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PAGE 6 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. ^MONASTERY BREAD JMSBRSi I M*4* « >*»«** wftfdt fMWM. **H si#***. iweUwtf*. mtfk *>«>**, I afcss* 1 i ttrttt-- t rt« * ■ut 1 to \*** BREAD .i, w AVAILABLE NOW AT Colonial Stores AND THE Pig Apple SUPERMARKETS BAKED BY THE MONKS OF OUR LADY OF THE HOLY GHOST TRAPPIST MONASTERY Conyirs Georgia NEW ENGLAND 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. 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