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Why Work For Catholic Press?
Jottings
By BARBARA C. JENCKS
CATHOLIC PRESS month is an appropriate time to answer
the questions that are too often put to me: “Why do you work
for a Catholic newspaper?” “Why not get an exciting job
on ‘Vogue’ or 'The New York Times’ or as foreign corres
pondent?” “It must be dull working for a religious news
paper, too bad you can’t better yourself.” These comments
do not come from non-Catholics generally, but from Catho
lics. Few see anything exciting or interesting abour working
on a Catholic newspaper. These questions are very discouraging.
Few seem to understand why anyone would want to write
for a religious newspaper. It is as if it were bottom-of-the
barrel journalism. Of course, the pay is not what it is on
‘The New York Times’ or 'Time Magazine.’ But I would
doubt that either place could give the challenge or excite
ment, believe it or not, that permeates Catholic editorial
offices. And there is something else. There is a satisfaction,
a sense of dedication, you might call it, of working for the
Catholic Press. The stories I write may wrap tomorrow
night’s fish, but there is a meaning and purpose
far and beyond the reporting of a good news story or the
writing of a feature article.
WHY WRITE for a Catholic newspaper? My first job after
leaving college was for the Catholic Press. I had always
wanted to write and here I wrote something that had meaning,
the ideas did not die with the next edition. I wrote
about people who were worth writing about and about causes
that were worth championing. I doubt if a series of interviews
with movie stars or crooners, as exciting as some readers
may think them, they would not appeal to me as much as
writing about people who have dedicated their lives and for
tunes to making the world a better place in which
to live. . .missionaries, nuns, and priest jubilarians. Perhaps
the world does not find their lives exciting but I do. Dr.
Tom Dooley was far more interesting and exciting to me
than all the top movie stars in Hollywood put together. My
career hasn’t been so dull as some would have it. I’ve been
to Europe to write a series and I have met President Kennedy,
Eleanor Roosevelt, Clare Booth Luce, and other national
figures. I feel that my life of writing on a Catholic newspaper
has meaning and purpose way and beyond the mere chronicling
of newsworthy events of the moment, or covering fashion
shows, writing Hollywood gossip or advertisements for a
chewing gum or deodorant firm on Madison Avenue. I could
not be interested in these “glamour writing” jobs. I’d like
the money entailed perhaps but like all good things there
must be some sacrifice involved and monetary reward is
the sacrifice with the Catholic Press.
Pope Says Sports
Can Help Promote
Peace, Brotherhood
ST. BERNARD COLLEGE ALUMNI—Alumni and friends of St. Bernard College,
Cullman, Ala., met in Columbus January 28th. Shown from left to right; Maj. Robert
Kendrick; Thomas L. French; Rev. Aloysius Plaisance, O. S. B.;JohnB. Lee; Emile
Murphy; Rev. William Dowling.
A GENTLEMAN recently took me aside at a wake and
in a confidential manner said- “too bad you can’t
write about the things you’d like to—you are probably forever
bening censored in your writing.” Honestly, there is nothing
that I have wanted to write that I haven't. I can truly say
in nearly 15 years that I have written a column, with the
exception of an interlude of six years of teaching,
that I have never written anything that was censored. I wonder
what the gentleman thought I wanted to write about and couldn’t.
Of course, I don’t cover murders and the like as do daily
papers and I’ve survived well without that. I am interested
in writing of the things of eternal value.
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IF THOSE who pity the dullness of the life of a writer
pp a Catholic newspaper would just follow us around for
a day or so. The whole world comes into this news office.
The Ecumenical Council was perhaps the most ex
citing event of the century and we had a grandstand seat.
The discussions concerning the proceedings at the Council,
as well as lively debate on every subject you could name—
racing, unwed mothers, birth control, the Negro question
fair housing, anti-Semitism, politics, the Supreme court ruling,
art, J. D. Salinger’s writing, a whole panorama of thought
discussed, debated, considered at editorial meetings. Theology,
biology, foreign languages, literature, psychology all are called
upon. Where is the dullness that people would asso-
caite with the Catholic Press? Writing for the Catholic Press,
one knows what the world is about, what the people of the
world are suffering. We are one with all people and experiences
as a writer should be. This is my answer for those
who do not understand the workings of the Catholic Press
This is a manifesto I must read myself when ‘the voices’
would tempt me that there is more exciting writing
jobs in other cities on slick magazines or in advertising
houses. The dullness of the Catholic writer—nothing: The
power and the glory of it all:
deSALES NIPS PACELLI
33-32 IN LAST SECOND
(By Steve Puster,
Sports Correspondent)
COLUMBUS—Andy Duffy’s
clutch shot as the final whistle
blew gave the Mount de Sales
Cavaliers their second win 33-
32 over*Pacelli High last Sat
urday night.
In the girls’ game, the Cava-
lieras avenged their defeat in
Macon a week ago taking the
measure of the Viqueens 20-12
to hand the Pacelli team their
tenth loss against a lone victory
this year.
Coach Charley Hudson’s Ca
valiers, riding a three-game
winning streak, opened the game
with tight ball control to force
the Vikings to come after the
ball with the result the score
at the end of the first quarter
was tied at 6-all.
Continuing these tactics, the
Cavaliers dominated play in the
first half even though Pacelli
MARRIAGES
eEberwein-haviland
-SAVANNAH -- Miss Frances
Haviland, daughter of Mrs.
Frances Haviland and the late
Theodore Haviland and Joseph
K. Ebberwein, son of Mr. and
Mrs. George A. Ebberwein were
married January 5th in the Cha
pel of Our Lady of the Ca
thedral. Bishop Thomas J. Mc
Donough performed the cere
mony. Celebrant of the Mass
was Msgr. Andrew J. McDon
ald.
700,000 Visit Fatima
FATIMA, Portugal—Pil
grims, including cardinals,
bishops, workers, and chil
dren came to Our Lady's shrine
here by the hundreds of thou
sands during 1962.
The largest pilgrimage, 700,
000 took place on last May 12
and 13, marking the 45th anni
versary of the 1917 appear
ances of the Blessed Virgin to
3 portugese children.
Youth-Vocations Worker Says
Parents Should Match Generosity
Of Youth In Priestly Callings
LOS ANGELES, (NC)— An at
torney who works “both sides
of the street” asserted here
that young people respond to
religious vocations with an as
tonishing generosity which
should be matched by parents.
Attorney John Ford, active
in youth work and also in af
fairs of Serra International
which encourages vocations to
the priesthood, told 1,500 men
at the Holy Name Union’s 27th
annual breakfast in the Bilt—
more Bowl: “It is our job to
help our children find their
true vocation and, if that voca
tion be the priesthood, to assist
them along the way by encou
ragement, prayer and good ex
ample.”
Before the breakfast the men
assisted at Mass offered by
James Francis Cardinal McIn
tyre, Archbishop of Los Ange
les, in St. Vibiana's cathedral,
and received Holy Communion.
Ford cited some statistics
for the Holy Name men. He
said there are 1,500,000Catho
lics in the Los Angeles arch
diocese. He said that last year
13 priests were ordained here
and eight priests died. He said
the proportion of people
to priests in the archdiocese
is nearly twice the national
rate.
We are asking our priests
to do nearly twice the work that
priests in other parts of the
country are called upon to do,”
the attorney said. “Thank God
that our young men are begin
ning to swell the ranks of semi
narians and will begin soon to
swell the ranks of our priests.
But we must do more.”
Ford called on Holy Name
men particularly to seek out,
encourage and pray for voca
tions among their own sons.
He cited some familiar pa
rental objections against per
mitting a boy to enter the semi
nary. Some parents, he said,
claim that a boy knows little
of the priesthood and should be
allowed to mature.
“Where else can he learn of
this but in the seminary?” Ford
asked, “The young man who
chooses the priesthood has 12
years of intimate daily contact
with priestly life before he takes
on this lifetime obligation. Dur
ing any one of these years he
can step aside from the life
without penalty. He is tested
repeatedly during those 12
years to ascertain if he has the
courage, the stamina, the will,
the knowledge and ability for
it.”
Another parental objection,
Ford continued, is that a boy
knows nothing about the world
and should learn something
about it before turning his back
on it.
“Why?”, he asked.
The world does seek
to attract, capture and form a
boy’s mind. “Why give the world
first chance?” he asked. “Why
can he not within the walls of
the seminary try first the plea
sures of loving and serving God
in the religious life?”
Cardinal McIntyre recounted
the conversion of St. Paul, the
happening that changed him
from persecutor of the Faith
to the Apostle of the Gentiles.
St. Paul’s work for Christ,
said the Cardinal, is a heart
ening example to Holy Name
men who should form a resis
tance to current irreligious ten
dencies.
“We observe,” the Cardinal
said, “in the expressed opin
ions of some educators and
scientists a tendency to attri
bute to the ingenuity of scienti
fic research the power of crea
tion.
“Creation came not from
science, but from God. Science
is a creation of God. Life is
not a creation of science,” he
said.
“The erroneous philosophy
of defying science abandons
the first cause of all life, and
nullifies the greatest power
that has ever influenced
the mind of man, Divine Sanc
tion. This tendency is infil
trating into public education,”
the Cardinal said.
Men of the Holy Name Society
are an example of resistance
to this philosophy and should
help amplify the objective of the
Vatican council--to restore to
the minds of all men, irres
pective of race, color or creed,
a renewal of acknowledgement,
had a slim 11-8 margin at the
midway mark.
Opening the third quarter,
Pacelli started a fullcourt press
in an effort to break the ball
control of the Cavaliers and
wound up behind 22-19 the Ca
valiers as the game went into
the final quarter.
Before Pacelli could get
going, Andy Duffy broke loose
with two quick field goals and
added a pair of free throws
as both teams battled for the
lead which changed hands rap
idly. With less than a minute
to play, Tommy Metzler sank
two free throws to give Pacelli
a 32-31 lead.
The Cavaliers worked the ball
downcourt to try for a last-
second field goal and when Duf
fy’s shot was high it rebounded
directly to him. With no chance
to move the ball, Duffy, with
his back to the basket, jumped,
twisted and let loose with the
ball which slipped through the
net for the winning basket as
the buzzer sounded the end of
the game.
This was the third time this
year De Sales has pulled a game
out of the fire in the final
minutes to earn one-point vic
tories, while two of the Cava
liers’s seven defeats have .been
by only one point.
Edgar Hatcher was high scor
er for the evening With 14 points,
followed by Duffy with 12, while
Dan Osborne and Bruce Swiss-
helm, with nine apiece, set the
scoring pacing for the Vikings.
In the girls game, it was the
Cavalierias all the way. Out to
avenge last week's defeat in Ma
con, the ladies from De Sales
had a 6-3 edge at the quarter,
a 12-7 advantage at the half.
ANDY DUFFY, whose clutch
basket as the game ended, gave
the Mount de Sales their sec
ond straight win over Pacelli
High of Columbus.
Holding the Viqueens to a single
basket in the third quarter, the
Cavalierias stretched the lead
to 15-9 at the three quarter
mark and won easily with the
Pacelli girls scoring only one
field goal and one free throw
in the fourth quarter.
Kathy Clark, De Sales co
captain, was high scorer with
10 points, with Mary Ann Lamb
and Carmen Martin, the other
co-captain, accounting for all
six field goals. Mary Mathis
with two field goals and three
free throws, was high scorer
for Pacelli.
Mary Treston, who racked up
18 points in Macon a week ago,
was held to a single field goal
and one free throw, due mostly
to the fine work of Bobbie Law
rence who turned in another
superb defensive game for the
Cavalerias.
THEY LED MOUNT de SALES Cavalierias to victory
over the Pacelli Viqueens in Columbus last Saturday—
Co-captains Carmen Martin and Kathy Clark.
The Southern Cross, February 6, 1963—PAGE 5
VATICAN CITY, (Radio, NC)
-His Holiness Pope JohnXXIII
said here that international ath
letic competitions can promote
peace and brotherhood among
men.
The Pope spoke (Jan. 25) at
special audience granted to
delegates to a convention to
promote sports organized by a
number of Italian sports
organizations.
Pope John said that “today
the barriers of distance have
been removed and brothers have
been brought closer together,
leading to greater understand
ing, to mutual esteem and to
readiness to know and help each
other.
“In this providential coming
together, sports also have a
place of value.
“Honest competition, in
which the ever new energies of
the youths of all nations com
pete, has led to more frequent
and more peaceful meetings
between nations, thus consid
erably favoring the process of
drawing closer together in
charity.”
The Pope told the sportsmen
that athletes can exert an influ
ence for good not only in terms
of “their skill and physical
capacities, but also of amiable
grace of character, of the cor
respondence between life and
intimate beliefs and of the testi
mony of souls who live Chris
tianity joyously and gener
ously.”
The Pope also referred to
the day on which the audience
Rosary
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shaped like half moons which
are still used in the Coptic Rite.
There are also other signs that
stand for the Holy Trinity plus
two zigzag lines representing
water.
The Vatican City paper said
that “without doubt these signs
indicated the number and form
of anointings which had to be
made and which varied later
through the centuries in differ
ent rites and in different dio
ceses.”
The inscription also speci
fies, as does St. James, that
the ritual had the effect of work
ing for a physical cure and for
the forgiveness of sins. As
described on the plate, the ri
tual ends with a reference to
the coming of Christ as a Judge
to reward the good and punish
the evil, as is also mentioned
in the writings of St. James.
Comparing the words of
the inscription and those of St
James, the Vatican City paper
noted that they were apparent
ly written in the same region
and almost at the same time
“Whereas the sacrament of
anointing is treated in the text
of St. James in a more doctrin
al form and in general terms,
in the inscription on the piece
of silver it is applied to a spec
ial case and a rite is des
cribed,” it said.
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reverence and obedience to God
the Creator, the prelate de
clared.
Africans Imitated
LAGOS, Nigeria—Africans
ought to have the same appre
ciation of the good things in
their culture that outsiders
have, a visiting world leader
of the Dominican Order told
Nigerians.
“It is a mistake for Africans
to forget their own culture and
imitate vhat is foreign. Even
Church music in Europe is now
going the iway of Africans,” said
Father Hilary Carpenter, O.P.,
secretary] general of the Domi
nicans, referring to the adop
tion of Afrjcan-style drumming
as an accompaniment to Psalm
chants in France.
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took place, the feast of St. Paul.
He noted that St. Paul often
used figures of speech taken
from sports and that even when
he was in prison at the end of
his life he wrote: “Ihave fought
the good fight. I have finished
the race. I have kept the faith.
For the rest there is laid up
for me a crown of justice.”
Brunswick
Altar And
BRUNSWICK- The January
meeting of the Altar and Ros
ary Society of St. Francis
Xavier Church was held at the
home of Mrs. Marion Lenz.
Mrs. Gerald Gardner was co
hostess for the evening. Rev.
Paul Burkort, S.M. opened the
meeting with the recitation of
a decade of the Rosary for world
peace.
Miss Mary Parker, presi
dent, introduced Mrs. Eleanor
Brown as a new member.
Father Burkort thanked the
ladies for the interest they had
shown in the recent Deanery
Meeting held at St. Simons Is
land.
Tentative plans were made
for a card party to be held in
February. A portion of the pro
ceeds from this affair will be
sent to St. Mary’s Home in
Savannah.
It was decided that a Mass
would be said for the repose of
the soul of Mrs. Betty Stancil.
QUESTION
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that the historicity of the Gos
pels is even somewhat suspect
can be labeled ridiculous
on its face. Consequently any
argument built upon such a
thesis, howsoever logically
wrought, cannot possibly trans
cend sheer fiction.
Q. Concerning the Indul-
genced Prayer Before a Cruci
fix (the one which begins “Be
hold, O kind and most sweet
Jesus”): For gaining the
plenary indulgence how many
Our Fathers and Hail Marys
must one say?
A. For gaining the plenary
indulgence annexed to saying
the Prayer to Jesus Crucified
(the En Ego), the saying of a
single Pater, Ave and Gloria
for the intentions of the Holy
Father certainly suffices. The
prayer must be said before an
image of Christ Crucified, of
course. And Confession and
Communion are also necessary,
although daily communicants
and those who go to confession
at least twice a month thereby
fulfill these requisites.
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