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Newspaper Page TextGEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1963 PAQE 5 GEORGIA PINES Saints in Black and White I lEdEdMILL ST. AGNES 41 The Bells Of A Shrine by REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN k Spalding’s recent editorial in the Sunday Atla Journal-Constitution about the bells at the Shi of the Immaculate Conception in Atlanta drenany fond memories of the days I served the^s Assistant Pastor under the late Monsig- norties J. Grady. M'Spalding commented that he hoped that the bellsould remain for many years. His was not the c- hope along these lines, for I remember when 0 nsignor Grady was having the church renovc] back in 1954, he received numerous calls 3 rn office workers working in the vici nity v sa id that they daily set their watches and to their dinner hours to the timing of the Shrine jells. AS Aiatter of fact, one group picked up an office-d a tion and sent it to the good Monsignor thinking^ the bells also were in need of a renovati* There are many humorous, ! but interesting, events about thous bells. On one occasion a scribe for the local “Bugle” heard that there were some strange inscriptions written on the bell when it was cast. Track ing down the story, he asked IpermisSion to climb the long 'ladder which ascends to the bells only to^e driven back by the numerous pigeons who id sought refuge there during a summer squai You see, prior to the 1954 renovation, it \s possible to see the bells from the street. The shutters w ere added at this time. If my memor serves me correctly, a nor thern firm was >ngaged to doing the pointing- up of the brick 0 rk on the church structure. Someone wishing > seal the moisture out of the bricks had had therhurch painted red. The paint pealed and in 1954the church was in a hideous condition. It was tijly an eye sore. One of the workers w as up on-he scaffold working on the bricks about noon the when the call of the An- gelus rang out. The sudden clang of the bell startled him so much he almost jumped off. Needless to say, from then on the workers would quit around quarter to twelve and also make sure that they were not high up on the scaffold around six in the afternoon. When the workers started on the smaller of the two towers the foreman came into the rectory and wanted the Monsignor’s assur ance that there were not bells in that tower too. But the punctuality with which the bells rang were by no means an accident. Many old time residents will remember the person of Teddy Rink. Father Joseph Smith who preceded Monsig nor Grady was a native of Washington, Georgia. It seems that he came to Atlanta seeking employ ment with a trolley company. The legend has it that he was so impressed with the devotion of the people attending the Shrine, during all kinds of weather, that he decided to become a member of that faith. FATHER Smith later studied for the priesthood and after serving missions in South Georgia he was assigned as pastor of Atlanta’s mother church. He sent for Teddy Rink, also a Washing ton resident, and employed him as a caretaker. As years began to pile up on Teddy he would grow forgetful. Sometimes coming out of his room after a siesta he couldn’t remember whether he had rung the Angelus or not. Many times down town shoppers would be treated to a peel of mid afternoon bells. So Father Smith had the bells wired and now they operate from a clock located in the sacistry. I often thought while I served at the "I.C.” as an assistant pastor how impressive the bells were when they were tolled for a funeral. Though I operated the toll bells on many occasions, I think it was most difficult the day that I turned the switch while Monsignor Grady was being car ried out to a waiting hearse- never more to see the church he loved so much. Yes, Mr. Spalding, the bells at the "I.C.” are truly a part of downtown Atlanta’s life. I too hope that they will be there for many, many years. QUESTION BOX What About Evolution BY MONSIGNOR J.h. CONWAY Q. YOUR ARTICLE ON tVOLUTION WAS IN- )RMATIVE AND SENS'BLE. HOWEVER, IERE IS ONE POINT ABOUT EVOLUTION *’D CATHOLIC TEACHINC THAT SEEMS TO 1 IN CONFLICT. GRANTED SOME FORM OF SOLUTION, DOESN’T THIS PRE-SUPPOSE CJNTLESS BEINGS EVOLVING OVER MANY T)USANDS OF YEARS? IN OTHER WORDS, Hv CAN ONE BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION AND Tl DOCTRINE OF ONLY TWO PARENTS FOR Tl WHOLE HUMAN RACE? IF THERE WERE M-Y ANCESTORS OF MAN, INSTEAD OF ON’ ADAM AND EVE, HOW CAN WE HOLD THOOCTRINE of original SIN? An my opinion, you have proposed the only protm of potential conflict between science and for which no well-thought and widely acceid solution has been offered. Uaidy because of the story of man’s crea tion ithe first chapters of the book of Genesis, Chrises, Jews and Mohammedans have tra dition^ held that the origin of the human race was monogenic, i.e. that all men and women on earth are de scended from a single pair of human ancestors - or from one single ancestor, if you read the story of Eve’s creation literal ly (Gen. 2, 21-25). Monogenism was first ques tioned publicly in 1655 in an anonymous book which proposed that thenj* ere men created before Adam - Treadamiu G 0t j created them on the sixth day of Genesis, n( j they were ancestors to the Gen tiles. The as were descended from Adam and Eve, who we. created on the seventh day. This book and theq, were promptly condemned; there only basis wi found in the words of St. Paul to the Romans, 5f2-14. In 1K44, Johip. Calhoun,* Tyler’s Secretary of State, tried to us tifv slavery by claiming that the Negro is nc of the same human species as the white man. ms claim has been echoed in recent years by igregationists. The Church con siders it plain he, 8 y. During the past en tury the sciences erf biology, LITURGICAL WEEK Rhythm Of Christian Life Continued f)>m Page 4 (Gospel) Could any figui? illustrate more vivid ly the divine will that man should be free? So we pray in the Collec that our freedom may be the ground of a lastin; love and fear of the divine. Freedom is responsibility. And such re sponsibility without grace, Mthout God’s benevo lence and support, is, like *he Law without the Gospel, a sentence of condennation. FRIDAY, JUNE 21, THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS. The “mystery” (FirstReading), of which speak when we say “the Nystery of Christ” or “the Mystery of salvation” >r “the Christian Mystery," is nothing but the ove of God act ing in history to make all men one with Him and *ith one another in the bonds of love. It is God’s Guessing Game Popular On Naming New Pontiff ACROSS 1. Faulty 4. Military Oganization 8. Burdened 13. Her Symbol 14. Moslem Priest 15. Sour Ale 17. Voter 19. Expiring 20. A Bout 22. A Pig 23. Silver Coins 24. Molecular Weight In Grams 25. Passage 27. Heathen 28. Whole Or Entire; Comb Form 29. Fume 30. Riyon Cloth 31. More Cerain 32. Cereal Grass 33. Tam 34. Panel 35. Old Testament 36. Sinned 37. Anti-Aicraft Fire 38. Dreary 40. Profound 41. War Captive 44. Masculine Name 45. Cajole 46. Legend 47. Enticed 49. Round 50. Globes 51. Unique Person 52. Burn 53. Young Hen 54. To Free 5 r . Shout 56. A Plant (pi) 57. Mete; music 58. Culp 59. Supremely Confident 62. Grand 64. Revers 65. Homo Sapiens 66. Bivalve 67. Scandinavian 68. Saint; (Fr) DOWN 1. Honey Maker 2. Broach 3. Firmly Esablished 4. Crystalline Salt; Med. 5. Berserk 6. Mariner 7. Order of Merit 8. A Member Of The Laity 9. Foreigner 10. Lairs 11. Urge 12. Continent In Western Hemisphere; abbr. 16. Cheerer 18. Young Horse 19. Finger 21. Trifle Amourously 23. Old Fashioned 24. Greater 25. Astir 26. Incensed 27. Skins 28. Ivory 30. Antitoxin 31. Break 33. Wide 34. Holly 36. Down 37. Stunt 39. Challenged 40. Gloomy 41. On Her Anniversary The Pope Blesses Lambs From Which ... Are Made 42. Eye 43. Ancient Fom of You Were (S) 45. Solid Fuel 46. NACL pi) 47. British Title 48. Alliance 49. Band 50. Join 52. Coastal City Of Mass. 53. Measured Off 55. Caffein-Rich Nut 56. Priest’s Garment 58. Barrel; abbr. 59. Bird Cry 60. Rodent 61. Compass Point 63. Ocean; abbr. 64. Pace Of The Seal ROME, (NC) — The ancient guessing game of "Papabili,” or “Who’s Likely To Be Next Pope?” is in full swing in Rome as the conclave opening date of June 19 nears. Those relatively few men— the cardinals—who may have more information on the sub ject than anyone else remain silent. However, their reticence doesn’t handicap the hundreds of journalists in Rome for the historic event. Nor is the guess work limited to newsmen who try to give some advance in formation of possible suc cessors to the Throne of Peter. ALMOST everyone in Rome has a favorite candidate, or has heard from an uncle who has a friend who is a close friend of a cardinal. But by far the strangest guesses result from those who favor the “System” method of arriving at “papa- bill.” Though completely unworthy of serious consideration, the "System” approach to “papa bili’’ offers an indication of the faith that can be placed in much of the guess work that pre cedes a conclave. Among Italians three “sys tems” are favored: that based on the spurious “Prophecies of Malachy;” that based on the alternation of short and heavy ARNOLD VIEWING ‘Hud\ Brandon deWilde anthropology, paleontology, genetics and ethnolo gy have made marvelous advances in acquiring knowledge of man’s possible origins and his his tory. In the earlier years of this advance there were many bitter controversies between polyge- nlsts and monogenists, with partisans of evolu tion on both sides of the argument, and anti evolutionists similarly divided. Today most reputable scientists are in agree ment that all races of men belong to the same human species, but on the other hand most of them work from an uncritical hypothesis that the mutations which produced the human species were fairly numerous and appeared in clusters at some unidentified time and place - and maybe in dif ferent places at different times. Father Teilhard de Chardin, the famous Jesuit anthropologist once said, as 1 translate it: “Science left to itself would never dream (that’s the least you can say) of attributing a foundation as narrow as two individuals to an edifice so vast as the human race.” The last official word of the Church on poly- genism is in the Encyclical Human! Generis of Pope Pius XII (1950). After noting that Catho lics are free to weigh and discuss the theory of evolution, the Holy Father says: “When, however, there is a question of another conjectural opinion, namely polygenism, children of the Church by no means enjoy such liberty. For the faithful cannot embrace that opinion which maintains either that after Adam there existed on this earth true men who did not take their origin through natural generation from hin as from the first parent of all, or that Adam rep resents a certain number of first parents. Now It is in no way apparent how such an opinion can be reconciled with that which the sources of revealed truth and the documents of the Church propose with regard to original sin. . .’’ Without accepting polygenism, some Catholic theologians have proposed, as hypothetical specu lation, that original sin could have been a collec tive or corporate fall of a group of men, and that we are all descended from sinners, heirs to a fallen nature, redeemed by Jesus Christ who shared our common nature in all but sin. loving purpose in creation and it is summed up and climaxed in Jesus Christ. Today's feast meditates and developes this uniquely Christian theme—-that the ultimate is to be identified with love more than with law or with cessation of ac tivity or with non-being. SATURDAY, JUNE 22, ST. PAULINUS, BIS HOP, CONFESSOR. Thus it is that the “purse which does not grow old” (Gospel) is an act of love and the one common mark of all saints is the mark of charity. "Establishing an equality” through “sharing” of goods (First Reading) is an aim and an injunction of the Gospel. It should be a normal flowering in public life of our Eu charistic community. If some preach this doctrine without giving adequate credit to its source, we who have illustrated it so poorly can hardly blame them. BY JAMES W. ARNOLD Ever since “Shane” rode off into the moun tains, young Brandon deWilde has been looking for a hero and finding only heels. His newest search, in a modern adult western called “Hud,” bears an astonishing resemblance to his last ( in “All Fall Down” ). But "Hud’s” ancestry goes back even farther than that, to “Duel in the Sun,” in which the lucky deWilde had no part. Adapted from a 1961 novel by Larry McMurtry, “Hud” is one of the 16 Basic Fiction Plots, about the patriarch with a good son and a bad son. The old man is a Texas cattle rancher (Melvyn Douglas), and the good son is dead, having been dis posed of in a car accident by the bad son, Hud (Paul New man). Still available, however, is the good guy’s son, an in nocent adolescent (deWilde) who unhappily thinks his uncle is a Real Man. LONG-SUFFERING movie goers will recall that deWilde spent most of “All Fall Down” pursuing a worth less elder brother through an endless procession or girls and bars. Finally, after the brother had outraged a ,’nice • girl deWilde idolized, the kid came to his senses and stopped short of murder only because of a sudden surge of pity. In many ways “Hud” is a Texas carbon copy: the same hero worship, the same girls and bars, a similar outrage to a similarly idolized woman, a similar angry rejection. But certain improve ments are worth noting: 1 - There is less wallowing in the debau chery, most of which happens off-camera. De spite its low-flown advertising, which promotes “the man with the barbed-wire soul,” “Hud” is done with firstclass sensitivity and a scru pulous lack of explicit sex or violence. 2 - Characters and situations are more cred ible. We are spared the classic Freudian par ents as well as the tyrannical pioneer cattle baron: instead, the rancher Is a tough old bird, but compassionate and committed to enduring human values. He is (like the cowboy In last year’s “Lonely Are the Brave”) the symbol of a passing generation of men to whom land and beast meant more than just profit: “What’s oil wells to me? I can't ride out and prowl among*em„ TOE WOMAN (Patricia Neal) is attracted by Hud’s charm, but maintains her common sense and feminine reserve. The film’s best sequences by far describe her tight farewell to young de Wilde, and the old man’s sadly gallant reaction to the worst experience of his life, the mass- slaughter of his disease-ridden herds. 3 - Realism is a fetish, starting with the Neal character (Alma), a drawling, frowsy, basically decent divorcee so genuine she seems to have wandered onto the set after missing a bus. Equally valid are the dusty, rock-strewn ranges, the squat ranch buildings, the brightly decadent cafes, bars and variety shops in town. Even the normally neat cattle are splattered with dirt and saliva. “Hud” may be trite but it’s not immoral: the film, and every Important character in it, clearly judge Hud and condemn him. The only difficulty is that actor Newman gives him so much surface charm, wit and virility that he is easily the film’s most memorable character. When Hud gives a girl a burnt-out match in stead of lighting her cigaret, or sizes up a wild evening in town, or sneaks out of a house ahead of a returning husband, the audience is amused. It is fair to say they like him too much. TECHNICALLY, the film is expert. Producer- director Martin Ritt and Newman, after several false starts (like “Adventures of a Young Man”) have finally, to put it inelegantly, poured a glass with foam on it. Ritt artfully manipulates his good cast against the infinite gray praires, the flat ugly towns and crackerbox architecture, cap tured magnificently by the Panavision lenses of veteran cameraman James Wong Howe. On the sound track, there is persistently fresh dialog, the dreary gusting wind, the twanging of transis tor radios, the melancholy guitar music of com poser Elmer Bernstein. The only real corn is near the climax, when the old man just happens to be crawling along the highway, having a heart attack, when Newman and deWilde come steaming back from town. Yet the movie’s basic flaw is artistic. Once again a movie has given second shrift to interesting normal people (the youth in the turmoil of grow ing up, the aging misused woman searching for real love, the old man facing disaster) and con centrated on a pychopath„ it's as »jf a u people were suffering from a neurotic fear that only the abnormal can be interesting. FOR HUD is a psychopath, with traits lifted directly from clinical notebooks. He has no conscience, only a rather shallow impulse to be liked. He pursues alcohol and sex, but gets little pleasure from either. If challenged, he pro jects his guilt on a dirty world: “How many honest men you know? I mean, you start takin’ the sinners from the saints and you’re lucky to wind up with Abraham Lincoln.” HE IS unloved by his father, but the film honestly implies it may have been his nature that caused the unlove rather than vice versa. Hud is in capable of real emotion. When his nephew con fesses his affection for him, Hud suggests more beer ”to work up some family feelin’.” As Alma gets on her bus, she searches his face for some sign of real feeling. His only comment is self- centered: “I’ll always remember you as the one that got away.” Science recognizes the psychopath as a sick, immature personality who is not really respon sible for his actions. Perhaps some filmmakers will soon come to realize it, too. Only then will adult dramas begin to focus on adult characters with adult problems and adult minds. 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, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Mutiny on the Bounty, Billy Budd, Days of Wine and Roses, A Child Is Waiting. popes with thin and tall popes; and that based on the alternating presence and absence of the letter "R”. The so-called prophecies are 16th-century forgeries attri buted to St. Malachy, 12th- century Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland. They were written by a follower of a cardinal who wanted to see his patron elected pope. Despite their falsity, the prophecies have continued to be taken seriously through recent centuries. The prophecy for the last pontiff, Pope John, was “Pas tor et Nauta,’ r or "Shepherd and Sailor,” which fit neatly with the fact that the Pope had been shepherd of Catholics in the east and Patriarch of Venice, city of canals. PROPHECY for the pope to be elected by this conclave is “Flos Flomm,” or Flower of Flowers.” This has sent followers of this system scurrying to examine the coats of arms of the various cardinals entering this conclave. A quick check of the coats of arms shows a possible 13 car dinals who would qualify under this system, including such varying persons as 89-year-old Carlos Cardinal de la Torre, Archbishop of Quito, Ecuador, who most likely will not attend the conclave because of ill health; Jozsef Cardinal Minds- zenty, Primate of Hungary; Ste fan Cardinal Wyszynski, Pri mate of Poland, and Ignace Car dinal Tappouni, Patriarch of Antioch of the Syrians. The fact that the fleur de lys, or French lily, is among the favorite heraldic devises on ecclesiastical coats of arms makes “Flos Florum” much too wide open a guessing game to satify even the beginner. The more subtle players find other possibilities. For in stance, some point out the Flower who fits the prophecy most closely is not even a mem ber of the College of Cardinals. He is Archbishop Ermenegildo Florit ( a derivation coming from flowers) of Florence (City of Flowers). Another named linked by derivation to the pre sent prophecy is that of Ilde- brando Cardinal Antoniutti of Vatican Administrative staff, since, it is knowingly pointed out, the first portion of his last name corresponds to the Greek word for flower. On the other hand, there are those who favor the alternation of thin and heavy popes. They point out that John was heavy, Pius XII was thin, Pius XI re latively heavy, and Benedict XV thin. On this basis it is argued that the next pope can be ex pected to be thin and rather tall. They immediately offer names of cardinals who fit this description. Lastly we have those who favor the alternating occurence of the letter “R“ in the family name of the popes. The future pope, according to this system should have a name that does not carry an “R“. The last pope was a Roncalli, before him came Pacelli, before him Ratti, before him Della Chisa, before him Sarto, before him Pecci, before him Mastai Ferretti. However, at this point, this system falls because the pre decessor of Pius IX, whose name should not have contained an “R” was named Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari. The fact is that until his election, the Pope’s name is known only to God. God Love You MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN Our forefathers believed in “saving,” our generation believes in “spending,” The last generation often used the term “waste” as a warning, but today “waste” is praised, not under that name but as "expanding economy.” A future generation will curse us for believing that piling up mountains of debt is the way to keep a country prosperous. Let us bring this idea of “waste” down to the personal level. Recently a young Catholic woman, who was rapidly becoming an alco holic and had contemplated suicide, revealed that she had been psychoanalyzed five days a week for four years. "You have not told us,” we said, “but we assume that you have lost your Faith through bad morals, namely, by leav ing your husband and marrying another man. She admitted this was. so. The psychoanalyst had told her she was "sick.” She was not sick. She was a sinner. Now comes the waste. We quickly figured up that in four years she had paid $26,000 to her psychoanalyst. We told her that it takes only $3 a month to help cure a leper. In that time, she could have supplied almost 8,700 lepers with sulphone for a month. Oh,” she said, “don’t tell me. I don’t want to hear about helping others.” One of the great psychiatrists in the United States, Dr. O. Hobart Mowrer, wrote in this connection: “We must recognize that in our efforts to find a form of salvation which is supposedly better and less crude than anything which the poor can afford, we have been, in effect, wasting our money. We would be far better off if, instead of giving a so-called therapist a generous fee, we gave the same amount of money each week to some really good cause.” If any of our readers are sinners—-and who is not—and their sins are causing them mental upsets because they have not repented, may we suggest that: 1) they humble themselves and receive the pardon Our Lord makes available through His Cross; 2) begin to help their neighbors, thus taking their minds off themselves; 3) send us th- money they are now spending on a psychoanalyst, who denies guilt. We will use it for the lepers, that God may have mercy on all of us who have leprosy on our souls! GOD LOVE YOU to R.J.V. for $35 ’’This is part of the amount we received for selling a piece of property. We know God will bless us if we bless those less fortunate than ourselves. . . . toM. J. S. for$5 “My husband is presently serving in Vietnam and has had a firsthand look a iie poor of the mission world. We send this in thank.^ *ing for our own blessings.” . . .to R.N.B. for $50 “I recently came into contact with a missionary for the first time and came to know his personal courage and Srtnse of sacrifice. Let this offering help all the missionaries in all areas of the world.” . . .to E. K. for $1 “With a family of nine, I am only able to send this small sacrifice. 1 plan to send more often.” At a loss for gift suggestions? Tbm them into a gain for The Society for the Propagation of the Faith by selecting our smart cuff-.ink sets (oval or square), tie clasp or ladies' charm Made of gold colored Hamilton finish with the raised red in signia of the Society, these items are ideal for class awards seminarians, 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. r ilton J. Sheen, National Director of The Society for the » ropagatlon of the Faith 366 Fifth Avenue New York lx, N. Y, or your Diocesan Director. Rev. Harold J. Rainoy, • P.O. Box 12047, Northside Station, Atlanta 5, Ga