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GEORGIA BULLETIN
THURSDAY APRIL 4, 1963
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GEORGIA PINES
Athens —Fifty Years Later
Saints in Black and White
ST. JOHN BOSCO
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NO DOMESTIC NMD
BY FATHER R. DONALD KIERNAN
From a frame building used as the first Law
School at the University of Georgia, with a par
ish of 10 families to a fine parish plant with
over 300 families, this is the 50 year history
of St. Joseph’s Church in Athens.
The oldest record of this northeast Georgia
parish dates back to 1873, but the property for
a new church was not purchased until 1881
when the late Bishop Gross of Savannah jour
neyed to Athens searching for a place to locate
a Catholic Orphanage. Unable to find a suitable
location, 10 men asked the
Bishop to start a parish
there instead.
In 1910 Father Harry
Clark was appointed first
pastor but he did not actu
ally go to Athens until 1912.
For two years he spent
his time begging for funds
in Philadelphia, and New
York.
Father Clark’s vision of the Athens parish
was that also of a mission center for priests.
Consequently, when he built the rectory it was
so large that he occupied only a few rooms
himself, renting out the rest of the rectory as
a lodging house. When the Athens property was
first purchased there was located on what now
is the parking lot, to the rear of the Church,
a small frame building. At one time, this was
the Law School of the University and legend
has it that it was the first Supreme Court
Building of the State.
While pastor of Athens, Father Clark built
Sacred Heart Church in Griffin (1920) and bought
the property for Gainsville’s St. Michael's
Church ( 1921). Both towns were missions of
the Athens Church.
Father James E. King, presently Pastor of
Atlanta’s Saint Anthony's Church, followed Fa
ther Clark as Pastor of the Athens Parish in
1922. During his tenure Father King built St.
Michael’s Church in Gainsville (1933) and St.
Peter’s Church in LaGrange. Father King’s
assistant, Father George T. Daly, was named
the first pastor of the LaGrange parish.
Saint Mary’s Hospital was purchased in 1938,
during the Pastorate of the late Father Harold
Barr, from a group of doctors. The hospital
was run by the Diocese until the Missionary
Sisters of the Sacred Heart from Reading, Pa.,
came at the invitation of the Archbishop Gerald
O’Hara.
The late Father John Kennedy followed Fa
ther Barr as Pastor of St. Joseph's and it was
while Father Kennedy was pastor that Saint
Mary’s in Elberton was built and a Newman Club
was begun for the Catholic students attending
the University.
Father James King returned as Pastor when
Father Kennedy was assigned to Valdosta. Fa
ther King was succeeded by Father Robert Bre
nnan. While in Athens, Father Brennan rede
corated the church.
In 1948 Father Walter Donovan was assigned
as Administrator by Monsignor Moylan and
Father Brennan was named administrator in
Dublin. Father Donovan opened the parocial
school, started Mission parishes in Monroe and
Hartwell, and Greensboro and guided a reset
tlement program for Displaced Persons em-
migrating from Europe. During this time the
property and building were purchased by the
diocese for a Newman Club. A famous mis
sionary educator who had been, prior to his
arrest by the Japanese, Chancellor of the
Catholic University of Peking, was named direc
tor of the Center. A Benedictine, Father Fran
cis X. Clougherty O.S.B., remained for 10 years
before being named Vice president of St. Pro
copus College in Lisle, Illinois.
Father James P. Boyce followed Father Do
novan in the Athens Parish. Shortly after be
ing named pastor, Father became ill and death
claimed him at the age of 33. During this time,
Father Leonard F. X. Mayhew was Adminis
trator of the parish.
In 1962, Father John Mulroy, the present
pastor, was named as Administrator by Mon
signor Cassidy and his appointment was Con-*
firmed by Archbishop Hallinan when Atlanta
was established as an Archdiocese. This year
Father Mulroy purchased the General Cobb
property located next to the school. This An
te-bellum mansion, constructed in 1830, is re
puted to have been the childhood home of Miss
Lucy Cobb.
On March 30, 1963, the golden anniversary of
the parish was marked with a High Mass being
offered by Father Walter Donovan and the Ser
mon being delivered by Archbishop Paul J.
Hallinan of Atlanta.
QUESTION BOX
Laws Of Abstinence?
BY MONSIGNOR J. D. CONWAY
Q. A FRIEND OF MINE TOLD ME THAT
SHE WAS 69 YEARS OLD AND NOW SHE CAN
EAT MEAT ON FRIDAY. IS THAT CORRECT?
A. No; age alone does not excuse from the law
of abstinence. In principle it obliges from 7th
birthday to death.
Q. IF A PERSON GIVES
UP LIQUOR DURING LENT
DOES THIS MEAN THAT
LIQUOR IS ONE OF HIS
FAVORITE PASTIMES? IF
HAVE FELT THAT IF IT
IS GIVEN UP DURING
LENT HIS PERSON MUST
REALLY LOVE IT. WE
ARE SUPPOSED TO GIVE
UP WHAT WE RELISH
MOST DURING LENT.
A. Then I suggest that you give up unchar
itable suspicion, unjust judgment, and carping
criticism. It will probably be harder for you
than a black fast.
Q. A COUPLE WEEKS AGO A BOOK SALES
MAN SELLING BIBLE STORY BY ARTHUR S.
MAXWELL CAME TO MY DOOR. I BOUGHT
SOME. HE SHOWED ME A BOOKLET THAT
W AS FULL OF LETTERS FROM DIFFERENT
UTTIRGIGAL WFFK
Approach To Central
Celebration
Continued From Page 4
force and counter-force and as inclined to for
get that His enemy is not flesh and blood.
APRIL 11, MAUNDY THURSDAY. Today’s cel
ebration of the Mass of the Lord's Supper ini
tiates the most solemn three days of the year
for the Christian community. The Mass, the
Eucharist, the Lord’s Supper, which is still
the Christian liturgy, the act of public worship,
is today given us as fulfillment of the Jewish
Passover tradition.
And to point to its ultimate significance as
a communion of love before God and in the pre
sence of God, the sacramental rite of the pre-
sident of the community washing the feet of the
disciples takes place after the Gospel. The
whole Christian Mystery is contained in the
Mass, is present here, is compressed here.
And the Gospel makes it clear that it should
1* not only a commemoration of those saving
•cts which prove forever God's love and care
for us, but also an experience of communion
and of love for the fellowship of believers.
APRIL 12, GOOD FRIDAY. Until the end of
time, the sign of the Cross will be the sign of
Christian faith. The sign of the greatest hum
bling of man, of the most ignominious death,
is the sign of man’s glory and divinization
in Christ. Old Testament lessons on acceptable
sacrifice and on the Passover, with responses
which confess our terror at the power of evil,
lead to the reading of the Passion.
A series of "bidding prayers” for all men
everywhere professes our faith in the univer
sality, the catholicity, of the Gospel ... and our
concern. And then, in climax, the holy cross is
worshiped and the Body of the Lord is shared.
Sacrifice and Meal are separated today in'the
last two parts of the liturgy of the Lord's Pas
sion and Death. In every Mass, however, they
are one and indivisible: commemoration, means
of grace and pledge of glory.
APRIL 13, HOLY SATURDAY. A day of queit,
with no liturgy, we prepare for the great night
of the year: the Easter Vigil.
Priest Urges End
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13. Canine Breed
14. Dreadful
15 Gabor
16. Of the greater age;
Abbrv.
17. Kit
19. Meant of conveyance
20. Exclamation
23. Unit of Lac; (Ind)
25 Undraped
26. Hebrew Measure
28. Warm
30. River in Northern
France
33. Feats
35. Journeys
37. Acme
38. Deleter
40. Volcanic Mountain
42. Prefix meaning
double
43. He Died in ....
45. Span
47. And; Lat.
48. Musical Note
50. Italian City
52. Novenas
54 Away
56. Entertained
58. Wisdom
59. A Western State
61. Crane
63. Varnish ingredient
66. Latin
68. Valid
70. Female Name
71.
Sterile
22.
Used in Cereals
73.
Vexed
24.
Down
75.
Dad; slang
27.
1 am Present
76.
Secondary Scheme
29.
Discourage
of Action
31.
Post
79.
Male Voice
32.
Departs
81.
Section of U. S.
34.
Fine Line
82.
Decaliter; Abbrv.
36.
Sluggard
83.
A Part of the
39.
Offended
Mouth
41.
Mime
85.
Trip*
44.
Of Birth
87.
Insect
46.
Canadian Border
88.
Leaf Division;
Lake
Botany
48.
He was Canonized
89.
Portent
in Nineteen
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1.
DOWN
49.
Means of
Transportation
Prefix Meaning
51.
At No Time
Early
53.
Greek Fable Writer
2.
Vessel
55.
That Can Be
3.
Aroma
Subdued x
4.
Bump
57.
Of a Finger
5.
One Who Aids
60.
Lyre
6.
Defender of the
62.
Myth
Faith
64.
Presses
7.
A Little Island
65.
Scruff
8.
Country in S. W.
67.
Nile—Roman
Asia
69.
Slow—Music
9.
A connection be-
72.
Holy Ghost
tween Individuals
74.
Destiny
10.
Acknowledgment
76.
Order He Founded,
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Egg*
Abbrv.
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Flap
77.
Musical Instrument
13.
Fit
78.
Ram
16.
Native of
80.
Deplore
Scandinavia
84.
Southern State;
18.
Dark Reddish
Abbrv.
Brown
86.
Registered Nurse;
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Abbrv.
ANSWER TO LAST WEEKS PUZZLE PAGE 7
WASHINGTON - A priest-
authority on farm labor pro
blems called on U.S, agricul
ture to "throw away its labor
crutch" and let die legislation
which permits importation of
Mexican migratory workers.
Appearing before a House
agriculture subcommittee, Fa
ther James L. Vizzard, S.J.,
director of the Washington of
fice, National Catholic Rural
Life Conference, advocated that
Public Law 78, which permits
the importation of the Mexican
"braceros” be terminated next
December 31, its current ex
piration date.
"THE BRACEROS” program
dates back to World War 11
days. Peak years for employ
ment of the Mexican migrants
were 1956 and 1959 when close
to 500,000 were employed each
year. Last year less than 200,
000 were hired.
Labor Secretary Willard Wi-
rtz has advocated doing away
with the program but a number
of farm organizations, headed
by the American Farm Bur
eau Federation, want it ext
ended for another two years.
Cotton, fruit and vegetable
growers prefer "braceros"be
cause they are cheaper and
more docile than U.S. work
ers, opponents of the legisla
tion have said.
Father Vizzard told the le
gislators he also represented
the Bishops’ Committee for the
Spanish Speaking and the Na
tional Council of Catholic Men.
"NO GROUP in the Ameri
can labor force has the cards
stacked so high against them
ARNOLD VIEWING
Tragically Pure
CLERGYMEN WHO OK THEM. SOME WERE
CATHOLIC PRIESTS AND SISTERS. ARE THEY
OK AS CATHOLIC MATERIAL FOR READING?
THEY ARE REALLY VERY PRETTY WITH
COLORED PICTURES.
A. And I will wager that you gave your sales
man many pretty green pictures of George Was
hington , and maybe a few of Abraham Lin
coln before he let you have the books.
The first thing you should look for in jud
ging a book of this kind is an "Imprimatur",
printed just before the title page. It should
have the name of some bishop, and if you do
not recognize that name it would be well to
check on it. The "Imprimatur" is not an en
dorsement of the quality or value of the book; it
merely gives assurance that there is nothing
objectionable in it from the Catholic point of
view.
If the salesman is unknown to you, and if he
represents a publisher with whom you are not
familiar, it would be well to inquire whether
or not he has the approval of your pastor, your
bishop, or your Better Business Bureau. There
are many hit-and-run salesman, looking for a
quick profit from the pious, trusting people.
I hope you enjoy your Bible Story.
BY JAMES W. ARNOLD
It may be unfair to connect "Lolita,” which
has at least the reputation of being unsavory,
with "Sundays and Cybele," a new French film
of an entirely different sort. But the comparison
is unavoidable, not only because they both con
cern the relationship betwen an adult male and
a very young girl.
The irony of "Lolita" is that its oddball hero,
Humbert Humbert, is different only in that his
sexual obsession is unlike everyone else’s sexual
obsession. Humbert is simply one lunatic among
many: the author’s real target is not the sick
individual but a sick society.
In "Cybele," a strong
contender for the Oscar
as the best foreign film
9new York critics voted
it the best movie, period),
the point is similar. This
time the affair is not sor
did but tragically pure and
beautiful. But society, sick
in its soul, cannot envision
such a possibility. Its
image of the relationship is a projection of its
own twisted values, an image that is inerltably
dirty.
MODERN man’s sophisticated cynicism, des
troying simplicity because it cannot comprehend
it, is the true villain of the film. In this sense,
"Cybele" is a powerfully moral picture. It
thurets so deeply into the heart of what is really
wicked and distorted in human life that it should
delight, even if only on the I-wish I’d-said-that-
level, every committed religious person.
Instead of lapsing into poetry because they’ve
put "Going My Way" on television, we might
whip up a hurrah or two because the French have
made an avant-garde movie that insists man has
lost the divine sense of what it really means to
love.
The only trouble with "Cybele" is that now
and then it’s outrageously avant-garde. Even if
the viewer attends only two or three foreign
movies a year, he’s dead sure afterafew mom
ents that the affection between Pierre ( a lik
eable but guilt-ridden ex-combat pilot played
by Hardy Kruger, recently wasted in "Hatari")
and the 11 year old orphan (lovely Patricia
Gozzi) will be painfully beautiful and painfully
misunderstood. And at times writer-director
Serge Bourgulgnon uses so many arty camera
tricks that one’s eyeballs give up trying to
synchronize.
PIERRE, suffering from amnesia and shook
because he killed a child in a strafing raid,
is drawn to a waif heartlessly abandoned by
her father at a convent school. They ideally
fill each other’s needs: hers for love in a love
less world, his to atone for his crime and to
find refuge in a friend who makes no adult
demands on him. In his insincere farewell, the
father describes the hero’s role, and, in fact,
the whole picture: "On Sundays I’ll visit you,
and at Christmas bring you a nice present."
So on Sundays, while his nurse girl friend
(couples in foreign movies, on principle, are
never married) is taking pulses at die hos
pital, Pierre and Cybele pursue an idyllic life
in the local park, tossing stones in the lake,
dashing about in the woods, and discussing the
flora and fauna. (Cybele is the name of the an
cient nature goddess: die French are fond of
symbols). Pierre finds himself more and more
repelled by the adult shallowness around him
and drawn to Cybele, a course that leads to
disaster because the world considers it abnormal
and, therefore, evil.
Film visuals should never be so offbeat that
they demand more attention than the story.
But in "Cybele" one must constandy strain to
see. Director Bourguignon is fond of night scenes
so black nothing is visible but the street
lights; he also loves putting foreground objects
in die way. The audience is continually looking
through, over and around fish bowls, wine glas
ses, mirrors, burning fireplaces and wet wind
shields. Inconsistendy, it is allowed to peek at
the nurse (beautiful Nicole Coursel) without
any blur at all.
ONE SCENE uses Tibetan music ( boom I
clangl) as background. The climax is Holly
wood-garish. Pierre and Cybele are having a
private and touching Christmas ("the love
liest day of the year for children and adults")
in the park when the police rush in, add two
and two to make five, and shoot Pierre, whom
the cynical villagers have nicknamed the Satyr.
As Cybele and the nurse weep, the sound track
hammers home the moral with a loud choral
version of "Miserere Nobis."
But these are exceptions in a film of vast,
subde beauty. The camera frequendy soars off
to examine the terrain, water, birds and sky
as the characters speak; it circles the charac
ters in closeups so huge and tight that only por
tions of a face can fit on the screen. Even the
sounds are fresh and exciting, e.g. the skit
tering and pinging of a pebble tossed on a frozen
pond.
IN ONE exquisite sequence, Cybele kneels by
the make-believe gr*ve of her father: "Thank
you, God, you sent me Pierre who is much
nicer." Again, she says of the nurse, withamus
ing childish insight: "She has no right to be
jealous if you’re not married."
Something about stories involving children
seems to bring out the best in good film
makers. This past year alone, we’ve had "The
Miracle Worker," "Hie Innocents," "Gigot,"
"Whistle Down the Wind" and "To Kill a Mock
ingbird." It may be that in dealing with inno
cence and unquestioning love, cinema artists
have been able to get closer to, and capture
poignantly on film, man's lost treasure of beauty.
as do the migratory farm wor
kers," Father Vizzard said.
"They receive the lowest wag
es in the American economy.
They are unemployed on half
of the days of each year. They
are excluded from the protec
tion of most of ourgreat social
and labor legislation. They are
for the most part ineligible for
health and welfare services.
They must compete with large
amounts of foreign labor.
"Their children are often
forced through economic nec
essity to work in the fields and
neglect their education. They
have no organized, influential
Death Penalty
Abolition Urged
SALEM, Ore. - (NC) — Ab
olition of the death penalty in
Oregon criminal court trials
was advocated before the Ore
gon Senate Judiciary Commit
tee here by Father David Fos-
selman, C.S.C., of the Univer
sity of Portland.
He told senators that the pur
pose of laws are to reform and
correct society. He said present
day philosophy holds that per
sons should be rehibilltated.
or wealthy floe to lobby for
them in Congress or state le
gislatures. TCiey are human be
ings who are considered in the
literal sense of the word a
’commodity’ to be bought at
the lowest possible price. They
are American farm workers,"
he added.
He said the contention that
U.S. migrants will "not perform
stoop labor on the farm simply
is not true." Last year, he
added, more than a million U.S.
workers did "stoop labor" on
U.S. farms and less than two
per cent of the growers in the
country employed Mexican farm
labor.
" I have faith in the ability
of American growers to find
real solutions to their labor
problems. I do not believe they
have to depend on a ‘crutch’
forever," Father Vizzard said.
Leo Quits Iowa
DAVENPORT, Iowa - (NC)-
John Leo of the editorial staff
of the Catholic Messenger has
resigned for personal reasons,
Leo, a member of the staff
of the Davenport diocesan news
paper for three years, has re
turned to his hometown, Ora-
dell, N.J. He said his plans are
indefinite.
God Love You
MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN
Have you ever noticed that in reading the New Testament you
never find any reference to aiding the Missions? Our Blessed
Lord never divided His Apostles into those who would work
in Jerusalem, or the "home missions", and those who would
work "to the ends of the earth." St. Paul said that he was
debtor to all men" whether they were Jew or Greek, barbarian
or free.
Why was this? Because the Church
herself was the missionary! There were
no organizations, as there are today, which
were .dedicated to the so - called "forei
gn missions." No distinction was ever made
between a bishop and a missionary,
a priest and a missionary, because to
every priest and bishop Our Lord
said: "Go ye into the world."
But today, so many in the Church say: " Oh, yes, the Congre
gation for the Propagation of the Faith deals with the foreign
missions"; or "The Holy Father has appointed his Society for
the Propagation of the Faith to aid all missionaries In all places."
This gives them an excuse to hoard all the goodies in their own
pantry, saying: "Yes, Mission Sunday is coming. We must then
have a collection for the poor missions of Africa, Asia and other
parts of the world."
The true and spiritual outlook is rather this:
L Every bishop is consecrated first for Christ's Mission to
the world and then, for jurisdictional reasons, assigned a dio
cese.
2. The Holy Father said that any bishop who does not share
the missionary burden with him must face the severe judgment
of God.
3. Every priest is ordained for the entire Mystical Body of
Christ; only for administrative purposes is he assigned to a
diocese.
4. The Sacrament of Confirmation commits every Catholic
to be a soldier of Christ, carrying on the work of the royal and
lay priesthood, that is, bringing salvation to all men.
We are all missionaries. Our parish is the world. We think
not from the diocese outward, but from the redemption of all
humanity inward. We do not fulfill our building projects before
thinking of the $1000 needed for a chapel in the Sudan, as Our
Lord did not first say build up the Church in Jerusalem and then
think about Rome and Corinth. We are Catholics, as to be Cath
olics means to be humanity-minded, and to be humanity-minded
is to be missionary!
GOD LOVE YOU to Mrs. A. R. G. for $100 . " Last October my
husband and I gave up smoking and promised to send all money
saved to the Holy Father’s Missions. Please use it for all of
God’s poor." ... to M.C. for $10. " I give thanks for a perfect
recovery from a recent eye operation." ... to M.S. for $50.
This is my first two week's raise, which I promised to the Mis
sions if I received an increase in salary."
Send us your old gold and jewelry — the valuables you no
longer use but which are too good to throw away. We will resell
the earrings, gold eyeglass frames, flatware, etc., and use the
money to relieve the suffering in mission lands. Our address:
The Society for the Propagation of the Faith, 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 1 N. Y. or your
Archdiocesan Director, Very Rev. Harqld J. Rainey
P. O. Box 12047 Northside Station, Atlanta 5, Ga.