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PAGE 3—July 22, 1971
RICHMOND DIOCESE
Program Asks Catholics
Make Decision On War
RICHMOND, Va. (NC)-A
new Richmond diocesan
education program seeks to
motivate Virginia Catholics to
form moral judgments based
on the Church’s teaching on
peace.
The Priests’ Council, which
advises the bishop on pastoral
matters, supported by the
Pastoral Council and the
Sisters’ Council, announced
plans for the new program in
a 14-page statement released
in early July.
The statement, called “A
Christian Perspective
Regarding Peace and War,”
insists that Catholics must
learn to apply “essential
Christian moral principals to
those contemporary realities
of the Indochinese war,
conscientious and selective
conscientious objection, the
armed services and
conscription nuclear
retaliation.”
“Our purpose is not to tell
Virginia Catholics what to
think but only that they must
think and must make moral
judgments,” Father Thomas
J. Caroluzza, president of the
30-member Priests’ Council,
told The Catholic Virginian,
Richmond diocesan
newspaper.
He has appointed Father
Fred Heckle of St. Vincent’s
parish in Newport News, V.,
as chairman of the new
program, which will be
implemented by
representatives from all three
councils involved.
The Sisters’ Council, which
represents 34 communities of
Religious women in the
diocese, and the 24-member
Pastoral Council, an advisory
body of laity, priests and
Sisters, endorsed the 14-page
statement, but took
independent action.
The Pastoral Council called
the Indochina war immoral
and called for withdrawal of
all American forces, including
the Air Force, by Dec. 31.
The Sisters’ Council called for
withdrawal but specified no
deadline.
The Priests’ Council paper,
as supported by the other
councils,states that its
supporters “strive to speak
with that “intirely new
attitude toward war
demanded of us by Vatican II
as well as by a renewed
understanding of the Gospel
of Jesus.”
The paper urges all priests
and those involved in
religious education in the
diocese to make all Catholics
aware of the teachings of
Vatican Council II regarding
peace.
It called for presentation
of these teachings to the
elected and appointed
officials of government as
Vatican II asks.
In other specific requests,
concerning the educational
program, the priests called on
all those engaged in religious
education at all levels “to
make instruction in the
Church’s teaching on peace a
priority for at least 1971-72.”
They asked Catholic
educators, those engaged in
student guidance and the
college campus ministry, to
“place major emphasis on the
instruction and counseling of
those making a moral
decision to serve or to object
to serve in the armed forces.”
They also:
-Pledged priests “to
provide forums in which our
people can discuss these
issues and express their
opinion.”
--Asked the Diocesan
Liturgical Commission, along
with the Commission on
Social Development, to
develop sermon outlines on
the teachings and principles
concerning war and peace for
all priests of the diocese.
--Called on “God’s people
to recognize their dependence
on His power in all efforts at
establishing true and lasting
peace. We must pray without
ceasing for that openness to
the Spirit of God, whose
instruments we are, in
fashioning that peace which
the world of itself cannot
give. To this end let Parish
Liturgical Committees
provide programs of prayer
and Liturgy.”
-Called on “all Catholics
to exercise their commitment
to the Gospel imperative of
peacemaking through active
participation in those groups
that are witnessing to this
imperative and are working
toward the goals we have out
lined in this statement.”
The Council said it favored
a change in the Selective
Service Law to allow
conscientious objectors to
refuse to serve in wars which
they consider unjust or in
branches of the service which
would subject them to
perform duties that violate
deeply held moral convictions
against indiscriminate killing.
The priests resolved to
publicize the Church’s posi
tion that Catholics may
be conscientious objectors
and have begun writing the
President and the Congress
requesting “a more moral
draft law.”
They also called on those
involved in counseling youth
on the draft to expand their
efforts and asked that “draft
counseling be available to
young men during the last
two years of high school.”
They asked “all agencies and
institutions” of the diocese to
make available alternate
service required by law of
those exempted as
conscientious objectors.
Addressing the question of
the Vietnam war, the Council
said:
“With many of our fellow
citizens we are increasingly
concerned about the morality
of this war. We question
whether there is a
proportionality between the
loss of military and civilian
life and the damage done to
Vietnamese territory and the
good to be realized by a
successful conclusion to the
war. Our American Bishops
voice this same concern in
their statement of 1968:”‘In
assessing our country’s
involvement in Vietnam we
must ask: Have we already
reached or passed the point
where the principle of
proportionality becomes
decisive?’ “(Proportionality is
cited as one of the conditions
necessary for a “just war.”)
TV Movie Reviews
Sunday, July 25, 9:00 p.m.
- “THE FLIM-FLAM MAN”
(1967) - George C. Scott is
an aging confidence man who
coaches Michael Sarrazin in
the subtle art of capitalizing
on the greed of his fellow
man. Pitched from a moving
boxcar, he literally falls into
the youth’s company, and the
unlikely pair go on to some
genuinely hilarious
adventures across the
Kentucky countryside,
providing a refresher course
in flim-flamming for those
who like their larcey well
mixed with laughter. Scott
plays his Mordecai with
carefree flamboyance and
glimpses of the pathos that is
part of a drifter’s loneliness,
and young Sarrazin is
completely appealing as the
AWOL farm boy who is
finally brought to his senses
by pretty Sue Lyon.
Beautiful location
photography by Charles
Lang, first rate dialogue and a
uniformly capable supporting
cast help make this film a
delight for all but the very
young, and that’s no
flim-flam. (A-H) (ABC)
Sunday, July 25, 8:00 p.m.
- “TARZAN AND THE
GREAT RIVER” (1967) - an
exciting, if all-too familiar
Tarzan adventure
programmer, this round
placing Tarzan (Mike Henry)
in an escapade which takes
him deep into the upper
reaches of the Amazon to put
a halt to some occult
goings-on by a certain evil
tribe of headhunters-cum-ter-
rorists. (A-I) (CBS)
Monday, July 26, 9:00
p.m. - “TWENTY FOUR
HOURS TO KILL” (1965) -
The group that did the Fu
Manchu films here misses
again. Good talent and good
plot are promising, but a
weak script bogs them down.
In its favor, the picture has
some fine scenery shots in the
Middle East, with some
particularly exciting shots of
Lebanon. Ultimately,
however, the producers took
the wrong way to Damascus
in this tale of foreign intrigue.
(A-II) (ABC)
Tuesday, July 27, 8:30
p.m. - “RIVER OF GOLD”
- Ninety-minute romantic
adventure made especially for
television, involving the
fortunes and misfortunes of
some Americans on an
Acapulco sojourn. (ABC)
Tuesday, July 27, 9:00
p.m. -- “A FUNNY THING
HAPPENED ON THE WAY
TO THE FORUM” (1966) -
A Roman slave has great fun
in exploiting a series of
mistaken identities and in
misinterpreting various orders
in an effort to gain his
freedom. Great cast (Zero
Mostel, Phil Silvers, Jack
Gilford), madcap structure
(musical burlesque of ageless
low comedy routines), and
flashy direction (Richard
Lester) make this an
enjoyable entertainment for
adults. (A-III) (NBC)
Thursday, July 29, 9:00
p.m. - “THE COOL ONES”
(1967) - Roddy McDowall,
Debbie Watson, Gil Peterson,
and Phil Harriss headline a
familiar comeback story, this
one centering in the struggles
of a once-popular singing idol
(Peterson) to stage the big
return. On the way back into
the Top 40 charts, Peterson
finds romantic diversion in
pretty Miss Watson, who is
also under the wing of his
manager McDowall.
McDowall is unorthodox in
his methods of promotion
but is all business, and his
efficiency threatens to snuff
the youngsters’ budding
romance. (A-I) (CBS)
Friday, July 30, 9:00 p.m.
- “A COVENANT WITH
DEATH” (1966) --
Suspenseful drama based on
the Stephen Becker bestseller.
The idea, marred by a
lackluster production and the
introduction of too many
side trips into the “human”
side of the story, presents an
intriguing moral-ethical-legal
problem: Does an innocent
man, convicted of a crime he
did not commit and
sentenced to death, have the
right to fight for his life, even
if his efforts result in the
death of another? Earl
Holliman is the wronged
prisoner, and George Maharis
is the youthful judge in a
small Southwestern border
town who has to make the just
decision. The film should
have been a fine one, but
things somehow get spread
too thin or led down the
primrose path of box-office
sensationalism. (B) (CBS)
Saturday, July 31, 8:30
p.m. - “THE PRESIDENT’S
ANALYST” (1968) - As
shrink to the Commander-
-in-Chief, James Coburn
develops a case of the jitters
when the revelations that
relieve the President’s
tensions also happen to be
top state secrets. Having
acquired the Chief
Executive’s psychic demons,
Cobum discovers that he is
being pursued by another
kind of demon as well -
friendly and unfriendly
agents and double-agents who
alternately want him to keep
the lid on or blow it off.
Viewers who-don’t take these
things too seriously will find
diversion in this adult
comedy. (A-III) (NBC)
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FRONT PAGE OF PAULIST’S ‘UNDERGROUND’ PAPER
AND REVIEWS
Film Classifications
A — Section I — Morally Unobjectionable for General Patronage
A — Section II — Morally Unobjectionable for Adults Adolescents
A — Section HI — Morally Unobjectionable for Adults
A — Section IV — Morally Unobjectionable for Adults, Reservations
B — Morally Objectionable in Part for All
C — Condemned
BUNNY O’HARE (AIP)
The purpose of this film, if
there is one, remains
obscured by its deadeningly
repetitious visuals. Since
banks have stolen Bunny’s
home from her through
foreclosure she feels justified
in returning the kindness,
especially since “it’s for my
kids.” Excon plumber Ernest
Borgnine is the willing
teacher. Bunny (Bette Davis!)
and Borgnine, disguised as
hippies, rob banks repeatedly
under Gerd Oswald fc
unimaginative direction, and
their antics supply the
framework for a series of
heavy-handed, pseudosatiric
statements on everything
from migrant workers’ savings
and police intelligence to
psychiatry and youthful
protestors. Bunny always
wanted to see Mexico. She
should have gone directly
there! (A-III)
EVIL KNIEVEL (Fanfare
Corp.) is a motorcycle
stuntman who has made a
career out of jumping his bike
over parked cars for the
amusement of Midwest
rodeo-type audiences.
Motorcycle enthusiasts may
recognize the name as that of
a real-life character whose
story this slapdash film
purports to be, but from a
cursory knowledge of the
sport one suspects that the
shock of recognition will be
less than overpowering.
Director Marvin Chomsky
(his forte is TV) tells his saga
via flashbacks on the eve of
Evel’s big jump - 19 cars, or a
distance of some fifty years-
in California’s Ontario Motor
Speedway. We watch our
hero (George Hamilton)
growing up in Butte,
Montana, courting his wife
(Sue Lyon), getting a start on
the circuit, having himself
sewn back together after
some bum rides, and now,
finally, questioning his
mortality before the
impossible jump. Chomsky’s
concept for a film about a
man driven by the desire to
forever outdo himself in
order to fend off personal
insecurities has a passing
in terest, but Evel’s amiable
antics do not completely
redeem the immaturity of his
feelings about death - or the
cynical attitude of certain
fans who watch men like him
perform and hope for the
worst. (A-III)
McCABE AND MRS.
MILLER (Warner Bros.)
Robert Altman’s latest movie
falls somewhere between the
success of M A S H and the
fiasco of BREWSTER
McCLOUD. Set in the vast
forest land of the Northwest
at the turn of the century,
the film’s central character
(Warren Beatty) is an
enterprising gambler who
settles into a new town that is
emerging from the wilderness
and there opens a brotheL
Running it for him is an
experienced madame (Julie
Christie) and her success leads
to a final showdown with the
big economic interest that
decides to take over the
town. What the movie does
offer is some great location
photography and an
imaginative realism that
furnishes the unmotivated
and fragmentary story with a
larger meaning than the
individuals who comprise its
history. The average viewer,
more concerned with
narrative substance than with
cinematic style, will object to
the film’s excesses of
language and scenes of
nudity. (B)
OUTBACK (United
Artists) For those unfamiliar
with the term, Outback
generally refers to the inland
areas behind the major
coastal cities of Australia and
New Zealand. Barren, flat and
desolate, spotted with
rundown towns roasting in
the torrid, seemingly eternal
midday sun, the land, we are
RECENT NCOMP
FILM CLASSIFICATIONS
Adios, Sabata (U.A.) - A-II
The Hellstrom Chronicle
(Cinema 5) - A-II
The Horsemen (Columbia)
- A-m
The Last Run (MGM) -
A-III
Carnal Knowledge (Avco
Embassy) - A-IV
The Nun (Altura Films) -
A-IV
The Devils (Warner Bros.)
-C
led to believe from this film,
eventually simmers the
humanity out of those so
unfortunate as to populate it.
A serious, quite pretentious
and horribly cynical
comment much in the vein of
THE HUNTING PARTY,
OUTBACK traces the
deterioration of a naive
young teacher (Gary Bond)
on his way to Sidney for the
Christmas holidays from his
hinter-land one-room
schoolhouse. While awaiting a
plane out of a strange town
the teacher gambles away his
fare and falls in with a
depraved and besotted
one-time doctor (Donald
Pleasance) who reduces the
traveller to the perversions of
his own life. This
competently photographed
all-Australian production
directed by Ted Knotchess
attempts mightly to raise its
symbols to the level of a
universal statement on the
human condition. Bond, try
as he may, cannot escape to
Sidney, but in the end only
manages to return to the
schoolhouse which he hates.
The film’s highlight is a
drunken kangeroo hunt that
features an extraordinarily
graphic slaughter of these
defenseless animals simply for
‘sport’. Apart from the
problems with OUTBACK’S
unredeemed vision of life,
most viewers will find the
film’s language and visuals
decidedly tasteless. (A-IV)
TODAY WE KILL .. .-
TOMORROW WE DIE!
(Cinerama) A pasta Western
that looks like it was made
for the price of a cold dish of
spaghetti. TODAY slithers
about in that age-old Western
cliche of a man beset on
revenge for his wife’s murder
and a prison frameup.
Montgomery Ford is the
wronged ranchero who
recruits four gunslingers in
typical fashion. The evildoer,
a Japanese-Mexican no less
(Tatsuya Nakadai), has the
odds, of course, but Monty’s
night time guerilla tactics
decimate the hoards.
Production values, including
director Tonino Cervi’s flash
back of the rape murder shot
in lime to Kelly green, are
laughable. The above, plus
the usual violence in such
films will make even adults
want to put this one off ’til
the day after tomorrow.
(A-III)
BY LINDA B. MAJOR
(NC News Service)
To attract youth to Church
vocations, the Paulist Fathers
published what looks like an
underground newspaper -- a
16-page tabloid with brightly
colored graphics spiced with
four-letter words like cool
and love.
Although hardly
clandestine, the Paulist Free
Press newspaper’s casual and
sentimental approach to the
ministry -- using youthful
jargon - has brought about
350 letters of inquiry since its
publication last spring to
Father Donald Campbell. He
is national director of
vocations for the Paulists and
executive editor of the Free
Press.
A second edition is now
being planned. “Originally
the Free Press appeared as a
one-shot vocation deal,”
Father Campbell told NC
News. It was mailed to
100,000 homes of Catholic
college students so that in
addition to interesting them
possibly in the Paulists, “it
could also serve as a general
advertisement for the Paulist
name because others in the
home would see it.”
“You know, novices are
hard to come by so we have
to do a lot of work to get
them,” he said of declining
vocations.
“Since the response was
good, and not only from the
fellows but their parents who
like this approach of bringing
religion to young folks, we
thought we would prepare
another one for fall or
semester break of next year.”
The front page of the first
edition was reminiscent of an
old time ad for patent
medicine. A drawing of a
bearded and bespeckled man,
his Roman collar barely
showing, said in a cartoon
balloon caption close to his
mouth: “Individuality is an
integral and conspicuous
element in the life of a
Paulist. This must be so. The
individuality of a man cannot
be too strong or his liberty
too great when he is guided
by the Spirit of God.”
The speaker was the late
HEARINGS SET
WASHINGTON (NC)-The
U.S. Board of Parole will hold
a hearing here July 28 to
consider applications for
parole by Fathers Philip and
Daniel Berrigan, imprisoned
in Danbury, Conn., for the
destruction of draft files.
Jesuit Father Daniel
Berrigan will be eligible for
parole Aug. 2. His brother, a
Josephite priest, becomes
eligible Sept. 14.
F ather Philip was
sentenced in May, 1968, to a
six-year term for the
destruction of Selective
Service files in Catonsville,
Md.
He received another
three-and-a-half year sentence
for a draft board raid in
Baltimore. The sentences
were to run concurrently.
Father Daniel received a
three-year sentence for the
Baltimore action, but did not
begin serving it until August,
1970, after evading arrest for
more than four months.
His brother, who also
decided to go underground
rather than report to prison,
was captured after only 12
days.
Father Philip, after he is
paroled, still faces another
possible prison term
stemming from a federal
indictment charging him with
participating in a conspiracy
to kidnap presidential aide
Father Isaac Thomas Hecker,
the Paulists’ founder. The
articles in the paper smacked
of individuality. One, headed
“Carrying it on, • was wruien
by Father Robert Benedetto
who described his work
among runaway teenagers.
His article began:
“Three years ago I became
the first Catholic priest to
‘run-away’ to New York’s
East Village. Prior to that
unforgettable day when I first
moved into my pad on East
Fourth Street, I had spent
seven rather routine years
under normal priestly
settings.”
A small article at the back
of the 16-page paper was
overlaid with the popular
peace symbol and told how
one priest chose the
priesthood, partly in reaction
to the horrors of World War
II.
Other articles described the
priests’ work in campus
ministry, mass communica-
t i o n s, parishes and
information centers.
The newspaper was cited
by The New York Times’
advertising column as a prime
example of how religious
groups are experimenting
with new methods of
attracting young persons.
Some orders have given up
advertising completely, while
others, such as the Maryknoll
Mission, continue trying.
“Honestly, there’s not much
response. It’s difficult to get
young people to make a
lifetime commitment,” said a
Maryknoll spokesman. He
added that the order plans to
use college editions of Time
and Newsweek magazines to
get its message across.
More and more religious
communities are directing
their messages only at college
graduates. And with that
audience, according to a
report in The Catholic News,
New York archdiocesan
newspaper, the vocation
recruiters seem to agree that
the “hard sell” is out. An
advertising agency that
handles several religious order
accounts explained that “the
secret is to reach these young
people on their own terms.”
Henry Kissinger and blow up
federal heating systems in
Washington.
The Justice Department
said that if he is paroled he
will be required to appear at a
bond hearing.
Five of the seven other
defendents in the conspiracy
case have posted bail ranging
from $5,000 to $10,000
each. One, Mary Cain
Scoblick, a former nun and
the wife of defendant
Anthony Scoblick, was
released on her own
recognizance. The other,
John Theodore Glick, is
serving a prison term for a
draft board raid in Rochester,
N.Y.
Father Daniel Berrigan was
never indicted in the
conspiracy case, but was.
named by the federal grand
jury as a “co-conspirator.”
His name was dropped,
however, when a superceding
indictment was issued in
April.
Father Daniel, a poet and
essayist, has continued his
writing while in prison, and
the two priest-brothers
jointly sued the Federal
Bureau of Prisons for denying
them the right to practice
their religion “in a full and
meaningful way” by refusing
to let them send sermons
outside the prison. They
charged that this violated the
First Amendment.
Berrigans Are
Up For Parole