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GEORGIA PINES
Another Yankee Invasion
by REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN
I was born in Yankee-land, but after being
in Georgia for 14 years I take a justifiable pride
in my adopted land. I once heard a man say
that you really can’t help where you were born,
but where you decide to live is a matter of
choice. At any rate it seems that Atlanta is
literally filledwith people who migrated here
and now call it their land.
1 recall a communion breakfast that I attended
• some years ago at which 75 men were present.
A poll was taken to determine their place of
origin. Only four of those assembled were born
in Georgia.
ALL OF THIS is by way of
introduction to the fact that I
really have a great pride in
"our town.” Did you know that
Atlanta is one of the few cities
in this country which operates
in the black?
When you think back a hun
dred years and recall that the
city was laid waste by the ad
vancing Yankee troops and now
see the progress which the city is enjoying it
is really a marvel.
The scene depicted at the Cyclorama in At
lanta’s Grant Park is certainly a discouraging
one, but like the mythological Phoenix depicted
on the seal of the city, Atlanta has literally
come up from ashes and rebuilt itself into a
metropolis which is the boast of the whole south
east.
THERE IS hardly a citizen today who has not
heard of the heroic act of Father Thomas O’
Reilly in saving the church buildings as General
Sherman’s troops pillaged the city. A monument
to the good Father stands today on the lawn in
front of Atlanta’s city hall.
Why General Sherman acquiesced to Father O’
Reilly’s plea is a disputed question. Most his
torians say that there were so many Catholics
in the General’s army that he feared a revolt
among the troops if they were ordered to destroy
the churches. So Father O'Reilly saved the Im
maculate Conception Church andfour other chur
ches belonging to Protestant denominations.
Now- it seems that there is another Yankee
invasion. This time, not to destroy; but to learn.
A FEW YEARS ago the Mayor of Boston, Massa
chusetts visited Atlanta to learn firsthand the
operation of our city incinerator. We even make
money on the city dump.
Earlier this year civic officials from the City
of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, visited here
w ith an eye to studying the operation of our city'
government in order that modifications and
changes in their own municipal structure might
be made.
This month officials of Bowling Green, Kentucky
were here viewing our water and sewerage sys
tems in order that they might make changes in
their own. While Bowling Green is not as large
as Atlanta, it too is experiencing proportunate
growing pains.
We like this kind of Yankee-invasion and take
pride in showing off our city. It all gives cre
dence to the slogans found in souvenir shops:
"Save your Confederate money, boys, the South
will rise again”.
QUESTION BOX
The King James Bible
« BY MONSIGNOR J. D. CONWAY
Q. PLEASE STATE THE POSITION TAKEN
BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ON BIBLE READ
ING IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THE KING JAMES
VERSION WAS THE BIBLE USED FOR THESE
SCHOOL READINGS.
A. The Church has taken no official stand
on this subject, but it is rather heartening to
observe that the Supreme Court has converted
many Catholics to an appreciation of the Bible.
The reaction of these Catholics is similar to that
of the child who may leave a toy untouched for
weeks, but starts screaming the moment you take
it from him.
Many times in former years I read articles
by Catholics who were much perturbed that
Catholic children in public schools were re
quired to listen to reading from the "Pro
testant” Bible. Now they are more deeply per-
* turbed because our schools are being seculariz
ed and the venerable King James version
may not be read in them.
For my part I would as soon have the King
James version read as our present Confrater
nity New Testament. And while it hurts to con
cede victory to atheism I doubt that recent Sup
reme Court decisions will do any considerable
harm to our schools or our country. My worry
is that the^ Court will keep on with decisions
of this sort, upsetting the traditions of our coun
try and disrupting the peaceful arrangements we
have sensibly worked out through years of ex
perience.
Of course we do not want the government med
dling in religion, telling us what prayers we must
say or when we must read the Bible, but on the
other hand we do not want to see the Court ex-
* elude religion from every phase of public life
under pretext that any civic encouragement or help
is an establishment of religion.
Q. ARE THE PRIESTS AND BISHOPS OF THE
* SYRIAN ORTHODIX ANTIOCHEAN ARCHDIO
CESE OF NEW YORK AND NORTH AMERICA,
UNDER HIS EMINENCE, METROPOLITAN-
ARCHBISHOP antony Bashir, true and
VALID PRIESTS AND BISHOPS?
A. Yes We might compare them to Greek
Orthodox priest and bishops, except that they are
of different rite. We should respect them as
men of God who share in the priesthood of
Jesus Christ and are given power by the Holy
Spirit to offer Sacrifice of divine worship and to
bring grace to men through the sacraments.
However we do not join with them in their •
worship or receive the sacraments from them
because we would thus approve their schism
— their separation from the complete unity with
the Mystical Body of Christ. At the same time
we respect* their honesty in their separation and
* pray that some day — not far distant — we may
be back together again, as we were many cen
turies ago.
Q. WE HAVE TWO ADOPTED SONS, BOTH
GOOD, INTELLIGENT BOYS. WHEN WE EX
PRESSED TO PRIEST FRIENDS OUR HOPE THAT
THEY MIGHT BECOME PRIESTS WE WERE
TOLD: “ONE OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE
PRIESTHOOD IS LEGITIMACY. BOYS OF ILLE
GITIMATE BIRTH ARE USUALLY NOT ENCOUR
AGED TO JOIN THE PRIESTHOOD.”
IF WE RECOGNIZE IN OUR BOYS A GOD
GIVEN VOCATION TO THE PRIESTHOOD, WE
WOULD FIND IT EXTREMELY DIFFICULT,
IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE IT. THEIR
NATURAL PARENTS WERE UNWISE, BUT WHY
* SHOULD THERE BE A STAIN ON THEIR OF
FSPRING? CAN YOU TELL US THE REASON(S)
WHY SUCH A REQUIREMENT STILL EXISTS?
A. I can’t tell you any good reason except
that laws and prejudices change very slowly.
Can, 984, no. 1, states that illegitimate sons
are "irregular.” This means that they lack one
of the qualifications for Holy Orders. Can. 331,
no. 1, is even stricter regarding bishops. If
a child is born and his parents later marry each
other he is said to be "legitimate.” If a child
wishes to qualify to be a bishop he should be
careful not to be born within six months after
the marriage of his parents or more than 10
months after his father’s” death or departure.
Can. 1363 states that the bishop may admit to
a seminary only legitimate young men.
These laws probably made sense in former
centuries, But I hope that our new commission
for the revision of Canon law will cast them into
oblivion.
AS regards your own sons, if they show de
finite signs of a vocation I am sure a dispensat
ion can be obtained so that they can be admitted
to the seminary and receive Holy Orders.
Q. PLEASE ADVISE AS TO WHETHER THERE
HAS EVER BEEN A COLORED POPE. ALSO,
WAS ST. AUGUSTINE OF THE COLORED
RACE?
A. At least theree early Popes were from Africa,
but there is no indication that any of them was
colored. They came from the Roman province
of Africa — of which Carthage was the capital—
or possibly from Numidia or eastern Mauret
ania, which were often included under the name
of Africa. The Cathagenian people were des
cendants of the Phoenicians. Numidia was largely
inhabited by Berbers who were notably fair
skinned. By the time of the last African Pope
this area had been taken over by the Vandals.
St. Augustine was bom in Numidia (now eastern
Algeria). He was undoubtedly white.
Q. MY HUSBAND AND I HAVE SEVEN BOYS.
I DID NOT TAKE MY OLDER CHILDREN TO MASS
WITH ME ON SUNDAYS UNTIL THEY WERE
NEARLY SIX YEARS OLD. AS A RESULT SOME
OF THEM STILL DO NOT KNOW HOW TO ACT
AND ARE JUST NOT NICE AT MASS. MY HUS
BAND SAYS I CAN’T TAKE OUR ONE-YEAR-
OLD ALONG TO MASS BECAUSE IT ISN’T FAIR
TO THE OTHER PEOPLE, HE DOES MAKE
NOISE AT TLMES. AM I RIGHT IN TAKING HIM
ALONG AND TRYING TO TEACH HIM TO BE
QUIET, OR SHOULD I LEAVE HIM AT HOME AS
HUSBAND SAYS?
A. We always hear that marriage is a fifty-
fifty proposition, give and take. I suggest that
you take him with you one Sunday, and give him
to your husband to keep at home the next Sun
day. By the time you reach fifty-fifty he will be
three years old, and a pious little gentleman.
Q. WHY IS THE POPE’S RING BROKEN, AND
WHAT IS DONE WITH IT. WHY IS IT NOT BURIED
WITH HIM?
A. The ring which is broken is the “Seal of
the Fisherman,” the Pope’s personal, official
seal for documents. The Pope is dead, so the
seal may not be used. The breaking of it is
symbolic; the authority of this particular Pope
is ended. And it may once have had a practical
purpose; once it was broken no one could use
it, to seal a false document in the Pope’s
name.
Why is it not buried with him? Maybe they didn't
want to leave it lying around until the burial,
tempting some forger.
What is done with the pieces? I suspect that
someone keeps them as souvenirs. Or maybe
they are put in a museum. In some cases they
may later be relics.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1963 GEORGIA BULLETIN
Saints in Black and
ST. COLUMBA
White
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MONSIGNOR JOHN ROMANIELLO, has been making and distributing noodles to the poor of Hong
Kong since 1957. "Romi's’ noodles, made of surplus U. S. wheat, powered milk and corn meal,
feed 400,000 people every month. His program is now being extended to other depressed areas.
OLD CHINA HAND
Hong Kong’s ‘Noodle
ACROSS
1. Clamp
5. Idylist
9. Galilee Town
13. A Color
14. To Anger
15 Templeton
16. He Was Born Of
Lineage
17. He Was Called
“Columba Of The
18. Biblical Character
19. Male Name
20. Tin
21. He Led An Life
24. Stair Coverings
25. To An Extreme
27. Golf Term
28. Baseball Term; Abbr.
29. Australian Bird
31. Farwell
32. Editorial "I”
33. Artificial Water Channel
36. Ibsen Character
40. Dispute
43. Attorney; Abbr.
45. Pale
46. Chill
47. Clear
48. Planned Direction
50. Optics
52. Metaphysics; Abbr.
53. Signals Used By Radio
Amateurs
55. Relieve
56. He Landed On The
Island Called
Off Coast Of Scotland
60. Note; Music
62. Shack
64. Not Sweet; (Said of
Wine)
,65. Masculine; Abbr.
66. Into A House
69. Chaplains; Abbr
70. Musician's Stand
71. Cruet
72. Feed The Kitty
74. Gulps
75. Feminine Name
76. Margarine
77. Group
7)8. Sneer
79. Beverage
80. Aid
DOWN
1. Trip
2. Persia
3. Nickname Of A
President
4. God; Hebrew
5. Apprentice
6. Oleo
7. She; Spanish
8. Deum”
9. Post Exchange
10. Century Plant
11. Approaches
12. Pains
13. His Baptismal Narm
16. Scarce
17. Sugary
22. Universal Time;
Astronomy
23. Suture
26. Cultivate Land
30. “The States”
31. Containing Gold
34. Late Greek; Abbr.
35. Sin
37. In Debt
38. Syncopated Music
39. At All
40. Casting Mold
41. Gelid
42. View
43. Diplomatic Staff
Member
44. Faucet
48. One Who Chooses
49. Sulfur; Comb. Form
51. Pupil
52. Master Of Library
Science
53. Animo
57. Egg Dish
58. Mean
59. Requests
60. Foe
61. Infirm
63. Terbium
67. Girl
68. Auction
70. His Baptismal Name Is
Latin for _
73. Born
74. Quick Curtsy
76. Benedictine Order
77. Calcium
Priest’
Romi’s Noodles are the big
gest thing in Hong Kong I
"Romi” is Monsignor John Ro-
maniello, who has been visit
ing in Atlanta in the (vain)
hopes of a little golfing wea
ther. It seems that rain is also
standard weather in Hong Kong.
Monsignor Romaniello has
made the noodle a staple part
of the diet of the thousands
who crowd the city of Hong
Kong. In the past ten years one
million refugees have crowded
into this pocket-sized cityfrom
Red China, pushing across the
frontier to seek food and work
in this British Crown colony.
ANSWER TO LAST WEEKS PUZZLE ON PAGE <7
Monsignor Romaniello runs
eighteen noodle machines,
ARNOLD VIEWING
Walt Wilting?
BY JAMES W. ARNOLD
For some iproducers, a good movie is one
that turns over a profit: the bigger the profit,
the better the movie. This was clear from film
magnate Joseph Levine’s ludicrous recent appear
ance on the TV Tonight show, in which he
bracketed Loren’s "Two Women” and Fellini's
"8 1/2” with "Hercules” as examples of his
contributions to cinema art.
For my friend Mrs. Schultz,
who hasn’t been to a movie
except as a babysitter for 20
years, a good movie is the kind
you can take your grandchildren
to see. Why, Mrs. Schultz de
mands with some emotion, is
Walt Disney the only one mak
ing movies anymore? Judg
ing from his latest, the techni
color 109-minute semi-musical
"Summer Magic," Walt isn't doing so well, either.
THE WHOLE project is on the sneaky side.
Producer Disney has taken an old-fashioned heart-
warmer novel ("Mother Carey’s Chickens” by
Kate Douglas Wiggin) about a pre-World War I
Boston widow and her three adorable waifs
befriended by other adorable characters in an
unspoiled-Maine village. He has added a summery
title and a few songs, and tried to package it
as hot weather family fun. It may be described
as mildly exciting for. emotional adolescent girls.
The film’s one claim to immortality is that
it provides the first romantic interest for young
Hayley Mills, the blonde pride of Britain's theat
rically prolific Mills clan, who has already
acted in two of the finest films of the last decade
("Tiger Bay” and "Whistle Down the Wind”).
Miss Mills doesn't quite get kissed, but she does
charm a young landlord out of collecting the rent.
BEFORE she's finished, this teenage prodigy
will leave a long trail of charmed leading men and
devastated audiences. She can act. She isn’t beaut
iful (she has a chubby open face that seems de
signed for a Satevepost cover) but can look beau
tiful whenever she wants to. Like Shirley Mac-
Laine, she has an endless repertoire of photo
genic moods and expressions; one could watch
her, like the swirling surf on a rocky coast,
for hours. What’s more, Hayley seems to get
a kick out of acting, which is heroic consider
ing the foolery employer Disney has put her up
to.
This kind of movie is not judged on the basis
of realism. Widow Carey (slim, ever lovely Doro
thy McGuire) and the kid£(Miss Mills, brash Eddie
Hodges and kidergarten-set recruit Jimmy Mat
hers) are urged to move rent-free into a coun
try mansion by a small-town Albert Schweitzer
(reformed Big Daddy Burl Ives) who can’t stand
to see them suffering. The house doesn’t belong
to him, but no matter: the owner is a dazzling
youth (Peter Brown) who blows in from China
just in time to fall for Hayley and (one presumes),
to tear up the mortgage.
THE ONLY complication worth the name is
a stuck-up cousin (sugar-sweet redhead Deborah
Walley) with an. inferiority complex. Unloved De
borah tries Hayley’s patience by bragging about
her imported clothes and Harvard boy friends,
then ^by vamping the handsome young school
teacher - now there's a switch. In the end,
through, they embrace , giggling like sisters.
As a boy a few rows back commented, through
his teeth, "Cheees.”
Everyone in this film justifies their presence
by being lovable, funny, pretty, or just plain
good. There are no schools, policemen, bill col
lectors, or social workers: even the men who
come to collect the piano are amusing and ogle
the girls (wholesomely). When the cast squats
on the veranda to hear a song by Ives, there are
no splinters in the wood and no flying summer
insects. Somebody's gawky kid sister has to be
glamorized so young Hodges won’t be lonely at
the fadeout. When Ives is in the basement rumma
ging through raffish old paintings of 19th cen
tury femmes fatales, the nudes are demurely
draped.
IF NOT realism, perhaps music and comedy?
The songs (by Richard and Robert Sherman)
sometimes make up in bounce for their lack
of wit and freshness ("When the day is thru-
oo-oo / All I want to do-oo-oo / Is linger here
on the front porch/ with you-oo-oo”). Director
James Neilson ("Bon Voyage”) makes the most
of a cute Ives folk number, "The Ugly Bug Ball,”
by interspersing it with closeups of oddball
beasties that have die ponytail set in the aud
ience squirming.
The film’s funniest actor by far is a huge
canine ball of fuzz named Sam, who occasion
ally is set to scampering through the house,
leaping on beds, or yodeling during the family
singalong. Second best is puckish newcomer
Michael J. Pollard, who brings something droll
to the country boy stereotype: wide-eyed, he lauds
his father for composing the poetic line, ”
. . .be it ever so humble, there’s no place like
home.”
Other tepid laugh-getters: Hodges ramming
an old truck into a stack of pots and pans,
Hayley’s paper-stuffed shoe falling off as she
descends the stairs td greet her beau, and a
minister namedMr. ‘Lord ("Is he any re
lation to. .. .”).
The best line, through, belongs to old pro
Una Merkel, who comments, after the unveil
ing of a portrait of an old battleaxe resembling
Genghis Khan: "She was, a good woman.” $o,
indeed, is Mrs. Schultz, who will, at least for the
time being, have to look for a new producer to
cast in bronze.
CURRENT RECOMMENDED FILMS:
For everyone: The Miracle Worker,’ To Kill a
Mockingbird, Lawrence of Arabia, The Four Days
of Naples.
For connoisseurs: Sunday$ and Cybele, Long
Day’s Journey Into Night. •
Better than most: The Longest Day, Mutiny on
the Bounty, Days of Wine and Roses, A Child
Is Waiting.
Visits Here
scattered across the city. These
machines provide three pound
packages of noodles for a total
of one million pounds each
month. Each noodle machine
cost about $2,(XX), but in the
course of the year produces
half a million pounds of noo
dles.
The program has expanded
far beyond Asia and now, se
ven noodle plants are being
opened in South and Central
America.
This program goes all the
way back to 1957, when Mon
signor Romaniello, an oldChina
hand, decided that this was the
way to get food to a people
who not only had nothing to
eat, but no utensils to cook
with. Noodles were a good so
lution. Made of U. S. surplus
wheat, powered milk, and corn-
meal, they were easy to pre
pare and were full of nutri
tion. The result has been full
bellies in the Hong Kong area.
Monsignor Romaniello has
been here in the states to at
tend the World Food Confer
ence in Washington. The Mon
signor was in the unique posi
tion at the Conference, of be
ing not a theoretician, but a
practicing dealer of food on
the spot.
Monsignor is a round, jolly
person who, after 35 years of
"eating Maryknoll rice” still
retains his NewYorkisms. His
friends pop up everywhere. A
hostess on BOAC, a pretty Chi
nese girl, makes a point of
chatting about Father Romi’s
noodles during die flights. This
also resulted in much help for
the important work in Hong
Kong While in this city, Msgr.
Romaniello has been staying
with Mr. and Mrs. William Lee,
of Northwest Atlanta.
In Asia the noodle is the
symbol of long life. One gives
a present of noodles much as
one would give a birthday cake.
A noodle party is common. Mon-
signor Romaniello has coined
a phrase which is well-known
in Hong Kong — "The family
that eats together stays to
gether.”
The civil authorities have co
operated all down the line with
Monsignor Romaniello’s pro
gram, providing storage and
warehousing space for the raw
materials which go to make up
the noodles in their final, edi
ble state.
God Love You
BY MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN
A missionary bishop from Africa asked us to send him $300 a
month in Mass stipends, which would be the sole support of his
priests. We had none to offer. Why? Because the faithful today are
less conscious that the Mass is Calvary re-visited, that we "die”
with Christ at the Consecration and "live” a resurrected life
with Him in Communion. And thereasonforthe decline in the love
of the Mass? Our faithful are being propagandized to make an of
fering "to be remembered" in a Mass or Masses. No Mass is said
in strict justice for each dollar offered; rather the money is
"pooled,” and sometimes an elaborate card is offered reading:
"You are remembered in a thousand Masses by. . .”
May we remind our readers:
1. You are remembered in 400,000
Masses each day without offering a
cent. Each member of Christ is re
membered in every Mass by every
priest, every day in every land of the
world.
2. The pastor of your parish is bound
in justice not just to remember you,
but to offer Mass for you thirty-six
times a year.
3. It is one thing to be "remembered” in the Sacrifice of Cal
vary; it is quite another matter to "participate in it”. There is a
difference between being "remembered” by those who sit at a
meal, and eating the meal yourself.
Instead, therefore, of entering into a "pool” of remembrance,
have the Holy Sacrifice offered for your intention personally and
in strict justice. The obligation the priest has to apply the Mass
to you personally is created by an offering no greater than what you
are now giving for remembrance. The dollar or few dollars you
give to the “pool” would do more good if given to a leper or an
individual child in Africa or Asia. .
Saint Paul said that a priest should offer sacrifice for his own
sins. Shall not the faithful? You are an individual with your own
burden of sin. Therefore, personally present the Death of Christ
to the Holy Father for your offenses. In addition to your regular
Sacrifice this month, why not send an extra dollar or two to have
a missionary offer a Mas's for you personally?
• GOD LOVE YOU to R. F. for $20 "Giving to those in need is
far more satisfying than a night on the town.” ...to A.L.G. for
$10 "In thanksgiving for a favor received.” ...to a Teenager for
$2 "Please use this to help bring the word of Christ to those who
have never heard it.” ...to S. M. L. for $2 "This is for someone
who has so much less than I do.”
WORLDMISSIQN, a quarterly magazine of missionary activities
edited by Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen, is the ideal gift for priests,
nuns, seminarians, laymen. Send $5 for a one-year subscription
to WORLDMISSION, 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 1* N. Y. or
your Diocesan Director*. Rev. Walter W. Herbert, 811 Cathedral
.Place. Richmond 20, Virginia.