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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1963 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 5 GEORGIA PINES Our First Stadium BY REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN Long before I came to Georgia, the only thing I knew about Georgia Tech was the famous Ramb ling Wreck song. In my first assignment, which was at the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Savannah, I followed the football team with great intensity. I was most proud when I learned that one of the players had been named to the All Ame rican team. Then when I was assigned to the Immaculate Conception Church in Atlanta, I learned that this All American was a member of that parish. The first Sunday, following Mass, a young man came in to the sacistry and introduced himself. I noticed a similarity of names between this young man and the Georgia Tech football player. With a modesty which still characterizes him, he said that he was one and the same. George Maloof assisted the coaching staff at Georgia Tech before he went into the air corps. Following a tour of duty he joined the coaching staff of Marist College when it was lo cated on Ivy Street. Wien the new Saint Pius X Catholic High School was built the late Msgr. Cornelius L. Maloney who was the Superintendent of Schools invited Geor- ( e Maloof to head the coaching staff, and Georg; picked as his associates Bill Connelly and Bil DaPrano. It wis not too long before the Golden Lions dis tinguished themselves on the gridiron. They built up a school enthusiasm that rivaled long estab lished schools, and school spirit was evident as being second to none. School authorities recognized, however, that something was lacking. Every day the team had to ravel to hold it*s practice sessions and every ime was played on a visiting field. As a tempo- ■ry measure this was alright, but it could not l't forever. ather Harrison, the principal at the archdio- cet n high, told the Archbishop about his problem. Soon a committee of laymen was organized, and along with the suggestions of George Maloof and his coaching staff, the plans for a stadium were talked over. These talks became a reality when it was decided to build the much needed stadium. Financial support was asked of the students, alumni, and benefactors of the schooL Plans were drawn up, and construction was begun dur ing the early months of this summer. The stadium is located on a slope to the rear of the school. Truly, a mountain was moved as the ground was leveled. Equipped with a scoring board, press box, concrete stands and a cinder track around the field....the project lacks nothing. It is done in fine taste and will stand for years to come. I guess many of us attend athletic contests and just take a stadium for granted. I confess that I had no idea of the work and expense involved until I started to stop by the site when I was driv ing into Atlanta from Gainesville. There I would see workmen and earth moving equipment involv ed in virtually making a plateau out of a hill. The whole project is a tribute to Father Har rison, George Maloof and die dedicated laymen who put their efforts and energies into play to make the thing a success. It is the first stadium owned by a parochial school in Georgia. I can visualize even more than athletic contests on its grass. It affords an excellent place for outside convocations, Holy Name Rallies, pep meetings and the like. All of us have a stake in the future of our youthful ar chdiocese. It would do you good to drive out to the school on the Northeast Expressway and see the latest addition to our archdiocesan facilities. One interesting thing though. On the night of the dedication a fog rolled in and settled on the field. During the dedication ceremony in midfield it was almost impossible for one sitting in the stands to see Archbishop Hallinan as he per formed the dedication ceremony. However, it was not foggy enough to stop George Maloof’s Golden Lions from winning the opening game and the first game at the Joseph A. Bean Memorial Stadium. Saints in Black and White ST. P.US X 27 ACROSS 1. Small Bed 4. Scrutinize 8. Humiliate JJ. State of Being 14. Separated 15. He was Patriarch of .... 17. He was one 19. Glucoside Roots 20. Compass Point 22. Part 23. Burn 24. Grassland 25. Worthy of Reverence 27. Approach 28. Bird 29. Glum 30. Complete Suit of Armor 31. Affliction of Domestic Animals 32. Flat (music); archaic 33. Drags 34. Raid 35. That is j6. Equipped to Hear 37. Toga 33. Passage 40. Muslim 41. Usually Half a Pint 44. To Add Up 45. A Separate Thing 46. Bamboo Stem 47. Sweetly (music) 49. Ale 50. His Surname 51. Esau's Wife 52. Ill-Mannered Person 53. Guard 54. Prefix 55. Enthusiasm 56. Natives of New Zealand 57. "Where”? in Paris 58. God of Love 59. One Who Gives Heed 62. He Instituted Reforms in Church 64. Last Inning 65. Hail* 66. Digits 67. Stout 08. 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As much* as deeply as they possibly can—including service on the policy-making level, ac cording to Father Gustave Wei gel. S.J. FATHER W1EGEL, a pro fessor at Woodstock (Md.) Col lege , said in an address to a St. Louis archdiocesan teachers institute that teachers in Ca tholic schools must give their pupils an education that is sound on secular subjects as well as religion. In an interview following his talk he accused lay Catholics of failing to do their job of collaborating in achieving these same ends of Catholic educa tion. TO THE teachers, Father Weigel said Catholic education requires the schools to "Keep both promises, the promise of education and the promise that the education will be Catholic." As for parents, he said "they must reverse the abdication of their parental responsibility," THE JESUIT urged both the Catholic and tho Catholic pa rent to begin cooperating "as if Catholic education was what it is suppose to be—a common enterprise," ‘The Catholic principle,” he said, "is that education is the parental right and parental ob ligation." But parents have es caped their obligation "by just sending the child off to school and then sitting back,” he as serted. Likewise,- he said, the schools have been content to shut the parents out. "ALL TOO often all the school wants and expects from Catholic parents is their fin ancial support," he said. Asked how far parents should be involved in education policy making, he replied: "THEY ARE capable of doing all they can get their hands on. It’s true they are not prepared teachers and prepared admin istrators. Regardless, they are capable of deciding in which di- The Home and School As sociation of St. Joseph’s, Ma rietta, will hold its annual Open House this year on Sun day, Sept. 29, from 3:30 to 5: 30 pm. The faculty and par ents will meet in the interest of pupils attending St. Joseph’s School. The pastor, Fr. Clarence J. Biggers, S.M., and Home and School Assoc, presidents, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Reardon, have rection the total school enterpr ise is moving. The parent is the proper one to discuss this, with right and with some ability." * He was critical, however, of the failure of parents to con tinue Catholic education in the home. In many cases, he said, the home envirdment "nulli fies" the religious and educa tional values which the school is trying to instill in the child. IN HIS address to the tea chers, Father Weigel said the double job of the Catholic tea cher is to provide "informa tion and formation." Education, he said, should be a real scientific preparation in all secular subjects. "You can not justify your poor job in edu cation .. .by saying that you are saving souls," he added. extended formal invitations to Fr. John Leahy, superintendent of archdiocesan schools and to dignitaries from the City of Ma rietta and from Cobb County. Attending dignitaries will be conducted on a tour of the school by Fr. Biggers and Sister Wil liam Joseph, school principal, after which a general meeting, accompanied with refresh ments, will be held in the cafe teria. St. Joseph’s Open House QUESTION BOX Crowded Solution h MONSIGNOR J. D. CONWAY Q. AS SAT IN THE PEW FOR AN EARLY MASS OF .JNDAY MORNING I WAS NUMBED WITH SHOC OVER HEARING OUR MONSIGNOR SAY THAT t L0 OKS LIKE SOME CHILDREN have to be^rned away from our parish SCHOOL DUI TO LACK OF TEACHERS AND OVERCROWD^ ROOMS, THIS IS JUST PLAIN AWFUL. SO I S T THERE IN CHURCH AND ALL OF A SUDDE I GOT AN IDEA. WHY CAN’T OUR CLOISTERq NUNS AND MONKS AND RE LIGIOUS BE ,, RCRUITED"AND TRAINED TO COME AND T^CH IN OUR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS? IT WOULD BE A tREAT SACRIFICE, I KNOW, TO HAVE TO GIVEUP THE INTERIOR, HID DEN LIFE, BUT^WCJLD IT NOT REAP DIVI DENDS TO KEEP OURCHILDREN IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS? AS A PARENT OF TWO BOYS WHOM J have dedicated t> god since birth, i BLEaD FOR SOMETHIN* to BE DONE. IS THIS IDEA OF MINETOO FAR FETCHED? I ALMOST DIDN’T WRITE BECAUSE I FIGURED l WOULD BE LAUGHED AT. m BUT I HAVE JUST FINISHED Ik READING AN ARTICLE ON I J "THAT MONSTER CALLED HUMAN RESPECT"; SO I DE CIDED TOC/Yx'CEL out what YOU MIGHT THINK OF ME. A. Original Ideas are pre cious: things of our own crea tion. We should r.ot beashamed of them. They are the source of all human pro gress, invention, poetry and science. Sometimes they are far-fetched and impractical, but all you need do is throw them into the light of day, and lome hard-headed critic will quickly let you know ow dreamy you are. Ideas are seldom dangerous dess we keep them hidden to grow perversely iour own minds, or unless we stubbornly cling t( them ignoring contrary arguments and cri- Hsrns. e problem of Catholic education is and rowing one. Many other pastors are fi It nessary to give their parishioners s a noun ments similar to that made by your signo Various remedies are being tried: Ing cc tructIon of new schools> lopping off , grade: dropping lower grades, etc. Eve expert^eem at loss for an answer. My firm oi-ion is the narrow one of a pasto sbnpty nnot go on expanding and expa without hit. This thing needs to be though Goals rm be defined conformant to real pres, it aif utur e. I d, ubt u there is any one answer, ideas may we limited value, but I see i objections! it# At most it would be a tern ary stop-gapM, ere f S a hint of coercion in "recruiting. Contemplatives might i terrible teach s even after they were tra And it might be hard for them to save their own souls in departing from their vocation. However, my principal objection is that your plan might tend to make us Pelagians by giving us the idea that all human problems -even spiri tual ones - can be solved by human efforts alone. Contemplatives serve useful purposes for all of us; they remind us that our first duty in life is to remain united to God in faith and love and grace; and as fellow members of the Mystical Body they are channels of grace for the rest of us - helping to link us to die souce of sanc tity with which they daily strive for intimate unity. Even in these days when we insist on the needs of the apostolate and the possibilities of sanctity in secular life, we must not deprive our selves of the leven of concentrated spirituality. ••• Q. I READ YOUR ARTICLE IN WHICH YOU TOLD THE PARENTS OF ADOPTED BOYS THAT THEIR SONS COULD NOT BE PRIESTS BECAUSE THEY WERE OF ILLEGITIMATE BIRTH. I HAVE TWO ADOPTED DAUGHTERS. WOULD THIS HOLD TRUE IF EITHER OF THEM WANTED TO BE A NUN? THIS IS HARD TO BELIEVE SINCE THE CHILDREN CAN’T HELP HOW THEY WERE BORN. THEY ARE CHANGING EVERYTHING IN THE CATHOLIC RELIGION TODAY;SO I I DON’T SEE WHY THE POPE COULDN’T CHANGE THE LAWS ON SOME OF THESE THINGS THAT ARE IMPORTANT. EVERY TIME AT MASS WE ARE PRAYING FOR VOCATIONS, AND IF THESE CHILDREN WANTED TO GO TO THE RELIGIOUS LIFE AND WERE REFUSED BECAUSE OF THE MANNER OF THEIR BIRTH I THINK IT IS terrible. A. I agree heartily with your three final statements. However, we must not exaggerate: nothing essential in the Catholic religion is being changed, only some outmoded man-made customs, laws and attitudes. We are waking up to the fact that the Counter Reformation of the 16th century is a thing of the past, that medieval theology does not provide answers to all modern problems, and that the social and political attitudes of a century ago are not pertinent today. There is no general law of the Church which prevents illegitimate children from entering re ligious communities. However many - probably most - religious orders and congregations have their own particular laws which exclude them. The effect is much the same, except that the religious superior may be able to disperse from the particular law, whereas a dispensa tion must be obtained from the Holy See to admit an illegitimate boy into the seminary and ordain him. The Pope certainly could change these laws; and I can see no reason why he should not change them, radically and immediately. LITURGICAL WEEK Michael The Archangel CO NT IN U) FR0M p AGE 4 „ OCTOBER 5 MASS* ST> Mary 0 N SATU DAV The Virgin as model of faithfulne is the mother we accl^ ^ today » 8 Mass g is one of the great biblical figures or signs or symbols of the Church, of God’s holy People, as we see in the Gospel’s benediction of not only her motherhood but also her acceptance of the word of God. ARNOLD VIEWING Skillful Ghost Story BY JAMES W. ARNOLD "The Haunting," an icily skillful ghost story for adults, is about what happens when Freud meets Frankenstein in the Old House normally leased to Vincent Price. Originally concocted by novelist Shirley Jackson, whose bizarre imagina tion is as fearsome as any mere ghort. the tale has been filmed by Robert Wise ("West Side Story") so as to age sensitive patrons into pre mature eligibility for social security. The basic idea, as one might suspect, is decidedly offbeat: that haunted people are at home in haunted houses and that the need to be wanted and loved is implanted so deeply in the hu man heart that any horror is preferable to loneliness. Dri ven to its extremity, the mind will embrace and find beauti ful whatever is willing to be embraced. The chilling truth of the notion must be verifi able in any confessional or psychoanalyst’s office. But the point is more incisive in Miss Jack son’s orignal version, where the motivations of Eleanor Vance, the fragile, repressed spin ster, are less obscured by the conventional ghost movie spookery (oddball housekeepers, close- ups of distorted faces, etc.). Print always has the natural advantage over film in its ability to get inside the mind in all its complex twists and turns. THE SITUATION is plain enough. A Ph.D. psychic resercher (played comfortably and re assuringly by British actor Richard Johnson) rents an evil old mansion in New England for acientific pruposes: he itches to prove the exis tence of the supernatural for the benefit of man kind. The naive but dedicated fellow takes with him three young assistants: Eleanor (Julie Harris) , who as a child had a bout with a polt ergeist; Theodora (Claire Bloom), a whiz in ex tra-sensory perception (ESP) experiments and Luke (Russ Tamblyn), the refreshingly ex trovert heir to the house. It is intriguing to watch how director Wise frightens the wits out of cast and customers without allowing them to see anything - except open doors, blowing curtains, eerie sculpture, gothic towers and gargoyles, empty windows. His images are bony white and grave black, the camera angles extreme and often distorted; at one point, the lens zooms dizzilydown from a tower window; at another, it careens about the woodwork of a massive door. The set, teeming with Victorian monstrosities, winding staircases, ambiguous shadows, is an art director's night mare. As Miss Bloom wisely notes: "The real fiend of Hill House is the interior decorator." BUT AFTER Dark something makes an awful pounding noise, writes on the walls, chills the air. and prowls the corridors in frustration try ing to batter thrugh locked doors (an odd case of spirit mastered by matter). When not cower ing and shaking, the cast delivers some sharp, tension-snapping Jacksonese. Actor Tamblyn, confronted by an unearthly cold spot before the doors to the haunted nursery, quips, "It’s a good place to cool our beer". The ghastliness is not quite explained. One way of doing it (out of Edgar Allen Poe by Ame rican-International) wohld be to have the scient ist whip off his mask to reveal himself as the horribly scarred master of the house who has been manipulating everything with a hi-fi set and a crippled assistant. Or the ghosts could be terribly real, as in the classic "The Uninvited" or last year’s mas terful "The Innocents." There is good drama in the desperate conflict between humans and evil spirits; this is, after all, very close to what life is all about. But try telling that to the fellow next to you on the bus. IT IS possible to interpret "The Haunting" disturbances as real, but Miss Jackson has some thing more frightful in mind. She accepts the notion of the house as evil ("leprous," the Bible calls such places) in the sense that it attracts the wicked and deranged, much as holy places attract saints. Eleanor, the homeless neurotic guilt-ridden by the death of her invalid mother, clearly finds a dreary home at Hill House when no one else will have her. What about all that infernal noise? The far- out psychologists would account for it in terms of projection and psychokinesis (the ability to move things without touching them). Eleanor's disturbed psyche not only causes the manifestations but determines their single purpose: the attempt by the "ghosts" to find her and give her a home among them. This also explains what in the film seems outrageously gratuitous: the sexual ambivalence of Theodora. (It is done with such grace by act ress and director that you may well miss it by glancing once too often at the gargoyles). In the book it is clear that Eleanor dives off the deep end only when her love is rejected even by Theodora. The movie hesitates to tackle this, switches the last-chance attraction instead to the scientist. All of which is respectable, but makes Theodora quite pointless. HOWEVER IT is explained, the conflict is kookie and dense, and viewers will find the her oine hard to fathom and the film vaguely un satisfying. Simply as a thriller, it is superior stuff, thanks to the direction, Nelson Gidding’s witty script (which stays close to the original), and near-perfect performances by two of the best actresses alive (Harris and Bloom). "The Haunting" seems, finally, to offer a rat her hair-raising theological suggestion: that the human soul, denied the love for which it was created, will seek love up and down the cor ridors of the universe and find acceptance some where, even if it must be in a hell of its own making. 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, 8 1/2 The L-shaped Room. Better than most: The Longest Day, The Haunt ing, Mutiny on the Bounty, Days of Wine and Roses, A Child Is Waiting. Kids may like: PT-109, The List of Adrian Mes senger, The Lion. God Love You BY MOST REVEREND FULTON. J. SHEEN The Church is like the human body and must grow proporti onately in all parts of the world. An overgrown right arm and a withered left arm would be abnormal. So aid to the Church must never create an imbalance; namely, giving aid to Asia, for ex ample, and ignoring Africa. Further, in some areas special approaches must be used. One wonders if we are at our maximum efficiency in Latin America. We are sending a few priests, Sisters and Brothers to Chile, a few to Brazil, a few to Peru, a few to Bolivia, etc. These either take over parishes built up by the Latin American clergy, or else build churches in isolated areas. This is good, but is it good enough? solution: Two facts will help us find a 1. Communism is gradually taking over Latin America. Philip II, four hundred years ago, said that whoever controls Cuba controls the New World. But Cuba, supported by Russia, has already staged military demonstrations in Peru, Venezuela, Mexico and Chile, It has an International Brigade trained by and under the direction of the Russian Col. Joroslav Volen- kesky. 2. The inflammable material of Latin America is the slums where hundreds of thousands live without sewerage, running water, steady employment, sanitary conditions, and decent clothing. The Communists start by promising them prosperity. Can their hungry stomachs understand that Communism is a lie? At least, to these people it is a hope and a hope will do instead of bread for a day In the light of these facts should not we in the United States form also an International Brigade of priests, Sisters, Brothers and laity who would operate as teams? 1. These teams would go into the slums and live with the people and under the same economic conditions. 2. The million dollars a year The Society for the Propagation of the Faith gives to Latin America could be used by them to improve their housing, build clinics, and give them adequate drinking water, etc. 3. If economic conditions become intolerable, these teams would lead the destitute people into die unoccupied land of the rich, divide it among them in small plots that they may live as human beings. Property rights are not absolute in the face of starvation and destitution. The slums, not a few isolated areas, should be the object of our labors. 4. These teams would recognize that the Gospel of Love of God must first be practiced by them as members of Christ’s In ternational Brigade through love of neighbor in the slums; only when the poor are fed will they listen to the preaching of the Gospel. Our Lord gave the Eucharist after He fed die 5,000 who were in danger of fainting. May the Holy Spirit inspire us to unify our efforts, to attack the prohlem where it is centered, not in the periphery. And may the faithful who know that the Holy Father through his Soc iety for the Propagation of the Faith gives a million to Latin America, help him to give more. GOD LOVE YOU to J. F. for $5 "Recently our family of nine was presented with a donation of grocery supplies. We decided this gift from God should be shared with some less fortunate people, so here is a portion of our grocery money.**, . .to D. G, for $5 "In gratitude for having no cavities on the occasion of my last visit to the dentist." . . . to J. H. for $10 "I won this in a baseball pool and hope it will help in your good work." At a loss for gift suggestions? Turn them into a gain for The Society for the Propagation of die Faith by selecting our smart cufflink sets (oval or square), tie clasp or ladies' charm. Made of goldcolored Hamilton finish with the raised red insignia of the Society, these items make ideal presents. Specify the items you desire, enclose a minimum offering of $3 for each piece and send your name and address to The Society for the Propagation of the Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York 1, New York. SHEEN COLUMN: Cut (Hit 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.