only in the last few centuries. In 1624 Luther founded the first Prot estant Church, called after him, the Lutheran Church. Ten years later King Henry VIII established the Church of England, commonly known in this country as the Episcopal Church. It was not until 1739 that John and Charles Wesley founded in England the Meth odist Episcopal Church. “It is difficult to think of such man-made creeds as hav ing any divine authority or sanction, and the bottom be gan to fall out of my prot- estantism. I wanted a divine religion, founded by Christ Himself. To my surprise I found that the Catholic Church alone traced her origin to Christ and that the Apostle Peter was the first pope. “I went to Columbus, Ohio, to work, and there I took an other course of instruction from Father George Barendt at the Church of the Holy Spirit. The Church had a clear logical answer for all my questions and her doctrines, I saw, were founded upon Scripture and the teachings of the Fathers and Doctors of the early Church. “I was baptized and, when I received our Eucharistic Lord, George came from Notre Dame University to receive with me. My heart was filled with rapture. George and I were married at a Nuptial Mass, and God has already blessed us with a child. Never can I sufficiently thank George for sharing his treas ure with me or God for the priceless gift of faith.” Father O’Brien will be grate ful to readers who know of anyone who has won tivo or more converts if they ivill send the names ond addresses of such persons to him at Notre- Dame University, Notre Dame, In diana. WASHINGTON LETTER WASHINGTON — A Sen-, ate -subcommittee has warned that communist success in ma nipulating anti-American mob violence will encourage them to “further efforts” in this field on “a larger scale.” The warning was made by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee in a special staff study of the anti-Ameri can riots in various parts- of the world which have claimed headlines so often in recent years. Beginning in 1948 with the violence in Bogota, Colombia, during the Ninth Inter-Ameri can Conference, the study surveys communist techniques in stirring up or using riots in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1958; La Paz, Bolivia, in 1959; and most recently last May and June in Tokyo. The study notes that “in some Latin American coun tries, and in Japan, Commu nist parties controlling an in significant minority of the to tal votes cast, have resorted to the policy of manipulating and; inciting mobs, to accomplish political and diplomatic objec tives in the interest of Soviet foreign policy.” The purpose of this commu nist tactic has been to defeat the objectives of the U. S. gov ernment and to “humiliate its spokesmen and representa tives.” The study states that the U. S. government has not in J. J. Gilbert the past been properly prepar ed for such occurrences. The communists have not made the mistake of acting too openly in these affairs. As the study notes, “for the most part the communists operate behind the scenes, making use of un informed and excitable teen agers, students, and illite rates.” , . . .. -• A favorite -technique of the Red trouble makers has been to exploit economic problems and nationalist emotions, ac cording to the subcommittee findings. In their actual carrying-out, anti-American riots have closely paralleled the tactics taught in special schools for international communist ag ents ih the Soviet Union, the study says. Furthermore, by allying themselves during the riots with other political groups, the communists have succeeded in minimizing police action against the mobs.. A finding chilling in its im plications about the commu nist attitude toward violence is that “the Communist party does not deplore bloodshed in connection with anti-Ameri can riots in the belief that such occurrences t*«nd to ex cite the mob to greater vio lence.” The study asserts that lead ers of Communist paries in Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela and Japan have been in Mos cow where they have received instruction “in handling mobs and military techniques.” In addition, the study warns that the Chinese communists have been of assidtanda to communists elsewhere by pro viding training, money and propaganda in connection with anti - American outbreaks. “This is, no doubt, the result of an agreed-upon division of labor with the U.S.S.R.,” the subcommittee document says. Among the special advan tages for the communists in tactics of mob violence, ac cording to the study, are the following: —All the risks are taken by citizens of the country involv ed. “No Soviet lives need be sacrificed.” —Democratic governments are put at a disadvantage “since they are dedicated to safeguard human life and lib erty” and will not engage in ruthless suppression as the Soviets did in Hungary. —Rioters can use homemade weapons easily available with out outside aid. —The police or army of a country are likely to be de moralized when faced with the necessity of suppressing an outbreak by their fellow countrymen. —Mob violence “has a ten dency to gather momentum.” -—If the government hesi tates to put down the violence, (Continued on Page 5) It strikes me that November ought to do something more for us than stir us up to do some special praying for the souls in Purgatory. In addition to that, this time of year ought to jolt us into real- i z i n g that getting to Purgatory is not what ve should i i m at as he ambition of our lives as Christians. Getting to be our goal. We are all keenly aware that Purgatory is very much the opposite of a lark. We don’t like to think of our rela tives being there, or our friends — or anybody else. Therefore we shake our selves out of our spiritual lethargy and take part in the November devotions for the Holy Souls. BUT SOMEHOW we don’t put the same determination and vigor into the work of our own sanctification the year around. I suspect that a peculiar human psychology, having to do with our attitude toward time and toward death, is the cause of this illogical behavior. The thing is, we can imagine the Holy Souls suffering greatly, right now, right this minute. We can’t quite imag ine ourselves dead — not now. Sometime, yes; but it’s a vague, distant, unreal some time. Thinking about the Holy Souls is like seeing somebody suffering grinding pain, and knowing that we can help to free him from it by making a comparatively small spiritual effort. THINKING ABOUT our own death, and our own judg ment, is another matter; There are various factors which con spire to fool us — and make fools of us. For one thing, death is some thing that happens to the oth er fellow. We can’t quite vividly realize that it is going to happen to us. For another thing, death seems far in the future. We delude ourselves that we’ve got a lot of time. We can get busy preparing to die — later. And yet the plain fact is that the time to prepare to die is always now. It’s right now whether we are eight or 18 or 80 years old. It’s every day from morning to night. AFTER ALL, Purgatory wouldn’t exist if people didn’t put off, and neglect, the things that they ought to be doing for their sanctification just as they do other things for their worldly welfare. We buy insurance, for in stance, to protect our loved ones from material want — but we leave undone what ought to be done to protect them and ourselves from spi ritual need. Many of us take endless pains about the education, health and social training of our youngsters — and yet do little to surround them with the protection of our prayers and good works. IN NEGLECTING our chil dren in this way, we neglect ourselves. Or conversely, in neglecting ourselves, we neg lect our children. And it’s all because we can’t seem to imagine ourselves dead. And yet die we will, as sure as we’re alive. It’s our only way of arriving in the next, and endless life. If providing for ourselves spiritually were impossible or terribly difficult, we’d have an excuse. Bui Christ'has put into our hands, as members of His Church, the means of doing it. Indeed, he has heaped up the means. He has given us, for the taking, the Mass, the sacraments, the sacramentals, countless indulgences, the Rosary, the Sacred Heart de votion — the list could go on and on. CHRIST IN His Church — which means Christ in you and in me — doesn’t want us, in Purgatory. He wants us in Heaven. He wants us there the instant we die, if only we’ll make ourselves capable of Heaven. We can’t go there until we are capable, any more than we could enjoy great music if we were tone deaf, or great paint ings if we were color blind. Making ourselves capable ought to be the central busi ness of every hour of life. One wonderful thing about it is that the holier we become, the more we can help the souls in Purgatory, because the better we are, the more pow erful our prayers in their be half. CHRIST STILL LIVES IN NAZARETH SUM AND SUBSTANCE By Rev. John B. Sheerin, CSP (Editor, The Catholic World) In rftid-September I visited Nazareth in Israel. It was an unforgettable experience. What impressed me / most, however, was not the cave that is said to have been the home of the Holy Family. It was rather a “building cooperative” on a hillside of Nazareth that struck me most forcibly. It is commendable to pre serve the sacred shrines asso ciated with the life of Our Lord but this “building co operative” was an example of living Christianity, Christ at work among His poor. 'GRINDING POVERTY' The inspiration and prime mover of this project is Father Paul Gauthier, former direc tor of the seminary of Dijon in France. A few years ago he came out to Nazareth to make a film on the life of Christ, taking scenes of everyday life ih the Holy Land to illustrate the Gospel. He found grinding poverty among the people. So cially and economically these Greek Catholics were having a hard time. Father Gauthier resolved he would do his best to im-j prove their situation. He help ed build Archbishop Hakim’s, new Greek Catholic seminary, working shoulder to shoulder; with the laborers. After that he began his “co operative.” With the aid of loans from . the Government, he started building operations.; He hired some laborers to( work all day. Others worked part-time, especially those who worked on the cooperative af ter they had finished their day’s work at their regular oc cupation. These part-time workers were struggling fathers of families who could not afford to buy their own homes from landlords. Through the “co operative” they were able to attain their dream of a home for their families. Thus, Fa ther Gauthier helped relieve the unemployment situation to a small degree at least by hir ing workers and he gave fa thers of families a place they could call their own. He has already completed 72 homes and is now going ahead with plans for 72 more. JEWS CORDIAL Of course, he has his prob lems but so did the Holy Fam ily. His trust in God, however, is equal to any problem and a holy impatience drives him on. He actually suffers to see his men out of work. \ Two years ago when the co operative slowed down for a While, Father Gauthier work ed in a Jewish Kibbutz or “collecti^lir and received in valuable' experience helpful for his own cooperative pro ject. He was cordially received in the Kibbutz, had his own altar for Mass and his Jewish co-workers even prepared a Christmas tree for him and the small group of Christians who entered the Kibbutz along with him. This group is now the core of his project. They share his meals (in his 8’ by 8’ hut) and offer Mass with him in his cave-altar, a short distance from his hut. A visitor cannot fail to realize as he bends down to enter this cave that Christ is still living and work ing among His poor in Naza reth. FEAR m the 1.1 Rectory By Th« Rev. Robert H. Wharton An airline was conducting a training flight for new per sonnel. During the takeoff, the trainee flight engineer noticed suddenly that one of the en gines was belching billows of black smoke. For a mo ment he was panic-strick en, but he quickly re- covered. With the wrench that he had in his hand, he reached out and tapped the pilot on the shoulder. “We’re on fire,” he said. The pilot soon had the plane back on the ground. The green engineer was explaining to the ground crew how calmly and cool-headedly he had spotted the trouble, how quietly he had the pilot’s attention to it without panic or excitement. As he was talking, he saw the pilot being carried from the plane on a stretcher. “What’s the matter with him,” he asked. “Broken shoulder,” some body said. If you think about it, the pilot is lucky he got off with only a broken shoulder. When ol’ man panic gets someude in his grip, there’s no telling what terrible things may re sult. Fear is a perfectly respect able emotion that’s supposed to be a part of our makeup. When it is controlled and properly used, it can help us. Without some fear of disease, for instance, we’d take too many chances and neglect medical research. We take safety precautions because we have a reasonable fear of accidents; we build up our defenses because we right fully fear a terrible enemy across the seas. We most of us — don’t go 100 miles an hour in our car because we know the car is a movable ob ject and it might meet an irresistible object. All reason able fears. The world today, however, is full of unreasonable fears. It might be that we have many natural reasons for being quite scared, but there are just as many supernatural reasons why we shouldn’t lose our heads about this thing. Many of us, of course, have those age-old fears called phobias, which we got when we were kids because the neighbor’s boy bopped us on the head with a hammer. Or mother was frightened by a grasshopper. Or we woke up one morning to find a rattle snake sharing our bed and, for some reason, snakes now give us cold chills. There’s a phobia for every occasion—fear of high places, fear of elevators, fear of cats, fear of being buried alive, fear of dirt — and fear of fear. These phobias, deeply rooted in our subconscious, generally go away if we use our reason enough. Spend a night in a rattlesnake’s cage, and you’ll get rid of that fear of snakes — if you live. These days our conscious minds find a lot to be fright ened about. It used to be that people died. Now they arrange to “pass away” or become “de ceased” or “fall asleep”—any thing but die. After they died in the old days, they were buried by an undertaker. Now they are handled by a mor tician or mortuary consultant or funeral counselor—or even an obsequial engineer. This psychopathic fear of death leads to a very unrealis tic attitude toward life and its curtain-time, and it sometimes makes it hard for a priest to get permission to administer the Last Rites. Besides an over-all fear of what the future might bring, what with hydrogen bombs lying around here and there, we find excessive fear or oth er religions, foreigners, Ne groes, Jews, Catholic (that’s us), and just about everyone and everything we don’t fully understand. The only thing that can give us peace of mind is, of course, trust in the Providence of God. If there ever has been a per fect medicine, a cure-all for every ailment of humanity — it is this conviction that God really cares. There was a school of thought which held that God made the world and then let it run its merry course, but we Catholics have never sub scribed to that. We believe firmly that God loves us, that He is interested in everything we do, that He arranges things to work out for our good. Christ knew that fear was and would be a common af fliction of mankind, so He tried to reassure us in the Sermon on the Mount. He pointed out that God takes care of the birds of the air and the lilies of the field. “Are you of much more value than they?” He asked. The only solution for ex cessive fear, then, is confi dence in God’s love and power and goodness. This confidence leads to love, a love which in-, fallibly conquers fear. The only other solution is for you to dig an underground cave and retire to it for the rest of your life. Even then, a snake would probably move in with you and spoil the whole thing. Question Box (By David Q. Lipiak) Q. Why is if fhat ihere is no special feast in honor of God Ihe Father? There are so many feasts in honor of God the Son, and Pentecost com memorates ihe Holy Spirit. Is there some theological reason why a feast in honor of the Father is inappropriate? A. Since Jesus Christ, the Incarnate, Son of God, is both our Redeemer and our Media tor, the liturgy (which com prises the official acts of wor ship and prayers of the Church) is, as a general rule, addressed to God the Father, through God the Son, in God the Holy Ghost. Thus it is, for example, that the Mass Collects conclude with the formula (or its equivalent): “Through our Lord Jesus Christ, who livest and reignest with Thee (the Father), in the unity of the Holy Spirit . . .” "NO SPECIAL FEAST is celebrated in honor of the Fa ther,” writes Gerard Monta gue in a treatment of this question, “because liturgical feasts are primarily concerned with the work of our redemp tion and sanctification, which are attributed not to the Fa ther but to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.” THE WORD attributed here is a technical term, having ref erence to the fact that, accord ing to our imperfect manner of conceiving the Blessed Trinity, certain divine opera tions are especially associated with one of the Three Divine Persons in particular. God the Father, for instance, is usually associated with beginnings (i. e., the creation of the world); God the Son, with intellect (wisdom); and God the Holy Ghost with love (holiness). In reality, of course, all these at tributes are common to the Three Divine Persons, who possess the identical Divine Nature, equally and totally. BECAUSE OF these princi ples, a special feast in honor (Continued on Page 5) 416 8TH ST., AUGUSTA, GA. Published fortnightly by the Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia, Inc., with the Approbation of the Most Reverend Bishop of Savannah; and the Most Reverend Bishop of Atlanta. Subscription price $3.00 per year. Second class mail privileges authorized at Monroe, Ga. Send notice of change of address to P. o. Box 320, Monroe, Ga. REV. FRANCIS J. DONOHUE REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN Editor Savannah Edition Editor Atlanta Edition JOHN MARKWALTER Managing Editor Vol. 41 Saturday, November 12, 1960 No. 12 ASSOCIATION OFFICERS GEORGE’ GINGELL, Columbus -———! President MRS. DAN HARRIS, Macon — Vice-President TOM GRIFFIN, Atlanta — Vice-President NICK CAMERIO, Macon Secretary JOHN T. BUCKLEY, Augusta Treasurer ALVIN M. McAULIFFE, Augusta Auditor JOHN MARKWALTER, Augusta Executive Secretary MISS CECILE FERRY, Augusta Financial Secretary