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GEORGIA PINES Proud Day For Dahlonega Saints in Black and White ST. MARGARET MARY ALACOQUE 28 BY REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN Father Manning had been pastor of St. Michael's Church in Gainesville for almost fourteen years when he was transferred to the pastorate of Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Decatur. At the time of his appointment as pastor of the Gainesville Church by the late Bishop Gerald P. O’Hara the whole area was considered as mission territory. Gainesville was the only church northeast of At lanta. Every Sunday the Irish bom-priest said Mass in Gainesville, then drove the winding mountain roads up to Toccoa. During the summer months a great number of people vacationed at Lake Ra- burn near Lakemont. A third Mass was said at the home of the late Esmond Brady during the summer months by Father Manning. JUST BEFORE Father Man- ining was transferred to Deca- jtur, he saw the growing need of | a fourth service to be conduct ed in the Dahlonega area. The number of Catholics attending . North Georgia College had in creased, the army rangers had .opened a camp near Dahlonega, land the influx of visitors espe cially during the summer and fall months made an almost immediate demand to provide spiritual care for the faithful. Laymen were asked to look for a suitable tract of land and one Atlanta man offered a piece of pro perty for church use. However, none of these was suitable for the immediate needs. ONE DAY Bishop Hyland and I drove to Dahlonega for this purpose. The Glenmary Fa thers had already agreed to come to north Geor- QUESTION BOX PM Funerals, Weddings? BY MONSIGNOR J. D. CONWAY Q. WASN'T THERE A TIME IN THE CATHO LIC CHURCH THAT FUNERALS, AND ALSO WEDDINGS, WERE HELD IN THE AFTERNOON? I REMEMBER MY GRANDMOTHER TELLING ME THAT SHE WAS MARRIED IN THE LATE AFTER NOON. A. It has always been possible to have funerals and weddings in the afternoon. However, at least from the middle ages until fairly recent times, they could not be joined to a Requiem Mass or a Nuptial Mass, since the Mass could not begin later than 1 p.m. In some countries of Europe it is quite common to have a fu neral in the afternoon, without a Mass. Just recently the Bis hop of Pueblo obtained permis sion from the Holy See to have Funeral Masses in the after noon or evening. It is possible that such permission may be ex tended to other dioceses. Mixed marriages may not be joined to the Mass; and in some areas, even in our own coun try, Catholic marriages often take place apart from Mass. These could be at any reasonable hour of the day. Our permission for afternoon Mass is granted for the welfare of the people at large. However, for a long time - ever since the war years, in fact - the custom has grown of hav ing marriages at regularly scheduled afternoon or evening Masses. In other words, you may not schedule an afternoon Mass exclusively for a wedding; but if you have a regular parish Mass at 5 p.m. there would seem to be no reason to prevent your making it a Nuptial Mass. The Bis hop of Pueblo has recently given this interpre tation official endorsement in his diocese. Q. I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN UNDER THE IM PRESSION THAT TO SEND A CHILD TO A PUB LIC SCHOOL WHEN A CATHOLIC SCHOOL WAS AVAILABLE WAS A SIN OF SERIOUS NATURE. WE HAVE A NEW MILLION DOLLAR CATHO LIC HIGH SCHOOL IN OUR CITY AND THERE ARE STILL PEOPLE SENDING THEIR CHILDREN TO THE PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL, BOTH SCHOOLS BEING ABOUT THE SAME DISTANCE FROM TOWN. THESE SAME PEOPLE ARE WEEKLY COMMUNICANTS. I DON’T MEAN TO SOUND AC CUSING ABOUT THIS, BUT 1 WOULD LIKE TO KNOW YOUR STAND ON THIS MATTER. A. Parents have a grave obligation of giving their children a good, sound religious education We may wonder whether those parents who choose a public school when a Catholic one is available are fully conscious of this obligation. EX) they give the religious education in their own home? Or do they count on a one-shot-a-week CCD class to ease their consciences? If so their conscien ces are easily eased. In some cases there may be peculiar reasons for sending children to a public school. The Catho lic school is not always able to provide for the exceptional student, or to offer special courses which may be needed. The Church has explicit laws about the teach ing of religion in the schools, and the obliga tion of parents to see that children receive this education. But the strongest law is in Canon 1374; Catholic children should not attend non- Catholic, neutral or mixed schools; and only the Bishop, following instructions of the Holy See, can decide in what circumstances and with what pre cautions, exception may be made to this rule. Some bishops have made such decisions by diocesan regulations with force of law. In other dioceses customs may legitimately interpret the mind of the Bishop. But everywhere the obligation of pa rents to give their children a Catholic education is a serious burden on their consciences. Q. THIS IS PROBABLY A DUMB QUESTION, BUT MAYBE YOU WILL CLARIFY IT ANYWAY. AMONG OTHER THINGS THE CHRISTMAS GOS PEL SAYS, “PEACE ON EARTH TO MEN OF GOOD WILL.” DOES THAT MEAN THAT ALL OTHERS ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HAPPY ON THAT DAY? A. The words you quote are from the song of the angels announcing to the shepherds the good news of the Savior’s birth. There has always been a bit of uncertainty and disagreement about the exact meaning of these words. In Greek the word for peace is practically a synonym for grace. And the word for good will usually refers to the will of God, and His favor. So the meaning may well be that this Christ Lord who has been born in Bethlehem will bring divine grace to His chosen people. Q. HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF THE BELIEF THAT ST. ANTHONY HELPS FIND LOST THINGS? IS THERE ANY BASIS FOR SUCH A BELIEF? PERHAPS IT IS A SINFUL SUPERSTITION OR EVEN SACRILEGIOUS TO CALL ON THE GOOD SAINT FOR SUCH MUNDANE REASONS. I HOPE NOT - BEING A DISORGANIZED PERSON, I WOULD BE LOST WITHOUT HIM. A. It is a widely popular belief and devotion. To me it always seems to hint of superstition or to trend in that direction. But on the whole it is probably harmless - especially for disorganized people. Q. IF A GIRL HAD AN ABORTION PER FORMED YEARS AGO WHEN SHE WAS YOUNG, AND IS NOW VERY SORRY THAT SHE EVER COMMITTED THIS SIN, AND IF SHE HAS NEVER BEEN BAPTIZED, BUT HAS MARRIED A DI VORCED CATHOLIC MAN, CAN SHE, WHEN THE TIME COMES FOR THEM BE BE MARRIED AS CATHOLICS, JOIN THE CHURCH AND RECEIVE THE SACRAMENTS? TH P Y NOW HAVE A CHILD AND ARE RAISING HIN >P IN THE CATHOLIC FAITH, AND HE HAS AL YS SAID HE WOULD LIKE TO BECOME A PRI. . A. That abortion of years ago - long since repented - will never be held against her if she wishes to be baptized and live a good Catholic life. Her problem is that this divorced Catholic man is apparently validly married to another wo man. You seem to appreciate this difficulty, since you say, “when the time comes for them to be married as Catholics. . .“ Their son will need a few dispensations before he can become a priest; but if he gives clear evidence of a vocation, I am confident they can be obtained. Q. THE HOLY FATHER AND THE BISHOPS UNITED WITH HIM MAY BE INFALLIBLE, BUT YOUR COLUMN IS NOT. I AM REFERRING TO A CERTAIN SPIRIT OF OBJECTIVE MORALITY WHICH AT TIMES CREEPS INTO SOME OF YOUR ANSWERS, A SPIRIT WHICH IS FALSE BE CAUSE IT MAKES “WRONG” A REALITY WHEN IT IS BUT AN ABSENCE OF A GOOD, AND FOR GETS THE INDIVIDUAL, AS INDIVIDUAL, THE ONLY REAL REALITY: FOR SIN DOES NOT EXIST IN ESSENCE, BUT IN EXISTENCE ONLY AFTER IT HAS BEEN FORMALIZED BY THE IN DIVIDUAL ACT OF THE WILL. A. My existentialist friend wrote three long pages to convince me; kit I still plan to let a bit of objective morality creep into my answers. The guilt of sin is subjective, of course; and no sin exists until the human will consent to it. But conscience must be guided by objective norms of some kind in discerning good from evil. gia, and the location of a chapel and priest’s residence was imminent. We were met by the manager of the local funeral home and he very graciously drove us around looking at homes until we came to one house located a block from the city’s square, and the Bishop decided that this was it. Soon after the Glenmary Fathers arrived and Father Leonard Spanjers was appointed the first pastor of the newly founded parish of St. Luke. Father August Guppenburger, known to the resi dents of Dahlonega as “Father Gus” joined Fr. Len about one year later. THE GLENMARY Fathers used one room in the house as a chapel. Soon overflowing crowds filled the room and Fr. Spanjers knew that the accomo dations would soon be inadequate. The Presby terians next door were contemplating building a new church and their old church was offered to Father Spanjers for sale. Archbishop Hallinan, in the meantime, had come to Georgia, and he an nounced that, through contributions to the Georgia Mission Sunday by the faithful, the church would be purchased. Immediately, Glenmary Fathers and Brothers got to work. Plans were drawn for an altar, baptistry, confessional, sacristry etc. ...awhole transformation of the building was effectuated... and although not officially in use yet, Archbishop Hallinan offered the first Mass in the church structure last Sunday. It is a wonderful addition to the church scene in Georgia, all made possible through contribu tions to the Georgia Mission Sunday. Next time that you are out Sunday riding, I suggest that you go through Dahlonega. You’ll be as proud of the church as the students, army folks, and residents of Dahlonega are of it. / A. 3 V r V T~1 I rt ’i /f tH to ?/ rx ii a O' mk w* *7 XU *7 3X i3 S* It rt *7 Vo vz vA sz7 s> FL S~7 /■> y 7 to - Tx tv *»jr if. Llr tv 7° RX? pflcRn m r ' 7* IT 7* 7S- 77 7* >9 ¥ o 7/ vy Vj f? rr Vf ACROSS 1. Tremble 6. Roman God of War 10. Morsel 13. St Helped Spread f er Devotion 14. Highly Seasoned Dish 15. Consumed 16. House of Lords 17. A Giant With 100 Eyes 19. Darken 21. Age 23. Macabre 25. Owl’s Cry 26. Assert 28. Author of Divine Comedy 30. Nose 33. Spree 35. Hawaii Tree 37. Continent 38. Shivering 40. More intelligem 42. Gambling Die 43. Potato Utensil 45. Used in Jewelry “. .. Deur.i” Before Christ Myths Flowering Shrub 54. Attention 56. Lazar 58. City in S. C. New York 61. Greek Resistance Move ment, World War II 63. Joint 65. Affirmative Votes 66. She Was .... of Seven Children 47. 48. 50. 52 68. Word of God; Christian Theology 70. Contemptible Person; Slang 71. Coarse Sugar, East India 73. Pastoral 75. Lyric Poem 76. Swarm Over 79. Master of Ceremonies 81. Hesitating Briefly 82. Comh. form; On the Side Of 83. God of Love; Gr. Myth. 85. Stadiums 87. Exclamation 88. Queen .... First Petitioned Holy See for Feast ot Stored Heart 89. Waster DOWN 1. At The; Spanisn 2. Old Arab Measure 3. Chaste 4. Sharpened 5. Of the Nervous System 6. Japanese Weight 7. Beverage 8. Affluent 9. Singles 10. God Invited Her To Take The Place of St. John .... 11. Possessive Pronoun (N) 12. Exact Point 13. A Plant 16. God Told Her Love of His .... Must Spread 18. A Tendon 20. New York Men’s College 22. At No Time 24. Moral 27. Send On 29. An Antiseptic Solution 31. Authorization 32. Destiny 34. Restricted 36 Lofty Retreat 39. To Rent Again 41. Bring Together 44. Repulse 46. Cripples 48. Steer 49. Moslem Judge 51. Spanish Gentleman 53. Son-In-Law ot Musso lini 55. Renew 57. Knave 59. Founder of .... Scholarships 60. A Fall Flower 62. Celebrity 64. Standard 67. Seraglio 69. Of The Sacrum 72. Windstorm; Asia 74. Dregs 76. Her Feast Day Is 77. Victoria; abbr. 78. And Not 80. Compass Point 84. Scythe 86. 1196 Sq. Yards In ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S PUZZLE ON PAGE 7 Assumption Parish Unit The Altar and Rosary So ciety of Our Lady of the As sumption Parish held its first meeting of the season Tues day at 8 p.m. in the School Cafetorium. A panel discus sion on “Teaching Religion in the Home”, based on the book ”We and Our Children” by Mary Reed Newland, was pre sented. The meeting was presided over by the President, Mrs. Foster A. Hotard, and Spiritual Moderator, Monsignor Joseph Moylan. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Sam Curro and committee. OFFICERS for the year are: Mrs. Foster A. Hotard, Presi dent; Mrs. Gerald L. Miclot, Vice President; Mrs. Reuben A. Bell, Recording Secretary; Mrs. Ronald W. Durst, Corre sponding Secretary; Mrs. C. Clarice, Parliamentarian; Mrs. Warren J. Thompson, Treasur er. This group will meet during the winter on the first Tuesday of each month at 8 p.m. and receive communion together at the 8:30 Mass on the first Sun day of each month. All the wo men of the Parish are urged to participate in this important organization. Honor Cardinal CHICAGO, (NC) — Albert Cardinal Meyer, Archbishop of Chicago, was one of seven re ligious leaders who received civil rights awards from the Second Methodist Conference on Human Relations here. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1963 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGES ARNOLD VIEWING ‘Escape’ Is Absorbing BY JAMES W. ARNOLD “The Great Escape” is an absorbing and skill ful movie, both in what it says and how it goes about saying it. Producer-director John Sturges has created the ultimate in prisoner-of-war films partly because of his own talents, partly because of unique story material that is unlikely ever to be duplicated. The basic situation is almost too good to be true. A group of incorrigibly naughty World War II POW’s - mostly young British and American air officers - is set down in a new maximum- security camp in Bavaria. The German officers and guards are efficient and bright. The prisoners are not dared to escape; they are merely advis ed of its impracticality, given garden tools, books and ping pong sets, and urged to “sit out the war as comfortably as possible/’ THE FLIERS are characters out of Steve Can yon. They brazenly ’’case the joint” and attempt escapes within 10 minutes of arrival. They sass the guards; when a POW is asked why he's loiter ing outside the shower, he replies: “I’m a life guard.” Their underground produces endless va rieties of civilian clothes, identification papers, tunneling equipment, cigarets and food; with their superior living standards and gay arro gance, they are able to trick and bribe the “goons” who watch them. Escape is not merely the dream of a daring few; it is the preoccupation of all, so well-organized and disciplined that three tunnels, completed with shoring lum ber, pulleys, primitive air conditioning and elec tric lights, are dug to freedom, with a break planned for 250 men. By pure luck, the Germans stumble onto one of the tunnels. During the ac tual break, only 76 men get away because of the inevitable unforeseenhuman error: one man’s im patience. IT IS, oddly, all true, adapted with freshness and style from the book by Paul Brickhill. Some of its implausibility (one reviewer called it Rover Boyish) may be laid to the Germans* own nai- vity in assembling in one camp all the gung-ho escape artists in captivity (“madness in their method,” says one POW). This is no random sample of men, but a POW elite - heroic, idea listic, desperate or foolhardy, but all dedicated to being as much of a nuisance as possible. If the real tends to be unbelievable, it is because Hollywood has committed itself so long to the unreal. Our age is justly skeptical of military romance. We have found that waving flags and marching bands and gallantry are less essential to war than mutilation, despair and pointless agony. Many of us, perhaps, would gratefully accept the humane offer to sit out the war in comfort. But it is vital to the continued life of democracy to know that there are men for whom sacrifice has mean ing and freedom is more precious than safety, even if their action, in the mood of the times, seems unsophisticated. IRONICALLY, the humanity of their captors made the prisoners* bravado possible. The POW’s were relatively well-fed and housed, free to come and go and congregate. There was no systematiz ed attempt to destroy morale; even captured es capees were only placed for a time in isolation, then returned to their barracks. FOR THAT SPECIAL OCCASION ... RENT FORMAL WEAR from O'Kellty's, Inc. your •ntiro Formal Woor wardrobe. O'Kelloy'i features a complete lino of Handsome Man's ond Boy's Formal attlro. Also Bridal Gowns, Veils, Bridesmaids drosses ond Hoops. Cocktail drosses ond Formols for oil other ocosions. O’M f e y *> 231 MITCHELL ST^S.W.,ATLANTA 3,GA Established 1919 JA 2-9960 JA 1-0421 / SUBSCRIBE TO THE GEORGIA BULLETIN *5.00 PER YEAR Mail to P. O. Box 11667 Northside Station Atlanta 5, Georgia Address City State A decade later, in Korea, the Communists de liberately broke down their captives* internal loyalty and discipline and threatened troublemak ers with torture and death. There was not a single successful organized escape, and only one guard was needed for each 100 captured Americans. STURGES (“Old Man and the Sea,*’ “Magni ficent Seven”) takes nearly three hours to tell this story, filming it on location at a cost of $3.7 million, but has it so crammed with drama, humor and action it seems like a short subject. The picture is marvelously uncluttered. The sub ject for thought and talk is not mother, the Yan kees or the girl back home, but escape. After the suspense of the breakout, built with painstaking detail, the viewer is ready for oxygen. He gets it in a half -dozen exciting chases over picturesque rural and urban terrain shot superbly in soft, low-key color by Oscar-winner Danier Fapp (“West Side Story**). Of immense help is a sometime satiric, sometime inspiring score by Elmer Bernstein (“To Kill a Mockingbird*’). DESPITE 150 speaking parts, all male, the cast makes each stick in die memory. Steve McQueen, the likeable rebel who may easily be die best new actor-personality in films today, is a plain delight as a dauntless POW who spends most of his time in solitary bouncing a baseball off the wall. (His performance won the best actor award among stiff competition at the Moscow Film Fes tival, where “Escape” was the official U.S. entry). Also first-rate are Britishers Richard Attenbo rough and James Donald (as the POW leaders), Donald Pleasenee (as a gentle forgery expert who loses his sight), Americans James Garner and Charles Bronson, and German Hannes Bessemer (as the camp commander), among many others. The film refuses to stereotype Germans, care fully separating the Nazis from the non-Nazis, the gifted from the inept. When the Gestapo mur ders 50 recaptured Britishers, Sturges handles it with sensitive indirection: one sees only the guards and their truck silhouetted against the gloomy sky. The best sequence: the violent *>ur- suit of McQueen, displaying his skills on a om- mandeered motorcycle, across winding oads and rolling green hills toward the Swiss border. STURGES* cameras reveal not only action and violence but the human reaction to it: disbelief, anger, disgust, pride, sorrow. The film plunges deeply beneath die surface noise to enduring hu man values and feeling. Was it worth the price, one character asks at the end?(Only three escapees eventually reached neutral countries). Replies actor Donald, the top surviving officer: “It depends on your point of view.” Regardless of their viewpoint, patrons yearning for a good movie will find this one fet- chingly worth the price. CURRENT RECOMMENDED FILMS: For everyone: To Kill a Mockingbird, Lawrence of Arabia, The Four Days of Naples, The Great Escape. For connoisseurs: Sundays and Cybele, The L- Shaped Room. Better than most: The Longest Day, Mutiny on the Bounty, Day of Wine and Roses, A Child Is Waiting. Kids may like: PT-109, List of Adrian Messenger, The Lion. God Love You BY MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN The Anglican Church, recently meeting in Toronto, presented to its clergy and faithful a boldly militant and world-conscious pro gram. Rt. Rev. Stephen F, Bayne, its executive officer, pleaded “for the death of the familiar”. In relation to the poverty of the world, he said that in the future, “every congregation will be asked to spend as much time and money in aiding the church abroad as it does at home. This means the end of the familiar view that mis sion work is an option —something that we do with our surplus after local needs.** Continuing with a deep sense of Christian solidarity, he added “The ’have* congregations will be expected to forego many desirable things in order to help the ‘have-nots.* ** It is often said of clever words: **I wish I had said that**. As the Lord praised the faith outside of Israel, so may the Church praise the mission - mindedness of the separated brethren. A spiritual truth to all who know the world situation is; We will be the Church of the Poor, or we will be the “poor Church**; that is, we will either share our wealth with the impoverished, or our material boarding will bring spiritual impoverishment. Reducing this to the concrete, should not the Church in the United States resolve to some such spiritual and material plan as the following: 1. To give priority to the basic needs of Africa, Asia, Oceania and Latin America before we satisfy our so-called wants. 2. To limit die cost of churches and cathedrals to a million dol lars in order that the Eucharistic Lord might at least dwell in huts in the slums of the world. 3. Religious societies who do missionary work will forego build ing up capital investments in order that the poor missionaries may live on what would represent interest. 4. Young people who are rich enough to have their own cars will give the equivalent of a gallon of gas a week to buy food for the 10,000 who die daily because of starvation. 5. All expenditures for making us comfortable will be self- taxed a small percentage to help the dregs of humanity in Recife who buy water at sixteen cents a keg. As the landowners of Latin America indirectly help produce Communism, so does exaggerated spending on our wants in the United States bring the spiritual decline of the world. The Angli cans are right. There must be “the death of die familiar.’* Yes, we are spiritual—we eat of the Bread of Life. But is not the Eu charist also an announcement of the “death of the Lord until He comes?” This implies sacrifice on our part for Christ’s sake. Do what you can—in your parish, your diocese, your home, and with yourself to announce this death by making yourself respon sible for the underfed and underclothed. The Holy Father said that he is to be aided “first and princi pally” through his Society for the Propagation of die Faith. The great advantage you will have by sacrificing for him is—there will be no hoarding. Every cent received is spent on the Mis sions. There will be no capital investment—his only “interest** is the Missions. GOD LOVE YOU to Mr. and Mrs. A. S. for $5 “In thanksgiv ing for selling a car. May the Missions use it to 'transport* others to God.” . . .to R. W. for $5 “This was won in the Patterson and Liston fight pool. May it be pooled by Pope Paul VI in the fight for souls.” ...to A. S. J. for $250 “In thanksgiving for a negative analysis after an operation for a cancerous growth.” Send us your old gold and jewelry—die valuables you no longer use but which are too good to throw away. We will re-sell the earrings, gold eyeglass frames, flatware, etc., and use the money to relieve the suffering in mission lands. Our address: 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.