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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1964 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 5
GEORGIA PINES
Saints in Black and White I r;ES ™_£
Rolling Along
ST. HELENA
BY REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN
It seems to me that I spend most of my time in
an automobife . As a matter of fact some 41,000
miles of road were covered lastyear. Iguess that
I am like most people when I say that two or three
hours of driving both tires me out and bores me.
Some time back I developed an interesting habit
of adding the numbers on auto-tags as the car
would pass me on the highway. It really increas
ed my ability to add a column of figures rapidly.
however, as I drive down a
highway now there seems to be
as many letters as there are
numerals on the auto-tags. This
sort of messes up my matha-
metical practice but it has ini-
riated a whole new field of in
quiry.
First, let me say that I like
the idea of putting the county prefix on auto
tags. It gives one a feeling of cameraderie’ when
one is in a different state and an auto goes by
bearing a neighboring county. Last fall, for ex
ample, I was driving on the New Jersey Turn
pike. I noticed, through my rear view mirror, an
auto coming up at an extremely high rate of
speed. As the vehicle passed me sounding like
a coffee pot and leaving an oil trail behind...
I noticed that the car was from Georgia and the
auto-tag had the county prefix of number 10 on it.
(Naturally, in this case I was not too pleased that
the violator was from Hall County.)
Then on the rear of cars almost everyone to
day has a tag denoting that he belongs to some
41 sort of society or organization. Most everyone is
familiar with the Shriners and the Knights of
Columbus emblem. (I understand that the Geor
gia Peace Officer emblem used to be good in
surance against parking tickets until people sold
their cars without removing the emblem and sud
denly the emblem became the property of boot
leggers, racketeers and the like.)
One humorous incident like this occured when I
noticed that a state trooper had an auto stopped
with all four passengers slightly inebriated. and
the driver was DUI. On the rear of the car, no
less, was a big “clergy” emblem. It seems that
the car had been purchased from a used car deal
er and the dealer was over anxious to make good
his selling point “clergy owner; good condition.”
(Caveat emptorl)
Of course, the familiar sign of M D with the
caduceus denotes a doctor; D DS means a dentist;
R N is a nurse; D V M signifies a veterinary
but I was surprised to know that D M D also
means a dentist. Most dental schools give the fami
liar D D S with the exception of two who confer
the D M D degree.
I never have Seen a Ph.D. or an L.L.D. em
blem but a real stickler to me recently was P.E.
Naturally I thought he was participating in the phy
sical fitness program and that the owner was a
Physical Education teacher it turned out to be a
Professional Engineer.
Some cars are all cluttered up with various and
sundry signs that seem to be a status symbol or
give them entree into privileged places. Actually,
I guess that they only mean that the emblem and
10£ will purchase a cup of coffee in the nearby
restaurant.
Ham radio operators have interesting plates in
Georgia. By an act of the General Assembly they
can place their call letters on auto-tags instead
of the numbers.
Georgia has done away with the “Governor’s
Staff” auto plates and with the exception of the
Governor and the Lieut. Governor nothing is on the
plates to designate that the owner is a member of
the official family.
Some people like large numbers while others
think that a low number makes them out to be a
VIP. Personally, it matters not to me but 1
have always wondered why people can ride with
last year’s plates until April 1st. of the following
year. I always thought that the new year began on
January 1st.
QUESTION BOX
How About Lipstick?
by MONSIGNOR J. O. CONWAY
Q. DOES LIPSTICK BREAK A PERSON’S
FAST BEFORE HOLY COMMUNION OR ON A
FAST DAY? ONE PRIEST SAID YES; ANOTHER
SAID NO. WHICH IS CORRECT?
,jF »' ; *
A. The one who said; No; unless you are eating
^ the stuff. Licking a bit of it off your lips certainly
does not break your Communion fast. And even a
good unhealthy bite of it would not be forbidden on
a fast day.
The priest distributing Com
munion will appreciate if it you
do not smear it too thick and
wide, in manner to present him
a challenge of accuracy and dex
terity against a threat of red
fingers.
N.B. I am presuming, lady,
that you are referring to your
own fast. If your husband kisses you through all
that good it does not break his fast either; but he
should wipe it off his mouth before Communion.
***
Q. MAY A PERSON GO TO HOLY COMMUN
ION* ON SUNDAYS ONLY, MISSING THE WEEK
DAYS IN BETWEEN, IF THEY ARE STILL IN THE
state OF GRACE?
A. Yes, indeed. Many people do it, going to
confession only now and then. However, unless you
4 are a daily communicant, I recommend confes
sion every ^ weeks, so that you may gain the
plenary indulgences for which confession and
Communion are required. However, don’t miss
y°ur Sunday Communion merely because you
haven’t been to confession for a couple of months,
or more.
Q. MOTHER WAS BURIED IN A NON-SECTA
RIAN CEMETERY YEARS AGO, AND THERE ISA
lot there for father, we have talked
THIS OVER AND FATHER DOESN’T KNOW WHAT
TO DO. SHOULD HE GET A LOT IN A CATHO
LIC CEMETERY AND HAVE MOTHER’S BODY
TAKEN UP AND INTERRED THERE, NEXT TO
THE SITE OF HIS FUTURE GRAVE? THE FAMI
LY FEELS THAT HE SHOULD USE THE LOT
WHERE SHE IS NOW BURIED.
A. I personally agree wih the family a hundred
per cent.
Q. WHAT TYPES OF DEGREES ARE GIVEN TO
CLERGY UPON COMPLETION OF SEMINARY
TRAINING?
A. Usually none. Some seminaries, especial
ly those connected with universities, may give a
minor degree in theology or in religious education
to a seminarian who is willing to take extra work.
Q. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHETHER A
PERSON FROM THE U. S. TRAVELING THROUGH
CANADA OR STAYING IN CANADA WHILE ON
VACATION, BUSINESS, ATTENDING SCHOOL OR
STATIONED THERE WHILE IN TH E ARMED
SERVICES WOULD BE OBL1G ATEDTO OBSERVE
THE HOLY DAYS OF OBLIGATION AS THEY ARE
SET UP IN THE U. S. OR WOULD HE HAVE TO
OBSERVE THE ONES AS THEY EXD IN CANADA?
IN A ST. JOSEPH DAILY MISSAL IT LISTS
EPIPHANY, JAN. 6, AS A HOLY DAY IN CANADA
AND OMITS THE ASSUMPTION, AUG. 15.
A. Any person visiting in Canada, for any rea
son, must observe the Holy Days of Canada while
he is there, but need not observe the Holy Days
of his own country which are not of obligation in
Canada.
The same rule applies for a person visiting any
other country, in Rome, for instance, you would be
obliged to observe the Epiphany, the feast of St.
Joseph, Corpus Christ! and the feast of SS. Peter
and Paul.
liturgical week
Quinquagesima Sunday
CONTINUED FROM p A GE 4
publicly i n deed and word that we have been un
faithful to our Baptism, unfaithful to Jesus Christ
to whom Baptism relates us. We receive ashes on
our heads, in token of what we are by ourselves,
dust, dependent on Dod for life both now and in
eternity.
Repentence is our theme, both in the rite of
blessing as h es an d in the texts of the Mass itself.
And not repentance alone, but repentance in the
sight of a nierciftil Father. Our fasting, ° ur
penance, personal gesture more than legal obli
gation.
FEB. 13 t 'THURSDAY AFTER ASH WEDNES
DAY* Persistent, steadfast faith—in Ezechiel in
the First R eac j in g and the centurion in the Gospel -
it the quality in man which enables us to receive
tjie healing mercy Dod. "His mile will endure
forever (Entrance Hymn). "Upon you I have set
my hear t” (Offertory Hymn).
And faith is itself one °f the gifts of that baptis
mal covenant to which Lent turns our thoughts.
Cod, then, i s totally the author of our salvation:
Pope Presents Candles
To Orthodox Patriarchs
Across
1. Enclosure
5. Asian plain
9. Stern
13- Chestnut horse
14. Dear (Ital.)
15. Many .... were
wrought through the
relics she found
17. Spheres
18. The relics she found
can be seen in ....
20. Third month of the
Mohammedan
calendar
22. Person of
distinctive style
25. Electrical unit
26. Contact
27. Continent
28. Alcott character
29. Cooking abbrv.
30. Circuit
31. Second in command
32. Wool suppliers
3 1. Osiris’ wife
35. Her son made the
Christians
31). Plunders
• il. Propeller
42. Prencli nobleman
44. .National Park
■iS Part of the
human jaw
51. To relieve
52. J.earn
53. Originator
55. Act
56. Inscription found
bv her
59. Sister (Latin) 21.
60. Officer in charge 23.
61. Girl’s name 24.
62. Route 29.
63. A kind of cloth 33.
64. Exists 34.
66. Baby food 35.
68. Superlative 36.
69. Strong current 37.
71. Epic poem 38.
73- Clairvoyant 40.
75. Preposition ~>2.
76. Descendant
78. Indian peasant 43
80. Beautiful garden
81. Used in snow 4 5.
and ice 46.
82. meshes 47.
83. irritated 49.
50.
Down * i.
1. She found this 55.
2. Artery 56.
3. Idiot 57.
i. Put in bondage
5. Cashier’s check
6. Animal 58.
7. Tahitian god
S. Monastery of lamas 60.
9. Capitol Hill is there 63.
10. Belonging to you 64.
and me 65
I 1. Mountain range 67.
12. Confederate army 69.
16. Where the Law was 70.
given 72.
19. She was the Mother 74,
of the
Constantine “9,
Snakes
Prankish child
Square yard
Have being
Put in place
Ideology
Hare
Sped
Period
Desists
Color
"Lady of the Lake"
outlaw
Part of a
Roman legion
Frozen water
Digit
Conclusion
Japanese fish
Away from the south
Fish eggs
Inheritances
Swiss measure
She found these
buried with the
true cross
Her findings arc
precious
Brightest star
Toward
Between
age
Cabbage
Jogging pace
Within (comb, form)
Female antelope
Observe
State
Huck Finn’s chum
ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S PUZZLE ON-PAGE 7
VATICAN CITY (RNS) —
Pope Paul VI, in another ecu
menical gesture, announced he
was sending some of the cand
les traditionally presented to
the Roman pontiff on Candlemas
Day to Ecumenical Patriarch
Athenagoras and other Ortho
dox Patriarchs he met during
his Holy Land Pilgrimage.
“In so doing,” he said, “we
shall send them our modest
but cordial greetings, in grate
ful memory and the fervent
hope of Christian unity.”
THE CANDLES were pre
sented to the Pope on the Feast
of the Purfication of the Bless
ed Virgin Mary, which is also
known as Candlemas— the time
when candles for the use of the
Church or the faithful are bles
sed.
Some were gifts from chap
ters of the patriarchal and
minor basilicas and of the col
legiate and national churches in
Rome. Others came from the
Sovereign Order of Malta, the
Order of the Holy Sepulchre
and various seminaries, religi
ous orders, congregations and
sodalities and other institutions
which enjoy this privilege.
THE POPE SAID he also
was sending some of the candles
— many of them weighing 60
pounds — to Eastern Rite pat
riarchs he met in the Holy
Land, to churches he visited
during his pilgrimage, to the
heads of the Vatican ecclesias-
ARNOLD VIEWING
‘The Cardinal’ Error
BY JAMES W. ARNOLD
As an ecclesiastical adventure story, Otto Pre
minger’s film version of “The Cardinal” has it
moments. But as a religious movie, it is nowhere,
unless you count the number of church interiors
photographed or the percentage of actors in cleri
cal garb.
The hero is bright, handsome,
and rather chilling; he happens
to be a priest. He undergoes
nearly every dramatic experi
ence possible for that state in
life (as well as some not so
possible) as he moves Up the
Ladder. But something essen
tial never happens. Neither he
nor the audience ever has a gen
uine spiritual experience. There is no meaningful
involvement with God.
This should not be astounding, given the basic
material (Henry M. Robinson’s 1950 best-seller)
and producer-director Preminger's penchant for
combining a little meaning with a great deal of
souped-up melodrama. The book was lovely but
not quite spiritual reading, and one can hardly ex
pect an old potato man like Preminger to grow
lilies in a thriving potato patch.
The novel, some thought, was chiefly an exposi
tion of Catholic apologetics, hard on Protestants
and such practices as birth control. The movie
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preparing us to receive it as well as bestowing
the gift.
FEB. 14, FRIDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY.
Penance and fasting must be a means to love if
they are to find acceptance in God’s sight. Last
Sunday’s hymn to charity in the First Reading is
applied concretely in both lessons today to the
moral life of believers. Man is a body-soul unity
and his outward acts of penance are no more inde
pendent of an inner conversion to God in his broth
ers than the inner conversion of love is indepen
dent of outward acts.
FEB. 15, SATURDAY AFTER ASH WEDNES
DAY. The First Reading continues yesterday’s
moral lesson, while the Gospel points again to
Christ as the Person in whom recovery is to be
found. "All those who touched him recovered.”
This season of recovery we call Lent is particu
larly a time to come close to Him in the Scrip-
111 r es and in the sacraments, as well as in prayer
and brotherly love, In the boat of the Gospel we
se e the Church, the People of God, with its gua
rantee of His presence.
avoids the stormy subject of planned parenthood
altogether, and seems harder on Catholics than
anybody except the Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan.
Yet the film is sympathetic to the Church in gen
eral, if not always in particular. The image is of
a legalistic but highly dynamic institution, beset by
subtle internal conflicts, struggling to keep its
balance in a world of change. If not entirely un
fair, the image is over-simple and unlikely to make
the converts author Robinson might once have
hoped for.
The movie is poor propaganda because motives
are never made spiritually meaningful. When the
priest allows his sister to die, he seems heart
lessly Intellectual. His “inhuman” choice of the
priesthood over a woman who loves him seems
motivated only by long stares at the altar (with
pious music on the sound track). When he battles
Nazis and racists, he is only a politician with a
social conscience.
The neutral observer is likely to respond with
his heart to the priest’s heroics on behalf of civil
rights, but Father Fermoyle seems a cold fish in
the incidents involving women. As for the Nazis,
the priest’s efforts are overshadowed by the im
pression that the Austrian primate, at least until
the end, is a fervent fascist.
As art, "The Cardinal” barely gets its head
above water. There’s the sheer incredibility.
Take Father Fermoyle’s sister. Her plans to
marry a Jew collapse because of patronizing in
sults by insensitive Irish relatives. She resorts
to fornication, has an explosive argument wither
brother in the confessional, and leaves God and r
Church with familiar Hollywood eclat.
tics and diplomatic representa
tives.
IN ACCEPTING the gifts, the
Pope said he appreciated the
great spiritual value of the of
ferings, which, he said, have
special reference to the "cele
bration of the Christmas mys
tery and loving and filial devo
tion to Mary Most Holy, on the
one hand, and on the other,
to the symbols of that first li
ght received by all mankind.”
"We shall send many of
these candles," he continued,
"to those who customarily re
ceive them, namely, the heads
of the diplomatic corps ac
credited to the Holy See, and
thus they will receive a spec
ial value, and, like an inter
national torch, will spread
abroad a peaceful and friendly
light.
“ THEN WE SHALL send
some of them to some deserving
shrines which we recall with
special devotion, and also to
some humble churches in which
we wish to enkindle piety by
honoring their poverty.
“But this year, a special
slinky cha-cha-cha with an untrustworthy Spanish-
type, and has a Big Drunk Denunciation Scene
telling off her brother and his “pious, mealy-
mouthed religion.” This is all one could reason
ably expect of any fallen-away sister. But later
she is rescued (in labor) from a bordello and
confronts the hero with a classic textbook mother-
or-the-baby situation in childbirth.
Then there is Georgia. Father goes there to lend
moral support to a Negro priest trying to integrate
the parish school. In a matter of hours he is being
stripped and beaten before a burning cross be
cause he will not spit on the crucifix. A various
times he also copes with a "bleeding-statue” mir
acle, quits the priesthood for several years (just
as his Bishop tells him he’s a monsignor), falls
in and out of love with a pretty Viennese, wrest
les with Hitler in Austria and a conservative
cardinal in the Curia.
All this could occur, but if it happened to one
man he would deserve more than the Red Hat. One
gets the Jticky feeling that Preminger is gaily-
working in every major controversy of the 20th
century - especially those with a bit of spice,
violence or shock.
To be honest, the movie has impressive scenes
(in color and Panavision) of ordination and conse
cration rites, and beautiful ecclesiastical inter
iors in Rome and Vienna (including 817-year-
old St. Stephen's Cathedral). But there are many
earthier moments. Besides the bistro, bordello
and torture scenes, we have the dark and phony
excitement of the illicit romance, a suicide, a
full-scale Nazi riot with a murder or two, and a
Cardinal who tries to blackmail the hero with a ro
mantically suggestive photo.
In the lead role, darkly handsome Tom Tryonhas
strength but little of the warmth the character
needs. Preminger’s elderly cardinals (John Hus
ton, Raf Vallone, TullioCarminati, Josef Meinrad)
are slick and believable, with Huston the most hu
manly at ease.
The only really “holy” people in the film are
Burgess Meredith, as the dying pastor of a pover
ty-stricken flock, and Jill Haworth, as the pretty
would-be nun who cares for him. Despite a touch
ing death scene played with Huston, Meredith
seems trying too hard for the Franciscan image;
the subtlety of sanctity eludes him. I liked Miss
Haworth, but perhaps for her part, which is re
freshingly simple and beautiful.
Romy Schneider (as the Viennese), asked only to
be cute, European and a trifle vain, does splendid
ly. Much more is asked of young and inexperien
ced Carol Lynley (as the sister); she hangs on
nobly until the dissipation sets in. John Saxon has
vigor and individuality as the Jewish boy friend.
Preminger's best dramatic scene is probably
that wild Nazi rush on the Cardinal’s residence in
Vienna. But it seems a bit much to have the Vien
na Youth Choir off to the side singihg Handel,
just as it does to hear a harmonica play “Dixie”
during the Klan beating. Some Boston scenes,
bluntly describing casual Catholic anti-semitism,
are uncomfortably on target.
CURRENT RECOMMENDED FILMS;
For everyone; It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,
Lord of the Flies, Lilies of the
Field, The Great Escape,
For connoisseurs: Winter Light, 8 1/2, This
Sporting Life, The Leopard.
Better than most; The Haunting, Charade,
destination of these candles will
be, first of all, the Catholic Pat
riarchs whom we met during
our pilgrimage in the Holy Land
and the churches we visited
there, and then also the Ortho
dox Patriarchs whom we were
able to greet on that memor
able occasion. In doing so we
shall send them our modest but
cordial greetings, in grateful
memory and the fervent hope
of Christian unity.”
“This ”, he said, “is actu
ally a part of the intention of
the Biblical personage, Sime
on, who filled it with his prop
hetic voice as he lifted the In
fant Jesus high in his old, trem
bling arms and exclaimed; ’Be
hold this light which will enligh
ten all peoples.”
“CHRIST IS indeed the light
of the earth, the light of the
Church, the light of souls. And
it is in order to give oursel
ves, to give you and all others
as well, the joy of fixing the
eyes upon this one and only light
of salvation, that we, in the joy
of receiving these candles, send
forth ever brighter the kindly
light of Christ.”
Seminary Fund
Remember the SEMINARY FUND of the
Archdiocese of Atlanta in your Will. Be
quests should be made tc the “Most Rev
erend Paul J. Hallinan, Archbishop of the
Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta and his suc
cessors in office” Participate in the daily
prayers of our seminarians and in the
Masses offered annually for the benefactors
of our SEMINARY FUND.
God Love You
BY MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN
The Council has not yet discussed that subject which, not
theoretically but practically, affects its relation to the world;
namely, the Missions. Ecumenism is concerned with the Church
and Christian sects. But "Mission’’ is concerned with every
creature in the world, not only every soul; “Preach the Gospel
to every creature,’’ said Our Lord.
Who in the Church has to
learn most about Mission? The
Church of the Western World 1
The Missions have been re
garded as a foundling on the
doorstep of the Church of the
Western World and, in parti
cular, the United States. Mis
sions have not been a legiti
mate child to be daily cared
for, fed and nourished, but
something that interrupts one's comfort and peace until it has
been thrust into other hands. Once or twice a year, a collection
is taken for the 2,000 million who do not know Christ, and an
odd gift here and there is sent to the foundling.
The Council will remind the Catholics of the Western World
that the Missions are not foundlings to whom we give gifts, but
our own flesh and blood whom we serve before we please our
selves. The Council, furthermore, will recall the words of Our
Lord to His Church in which He united two ideas that may not
be divorced. One: "I have come not to be ministered unto, but
to minister” — this means Mission. The other; "And to give
my Life for the Redemption of many” — this is Passion. Mis
sion is service of others; Passion is the crucifixion of self for
others. Our Lord intertwined the Church and the Crucifix, the
Body and its surrender in love, the source of Divine Power and
the love by which that power is surrendered to others.
In the Missions, the Church can present itself to the world
only as a servant, not as lord; only as giver, not as receiver.
Its symbol is the towel with which its Divine Founder girded
Himself to wash the feet of His Disciples and then told us to
do likewise. In a prosperous country, we are likely to feel
that, as masters of wealth, we should first supply our wants
before caring for the needs of others. We are all ready to
fight for first places at table, but few of us fight for the towel
of service in the Missions.
You may think this column too general for you to do anything
about, saying it refers to the Church, the bishops and the priests.
But you are the Church and you are waiters to the wedding of
Mission and Passion. By sending a sacrifice, you will make us
bishops and priests remember: "What God hath put together,
let no man put asunder.”
GOD LOVE YOU to A.H. for $5 "For my intentions.” ... to
Mrs. H.B. for $100 “In thanksgiving for my mother’s happy
death. She died with a priest at her side which was her last
wish and prater.” .... to J.D.H. for $100 ‘*1 never really knew
fully what you meant by ‘The Poor of the World* until a recent
trip to Mexico. I came away depressed by my unanswered
question, “Why do I have so much when so many have so little?
MISSION combines the best features of all other magazines:
stories, pictures, statistics and details, human interest. Take
an interest in the suffering humanity of the mission world and
send your sacrifice along with a request to be put on the mail
ing list of this bi-monthly magazine.
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 Pro
pagation of the Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York lx, N. Y. or
your Archdiocesan Director, Very Rev. Harold J. Rainey P. O.
Box 12047 Northside Station, Atlanta 5, Ga.