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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 35 CANADIAN BISHOPS / 3L T~ n i n u TT~ jig Co-operation Is Key To Social Well-Being ACROSS 1. Dross 5. Specification 9. Monk 13. -Flow Freely 14. Broth 15. Erect 17. Scarce 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 Ninety .... 59. Proteet 60. Gram 61. Period 62. Obese 63. Court 64. Consumption 66. High Tribunal of Catholic Church 68. Shack 69. He Became Famous As a .... 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 by India 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." At a loss for gift suggestions? Turn them into a gain for The Society for the Propagation of the Faith by selecting our smart cuff-link sets (oval or square), tie clasp or ladies' charm. Made of gold-colored Hamilton finish with the raised red insignia of the Society, these items are ideal for seminarians, class awards, graduation gifts. Specify the items you desire, enclose a minimum 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