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GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY APRIL 4, 1963 PAGE 5 GEORGIA PINES Athens —Fifty Years Later Saints in Black and White ST. JOHN BOSCO 12 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 Importation La w 7<» 77 rx 97 ACROSS 1. Period 6. Ready; Archaic 10. Rubbish 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. 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Acknowledgment 76. Order He Founded, 11. Egg* Abbrv. 12. 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; 20. Notion 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.