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THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1963 GEORGIA BULLETIN
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QUESTION BOX
Where They All Stayed
BY REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN
Last week in Georgia Pines we wrote about
those places; and then, they moved away. To
day, we write about those places: and then, they
stayed.
First and foremost, of course, in the Arch
diocese, is the Shrine of the Immaculate Con
ception located in the heart of Atlanta's municipal,
county and state center. At the time the Church
was founded, Marthasville (or Terminus) was
far from being a thriving city. Railroad workers
forging ahead with the progress of a new nation
made up the "LC.'s" first parishioners.
The War between the States
dealt a terrible blow to the pro
gress of Atlanta, but proof that
the first Catholics of Atlanta
faith in the future of this
is attested to by the fact
two y^ars after the War
ended construction was
on the present church
edifice.
A vote was taken by the con
gregation after the basement was constructed to
see whether or not construction should continue
in stone or in red brick. The “reds" won out,
and this is the reason why the lower part of the
church is in stone and the upper part in brick.
The Sisters of Mercy who made up the first
faculty of the Academy resided in what is known
as today: the Wigwam Building. Later, the school
was moved to Washington Street and remained
there until 1951when the present Academy was
constructed.
The Immaculate Conception underwent two
renovations. The first by Father Emmet Walsh,
who later became Bishop of Charleston, S. C.,
and the present Bishop of Youngston, Ohio; and
the second renovation by the late Monsignor
Grady.
Space will not permit paying a well-deserved
tribute to the early Catholic pioneers who estab
lished a school at Jones and Marietta Streets,
later to become Sacred Heart School, but the
facts are recorded in two books, namely: one
written on the Shrine by Van Buren Colley, and
a more recent publication about the Marist
Fathers, by Father Phillip Dagneau, S. M.
The trailer efforts of Monsignor Cassidy in west
Georgia and the service rendered by the Marist
and Redemptorist Fathers in the outlying areas
of such places in Rome, Cedartown, Dalton,
Griffin, Cartersville, and Carrollton, all with
well established parishes are a credit to the efforts
and sacrifices of many, many Catholics who stayed
and formed an Integral part of their communities.
Father Michael Manning who drove the hilly,
winding roads of northwest Georgia to adminis
ter to the Catholics of Toccoa, Gainesville, and
Clayton; Monsignor James King who labored
among the small missions of Griffin, LaGrange,
and Gainesville; Father Walter Donovan, who
travelled to Monroe, Hartwell, and Elberton; and
the more recent work of the Verona Fathers in
the south-east section of the archdiocese, gives
rise to the fact that in all these cities and towns
the Catholics who remained expressed their con
fidence in the community by adding a Church
structure.
Today as we ride on paved highways and many
cities have air travel between them, distances
have surely been shortened. It’s difficult to think
back to the day when the only convenient travel
between cities was on a train. Father Harry
Phillips, now living at St. Anthony’s Church,
tells of the days when he rode to some of the
Milledgeville missions and it was necessary to
tie a handkerchief over his mouth to keep out
the the dust rising form the unpaved roads.
Yes, Georgia has certainly changed. But our
rewards and pride today are the results of the
determination and sacrifices of many of thefaith-
ful who immigrated to these small towns; and
then, they stayed.
QUESTION BOX
What About Confession
BY MONSIGNOR J. D. CONWAY
Q. AS I GET OLDER I GET WONDERING ABOUT
SOME OF MY CONFESSIONS. I ALWAYS
THOUGHT THAT I MADE GOOD CONFESSIONS
AND ESPECIALLY AT MISSIONS, BUT I GET
TO THINKING MAYBE I DIDN’T PRESENTSOME
THINGS IN TOE RIGHT LIGHT. AT THE TIME
I THOUGHT I WAS DOING RIGHT.
A. Your confessions were 100% good. Now
you are becoming scrupulous; and it is bad
for you, as you admit yourself. Because of
worry about past confessions you are drifting
away from the sacraments. You must try to
remember that Penance is the sacrament of
God's mercy and love. He asks you to go to
confession so that He can forgive you. And when
He tells you through his priest that He does
forgive you, He really means it.
Jesus does not ask perfec
tion in confession, only a re
asonably honest effort. He asks
only that you give Him a fair
chance to forgive you. Leave the
rest to Him.
The confessional is not a
torture chamber. But scruples
can make it so. Scruples are
fears and worries;;and the spi
ritual cause of them is lack
of confidence in the love of our Savior for us.
All He did to prove His love was to die on the
Cross for us, and then to rise from the dead.
Do you think He is going to permit some little
imperfection in confession to render His death
and resurrection fruitless for you?
Q. SOME TIME AGO THE DAILY PAPERS
CARRIED A STORY ABOUT STUDIES MADE ON
TOE 14 EPISTLES OF ST. PAUL BY USE
OF AN ELECTRONIC COMPUTER. I BELIEVE
THESE STUDIES WERE MADE IN SCOTLAND:
AND TOE CONCLUSION WAS THAT ONLY FOUR
EPISTLES — ROMANS, GALATIANS, AND FIRST
AND SECOND CORINTHIANS WERE ACTUALLY
WRITTEN BY ST. PAUL.
MEMBERS OF MY STUDY UNIT WOULD LIKE
YOUR COMMENTS ON THIS.
A. As I understand it, the electronic computer
was fed information on the use of the word
kai, Greek for and, in the various Epistles, e.
g. the frequency of its use, how often sentences
begin with kai, etc.
It was probably an Interesting exercise and
possibly informative, but could hardly justify
the sweeping conclusions based on it. Such studies
might provide useful evidence regarding author
ship, but many other factors are of equal or
greater importance: e. g. doctrine and handling
of subject matter, history and trdition, internal
claims and their credibility. I doubt that any
these factors can be analyzed by an electronic
computer. And other factors even less tangible
—almost subjective — influence the judgement
of a student of style.
Another point to be considered is that St.
Paul was not a stylist. He rather disdained
conscious striving for literary precision. It would
seem that many of his letters were dictated to
a secretary, who might well have added or sub
tracted a kai here or there — since Paul’s
thoughts probably outran his words. And he prob
ably used different secretaries for various
Epistles.
Some letters are informal, probably written
in haste as occasion called for them. Others,
like Romans, where rather carefully planned.
Naturally the style would be different.
Change of subject matter would also lead to
difference of style.
There was a space of about 18 years between
the first Epistles of St. Paul (Galatians, I and
II Thessalonlans), and his last ones probably
the personal letter to Titus and Timothy). Style
changes naturally take place as the years go
by.
We simply cannot discount the fact that Paul’s
name appears as author in 13 of the Epistles.
They have generally been accepted as authentic
from earliest Christian times. We have testi
monies concerning some of them from as early
as the Second Century. Even today, as far as
I know, hardly any scholar questions the Pauline
authorship of most of the 13 which bear his
name. Some do hold that St. Paul was not the
author of the Pastoral Epistles (I and II Timothy,
and Titus). A few have questioned Colossians,
mostly for internal reasons. And of course all
agree that Hebrews, which does not bear the
name of Paul, is thoroughly different in style
from the 13. Early in the Third Century, Irigen,
a great scholar of Alexandria and Caesarea,
decided that the Epistle to the Hebrews was
"Pauline thought composed and phrased by a re
dactor.” Many Catholic students are inclined to go
along with hime today.
Q. WHEN A PRIEST VISITS A HOME. IS IT
PROPER TO ASK HIM TO BLESS TOE PERSONS
THERE BEFORE HE LEAVES?
A. Indeed it is.
LITURGICAL WEEK
Comes With Message
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4
completion and perfection of the world and for
its ultimate transformation by Christ's coming.
SATURDAY, MAY 18 ST. VENANTIUS,
MARTYR. In Easter time it is easier to see
the death of a victim, as well as all suffering
and pain, as the Father's pruning and trimming
(Gospel) for the sake of productivity, fruitfulness,
life. A tea time religion of human respecta
bility’ will not help in confronting the paradox
of apparent Christian failure (First Reading).
Only faith in Jesus and in His rising again as
the First-born of the new creation can praise
God in the presence of martyrdom.
Saints in Black and White
ST. CASIMIRE 43
1. Intimidated
5. Whip
9. His Father Was ...
of Poland
13. Rant
14. Carte
15. Brine
17. Stanza; Nor.
18. Arouse
20. Otis
22. Sauid
25. Period
26. Lineage
27 Granite State; abbr.
28. Vertex
29. Choke
30. Master of Education
31. Verb Ending
32. Dividend
34. Eye infection
35. Direc*
39. Tapering Piece of Ice
41. Babylonian God of War
42. Hawaii Cord
44. Confidential
48. Walls
51. Hours; abbr.
52. Bustle
53. His . . . imprisoned Him
55. Knight’s Oath
56. Wild Hog
59. Loose
60. Any One
61. Gray
62. Price Agency
63. Emmet
64. Saint
66. Aroma
68: Ear: Comb. form.
69. Lack
71. Restore
73. Enough; (arch.)
75. Gaseous Chemical
76. IX’s
78. Oriental Nurse
80. Mariners
81. Gait
82. Places
83. Sea Eagle
DOWN
1. Criminal Destruction by
Fire
2. Tend
3. Eft (var.)
4. He . . His Life to
Prayer
5. Field Marshal
6. Minor
7. Ontario
8. Direction
9. Knockout
10. Dessert
11. Tidy
12. Attic
16. indigent
19. Sly
21. Ancient Attica Township
23. Shuck
24. Press Association
29. Non-Jew
33. Tally
34. Lo!
35. Edge
36. Epoch
37. Swiss River
38. A Vegetable (pi.)
40. Lieutenants
42. Brazil Tree
43. Thoroe was a Famous
One
45. Shred
46. Asia Minor Mountain
47. Scrod
49. Dark Continent
50. Coming at Regular
Intervals
54. Radio Corp. of America
55. Agreement
56. Rustic
57. Ancient
58. Aphrodite Loved Him
60. Answer
63. 11th Month of Jewish
Year
64. Scoff
65. Rigid
67. Lease
69. Removed
70. Nigh
72. Tiny
74 Morbid Growth; suffix
77. Socialist'Party
79. High Speed
ANSWER TO LAST WEEKS PUZZLE PAGE 7
ON NEGRO MORALS
Scores Catholic Press
Failure To Influence
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (NC)—
A Southern editor has chid
ed the American Catholic press
for what he described as its
failure to "disturb the compl
acency” of the Negro leadership
over "an all too prevalent un-
Christian concept of marriage,
morals and even human life
among their people.
Father Francis J. Donohue,
editor of the Southern Cross,
weekly of the Savannah, Ga.,
diocese, told a meeting of the
53 rd annual convention of the
Catholic Press Association
here that progress is slowly
being made in removing racial
injustices in the U. S.
But "it cannot be said with
any degree of certainty, that
the problem of forging a truly
Christian community which re
cognizes the essential equality
of all men has progressed gre
atly toward solution,” he added.
"WE HAVE all tried to un
derstand and sympathize with
the plight of the victims of
racial discrimination and in
justice. . .but we have neglect
ed one entire and every im
portant area of the race prob
lem,” he stated.
Segregation has been the fat
her of many evils, he said, but
"the mere abolition of segre
gated housing, schools, restau
rants and places of employment
will not remedy them. It will
only move them from one lo
cation to another.”
"Nor does the remedy lie in
merely reminding the white
race that it is chiefly respon
sible for them,” Father Dono
hue continued. "Something
more must be done . We have
challenged the conscience and ,
disturbed the complacency of
the white man. I submit we
have not done the same for the
Negro, particularly Negro
leadership.
"AND we must disturb the
complacency which deplores the
un-Christian nature of segre
gation, but views with apparent
apathy an all too prevalent un-
Christian concept of marriage,
morals, and even human life...
"Until this task is faced and
met, no true progress will be
made. For the most powerful
weapon in the arsenal of the
segregationist is an appeal to
statistics which indicate an al
arming incidence of common-
law marriage and concubinage,
sexual promiscuity among the
young, and a crime rate far ab
ove the ratio of Negro to white,
coupled with the assertion, app
arently true, that Negro leader
ship is doing little or nothing
to raise ‘the moral sights’ of
‘heir people.”
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ARNOLD HEWING
How The West Was Won
Our correspondents are urged to comply
with these instructions in order that we
may be able to give adequate coverage
to parochial and diocesan events.
BY JAMES W. ARNOLD
Catholics are supposed to swoon when a film
studio spends a fortune making a Wholesome Pic
ture, that is, one in which the heroines are fully
clothed, no characters have psychoneuroses, and
the values of Home, Mother and Country are
strongly endorsed. Quality apparently doesn't
matter; the important thing is that the producer
earn a profit, or else (comes the dark warn
ing) the screen will be turned over to atheism,
Bardot and Tennessee Williams.
This may explain the large crowds being sucke-
red into seeing "How the West Was Won,”
which is bailing MGM out of the deep financial
hole dug for it by ^Mutiny on the Bounty.”
It is hard to imagine another reason (other than
upholding Virtue) for seeing "West.” Few movies
in recent history have been miserable in so many
different ways (script, acting, photography, direc
tion.)
Four scenes in "West” may
possibly distract the children
from pummeling their siblings,
provided the kids are not too
critical. One other scene may
affect adults, because an old
pro director uses one of his
ancient tricks with typical sk
ill.
( The four flashy scenes: run
ning the rapids in a raft, an
Indian assult on a wagon convoy, a buffalo
charge, a gunflght atop a fast-moving freight
train. Only the last is a real hair-raiser. The
rapids sequence is poorly cut. More people are
visible in the staged closeups than in the "real”
long shots; the audience is often forced to squint
through the cameras’ water-spattered lenses.
The adult scene? When a Civil War veteran re
turns to the farm and finds his mother's grave:
there’s a touching graveyard sequence in almost
every John Ford Western.)
Otherwise the movie’s chief distinction is that
it may well kill off Cinerama as a medium for
drama. Not since the 3—D heyday a decade ago,
when the pictures threw everything at the
audience but the ushers, have production techn
iques made a film so clumsily painful for the
spectators.
Somebody at MGM apparently felt: that the com
bination of 24 stars, a western story and Cine
rama (a giant curved-screen process that pulls
the customers, willing or not, into the action)
was the next best thing to printing money.
Since one western story was not quite big enough,
they linked together half a dozen, all aged and
silly in an unimaginative attempt to do a three-
hour biography of the Settling of the West.
Scenarist James Webb gallantly tries to in
clude every cowbody cliche ever put on cellu
loid (by our count, he missed only the cavalry
charge to the resuce). But the real villain is
Cinerama, an ingenius but primitive process now
reduced to obsolescence by such developments
as Todd-A-O and Super Panacision 70 ("Law
rence of Arabia”).
As you’ll recall from the travelogs and the
not-so "Wonderful World of the Brothers
Grimm,” Cinerama’s main defect is its simul
taneous use of three synchronized images, re
sulting in a persistently annoying triple-split
screen. There are two advantages: the illusion
of depth, and the exhilarating sense of motion
when ever the cameras are mounted on a mov
ing vehicle (the faster the better).
The benefits are dearly paid for. In many
scenes, there is no motion at all, because the
equipment is too complicated to push around.
Figures in the outer curved panels are absurdly
distorted. An actor in the middle seems to be
looking past the actress on the outside; charg
ing horses seem to run in three directions at
once; buffaloes (seen from above) seem to rush
in circles; the Golden Gate bridge (as we swoop
under) seems to fold down on both sides.
Directors, sensitive about the distortion, tend
to play two character scenes entirely in the
center panel, a procedure which reduces the
effective image while creating acres of distract
ing scenery at the margins. Only once does the
camera do what other techniques could not do
as well: a trick shot at the very end, a funny,
whirling panorama of the Los Angeles freeway
that seems to bend it into spaghetti.
The first half of "West,” is you dare imagine
it, is a Debbie Reynolds western, conceived an
executed with the taste and artistry of a TV
series that won’t be renewed. In the second half,
Debbie struggles to convince as an aging matron
while her nephew (George Peppard) fights the
Civil War, builds the Union Pacific, pacifies
the plains Indians and cleans up the Southwest
as a frontier marshal.
While the movie is probably less harmful
morally than, say, the autobiography of a dope
addict, it suffers from the more subtle devi
ations of many films of its type. It promotes
love and promiscuity at first sight, the joys of
entertaining in a barroom dance hall and of blast
ing a pistol point blank into a victim’s stomach
and watching the blood ooze out the back.
There’s more corn since harvest time in Iowa.
There’s Karl Malden raving wild-eyed as a pioneer
farmer; Jimmy Stewart Satlaizing himself as a
shy frontiersman-of-few-words; Eli Wallach as a
black-hearted gunslinger; Oscar winner Gregory
Peck earning laughs by doing a square dance in
his long jons. Robert Preston's wagon master
is interested simply in Miss Reynolds’ child
bearing capacities, and Richard Widmark’s rail
road boss expresses classic disgust at the In
dian uprising: ‘The dirty skunks 1”
The Best legitimate laugh comes when Pep
pard is explaining the depth of a well to his small
son. "Think how it would be if you had 500
brothers standing on your shoulders. . .” The
boy, not taken in by fanciful absurdity, comments:
"I’d be squooshed.”
CURRENT RECOMMENDED FILMS:
For everyone:
The Miracle Worker, To Kill
a Mockingbird, Lawrence of Arabia.
For connoisseurs:
Sundays and Cybele, Long
Day’s Journey into Night.
Better than most;
The Longest Day, Days of
Wine and Roses, Requiem for a Heavyweight,
Mutiny on the Bounty, Billy Budd, A child is
Waiting.
God Love You
MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN
Have you ever noticed in a conversation with a non-believer,
or a so-called Christian, or perhaps even a fellow Catholic that
you express a judgement or a set of values which seem quite
incomprehensible to them? It is like talking color to a blind
man. You sit at the table with a fellow countryman, and yet your
ideas of life, death, birth, education and pain are as different
from his as night and day. What is the reason for this? It is that
you are "in Christ" and the other person is not. This means
that you have Christ’s values, Christ's .judgments and Christ's
loves while the other has the world's values and judgments..
To be a Catholic is to be "in Ch
rist.” Aquilla and Priscilla, husband
and wife and two of the early Ch
urch's great apologists, were called
"helpers in Christ." Apollos, another
catechist, is approved "in Christ;”
with a holy envy he sends greetings
to some who "were in Christ be
fore him,” that is, Christians of even
longer standing.
What this means may be illustrated
by a deep friendship, such as that between David and Jonathan,
for Scripture says that the soul of Jonathan was "knit” unto
the soul of David. The true Catholic is not a self contained
unit; he is "knit” to Christ. There is a community of interests,
of joys, of sufferings, or points of view, because there is a
community of Life.
What is it that makes some interested in sacrificing to bring
Christ to the Missions? It is because they are "in Christ.”
Unhappy people are "in themselves,” living only for themselves.
We hardly ever receive a letter at our National Office, regard
less of how small the offering, in which we do rot sense the
Spirit of Christ in the sender. The alms are generally small
materially, but rich spiritually. This is because those who
love the Lord and His Missions much are generally not rich.
But their love I Their spirit of sacrifice) Their deep love of the
Holy Father! Ww thank God for them and read Mass for them
every Sunday. You will be included, too, if you pray for The
Society for the Propagation of the Faith and make a sacrifice
offering for the Holy Father's Missions.
GOD LOVE YOU to E.A.C. for $10 "To thank St. Francis
Xavier, Patron of the Missions, for my recovery from a serious
nose ailment. 1 went the Holy Father to use this for his Missions.”
. . .to J. W. for $22.89 "Isaved this by doing my own maintenance
work on my car.” . . .to M. M. for $2 "I am fourteen years
old and get $ 1 a week for bus fare. Now I've decided to be phy
sically fit by walking instead. . .and spiritually fit by sending
my savings to the Missions.” . . .to J. P. for $10 "I am having
one of those bad days today. Here is an offering for those who
have it worse.”
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.
SHEEN COLUMN: Cut out this column, pin your sacrifice to
it and mall it to Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen, National Director
of The Society for the Propagation of the Faith 366 Fifth Avenue,
New York Lx, N. Y. or your Diocesan Director. Rev. Harold
J. Rainey, P.Q. Box 12047, Northside Station, Atlanta 5, Ga.