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Newspaper Page Text1 THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1963 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 5 GEORGIA PINES Vocation Heroics Saints in Black and White ST. MONICA 33 WEB OF LIES’ BY REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN Last week in GEORGIA PINES I mentioned the first step taken by our youthful archdiocese, by way of a definite program, in preparing young boys for the seminary life with the establish ment of The Latin School. This same article men tioned the establishment of a Commission for Vo cations and a similar program to aid young girls who are thinking of the sisterhood as a vocation in life. It would seem that the greatest reason why the church has not made more progress than it did was because of the ever present lack of vocations. The annals of the church in Georgia indeed reveal the heroic sacrifices of priests who tra velled hundreds of miles every Sunday to bring the Mass to the people living in far flung missions. Equally heroic were the good laity who preserved and perse vered in the Faith when their only contact with the church was the once-#-month visit of the priest. No history of the church in iGeorgia would be complete with out paying a reference to the good priests who left their homelands in order to bring the Kingdom of God to the faithful living in Georgia. Irish, French, Italian, German and Bel gium priests are notable among those whose names are listed in the minds and hearts of many living in distant and remote missions. The Marist Fathers devotion to souls and their care of missions is equally deserving of praise. Many of the Marist Fathers were localyoungmen who received their initial training at the Marist College on Ivy Street and then went on to take their formal seminary training in schools located up north. Without references it would be next to impos sible to list completely the young men who were schooled in parishes all over this state and then after Ordination returned to their native state to work for the good of souls. Preeminent among the native clergy is a South Carolinian who came to Georgia at an early age, Bishop Emmit Walsh of Youngstown, Ohio. Bishop Walsh attended Cathedral parochial school and was ordained a priest for Georgia. It was while he was serving as pastor of Atlanta's Immaculate Conception Church that he was appointed Bishop of Charleston. Monsignor Moylan of Atlanta and Monsignor O’Connor of Decatur are two local Prelates, na tives of Savannah, who were trained under the Benedictine Father of Savannah. Father James Harrison, Father John Cotter are two native Atlantans who attended the Marist Col lege on Ivy Street. Father John Stapleton, Father John O’Shea and Father Joseph Ware are all na tive Georgians now serving the Archdiocese of At lanta. Father Stapleton and Father Ware are native Savannahians, Father O’Shea is from Augusta. Father Douglas Edwards is an Athenian. Gainesville has a proud boast. Sister Melanie, the Administrator of St. Joseph's Infirmary, is a native Gainesvillian. Sister M. Genevieve and Sis ter Genevieve are from Buford, which is a part of the Gainesville parish. Though not natives of this state, the families of Fathers Joseph and Eusebius Beltran and of Father William Hoffman reside in this north-east Georgia town. In addition, The Bel tran family have two girls in Religious life, Sister Corona and Sister Sponsa. More and more the Georgia scene is being dotted with native vocations. Please God, the establishment of the Latin School and the various Commissions are but two steps taken which will bring more and more native clergy and sisters into more and more countries of Georgia. QUESTION BOX God Parents-Marriage? BY MONSIGNOR J. D. CONWAY Q. I HAVE BEEN TOLD SEVERAL TIMES THAT IF TWO SINGLE CATHOLICS ARE GOD PARENTS TO THE SAME BABY, THEY MAY NOT MARRY EACH OTHER BECAUSE THEY ARE SPIRUTUALLY RELATED. WHAT PUZZLES ME, IS WHY HUSBAND AND WIFE ARE PER MITTED TO BE GODPARENTS FOR THE SAME BABY? A. The people who tell you this must be awfully old. They are remembering a law which has not been in existence since 1918. The old law about spirutual relationship as an impediment to marri age was quite extensive. According to our present Code of Canon Law the only impediment to marri age is between the baptizing minister and the person bap tized and between each sponsor and his/her godchild. The min ister is usually a priest, and only one sponsor should be of different sex than the child. So J^^^the number of impediments is limited. It would seem desirable that our new Code, now in pro cess of preparation, should do away with them entirely. : ;r Q. ALL OF US KNOW THAT POPE JOHN HAS OVERSHADOWED PIUS XII, BUT WHY HAS THIS SAINTLY PONTIFF (PIUS, THAT IS) SUD DENLY BEEN PRESENTED AS SOME SORT OF TYRANNICAL OGRE? I ONCE THOUGHT HE WOULD BE CANONIZED BECAUSE OF ALL THE WONDERFUL THINGS HE DID FOR THE CHURCH. A. Have you been reading Der Stellvertreter? I understant that this slanderous play will be pre sented in this country by Billy Rose. He should confine his talents to Aquacadesl The American title of the play will be “The Deputy.’’ I say you must have been reading this calum- nous play, or reviews about it, because I know of no other defamatory presentation of Pope Pius XII, who was certainly a gifted, dedicated and saintly Vicar of Christ. Der Stellvertreter presents Pope Pius as anti- Semitic because he did not publicly denounce the crimes of Hitler against the Jews. Its author is making easy second guesses about critical de cisions which Pope Pius had to make In tense times of war. Pius XII was above all a diplo mat, and diplomatic people may sometimes be too careful, but he probably weighed the ques tionable good his denouncement might do, against the great confusieh it would cause in Catholic consciences in Germany. Careful neutrality has been the constant attitude of the Church in modern wars. Until Rolf Hochhuth, the second-guesser of this play came along, Pius XII was widely revered as a friend of the Jews, one who had given them re fuge and aid, and had provided help for their escape. He was acclaimed by Jewish leaders at the time of his death. However, this vilifying *play does not present Pope Pius as tyrannical-merely as an ogre. So maybe you have simply been over-impressed by pejorative Comparisons between him and the lovable, liberal, paternal, expansive John XXHL Such comparisons are entirely unfair. You can never attain a true evaluation of a man by com paring him to someone of contrasting personality. If you were to make the positive virtues of Pius XII the norm, Pope John might suffer by com parison: dignity, graciousness, erudition, clear logic and linguistic ability were some of the traits in which he excelled. And in intellect, if not in spirit, he was probably more liberal than Priest Condemns Anti-Pope Play 4. 8. 11. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 24. 26. 27. 30. 33. 36. 40. 43. 45. 46. 48. 50. 51. 53. 55. 56. ACROSS 58. 60. Third Order Regular Of 61. St. Francis 63. Medal 65. Marsh 67. Station; Abbr. 71. Deplore 74. Oil 77- Exist 78. Philippin Peasant 79. Last Queen of Spain 81. Crew 84. Permit 85. Goal 86. American Civil Liberties 87. Union; Abbr. 88. Flaps 89. Competent 90. Her Husband Had A 91. Violent 92. Meat Roasted on SkeWer Shackles She Is Patron Saint 1. Of _ 2. A Day Of The Week 3. Abbr. 4. Love 5. Of Life 6. Too Many; Fr. 7. Boner 8. To Enclose 9. Spurn 10. Companions 11. Revolved 12. Anointed 13. 23; Warms 25. Superlative Suffix 26. Biased 28. 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Odor Leash Central Stage Drunkard Routine Methods Beaten True Garlands Hold Up Post By Relays Compass Point Citrus Fruits Owns Pertaining to Her Son Became A Tile Setter Slanting Drove Paradise Snake-like Fishes Novena Trickle End Unit Add Bishopric ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S PUZZLE ON PAGE 7 NEW YORK (RNS)--A priest expert on Judaism lashed out here at “The Deputy,*’ a con troversial play by the West German dramatist Rolf Hoch huth which contends the late Pope Pius XII was remiss in denouncing Nazi atrocities against the Jews. “A web of lies,’* asserted Msgr. John M. Oesterreicher in addressing the 9th annual Communion Breakfast of the Edith Stein Guild, a group ded icated to promoting better rela tionships and mutual under standing between Catholics and Jews. MSGR. Oesterreicher, direc tor of the Institute of Judeo- Christian Studies, Seton Hall University, Newark, N.J., called the drama “A cloud on die horizon that may dim the new light’’ of ecumenical ad vance. The German playwright con tends in “The Deputy’’that Pope Pius should have taken a fir mer stand to prevent the ex termination of 6,000,000 Jews by the Nazis. Billy Rose, the producer, is considering bringing the drama to Broadway for fall production. The play opened last February in West Berlin to mixed app lause and boos. Both Protest ant and Catholic religious leaders there have condemned the play. Msgr. Oesterreicher told the Guild members that the play may well endanger the progress made between religious groups over the last few years. Pope John. It was he who gave impetus and di rection to the liturgical trend for which his suc cessor gets much credit. And it was he who wrote Divino Affante Spiritu, the Magna Carta of modern Scripture studies. It is doubtful that John could have done it. It was Pius XII who advanced the ideal of world-wide unity which finds expression in Pacem in Terris. Pope Pius XII is quoted or cited at least 33 times in this encyclical. You might say it evolved from his thought and John’s spirit, under guidance of the Holy Spirit. *** Q. HOW CAN THE CHURCH PERMIT AND CON DONE THE TORTUROUS VIVISECTION OF ANI MALS IN ITS SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS? ANI MALS CREATED BY THE SAME GOD THAT CREATED MAN. A. Frist of all vivisection is seldom tor turous. Secondly, God did not create animals in his own image, with intellect and will and immortal souls. Only man has rights, in the strict sense of the word, and he has these rights because he is a free, intelligent person. Animals were created by God to serve man’s needs, and man was made their master: “Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the cattle and all the animals that crawl on the erth.’’ (Gen. 1, 28). Vivisection is done for man’s welfare: to increase our knowledge of disease and of ways to prevent or cure it. The fact that you and your children enjoy good health may be credited in large measure to experiments made on animals in the course of centuries. Anti-vivisectionists create the impression that they would rather see their children diseased than scientific experiments performed on poor little rats. Support March CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 South under all kinds of social and economic im pediments, agree that now is the time for the wholehearted acceptance of the ageless Catholic doctrine of the basic unity of the human race. Still, there are some Catholics who find it a pain ful and disturbing doctrine. They have been, and still will be, slow to accept it in full measure. But who will cast the first stone? Many of us who are now committed to the equal rights struggle were in the same boat at one time. Some of us are committed only to jumping on the band wagon; we have yet to prove our committment in the realities of life. In the light of all this, the March on Washing ton, can be a positive step in the elimination of racial tensions. But it must take the shape of a model example of non-viofence. It must be di vorced from any suggestion of political pressure on Congress for civil rights. A lot depends not only on the onlookers, but the marchers themselves. LITURGICAL WEEK CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, ST. RAYMUNDMON- NATUS, CONFESSOR. “You must be ready,’’ (Gospel) Jesus points out specifically today, al though it is implied in every Mass. If the.spiri tualization of all creation, the bringing of crea tion to its fulfillment, depended on our efforts alone, pessimism would be justified. Since it does not, even though it is through our efforts that the Saviour will accomplish it, we may be surprised and must be “ready." ARNOLD VIEWING ‘Come Blow Your Horn’ BY JAMES W. ARNOLD If they had decided to make a comedy out of “Hud,** they would have come up with something like “Come Blow Your Horn,*’ in which the joys of having a brabed-wire soul are orchestrated for music and laughter. “Horn,” currently second only to “Cleopatra” in national pull at the box office, repeats the story of the bachelor rogue who initiates an in- nocent-but-eager baby brother into fertility rites not approved by the tribe. Standing about helping to hold up the set are the customary adoring girls, square parents, sports cars, booze, beatniks, jealous spouses from Texas, and covering it all, like September leaves in Central Park, acres of money. A variation is played on the ending. Instead of little bro ther suddenly realizing that his idol is a bum (a word used in the “Horn” script for laughs- about 500 times), big brother sees what a louse his sibling has become. So he finds a reasonably good girl to marry and gaily bequeaths sonny-boy the splendors of independent irresponsibility. THE MOVIE lacks the decadence of the current cycle of Doris Day sex comedies; it manages to glamorize vice, in a noisily adolescent way, without ridiculing virtue. It is interesting chiefly as an embodiment of the latest product of the Hollywood dream factory: that the Good Life is something out of Omar Khayyam by Hugh Hefner, available only to boys who (improving on Peter Pan) refuse to grow up beyond the age of 17. SUCH fellows always live in city apartments that are happy combinations of the sets for “Cleopatra” and “Last Year at Marienbad," They have fully stocked private bars, and a bal cony overlooking the river (city, lake, ocean). Wherever they turn, there is a telephone (any kind but black, except for the one in the car). They have high-paid jobs at which they never work. They give parties at which people sit on the floor, women wear toreador pants and smoke cigars, and guests smooch in the hallways. They buy Italian suits on Fifth Avenue, have weekly manicures and trims at an exclusive bar ber’s, % drinlc at Toots Shor’s, eat at Sardi’s, and rarely lose bets with bookies. Their main activity is fighting off the affections of gorgeous, pearly- teethed girls, all of whom are swathed to some what below the ears in furs and gowns thrown together by Edith Head. Ultimately, to be honest, the script forces the hero to forego this High School Boy’s Para dise for true love (at least until the wife is safely stashed in Scarsdale). But the fun is easily more attractive than the love, which is puzzling to begin with because all those girls look and act so much alike. “Horn” viewers have a bit of both ; the elder hero settles down, but the younger, age 21, moves into the pipedream as “IT MAY slow down, even reverse, the advance of mutual understanding between Catholic and Protestants, and, no less, between Catholics and Jews,” he declared. The priest said he felt the play’s presentation on the American stage would be a test of ecumenical progress. “Will protestants and Jews stand by and let things take their course? Or will they cry out against the calumny and the injustice of the play?” he asked. “Will Catholics give in to their hurt and withdraw into their shells?” MSGR. Oesterreicher ass erted that the Hochhuth drama will reveal whether Protestants Catholics and Jews have become “truly neighbors, friends, in deed, brethren, or whether they are still strangers.” “The speech and argument of ‘The Deputy’ ... are crude, undiscerning, and injudicious,” he contended. “They are the reasoning and language of pre judice.’’ The play will blind many per sons to their own responsibility for events of the past, the priest declared. However, he added: “If it awakens..true solidar ity; if it reminds Christians to stand by Jews and Jews to stand by Christians, then the work begun by Pope John will truly bear fruit. permanent pinch-hitter. OTHERWISE “Horn” is a faithful reply of Neil Simon’s 1961 stage hit, with perhaps still too much broad New York Jewish dialect and vaudeville humor to please the hinterlands. Papa (Lee J. Cobb) is a conventional wax fruit manufacturer who slams doors and threatens to throw himself in front of airplanes: Mama (Molly Picon) is an absent-minded Molly Goldberg type who has made a lifetime out of emptying ash trays. Long-suffering Cobb wasily steals the picture although his lines are almost all the same, simply being shouted louder or louder yet. FRANK Sinatra plays the genial rake as if he’s been doing the part for years (as indeed he has) and belts out die Cahn-Van Heusen title song, whose point is’ “...if you wanta score, roarl” Young Tony Bill makes his debut as little brother; when his Harvard haircut is not blocking the view, he is impressive as a genuine fugitive from the dirty-white tennis shoe world of Holden Caul field. The head girls are Barbara Rush, whose goose- pimply acting deserves better opportunities, and Jill St. John, the redhead with the 160 I.Q who has been typecast as a Henry Miller vers ion of Baby Snooks. Outside-the theater, three little girls, age about 10, conceded that of all the women they liked Jill best, an appalling opin ion from any viewpoint. Now and then “Horn” has clear echoes of television, a likely fact since TV has been the training ground for both writer Simon and pro ducer-director Bud Yorkin. Dan (“Bonanza”) Blocker turns in a fierce bit as a bone-crunch ing husband from Dallas, and some of the humor- Mama and Papa closing the kitchen window so the neighbors won’t hear their arguing, or arriving five or six times at the apartment while Frank and Tony are embroiled in embarrassing situat ions - grew up on TV WITH ilton Berle. AT ONE POINT, actor Bill shouts at Sinatra, with a sincerity that would chill even Madison Avenue: “Hey, you use a roll-onl So do II” The film contributes to movie history with one scene that is shot from inside a refrigera tor (the light does go out when the door closes). And there is an inspired moment when Sinatra finds Bill ensconced in his favorite barber chair. Frank grabs the haircut specialist in dignified little-boy outrage, shouting: “He’s my barberl” CURRENT RECOMMENDED FILMS; For everyone: The Miracle Worker, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lawarence of Arabia, The Four Days of Naples. For connoisseurs: Sundays and Cybele, Long Day’s Journey into Night, The L-Shaped Room. Better than most: The Longest Day, Mutiny on the Bounty, Days of Wine and Roses, A Child Is Waiting. Kids may like; PT-109, List of Adrian Messenger, The Lion. Msgr. Peter Pavan (above), Professor of Sociology at Lateran University, Rome, will be among several inter nationally known scholars speaking at the biannual convention of the Christian Family movement at the University of Notre Dame, Aug. 23-25. “BUT WOE to us if we point the finger of accusation at others instead of bearing on another’s burdens.” Msgr. Joesph N. Moody, pastor of Sacred Heart church in Highland Falls, N.Y., spoke on “The Vision of the Church.” The priest is author of the pamphlet “Why are Jews Persecuted?” His talk outlined the Jewish roots of the present- day Catholic Church and traced the influence of Judaism on it through the Bible. More than 200 persons, in cluding a large number of priests, attended the breakfast, which was preceded by a Mass at New York’s St. John the Bap tist church. Celebrant was Father Elias P. Mayer, O.S.B., retreat director at St. Paul’s Abbey, Newton, N.J. THE GUILD is named for Edith Stein, a Jewish-bom Car melite nun who died in a Nazi gas chamber in 1942. God Love You BY MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN The Tears of Christ One evening after dinner with a group of men in which the conversation had turned to the po verty of the world, a priest profoundly interest ed in the Missions reflected: “Those men sleep well.” That is, the misery of their fellowmen does not distrub their false peace. But let us look at Christ and [ what do we see — tears I Three times He, the God-Man, wept. He wept over a civilization which forgot its God; He wept in sympathy over human grief and sadness; and He wept over sin. Tears are the blood of the wounds of the soul, the safety valves of the heart under pres sure, the vent of anguish, showers blown up by the tempest of the soul. Did not Our Lord say, “Blessed are they who mourn,” that is, those who feel the hunger pains of others, the burning thirst of Sisters living in the Turkana Desert to evange lize souls, the wasted bodies of lepers, the ex hausted nurses and doctors battling with the ef fects of malnutrition and the poverty of the bis hops in Brazil. If the hungry of the world were lined up they would be so numerous as to circle the earth not once but twenty-five times. Does this wrong us? Do the masses of unconverted distrub us, par ticularly when we spend so much on ourselves? Even strong men have wept on seeing multitudes: Xerxes wept as he saw his soldiers march into Greece; Napoleon wept as he gazed upon his army going into Russia. Shall we not weep with Christ Our Lord as we see this incongruous procession of wealth and poverty, of want and superfluity, of rags and robes, of vulgarity and refinement, of pompous display and nameless vagabondism, of the winged feet of youth craving new luxuries and the weary feet hurrying to the final plunge over the abyss in dark despair, of those who are glutted with comforts and those who are gutted with hunger? How was it possible for Our Lord to look upon such a procession without melting into tears? Which one of us can think of it without sharing its pity and pathetic interest? Scripture tells us that in heaven all tears shall be wiped away. But suppose, on earth, we have no tears? Suppose we read and re-read, Sunday after Sunday, “God Love You I” and do nothing for the Holy Father and the poor of the world. Where then are our tears? It seems that hell is a place of tears: “There will be the weeping and gnashing of teeth,”, says Sacred Scripture. Ohl to weep with the Sacred Heart now and to translate the tears into sacrifice for the poor — then shall we know why heaven is without tears. GOD LOVE YOU to Anonymous for $11 “This represents an answer to a long awaited prayer.” ...to Mrs. H. J. C. for$l “I would rather send this to you each month than spend it on chances I seldom win.” ...to Mrs. R. S. for $3 “Please accept a small contribution in thanksgiving on the third anniversary of my Baptism.” DO YOU KNOW whether you belong to “The Church of the Poor” of “The Poor Church”? Read our special September-October issue of MISSION and find outl 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 Fajth 366 Fifth Avenue, New York 1, N. Y. or your Diocesan Director.