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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1963 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 5 GEORGIA PINES Weekend Pilgrimage by REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN GAINESVILLE—’It was a beautiful weekend in this northeast Georgia town as the sun brought the temperatures up to a soaring 85 degrees and there was hardly, a cloud in the sky all week end City people made the best of the weekend by driving up to see the pretty foliage and the breathtaking scenery of north Georgia’s moun tains. The Elks were holding a convention here, and the towns of Cleveland and Dahlonega were engaged in tourist-attracting festivals. All in all it was a weekend which defies description. Or.e thing which I have seldom done is to take a ride on Sun day afternoon. Usually meet ings, Baptisms or just plain parlor-calls have prohibited this since the first Sunday af ter I was ordained. However, last Sunday was the exception, and I took my first Sunday af ternoon pleasure drive. I GUESS ONE thing which pro- npted this was when I observed the out-of- lunty cars in front of Saint Michael’s Church c Sunday morning. I actually felt like a "visit- 11 priest” when I began to give the sermon and ha dly recognized anyone in my own church. They we s mostly Atlanta and Decatur people who de- c 1C ^ 10 8 et an early start, and they came here for *r',y Mass. Ihe^cJe from here to Toccoa was enjoyable. It couFfiave been better if there had not been so mucxtraffic. Ihe Verona Fathers in Toccoa have an jtdoor shrine in honor of the Blessed Mother lcated on their property. Nestled among. Georgia no trees the white marble statue is set upon concrete block stand with a wall to set off th shrine area. It is a most inspirat ional sight. Incidentlly, this church in Toccoa was built with money collected over the years on Mother's Day. CLAYTON, WITH its unusual design, has an attraction all of its own. The windows of the church, whkh are placed at the top of the wall near the veiling, affords a view of the tree tops. At this time of the year with such an array of colors one can really see the handiwork of the Creator. A parish in Philadelphia’s archdio cese with an eye to the missions donated this chapel to the diocese of Atlanta. The church has a tremendous summer crowd in attendance. Pre vious to its erection, people* had to drive all the way to Gainesville *or . Toccoa in order to hear Sunday Mass: distance of about forty miles each way. In Dahlonega one can see the effects of what Georgia Mission Sunday has done for the arch diocese. Here with funds collected for this pur pose, the GlenMary Fathers purchased a church and completely renovated the edifice. Mass is said facing the poeple in this beautiful chapel. The construction of a rectory is now in progress. At Dahlonega I saw Father Gus showing people from Marietta around the new rectory. The man explained that he just wanted to see first hand what the funds erf Georgia Mission Sunday were being spent on. He was most pleased. THEN BACK TO GAINESVILLE where Saint Michael’s Church constructed of stone and covered with ivy appealed to me the most. Naturally. The ivy is now in the process of changing col or, and without a doubt the church is the most attractive building in Gainesville today. If next Sunday promises to be as nice as last Sunday, I recommend a ride U p through these north Georgia hills. It is most relaxing and will give you a wonderful start on the new week. QUESTION BOX Wiat About Penance? BY Ms’SIGNOR J.D. CONWAY Q. WOULD Yj PLEASE GIVE YOUR OPINION ON A PROBLE and SEVERAL ACQUAINTA NCES? THIS WHh HaS been BOTHERING ME INVOLVES A FRANCE THAT A CONFESSOR IMPOSES AFTEI^oNFESSION. QUITE OFTEN THE PENANCE (»NSISTS OF SAYING A FAM ILIAR PRAYER Fur or FIVE TIMES, FOR EX AMPLE, FIVE HAimarys. NOW IF ISAYTHE FIRST HAIL MAI W ITH SINCERITY AND HEART-FELT DEqtiON, THERE DOESN'T SEEM TO BE MUQ REASON FOR REPEAT- fr C THF P FlRST R TlJ 8M ° RETft,ES ’ IMEANT iJ\™ E ‘ 1K 1 ™:. MORE REPETITIONS SEEM TO BE A CAr 0F THE FORMALISM AND HYPER-JURIDK; M THAT VATICAN II was called to all^jate. penance; but Ido think he should ask his confessor for a penance which will offer him opportunity for more fervent prayer. Another ideal Why not say one penitential Hail Mary a day for five days? There is little danger of formalism or of distracting repetition in that. Q. RECENTLY IN ANSWERING A QUESTION YOU CLAIMED THERE HAD BEEN NO NEGRO POPES. REVEREND WINFRID HERBST, S. D.S., A NOTED WRITER, STATES THAT THERE HAVE BEEN THREE NEGRO POPES; ST. VICTOR I (189-* 199), ST. MELCHIADES (311-314) AND ST. GEL'ASIUS (492-496). WILL YOU PLEASE CLEAR THfe POINT WITH YOUR READERS MYSELF INCLUDED? ,^ LD IT BE PERMsiBLE FOR A WEI INSTRUCTED PENITENT jq PRAY A MC MEANINGFUL PENANCLjjsj PLACE OF T REPETITIOUS ONE? A. In the answer to which you refer I stated that at least three early Popes were from Africa. I had in mind the same three named by Father Herbst. But then I added, "there is no indicat ion that any of them was colored.” A. Your question present^ challenge to medi tation and self-examination As a confessor I know that the easiest penance,, g iV eisone which requires no original thought or lypartandis sure to be known by the penitent^,- Fathers and Hail Marys are made to order. It is a bit disturbing, howev. __ un l eS s long- habit has dulled our sensitivity^. t0 read t h e words of our Savior: "But in pra^g do not mul tiply words, as the Gentiles do; 6r they think that by saying a great deal, they wi^g heard. So do not be like them for your Fathe knows what you need before you ask Him." It is highly probable that our rou ne dishing out of five Our Fathers and ten Hail \ rys gives encouragement to formalistic, n. c h a nistic prayer. There is nothing essentially v ong with the repetition of a prayer which we re.] v mean as long as we do - it with interior dev t ’i 0n> so that it is genuine conversation with Go jf'we can repeat prayers without attention rea llv focused on God, and with faith, love ar 5 i n _ ce rity in our hearts, then there is no form i li;m or hint of supersitition in our repentition. However, we all know that it is very diff. ult to maintain close attention and devotion whenpr v _ ers art “ multiplied as a matter of form oi 0 f legalistic conformity. Such prayer is defectiv il not entirely devoid of value, and it may leq us to attitudes which approach supersitition. i our distractions are intentional we strip our re peated prayers of all value and make them an offense to God. The Catholic Encyclopedia devotes well over a page to Pope St. Victor I without a hint as to his race, though it quotes the "Liber Pantifi- calis" — Book of the Popes— a biographical history of die Popes from St. Peter to the I5th Century, which makes him a native of .Africa and gives his father the name of Felix. St. Victor is best known for his part in the Easter controversy. St. Melchiades gets nearly a page in the same Encyclopedia, under an alternate spelling of his name: Miltiades. It was while he was Pope that the persecutions came to official end in the wes tern part of the Empire. Still no mention of race. St. Gelasius gets a page. There is some quest ion whether he was African or Roman. Possibly he was born at Rome of African parentage. He is known in history for his strong stand against Acacius, an ambitiodf Patriarch of Constan tinople, author of the Acacian Schism. In my earlier answer I gave reasons for believ ing that most of the people designated as Af ricans in those days were of the so-called white race. Q. THESE TWO PEOPLE WERE MARRIED, BUT NOT BY A CATHOLIC PRIEST. THEY WERE DIVORCED. COULD THIS WOMAN BE BAP TIZED, THEN JOIN THE CATHOLIC-CHURCH- AND - MARRY- A CATHOLIC? FOR SINS COM MITTED BEFORE BAPTISM ARE ALL FORGOT TEN. I do not believe it is permissible for a penitent, even a well instructed one, to commute his own A. But husbands acquired before baptism are no so easily forgotten—or brushed aside. Bet ter talk it over with your parish priest. J.ITURGICU, WEEK Kingship Over All CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 TERDay. And the Second Lesson, the Gospel, links our whole hope of God’s mercy and His grace with that fraternal, social, cosmic dimen sion we have d**cussed. "U is thus that my heaven- H Father will deal with you, if brother does not forgive brother with all his heart” (Gospel). Every time \*e gather around the altar, it is evident. Every time we read the Bible or hear it proclaimed in common worship, it is evident. But we grasp the message very slowly: that sal- vation is a kingdom, a social order, a frater nal order, indivisible from our relations with one another. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31 MASS AS ON TUESDAY. The "alien race" of the Aleluia is no longer the Egyptians. It is those who, not recon|iz:ng Christ's kingship, do not recognize their neighbors, their brothers, those whose des tinies are bound with their own in a social and familial relationship to God. 4 \ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1 ALLSAINTS. The Beat itudes we hear in today’s Gospel are the char ter of Christ's kingdom and, therefore, the c harter of true participation in the Mass. The kingdom is a social order, the social order, toward which all present social order is moving. So its symbol in man’s present stage, its sacrament, is the Mass—an ordering of hu man society in faith and love through a sacrifi cial meal. Saints in Black and White ST. JOAN OF ARC «2 i ACROSS 1. Capture 4. Known as the " of Oilcans" 8. Club 11. Wonder 14. Arabian sleeveless cloak 15. Italian river 16. Woman’s name 17. Energy unit 18. Spigot 19. Gregory ..... 20. Hot 21. Russian plane 22. New Zealand island 24. Musical instrument 26. American war correspondent 27. Sea nymph 30. Indian leader 33. Scene of actual fighting 36. Entrance 10. Well-known airline 43. Prophet 45. Scold 46. South African guns 48. The cream of the crop 50. Greek letter 51. Squatic animal 53. Escape 55. Expensive 56. Indian scholar 58. Invidious 60. Seniors 61. Charm 63. Dutch villages 65. Rainy day playroom 67. 71. 74. 77. 78. 79. 81. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. She crowned the Dauphin at Dark horse Sour substance Sir Anthonv Japanese admiral Friend She is called the soldier Period of time Negative Where the sun rises in Paris Brazilian weight of the Co venant 42 90. 91. 92. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 23. One who keeps records Also Peruse Cutting tool DOWN Rouge Subside One who yawns Chart Exist Unit of measurement African tribe Manner of her death Prefix meaning upward 7 3. Abe Lincoln's son She led the French Lament Margin Army unit in World War II 25. Doctor’s helper 26. Made a low vibrating sound 28. Wrath 29. Alms 31. Stick used as a targe 32. Roe-filled 34. Famous river 35. Appendages 37. Ridges in cloth 38 of roses 39. Age 40. Figure of speech 41. Norse god Sicilian volcano Dazes Indian Redact Brawl Biblical tower Exclamation Anglo-Saxon letter Venetian market place Comprehend Cubic centimeters Beliefs Christmas Reptile Metallic chemical element On top of Small quantity 75 Stravinsky 76. Eat 79. Caress 80. Japanese National Park 82. Radio corporalior 83. Boy 44. 47. 49. 52. 54. 57. 59. 62. 64. 66. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S PUZZLE ON PAGE 7 HEAVY SCHEDULE Council May Need Further Sessions To Complete Work ROME (NC)—Some Fathers of Vatican Council II would like to see the 17 major documents of the council reduced to just four. In their view, the existing draft proposals, or schemata, should be telescoped to these: on the liturgy, which is vir tually completed; ecumenism; the presence of the Church in the modern world; and on the nature of the Church. The sche ma on the nature of the Church -—”De Ecclesia”—is the major topic thus far discussed during the council's second session. REDUCTION TO a total of four schemata would be a dras tic revision of the agenda con fronting the council Fathers prior to the opening of the coun cil a year ago. The 10 prepa ratory commissions and two preparatory secretariats had sent to the bishops of the world 119 booklets detailing 67 sepa rate projects. die current session, which ends on December 4. However, since other draft proposals, notably the Mario- logical one, may be incorporat ed into the schema on the Church —and remaining chapters al ready deal with the lay aposto- late and the status of religious orders—the adoption of the whole ”De Ecclesia” schema may be delayed until the next session. IT IS NOW thought here that the next session will take place in the spring of 1964. If present plans materialize, the draft proposal on ecume nism, which is of great impor tance for the Church’s rela tions with other faiths, will be next on the council’s agenda. It will be taken up during the present session only if suffi- RACIAL RIGHTS cient time remains after the debate on the nature of the Church. IT APPEARS likely that the controversial schema on Reve lation will not come up again for consideration, since it is felt that the issues at stake under this heading require further in vestigation by theologians, whose studies the council would not want to restrict premature ly. There would then remain one draft proposal only to be con sidered after those on the Church and on ecumenism, namely the present 17th sche ma, which is entitled "On the Presence and Activity of the Church in the Modern World.” A committee under the chair manship of Leo Cardinal Sue- nens, Archbishop of Malines- Brusseis, Belgium, is now stu dying the topics. Catholics Hit Bid To Water Down Law Whether or not the present 17 projects are reduced to four, at least one if not two addi tional sessions of the council can now be viewed as a cer tainty, according to competent sources here. THE DELAY IN adoption of the second chapter of the lit urgy schema has proved right those who had warned of the possibility of surprises. This also applies to the draft pro ject on the nature of the Church. Its discussion, according to these sources, will no doubt take up at least the balance of CHICAGO (RNS)—Adminis tration requests for deletion of some provisions from pend ing civil rights legislation were sharply criticized in a telegram sent to President Kennedy by Raymond M. H. Hilliard, chair man of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Jus tice. The Attorney General had requested trimming of some additions made in subcommittee which substantially strengthened the original proposal. Chiefly at issue was Title III, giving the Justice Department the right to sue to prote*. t Constitutional rights. ARNOLD VIEWING V.I.P. Is Too Slick BY JAMES W. ARNOLD ”The V. L P’s is too slick, and often comp letely incredible, but it is a writer’s picture, and one of the better ones since '"All About Eve.” Its varied virtues and vices can be laid to scenarist Terence Rattigan ("Separate Tab les," "The Browning Version”), who here plays clever and even profound variations on the com plex relationships between love and money. There is a central irony: the modern passion for prestige that causes a large airline (BOAC) to bestow special love-favors on Very Important Persons whose only qualifying attribute is money. The practice is not peculiar to BOAC, even among airlines; in our society it is, like anxiety, a universal trait. DURING the movie the pos session or pursuit of wealth also (1) corrupts the 13-year- old marriage of an industrial magnate; (2) allows a dotty duchess to hang onto her ancestral castle; (3) forces an abusurd marriage between a film producer and a brain less actress, and (4) encourages the blossoming of love between a harrassed businessman and his devoted Girl Friday. The plots are more than slightly fake, and the setting - a fogged-in London airport where the characters, in varying degrees of desperation, await a flight to New Yorks - reminds one of the hundreds of similar movie dramas aboard plane, ship, train or stagecoach. Transportation, or the threat of it, brings out the soap in every writer’s blood. If so much high drama on a given day in one V. L P. lounge strains belief, consider that in three of the four situations, there are crucial time deadlines. The magnate’s wife hoped to elope before her spouse finds the "Dear John” note; the film producer has to leave the country by midnight or lose a million dollars to tax- collectors; the businessman must reach New York to cover a check already on its way to the bank. The fog, of course, keeps everybody grounded. WRITER Rattigan also furnishes an old-fashion ed jealous husband, equipped with wild eyes, loaded pistol and suicide note. In one scene, the magnate donates the better part of a million to a pleading girl he has never seen before; in another, the producer and duchess just happen to meet under a poster-portrait of the old girl's castle. Net effect; the movieman rents the place for a new film, thus unwittingly lifts the mort gage from the homestead. But the movie is rescued from its squeaking mechanisms by superb characterizations, mostly in the writing and often in the acting; a half- dozen exciting and ingenious eyeball-to-eyeball character confrontations, and loads of fresh, mature dialog. If the whole is mediocre, the parts are smashing. A major obstacle for Rattigan and veteran director Anthony Asquith (who has filmed nearly all Rattigan's scripts) was the casting of Eliz abeth Taylor and Richard Burton as the part ners in the collapsing marriage. Although the famous pair may be the key to box-o(fice glory, their off-camera reputations are no help to their believability here as a man and wife deeply shaken by what material success has done to their mutual need and love. As characters they must hold intensely values that they have, according to en thusiastic press documentation, disregarded. LIZ’ ROLE demands chiefly beauty, in which she is helped by color and a lush Givenchy wardrobe. Burton has the onus of an unattrac tive part which requires him to glower, snarl and sulk with a wooden detachment that may con ceal a secret longing for the dear dignified days at the Old Vic. But others in the cast offer such pleasantries as: SUPRISE: Provided by veteran glamor boy Louis Jourdan, who finds so many likeable subtleties in the trite role of an aging gigolo that he may well be embarrassed with an Oscar nomina tion. Viewers will find themselves, astonishing ly, not only liking him but rooting for him. Ironically, as the paid lover for whom love has come to mean all and money nothing, Jourdan is the only character who ends up both loveless and broke. DELIGHT: As the duchess, longtime film- stealer Margaret Rutherford, looking mo"> than ever like a befuddled stork, conducts a visual comedy circus of her own. Her hilarious por trait include first-plane-trip nervousness, baggy disarranged overcoat, ill-fitting hat which squats on her head like an overturned soap tureen, and a magnificently anonymous handbag. The film’s best scene: Miss Rutheriord struggling into her narrow plane seat, badgering the ste wardess and coping ineffectually with a seat belt. FRESHNESS: Rod Taylor and Maggie Smith bring a youthful glow to their troubless with the rubber check that offsets the weary sophisti cation of the stars. Australian Taylor is both rugged and pitiable as a onetime laborer over- his-head in the cruel world of high finance, and has some of Rattigan’s best ironic lines, e.g.; "A hundred years ago people were Important be cause they were born that way. . .perhaps 25 years from now, they will be important because they deserve to be." Movie barons are clobbered satirically in the comic dilemma of the producer and his prote gee (Orson Welles and Elsa Martinelli). Welles tells reporters he’s interested in art not pro fit ("I use the camera as a surgeon uses his scalpel"), then spends most of the movie in a cold sweat to get his loot safely to Switzerland. RATTIGAN’S point seems to be that wealth is only good or bad depending on its use and its personal cost, in terms of spirit. The film, re freshingly, tries to deal with persons rather than mere types. As actor Burton puts it: "A man like me? There is no man like me - only me. . . myself. . .this body. . .this mind. . . this spirit." CURRENT RECOMMENDED FILMS: For everyone: Lawrence of Arabia, The Four Days of Naples, The Great Escape. For connoisseurs: 8 1/2, The L-Shaped Room. Better than most: The Longest Day, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Haunting, The V. L P.’s. Kids may like; PT-109, List of Adrian Messen ger. Referring to Attorney Gene ral Robert F. Kennedy’s pro posals to the House Judiciary Committee, Mr. Hilliard told the President it is "incredible that a member of your adminis tration should do anything to we aken prospective civil rights legislation." THE CHICAGO NCCIJ chair man said the Attorney General’s "request for weak legislation is intolerable at this stage in our American democracy. Americ ans have a right to expect the federal administration to take the ultimate stand on protection of the rights of all our citiz ens over 100 years after the Gr eat Emancipator freed our country from slavery." ATTORNEY GENERAL Ken nedy said this provision would give the government and him self too much power and would involve stich. jiopracial matters as censorship and Church-State relations. In his telegram, Mr. Hilliard declared that civil rights leg islation, "including a strong FEP (fair employment pract ices provision), and across -the-board public accom modations title and broad in junctive powers for the Attor ney General, is essential if it- is to have any real meaning to the Negroes of the United St ates, and if it is to be effec tive at all in protecting our ri ghts.” God Love You BY MOST REVEREND FULTON 1. SHttEN ROME. . .A Bishop wears his purple on the outside for the Dene- fit of the people. He can always wear a hair shirt on the inside for the benefit of himself. As one sits in Council with 2,500 bishops one has the feeling that many of them would be more comfortable if they had on a hair shirt. This morning, one was telling me of his great anxiety when he sent three nuns into a desert to care for 200,000 starving people. One day they were journeying by Volkswa gen to aid the sick in a distant place. At one point they began to ford a river bed with only a few inches of water in it. But a sud den torrential ran produced a flood, and the little car carrying the three of them was swept down the river in the torrent. Pro videntially, they were stopped by a tree which was growing in the river bed. They climbed into the upper branches only to see the auto disappear. Imagine the surprise of the natives the next morn ing as they heard the cries of the good Sisters. And tms is tne way the Gospel was first ^reached to these people. The bishop wanted to know if we could get him another Volkswagen for the Sisters. Another missionary bishop introduced to me one of his priests whom he said was living in the "greenhell of the Amazon.” He had only 10,000 people in an area of 35,000 square miles - and no transportation. Most of his parishioners were Japanese. (Little do we realize that thei-e are more Catholic Japanese in Brazil than in Japan.) Five other bishoDs came in a body to our desk to beg Mass stipends for their priests, whom they said had no other means of livelihood. And where do you suppose the Lord has put me for this second session of the Council? In the front row, where 1 am so accessible to our beloved poor missionaries. These good apostles have something worse than a hair shirt; they have povertyl Please help me help them. The Church is so blessed in such men I GOD LOVE YOU to J. H. for $50 "Asking your prayers." ... to L. A. L. for $1 "I can’t forget a sentence in the September issue of MISSION: ‘To turn the pages of MISSION and make no sac rifice for the Missions is to take your cup of water and turn your back on Christ thirsting on the Cross.’ ” ...to Mrs. J. K. for >5 "In honor of St. Theresa for many prayers answered.*’ You carry the Blessed Mother’s image in your heart, but why not show it by wearing her GOD LOVE YOU medal? The ten letters of GOD LOVE YOU form a decade of the rosary as they encircle this medal originated by Bishop Sheen to honor the Madonna of the World. W'ith your request and a corresponding offering you may order a GOD LOVE YOU medal in any one of the following styles; $ 2 small sterling silver $ 3 small 10k gold filled r $ 5 large sterling silver $10 large 10k gold filled SHEE^i 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, N. Y. 10001, or your Diocesan Director.