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GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY AUGUST 15, 1963 PAGE 5
GEORGIA PINES
Saints in Black and White pi THOLICS URGED
New Latin School
by REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN
THE LATIN SCHOOL is the newest and most
recent step taken in our youthful archdiocese to
encourage and foster vocations to the priesthood.
With the approbation of our Archbishop and under
the directorship of Monsignor P. J. O’Connor,
the archdiocesan director of vocations, the school
has been conducted for the past three weeks, morn
ings, at St. Pius X Catholic High School.
The faculty consists of two sisters who hold
masters degrees in Latin and one layman, him
self a candidate for the priesthood. School begins
with Mass every morning and an intense three
hours of Latin follows the Holy Sacrifice.
THE SCHOOL opened with a Mass celebrated
by Archbishop Hallinan at which the Archbishop
stressed to the aspirants the necessity of a solid
foundation in the classical language. Since the
opening session the students have heard talks
given by Serra Club president Sam Me Quade,
Monsignor Ewing of Chatham,
{Canada, ajid Fr. Walter Dono-
fvan of Atlanta.
The Latin School probably had
its foundation in what was known
as the Tenth Man Club. About
two years ago Monsignor
jO’Connor organized a club for
(high school students who were
thinking about the priesthood as
a way of life. The members met monthly and
heard talks, made retreats together, and in gene
ral an atmosphere was created wherein the mem
bers could readily find information and have ques
tions answered about the priesthood.
Soon the Monsignor realized that more practi
cal steps would have to be taken along the lines of
definite preparation for the seminary life. The idea
of a Latin School was born, and after consulta
tions with the Archbishop, Monsignor O’Connor
worked out a program and the first school was be
gun three weeks ago. Its only the first step, but
60 boys signed up and from all indications that
first step was more than successful.
LOOKING for vocations is nothing new to Mon
signor O’Connor. Some 20 priests are now working
for the Kingdom of God in Georgia today as a di
rect result of Monsignor O’Connor’s efforts. Ano
ther 35 are in the seminary and please God will
be in Georgia before the next six years.
About 17 years ago the late Archbishop O’Hara
asked Monsignor O’Connor to visit seminaries and
colleges and interest boys into coming to this sec
tion of the Lord’s vineyard to work. It had been
the intention of Archbishop O’Hara to do this him
self but before the program got underway he was
asked by the Holy See to go to Rumania. Monsig
nor O’Connor was then delegated this work.
THE FIRST young men to answer the call were
the late Monsignor Cornelius L. Maloney who be
came diocesan superintendent of schools, and the
present archdiocesan director of Catholic Chari
ties, Father Walter Donovan. This writer was the
third candidate. The late Chancellor, Father
James Boyce, and the present Chancellor, Father
Harold Rainey are but a few of the priests who
are now serving and have served the Church in
Georgia.
Last May on the occasion of Monsignor O’Con
nor’s 30th anniversary of his Ordination some 23
priests from all over the state gathered as a tes
timonial to the man who encouraged their coming
to Georgia. The occasion was honored by the
presence of Archbishop Hallinan. Words of con
gratulation were sent by the late Archbishop
O’Hara and Bishop Hyland. It was a festive oc
casion indeed but it also served to give tange-
able evidence of the esteem and respect which
the priests in Georgia have for the man who has
done so much to preach the Word of the Lord
in our state.
UNDOUBTEDLY the work of the Latin School
will be advanced. Under the direction of a new
committee established this year, the Committee on
Religious Vocations, new steps will be taken and
methods improved which will insure our archdio
cese of a steady supply of priests in the future.
Now a committee of Religious Sisters has been
established and a program for the fall is con
templated to assist young girls in their voca
tion to the sisterhood.
All in all, the future prospects for Priests,
Brothers and Sisters in our Archdiocese looks
real good as all goes well.
QUESTION BOX
Communion Time?
BY MONSIGNOR J. D. CONWAY
q. we HAVE JUST MOVED INTO A NEW
PARISH AND I AM CONFUSED AS TO WHAT
IS RIGHT OR WRONG. MAYBE YOU CAN HELP
ME. I AM A DAILY COMMUNICANT, AND I
have always received the sacrament
DURING MASS, DUE TO MY BEING TAUGHT
THAT YOU RECEIVE AT THE BANQUET TABLE
WITH OUR BLESSED LORD.
AT THIS CHURCH EVERYONE GOES TO RE
CEIVE COMMUNION BEFORE MASS, ALTHOUGH
NO ONE LEAVES UNTIL MASS IS OVER. I AM
THE ONLY ONE AT THE COMMUNION TABLE
AT THE TIME I WAS TAUGHT TO RECEIVE:
DURING MASS. DUE TO MY BEING THE ONLY
COMMUNICANT DURING MASS I FEEL AS
THOUGH I AM DOING SOMETHING WRONG BY
MAKING OUR PASTOR COME DOWN TO SERVE
ME ALONE. IS IT BETTER THAT I START
RECEIVING THE SACRAMENT BEFORE MASS
WITH THE PEOPLE OF THE PARISH? (I WAS
A CONVERT 25 YEARS AGO.)
A. You keep right on receiving during Mass,
and maybe in time you will convert your new
parish to a proper appreciation of liturgical
worship and the true meaning
* of the Eucharistic Banquet. You
were well taught.
Frankly, I did not know that
there was any parish in the
country so out of datel I know
that there are many parishes
which continue to ignore the
appeal of Pope Pius XII for
participation of the people in
the Sacrifice of the Mystical
And I know that the Church permits
to receive holy communion outside of
But it seems incredible that the true
meaning of the Holy Sacrifice should be so ig
nored that people would deliberately separate
their communion from the integrity of the li
turgical worship when it is easily possible for
them to take full part in it.
***
Q. IF TWO BAPTIZED PROTESTANTS ARE
married by a baptist minister, and one
OF THEM IS DIVORCED, BUT THE OTHER ONE
DOESN’T KNOW IT, AND ONLY LATER FINDS
IT OUT, WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE FOR THIS
PERSON, AFTER DIVORCE, TO HAVE HER
MARRIAGE ANNULLED AND BE MARRIAGE
LATER TO A CATHOLIC?
A. It is quite possible that the marriage of
these two Protestants was invalid because the
man had already been married and had a
living wife - from whom he was divorced.
Careful investigation would have to be made,
under authority of the bishop, before the marriage
of the innocent party to a Catholic could be
permitted.
Q. ANY SOUL IN HEAVEN IS COMPLETELY
HAPPY REGARDLESS OF THE AMOUNT OF
HAPPINESS BEING ENJOYED. THERE IS NO
FRUSTRATION, NO FELLING THAT ANYTHING
IS LACKING. THEREFORE WHAT IS THE PUR
POSE IN ACQUIRING MORE ETERNAL HAPPI
NESS BY SACRIFICING ANY LEGITIMATE
PLEASURE HERE?
A. How selfish and scheming can you get?
I doubt that a person with such an attitude will
attain eternal happiness. No, I take that back,
Body.
people
Mass.
N.Y. Archdiocese
Approves March
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ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S PUZZLE ON PAGE 7
NEW YORK — The Arch
diocese of New York has given
its backing to Catholic partici
pation in the August 28 civil
rights march on Washington
D. C.
A letter to be read in all
churches of the archdiocese
August 18 says that “responsi
ble and peaceful” civil rights
demonstrations deserve the
“support and participation of
Catholic American citizens.”
"NOTABLE among these is
the 'March on Washington for
Jobs and Freedom* scheduled
for August 28,” declares the
letter, which is signed by Aux
iliary Bishop John J. Maguire
of New York, Vicar General
of the archdiocese.
Predictions have set the num
ber of participants in the Aug
ust 28 civil rights march on
the nation’s captial at upwards
of 100,000. The demonstration
is intended to stir support for
Preside*' Kennedy’s civil
rights legislative proposals,
now before Congress.
Bishop Maguire’s letter re
fers to a recent statement by
Francis Cardinal Spellman, Ar
chbishop of New York, that
"much—ever so much—re
mains to be done” in securing
racial justice.
THE CARDINAL added that
ARNOLD VIEWING
JFK’S PT 109
because God's tolerance and mercy are very
great.
Our eternal happiness comes from our love
of God and His Goodness; and we will attain it
by loving Him here on earth. What kind of love
is it which restricts itself? Which denies a full
measure of love? Which loves only as much as
it must to get by? Is stinting love worthy of
the name of love?
Certainly there are many pleasures which
we may properly enjoy here on earth, as long
as we enjoy them with love for God and for
His glory.
Q. HOW COULD MARTIN DE PORES BE
COME A SAINT WHEN THE CHURCH ADMITS
HIS ILLEGITIMATE BIRTH? SEE DEUTERO
NOMY 23-2.
A. The numbering of verses at this point in
Deuteronomy is not uniform in different vers ions.
In the Hebrew Bible 23, 2 has no pertinency
to Martin de Porres, though it is a rather inter
esting verse, if you wish to look it up in the
Confraternity edition. The meaning of 23, 3
(which is 23, 2 in the Vulgate, the King James
and the Douay) is not clear; Douay, following
the Vulgate, reads: "A mamzer, that is to say,
one born of a prostitute shall not enter into
the church of the Lord.” King James is more
vulgar than the Vulgate: It reads: "A bastard
shall not enter into the congregation of the
Lord.” The Revised Standard Version agrees
with this.
Smith’s translation in the Chicago Bible reads:
"No bastard shall marry into the Lord’s com
munity. * And Confraternity says, "No child of
an incestuous union may be admitted into the
community of the Lord.” The new Jewish trans
lation of "The Torah” avoids the uncertain
ties by translating it, "No one misbegotten
shall be admitted into the congregation of the
Lord.” And then in a footnote it says the mean
ing of the Hebrew word mamzer is uncertain;
in Jewish law it refers to the offsprings of adul
tery or incest.
So it would seem that the Confraternity trans
lation is closest. Now Martin de Porres was
illegitimate, but he was not the product of in
cestuous or adulterous union. Neither was he
born of a prostitute.
This elaborate exegesis is presented merely
to show that we must not simply grab onto
Scripture texts and use them to prove our pur
pose. Even the devil can quote Scripture in that
way.
We must first find out what the text means;
and in this case we cannot be sure. And even if
we were sure what a mamzer is, we have not
even touched on the meaning of the congregation
(or church) of the Lord. It meant the Jewish
religious community; and the law has no per
tinency at all to the Church of Jesus Christ,
much less to the eternal Kingdom of God in heaven.
Saints are made by the grace of God, not
by accident of birth. And grace is made effective
in their souls by their own faith and love, not
by the virtue or respectability of their parents.
During much of the lifetime of Martin de
Porres the Church frowned on him because
he was illegitimate, and even more because he
was a mulatto. But his virtues finally won ac
ceptance from his superiors and from his fellow
citizens, as they have now won the acclaim of the
Catholic world.
BY JAMES W. ARNOLD
Supporters of Goldwater, Rockefeller and Nixon
will have no trouble spotting the flaws in "PT
109”, Jack L. Warner’s version of the heroics
of Lt. (jg) John F. Kennedy in the South Pacific
in 1943. But they will envy the president this
slick little opening volley in the 1964 campaign.
It may not have been so intended. The story
would make good cinema even if the hero were
Lenin, and the whole mood of the film is calmly
dispassionate. Warner obvious
ly did not throw $5 1/2 million
and two directors (Lewis Mile
stone, Les Martinson) into the
breech just to elect a Demo
crat. But the movie is not go
ing to hurt the president’s al
ready formidable charisma.
The facts (adapted from Ro
bert J. Donovan’s best-seller)
are amazing enough. Young Kennedy pulled strings
to get a combat duty (a "wrong-way fix,” as an
awed seaman puts it in the movie). He had few
of the expected Harvard airs of a millionaire’s
son, and was affectionately admired by both un
derlings and superiors. Even the low rating he
received (for lack of military bearing and neat
ness) is enough to turn politicians green.
WHEN HIS torpedo boat was rammed by a Ja
panese destroyer, Kennedy, though injured him
self, spent three hours in gasoline-blazing waters
pulling out crew members. To a panicking enlist
ed man, he wisecracked: "For a guy from Bos
ton, you’re certainly putting up a great exhibition
out here.” Then he led a three-mile swim to a
nearby island, personally hauling the most se
riously injured man and swallowing en route most
of the available salt water.
This was only the start. He held the discipline
and moral of the 11 men under tight rein. He
personally made an all-night sortee into the chan
nel , dodging barricuda and enemy patrols and
butchering his flesh on coral. He pushed his hun
gry, suffering crew from island to island to evade
capture. On another scouting expedition, the canoe
overturned; nearly drowned, he barely escaped
being dashed to death against a reef. All were
finally saved when Kennedy sent a message in
scribed on a coconut via friendly, Protestant
hymn-singing natives.
IF HISTORY alone suffices to increase the
supply of barbiturates at GOP headquarters, exa
mine what the movie does. Playing Kennedy is
Cliff Robertson, one of few virile Hollywood
males worthy to be employed as an actor. Further,
there is the difficulty of doing a film on a live
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president who is still the nation's leader: Warner
apparently felt this ruled out probing of charac
ter for problems and defects - the raw material
of human drama. What might Khruschchev think,
in the next eyeball to eyeball confrontation, if he
had seen Kennedy sucking his thumb under fire
in the Solomons?
To portray Kennedy, Robertson tastefully avoids
imitation, resorts mainly to flat understatement,
set jaw, boyish grin. But the image is one-dimen
sional: the movie Kennedy seems to have been
born full-grown, an affable man’s man, with no
family, no background, no interests other than win
ning die war as quickly and efficiently as possible.
His only "flaw” is a stubborn refusal to admit de
feat; now and then, he tries too hard, as when his
PT boat dumps a repair shed into the Pacific.
Even the other characters seem like figures off
recruiting posters - an endless line of photogenic,
muscled, businesslike junior executives (Ty Har
din, Robert Culp, Grant Williams, Robert Blake_.
There are no girls - fantastic as it is to contem
plate, the boys don’t even talk about girls, except
for one brief glance at a locker pinup.
IT’S ALMOST too much when, at the end, the;
battered Kennedy turns down a stateside leave to
go back to the fighting. It really happened, but to
a human, not a face on a postage stamp. Perhaps
it would be unsuitable to show Kennedy playing
blackjack or reading Playboy, but the portrayal of
Kennedy-as-a-walking-monument removes "PT
109” from consideration as a serious film.
The script.by Richard Breen ("State Fair”)
Fails to take full advantage of the real lifedrama.
Too much time is thrown away at the base in
Hilagi (the film was actually shot off Florida)
while Jack and his men clean up a disreputable
old ship, trade GI witticisms ("So he wrote a
book. . .any pictures in it?”) and battle the skep
ticism of a salty old pro (James Gregory). All
are the standard stuff of Navy comedy-drama.
Later the screenplay deemphasizes Kennedy’s
personal exploits and scrapes with death, as well
as the grimmer details of the survivors’ physi
cal ordeal - thus losing some realism and audience
identification. E.g., the men were so thirsty they
licked water off the neighboring vegetation; Ken
nedy, returning from his night-long vigil in the
water, got sick all over the beach. Also interest
ingly, the film implies, perhaps for better inter
national relations, that the destroyer cut into the
109 accidentally.
The movie’s finest asset is the marvelous color
photography by two-time Oscar-winner Robert
Surtees ("Mutiny on the Bounty”). There is also
plenty of youngster-pleasing action on land, sea
and air, though much of it is obviously contriv
ed. Two final clues to the quality-level of the
film: the Tin Pan Alley-type oriental music on
the soundtrack whenever a Japanese appears, and
the line by one of the castaway seamen as he
spies natives on the island: "Fellows, I think I’ve
found the owners.”
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, The L-Shaped Room.
"the great Christian and
American principle of equality'
must be reduced to action in
local circumstances and in
specific ways.”
He said the effort to obtain
racial justice is "the challenge
which 1963 has set squar
ely before us and it must at
all costs be faced and solved.”
Bishop Maguire comments
that there are "many” civil
rights organizations which are
carrying out the objectives des
cribed by Cardinal Spellman and
which are "therefore deserving
of our support.” HE says:
"Demonstrations and other
activities of these organizat
ions, in which the good that is
reasonably expected through
these demonstrations outweighs
the accidental unfortunate effe
cts, when they are carried out
in a responsible and peaceful
manner within the bonds of Chr
istian charity and justice, and
finally when they are underta
ken as a last resort in the
struggle to overcome the se
cond class citizenship of
American Negroes, are deserv
ing of the support and partici
pation of Catholic American cit
izens.”
He describes the march on
Washington as a "major com
mitment to justice through
charity” and says many organi
zations, committees, unions and
other groups are providing an
opportunity- to "support and
participate in” it.
The Bishop notes that the Cat
holic Interracial Council of
New York will sponsor a group
taking part.
Judge Edward T. McCafficy
(above i, of the Supreme
Court of the State of New
York, will be the keynote
speaker at the 28th annual
convention of the Catholic
War Veterans of the U S.A.,
to be held August 20 to 25th
at Miami. Fla. He was Na
tional Commander din ing the
World War II years. Bishop
Coleman F. Carroll of Miami
will be host to the 5.000 dele
gates expected to attend.
Vets To Hear
Senator Keating
WASHINGTON (NC) — Sen.
Kenneth Keating of New York
will speak at the annual conven
tion of the Catholic War Vet
erans in Miami Beach, Fla.
Other speakers at the conven
tion August 18 to 25 include
John Gleason of the U. S. Vet
erans Administration in Wash
ington, D. C.: Paul Harvey, news
commentator and columnist
from Chicago; and Justice Ed
ward T. McCaffrey of the New
York State Supreme Court.
Edward F. McElroy of Chica
go, CWV national commander,
will preside at the sessions.
Bishop Coleman F. Carroll of
Miami will extend greetings at
the convention banquet August
24.
‘‘Think of all the candles that would buy!”'
Better than most: The Longest Day, Mutiny on
the Bounty, Days of Wine and Roses, A
Chile Is Waiting.
God Love You
BY MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN
Sit down and ask yourself what is the major source oi any
unhappiness you might feel. Is it not because you are afraid of
not being sufficiently loved? Translate that "being loved” into
modern terms and it means this: you dread not being appreciated,
praised, cajoled, treated with great deference, admired, looked
at because of the car you drive, the clothes you wear or the jewels
on your fingers. You are looking for proofs of love from other
persons, seeking them as a remedy for your own solitude.
You doubt your own worth and, therefore, you desire signs of
affection from others.
Now suppose you became less worried about being loved and
more concerned about loving. With the multiplicity of souls
in this world, what opportunities there
are for loving! Forget being loved and
begin to love. Love particularly those
who cannot love you back, and you will
then begin to discover what real hap
piness is. For love is like our breath:
if we take it back it poisons us.
Here are some ways you can love:
If you are rich—in addition to giving
hundreds of thousands of dollars to
institutions which already have mill
ions, deduct $50 (or more, depending on your consciousness
that God has given you everything you have) for Catholics in the
Missions who live on a bowl of rice a day.
If you are struggling or have nothing—spend two minutes
on your knees each day praying for souls.
If you are a college student—make an extra visit to the Blessed
Sacrament for the conversion of the world’s 2 billion pagans.
If you are a priest—everytime you buy a car, a set of golf
clubs or anything else that constitutes sacerdotal luxury, share
a small fraction of it with brother priests who live in sacerdotal
misery.
If you are a pastor—set aside at least one-tenth of one per cent
of every' collection (or more, depending cn your love of the Church
throughout Asia and Africa) and send it to the Holy Father that
he may truly be the pastor of all the soult whom Christ died to
redeem.
If you are a smoker or drinker—do with a little less and each
month send an offering to the Pontiff for the Missions of the world.
Cardinal Newman told us: "Faith at most only makes a hero,
but love makes a saint. Faith can put us above the world, but
love brings us under God’s throne; Faith can make us sober,
but love makes us happy.” And the more acts ot love you make,
the happier you—and the poor of the world—will bel
GOD LOVE YOU to M. K. O. for $20 "For several months
I have been saving my winnings from a Friday night card club.
I have started a 'Mission fund’ and will continue to save for God’s
poor.” . . .to A Donor for $5 "I have been sending money almost
every month anonymously.” . . .to A. E. for $2 "Because Our
Blessed Mother has helped us so much.” . . .to L. \\. C. for
$10 "To be used for your beloved poor in the mission lands.”
"The Church of the Poor” or "The Poor Church” — which of
these is the Church in the United States? Be sure to read our
special September-October issue of MISSION before answering
this provocative question. If you wish to be put on our mailing
for this bi-monthly magazine, just ask us via: The Society' for
the Propagation of the Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York 1,
New York.
SHEEN COLUMN: 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 Propagation of the Faith 366 Fifth Avenue, New
York lx, N. Y. or your Diocesan Director.