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THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1963 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 5 GEORGIA PINES Needed...A Stadium Saints in Black and White ST. BLAISE 39 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. / 3— ✓ ¥ >9 <X h 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. 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(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.