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GEORGIA PINES
Savanah
BY REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN
“All through its many years our Cathedral
has been symbolic of Savannah's enviable unity,
enriched by conscientious differences and its
architectural esthetic perfection has told through
the years the story of Savannah’s unique past
and its glorious promise for the future." With
these words, Cathedral rector Monsignor Me
Namara aptly describes the catholic edifice which
has become the barometer of Catholic prestige
in Savannah, and south Georgia.
In a thirty three page brochure printed es
pecially for the restored cathedral, the history,
description, and personalities involved in the 63
history of the cathedral are described by two
newspaper editors, Mr. Frank Rossiter of the Sav
annah DAILY NEWS and Father Lawrence Lucree
of the SOUTHERN CROSS.
WITH information supplied
by Mrs. Marmaduke Floyd these
two editors begin with the his
tory of the congregation which
goes back 164 years and con
clude with a description of the
sybolisms in the stained glass
windows and the expiation of the
beautiful murals which grace
the uper church.
It was interesting to note that
the orglnal structure cost $150,000 and the epi
scopal residence, and additional $26,000. On
the day of the dedication, October 28, 1900 a
young boy, T. James McNamara, who sang in
the choir was to become that same Cathedral
Rector who 63 years later spent more than $400,
000 restoring the Cathedral to its original struc
tural soundness and beauty.
ACTUALLY the history of Savannah's Cathedral
is in two sections. A Cathedral was built in
1876. In 1898 a conflagration swept through this
structure and destroyed it in less than two hours.
The Savannah press recorded the event this way;
"Years of work by scores of men burned in the
Cathedral
presence of thousands in less than two hours."
The present structure, dedicated in 1900 on the
occasion of the golden jubilee of the diocese,
was redecorated in 1912 by Father Shadewell,
but remained substantially untouched until last
year when Monsignor Me Namara initiated the
restoration program.
Savannah archives reveal that the Mayor and
Alderman passed a resolution reserving for the
use of the congregation a lot for the erection
of a house of worship as early as May 30,
1799. This first church was dedicated by Bishop
England of Charleston, S. C. on April 1, 1839.
This congregation became merged with the Cat
hedral in 1850 when Bishop Francis X. Gartland
established his seat as head of the new Dio
cese of Savannah.
IT WAS Bishop William Gross who built the first
Cathedral and Bishop Benjamin J. Keiley who
built the present cathedral structure. A Cathe
dral is die Bishop's Church. While Savannah
catholics worshiped in various church struct
ures the designation, of a church as a Cathe
dral came in 1850 when Bishop Gartland became
the First Bishop of Savannah.
Father Lucree and Mr. Rossiter merit a well
deserved plaudit for the energy and sacrifice
that must have gone into the publication of this
brochure. The intimate description of the sym
bolisms in the Innsbruck glass windows and the
research which became necessary in order to
trace the history of donors and the participants
of the major events connected with the cathe
dral sturcture undoubtedly took many pains.
But Savannah is a city of devotion. Fire,
epidemics and disappointments have never damp
ened the spirits of these people. The two golden
crosses atop the lofty spires of the Cathedral,
dominating the Savannah skyline in all dire
ctions, seem to proclaim the fulfilment of ef
forts to plant in Georgia the Catholic emblem
of the Cross of that Faith. And they spell out in
the sky—Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist,
The Signature piece of Savannah, Old and New.
QUESTION BOX
The Drug ‘Duphaston’?
BY MONSIGNOR J. D. CONWAY
Q. LAST WEEK I READ A STORY ABOUT DU-
PHASTON, A NEW DRUG DESIGNED TO REGU
LATE THE MENSTRUAL CYCLE AND MAKE
RHYTHM RELIABLE. BISHOP HELMSING .AND
FATHER GERALD KELLY, S.J., WERE QUOTED
AS SAYING THAT THE USE OF THIS DRUG
WOULD NOT BE CONTRARY TO CATHOLIC
MORAL PRINCIPLES. MAY THIS BE THE
answer to violent conflicts in our
COUNTRY ON THE SUBJECT OF THE BIRTH
CONTROL?
A. It would seem that this new medicine does
not interfere with normal ovulation, but rather aids.
and regulates it. It is not a birth control pill in
the same sense as those steroids which inhibit
ovulation.
For the past couple of years,
gfflgfc ,j|‘ : or more, I have known of the
? restricted clinical use of drugs
A of this or similar type, and when
fS questioned about their use have
given my private opinion that
s k they were morally unobjection
able when their use was reason
ably indicated. I am very happy
to have such admirable author
ity give me backing.
I note that Bishop Helmsing qualifies his state
ment: "if the claims of this drug are truly veri
fied ...”. And Father Kelly places a condition:
"Unless there are some harmful side effects ..."
Only time will give us the answer to these ques
tions they imply. And only doctors can determine
the condition in which may be indicated.
With his usual clarity of thought, Fatter Kelly
points out that if this drug is used ami regualrizes
ovulation as hoped, the reasons, etc., which justify
the present use of rhythm will not be changed. Its
use will merely become easier and more reliable.
At first glance this new drug looks like a step
towards the realization of that hope expressed by
Pope Pius XII, in speaking of rhythm: that "science
will succeed in providing this licit methodwith a
sufficiently secure basis."
Q. I’LL BET YOU ARE THE MOST READ PART
OF OUR PAPER. THANKS FOR YOUR GUIDE FOR
EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE. FEWOFUSGO
ABOUT STEALING, KILLING, ETC. OUR PRAY-
ERBOOKS ARE SO INADEQUATE FOR A THO
ROUGH EXAMINATION.
I DON'T THINK I UNDERSTAND "THOU SHALT
NOT COVET THEY NEIGHBOR’S GOODS." DOES
THIS MEAN WE MUST BE CONTENT WITH WHAT
WE HAVE .AND NEVER WISH FOR MORE? IF I
GO BY A STORE WINDOW AND SAY LONG1LY,
"I WISH I COULD BUY THAT!" IS THAT WRONG?
A. My dictionary says that "to covet" usually
means "to wish for eagerly ... to desire inor
dinately, or without due regard to the rights of
others; desire wrongfully." It says that the co
vetous person is "grasping; avaricious; often,
eager to possess that to which one has no right."
These definitions accord rather well with the
meaning of the word in moral theology. In the
strictest, sinful sense of the word, you covet when
you already steal in your heart, when you really
want to cheat and defraud, when you want your
neighbor’s property so bad that your love of God
and your sense of justice would not prevent your
robbing him. Only lack of means or opportunity,
or fear of the police, keep you from actual crime.
You covet also, in a manner less directly sinful,
but very dangerous, when you go around drooling
over the fine things of your neighbor, letting your
mouth water at the sight of his steak, your fingers
itch for his bankroll, or your tingle for the feel of
that mink. Of course you would never steal to get
these things. After all you are honest! But oh, how
you dream about them and long for them.
Coveting, even the drooling type, may well lead
to envy, which is next door to hate. It makes you
dissatisfied w ith your lot, inclines you to grumble,
and may lead you to question the justice of God.
However, we must not confuse covetousness with
a good healthy desire for a nice home, a fine
car, fashionable clothes, neat furniture and good
books, or for enough money to send your children
to college. Healthy desires, kept in proper balance,
may urge you to get off your fat cushion and go to
work. They may create ambition, inspire effort,
and urge to sound accomplishment, all in perfect
accord with the rights of your neighbor and your
love of God.
LITURGICAL WF.F.K
Road Leads To Life
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4
various ministries which all Christians must un
dertake (laymen, clergy, and Religious) during the
little while of His personal absence. This is the
time for perfecting creation "to the mature me
asure of the fullness of Christ."
THURSDAY, MAY 23 THE ASCENSION OF OUR
LORD JESUS CHRIST. Jesus is with the Father.
Our humanity, the humanity He assumed, is with
the Father. The pattern is clear. Human eyes
gaze upon the face of the Father, the human
nature of the word shares His life. And for one
reason, according to the Ascension preface, "that
he might make us sharers in his God head.”
So the Scripture Readings turn us resolutely to
the mission of the Church in the world. His
Vehicle of operation in His ascended and glor
ious state.
FRIDAY, MAY 24 MASS AS ON ASCENSION
DAY. We pray in the Collect: "May we in heart
live there with him." Not that we would escape
this world or our creative work and duties in
it. But after the Word's passage through human
life and death to His rising again and His Ascens
ion, there is no blinding the human eye to creat
ion’s fulfillment and the destiny of us all. We
know where we are going.
SATURDAY, MAY 25 ST. GREGORY VII, POPE,
CONFESSOR, The Mass of a Pope turns our
attention to the Church by which Jesus hallows
all time and space and to the ministry of the
Word and of the altar by which He regularly
reminds, redirects, reorients our vision. No
"gates of hell” (Gospel) can close off this vision
or deflect it from the glorious reign of the Ch
rist and our ultimate home.
THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1963 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 5
Saints in Black and White
ST. RAYMOND OF PENAFORT
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15. Erect
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18. Mother of the Blessed
Virgin
20. Satan
22. Rebus
25. Veterinary Doctor of
Medicine
26. Chinese Food
27. Tensile Strength
28. Cereal Grass
29. Energy
30. Station; abbr.
31. Right Tackle
32. More Certain
34. Related to the Herring
35. Minute
39. Combat
41. Deviate
42. Priestly Germent
44. He loved ....
48. Exhausted
51. Macerate
52. Plead
53. Cat
55. Endure
56. He Lived To Be
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59. Proteet
60. Gram
61. Period
62. Obese
63. Court
64. Consumption
66. High Tribunal of
Catholic Church
68. Shack
69. He Became Famous
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71. Scallion
73. Solitary
75. Combining Form: Air
76. Of Sound
78. Orient
80. Arrow
81. Nickname for Helen
82. A Bristle
83. King Of Israel
DOWN
1. European Fish
2. lends
3. Emanation
4. He Heard Pope
... .’i Confession
5. Bachelor of Science
6. Baby Carriage
7. Cosmic Cycle
8. He Made Many ...
9. Uth Month Of
Jewish Year
10. Bulb.
11 Coffin Stand
12. Impish
16. Dictum; pi.
19. Ruler
21. Direct
23. Rodent
24. There
29. Denotes Infection
33. Offended
34. Lay
45. J.F.K.’S Youngest
Brother
36. Anger
37. "Blue Eagle”
38. Leech
40. Eligible
42. Rudiments
43. Sinister
45. Employ
46. Prefix: Two
47. Ever; Poetic
49. Female Deer
50. Red Vegetables
54. Exclamation Of
Impatience
55. Broche
56. Notoriously Cruel
Emperor
57. Shackles
58. U.S.A.
60. Taken From Portugal
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63. Us
64. Earth
65. Thin Soup
67. First Rate
69. Trial
70. Cure
72. Nothing
74. No; Scot.
77. Chlorine
79. Chinese Pagoda
ANSWER TO LAST WEEKS PUZZLE PAGE 7
OTTAWA, Ont. -NC Econo
mic cooperation rather than
economic competition is the
key to man’s economic and
social well-being, a commis
sion of the Canadian Bishops'
coordinating agency said in a
statement.
The Social Action Commis
sion, English section, of the
Canadian Catholic Conference
said in a statement issued for
Social Action Sunday (May 12):
"For too long a time, many
have accepted the notion that
unlimited economic competion
is the secret to man's econo
mic and social well-being. The
injustices that have accompan
ied the unchecked pursuit of this
notion.. .are an indication that
competitive man tends to be
come the victim of his own
aggressive selfishness.
"ONE of the most desirable
forms of social action in mo
dern society is economic co
operation," the statement con
tinued. "It is designed to pro
vide men with needed goods and
services, while it offers oppor
tunities for social betterment
through mutual help and the
acceptance of responsibility for
the common good.
"We commend most highly
those institutions and inviduals
dedicated to the promotion, es
tablished and continuous deve
lopment of societies. W'e would
encourage them ever to bear
in mind that these voluntary
organizations must have as
their purpose the service of
man.
"EVERY man, therefore,
whether he is a member or a
worker w ithin cooperative soc
ieties, ought to enjoy a full
opportunity' to share actively in
the decision-making processes
of his society, as well as in
the economic rewards that flow
from Its operation."
The statement said that "if
cooperatives are to fulfill their
total role in modern society'
and demonstrate how each
economic enterprise can be a
true human community, it is
most important that the work
ers, as well as the members,
be enabled to satisfy their na
tural desire for a greater exer
cise of serious responsibility
within their own enterprise."
"By setting this kind of exam
ple in the economic order," the
statement concluded, "co
operatives can do much to im
prove the general social cli
mate and the lot of workers in
general who, at this time, re
quire greater skill and com
petence."
ARCHBISHOP PRESENT
Tech Newman Club
Hears Conyers Abbot
ARNOLD VIEWING
Extraordinary Message
BY JAMES W. ARNOLD
Some impossible and occasionally funny things
happen in "The Ugly American," but this much
may be said in Its favor: it’s one of few movies
in history that bitterly and courageously tells
off its own audience.
Like the Lederer-Burdick best-seller on which
it is based, the movie is an ordinary product
with an extraordinary message. Oddly enough,
even in the book the title did not refer to a bad
guy, although the novel had plenty of them, but
rather to a good guy with a homely visage work
ing as an unsung good will missionary in the
backwoods of an underdeveloped
IKS country.
THE unsuspecting viewer
may suppose for a while that
the movie title refers to in
sensitive U. S. diplomats bung
ling away the Cold War in a
mythical Southeast As la country
(much of the film was shot in
Thailand). But the real target
is eventually clear: the arro
gant apathy of the ordinary American, cut off
from the surging revolutions of the world by
a wall of freeways, neon signs, TV antennae
and barbecue pits.
Part of the message, hopefully, may be out
of date. The book, published in 1958, was a dia
tribe against overseas Americans who judge fore
igners on a strictly East-West (for-us or ag-
ainst-us) basis, associate chiefly with local big
shots, live apart in swank laundro- mat-golf-
and martini compounds and build beautiful roads
to nowhere while the people suffer from star
vation, beri-beri and anti-Yankee hate. Since then,
we have befriended a few neutral revolution
aries, snubbed some dictators, staffed the Peace
Corps with the cream of our idealist youth, and
supplied fewer tanks and more medicines.
BUT EVEN if some Washington thinkers are
beginning to understand what is happening in
the world, one wonders about the Average Man,
who each day reads a few Inches of foreign news
in the newspaper and then turns on the TV set
for 5 1/2 hours. This fellow, who may com
plain if a news special interrupts a comedy
show, often is puzzled that he has paid so much
In foreign aid and got back so little love. "The
Ugly American," while often over-simple and con
trived as a Congressman's voting record, will
reach more people with some of the answers.
The message, unfortunately, Is loud enough to
drown out most of the film’s pretenses to art.
What remains Is in the acting of Marlon Brando,
who is incapable of a dull performance, and
such notable Broadwayites as Arthur Hill ("Vir
ginia Woolf"), Pat Hingle ("J.B."), Sandra Ch
urch ("Gypsy") and Jocelyn Brando, the actor’s
gifted sister. Miss Church, as Brando's wife,
is so refeshing and personable we’ve reserved
a place for her on the mantel alongside Greer
Garson and Deborah Kerr.
THE mustached Brando is cast as an impro
bable ambassador who is alternately bright
and stupid, suave and tough, given to boozing
with an old wartime buddy ( Eiji Okada), Sark-
han’s out-of-office George Washington. (Scenarist
Stewart Stern tips us to the Okada character’s
true feelings by having him shout, at the climax
of a harangue: "Sarkhan for the Sarkhanese!”
THE TWO friends, who effectively symbolize
wartime cooperation between the U. S. and Asian
nationalists, have a loud falling-out. (Okada:
"Your democracy is a fraud, for white people
only!" Brando: "You’re a cheap ingrate. . .
leading your people to the slaughterhouse!")
Since Okada is new to the language and Brando
is a notorious mumbler, the verbal slugfest is
sort of a Great Debate in Broken English.
But there is a point: after 15 years and a
separation of 8000 miles, the old friends are
reduced to shouting slogans at each other. The
ambassador walks away thinking his pal is a
Communist (that insufferably smug, paranoid
senator back in Washington was right).
Producer-director George Englund provides
only one action scene that rises above routine
melodrama - a mass riot at an airport, brist
ling with hate, that ends with a frantic, spitting
mob ramming the windows of the ambassador's
staff car.
OFTEN telling are the potshots at genial Amer
ican incompetence ( a diplomat arrives at a staff
conference in tennis shorts) or heavy-footendness
( a USIA man shouts directions to photographers
during a Buddhist ceremony.) Englund shows us
a mother and child watching their family being
shot by Red guerrillas, then cuts to a U. S.
visitor worrying about the effect of the fighting
on his factory.
The real American heroes are Peace Corps
prototypes Homer and Emma (Hingle and Miss
Brando), just plain folks who have built a hospital
in the wilderness. When Communist troops come
to arrest them, they are protected by a human
ring of women, children and old men.
Which brings us to Dr. Tom Dooley's "foreign
policy" of honest dedication, service and love.
Its effect is perhaps best indicated by the recent
news item that several bush hospitals in so-
called backward countries are now being estab
lished by the Russians.
• **
CURRENT RECOMMENDED FILMS:
For everyone: The Miracle Worker, To Kill
a Mockingbird, Lawrence of Arabia.
For connoisseurs: Sundays andCybele, Long Day's
Journey into Night.
Better than most: The Longest Day, Requiem
for a Heavyweight, Mutiny on the Bounty, Billy
Budd, Days of Wine and Roses, A Child Is Waiting.
Quakers Hail Pope John XXIIFS Encyclical
PHILADELPHIA (NC) — The
board of directors of the Ameri
can Friends (Quakers) Service
Committee has praised His
Holiness Pope John XXIII'a en
cyclical Pacem in Terris
(Peace on Earth).
The board said in a state
ment (May 10): "We value the
Pope’s recognition that many
factors are involved in achiev
ing peace and especially that
'true and solid peace of na
tions consists not in equality
of arms but in mutual trust
alone.' "
The Quaker’s statement also
saluted the encyclical’s oppo
sition to radical discrimina
tion, its advocacy of access to
information for all.
Georgia Tech Newman Club
held its annual Mother's Day
Mass and Communion Break
fast on Sunday.
Archibishop Paul J. Halli-
nan, who the day before had
arrived in Atlanta from Rome,
celebrated Mass in Tech's Old
Gym at 9:00 a.m. The Right
Reverend Dom Augustin Moore,
Abbot of the Trappist Monas
tery at Conyers, was guest
speaker at the Breakfast. Ma
rio J. Goglia, Dean of the
Tech Graduate Division, serv
ed as toastmaster for the oc
casion.
DAVE Katz, Guntersville,
Alabama, President of the Tech
Newman Club, received the
John Henry Cardinal Newman
Honorary Soetoyt Award. Award
for Outstanding Freshman of
the Georgia Tech Newman Club
was presented to Steve Nimmer,
Jr., Blackshear, Georgia.
Dom Moore cited the role of
the scientist's mother in guid
ing her son in the pursuit of
Truth. He pointed out that we
are living in an age which can
be closer to Sanctity than any
other, because of the ability of
scientists and engineers, in
their work, to realize the tre
mendous power of God. He con
cluded his speech with the ob
servation "The Hand that rocks
the cradle rules the atomic
bomb."
At a business meeting held
after the Communion Breakfast
the following officers were
elected: Sibley Jennings, Mille-
geville, President; Joe Mar-
tellatto, New York City, Vice-
President; Steve Nimmer,
Blackshear, Treasurer; Joe
Palladino, Recording Secre
tary, Waterbury, Conn.; Dave
Figueroa, Miami, Fla., Corres
ponding Secretary'; Victor
Soares, Biloxi, Miss., Sergeant
-at-arms; Humbert Ortega,
Havanna, Cuba, Historian.
God Love You
MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN
When you read this column, I will be in Rome making an annual
report to the Holy Father and his Congregation of the Propagation
of the Faith on how well we have fulfilled our stewardship during
the past year.
As the representative of the Holy Father's Pontifical Mission
Societies in the United States, we are responsible for the following
duties:
1. To inspire the bishops, priests and faithful of the United
States to aid the Holy Father in caring for 80,000 schools; 10,000
hospitals and dispensaries; 2,000 orphanages; 400 leprosaria; 500
homes for the aged; and 300,000 missionaries in various parts
of the world.
2. To inspire the faithful of the United States to fulfill the words
of the Holy Father that he is to be "first and principally aided.”
The Pontiff does not say thatheisto be uniquely aided but that, as
Vicar of Christ, he is to be the first one thought of in missionary
aid; secondly, the principal part of the aid is to be given to him.
Knowing the duties that have been
imposed upon us as we make our
report, suppose we asked you to take
over at this point. How would you
feel if the Holy Father asked you
how much the Catholics of the Unit
ed States gave him for all the Mis
sions of the world last year? Es
pecially if you had to answer,
"Twenty-eight cents!" Would you
boast of the fact by saying; "Your
Holiness, every American Catholic so loves the Missions that he
has denied himself, throughout the 365 days, the equivalent of one
package of cigarettes or the equivalent of one-half a cocktail. The
richest country in the world has sunk the Cross deep into its own
heart to make this generous offering of twenty-eight cents 1"
Would you say that? Well, how do you think we are going to feel?
Aren't there 100,000 of you who could send $10 to The Society for
the Propagation of the Faith right now? If you don’t, I'm going to
lose my job!
GOD LOVE YOU to J. E. for $5 "Today I was feeling absolutely
depressed and convinced that I wasn’t going to be able to dig out
from under a mass of assignments. Then 1 read your column and
my sense of proportion was restored. Use this as the Holy Father
sees fit." . ..to Mrs. J. A. L. for old gold and jewelry "It's only
catching dust around the house, so you might as well use it to
‘catch’ souls." ...to C. A. for $13 "When my lost wallet was
returned to me, 1 decided to give all the money in it to the Mis
sions. I want to help the poor of the world." .. .to M.A.R. for
$30 “How can I buy a dress for a graduation dance when so many
in the Missions have nothing to put on their backs! They need this
money more than I need a prom dress."
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Society for the Propagation of the Faith by selecting our smart
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of gold-colored Hamilton finish with the raised red insignia of the
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offering of $3 for each piece and send your name and address to
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 mail 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.O. Box 12047, Northside Station, Atlanta 5, Ga