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THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1963
GEORGIA BULLETIN
PAGE 5
GEORGIA PINES
Needed...A Stadium
Saints in Black and White
ST. BLAISE
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FATHER HESBURGH
BY REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN
Several days ago, I stopped by St. Pius X
High School on my way from Gainesville to
Atlanta. This is generally a practice that I
follow when making my weekly trip to the big
city to work on the Georgia Bulletin. However,
on this particular occasion, I noted that a great
transformation was in progress on the grounds
of our larger Catholic high schooL The schooTs
principal explained that some ten acres of the
school property were being converted into an
athletic stadium.
As the bulldozers and other
I earth moving apparatus ate up
| huge chunks of the Georgia
I clay before my eyes. I
questioned Father Harrison
about the project. It seems that
fa group of men, ±e St. Pius
jX Athletic Association, direct-
led by Mr. Eddie Gasperini, had
Iconceived the idea of the
stadium, had secured the Arch
bishop's approval, and now had set about raising
the $50,000 that would be required to make the
plan a reality.
When some thirty thousand dollars in con
tributions and pledges from parents and friends
* had been realized, the work was begun.
By the end of the summer St. Pius expects
to have a well lighted stadium for football and
track which will seat two thousand spectators.
Father Harrison was enthusiastic as he ex
plained that the stadium would serve not only
all of the Catholic high schools in Atlanta but
would host the parochial league football teams
from all over metropolitan Atlanta on crisp
fall Saturday mornings.
I could visualize this as a facility which would
serve many of our archdiocesan organizations.
It might well be utilized for Holy Name rallies,
gatherings, and parades of the Knights of Colum
bus. May Day processions, choral exhibitions of
our school children, and joint graduations of all
our archdiocesan high schools. Father explained
that he hoped a field Mass honoring St. Pius
X could be held here in September when school
formally opens on the great patron’s feast.
As I drove away from the dirty scene- (rais
ing not a little dust of my own)- I thought what
a worthwhile enterprise this new stadium really
is. It is another step on the path of progress
taken by our youthful archdiocese. And so, this
week, I tip my hat to the vision and industry
of Mr. Gasperini and his colleagues, who have
brought to earth some of our Georgia Pines.
I earnestly recommend this project to you and
take the liberty of giving you, the reader, an
invitation to drive out to St. Pius and see the pro
ject in process. Better still — maybe the “good
Father’’ would appreciate a 'Tetter” from you
too.
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Each American Must Aim
To Be Great Emancipator
QUESTION BOX
Marriage Promises?
BY MONSIGNOR J.D. CONWAY
Q. I READ AN ARTICLE IN THE JUNE 15
ISSUE OF AMERICA. THE REV. WALTER M.
ABBOTT OBTAINED IN AN INTERVIEW WITH
CARDINAL CUSHING CERTAIN IDEAS I WOULD
LIKE TO HEAR YOU COMMENT ON. THE STATE
MENT WAS SPECIFICALLY, HE WANTS TO DO
AWAY WITH THE REQUIREMENT THAT A
NON-CATHOLIC WHO MARRIES A CATHOLIC
PROMISE THAT THEIR CHILDREN BE RAISED
IN THE CATHOLIC FAITH AND NOT INTER
FERE WITH THE CATHOLIC PARTNER’S RELI
GION.
I SIGNED THOSE PROMISES WHEN I MARRIED
A CATHOLIC, AND I THOUGHT THEY WERE
GOOD. LATER I BECAME A CATHOLIC AND NOW
I AM A FIRM BELIEVER IN THE DISPENSA
TION REQUIREMENT. I FURTHER THINK THAT
ANY OTHER RELIGION THAT EARNESTLY BEL
IEVES IT IS THE TRUE CHURCH OF CHRIST
SHOULD MAKE THE SAME REQUIREMENT.
A. Your final statement touches the crux of
the problem, but we can't have the partners to
a mixed marriage signing two sets of cont
radictory promises.
I am inclined to agree with
His Eminence, the Archbishop
of Boston. These promises have
become a grievous irritant to
our Protestant brethren; and
there is reason to question the
measure of their contribution to
the good purposes for which they
were intended.
Any priest with pastoral ex
perience knows the anguish
often caused when it is time to sign these pro
mises, and the far greater suffering which re
sults when they are signed in bad faith and are
not kept.
« I have no illusions that the elimination of the
promise will solve all the problems of mixed
marriage. We will still be faced with the same
doctrinal and moral issues. The Church cannot
give her approval to a marraige which seriously
« threatens to take a Catholic from the Church
or to cause children to be raised without sound
faith and morality. No Catholic person can
in right conscience enter into a marriage which
threatens those dangers. And differences of re
ligion will still offer wide areas for marital
conflict.
The Church authorities and the Catholic party
will still face the same obligations in conscie
nce. Elimination of the promises would be only
change of means. Catholics—and Protestants
too— would still have to be warned about the
dangers of mixed marriage. And we would have
to educate our Catholic young people about their
obligations even more thoroughly than we do now,
because much more responsibility would be on
their own shoulders.
In other words, elimination of the promise would
merely remove the moral problems of mixed
• marriage from the juridical sphere and put them
squarely on the conscience of the young people.
Their arrangements about their practice of re
ligion and the education of their children would
be worked out between themselves. The priest
might help with his advice, but there would be
no signing on the dotted line.
I cannot imagine that the impediment of mixed
religion would dispappear. So the pastor would
still have to ask the bishop for a dispensation,
and he would have to give him assurance that
this marriage would turn out all right. Other
wise the bishop could not grant the dispensat
ion.
1 am not yet prepared to go along with Car
dinal Cushing on the change he proposes in the
* form of marriage consent, at least for the United
States. He complains about the backlog of "lack
of form” causes. Speaking from 30 years
of Tribunal experience I can assure him that
there is no need for such backlog. And if we
start recognizing as valid the marriage of a
Catholic before a justice of the peace ora minis
ter we will have a genuine backlog of really
complicated marriage cases.
I give the Cardinal great applause when he
asks that local tribunals he given more power,
so that fewer cases will need to go to Rome.
And I shout with joy when he advises elimi
nation of the Index of Forbidden Books. However,
he wants to "phase it out,” I would scrap it
right now.
Q. I AM A CATHOLIC GIRL 14 YEARS OLD.
I GO TO MASS AND RECEIVE HOLY COMMUNION
ALMOST EVERY DAY. WHEN I WAS LITTLE, I
DID SOMETHING WHICH I NOW KNOW WOULD
BE A MORTAL SIN. I REMEMBER, AFTER DOING
IT, TOAT I KNEW IT WAS WRONG, BUT I
DON’T THINK I REALISED HOW SERIOUS IT
WAS. ALL THESE YEARS I HAVE NEVER RE
MEMBERED IT, BUT FOR THE PAST MONTH IT
HAS BEEN BOTHERING ME. WAS THIS A
MORTAL SIN? PLEASE ANSWER RAPIDLY.
A. The process of the "Question Box” is not
very rapid, but my answer is definite: It was
not a mortal sin. Try to forget it, but if you
simply cannot keep it out of your mind you might
talk it over with your confessor, just as a means
of attaining peace of conscience. You have no
obligation to confess it.
Q. WILL YOU PLEASE TELL ME ABOUT
BEING A GODPARENT? WHO SHOULD MAKE
THE OFFERING TO THE PRIEST WHO
BAPTIZES THE INFANT. IS IT THE FATHER OF
THE CHILD OR TOE GODFATHER OR GOD
MOTHER?
A. Surely this is the least important of a
godparent’s functions.
Any offering to the priest should really be
made by the parents of the child. However, it is
fairly frequent that the godfather replaces the
parents in this monetary service. I do not re
call ever receiving a baptismal offering from
the godmother.
Q. I HAVE HEARD THAT CHRISTS CHURCH
ESIN PRINCIPLE OPPOSED TO TOE PHILOSO
PHY THAT "TOE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS."
THAT IS, IT IS CONSIDERED A SIN TO VIOLATE
GOD’S LAW IN ACCOMPLISHING A GOAL, NO
MATTER HOW IMPORTANT THAT GOAL IS.
BUT YET TOE CHURCH HAS NEVER CONDEM
NED TOE PEOPLE OF ANY NATION FOR FIGHT
ING AND KILLING IN ORDER TO PROTECT
THEIR FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE. ARE
WE THEN TO CONCLUDE THAT CHRIST WAS
TALKING IDLE NONSENSE WHEN HE SAID (IN
TOE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW),
"BUT I SAY TO YOU NOT TO RESIST TOE EVIL
DOER. . . IF SOMEONE STRIKE THEE ON TOE
RIGHT CHEEK, TURN TO HIM THE OTHER AL
SO.”?
A. Jesus did not say that we should stand by
idly while someone strikes our father and mother
on both cheeks and beats our children over their
heads.
Indeed, while the Church would never say, or
intimate, that Christ was talking utter non
sense, she has always asserted the right of
self defense against an unjust aggressor. This
same principle applies to a nation, which has
the right and duty to defend its citizens against
unjust attack or despoilment.
In olden days (up to World War II) theolog
ians used to talk about the principles of a just
war. Not many of them have given up such idle
prattle: a basic principle of a just war was
that the good to be attained must exceed the harm
to be done or permitted. Nuclear bombs seem
to have made that principle obsolete.
In the theorizing about a just war, your principle
of the ends and the means remained very much
in force. You were never permitted to use un
just means — but you were allowed some grue
some, unintended results — to attain your goal.
ACROSS
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63. Type *of Architecture
23. Senile
1. Circuit
65. Large Intestine
25. From
4. One of His Emblems
67. He Was Elevated In
26. Esteem
8. Late U. N. Chief
Early Part of ...
28. Crude Meal
11. Part Of "To Be"
Century
29. Tune
14. Chemistry Suffix
71. Smart
31. Within; Comb, form
15. Precious Stone
74. Hire
32. Recovery Act
16. Ripen
77. Lacerated
34. Exclamation of Disgust!
17. Scrap Of Food
78. Old Make Of Car
35. Fine Line
18. Former Portuguese
79. Payable
37. A Positive Electrode
Enclave
81. Comfort
38. Crippled
19. Ditto
84...Offense
39. Whip
20. Angry
85. Knack
40. Defeats Utterly
21. Glade
86. Donkey
41. Hide
22. Preposition
87. Delete
42. Turn Outward
24. Absent Without Leave
88. Interstate Control
44. Vexed
26. At A Distance
89. “.. . Culpa”
47. Amatory
27. An island South Of
90. Aye
49. St. . . .’s Fire
India
91. Cruel Emperor
52. Dance
30. Evil Spirit
92. Born
54. Breakers
33. Omits
57. Exact Point
36. He Used His Skill To
DOWN
59. Former Capital of Brazil
Heal . ..
62. Cereion
40. Bachelor Of Chemical
1. Basic Philosophy
64. Clip
Engineering
2. Solitary
66. Personal Pronoun
43. Clear Sky
3. Decayed Plant Odor
68. Varnish Ingredient
45. Threefold
4. A Kind of Lettuce
69. Instant
46. Roof Edge
5. Government Agency:
70. Therefore
48. Uncanny
W. W. II
71. Stuff
50. Smell
6. Mother
72. On Earth
51. Root of Acerbate
7. Exhaled
73. Atom
53. Bequests
8. Perennial Flower
75. Tube Light
55. Greek Resistance Group
9. Past
76. Subdue
56. He Is Often Invoked by
10. Gain
79. Epoch
People Suffering From
11. The Animal He
80. Employ
... Trouble.
Commanded to Let Go
82. Knight
58. Longest Human Bone
Of A Pig
83. European Theatre of
60. Anglo-Saxon Letter
12. Court
Operation
ANSWER TO LAST WEEKS PUZZLE ON PAGE 7
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (NC)—
Each American must be the
"great emancipator’ of today as
was Abraham Lincoln in his day,
a priest active in civil rights
affairs said at a Mass on this
historic Civil War battlefield.
Father Theodore M. Hes-
burgh, C. S. C., president of
Notre Dame (Ind.) University,
also noted that Congress has
before it civil rights legislation
"that attempts to hasten the
completion of the unfinished
business of which Lincoln spoke
here.”
"THERE may well be another
battle of Gettysburg in the Con
gress, but in the end, the issue
must be settled there as it
was here,” said the Holy Cross
priest, a member of the U. S.
Commission on Civil Rights.
He spoke following a mili
tary field Mass celebrated by
Bishop George L. Leech of
Harrisburg at the Eternal Pe
ace Light Memorial which is the
central monument of the battle
field.
Historians of the battlefield
said it was the first time Mass
was offered on the plot sacred
in American history.
A CROWD of about 3, 500
persons, led by former Presi
dent and Mrs. Dwight Eisenho
wer and several Catholic pre
lates, attended the service com
memorating the bloody battle
here which pitted 75,000 Confe
derate soldiers against 97,000
Union troops.
ARNOLD VIEWING
‘Mondo Cane’ Waste
BY JAMES W. ARNOLD
"Mondo Cane,” an Italian-produced, techni
color tour of places untouched by Duncan Hines
and Conrad Hilton, has a few moments of poi-
gnance and insight, but not nearly enough. Mostly
it is on the level of a cleverly managed excur
sion through a carnival sideshow, conducted by
an amusing but shallow guide. It does own a
place of sorts, however, in movie history: as
the first adult travelogue.
"Mondo” is in the new Legion of Decency
classification A-4 ("morally unobjectionable for
adults, with reservations") which replaces the old
separate classification. Its
miscellaneous company in
cludes such films as "Long
Day’s Journey,” "La Dolce
Vita” and "Lolita.” The A-4
category is a welcome impro
vement; nobody really knew
^ what "separate” meant, and for
a minority of mature movie
goers, attendance at some of
these expertly- made offbeat
films is a positive pleasure that ought to be
encouraged.
HOWEVER, "Mondo” is largely a waste of time,
despite a few flashes of wit, sharp photography,
and one of those catchy European musical scores.
Its advertising shrewdly compares it to "La
Dolce Vita” for arousing controversy. But the
chief similarity is the country of origin. "L
Dolce” examined evil to make a Christian moral;
"Mondo” is less concerned with evil than with
the grotesque. Its viewpoint is sophisticated and
vague, its few moral points are relatively minor
and without universality.
For example, a devastating sequence on the
infamous Pasadena dog cemetery shows men and
women overcome with grief at the graves of
their pets, weeping, praying, talking to tomb
stones, establishingmagnif icent monuments to de
parted cats, birds, rats. This is not valuable social
criticism of ^distorted! values, but rather a sur
reptitious look at pitiiui humans with embar
rassingly diseased emotional loves.
TOE NARRATION (written by producer Gual-
tiero Jacopetti) apologizes pretentiously for
shocks the film may produce, and vows that its
aim is to report truth objectively, not to sweeten
it. But in fact, most shots seem chosen for their
shock value, even to shoving the viewer’s nose
into it to insure that isn’t missed. And hardly
a scene passes without "objective” editorializ
ing by Senor Jacopetti.
Most of the movie is a satire on oddball cus
toms: the idolization of silent screen lover Rudolf
Valentino is his native village, the contrast
between the fattening of native beauties in the
East Indies and the slenderizing of aging fe
males at a Vic Tanny gym, the ordeal of a Jap
anese bathhouse massage, the polishing of skulls
by bubble gum-blowing Italian children. At least
one- a mass female department store assault
on romantic actor Rossano Brazzi - is comple
tely staged.
Producer Jacopetti is obviously a disciple of
the disgust-as-entertainment school, with
a fascination for queer eating habits and ingen
ius ways of mistreating animals. There is valid
irony in showing the similarity between the diet
of the Hong Kong poor and that of the very rich
in New York, but only perverted entertainment
in prolonged closeups of people consuming in
sects. The camera is also inclined to linger
too fondly over bulls being beheaded or pigs
being clubbed to death or geese being stuffed
by machines so they will fatten and die without
enjoying their food.
NOW AND then sex is used rather cynically
to brighten the bizarre, but nearly always with
a compensating note of satire. The romantic
rites of island native girls, for example, are
compared with those on a Riviera beach of a
bikini-clad blonde wearing a crucifix necklace.
Jacopetti clearly considers a French artist de
cadent for dousing models in paint and using them
as human brushes while an orchestra provides
mood music, but the scene borders on the por-
norgraphic and the film is not angry enough,
only amused, at this degradition of the beauty
of the human body. Another bit, involving Aus
tralian girl lifeguards and their husky boy
friends, is a classic double-entendre strictly
for kicks.
The most touching sequence, with a note of
foreboding, shows the disorder imposed on nature
by the atomic tests at Bikini atoll: gulls nesting
on eggs that will never hatch, sea turtles craw
ling inland to die in the desert because they've
lost their sense of direction. The film effective
ly blasts the Chinese custom of depositing the
aged and sick in death houses to await their end
and includes an instructive study of New Guinea
Stone Age men. We see them, beautifully pho
tographed, receiving Communion at the Catholic
mission, then on a hillside staring silently into
the sky awaiting the arrival of the sacred cargo
planes they've seen roosting for the white man
at Port Morsesby.
WHEN it is not making the point that there
is an uncomfortably close link between beauty
and horror, joy and the macabre, life and death,
"Mondo” often seems almost anti-human. The
drunkards of Hamburg - dancing, sleeping, stag
gering, brawling - are offered for amusement;
so are plump, fiftyish American tourists in Haw
aii being hoodwinked by the native con men into
doing the hula. "Mondo” is overly concerned with
cruelty: here it is not in front of the camera,
but behind it.
CURRENT RECOMMENDED FILMS:
For everyone;
The Miracle Worker, To Kill a
Mockingbird, Law rence of Arabia, Gigot, The Four
Days of Naples.
For connoisseurs:
Journey into Night.
Better than most:
Sundays and Cybele, Long Day’s
Among those present were
Archbishop Lawrence Shehanof
Baltimore, Archbishop Patrick
A. O’Boyle of Washington,
Bishop John J. Russell of Rich
mond and Bishop William G.
Connare of Greensburg.
John S. Gleason, head of the
Veterans Administration, was
named by President Kennedy as
his personal representative.
Sponsored by Notre Dame, the
observance also was intended to
commemorate a dramatic epi
sode involving Father William
Corby, C. S. C., later pre
sident of Notre Dame.
Father Corby was chaplain
of New York's "Irish Brigade”
and as the group was about to
enter the battle, he mounted a
large rock and imparted gene
ral absolution. The episode is
commemorated by identical st
atues of the priest on the bat
tlefield and at Notre Dame.
IN HIS sermon, Father Hes-
burgh made an impassioned
plea for freedom for the Ameri
can Negro.
Without freedom, he said,
“then there will be nothing but
mockery in this centenary
commemoration. We will have
missed the deep and tragic is
sue that cost so many lives.”
"The struggle heroically en
gaged in here,” he said, "still
goes on as we commit ourselves
anew to the proposition that all
men are created equal.”
Noting that Lincoln’s "most
endearing title here and es
pecially in all the new nations
around the world” is the "Great
Emancipator,” Father Hes-
burgh said:
"EACH ONE of us must be
in these our times great em
ancipators; to finish up in the
centenary year as completely
and dramatically as possible in
all our own communities across
the land the unfinished business
of which Lincoln spoke here:
the work of freedom.
County Group
To Deal With
Race Matters
MIAMI, Fla., (NC)—An or
dinance creating a community
relations board to deal with ra
cial problems in Dade County
was passed by the Metro Com
mission here as the result of
recommendations made by a '
group of religious leaders head- '
ed by Bishop Coleman F. Car- .
roll of Miami.
Before passing the emergen
cy measure, commissioners
heard Bishop Carroll make an
appeal that they be "honest and
frank in setting out its purpose,
that all men receive the rights
they have as humans.”
"If the board operates in the
spirit of good will and justice,
Miami can avoid many of the
unfortunate problems we see
in the rest of the country,”
the prelate advised, emphasiz
ing that the discussions will
center on nondiscrimination in
housing, in job opportunities,
and in education.
Under the new ordinance, the
county manager has been em
powered to appoint an execu
tive director for the board.
The Longest Day, Mutiny on
the Bounty, Days of Wine and Roses, A Child
Is Waiting.
God Love You
BY MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN
Would we buy a $2 glove for the right hand and a ten-cent muslin
one for the left? Would we wear a tan shoe on one foot and a white
one on the other? In the early centuries, a Bishop was asked if
it was moral for women to rouge their cheeks. He answered:
"Yes, on one cheek.” But do you suppose any woman ever did
that? And why not? Because the body is one, and we treat all
members alike.
Now apply this to the Church. We Catholics throughout the world
are related to one another as the cell to the body, as the right hand
to the left, as one cheek to the other. Is it fair, therefore, for us
to put up a $500,000 gymnasium while hund
reds of bishops in Africa and Asia can barely
find $20 a month to pay their catechists?
May we Catholics continue to spend an aver
age of $56 a year on alcohol when, in the
rest of the world, 10,000 a day die of star
vation?
Are we, as a church, "bearing one another’s
burdens”? Is it right for us to provide for
ourselves while dropping but a few crumbs
to the two - thirds of the world who live
in constant want? The answer to this question is not: “Oh, should
we do away with our $8 million libraries, our wall-to-wall-car
peted seminaries, our rectories with elevators.” No? But instead
of a collection once or twice a year for the impoverished mem
bers of the Church, we could snip $5,000 off the library, 100
yards of carpet off the seminary floor and walk three flights in
our rectories. In other words, instead of taking up a "second
collection,” we could share, share, share even one per cent of
all we spend on ourselves for the sake of the poor.
Who is doing most to share with the poor? The Church in the
poor countries 1 Cardinal Lecaro has students sleeping in his epis
copal quarters; an Archbishop in Brazil resigned his comfor
table diocese to assume' an impoverished diocese where the per
capita income was less than $57 a year; a bishop in Chile gave up
366 acres that belonged to his diocese to eighteen impoverished
families; a bishop in France helps support himself by working
in a factory. The one rich Church mentioned in the Apocalypse
was the one where Christ was at the door knocking. But for all
the poor Churches, Christ said: "What you did to them, you did
to Me.”
What happiness awaits us if we share I Every bishop could share
a part of his collections with the Holy Father; every pastor could
give one tenth of one per cent to the Holy Father for the poor of
the world; every assistant could give $10 to the Holy Father when
he buys a Chevy; every' high school student could give the equiva
lent of a package of cigarettes a month to the General Fund for the
Missions. Share! Share! Share! This is the Christ-like way of
applying the "Our Father.” We give too much to those who al
ready have and too little to those who have not! Give to the Holy
Father, who will use your sacrifice-offerings to spread the love
of Christ throughout the world. Thank you for being Christ-like!
GOD LOVE YOU to R.V.M. for $75 "This is the amount I re
ceived after completing a difficult painting. I had trouble while
working on it and asked God to help me. Now I want to repay Him
through His Missions.". ... to A. K. for $20 "No fuel bill this
month, so I am sending a little extra.” ... to Miss V. G. for $50
"I had waited for a raise since January. It finally came, and here
it is for God’s poor.”
MISSION combines the best features of all other magazines:
stories, pictures, statistics, human interest. Take an interest
in the suffering humanity of the mission world and send your sa
crifices along with a request to be put on the mailing list of this
bi-monthly publication.
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 Pro
pagation of the Faith 366 Fifth Avenue, New York lx, N. Y. or
your Diocesan Director. Rev. Walter W. Herbert, 811 Cathedral
Place, Richmond 20, Virginia.