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GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1963
GEORGIA PINES
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Gensus-A Job Well Done
Saints in Black and White | GROSS OVER^SIMnJFICATION
ST. ANTONY OF EGYPT
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BY FATHER R. DONALD KIERNAN
Its about all over now except the tabulations.
Those 6000 volunteers who worked on the first
archdiocesan census have much to be proud of.
Everyone agrees that it was a job well done.
The day itself was a day well worth remem
bering, too. Certainly it was the finest day, wea
ther-wise, which we have had this year. It was
truly an answer to the prayers which have been
offeced up ever since the census project was an
nounced.
A fitting aftermath of the whole project though,
would be if all of the inte
resting stories could be com
piled. No doubt they would
make real good reading. It
seemed that as each team
would return to the Rectory a
whole new batch of interest
ing experiences would be re
ive aled.
Here in Gainesville, the lo
cal clergy enthusiastically endorsed the Catholic
project. Archbishop Hallinan had written to the
ministers of the different denominations informing
them of the project. From their pulpits and church
announcements, everyone knew that Sunday the
Catholics of this town were "counting noses.**
ONE GOOD man taking the census turned around
to see a big dog standing behind him. He said it
looked like one of those St. Bernard dogs of
Swiss Alps fame. The dog merely wanted to look
it the census-cards, and one sniff took him back
b his shade tree.
Another group trailed a man down to a fishing
d ck on Lake Lanier. This gentleman said that he
kiew the census was being taken up and was to
beas complete as possible, but he didn't think we
were going to count the fish in Lake Lanier too.
Two teen-agers were actually chased out of a
house with a broom. The lady thought they were
magazine salesmen, and when asked if there were
any baptized Catholics living at that address she
replied, "she already had enough.**
IT WAS interesting too to note the number of
people of different denominations who invited the
census takers into their homes and offered them
coffee, cokes and things to eat.
The press, radio and television too, played a
most interesting and cooperative part. They cer-
tainly are to be thanked for the publicity which
they gave to the project thereby insuring its suc
cess.
In any project such as this, experience brings
with it, know-how. The whole project was well
planned and well thought out. Nothing was left to
chance, and I suppose that the greatest thanks
should go to those 6000 volunteers who made the
project a success.
IT WAS gratifying to read the work-sheets which
indicated the streets and homes which were visit
ed. It showed the dilligence and care which the
team captains had taken to assign areas of re
sponsibility, and the enthusiasm with which the
workers had met their responsibilities.
Then late in the afternoon when the cards had
all been returned and the chairmen had checked
them out, all of the workers were gathered in the
church for Benediction. Two men who had never
been in the sactuary before, served. That too was
a new experience for them.
Finally, outside die church after the ceremony,
a new-comer to our town who had volunteered to
work on the project came up and said, "Father,
you sure were right when you said that friend
ships would be formed out of this project. Now I
feel that I really belong here."
QUESTION BOX
About Sunday Shopping?
BY MONSIGNOR J. D. CONWAY
Q. I AM A RETAIL MERCHANT AND AM
MUCH CONCERNED THAT WE MAY BE FORC
ED BY COMPETITION FROM DISCOUNT HOUS
ES TO JEEP OUR STORE OPEN ON SUNDAY.
MOST CF THE OTHER MERCHANTS OF THE
CITY Sh\RE MY CONCERN. IT WILL TAKE US
AWAY FlOM OUR FAMILIES, AND )YILL MAKE
OUR EMPLOYMENT PROBLEMS DIFFICULT.
BESIDES MANY OF US REALIZE THAT IT IS
CONTRAFY TO OUR RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS
AND OBLGATIONS. WE ARE TRYING TO GET
\ LAW PISSED TO FORCE SUNDAY CLOSING
3UT WE DON'T SEEM TO GET MUCH BACK-
NG EVEN FROM OUR CATHOLIC AUTHORI
TIES.
A. Sunda r has been a day of rest since the
sarly centudes of Christianity. In the Fourth Cen-
ury the Enperor Constantine passed a law for-
>idding any judiciary action in court on Sunday,
[heodosius tie Great re-affirmed that law, but
nade one ex:eption: it was permitted to free a
slave on Sunday.
In the days of Charlemagne,
around 800, all political as
semblies, markets, and pub
lic sales were forbidden on
Sunday by civil law. About
the beginning of the Eleventh
Century, the Anglo-Saxons had
civil laws forbidding mer
chandising on the Lord’s day
h England.
Throughout the course of history civil laws
bve probably had more effect than Church laws
iipreventing business on Sunday. When the Puri-
tp and Anglican c»lonists came to this country
tty brought the tradition of such civil laws with
tfcm, and enforced them with such rigor that
tty really made thtm blue. No such wild idea
a the separation of Church and State ever en-
tred their minds.
Now the attitude in our country has changed
greatly. Generally our business world is quite
touchy about government regulation or inter
ference. And then there is the constitutional is
sue: unless your law is written with great
care it will be struck down by the Supreme Court
as violating the First Amendment.
We as Catholics are quite aware that the law
of our Church forbids public marketing on Sun
day - except for those lines of it which are con
sidered necessary by our modern society.
However, quite apart from religious convic
tions, we know that Sunday closing has great ad
vantages to us as individuals, and great benefits
to society in general. Men must have at least
one day of rest each week, if they are to main
tain their health. They need a bit of recreation
or they become very dull boys. They need oppor
tunity for a bit of cultural and intellectual ac
tivity - at least on the level of TV, which offers
its sanest programs on Sunday.
Without the rest, outings and intimacies which
Sunday provides our family life disintegrates.
We can surely generalize without hesitancy
that our whole society is sounder, happier, more
alert and smoother running because of Sunday
closing.
In recent years we have heard many com
plaints from Bishops, priests and ministers (as
well as business men) that our comfortable cus
toms of Sunday closing are being torn wide open
by the greed of some in the market place, and
the press of competition on the rest. What is to
be done about it?
Any long-range improvement of the situation
must be based on sound public attitude and opin
ion. Now that Christian groups are coming to
gether in fraternal love, they should cooperate
with each other in building this public opinion.
And Catholic people should lead the way.
Bishop Hits Confusion
Of Morality - Legality
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33. Wary
32. Nectar
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36. Baking Chambers
37. Surtout
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41. Swab
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Abbrv 30.
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Theobromine 37.
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42.
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by Ancient Greeks 48.
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word
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ANSWER TO LAST WEEKS PUZZLE PAGE 7
PITTSBURGH, Pa. (NC)—
Bishop John J. Wright of Pitts
burgh has cautioned against
complicating moral-legal ques
tions by confusing them with
Church-State conflicts.
"It is frequently a gross
oversimplification to set up
cries over the Catholic hierar
chy or the National Council of
Churches as the causes of the
overlapping area of morality
and legality, especially on
points where legal and moral
considerations have been long
and inevitably interrelated,**
the Bishop said in a lenten lec
ture.
BISHOP Wright said history
shows that "moral feeling and
moral conviction have necessa
rily colored whole chapters of
legislation of a strictly civil
kind.*’
He declared this coloring lin
gers in numerous fields, in
cluding lawyers, dwelled parti
cularly on the problem of the
relationship between morality
and legality on the birth control
issue.
Bishop Wright said the issue
"does not boil down to Massa-
chussets and Connecticut
against the enlightened pack.”
He declared that 17 states
prohibited traffic in contracep
tives except through doctors;
offices and pharmacies, while
16 states regelate the contra
ceptive trade by requiring that
information on contraception
conform to accurately, defined
standards.
"IN FACT,” said the Bis
hop, "there are only eight sta
tes which have no law on contra
ception. But in all eight of these
states there is control on the ad-
ARNOLD HEWING
Lion-Stunning Exciting
BY JAMES W. ARNOLD
LITURGICAL WEEK
Superiority Of Faith
The producers of "The Lion" have made a
stunning and exciting film out of a mediocre
novel, an event not nearly so rare as literary
men would have us believe. As a movie with some
thing intelligent to offer both young people and
adults, it is the best since "Gigot"; as good jungle
fiction, it forces one to reach back toward "King
Solomon’s Mines” for suitable comparisons.
A genuine "family" movie is as hard to find as
a genuine "family" television program; both occur
roughly as often as magicians who can really saw
people in half. Most so-called family shows (in
cluding the pisney products)
are basically children's en
tertainments with a few jokes,
pretty girls and Fred Mac-
Murrays thrown in to keep
Mom and Dad from falling
asleep. Some Hollywood
moralists view this sort of
thing as the salvation of movie
morality: they would stamp
out Brigitte Bardot with the
Brothers Grimm, Lassie and flubber. It is hard
to say which alternative Is more depressing.
ON THE kids* level, "The Lion" is a magni
ficently photographed fable about a child (Pamela
Franklin) who is buddy-buddy with all the animals
in her stepfather's East African game reserve and
whose best friend is a lion. In the book, this was
incredible; in the movie, it happens before your
eyes. She scratches his shaggy ears, bosses him
around, even rides him piggy-back. But Mother
(Capucine) is worried: She did not raise her girl
to be Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.
Continued From Page 4
cr need of forgiveness. Ana both Sinai account
(irst Reading) and burning criticism of pha-
, jiaical tendencies in religion (Gospel) tell us to
t sorry for the real thing, for real sins—quite
tfferent sometimes from the breaches of habit,
*:ial custom, systems of etiquette, which it is
i easy to place as a shield between ourselves and
tJ living God.
MARCH 21, THURSDAY, THIRD WEEK IN
liNT. Today's commemoration of the holy phy-
£ians Cosmas and Damian proclaims Christ as
laler (Entrance Hymn, Gospel, Offertory Hymn).
Jdoesn’t proclaim Christianity as some kind of
Jttled remedy, but the Lord as healer, a per-
jnal relationship. And the First Reading con-
»ues yesterday’s warning against making this
•lationship merely mechanical, merely tnsti-
tional. No good, teaches the prophet Jeremias,
I response confidence i n the institutions and
pans of religion without love, without the human
<11, without moral effort.
MARCH 22, FRIDAY, THIRD WEEK IN LENT.
Though man's approach to God, his worship of
God, is sacramental and institutional (human na
ture requires signs, words, tangible things), yet
God is a spirit, and those who worship him must
worship him in spirit and in truth" (Gospel).
Both Scripture readings have reference to Bap
tism and the water symbol even while both stress
the primacy of interior faith and trust.
MARCH 23, SATURDAY, THIRD WEEK IN
LENT. Because Baptism, the Easter sacrament,
washes man clean of his sins yet leaves him free
and capable of sinning again, the Collects of the
Lenten Masses (as in today's) frequently ask our
Father to grant us through our fasting the grace
to abstain from sin.
The First Reading speaks of God's punishment
of sin and protection of the innocent. The Gospel
goes further and teaches His forgiveness and pro
tection of the guilty. In Penance or confession
we have a second baptism, an opportunity to be
cleansed again and to hear the words "Go now,
and do not sin any more" (Communion Hymn,
Gospel).
In Joseph Kessel's novel, the adults were dis
agreeable, mixed-up people who seemed somewhat
less noble than the affable rhinos and wilde
beests in the bush. Scenarists Irene and Louis
Kamp have reworked them into three-dimon-
sional humans who understand that love involves
pain and sacrifice.
THERE is the American ex-husband (durable
William Holden) who has found a legal career
empty without his wife and daughter, and the
stepfather (Trevor Howard), an ex-hunter who has
put aside the joys of a Great Bwana to lounge
about the compound with the family. Capucine
still loves Holden, but she'll stay on with Trevor
If he’ll allow the child to go back with her father
the dubious advantages of American civilization.
\
Surrounding everything are the vast rolling
plains and dark-showed mountains of Kenya, shot
superbly in color by Ted Scalfe, with startling
ly fresh views of the native inhabitants ranging
from fierce tribesmen to antelope, rhinos, hippos
and elephants.
No elephants ever loomed as big as the beasts
shown here. One charging hippo comes so close
that the chomp of his jaws seems to swallow the
first seven rows of the orchestra. A herd of
giraffe, sweeping across a back-country road with
effortless grace and power, compare only with a
pro basketball fast break.
ACTOR Holden contributes not only his usual
smooth virility, but some of the scenery: the
film was shot near his luxurious Kenya Safari
Club deep in Mau-Mau country. But the picture is
purloined by Britisher Howard (whose recent Cap
tain Bligh was one of several Oscar nomination
oversights); his white hunter manages to be simul
taneously complex, nasty and deeply likeable.
Head wizard in the success of "The Lion",
however, is British director Jack Cardiff ("Sons
and Lovers"), a brilliant one-time cinemato
grapher ("Red Shoes”, "War and Peace") whose
camera work in "The African Queen” was
monumental. Cardiff keeps hi$ actors in tight con
trol of their surface emotions; his cameras peer
at the primitive scenery in continual open-eyed
wonder.
BOTH AWE and fright touch the spectator in
scene after scene. In one, actor Holden, with the
veldt stretching gorgeously behind him, meets the
lion for the first time and advances, step by step,
to pat the beast's apocalyptic forehead. (He said
later: "I was damn brave.") The girl asks if
she and the lion can escort him back through the
jungle. "No thinks,” he quips, "I*m not that
afraid.”
Another time, a lioness comes a-wooing and
seems ready to have her rival, Miss Franklin,
for lunch. Director Cardiff builds chills with
deft cutting from the lioness back and forth to
the girl, whose extreme but controlled fright
alone is enough to make viewers cower behind
their popcorn boxes. (Pam is an expert at this:
she last petrified audiences as one of the posses
sed children in "The Innocents").
The climax throws together all ^he principals,
including the lion (. a tame animal actor named,
unimaginatively, Zamba), in a hectic, bloody fight
in a drenching bush rainsquall. The five-minute
sequence, with its symbolism, cutting, closeups,
zooming lenses and sheer impact, compares with
any five minutes in any other film released this
season.
AS CATHOLICS we may be happy that the ori
ginal husband and wife get back together. But the
beauty is in how it happens; each adult makes a
sincerely unselfish gesture, with no real hope of
personal profit. As a result, each gets, perhaps
not all he wanted, but satisfaction, and the love
and respect of the others.
In this action film, the people, for a change,
are as real as the animals. The combination brings
about a sense of wonder at the power and love
of the Creator that one should get more often from
movies which make no pretense at being more than
skillful family entertainment.
vertising of contraceptives.
That is, advertising must be
limited to medical journals and
'like media."
CDA Names
Anti-Smut
Committee
WASHINGTON (NC)—A new
national committeeT:alled "Wo
men for Decency” has been
formed by the Catholic Daugh
ters of America.
CDA Supreme Regent Marga
ret J. Buckley of suburban Che
vy Chase, Md., said the object
of the committee will be to
combat obscene literature and
to "clean up” magazine stands
and book racks throughout the
country.
MRS. LUCILE Kennedy of
Tacoma, Wash., who has been
in CDA work for 25 years, was
named chairman of the com
mittee and Mrs. M. Teresa Syn-
der of Baltimore vice chair
man.
"And,” Bishop Wright added,
"the letter of the Federal law
is even more strict than the
states’ laws, including those in
' Connecticut and Massachusetts
—though, to be sure, these
Federal laws have been modi
fied by judicial interpretation.”
The origin of these laws, and
others where morality and le
gality are related, is more the
result of the "relationship of
the general moral consensus to
the Western tradition of law
than of ecclesiastical pres
sures, Catholic or Protestant,"
the Bishop argued.
HE continued: "Law in the
Western tradition is essential
ly limited and concerned with
the public good. Morality goes
beyond this to consider the in
dividual good. Though these are
clearly distinct, the distinctions
are never absolute because of
the close connection between
legality and morality in terms
of philosophical concepts and
common social motives.”
Bishop Wright emphasized
this latter point as explana
tion of the frequent relationship
between what the state must
require and enforce and what
the moralists must teach.
God Love You
MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN
Our government has spent 97 billion dollars on
foreign aid within sixteen years. If you handed out
$185 a minute night and day for 1000 years to
get rid of that sum, you’d still have money on
your hands 1
Religious people believed in and practiced
foreign aid long before governments did. And
they do a much better job than governments.
Why?
1) Because they give to the people in foreign
lands, not to the politicians.
2) Because there is less overhead in charitable
organizations. 'Some 200,000 of our workers
throughout the world receive no salary 1
3) Because the charitable groups live with the
poor people, speak their language, share their
miseries and love them, which government offi
cials do not.
Why not, then, amend fo
reign aid in some such way
as this? If Catholic, Protes
tant or Jew gives any amount
to a recognized charitable or
ganization which specializes
in aid to poor nations, the
government should allow the
whole of that deduction. Sett
ing a limit on what is tax de
ductible is to penalize the hun
gry two—thirds of the earth who are helped by such
charity. Consider The Society for the Propaga
tion of the Faith, for example. Its aid goes
everywhere — the Near East, the poor parts
of the United States, Africal, Asia, Latin Ame
rica, Northern Europe and Oceania. It helps sup
port 10,000 hospitals and dispensaries, 80,000
schools, 2000 orphanages and 400 leper colonies.
On reading such a plan as this, the first thing
the American people are told to do is, "Write
your Congressman.” We want that to be second.
This would only prove that you were more inte
rested in getting a deduction than in being chari
table. So first write to your National or Diocesan
Director, sending a check to help the poor. Then
write to your Congressman. It will be the first
time he ever received a letter from a constituent
who did an act of charity for the poor before he
asked for an act of justice! If you have the Lord
on your side, maybe your Congressman will try
to be on the Lord’s side tool
GOD LOVE YOU to E. A. B. for $113 "lam
79 years old and offer this in thanksgiving for
not having to have an operation on my eyes. Please
use this for your lepers." ...to Anonymous for $25
"My motto is ’Sacrifice now and trust to God’s
goodness.’ Please have the Holy Father use it as
he sees fit." ... to a Thankful Teenager for $6
"I am a very lucky teenager who is blessed with >
a large wardrobe. Now I want to share my bless
ings and help buy clothes for the poor.” ...to
E. A. M. for $5 "I saved these few dollars for
one of many little things I need. After reading
your column, I find I don’t need a thing.” ...
to R. P. and Father for $5.35 "The local Pepsi
Cola distributor gave half a cent to a worthy
charity for every bottle cap. We collected 1,070
Pepsi caps, so the Missions are that much rich
er."
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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 ttye
Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York 1 N. Y. or your
Archdiocesan Director, Very Rev. Harold J. Rainey
P. O. Box 12047 Northside Station, Atlanta 5, Ga.