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PAGE 6 - October 6,1972
BISHOP VISITS PRISONERS - Bishop Braulio Sanchez
Fuentes gives the handshake of peace to prisoners in the Los
Angeles County Jail during a Mass which he celebrated in
Spanish. The bishop is assigned to serve Mexico’s Mixa Indians,
a tribe of 90,000 persons who live in the mountain region near
the Yucatan Peninsula and Guatemala. (NC Photo)
Catholics Lutherans Find
Common Ground on Papacy
MINNEAPOLIS (NC) - Citing
“common ground” on the question of
papal primacy, Catholic and Lutheran
theologians have concluded, “It is
possible for both loyal Lutherans and
loyal Catholics to envision new
possibilities of concord” on the
long-disputed issue.
The statement came at the conclusion
of a three-day meeting here, the 15th in a
series sponsored by the U.S.A. National
Committee of the Lutheran World
Federation (LWF) and the Committee for
Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of
the National Conference of Catholic
Bishops.
American members of the LWF are the
American Lutheran Church and the
Lutheran Church in America. The
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod is
represented in the dialogues by a special
invitation.
The discussion centered on “the
papacy as a form of ministry to the
universal church,” and was limited to the
question of papal primacy. It did not
include consideration of the Catholic
dogma of papal infallibility.
In the history of the Church the
dispute over the primacy or “firstness” of
the Pope are almost innumerable.
Catholic tradition has come to
understand that the Bishop of Rome is
first among all the bishops, not only in
rank of dignity, but in pastoral authority
over the universal church.
“Lutherans have become much more
aware of the need for a ministry serving
the church’s unity and mission,” said the
statement, “while Catholics increasingly
see the necessity of a more nuanced
understanding of the role of the papacy.”
“We have once again found common
ground in the discussion of positions
which in the past have been strongly
contested,” the statement said.
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In previous meetings Lutheran and
Catholic members of the seven-year-old
dialogue group had found themselves “in
fundamental accord on the Nicene Creed
and the Christological center of the faith
as well as on Baptism, the Eucharist and
the eucharistic ministry” according to the
statement.
The discussion here was built around
the first draft of a common statement
which the group hopes to complete next
year on ministry to the universal church
and'papal primacy. Separate “reflection”
papers on the common statement will
also be prepared by Catholic and
Lutheran theologians.
Also received at the meeting was the
first report of an exhaustive study on
“Peter in the New Testament” by a dozen
U.S. biblical scholars, including
representatives from the Anglican and
Presbyterian-Reformed communities. A
similar study on primacy in the ancient
church is in preparation.
The next meeting of the
Lutheran-Catholic dialogue will be next
Feb. 16-19 at Assumption Seminary, San
Antonio, Texas.
Co-chairman of the meeting were
Catholic Auxiliary Bishop T. Austin
Murphy of Baltimore and Dr. Paul E.
Empie of New York, recently retired
general secretary of the U.S.A. National
Committee of the LWF.
Other Catholic participants at the
meeting were: Msgr. Joseph W. Baker of
St. Louis, Father Raymond E. Brown of
New York, Benedictine Fathers Godfrey
Diekmann and Kilian McDonnell, both of
Collegeville. Minn.; Jesuit Fathers Patrick
J. Burns of Milwaukee and Avery Dulles
of New York; and Fathers Maurice C.
Duchaine of Baltimore, John F. Hotchkin
and Carl J. Peter, both of Washington,
Jerome D. Quinn of St. Paul, George A.
Tavard of Delaware, Ohio; and Professor
James McCue of Iowa City, Iowa.
Other Lutheran participants were: Drs.
Eric Gritsch of Gettysburg, Pa.; Kent S.
Knutson of Minneapolis, Fred Kramer of
Springfield, Ill.; George A. Lindbeck of
New Haven, Conn.; Arthur Carl Piepkorn
of St. Louis, Warren A. Quanbeck of St.
Paul; Virgil Westlund, Carl Mau and
William Rusch, all of New York; and
Joseph A. Burgess of Regent, N.D.
LIFE IN MUSIC
By The Dameans
BLACK AND WHITE
The ink is black, the page is white,
Together we learn to read and write.
The child is black, the child is white,
The whole world looks upon a sight,
A beautiful sight.
And now a child can understand,
That this is the law of all the land,
All the land.
The world is black, the world is white,
It turns by day and then by night.
A child is black, a child is white,
Together they grow to see the light,
To see the light.
And now at last we plainly see,
They’ll have a dance of liberty,
Liberty.
The world is black, the world is white,
It turns by day and then by night.
A child is black, a child is white,
The whole world looks upon a sight,
A beautiful sight.
D. Arkin and E. Robinson
c Templeton Pub. Co., Inc.
(ASCAP), 1972)
This past July Three Dog Night set a new record for single performance
take-home pay with $125,000 for one Saturday night’s work. Since their
formation as a group they have become one of the best known performing
groups on the current scene. Their big hits include “Mama Told Me,” “Easy To
Be Hard,” “Liar,” “Celebrate,” and “Joy To The World.”
Three Dog Night is a seven member group; three volcalists who were at one
time lead singers in their own group, and four instrumentalists. The name of the
group is derived, according to singer Danny Hutton, “from an Australian
custom. When it’s cold at night, a dog keeps you warm; when it’s colder, you
need two dogs; the coldest is a three dog night. Also, it fits with there being
three of us singers.”
Three Dog’s new song “Black and White” is a straightforward and simple
offering from the group. Its theme obviously is togetherness among people. The
whole song in fact weaves the feeling of being together. The beat is strong. The
words are simple and repeated. And the content is the ageless lyric of beautiful
togetherness.
What makes “Black and White” different, however, is the direct reference to a
specific problem - the unity of blacks and whites. The song pounds out much of
the soul-searching of our age, an age which wonders about color and all the other
differences between people.
How does a person cope with the division between blacks and whites? Is it
possible to really accept people in their difference?
The question of course does not stop with racial difference. It seeps into the
fears and anger between conservative and liberals, old and young, conformists
and non-conformists.
The twist of “Black and White” is the song’s willingness to accept difference.
In blackness and in whiteness, in ink and in page there is real good. All the
varieties of people are differing philosophies add instead of subtract from life. If
we are true to who we are and the visions we see then we have begun to grapple
with real life - which generally means being different in some way.
Most especially, however, “Black and White” says there is goodness in being
able to accept difference in order to come together; for “together we learn,
together we grow, together there is a dance which is freeing.” The point of
“Black and White” and the point of much of our experience is that togetherness
is our goal in expressing our differences. Ultimately we must come back to the
people for whom we live.
Three Dog Night’s “Black and White” subtly sums up the experience of
togetherness and difference in life. It comes out towards the end of the song
when the children begin to sing the simple tune, implicity saying that children
do not have the problem of prejudice. The line is revealing: “A child can
understand.”
It is not a problem of choosing between difference and togetherness; it is
simply a matter of choosing both.
(All correspondence should be directed to: The Dameans, St. Joseph’s
Church, 216 Patton Ave., P.O. Box 5188, Shreveport, La. 71105)
U.S. Brothers Establish
National Organization
WASHINGTON (NC) - Religious
Brothers in the United States have
formed a national organization intended
to improve Religious life and to speak out
on social issues.
Formation of the National Assembly
of Religious Brothers (NARB) resulted
from a recent survey of the 10,000
Religious Brothers in the United States.
The results showed that 89 percent of the
respondents were favorable to forming
NARB.
The national office has been set up in
Wheaton, Md., a suburb of Washington, at
Good Counsel High School. NARB’s
executive secretary Bro. William Brown,
described NARB as a “grass roots
assembly”.
“Essentially, NARB is a service
organization for its members and those
they affect by their apostolate,” he told
NC News Service. “Our main goal is to
strengthen the internal development of
the lay celibate Religious life.”
NARB’s president, Bro. Bonaventure
Scully, said that NARB will also take
stands on crucial issues facing society. He
said NARB has no official ties with any
group but has some “very strong informal
ties.”
He said one of the reasons cited for
establishing NARB was to have
communication and cooperation among
Religious Brothers, the National
Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB),
the Conference of Major Superiors of
Men (CMSM), and organizations of
diocesan priests, religious and laity.
At the Clarkston convention, one
observer remarked that he saw no “angry
young men” but did see a “forward
looking group who are searching for ways
to be better able to serve the Church,”
Brother William told NC News, “We
are not fighting anybody. We are not
revolutionaries. We are mainly concerned
with improving the Religious life of the
individual Brother.”
Brother Bonaventure said that because
today’s Brother does a variety of work in
the apostolate, his needs and goals are
more complicated than they were a few
years ago.
“Suppose there is a need for three
Brothers to work together in the college
campus ministry. Theoretically, they
could be from separate Religious orders,”
he said. And, he noted, they may have
the freedom and mobility which would
allow them to work together. But they
have to be aware of the opportunity, he
said.
A bishop, said Brother Bonaventure,
could place a timely ad in a NARB
newsletter, thus alerting those Brothers
who may be interested in that particular
campus apostolate.
For the past 10 years or so, said
Brother Bonaventure, Religious Brothers
have gained more freedom and mobility
to engage in a variety of work in the
apostolate. NARB, he said, will help the
Brother utilize that freedom and mobility
to engage in a variety of work in the
apostolate. NARB, he said, will help the
Brother utilize that freedom and
mobility.
OFFICERS OF BROTHERS’ UNIT -
Brother Bonaventure Scully, CFX, (left)
and Brother William Brown, FSC, are
officials of the new National Assembly of
Religious Brothers.
MAGAZINE ARTICLE SAYS NO
Youth Masses Reach Youth?
WASHINGTON (NC) - The youth
Masses which “many a parish bulletin
announces with pride” do not really
reach young people, according to an
article in Liturgy, the monthly journal of
the Liturgical Conference here.
“The congregation is most often made
up of young married people in their late
twenties and thirties," wrote Roy Portier
in the article. “The ‘folk mass’ - a liturgy
which is distinguishable from others by
four guitar hymns -- has little to do with
the religious needs of high school and
college-age youth.”
Portier, a theologian and musician who
has composed church music, said that the
way of approaching life and religion
among young people has gradually
changed over the past decade. “If you
want to know where young people are,
listen to their music, all of it,” he said.
According to Portier, American youth
can no longer be classified by one label:
“There are Woodstock Nations and Jesus
people and just plain straight ‘pink
carnation and pick-up truck’ all-American
pie.”
“Any music, if it is good music, can be
liturgical music,” Portier said. “Music
becomes ‘liturgical’ when it is used
effectively in liturgy.”
Portier suggested that young people’s
most basic religious needs are for
“community or intimacy” and for “a
total felt experience.”
“This doesn’t necessarily mean a
MONDAY, OCTOBER 9 - 9:00 p.m. (NBC)
- FIRECREEK (1968) - Henry Fonda and
Jimmy Stewart star in a big Western that has a
message, if only one could figure out what it is.
The movie is reminiscent of the showdown
situation immortalized in HIGH NOON (which
also starred Stewart), but it lacks the punch.
On, yes, the elusive message: the film is saying
that (a) fighting and shootouts are good, or (b)
fighting and shootouts are bad. Take your pick,
but don’t waste your time. (A-ll)
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10 -- 8:30 p.m.
(ABC) - NIGHT OF TERROR - Ninety-minute
TV feature about a pretty young thing (Donna
Mills) who has the misfortune to witness a
murder and is then forced to flee the mob - but
whom can she trust? Haven’t they done this
one before? Martin Balsam, Chuck Connors,
and ex-N.Y. City cop Eddie (The French
Connection) Egan lend a hand.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11 - 8:30 p.m.
(ABC) - A GREAT AMERICAN TRAGEDY -
. . .is not necessarily THE Great American
Tragedy, but there is a chunk of solid drama in
this contemporary story about an aerospace
engineer who is laid off and fears the loss of his
self-respect, family’s love, and other sundry and
traumatic items. George Kennedy is the worried
man, Vera Miles is his wife, and Kevin
McCarthy, William Windom, and Sallie
Shockley add their acting weight.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13 - 9:00 a.m.
(CBS) -- MARLOW (1969) -- The hard-boiled
school of detective fiction had a controlled
vitality especially suited for the screen as seen
in works such as THE MALTESE FALCON and
THE BIG SHEEP. Screenwriter Stirling
Silliphant (IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT)
has tried to revive this tradition by adapting
purely emotional high,” he said. “But if
the ritual appeals to the total person as a
humanly attractive experience, it will
include the element of the emotional
high.”
one of Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe
stories. Its complicated plot of blackmail and
ice-pick murders is challenging enough and the
sardonic style of the dialogue is well above
average. Although James Garner’s Marlowe has
whimsey, he lacks the essential inner toughness
with which Humphrey Bogart immortalized the
role. Director Paul Bogart and cast (including
William Daniels and Jackie Coogan) have all
tried hard but can’t quite bring the film off as a
cohesive whole.The film’s conclusion is an
objectionable attempt at unneeded
sensationalism. (B)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13 - 9:00 (CBS) -
HOW TO SAVE YOUR MARRIAGE ...AND
RUIN YOUR LIFE! (1969) Boudoir comedy
with Dean Martin and Stella Steven’s, Eli
Wallach and Anne Jackson (a real-life Mr. &
Mrs.). Most of the action revolves around the
fact that the two lead males suffer from dull
marriages and are keeping girl friends on the
side. Given this dubious premise, the screenplay
and direction are lively and satirical enough to
warrant an adult acceptablility, for those
interested. (A-lll)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14 - 9:00 p.m.
(NBC) - THE DEVIL’S BRIGADE (1968) The
Devil’s Brigade is based on an actual military
event; the formation, training and battle
experiences in Italy of the Special Service
Force, the forerunner of the Green Berets.
Opinions on the movie are bound to differ
drastically. Some will call it a good action film,
while others will see it as an unconvincing series
of military cliches. Some viewers ill be struck
by its affirmation of human potential in the
midst of the stress and grimness of war while
others will deplore it Ls subtle (or not so
subtle) glorification of war. (A-ill)
TV Movies
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
WHEN THE LEGENDS DIE (Fox)
Beautifully photographed, languidly paced, but
ultimately quite conventional film about a
young Ute Indian rodeo competitor who comes
up against those old harsh realities of the larger
world. Frederic Forrest is excellent as the
young man, but LEGENDS really belongs to
Richard Widmark as the cynical, alcoholic old
hand who simultaneously corrupts and exploits
the kid. Their performances, plus an opening
sequence filled with luminous wilderness
beauty, make the overlong film worth the price
of admission. For adults, because of a
superfluous bit about sexual awakening, etc.
(A-lll)
TRINITY IS STILL MY NAME (Avco
Embassy) . . .and spoofing spaghetti Westerns is
still his game. Terence Hill repeats as the
vagabond outlaw Trinity, as does Bud Spencer
as his ornery, hulking brother and
comrade-in-six-shooters, “Bambino.” In
responding to their father’s dying wish. Trinity
and Bambino promise to enhance the family's
awful reputation by increasing the price on
their heads. Naturally, the harder they try, the
more respectable they get: their first attempt to
thicken the tarnish -• robbing a covered wagon
-• results in their becoming instant Good
Samaritans; their attempts to fleece a small
town winds up casting them as Federal agents
(but they do manage to accept a bribe); their
final foray elevates them to genuine hero status
as they foil a complicated
gun-running/blackmail plot involving some
rogues disguised as missionary monks.
Everything is played for laughs, and Hill and
Spencer work well together under E.B.
Clocher’s direction by working against each
other on screen. The hijinks are refreshing in
their open good-humor, and - this is a first for
Italian Westerns, even the spoofs - no one gets
killed, not even shot. The fun is constant and
constantly forward-moving, and the few risque
lines (no situations) will zoom right over the
heads of the young. (A-ll)
THE CORPSE GRINDERS (Geneni) The
manufacturers of Lotus Cat Food -- “For Cats
Who Like People" -- take their slogan literally.
Felines feeding on the product (a tasty mixture
of grain, exhumed corpses and freshly
dispatched winos) acquire a desire to attack
their slovenly mistresses.
Producer-director-editor Ted V. Mikels has
made his dumb little movie in dim, closet-size
settings which render transparent any horror
that the disgusting plot and mangy characters
might suggest. Cat owners who waste their
money on this mess deserve to sleep uneasily.
(A-lll)
THE EMBALMER (Geneni) cowls himself in
a sunken monastery beneath a fancy hotel in
Venice: here he enshrines as his “eternal
goddesses” the beautiful women he has
abducted and drowned in the canal. Tracking
the frogman maniac is a handsome reporter
who has an eye for a lovely tourist who is
staying at the hotel -- well, you know the rest.
Dino Tavella directs this English-dubbed,
1966-dated “whodunit” with absolutely no
imagination, and he tosses in a few red herrings
mildly seasoned with sexual innuendo. (A-lll)
THE CASE OF THE NAVES BROTHERS
(Europix Inti.) Young Brazilian film maker
Lutz Sergio Person has made the South
American equivalent of Costa-Gavras’ Z. Basing
his flim on a “nonfiction novel” written by the
lawyer who defended two peasant brothers
tried in 1938 for a non-existent murder (the
“victim” reappeared several years later), Person
mixes cinematic styles to build a gripping
study, at times almost documentary, at others
quite melodramatic. Focus is on the sociaj and
political implications of the case rather than on
the people involved, and what emerges is a
harsh, credible indictment of an inhuman
police-state system that not only allowed two
innocent men to be tried and. convicted on
purely circumstantial (even invented) evidence,
but which actually condoned the use of torture
in getting the men themselves to “confess” and
their family and friends to further implicate
them. An epilogue reveals a further irony: that
even when the “victim” re-surfaced (he had
absconded with a bundle of money), the Naves
Brothers were only released on parole, *they
were not actually acquitted until 1963. Despite
its crude technical quality (rough cutting,
flickering lighting, etc.) and occasionally
too-graphic depiction of torture, THE NAVES
BROTHERS stands as a statement f the enfamy
of the Vargas dictatorship in Brazil in the late
1930’s, as well as a reminder of what is
happening in certain South American states
today. (A-lll)
RECENT FILM CLASSIFICATIONS
Trinity is Still My Name (Avco-Embassy) -
A-ll
The Case of the Naves Brothers (Europix
Inti.)-A-lll
The Corpse Grinders (Geneni) - A-lll
The Embalmer (Geneni) - A-lll
The Undertaker and His Pals (Geneni) - B