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PAGE 4—The Southern Cross, July 2, 1964
Star Spangled Banner
A Catholic vocalist from Pennsylvania
was probably the first person to sing the Star
Spangled Banner publicly.
Another Catholic, a high public official and
brother-in-law of the author, wrote the first
detailed account of how the National Anthem
came to be written.
These sidelights are brought to mind by
preparations being made to observe the 150th
anniversary of the composition of the verses
of the Star Spangled Banner on Sept. 14, 1814.
Francis Scott Key, a lawyer in the George
town section of Washington, went aboard a
British warship to arrange for the release of
a Dr. Beanes of Marlboro, Md., a physician
who was being held on Admiral Cockburn’s
orders. Key was successful in his mission
but was detained on one of the British
vessels when a 25-hour bombardment of
Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Md., was begun
by the British at 7 a.m. on Sept. 13, 1814.
When Key saw the Stars and Stripes still
flying above the fort in the early light of
Sept. 14, he was inspired to write the
verses of the Star Spangled Banner.
It is recorded that Key wrote the first
stanza on the back of an envelope during
the bombardment; completed the poem in an
inn next day, and turned the text over to
his brother-in-law, Judge J. G. Nicholson.
It is said that Nicholson suggested setting
the words to the music of an old tune, Ana
creon in Heaven.
Soon afterwards, Ferdinand Durang of Lan
caster, Pa., sang the Star Spangled Banner
in public in Baltimore. Ferdinand and his
brother Charles were actors, vocalists
and members of the Pennsylvania Volunteer
Militia which had marched to the defense of
Baltimore. The brothers were members of a
Catholic family and great-grandsons of Dr.
Jacob Durang of Philadelphia, who had serv
ed as a surgeon with French troops taking
part in the American Revolution. Ferdinand
is believed to have been the first person to
sing Key’s composition in public.
Roger Brooke Taney, a Catholic, fifth
Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court,
and also a brother-in-law of Key, wrote
what is believed to have been the first detail
ed account of how the Star Spangled Banner
came into being. He had studied law with Key
and had many conversations with him. His
account appeared in an introduction to a vol
ume of Key’s poems published in 1857.
The Star Spangled Banner was officially
designated the National Anthem of the U. S.
in 1931. — J. J. Gilbert.
Says Orthodox Prelate
4 Restoration Of Relic Inspired’
ATHENS (NC) — The Ortho
dox archbishop of Patras de
clared that Pope Paul VI was
“inspired by the Holy Spirit,"
in his decision to return to
Greece a relic believed to be the
skull of St. Andrew the Apostle.
Metropolitan Constantine of
Patras was reported here to
have stated on learning of the
Pope’s June 23 announcement:
“God be praised! I thank
his Holiness Paul VI who, in
spired by the Holy Spirit, de
cided to restore the relic of
St. Andrew, the protector of
Patras. For five centuries the
sacred skull has been preser
ved in the Vatican with respect
and devotion."
Metropolitan Constantine re
vealed that he had appealed to*
Pope John XXIII to restore the
relic in May of last year, and
that after Pope John’s death he
made the same request to Pope
Paul.
(See story page 5)
Tradition holds that St. An
drew, the first Apostle called
by Christ, was martyred in
Patras on the north coast of the
Peloponnesus, and his remains
enshrined in a church built there
in his honor.
The relics were removed to
the new imperial capital at Con
stantinople about 357 A.D., and
placed in the church of the Holy
Apostles there.
In 1204, when Catholic cru
saders from the Latin West di
verted their course to sack and
plunder the Orthodox center of
Constantinople, they stole the
relics and took them to Italy,
where they were first given
to the cathedral of St. Andrew
in Amalfi.
Pope Paul in informing the
cardinals of Rome that the skull
of St. Andrew is to be return
ed to the Orthodox See of Pa
tras this fall said that his ges
ture testifies * 'to our venera
tion for the Greek Orthodox
Church and to our intention to
open our brotherly heart to it,
in the faith and charity of the
Lord.’’
Churches Urged To Join
In Fighting Poverty
WASHINGTON (NC) — Sar
gent Shriver, director of the
Peace Corps and of the admin
istration’s war on poverty, ur
ged here that Catholics, Pro
testants and Jews unite to fight
poverty as they have united to
fight prejudice.
“The Catholics, the Jews,
and the Protestants have united
in a war against segregation
and racism in America,” Shri
ver said. “This moral solidar
ity was vital to the passage of
the Civil Rights Act.”
In the same spirit, he said,
Catholics, Protestants and
Jews should “unite their moral
and their material forces in
a war on poverty.”
Just as “we cannot be
lieve in God and condemn our
fellow man to servitude and in
justice,” he declared, “so we
cannot believe in God and con
demn our fellow man to poverty
and misery.”
“The two problems of racial
equality and poverty are in
separable today in our society.
They must both be solved,” he
said.
More Important Than Social Security
God’s World
Old - age security looms
very large in our planning for
the future. More and bigger
pensions, earlier retirement,
medical care for the aged: these
are some of the goals we set
up in our ef
fort to assure
comfort and
tranquil
lity for our
later years.
They are
1 e g i t i-
mate goals
and worth
working to
wards. The strange thing is that
we should labor so hard to pro
vide security for what will be,
at best, a very few years of our
lives; yet at the same time
should give so little thought to
providing security for the eter
nity which will follow death.
To guarantee our eternal hap
piness there is only one “so
cial security” tax which we
must pay, and that tax is love.
It is our love for God, here
and now, which equips us for
heaven. Indeed, if we do love
God right now, we already are
in heaven except for the forma
lity of dying. If we love God,
there is no power on earth or in
hell which can deprive us of
everlasting happiness.
This love, as we well know,
is much more than a matter of
words. God is not interested in
mere lip service. This love is
much more, too, than a senti
mental feeling of tenderness to
ward God. Such sentimentality
is quite capable of co-existing
with sin, sometimes even is
made an excuse for sin: “God
(By Leo J. Trese)
understands. He won’t be angry
with me."
Genuine love for God is a very
deep-seated thing, having its
roots in the profoundest reces
ses of the soul. It is a reflex
action of God’s own love. It is
God loving Himself through us,
by the presence of the Holy Spi
rit within us—the Spirit who
became our alter ego when we
were baptized.
Our love for God manifests
itself in our attachment to God’s
will. If we honestly are trying
to the best of our ability, to
see things from God’s view
point and to do what God asks
of us, then we know that ws have
love for God. If we are making
a determined effort to be prayer-
erful, patient, charitable,
chaste, just and generous be
cause we know that is what
God wills, ours is an effective
and a healthy love for God.
It is, of course, a love
which can die under pressure.
We can, if we are not vigilant,
abandon God for some lesser
love. By sin we can expel the
Holy Spirit and extinguish the
very source of love within our
selves.
Perhaps it would be better
to say that our love for God
can die from neglect, rather
than under pressure. There is a
dynamism to all love, even hu
man love, which demands
growth for survival. Love can
not be static. It must increase
or it perishes. This is true,
for example, of the love be
tween spouses. A husband and
wife who make no effort to tend
their love, to cultivate and pro
mote their love, eventually find
Dr. Says
Transfusion Saved
Mother, Child
WESTWOOD, N.J. (NC)--A
blood transfusion administered
to Mrs. Willimina Anderson
over her protests and those of
her husband saved the woman’s
life and that of her prematurely
born son, according to doctors
at Pascak Hospital here.
Mrs. Anderson had carried
her fight to avoid a blood trand-
Shriver spoke (June 27) at a
banquet during the 29th National
convention sponsored by the
Family Life Bureau of the
National Catholic Welfare Con
ference, Some 500 priests, Re
ligious and laymen active in
family life work throughout the
country attended the convention.
In line with the convention
theme — “The Child: His Glory
and His Rights”—Shriver em
phasized the harmful impact of
poverty on children in this coun
try and abroad.
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Who Killed God’s Son?
It Seems to Me
fusion, considered necessary by
doctors to combat her hemor
rhaging, to the U. S. Supreme
Court, which rejected her ap
peal June 19. The Andersons
subscribe to the Jehovah’s Wit
nesses teaching that blood
transfusions are forbidden by
the Bible.
Ancient Fresco
Damaged
NEW YORK (NC)—A 1,300-
year-old fresco of the Madonna,
on exhibit at the Sudan Pavilion
at the New York World’s Fair,
may have suffered serious dam
age from climatic conditions.
The pavilion’s Hall of Antiq
uity has been closed and arch
eological and chemical experts
called in to examine damage to
the ancient fresco of the virgin,
discovered two years ago in the
northern Sudan. The fresco was
painted around 600 A.D.
The tempera painting has de
veloped swelling and small
cracks, and fine dust particles
have been found under its sur
face.
Welcomes
Buddhist Leaders
VATICAN CITY (NC) — A
group of Japanese Buddhist
leaders on a goodwill tour of the
world received a warm welcome
from Pope Paul VI here (June
27).
The Buddhists, led by Prof.
Gyokusen Hosaka, rector of Ko-
mazawa University, were ac
companied into the Hall of the
Little Throne by Paolo Cardinal
Marella. Cardinal Marella is
president of the Secretariat for
non-Christians which Pope Paul
created last May.
Pope And Workers
VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope
Paul VI, speaking to Italian
priests who had met in Rome to
find ways of bringing the Chris
tian message to the working
world, urged them to give good
example and to stimulate the
initiative of laymen.
The 450 priests from all
parts of Italy had spent a study
themselves strangers to each
other.
If growth is esse/itial to hu
man love, it is doubly essen
tial to the love we have for
God. By progressively greater
surrender of ourselves to God,
we make ourselves more res
ponsive to the operation of the
Holy Spirit within us. We must
love God more, or we shall
end by not living Him at all.
We have good will. We do
want to grow in love for God,
but we hardly know where or
how to begin. Fortunately, God
knows where and how, and He is
even more anxious than we are
to see our love increase.
The question is, then, how
hard and how often do we pray
for growth in love? We send up
to God innumerable other pe
titions of ridiculously less im
portance. We pray for a better
job, perhaps, or for better
health for ourselves or for
someone dear to us; for suc
cess in our studies or our work;
for the solution of some family
problem and for a host of other
things. It is possible that we
are almost mute on the one in
tention above all others for
which we ought to be praying.
Morning and night and at any
time in between when we can for
a moment halt our merry-go-
round thoughts, we ought to be
saying, with all the fervor we
can muster, “Please, dear God,
help me to love You. Help me
to grow every day in love for
You. This, most of all, is what
I want.”
It is a prayer which God will
not, cannot, ignore.
The Jews are no more re
sponsible for the crucifixion of
Christ than I am. Or than vou
are. The honest attitude for me
to take is to recognize that for
all I know, nobody from Adam
to the last hu
man being
who will ever
be born on
earth is one-
tenth as Ma
in able for
Golgotha as I
am. And
t h a t’s the
honest atti
tude for you
too, whether you be Christian
or Jewish or whatever.
None of us can estimate any
body else’s subjective guilt of
sin. We cannot even estimate
our own with any guarantee of
accuracy. God alone knows us
fully. Only He can read us
completely. How, then, can we
judge? How condemn?
CHRIST HIMSELF warned us
not to judge, in the sense of im
puting sin, lest we be judged;
and not to condemn lest we be
condemned. With what measure
we measure, He said, we our
selves will be measured.
That, it seems to me, ought
to make us refrain, out of fear,
from accusing others, if we will
not refrain out of love.
NotMng is more dreadfully
un-Christian than to call the
Jews — or anybody —adeicide
JOSEPH BREIG
people who killed the Son of
God.
FOR ONE THING, such
frightful statements arouse ha
tred. For another, the truth is
that the killing of the Son of
God began in the Garden of Eden
when Adam and Eve disobeyed
God; and we have all had a hand
in the slaying.
_The exact nature of the origi
nal disobedience, we do not
know. In the Bible the event is
related in the form of an eating
of the one fruit that was forbid
den, out of the many fruits which
God had given man for his re
freshment and pleasure. It re
sulted in the banishment of
Adam and Eve from Paradise;
but the expulsion was accom
panied by an electrifying pro
mise, incredible except in the
light of the boundlessness of
divine goodness: God would send
a Redeemer.
HE SENT HIM through the
Jewish people. Upon them, He
laid the burden of preparing the
way. Into a Jewish family, in His
own mysterious time, He sent
the Virgin; and then in her
He formed the flesh of the In
carnation. From her He took the
body in which the Son of God
was to live and to die.
Christ did not die on the cross
because He could not avoid it.
He could have avoided it as easi
ly as He walked through the
throng that would have flung him
from a cliff.
“The Storm Around Me Does Not Matter”
Jottings
“The jagged, ugly cancer
scar went no deeper than my
flesh. There was no cancer in
my spirit. I would keep my
appetite for fruitful activity and
for a high quality of life. I
would continue to help the clots
and clusters of withered and
wretched in Asia to the utmost
of my ability ... In the midst
of winter I suddenly found that
there was an invincible
summer.”
Dr. Thomas A. Dooley
* * *
OFTEN THESE DAYS, I have
been thinking of Tom Dooley who
still lives on vividly in my mem
ory. Somehow his example con
tinues to inspire large numbers
of young people to “give a chunk
of their lives to something big
ger than themselves.” The in
credible number of young peop
le and even older retired peo
ple who are joining the Peace
Corps to show the poor and
needy of the world that someone
in America cares can perhaps
in some way be traced back
to the example of the “Splen-
By Barbara C. Jencks
did American.” Recently it
was announced that Dean Jones
has been chosen to play the lead
ing role in the movie, “The Tom
Dooley Story.” The press re
ports tell that the movie star
was awed by the legend that
had been built around Dr. Tom
Dooley and looked upon the
role somewhat as those who
were chosen to play St. Ber
nadette or St. Joan of Arc. But
then it was said that Dean Jones
found out that Tom Dooley was
an intensely human being who
tried to hide his altruistic na
ture behind a flip image. I
can testify to this but I do not
think Tom’s attractive person
ality, mischieviousness and
sense of humor, ego or even
flipness would detract from Ms
sanctity. Holiness is wholeness
and certainly this can be applied
to our late hero.
* * *
IT WILL BE GOOD for youth
t6 see a screen hero who is
real. I only shudder before the
thought of what Hollywood might
do to the story in an attempt
to add an unnecessary gla
mour. Tom’s life was first-
class drama, but Hollywood will
probably add a love interest.
Tom was in love with God and
His neediest children. His was
a complete dedication. He loved
all the good things of life, pret
ty girls, dancing, music, a con
vertible, bourbon on the rocks,
the sea, Paris, rare steak, nice
clothes but they did not come
first. God always came first.
After dancing and socializing
all night, one would inevitably
find him at an early Mass the
next morning. How desperate
ly we need such a hero for our
young people today. In this sea
son of graduation with the plan
ning for the future, it is hoped
that many young people will be
inspired anew by Tom's story.
A young cousin of a friend
of mine has just been accepted
by the Peace Corps and has been
assigned to Ethiopia. Her ra
diance and excitement bespeaks
the reward of someone who,
as Tom said, has found a form
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week under the sponsorship of
the National Center for Moral
and Religious Assistance to
Workers (ONARMO). The Pope
address them at a special audi
ence.
Priestly work among the
workers, the Pope said, “means
giving a witness of example, of
generosity, of mutual and fra
ternal charity.”
INDEED, His last actions be
fore submitting to capture and
torture and death were to show
forth His power. When He said
to the mob that came to Geth-
semane to seize Him, “I am
He,” they were thrown violent
ly backward to the ground. Then,
before giving Himself into their
hands, he touched the ear of
the servant which Peter's sword
had cut off, and restored it.
Christ, then, who is God in
carnate, Himself chose the
death that He died. He insisted
upon it. When He prophesied it,
and Peter protested vehement
ly. He called Peter Satan, and
said, “Get behind Me.”
IT WAS NOT because He could
not otherwise redeem us that
Christ chose the cross, but in
order that the prophecies might
be fulfilled. The prophecies,
however, were His work too;
and so we must face the shat
tering mystery that God, of His
own will, in the incarnation
chose not only death, but the
death of Calvary.
It is fearfully obtuse, there
fore, and cruelly ignorant, to at
tempt to lay upon anyone —es-
cept everyone and above all one
self — responsibility for the
crucifixion. And I remain confi
dent that the ecumenical coun
cil, in its declaration on the
Church and the Jews, will state
the truth, and will not back away
from it because of political
pressure.
U.S. Silence On
Persecution Scored
WASHINGTON (NC)— Rep.
Hugh L. Carey of New Yorkhas
criticized the U. S. government
for silence on religious perse
cution in the Soviet Union and
Poland and such non-commun
ist countries as Viet Nam, the
Congo and the Sudan.
Carey, introducing a resolu
tion calling for the imposition
by the United Nations of Sacn-
tions on any member nation
practicing religious discrimin
ation, said the U. S. should sup
port religious liberty “where
ver in the world it is suffering
and dying,”
But, he said, It is “sad to re
late that our record as a nation
in recent years is one of sorry
silence in the face of aggres
sive atheistic intolerance."
“No high ranking official in
either the State Department or
our United Nations delegation
has ventured a statement on
this matter of great concern to
the free world," he said.
Council Unit Meets
VATICAN CITY (NC) — The
Coordinating Commission of the
Vatican council has met to ex
amine the four conciliar drafts
which remain to be sent out to
the council Fathers in prepara
tion for the coming third ses
sion.
These are the second part
of the schema on the Church,
and the schemas on Revelation,
on the missions, and on the
Church’s presence in the mod
ern world. This last schema has
a section which deals with th^
problem of birth control.
Coalition Breaks -
ROME (NC) — Premiuer Aldo
Moro’s abrupt resignation put
an end to Italy’s six-month-old
coalition government and to Ita
ly’s first attempt since the im
mediate postwar period to mix
the Catholic-orientd Christian
Democrats and Marxist-orient
ed socialists in the government.
The vote was on a provision
in the education budget for help
to non-state schools. The soc
ialists were unwilling to givfe
government monies to non-gov
ernment schools.
QUESTION BOX
(By David Q. Liptak)
Q. What does * ‘aggiornamen-
to” actually mean?
A. “Aggiornamento” is an
Italian term. An English equi
valent would be “updating,” in
Church usage, “pastoral up
dating.” “Aggiornamento” be
came an integral part of con
temporary Christian vocabu
lary largely because of Pope
John XXIII’s predilection for it,
especially when he was speaking
about the goals of the Second
Vatican Council.
AN IN-DEPTH explanation of
“aggiornamento” was set forth
by Pope Paul VI to a group of
bishops and priests meeting in
Rome last September. The
word, he said, “indicates
the relation between the
eternal values of Christian truth
and their insertion in the dyna
mic reality, extraordinarily
changeable today of human life,
which in our present history is
restless, confused and fertile,
and which is continuously and
variously reshaping itself.”
THE EFFICACY of the minis
try of salvation, Pope Paul add
ed, is conditioned by the cul
tural, moral and social state of
souls. Hence those who engage
in the apostolate must have
knowledge of human experi
ences so that they can adopt or
adapt what is good among these
experiences “for the practical
advancement” of Christ’s King
dom.
ONE SCRIPTURAL founda
tion for aggiornamento is the
dramatic Pauline admonition:
“Test all things; hold fast to
that which is good.” — I Thes-
salonians V:21.
NOT THAT aggiornamento
implies service to "capricious
and fleeting fads,” or to “all
existentialism” inimical of
transcendent ofjective values,
or to movements that are "mo
mentary and subjective” in na
ture.
RATHER, the Holy Father
maintained, the concept of ag
giornamento “assigns due im
portance to the rapid, inexora
ble passing of phenomena in
which our life develops and
seeks to correspond to the cele
brated recommendation of the
Apostle: “Make the most of
your time, because the days
are evil.”—Ephesians V; V:16.
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