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1 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. -ft,,, • I* r fr- ■>- Slit *r-, 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 Extreme Unction (Continued From Page 4) 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. HE _ Vuuuticut HOTEL • FREE PARKING • TV A AIR CONDITIONING • FAMOUS MIAMI BUFFET • PERSIAN LOUNGE • CENTER OF ATLANTA LUCK IE AT CONE ST. A Good Address in Atlanta 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. > * tjrradioled W tamin -T) ^ JLnndtek Over 40 Years of Dependable Courteous Service SAVANNAH. GEORGIA CHRYSLER y PLYMOUTH De Renne Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc. "A Name You Know And Trust” 25 E. DE RENNE AVE. ELGIN 5-4400 SAVANNAH, GEORGIA IMPERIAL VALIANT 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 BOX- (Continued from Page 4) 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. 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