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PAGE 5 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 31 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.