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PAGE 7—The Southern Cross, July 15, 1971
LIBERTY
THE PRIEST-HIS IDENTITY
AND HIS MSS10N
JUSTICE
By Fr Wl LUfl M P DOWLI NC
What a priest is and what
his function should be, seems
to be a puzzle to many
laymen and even to some
priests and bishops.
Does our present day
society need priests, and if so
just what should they do? Is
there some essential thing
that is specifically a priestly
thing or is anything priestly if
a priest does it? Is a priest a
priest, by reason of an
ordination to a mission
different from that of the
laity, or, by reason of a
specifically different mode of
carrying out that mission?
This brings up the question
of the Mission of the church
itself. Indeed can we really
understand what the priest’s
mission is without
understanding what the
church is and what its mission
is?
Finally can we understand
either the church’s mission or
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the priest’s without asking:
What did Christ tell us about
this?
A complete answer to
these questions cannot be
given in this short article, but
I would like to suggest a few
key thoughts.
The mission of the church
and that of the priest is the
same as that of Christ: “As
the Father has sent me, I also
send you.” Christ also said, “I
have come not to be served,
but to serve.”
He said, “As I have loved
you, so must you love one
another.”
He directed his apostles to,
“Make disciples of all
Nations.”
And the key statement of
Christ, was at the Last Supper
where he prayed that we
might, “all be one.”
These few directives of
Christ will suffice for
developing a clearer
understanding of a priest and
his mission.
An ordained priest,
therefore, before all else, is a
ministerial leader of unity.
His principal mission is to
lead all people towards the
unity of love within
guidelines set by Christ. When
he functions as a priest, he
serves as Christ would serve,
and this includes not only the
Mass, a celebration of unity;
but also the doing of various
corporal and spiritual works
of mercy and justice, so
necessary to lead people to
love and unity.
Any work that helps
people to love one another is
priestly work. All members of
the church, including the
ordained priests, are priests in
this sense. What distinguishes
the mission of the ordained
priesthood from that of the
general priesthood is the fact
that the ordained priest is
officially appointed to serve
as a leader for the unification
of the church - to unite the
church by his ministerial
leadership.
He is also an efficaious sign
of unity for the people, and
he serves as a link with the
bishop. The priest however,
cannot be merely a sign of
unity, or merely a
representative of the people;
he must be a prophetic
leader. He must, as Christ did,
point out the way to true
unity based on justice, faith,
and love.
The bishop, too, is an
ordained minister of unity -
he serves as a leader of leaders
and as an interlinkage with
the rest of the church
through the college of
bishops and the Pope.
The essential mission, then,
of the priest, or bishop, is
that he be appointed by the
church as a ministerial leader
that ‘“ALL PEOPLE MGHT
BE ONE.”
AQUINAS HIGH SCHOOL, Augusta, honored the following
seniors at the Class Night Exercises held recently at the Music
Hall of Bell Auditorium. The Ralph E. Seikel medal for Most
School Spirit was awarded to Susan Eubanks and Tony Colley.
The Junior Achievement Award which included a travelship to
the Leadership Training Conference of the National Convention
in Indiana; a $50.00 Saving Bond and a Plaque as Secretary of
the Year was awarded to Nellie Cady. The best athlete award
was given to Loretta Leonard and Robbie Martz (missing from
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TV Movie Reviews
Friday, July 16 (CBS)
BATTLE OF THE VILLA
FIORITA (1966)
(A REPEAT)
That’s a misleading title for
what is essentially a schmaltzy
melodrama set on the Italian
Riviera and starring Maureen
O’Hara, who seems to abandon
her two children for a fling with
handsome, debonair Rossano
BrazzL
The film is very loosely
adapted from a novel by Rumer
Godden; the scenery is stunning,
especially in color, and get out
your handkerchiefs, ladies.
NCOMP rated it A-3,
unobjectionable for adults.
Saturday, July 17 (NBC)
HELLFIGHTERS (1969)
(A REPEAT)
This is a film about men who
travel the globe fighting oil-welt
fires, and about the women who
worry.
John Wayne is the chief
hellfighter, Jim Hutton is his
son-in-law and Katharine Ross is
Wayne’s daughter—all of whom
wind up in Venezuela fighting a
fire started by guerillas. Wayne
fans will love it, although few
critics did.
NCOMP rated this A-2,
unobjectionable for adults and
adolescents.
Sundav. Julv 18 (CBS)
BALTIMORE (NC) -
Many bishops, instead of
creating an atmosphere of
freedom in their diocese, see
themselves as “policemen
blocking the way” to prevent
people from falling into
possible error, a bishop said
here.
Auxiliary Bishop Thomas
J. Gumbleton of Detroit,
commenting on what he
called a lack of episcopal
leadership at the national
level, said some of his fellow
bishops do not know how to
promote freedom.
Nor are the laity always
ready to accept freedom and
responsibility, said the bishop
as he addressed a workshop at
the annual convention of the
Catholic Theological Society
of America.
Bishop Gumbleton
described the Church as a
community of people with
freedom and dignity. The
bishop’s primary function, he
said, is to unite the people,
and at the same time,
establish an environment for
growth.
He said the U.S. bishops at
their national meetings often
get bogged down in lengthy
“inane” discussions on such
“minor” issues as
Communion in the hand, a
question which, he said,
should be left to local
pastors.
Such matters, he said, have
led to a fragmentation
between bishops and priests,
but he added that some
bishops are trying to correct
this.
Bishop Gumbleton also
criticized the method of
selecting bishops.
He noted that most priests
rise in the episcopacy after
serving as an auxiliary to
another bishop. He said,
He chided his fellow
bishops for taking comfort in
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JACK OF DIAMONDS (1967)
(A REPEAT)
George Hamilton plays a suave,
dashing, cat-burglar jewel thief
who travels in the best of circles
in Paris, New York, etc., and
becomes involved in a ‘big heist’
caper with Joseph Cotten and
Maurice Evans.
Zsa Zsa Gabor (who knows
about jewel thefts), Carroll Baker
and Lilli Palmer play themselves
as victims of the cat burglar, but
the film is nothing more than a
low-grade TopkapL The clothes
Hamilton wears through the film
steal the picture.
NCOMP’s rating was A-2,
unobjectionable for adults and
adolescents.
Sunday, July 18 (ABC)
TWO FOR THE ROAD (1967)
A sophisticated, sometimes
difficult to follow “biography” of
a marriage, from courtship
through adultery. Audrey
Hepburn and Albert Finney are
the couple, and France provides
some marvelous scenery along the
“road.”
Although much of the dialogue
is cynical and a summertime love
affair preceded their marriage and
the couple is on the brink of
divorce, NCOMP said of the film:
“It is possible to construe this
subtle film as artful pagan
propaganda for the primrose path,
but that would be rrissing the
point, namely, that the affair.
the study’s statement that the
same percentage would be
true for average American
males. The average American
male, he commented, does
not have to lead and counsel
people.
He stressed the necessity of
bishops effectively using
modern channels of
communication, such as the
mass media, and urged that
they spend more time with
their key diocesan personnel,
who in turn should be closer
than the bishop to the parish
staffs who directly affect the
lives of most Catholics.
with all its attractive exhuberance
and irresponsibility, was actually
poor preparation for the mature
requirements of marriage, which
the film affirms in its paradoxical
way."
The rating was A-3, for adults.
Monday, July 19 (NBC)
EYE OF THE CAT (1969)
, (A REPEAT)
A shock-suspense film, with
undertones of an aunt-nephew
unnatural relationship, this is not
for kids—or for lovers of cats,
which take on ominous meanings
in this rather complex story.
The hero, (Michael Sarrazin)
has been talked into returning to
the mansion of his wealthy aunt
(Eleanor Parker) by her
hairdresser (Gayle Hunnicut) so
the aunt may be induced to put
Sarrazin back into her will, after
which the old bag can be done in.
But there are all those cats with
all those suspicious eyes who
roam around the mansion causing
trouble. After you see this, if you
do, be sure to put the cat out
before you retire.
NCOMP rated this A-3,
unobjectionable for adults.
(Judith Cristi was one of the very
few critics who liked this film,
but most were intrigued by the
interesting opening credits.)
Monday, July 19 (ABC)
WHO’S MINDING THE MINT
(A REPEAT)
A delightful little low-key
comedy about a clerk (Jim
Hutton) in the U.S. Bureau of
Engraving who accidentally
destroys $50,000 and concocts a
plan to sneak into the building
one night and print up a new
batch before it’s missed, aided by
a crew of slaphappy characters,
including Dorothy Provine,
Milton Berle, Joey Bishop, Bob
Denver and Walter Brennan.
Highlight of the film is the
break into the Mint, via the
Washington sewer system, not to
mention the hectic getaway in a
car belonging to a religious cult
NCOMP rated this film A-2,
unobjectionable for adults and
adolescents.
Tuesday, July 20 (NBC)
BOY, DID I GET A WRONG
NUMBER! (1966)
(A REPEAT)
Bob Hope stars as a real-estate
salesman who becomes
accidentally involved with sexpot
Elke Sommer’s attempts to get
away from making movies that
feature her getting in and out of
baths. Matjorie Lord is Hope’s
suspicious wife and Phyllis Oilier
is their zany (what else?) maid.
Lots of typical Hope one-liners
(many of them double-entendre),
a murder accusation and a wild
auto chase fill up the time.
NCOMP rated it A-3,
unobjectionable for adults.
AWARDS TO GIRLS OF Augusta’s Aquinas High: Excellence
in Science to Susan Green; Excellence in Mathematics to Grace
Battey; Excellence in Religion to Lynda Walker; Excellence in
English and Foreign Languages to Mary Real and Excellence in
Social Studies to Agnes Gambill. Boys: Excellence in
Mathematics and English to Timothy Mirshak; Excellence in
Religion and Foreign Language to Leroy Washington;
Excellence in Social Studies to Stephen John and Excellence in
Science to Tony Colley.
BISHOP GUMBLETON
Auxiliary Sees
Leadership Lack
AT COLUMBUS
Vacation Joy
School Held
Joy was the note of the
two-week Religious Vacation
School at Our Lady of
Lourdes, Columbus. Four
Ursuline Sisters came again
this year from Louisville,
Kentucky, to help on the
faculty. The highlights of the
program were:
The First Communion, in
family groups, on the Feast
of the Solemnity of the Body
of Christ, the confession
service for upper grades,
based on Christiane
Brusselman’s inspiring book, I
RECEIVE GOD’S PEACE,
the participation in the
Sacred Liturgy, culminating
in the final day, when the
songs learned in school, the
banners made, the petitions
drawn up, and the gifts
donated for the needy were
all interwoven with the
Liturgical Celebration, and
the closing program in which
every grade witnessed to the
lessons they had learned and
the joy with which they
learned them.
One mother referred to it
thus, “My children are singing
all week.”
There was a novel
presentation of gifts. Each
child brought a toy for a
needy child. These were piled
into a baby carriage,
decorated by children from
all grades and presented to
Sister Joseph, O.S.U. of the
Columbus Social Service
Bureau, to be used in the
program which will be
sponsored by the Social
Service Bureau during the
month of July. This program
provides opportunity for
those children who for
various reasons, have been
unable to participate in other
programs designed to raise
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In Gaza a girl who is blind learns to ‘see’ the
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In Jordan a Sister from India cleans out a lady's
mouth which is full of cancer.
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books, medicines and sewing-machines in Jeru
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In Bethlehem, after seven years of preparation,
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for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, called “Eph-
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Who are we?
We are the Pontifical Mission for Palestine, the
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Gaza. We do our work in Jesus’ name, on the
basis of need.
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