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GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY APRIL II, 1963
DRAFT EVASION
Court Declines
6 Witness’ Review
PAROCHIAL League Basketball Champions. Christ the King Susan Grinnell, Anne Applegarth, Kathy Cooper, Nemo Mur-
girls proudly display the two trophies they won this year, ray, Staumler; third row, Coach George Petro, Mary Murphy,
one for regular league play and one for the tournament. Nancy Frierson, Patricia McParland, Candy Jones, Gladney
The girls are first row, seated: Kathy Hurley, Kay Merri- Heazel, Patricia Murray, and Mrs. Wm. Applegarth, assistant
man, Helen Haynes, captain, Maria Gonzolos; second row: coach.
DESPITE PARTITION
Holy Places Still Have
Indentity In Palestine
WASHINGTON, D.C. (RNS) —
The United States Supreme Co
urt, in an 8 to 1 decision, re
fused to review the case of a
young Jehovah’s Witnesses
minister who was convicted of
draft evasion in refusing to
accept assignment to alter
native civilian work as a cons
cientious objector.
Justice William 0. Douglas
entered a note on the Court
calendar that he would have he
ard the appeal of Truman Eu
gene Willard of Hubbard, Ohio,
who claimed that he was or
dained to the ministry in 1947
at the age of ten.
THE Court majority, how
ever, rejected without com
ment, the appeal that it re
view Mr. Willard's conviction
and two-year sentence.
Mr. Willard was described
as an "assistantcongregational
servant" in the congregation
at Hubbard, a suburb of Young
stown, Ohio. However, his lo
cal draft board held that he
rarely presided at services,
did not administer the Lord's
Supper or officiate at other
ceremonies, and that he had
been working full-time in an
aluminum plant. He had lost
his job and was drawing state
unemployment compensation at
Dayton Tests
St. Pius X hosted eighth gra
ders in the city's Catholic
schools who must take the Day-
ton tests. These high school en
trance examinations were ad
ministered Monday.
the time of his refusal to re
port for military service.
Hayden Covington, attorney
for the Jehovah’s Witnesses,
argued that the government has
no power to determine what
constitutes service as a "min
ister of religion" since qual
ifications and requirements dif
fer among various religious se
cts. He said Mr. Willard had
worked a midnight shift at the
plant in order to leave his days
free for service to his con
gregation. The case, he said,
was of great concern to the 281,
000 members of Jehovah's Wit
nesses throughout the nation
"because it threatens to with
draw exemption from 3,000
ministers who are in the draft
age (18 to 25)."
THE WITNESSES in recent
years have carried many ap
peals to the Supreme Court that
Selective Service be ordered to
grant its members full exemp
tion from the draft as "min
isters." All have been un-
succesful.
Apparently Justice Douglas
feels strongly that the Court
should accept an appeal and
make a definitive ruling. How
ever, unless at least four of the
nine justices vote to consider
the Constitutional issue pre
sented in a case, reglew of
the findings of the lower courts
is denied. Individual justices
rarely disclose how they have
voted on such appeals and en
ter such Court notes only when
they want to emphasize publicly
a disagreement with their col
leagues.
JERUSALEM, Jordan(NC)—
Pious pilgrim and sophisticat
ed sightseer blended as one as
Christendom held solemn ser
vice marking the great events
of the Redemption on the very
sites of Christ's Passion, Death
and Resurrection.
For the first time in seve
ral years, the Holy Week com
memoration coincided in the ca
lendars of the Eastern and
Western Churches. But the fact
served to spotlight the scandal
of Christian separation in this
place where Jesus the night
before He died prayed to His
Father that all "may be one,
even as we are one."
THE HOLY city of Jerusalem
—sacred to Muslims and Jews
as it Is to Christians—remained
divided. Barbed-wire barri
cades and sentries demarcated
the Jordan-lsrael border.
The focal point for the Holy
Week rites is the Basilica of
the Holy Sepulcre, a dilapi
dated church surrounding the
site of the Resurrection. It is
shared by five communities—
Greek Orthodox, Roman Cat
holic, Gregorian Armenian and
Coptic and Syrian Orthodox. The
Holy Week liturgies of each are
long and complicated, and must
follow a complex timetable. The
schedules cannot be changed
without the unanimous consent
of representatives of the Greek
Orthodox, the Catholics and the
Armenians. Because of this—
since unanimous consent has not
been forthcoming—the Cat
holics still must hold the main
services of Holy Thursday,
Good Friday and Holy Saturday
in the morning hours, as Latin
Rite Catholics did everwhere
before the reforms of Pius XIL
In any case, the cavernous
old basilica was the scene of
constant goings and comings.
Processions of the different
communities sometimes passed
each other. Each community of
fered only one Mass each day—
but sometimes one solemn Mass
started as another was in pro
gress.
The Catholic observance of
Holy Week in Jerusalem opened
with a solemn Palm Sunday
Mass in the basilica celebrated
by Latin Patriarch Albert Gori,
O. F. M. During the Mass,
the priests and faithful, includ
ing some Americans, joined in
a procession of the Blessed
Palms that three times circled
the place of burial.
LATER die same day the
Latin Patriarch, wearing his
ceremonial robes and ac
companied by Catholic prelates
of the various Eastern Rites,
led a long procession that re
traced Christ's route during his
triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
The procession began at the
Shrine of Bethphage, starting
point of Christ’s route into
Jerusalem, and wound down the
slopes of Mount Olivet, passing
the shrines of Domlnus Flevit
(the Lord Wept) and Geth-
semane, crossing the Cedron
Valley, and entering the Holy
City through its ancient walls
at St. Stephen’s Gate, site of
the stoning of the first Christ
ian martyr. At the courtyard of
the Basilica of St. Anne, the
Patriarch imparted the Eu
charistic blessing as the crowds
waved thousands of palms.
On Wednesday of Holy Week
and on Maundy Thursday and
Good Friday, the sombre in
terior of the basilica echoed
with the plaintive chant of the
Tenebrae Psalms and Lament
ations.
Holy Thursday morning saw
one of the most solemn litur
gies of the Roman Rite. Sur
rounded by a group of vested
assistants, Patriarch Gori
celebrated the Holy Sacrifice
and blessed the holy oils.
ON THURSDAY afternoon,
before the Tenebrae, the drama
of the Mandatum, of Washing
of Feet, was reenacted. His mit
red figure standing out against
a background of naked altars
and shrouded images, the Pat
riarch humbly knelt to bathe and
kiss the feet of clerics and
Religious, in commemoration of
the act performed by Christ for
the Apostles before the Last
Supper. These rites took place
also at the Savior's Tomb.
When Good Friday dawned,
the Tomb where the Blessed
Sacrament was reserved re
mained the only bright spot in
the dimmed vastness of the
basilica. All through the night
and day hours, pilgrims had
come to kneel in adoration and
to meditate on the great mystery
of the Passion.
The Liturgy of the Pre sanc
tified was performed at the Al
tar of the Nailing to the Cross,
on Calvary itself. The Sacred
Host was borne to Golgotha and
there consumed in a climax to
ceremonies that trace back to
the earliest liturgical forms of
the Church.
An hour or so before noon
began what to many pilgrims is
the most moving and impressive
ceremony of Holy Week in Je
rusalem. It was the reenact
ment of Christ’s Way of the
Cross through the narrow
streets of the old city.
BEGINNING at the courtyard
of Rawdat el Maaref, where
Pilate washed his hands of the
fate of the Nazarene, to the
tomb where the Crucified Savi
our was buried, thousands of
devout worshippers paused in
prayer at each of the 14 St
ations of the Cross. At each
stations sermons were de
livered and prayers and chants
recited in a variety of lan
guages, including Arabic,
English, French, Spanish, La
tin and Greek.
Part of the route—from the
sixth Station to the Basilica
of the Holy Sepulchre—was
through cobblestoned streets so
narrow that the pilgrims had
to press their way along from
stone to stone. Some parts of
the Via Dolorosa are also so
steep that steps have had to
be built for the pilgrims.
On the evening of Good Fri
day the traditional "burial"
service, during which sermons
were preached on the theme of
the Passion, was held at
Calvary. By the time it was over
darkness had descended on the
city.
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Priest-Geologist
Reconstructs
BOSTON (RNS) — A noted
priest - geologist is gathering
evidence here to prove that
300 million years ago New Eng
land had mountains higher than
the peaks of the Himalayas and
that the six-state region arose
from the sea.
Father James W. Skehan, S.
J., chairman and founder of the
geology department of Jesuit-
operated Boston College is in
the process of reconstructing
in miniature what New England
looked like topographically ages
ago.
He is evaluating his findings
made in a two-year study of
rock taken from a $ 16,000,000
water tunnel being constructed
far below the surface of central
Massachusetts.
Father Skehan says the height
the ancient mountains can be
determined by the chemical and
physical composition of rocks
brought up from 200 to 400
feet below the surface in the
tunnel.
The Jesuit scholar says,
"The Himalayas are only 10,
000,000 years old. Give them
another 150,000,000 years and
they will look like hills in the
Northboro area of Massachu
setts."
Further proof of his theory
that New England once had
enormous mountains was the
discovery of amazonite, a type
of feldspar found only in the
central parts of great mountain
chains.
Father Skehan substitutes a
mud - spattered gray sweater,
yellow slicker and a hard hat
for the usual priestly collar
and cassock when working in
the depths of the tunnel, and
the 39-year-old priest makes
a big hit with workmen as he
swings a pick to get his rock
samples.
Dominicans
Former Head
NEW YORK (NC)— Solemn
Requiem Mass for Father
Terence Stephen McDermott,
O. P., only American ever to
be international head of the
Order of Preachers, was of
fered Monday in St. Vincent
Ferrer church here.
Father McDermott died last
week in Lenox Hill Hopltal. He
was 76.
From July, 1954, to April,
1955, Father McDermott was
Vicar General of the Domini
cans and in that post was in
terim head of the worldwide
order. He served in this cap-
aclty following the death in an
automobile accident of the Dom
inican Master General, Father
Emmanuel Suarez, O.P., and
until the election of a nev
Master General.
From 1930 to 1955 Father Me
Dermott also was provincial
of the Dominicans* St. Joseph
Province, which at one time
covered the entire United States
east of the Rockies.
PAROCHIAL SCHOOL
Closing Puts Public
Schools On Spot
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa (NC)—
The public school superinten
dent here expressed concern
over the announcement that 50-
year-old St. Mary's High School
here will be discontinued in
June, leaving 208 students to
be absorbed in the public high
school system.
Msgr. Leo J. Post, pastor,
announced that the Catholic
school will close because the
Sisters of Christian Charity,
will discontinue to staff the
classrooms.
CLYDE H. Wurster, super
intendent of the area public
schools, said it is too early
to assess fully what impact the
closing will have on the public
school system. He said 125
of the students will be absorbed
in Williamsport High School
and the others in neighboring
senior and junior high schools.
Honor Passionist
NEW YORK (NC) — Father
Fabian Flynn, C. P„ infor
mation office director of Cat
holic Relief Services —Natio
nal Catholic Welfare Con
ference, was decorated with the
Grand Insignia of Honor for dis
tinguished services to Austria.
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