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LITURGICAL WEEK
Manifestation As Lord
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4
Hard enough it is to confess our own sins and
accept our responsibility. How much more diffi
cult to involve our ancestors and venerated figures
of the past in the kind of penance for corporate
guilt which is part of the healing process sought
by the ecumenical movementl
THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, ST. TIMOTHY,
BISHOP, MARTYR. If penance for sins of pre
sent and past, especially for intolerance and for
distortions of the Gospel, is a necessary preli
minary to Christian reunion, the positive pro
clamation of the Gospel is even more important
—the "good confession’* in today’s First Read
ing at Mass, "confession” not in our modern
sense but in the sense of bearing witness to the
truth. More than speaking the truth, it means
speaking it in such a way and in such language
and modes that it reaches and converts men.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, THE CONVERSION
OF ST. PAUL. From the entrance hymn (beau
tiful Psalm 138) to the Gospel promise, the whole
Mass today breathes the certainty, the lack of
hesitation, which must characterize the one who
bears witness. "I am certain that he is able to
guard the trust committed to me....” are the
words from II Timothy that we sing in refrain.
Certainty about His truth is not inconsistent
with uncertainty about our modes and manners in
presenting it. "Trembling and amazed,” as Paul
was (First Reading), we try to give to that certain
Word a fitting incarnation and epiphany in our
lives and in our "confessions.”
SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, ST. POLYCARP,
BISHOP, MARTYR. "Do not be surprised, bre
thren, if the world hates you” (First Reading).
Do not be surprised into "hating back.” Do not
be surprised into allowing this Mass, this sac
rament of love and community, to become the
private celebration of a self-righteous clique,
apart from the world, unforgiving, exclusive.
The savage pride so many Christians seem to
take in a fierce animosity toward Marxists (or
toward this or that group or society) is quite
at odds with these Scripture lessons and with the
principle lesson of the Mass itself.
QUESTION BOX
Whoever Receives Me?
BY MONSIGNOR J. D. CONWAY
Q. IN THE GOSPEL OF ST. MARK, 9: 36,
IT READS: "WHOEVER RECEIVES ONE SUCH
LITTLE CHILD FOR MY SAKE, RECEIVED ME;
AND WHOEVER RECEIVES ME, RECEIVES NOT
ME, RECEIVES NOT ME BUT HIM WHO SENT
ME.” COULD YOU EXPLAIN THIS A LITTLE
MORE FULLY?
A. Your quotation is from
the Confraternity Edition. The
King James and Revised Stan
dard Versions are almost iden
tical except that they indicate
the verse as 9;37. The New
English Bible gives more clear
ly the meaning of the sentence:
"Whoever receives one of these
children in MY name...receives
ME; and whoever receives ME,
receives not ME but the One who sent ME.”
The little child is humble, rather insignificant
in the scale of human values. But if you show
kindness to a simple little mite like that Jesus
will value it as a favor done to himself, and if
it is done for him it is done for the Father also
- not really for Jesus as man, but for God.
Compare this verse with our Lord’s descrip
tion of the final judgment in Matt. 25: 31-46,
keeping in mind the central theme: anything you
did for one of my brothers, even the most humble,
you did for me.
The scene to which you refer in St. Mark’s is
rather unique: Jesus shows affection for the child
by embracing him - putting His arm around him.
»**
Q. IN MATTHEW 7;2-6 JESUS SPEAKS ABOUT
JUDGING. AGAINST WHAT DOES HE WARN US
NOT TO MAKE JUDGMENTS?
A. Here we have an example of the restrained
humor which Jesus often used. The example he
uses is ridiculous: how could anyone get a log or
a plank into his eye? But His exaggeration makes
a memorable figure of speech. LaFontaine gives
the key to it in his Fables: We are a lynx to
our neighbors, a mole to ourselves. No one has
sharper vision than the lynx. We use his eyes in
stalking the faults of our neighbor. The mole is
as blind as a bat: we use his eyes in estimating
our own faults.
This is the type of judgment against which Je
sus warns us; the ability to see that tiny splin
ter in our neighbor’s eye, while failing to notice
the log which jams up our own vision.
You might compare this with our Lord’s prayer:
"Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our
debtors.” After the manner in which we judge
others we will be judged by God. As we forgive
others, we will be forgiven.
"I would not sit in the scorner’s seat, or
hurl the cynic’s ban. Let me live in a house by
the side of the road, and be a friend to man.”
Thus may I hope for a favorable judgment on
the last day.
In Rom. 2: 1-3, St. Paul has similar comments
about judging others: "in judging your fellowman
you condemn yourself.”
Q. MY DAUGHTER’S HUSBAND IS IN THE
ARMY. THEY TELL ME THEY ARE ALLOWED
TO EAT MEAT ON FRIDAYS. I MENTIONED
THIS TO SOME OF OUR RELATIVES AND THEY
WOULDN’T BELIEVE IT.
A. Your relatives are an incredulous lot. They
should trust you more. Your daughter is correct.
GEORGIA PINES
Youthful Safety Director
BY FATHER R. DONALD KIERNAN
Until two years ago, children who participated
in the school safety program were taken to the
nation’s capltol near the end of the school year.
Children who attended parochial schools as well
as well as those attending public schools were
Included in the group.
The size of the group grew with the years.
When the trip was originated all that was neces
sary was one railroad car. When a halt was
called to the program, three full trains were re
quired to accomodate the children from the city of
Atlanta alone. Fulton County school children and
DeKalb County school children required another
train.
It was an amazing tribute to
the administration of the Atlanta
city police and the local school
authorities, under whose auspi
ces the trip was held, that the
trips were conducted over the
years without any incident.
Clergymen of the various faiths,
doctors, nurses and newspaper
men were Included in the make
up of the personel.
TOO MANY men were taken off the job plus
the fact that it required almost a full year of
preparation for hotel accomodations, buses, meals
etc. might be the reasons why the trips were
finally terminated. In other words, it was so
successful that it grew out of proportions.
I remember that on one of these trips Chief
Jenkins took me to meet Georgia’s junior Sena
tor, Herman Talmadge. On this occasion, never
having seen the Capitol before, the Senator assign
ed one of his aides to our party and we really
received the "cook’s tour”.
This young aide made a big impression on
everyone in our group. He had only been in Wash
ington a short time but he seemed to know every
one and everyone seemed not only to know him
but like him.
THREE YEARS later, shortly after Ernest Van
diver had been elected Governor, I was out sight
seeing the new Department of Safety Building lo
cated on Confederate Avenue in southeast Atlanta.
I literally "bumped-into” this young aide from
Washington and learned that he had just been ap
pointed the Deputy Director of Public Safety for
the state.
He served under Colonel Bill Trotter until the
later resigned and he received a promotion to the
directorship. Recently Governor Sanders reap
pointed him Director.
Colonel Connor had some opposition when he as
sumed the helm of the State Patrol 1 guess that
his youth might have been one of the biggest
factors arguing against him. However, this fac
tor has been far outweighed by his sincerity of
purpose and his dedication to the job.
COMING UP through the ranks, Colonel Connor
knows the Patrol throroughly. The increased rate
of highway deaths and the upsurge of crime poses
big problems for the Director. But morale Is at
it’s highest right now. Personnel of this Depart
ment have the confidence of their chief and if ever
the Patrol has been led out of politics it has been
in the year which Colonel Connor has already
served as Director.
The Colonel has already asked for un-marked
patrol cars hoping that this might have an effect
on highway safety. Last week he asked for addi
tional troopers. Possibly if his appointment were
made permanent , this too might be of decided
advantage to the Patrol structure.
Unprecedented practices now exist in the Patrol
under Colonel Connor's directorship. Promotions
have been made on merit alone, time off has been
arranged more to the troopers; liking, and there
is the feeling that the Colonel backs-up his men.
The next four years should put the Georgia State
Patrol among the top in the nation. If any man can
make the Patrol the proud boast of the citizens
in Georgia, I venture to say Colonel Connor will do
it.
GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1963 PAGE 5
BLESSED VINCENT PALLOTTI
FOR SUNDAY
Vincent
Canonization Set
BIRTH CONTROL
Doctor Urges Go-Slow
Policy On Oral Pills
ROME (NC)~More than 8,500
pilgrims from 10 nations, in
cluding the United States, are
expected to attend the canoni
zation of Blessed Vincent Pal-
lotti on Sunday.
Among the thousands attend
ing will be two persons cured
through the intercession of the
new saint. They are Angelo
Balzarani di Roccasecca del
Volsgi, instantaneously cured of
a severe carbuncular infection,
and Margherita Sandler, who
Frank L. Teske
To Speak At Pi
Members of the annual and
paper staffs of St. Pius X will
hear Frank L. Teske speak on
February 4. Also attending the
assembly will be those sen
iors, juniors, sophomores, and
freshmen presently enrolled in
the advanced English courses.
He will address the assembly
on the topic: What a young
person should emphasize in his
high school years if he hopes
to pursue journalism in the fu
ture. He will explain what fu
ture journalists should empha
size academically and socially.
St. Pius X Home and School
Association will meet Monday
evening at 8:00 n m. in the
school cafetorium. Guest
speakers will speak on the sub
ject of physical and physiologi
cal aspects of teenage acne and
on the general health problems
of teenagers. All parents are
cordially invited.
HARRISBURG (NC) — An
opinion by the attorney general
of Pennsylvania has upheld the
constitutionality of using tax
funds to provide school health
services to parochial school
pupils.
Attn. Gen. David Stahl was
asked about such use of taxes
by Charles H. Boehm, State
Superintendent of Public In
struction. Boehm said that some
school districts have asked if
they can use local tax funds to
supplement state grants for the
school health services.
STAHL replied in the affir
mative, saying that such ser
vices are intended "to preserve
the health of children, not to
promote the sectarian school
they might attend.”
Pennsylvania statues have for
some years provided that cer
tain basic health services
should be provided to all child
ren of school age, whether in
public or parochial schools.
...To Sainthood
Pallotti
was cured of multiple sclerosis.
ABOUT 100 of the new saint’s
relatives will be present for the
ceremony in St. Peter’s. Two
of them, Vincent and Marcellus
Pallotti, will carry the painting
depicting the miracles of
Blessed Vincent in the pro
cession into the basilica.
The liturgical feast of the
new saint will be January 22
and will be celebrated with
special solemnity at the church
of Sant'Andrea della Valle in
Rome. This church was fre
quented by the saint and still
today it is the scene of the
annual octave of the Chair of
Unity, instituted by Blessed
Pallotti.
THE TRADITIONAL triduum,
which follows the canonization
of a saint, will also take place
in the church and there will
be solemn Masses in the
Armenian and Byzantine Rites.
On January 27, Paolo Car
dinal Marella, Archpriest of the
Vatican basilica, will celebrate
Mass for all seminarians of
Rome and later that afternoon
the saint’s body will be carried
in procession through the
streets of "old Rome,” where
the saint spent most of his
time working to save souls.
Later it will be taken back to
where it has been preserved.
Aids Church
LUANDA, Angola (NC)—The
Angola Diamond Company said
it was making donations totaling
$100,000—primarily to Catho
lic religious institutions, but
also including some sporting
clubs.
The services include vision
tests, hearing tests, chest X-
rays, dental examinations and
the keeping of comprehensive
health records.
IN 1961, after a legislative
battle, in which cries of "se
paration of Church and State”
were raised, school nurse ser
vices were added to the servi
ces given to parochial school
children.
Stahl said:
"The protection and preser
vation of the health of school
children is clearly a proper
governmental function in the
nature of public welfare legis
lation, whether the children at
tend public, private or paro
chial schools, and the use of
tax funds for this purpose can
not successfully be attached on
constitutional grounds.”
The opinion given by Stahl was
written by Deputy Atty. Gen.
John D. Killian, III, a Presby
terian. Stahl is Jewish.
WASHINGTON (NC)—A pro
minent physician has urged a
go-slow approach to oral con
traceptives because of their
potentially harmful physical ef
fects.
Dr. Herbert A. Ratner, Oak
Park, Ill., director of public
health, says the attitude of in
formed persons has changed
"from innocence to sophistica
tion” as more has become
known about the effects of the
birth control pills.
DR. RATNER'S "medical
critique” of the oral contracep
tives is contained in a leaflet
published here by the Family
Life Bureau, National Catholic
Welfare Conference.
The leaflet is a revision of
a memorandum submitted by
Dr. Ratner to the Illinois Pub
lic Aid Commission during the
recent dispute over use of tax
funds to support contraceptives
for welfare clients. The com
mission voted six to four in
early December to use tax funds
to supply birth control infor
mation and devices to any pub
lic relief recipient "with a
spouse or child” who requests
them.
Dr. Ratner noted before that
decision that the Federal Food
and Drug Administration has li
mited use of the pills to not
more than two years for any
woman because of uncertainty
about their long-range dangers.
THE LEAFLET comments on
the "distinctly American phe
nomenon” of unqualified enthu
siasm for new drugs and says
the general public impression
about the birth control pills
has been that they are ”1)
tremendously effective, 2) re
markably safe, 3) unusually free
from toxic side effects, 4) in
expensive.”
Dr. Ratner goes on; however,
to list a number of "medical
difficulties that might be en
countered” in the use of the
pills. Among these are the fol
lowing:
The pills produce "a high
incidence of toxic side effects.”
In Puerto Rico, where the pills
have been widely used for four
years, 43 per cent of all users
had significant side effects; oth
er studies put the figure as
high as 71 per cent of users.
Among the undesirable side
effects reported by Puerto Ri
can women using the pills are
nausea, bloating, distress in the
lower abdomen, vomiting, head
aches, dizziness, nervousness,
weight changes, increased skin
pigmentation and vaginal bleed
ing. In many cases these side
effects have required increased
medical care and discontinu
ance of the pills.
The oral contraceptive is
"a powerful stimulator” of
growth in pre-existing uterine
tumors (fibromyomas). It is
usually estimated that the inci
dence of such tumors is 20
per cent in white women and 30
per cent in Negro women, though
the figures may be higher.
Enlargement of such tumors
as a result of taking birth con
trol pills can lead to "gyneco
logical complications, addition
al office visits, hospitalization
and surgery,” Dr. Ratner says.
Oral contraceptives can
result in "distortion of diag-:
nostic signs. An example is
amenorrhea (cessation of men
struation) which occurs in up to
tiiree per cent of the women
taking the pills. Since this is
also the chief sign of pregnan
cy, expensive laboratory tests
may be necessary to determine
whether or not pregnanev is
present.
Oral contraceptives can have
serious medical complications
in the case of pregnant women
unwittingly placed on contra
ceptive medication. Dr. Ratner
notes that the male sex hor
mones in the contraceptive pills
are "capable of masculinizing
female fetuses,” thereby pro-
Catechists
COLUMBUS, OMo (NC) —
Fifty-five students from six
Catholic high schools in this
area now are teaching cate
chism to mentally retarded
children at Columbus State
School.
ducing the condition known as
hermaphroditism.
Recent observations have
shown that thrombophlebitis
(blood clotting) sometimes re
sulting in death may occur in
women using the pills. "Al
though medical committees
hastily appointed by the govern
ment and drughouses have con
cluded that these cases seem
coincidental, one is circum
spect in concluding that the last
word on this has not been said,”
Dr. Ratner comments.
THE LEADING manufacturer
of the pills, in its advertising
directed to the medical profes
sion, includes the statement
that it is "difficult to confirm
or to deny statistically a casual
relationship” between use of
the pills and thrombophlebitis.
On the basis of the same evi
dence, Norway has discontin
ued use of the pill.
Dr. Ratner notes that in a
January, 1962, poll of the medi
cal advisory committee of the
Chicago Planned Parenthood
organization, a majority of the
physicians said they would not
prescribe oral contraceptives
for their wives or daughters.
Other medical sources, includ
ing the British medical journal
the Lancet, have cautioned
against prolonged use of the
pills, he says.
AT THE 1962 meeting of the
American College of Surgeons,
he says, the possibility was
raised that use of the pills
might extend the fertility of
women "into the fifth and sixth
decades of life, opening up a
brand new dimension and era
of geriatric obstetrics.”
The oral contraceptives stu
dy is available from the Fami
ly Life Bureau, NCWC, 1312
Mass. Ave., N.W., Washing
ton 5, D. C., at 10 cents per
copy. Quantity rates are avail
able on request.
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God Love You
Most Reverend Fulton J. Sheen
What did I see at the Council? This is the first of
a series on that subject. I saw poverty. I never before
saw poverty in the Church. I have seen the poor
clinging to the hillsides of Rio de Janiero; I have seen
children with no clothes other than paper torn from
billboards; I have seen the poverty on Chinese trains,
as refugees pushed down from the North to escape Com
munist persecution with no
other wordly goods than a black
sack containing a little black
bread; I have seen lepers in
Uganda dragging their stumps
to a Catholic asylum, where
white habits and whiter souls
greeted them with the love of
Christ.
But at the Council I saw the poverty behind this po
verty. I saw the bishops on whose shoulders rest this
terrible want and hunger and suffering. Often they lined
up before my Council seat, begging a few Mass stipends
to keep their priests alive. I saw the poverty of bishops
from behind the Iron Curtain, who slept three in a room
because they could not afford separate quarters; I saw
one prelate without a pectoral cross—he sold it to pay
his way to the Council; I saw the poverty of another
bishop who had to leave the Council because a cyclone
and typhoon wiped out most of the churches in his mis
sions; I saw the poverty of one bishop who gave up
the best diocese in a country to accept the poorest,
after three had refused the impoverished area.
Does not a mother suffer more for the hunger of her
child than the child himself? These bishops have also
suffered more for the poverty of their priests and people
than the priests and people themselves. Never before
did I see the poverty of Christas 1 saw it at the Council.
I saw the Christ hungry at the Mount, thirsty at the
well and without a cup, sleeping under the stars, for the
birds had their nests but the Son of Man had nowhere to
lay His head.
I tried to help them. I told them I was doing my best,
but I felt so inadequate. The Holy Father has appointed
me President pf his Pontifical Mission Societies in the
United States, and yet all I can do—and this is so little
—is to collect an average per capita contribution of 27
cents from United States Catholics each year for his
Missions. Will you not in Christ’s Name, Who though;
rich became poor, and in Mary’s name, who could af
ford only two dovfes when she offered the God-Child in
the Temple, make an offering each month for the poor
I saw at the Council—and will see when I again return?
Thank you I
GOD LOVE YOU to F.M. for $11.05 "To thank the
Sacred Heart for helping me find employment. I shall
send additional checks periodically.” ...to L.K. for $1
"To thank God for my return to the Sacraments, I
want to help spread the Faith in the Missions.” ...
to C.J. and Friends for $2.60 "We earned this by putt
ing on shows in the neighborhood.” ...to Anonymous
for $10 "My New Year’s resolution was to send an
offering to the Missions each month, and this is the
first Installment.
WQRLDMISSION, a quarterly magazine of missionary
activities edited by Most Reverend Fulton J. Sheen, is
the ideal gift for priests, nuns, seminarians or laymen.
Send $5 for a one-year subscription to WORLDMIS-
SION, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York 1, New York.
Cut out this column, pin your sacrifice to it and
mail it to Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen, National Di
rector of the Society for the Propagation of the
Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York lx, N. Y. or your
Archdiocesan Director, Very Rev, Harold J. Rainey
P. O. Box 12047 Northside Station, Atlanta 5, Ga.
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Pennsylvania Ruling
Upholds School Aid