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GEORGIA PINES
The Cliff-Hangers
Saints in Black and White
ST. ISAAC JOGUES
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THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1963 GEORGIA BULLETIN
POLISH CARDINAL SAYS
PAGE 5
BY REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN
SYLVAN MEYER, EDITOR OF GAINESVILLE’S
DAILY TIMES, had an interesting editorial in one
of the papers published last month. It was in
teresting to me because it brought back nostalgic
memories of boyhood days.
This northeast Georgia editor, who has been the
recipient of many awards state and national-
never ceases to captivate the imagination of his
readers. Whether his editorials deal with an ex
pose of some injustice in the community, or whet
her he writes about the problems of grass cutting
at ‘fnortgage mannor” (I guess this is what he
calls his home) it is always interesting.
The peripatetic editor recently toured South
America at the request of the state department,
giving further indication that he is recognized
far beyond the confines of Hall county. Everyone
does not always agree with Mr. Meryer, but there
is hardly any one in north Georgia who is not
proud of the paper he edits.
Mr. Meyer grew up in At
lanta. In this particular edit
orial to which I have reference
he wrote about an old movie
theater which was located on
. Ponce de Leon avenue for years.
It was now being torn down and
|Mr. Meyer related many inter-
|esting episodes connected with
le building where he spent
many a Saturday of his youth.
While reading the article I could not but help
reminisce about a simular situation that existed
in my own home town. I guess American boys
grow up with simular experiences wherever they
live.
To digress just for a moment, there was a
movie house in nearby Boston. This particular
theater was near the famous Boston ”EL”
Whenever the trains roared by the soot became
s o thick that the operator would turn off the
camera and comic books would be passed out.
The establishment carried no less a dignified
name than the "Broadmore.” The kids never
minded, though it was rumored that the owner
of the nearby drug store complained that it was
hurting his sales of comic books.
IN our town we had a theater called The Casino.
It was located on the second floor of a lodge
building on Cedar Street. On any given Saturday
for ten cents you could see two full length fea
tures, three comics, the news and 10 acts
of vaudeville (all local talent). Most of all I rem
ember the serials which would end up with some
one hanging over a cliff or a bullet being stopped
in mid air. Anyhow, Saturday after Saturday you
would hurry back to see if our hero lived
through it all.
Business could not have been too good though.
On many Saturdays, a man dressed like a clown
would ride on the back of a truck Giving out
passes and with one of these and a nickle you
could get a dimes worth.
THERE always managed to be a first-a-cuff
during the afternoon too, This would generally
occur while the vaudeville acts were going on.
I guess we were too young to appreciate the ef
forts of the local Sarah Bernhardts.
The town was 73% catholic but the boys from
St. Mary’s parish looked upon the boys from Weir
village as being rough-necks. Most of the time
we would have to leave the movie early so as
not to incurr the wrath of the village-ites.
Parents never needed baby sitters in those
days. The Casino held us all and no matter how
bad you were during the week, you could always
count on being given a dime on Saturday after
noon.
THE Casino caught fire one time and it was
months before the smell of smoke left the build
ing. No one seemed to mind this because it just
fired the imagination as you watched the Indians
burning a Fort.
I saw Marie Dressier in Tugboat Annie at the
Casino. As a matter of fact many of the pic
tures in the late show now were previously
viewed to the roaring of cap-pistols, paper toss
ing, and fist-a-cuffs at the old "Gas House.”
Yes, Mr. Meyer, I venture to say that there
is one of those places in every town across our
nation.
QUESTION BOX
Christ Died For All Sins
BY MONSIGNOR J. D. CONWAY
Q. THE MISSION BOARD OF A FAST-GROWING
PROTESTANT DENOMINATION HAS ISSUED A
LEAFLET WITH A LIST OF QUESTIONS THEY
WOULD LIKE CATHOLICS TO ANSWER. THE
NAME OF THE LEAFLET IS “ASK A CATHO
LIC.”
WILL YOU TELL ME WHERE THE ANSWERS
TO THESE QUESTIONS CAN BE FOUND IN THE
DOUAY VERSION OF THE BIBLE?
A. Ten questions are listed, none new or origi
nal. Each begins* Where in the Bible does it
mention...? And the points you are challenged to
find are: praying to Mary and the
saints, the infallibility' of Peter
or any Pope, purgatory, nunne
ries and monasteries, absti
nence on Friday, seven sacra
ments, confession of sins to a
priest, authorization for a
.Church to add to the teachings
I of God's word, or that Mary is
I a mediator between God and
man.
First of all, I would throw away that old Douay
Bible you have. Or, at least you should plan on
throwing it away as soon as the Confraternity
edition is complete and is published in sensible
form. That may be a few years yet.
Then, I would simply refuse to discuss religion
with anyone who lays down all the ground rules
for the discussion and bases them on false pre
mises.
You might start out by asking your fast-growing
friends where they got their Bible. As regards
the Old Testament you may let them get by with
the statement that they got it from God’s Chos
en People. But until they frankly admit that the
New Testament was written by members of the
early Church of Christ, they are not competent
to discuss the Scriptures with you.
Then you might ask them how they know which
books are in the Bible. Who told them? Once
they admit that the Church of Christ told them
you may proceed to further discussion.
LITURGICAL WEEK
‘New Kind Of Existence’
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4
bear fruit,” Our Lord instructs us in today’s
Gospel. And this fruit is described in both First
Reading and Gospel as love, that virtue of which
the Eucharistic Banquet is itself a sign. The
pattern of lives chiefly by our love.
Translated in the Introit and Communion hymns
and in the Collect as care and responsibility
for the “lowly and poor,” the."dying,” "the
least of my brethren,” the Eucharist’s message
for relevance to "life” is quite clear.
FRIDAY, JULY 19 ST. VINCENT DE PAUL,
CONFESSOR. One of the few examples or suc
cessful hagiography (literary or pictorial "lives
of the saints”) in modern times—apart from the
TV tributes to Pope John XXIII—was the film
"Monsieur Vincent,” a perfect Illustration of
powerful love transforming a life.
"Whatever house you enter” (Gospel) you
are to say "peace.” Vincent entered the houses
of the poor, Pope John the houses of prisoners,
the sick, men of other faiths, communists—
always for the purpose of announcing, “The
kingdom of God is at hand for you.”
SATURDAY, JULY 20 ST. JEROME EM1LLIAN,
CONFESSOR. An emphasis on practical love
Is never absent from the liturgy', but seems especi
ally evident this week. Today we of the Christian
fraternity celebrate a brother who devoted his
life to underprivileged children. The First Read
ing instructs us in the profound spiritual mean
ing of such simple manifestations of human bro
therhood as the sharing of food and shelter
and clothing. "Despise not your own flesh.”
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5. Haul
9. Thence
13. Ardor
14. Egg
15. Slander
17. Fence
18. Petal
20. Genus of the ape
22. He Was Killed By
25. Noise
26. Motherless calf
27. Limited (abbr.)
28. Pep
29. One; (German)
30. Pronoun
31. Verbal ending
32. Cigar
34. Meals
35. Desolate
39. Exonerates
41. Babylonian God of War
42. ... Tse-tung
44. Nettle
48. He Settled Along the
St. ... River
51. Snow; (Scot.)
52. How Come?
53. Trial
55. Hasten
56. Gael
59. Wife of Abraham
60. Exclamation!
61. Knack
62. Pile
63. Star
64. Yes (Spanish)
66. Fiber knot
68. Muscular spasm
69. He Wes Enslaved By
The ...
71. ... Park. Colorado
73. Chinese Dynasty
75. Caudal Appendage
76. Muscle
78. Outer; chemical prefix
80. Indolent
81. Printer's direction
82. Degree
83. Aryan Branch
DOWN
1. Menage
2. African antelope
3. Foray
4. Animate
5. Direct current
6. Electric unit; pi.
7. Brew
8. Plant of the Iris
family
9. Football abbreviation
10. “in medias ..
11. Fetid
12. Acacia
16. He Was One Of .. .
Jesuits to Be Martyred
19. He Had Two . ..
Chewed Off by Indians
21. Affirmatives
23. Assist
24. New Mexico
29. Et Cetera
33. Tales
34. "id . . . (that is)
35. Nickname; feminine
36. Danish money
37. Crude
38. Beaches
40. Estuary
42. Sea: (French)
43. Marine
45. Shoemaker’s-tool
46. Article
47. Ogle
49. Rubbish
50. Otaglia; pi.
54. Circuit
55. Zealot
56. Lucid
57. One Of His Symbols
58. Inflammation of the ear
60. Exclamation!
63. Ergo
64. Art
65. Small Island
67. Loaned
69. Muffle
70. Ford
72. lo!
74. He Was Killed In The
Month of . ..
77. Weight; abbr.
79. Over Proof; abbr.
ANSWER TO LAST WEEKS PUZZLE ON PAGE 7
WARSHAW (RNS) — Stefan
Cardinal Wyszynski, Primate
of Poland, in a strong-worded
defense of the Polish hierarchy,
insisted here that religous free
dom is basic to peaceful coex
istence between Church and St
ate in this Iron Curtain coun
try.
The Primate, who received a
tumultuous reception upon his
return from Rome after parti
cipating in the election and cor-
nation of Pope Paul VI, was ans
wering recent criticism by Pol
and’s Communist leader, Wlad-
yzlaw Gomulka.
IN a speech at a meeting
of the Polish Communist Par
ty’s Central Committee, Gom
ulka had charged that the Po
lish bishops are "deviating
from the spirit” of Pacem in
Terris (Peace on Earth), the
last encyclical of the late Pope
John XXIIL
Addressing a jammed con
gregation in Warsaw’s St. John
Cathedral, Cardimal Wyszynski
replied:
"Our Polish bishops have to
deal with the Lord’s business—
that is the task assigned to
them. Other people have to
concentrate on their own jobs
and preoccupations.”
“Peace is not somewhere in
the clouds or on the moon,”
the cardinal added. “Peace is
in human minds. Peace is in
ARNOLD VIEWING
Not All Ras For ‘Cleo’
Then you should ask them how they know that
they have the true text of the original Bible, and
how they can be sure of its complete meaning.
But even more important, how do they know that
it is God’s word? How do they know that it is
inspired? And how do they know that it contains
everything which God has revealed?
This is not a good way to carry on the dialogue,
but your friends are not interested in dialogue,
only in challenges which stump you, because they
are senseless questions. We believe that God gave
us a revelation through Jesus Christ, and that He
committed the care of this revelation to His
Church, promising, to remain with it all days even
to the end of the world. Out of that Church came
the inspired writings of the New Testament, set
ting forth God’s revelation, but in such manner
that it can be fully understood only in the con
text of the Church which wrote it, recognized
its inspired character, preserved it and taught it.
The same authority which gave your fast-grow
ing friends the Bible, told them that it was in
spired, and showed them which books were in it,
also teaches about Mary and the saints and the
Pope, drawing her doctrines from this same in
spired text, buf reading it in its total context,
.with guidance from the Holy Spirit.
Q. PROTESTANTS ALWAYS SAY, “CHRIST
IS MY PERSONAL SAVIOR. HE DIED FOR MY
SINS; I’M SAVED.” WHAT SINS DID CHRIST
REALLY DIE FOR? OUR PERSONAL SINS, OR
THE SINFUL NATURE WE WERE BORN WITH?
A. Christ died for all sins: those of the human
community, and those of each individual. And He
sanctifies each individual through the community
of His own Mystical Body.
Most Protestants would not simplify the pro
cess of salvation quite as much as you state it.
They know that we must accept Jesus as Savior,
and that implies faith, hope and love, supported
by other virtues. We are a bit more precise;
we insist that sanctify and salvation come to us
through our union with Christ in His Mystical
Body, and we have the help of the seven sacra
ments to effect and maintain that union.
BY JAMES W. ARNOLD
What follows is the stimulating account of a
conversation involving myself (identified, some
what hopefully, as Critic), my conscience, and a
young lady (called, for purposes of universality,
Woman). The occasion: the day after the opening
of an obscure new film named "Cleopatra.”
Conscience: Pretty soft. Four hours in a theater
scribbling notes to yourself and you call it work.
CRITIC: This one was tough. The theater was
so crowded it was like trying to write a letter
in the subway rush with the lights out. Readers
will be hard to please; they’ll want me to crucify
it.
Woman: We sure will. Don’t let her get away
with it.
Conscience: You don’t mean you thought it
was good?
Critic: No, not exactly. But it has merit. It’s
no "Sodom and Gomorrah” or ’'Taras Bulba.”
Woman: If it breaks even, she’ll make seven
million dollars.
Conscience: Shouldn’t Catholics be against the
movie because of the scandal? Shouldn't they take
a stand against sin?
CRITIC: That’s up to them. But don’t judgment
and vengeance belong to the Lord? People will
miss a lot of good shows, sym
phonies, books and paintings if
the artists have to pass muster
on their personal virtue. The
same test would disqualify much
of the audience. Besides, "Cle
opatra” is not primarily the
work of Elizabeth Taylor and
Richard Burton. It belongs to
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who’s
been like a guy trying to stage
Shakespeare while the Miss Universe contest was
occupying the back of the hall.
Conscience:
Who’s he?
He didn’t get much publicity.
Critic: A veteran writer-director. Won four
Oscars. Remember "All About Eve”? He did the
Marlon Brando "Julius Caesar,” so he knows
his way around the Forum.
Woman: I figure she’ll get about 30 cents out
of every $2.50 ticket.
CONSCIENCE: How does JIM stack up with
Shakespeare and Shaw?
Critic: A couple of Antony’s speeches are be
autiful. But JIM’s forte is bright repartee. Some
times it works (Why did you bring (Admiral)
Agrippa along? Were you expecting rain?”). Some
times not (to Caesar, as he paces awaiting news
of childbirth, "We’ve never lost a Caesar”).
The script is adult and literate, but it won’t
be studied by schoolchildren.
Conscience: You mean to say the picture’s
completely moral?
Critic: I'd say that, nervously, about only four
or five films a year. “Cleopatra’s” chief trouble
is with peekaboo costumes and situations - e.g.,
why does Cleo always conduct interviews posing
like the Playmate of the Month? History’s also
against us. The ancient pagans took marriage and
assassination lightly, and they were fond of suicide
as an honorable escape from pain. But by the
standards of her day (and by those of the inter
national set of most centuries, including our own),
Cleopatra was far from wicked. She had little
taste for murder or debauchery as a pastime.
She loved Caesar and married him, and after
he died, loved Antony and married him. In
both cases, "love” meant more than whoopee.
Conscience: Is this movie good history?
CRITIC: In that one sense, better than Shake
speare or Shaw. Cleopatra was neither love
goddess nor kittenish child-woman. She was
beauty, forceful politician, educated intellectual.
In trying to convey this, Miss Taylor is often
strident, causing some to accuse her of turning
the Queen of the Nile into a fishwife.
Woman: She’s putting on weight, too.
Critic: Rex Harrison’s Caesar comes across
as nobler than Julius actually was. That's why
audiences like him best; also, JLM is better at
themature, urbanedialoguesuited to Caesar. The
conception of Antony - the reckless, profligate,
romantic warrior - is too accurate for the good
of the picture. The man was valorous and human,
but basically a clod - pity is too feeble an emot
ion to keep an audience hanging about for four
hours.
Conscience: Why write about such people, any
way?
CRITIC Well they were movers ef history.
Witout them, and Pompey and Octavian and the
rest, there would have been no empire. Cheste-
ron says the empire was the design of Provi
dence for spreading Christianity. Beyond that, in
some measure they all loved, romantic love, love
of children, love of country, love of honor -
in each, one catches a glimpse of the divine.
Then, too, their loves were so theatrical: stab-
bings in the senate suicide by the bite of an asp,
Cleopatra being smuggled to Caesar rolled up in
a rug.
Woman: She did her best acting in the rug.
Critic: JLM misjudged his star. Within a limited
range, Elizabeth is a competent, even a good
actress. But she’s no Judith Anderson. When
Cleopatra learns that Antony has married Octavia,
the camera backs away, leaving her in the center
of a room that resembles Yankee Stadium. In
anguish, Miss Taylor shrieks “Antonyll” It’s as
moving as the clatter of broken dishes.
CONSCIENCE: Surely there are other defects?
Critic: It drags. Only a few battles, mostly
extras running about holding up their shields.
People constantly blowing trumpets or beating
gongs. Cleopatra’s barge struck me as funny,
with all those girls heaving Rowers as if they were
training for Honolulu. But no slaves are tortured
and there’s little detailed decadence.
Woman: Except her floating a toy boat in a bathtub
big as the swimming pool at the Cairo Hilton.
Conscience: Well, face it. What's your verdict?
Critic: An erratic picture, with wit and poig-
nance, and also silliness and vulgarity. The sets
are wow. Cleopatra’s entry into Rome has its
tasteless moments, but the spectacle, the sheer
vast design of it, merits the hallowed adjective
colossal. Caesar’s death is also something to see.
Overall, “Cleopatra* is neither great art or
entertainment. But it’s interesting.
Woman: They should've used Loretta Young.
the minds of people who have
guaranteed rights to liberty,
justice, freedom of conscience
and the right to hold their own
convictions.”
IF peace is to prevail, the
Primate asserted, "religious
conscience must be guaranteed.
This is the basis of peaceful
and harmonious coexistence.”
Loudspeakers carried the
cardinal’s voice to an over
flow crowd on the cathedral
st*»ns and streets.
“I have returned to Warsaw
as you wanted me to,” the pre
late 9aid. “I promise not to
wander too much. I shall stay
with you.”
When Cardinal Wyszynski ar
rived in Warsaw, large num
bers of Polish Catholics toss
ed bouquets of roses, lilies and
carnations in his path as he
stepped from a train.
News of his arrival was not
published here and he was not
greeted by Polish officials.
EARLIER Cardinal Wyszy
nski said in Vienna while en
route to Warsaw that Pope Paul
intended to carry on the ef
forts of his predecessor, Pope
John XXIII, to improve relat
ions between the Vatican and
Iron Curtain countries.
Speaking briefly to members
of the Polish colony in Vienna,
he declared:
"The new Pope will continue
on the same lines as the late
Pope John. Paul VI will con
tinue the policy of theEcumen-
ical Council, the unity of all
Christians and the preservat
ion of world peace.”
The Polish Primate was wel
comed at the Vienna rail stat
ion by Franz Cardinal Koenig,
Archbishop of Vienna, a key fi g
ure in Vatican contacts with
Church and State leaders in the
Eastern bloc countries.
IN the speech to the Polish
Communists, Gomulka had c i-
arged that the Polish bishops
were disregarding and disobey
ing the principles contained in
Pope John's encyclical. He as
serted that they had delibera
tely misinterpreted the papal
document in their opposition to
a coexistence policy between
Church and State in Poland.
Mr. Gomulka’s speech w u
one of the strongest attacks on
the Church since he and Car-
inal Wyszynski achieved a
working relationship between
Church and State after he be
came head ofthe Polish Com
munist Party in 1956.
"Reactionary forces still t -\
to influence the mind of the
community,” he said. "Tho: t
reactionary forces base their
activities hostile to socialism
on the old classes, the activ
ities of the old bourgeois par
ties. Those forces find the sup
port of the church hierarchy.’
While reluctant to comment
officially, some Polish Cathol
ic leaders said they believed the
party chief’s address was in
tended to give the Church noth e
that the coexistence policy bet
ween Church and State in Po -
and had come to an end.
Paid Altar Boys
MADRID, (NC)--Madrid’s 1,-
200 altar boys are paid two per
cent of the stipend for the ser
vices they help at and earn an
average of $16 a month, accord
ing to the Madrid weekly Joja
Oficial del Lunes.
God Love You
BY MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN
There was once a saintly old priest who had a rocking chair
in his sacristy. Every day he rocked back and forth, praying:
"O Lord, give me souls”; but he never left the sacristy to
find any. Those days are now past. We are living in a new
age of the Church in which the canonical gives way to the pas
toral, the desk of administration to the feet of those who spread
the Gospel and where we all become missionaries.
What better reveals this than the places where successivt
Pontiffs have been crowned in modern history. Benedict XV
was crowned at the altar of Our Lady in the rear of St. Peter’s
Pius XI moved forward a hundred feet and was crowned at
the main altar over the tomb of St. Peter. Pius XII walked ,
through the long nave of the Basilica,
up small stairs in the front walls and
stepped onto the balcony to be crowned.
When he stepped onto the balcony, he
literally stepped into the world. When
the beloved John XXIII was crowned,
he also stepped onto the balcony, buth*.
did something more: he spoke to the
world; he called it to himself; he ad
dressed all men as brothers.
Our gloriously regining Paul VI was
crowned not in this area of the church itself, nor on the balcony,
but in the world—in the piazza, in full four-directional viev
of mankind. The Church is no longer on a rocker in the sacrisiy,
no longer canonically legislating for her own flock, not just
calling observers into the Church but going into the world,
into the highways and the byways to meet prodigal children
before they even ?et near the Father’s House.
There are the times in which we live—glorious times,
missionary times! For as Paul VI said: "The most beloved
missionaries are the apple of our eye, whom we bless for tht
depth of our heart.” What does this mean to the Catholics of
the United States? It means that we must be the Church of tht
Poor or we will be the “poor” Church. It means that we must
not supply all our needs before supplying the wants of the poor
throughout mission lands. It means that we too must step out
of our churches and take a look at the hungry, impoverished
world—for it is in the midst of the world we will find our ear
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