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I % t a t A I 4 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. IT COSTS SO LITTLE TO PLACE A CLASSIFIED AD IN THE GEORGIA BULLETIN PHONE 237-7296 C&S REALTY COMPANY “Specialists in Commercial and Industrial Real Estate” Suite 200 Henry Grady Bldg. Atlanta 3. Ga. Warehouses, Stores, Mfg. Plants, Acreage, Shopping Center Dev., Industrial Dev., Subdivision Dev., Insurance 524-2052 MIKE k STEVE SERTICH 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. FOR HEALTH SERVICES Pennsylvania Ruling Upholds School Aid