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GEORGIA PINES The Cliff-Hangers Saints in Black and White ST. ISAAC JOGUES 46 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.” i A J 7—! 7* '7 i-* rr~ H IT V~ ■ u 7/ \ lL - Coexistence Depends On Religious Freedom ACROSS 1. Father in Canada 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 thly Father, the Vicar of Christ. Those who share this view will share something for him and the world whom he serves. Send your offering to the new head of The Society for the Pro pagation of the ^aith, Paul VI. GOD LOVE YOU to Mrs. B.X. for $5 "To thank God for my becoming a citizen of this wonderful country, I want to help my poor brothers in mission lands.” . . .to Mrs. J. C. K. for $10 "I was given this money to buy socks and ties for my children, but 1 was able to buy what I needed with my hus band’s money. Please use it as the new Holy Father see- fit.” ... to B. and K. for $5 "We got this check to ’do some thing foolish with,’ but let us be * fools for Christ’ instead.” • • .to J. J.B. for $2 "I was given money for graduation from grammar schuol, but it doesn’t seem right that I should receive money for finishing school when some, people don’t have enough money to start school. This may help children in the Missions.” Find out how an annuity with The Society for the Propa gation of the Faith helps both you and the poor of the world. Send your requests for our pamphlet on annuities, including the date of your birth, to Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York 1, New York. 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. >r your Diocesan Director. Rev. Walter W. Herbert, 811 Cathedra Place, Richmond 20, Virginia.