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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 'N i.r-~rrrf^ir iiiiiiim 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.