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GEORGIA RINES Mine Of Information Saints in Black and White ST. CATHERINE LABOURE 79 BY REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN One time while I was on vacation I went to visit a sick friend in New Bedford, Massachu setts. I recall with humor the incident related by the nurse who was caring for my ill friend She told me that the priest had been by to bring Holy Communion. I asked her if she met the priest at the door with a lighted candle. “Gosh no’*, she replied, “he came in the middle of the morning and there was plenty of light for him to see with!". Humorous though the incident was, I know that every priest has had the experience of bringing Holy Communion under anything but proper cir cumstances. Often it becomes necessary to re move aspirins, medicines, glasses, etc. from the top of a bureau in order to make a place to put the communion kit. I FEEL THAT THIS is not so much a lack of re verence as it is an honest mistake. For many, it is their first experience with sickness and the more serious the illness, the more confusion reigns. If they had time to think, doubtlessly they would remem ber all the rules of religious courtesy but most of the time this is not the case. WHAT HAS BEEN sadly lacking is a clear, yet concise, listing of what is necessary without having to wade through pages of pious expressions. Gerry Sherry, managing editor of the GEORGIA BULLETIN, has done precisely this, In a new publication called the Catholic Directory for the Archdiocese of Atlanta, Mr. Sherry has incorpor ated in his work such helpful things as Prepara tion for a Sick Call, Christian Burial, Planning a Wedding?, Baptisms etc. The book consisting of 56 pages lists all of the churches in the Archdiocese with the hours of Masses, Confession time, and the priests in attendance. It certainly will be a welcome re lief to summer travelers who have been anxious to find out the hours of masses before setting out on a trip. A MAP OF GEORGIA covers the two center pages with an outline of the counties which are located in the Archdiocese of Atlanta. If a church is located in a particular county it is designa ted by a cross. Officials of the Archdiocese. Driests of the Archdiocese, and a listing of the various depart ments will save much time for people when they are anxious to call the Matrimonial Tri bunal, the Chancery, School office, Newspaper or Charity Department. A listing of various religious communities, location of Hospitals, schools and orphanages with their phone numbers is also incorporated into the book. Yes, Mr. Sherry has done an excellent job producing this book and it will be an excellent help both to the laity and the clergy. It is a book which has long been needed and I certainly would recommend that a copy of it be found in every home of the Archdiocese of Atlanta. QUESTION BOX Meatless Friday BY MONSIGNOR J. O. CONWAY Q. EATING MEAT ON FRIDAY IS THE ISSUE. I FIRMLY ADHERE TO MY POINT THAT ONE IS NOT PERMITTED TO INDULGE, AS A GUEST, WHEN THE HOSTESS HAS ERRED IN SELECT ING MEAT FOR HER MENU. THE OPPOSITION DECLARED FEELINGS SHOULD BE SPARED, AND THE CATHOLIC SHOULD, WHILE RE MEMBERING IT IS FRIDAY, EAT THE MEAT WITHOUT COMMENT TO SAVE THE HOSTESS embarrassment and avoid the waste of FOOD. COULD THERE BE DIFFERENT RULES IN DIFFERENT DIOCESES ABOUT THIS, OR DIF FERENT INTERPRETATIONS MADE BY VAR IOUS BISHOPS IN THE UNITED STATES? IHAVE LIVED IN DIFFERENT DIOCESES, BUT IN MEM PHIS, TENN,, OUR PASTOR CONVINCED ME THAT THE HOSTESS’ ERROR, HER FEELINGS, OR THE WASTE OF FOODCARRIEDNO WEIGHT COMPARED TO THE OBLIGATION OF CHURCH LAW, AND OUR EXAMPLE OF DUTY TO OUR LORD, TO FAITH, AND TO SELF-DISCIPLINE. If A. Your question is compli cated, my lady, and even if you simplified it you would still get a complicated answer. Let us simplify it a bit by elimination of impertinent fea tures: 1. I don’t believe faith is in volved. in the light of faith we are trying to de cide between two duties: charity, or love of neighbor, and observance of church law, 2. It is precisely our duty to our Lord that we are trying to fulfill. Would He, in these circum stances, want us to embarrass and hurt our hos tess or to judge ourselves excused from church law? His own example may be pertinent to our de cision, He often healed on the Sabbath, even when it gave scandal to the Pharisees, strict interpre ters of the Law. 3. Self-discipline is hardly involved. It has not been suggested in your question that we are eating the meat because it is so luscious. Self-disci pline may be needed to exercise charity with graciousness. Besides we can do penance next day, if we need it for our own discipline. 4. 1 would eliminate all question of waste of food, except in cases of real poverty. Most peo ple have refrigerators which keep a roast nicely. Steaks may suffer a bit! Butformost of us I don’t believe a few bucks excuse us from a serious law of the Church. 5. Our bishops sometimes grant dispensations from the law of abstience, for various reasons, but I have not heard of any of them giving an of ficial interpretation of the dilemma you present. Now that we have pared down your question, let us first note that your rigorous pastor in Memphis agrees with a majority of traditional moralists. Assert yourself strongly as a Catholic by refusing to let flesh meat touch your tongue on Friday, and let the offenses fall where they will. Today moralists tend to place more emphasis on charity: love of God and love or our brethren; and they seek the examples of this love in the words and actions of Jesus. They keep in mind that the letter of the law may kill, but the Spirit gives life: that rigorous observance of legal details may, as St. Paul says, serve our own pride rather than give honor to God (2 Cor. 3, 9-11). At a Friday dinner, this new attitude makes us think first of our hostess and our fellow guests. Meat has been served; there is no other piece de resistance, What should we do? It all depends on circumstances. Charity is cer tainly not served by giving scandal. We must as sess that factor honestly, on the spot. Will our eating the meat do real spiritual harm to others? If that answer is negative, then further decis ions depend on your hostess. If she is Catholic and well known to you, and if most other guests are Catholic, then you may well ask when you first smell the roast: “Maude, don't you know what day this is?" Then everyone gives her a bad time, she laughs or cries a bit, opens some salmon cans, and all Catholics there do penance — es pecially if the Protestants present partake oi the meat. LITURGICAL WEEK Lent-A Baptismal Retreat CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 More than ever, our lives are centered during this retreat of Lent in the temple, the holy place, the Church where God’s Word is pro claimed and the holy signs of divine life are celebrated. Today’s Gospel illuminates the function of the Church in our lives—the Church building as a necessary sacred place, to which all of our other ‘'places’' may be related. And the First Reading teaches how even the believer must return again and again to the sources, to the Word of Cod and the sacraments of His house, i esl cod’s message be totally humanized and rendered ineffective. feb. 19 e mber Wednesday in lent. Both negative and positive poles of Lent are in three readings and the texts of this Ember Day Mass. ‘Forty day 8 and forty nights" of human response t o God’s invitation and call are ex plicit in the first two lessons. But this human response of cleansing and of penance must be filled wi^ t h e presence of the Lord. els e "the last state of that man is orse than the first” (Gospel). FEB. 20 THURSDAY 1st WEEK IN LENT. We ar e ern l >a rked on 3 ^horch-wide fast and a Churvh-wid e act 0 f penance, y e t we may not for get the Personal nature 0 f p a ith and of man’s response to God; The Christian finds salvation in community, but in a community in which the person is neither swallowed up nor eclipsed. Today’s First Reading attacks a false and antipersonal notion of solidarity. And the Gospel, too, shows us the healing we seek in Lent as a result of personal confrontation with the Lord. FEB. 21 EMBER FRIDAY IN LENT. Con tinuing yesterday’s personalist emphasis, the First Reading locates virtue, not in the race or the tribe or the family but in the person. It is the person’s turning to God his re pentance, his recognition of dependence and need which win the mercy so evident in the Gospel and in the other proper texts of today’s Mass. Healing is never far from us, but we must know whom to ask. SATURDAY, FEB. 22 ST. PETER’S CHAIR. Today we celebrate the grace Jesus has given us in Peter, first bishop and foundation of the Church at Rome, mother and teacher of the churches. just as human resources did not produce this primacy, this leadership among the bishops of the world, so human weakness has never been able to deprive the Church of it. So we thank •God for this bond which, together with the Eucha rist and our adherence to God’s Word, insures our unity. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1964 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 5 CATHOUC SCHOOLS ‘Eligibles’ Aren’t Attending ACROSS 63. Nights 18. Near the North 1. Vows 65. Asiatic perennial 2.). Small island ■5. Ago 66. Of the Elm tree 22. Demise .:). Fore 68. Harangue 24. Slander . J. She became on; 70. Solo 27. Rituals at age 8 71. Ancient Greek City 29. Lien : i. Greek River 73. Lapse 31. John; Russian .5. Anger 75. None; (dialect) 32. Flower cluster \I.ung disease 76. She had many 34. Post 17. t able maker 79. Fodder pits 36. Hemmed l'\ Chest '81. Glacial ridge 39. Military fortification 21. Senile 82. Comb, form: boundary 41. One who sates 23. Enlist 83. Roar 44. Proportion 25. Autumn pear 85. Ooze 46. Of one’s birth 26. Row 87. Verb form 48. Stake 28. Purposeful 88. Hebrews’ Ancestor; 49. Knitting stitch 30. Of oil legend 51. Potash 33. Encore 89. Brilliant success 53. Its product is citric 35. Black 55. Goddess of Vengeance 3 7 . Covet DOWN (Gr. Myth) 38. Inscribe 1. Correlative 57. Approaches 40. Peruses 2. Waltaba 59. Elder 42. Head covering 3. Pronoun 60. Numbers 4?. Tree chopper 4. Nor to have (contr.) 62. Low c.tsto Hindu 45. Goods cast overboard 5. Harsh breathings 64. Combat (Maritime law) 6. Father 67. Pelops was her brotlu- 47. Group of states; obbr. 7. Bow 69. Greek dialect 48. News service 8. Gore 72. Parvenu *U. Car 9. To prohibit 74. List 52. Ore 10. Name of Saint who 76. Pledge 54. She wanted to become appeared to her 77. Irish Rebel gtoap one since very young 11. Land measure 78. Wooden paii 5/. Roman 12. Trap 80. Musical direction :u. Loathe 13. Favor 84. Mister 61 Waste allowance 16. Entire 86. and (Trench* ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S PUZZLE ON PAGE 7 DETROIT (RNS) — A “pro gress report" on the current nationwide study of Catholic elementary and secondary schools revealed here that en rollment represents only42 per cent of the children eligible. Reginald A. Neuwien, a spec ialist in education research, said that percentage may be lower when his staff determines a precise “eligibility figure" based on the number of infant baptisms over the past 20years MR. NEUWIEN, speaking be fore 3,500 teachers and admin istrators attending the Detroit Archdiocesan Elementary In stitute, gave what he describ ed as “preliminaryfindings’’of the nationwide survey. The study team’s headquarters is at the University of Notre Dame; a $350,000 grant from the Car negie Corporation of New York is financing the work. Thousands of Catholic child ren are unable to gain admiss ion to parochial schools each year, Mr. Neuwien reported. In September, 1962, Catholic ele mentary s c h o o 1 s rejected 107,000 - - 16 per cent of all applicants, while high schools rejected 81,700 — 22 per cent of all applicants. THE RESEARCHER cited what he called “interesting, though not necessarily the most important" findings of the Catholic schools study to date: 1. Only 25.6 per cent of re porting elementary schools have full-time, non-teaching principals. 2. The ratio of lay teachers ARfjQiD VIEEMS Heavy-Footed Spoof BY JAMES W. ARNOLD No longer are there any limits to the hori zons of the booze-and-bunny oriented Hugh Hef ner (Playboy magazine) Hero. In “The Prize," he emerges as not only peerless drinker and lover but as great writer and foe of communism. The film's title might well be: “I dreamed I won the Nobel Prize on a party weekend.’’ THE MOVIE is loosely based on Irving Wal lace’s long 1962 novel (768 gamey, drama-pack ed pages) about what might happen in Stockholm during Nobel Week if you transplanted the in gredients of a Los Angeles orgy. Author Wallace's odd stew of patriotism, shock, science and sex has been trans lated by director Mark Robson and star Paul Newman into what appears to be a heavy-footed spoof of spy movies. Both book and film probably demean the over-all Nobel prestige, but the total effect jnay be beneficial. As the press agents of starlets who fall into swimming pools at cocktail parties are apt to say, “There’s no such thing as bad publicity." IT‘S HARD TO separate the intended from the unintended jokes. Newman plays a Nobel laureate in literature who consumes the brief time bet ween martinis chasing either girls or the Reds, who have kidnaped a kindly old scientist (Edward G. Robinson) and substituted his long-lost twin brother. Other Nobel winners include a French husband and wife research team who are experts in reproduction but on the brink of divorce and an American doctor who suspects his Italian co winner of plagiarizing his experiments. None ap pear right enough to detect nicotine stains on a cigaret filter. In the book most of the confusion seems vaguely connected to character and motivation. Inthefilm there is no character beyond the obvious. New man is an amiable happiness-now type who could scarcely be imagined having the genius to write a letter home. He pursues one blonde (Sweden’s Elke Sommer), is pursued by another (France’s Micheline Presle), and battles brunet Diane Baker to a standoff. Intervening is the usual spy movie claptrap; witnesses killed before they can speak, bodies that disappear, patients whisked in and out of mysterious hospitals, trench-coated men with switchblades peering evilly from the shadows. SOME OF IT IS plainly played for laughs. This is especially true of the sex play, in which Newman is always eager eager and apparently encouraged, but never successful. Such humor is a long-standing tradition inU. S. films, where the audience is inevitably tantalized by elaborate romantic preliminaries and then deprived of the logical conclusion. This should not be confused with morality; symbolically, it more closely resembles onanism. In the movie trade it is simply another way to thrill the audience and simultaneously squeeze past the censor. While everyone thus emerges, technically, with virtue intact, there is no doubt of the Playboy approach to love: the male as pseudo-educated, pseudo-talented, hip and irresistible; thefemale- as-bunny, cute, cuddly, pet animal. Miss Sommer- angelic face and pouting lips framed by bouffant blonde poodle cut—seems manufactured with this mind. The new models, like cars from Detroit, look like all the others; stereotyped perfection with a few-do-dads to make last year’s girl obso lete. NEWMAN, WASTED in apart even Rock Hudson could have handled, makes a comic shambles of the much-publicized nudist meeting scene. Followed by killers, the towel-clad hero is anx ious to get himself arrested by heckling the speaker, demanding to know how he plans to make elbows visible, etc. Director Robson’s cameras are cleverly discreet, and for all but the ultra- squeamish, this is the film’s best comedy. Robson, who won a niche in history for direct ing the first respectable “Negro problem" movie (Home of the Brave”), concocts a few other good comic touches: pulling an endless gag from the mouth of a bound Communist guard, having an ap parently driverless Mercedes (with Newman at the wheel) drift away from a line of unsold new cars, allowing Newman to react refreshingly in sheer terror when he stumbles upon a corpse. But these are only hints of what the picture might have been; most of it is as straignt as Mother’s Day in Sheboygan. The funniest scene is apparently serious. Actor Robinson is dying of a heart attack, a thought less act which will rob us of a climactic con frontation on stage in front of the king, et al. The Italian doctor shows his true genius by shocking Eddie back to life with the ends of a lamp cord touched to his bare bosom. While everyone stands about grinning, Robinson jogs off to get his money and his medal. BECAUSE IT can’t really decide to be satire, “The Prize’’ is a little funny, a lot trite, and full of depressing behavior that attracts audien ces. To be fully conscious of minority status as a believer in old-fashioned virtues, you should see it in a packed downtown theater on Saturday night. There is, of course, the pretty' Stockholm scen ery, and even an arty shot of the staturay out side the impressive Nobel auditorium. I thought the view was a concession to aesthetics, but it turns out as merely another plot device. At the end, one of the bad guys gets impaled on a statue's upturned limb. CURRENT RECOMMENDED FILMS: For everyone: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; Lord of the Flies, The Great Escape, Lilies of the Field. For connoisseurs: Winter Light, 8 1/2 Jhis Sport ing Life, The Leopard. Better than most: The Haunting, Charade. to religious teachers is 1 to 2.24 in elementary schools and 1 to 2.64 in secondary schools. 3. The median age of Sist ers teaching in elementary school falls between 35 and 44, with the largest group, or 28.6 per cent, in the 25-34 age cat egory. 4. The median training level for all teaching groups in Cath olic secondary schools (pri ests, Brothers, Sisters, lay men) is beyond the bachelor’s degree but below the masr^r’s degree. MR. NEUWIEN said the sur vey team had been surprised to find that 20 per cent of the questionnaires sent to 24,000 parents resulted in volunteer comments far beyond the ans wers sought. Ninety per cent w ere “favorable’’ to the Catho lic educational system, he said. Foremost of the 31 things cited by parents as goals of Catholic schools were religious training of the child, firm discipline and academic and social develop ment. Seminary Fund Remember the SEMINARY FUND of the Archdiocese of Atlanta in your Will. Be quests should be made to 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 This is a new world, a new time, and we must change! But how? We start with the words of Our Lord: “Heaven and earth shall pass away but My Truth shall not pass away.” In other words, moulds will be broken but the pudding remains; customs may change but Christ abides. The Catholics who hung on to the old system of astronomy at the time of Galileo and the old biology at the time of Darwin were making baby clothes to fit a growing child. It must not happen again! How will we adapt ourselves to our new world? Perhaps as follows: 1. The parish will continue to be the unit of Catholics living in a certain area of a city or town, but it will cease to be a ghetto in which Catholics are separat ed from the rest of the world. 2. Every parish and diocese will be a stake to which Catholics are tethered, but the spiritual rope will enable them to pasture their alms, prayers and sacrifices throughout the world. 3. Catholics will go to church on Sundays as they go to a bank on Monday to draw out money with which they will shop and purchase necessities wherever there are bargains. Likewise, Catholics will assist at Mass to have poured into their souls the merits of Christ, and they will spend them wherever there are “souls for sale" and especially “bargains" as there are on the Missions, where so lit tle purchases so many merits. 4. The Catholic laity, knowing the poverty of the world, the hun dreds of millions of Christless, will support their pastors against two evils: 1) against excessive luxuries in building; 2) against Sunday collections only for the parish when the world is the parish. 5. Every Catholic will live during the week as if he were given a subpoena and brought into court, where instead of being a witness in a law suit, he will be a witness to Christ — in his shop, his office, his profession; in Africa, Asia, Latin America — every where. Our Lord’s last words on earth were for us to “be wit nesses." But do we give “evidence" of our Faith, or do we take a spiritual Fifth Amendment and say with Peter, “I know not the Man"? 6. More priests will be utilized for the Missions, the laity taking over secular jobs like radio, television, insurance, purchasing, real estate, building, finances. When Our Lord said: ‘The labor ers are few,’’ there were so many priests that they haJ to take turns serving the Temple! Our Lord knew there were priests enough, but not enough witnesses, plenty of Sisters but not enough missionaries. With one priest for 20,000 Catholics in many places in Africa and Latin America and one for every 700 in the United States, perhaps our families should pray not for vocations, but for “laborers for the harvest." 7. In the new age, children will be taught not only Catholic Doc trine, but Catholic discipleship. Our Lord did not say: “If you know My Doctrine, you will do My Will," but: “If you do My Will, you will know My Doctrine." The best theology moves from the confessional to the person, from the classroom to the slums, from the catechism to the Missions. We do enough talking “about" God in our schools; now we will do more talking “to" God and then begin to know ourselves out of love for Him. 8. Our colleges and universities will put less stress on graduates being “Loyal alumni" to pour superabundant wealth back to their schools, and put more emphasis on being “loyal Catholics" - serving not an institution, but the Holy Father and the Church everywhere in the world. You may not be able to do much individually to insure the Catho lic rather than the “ghetto" outlook, but you will hasten the change as you realize the following truths: a. The needs of the Church in the poverty stricken parts of the world are prior to our wants. We need bread; we want cake. b. So pray, sacrifice and offer your sufferings that the whole Christ is aided. That is why the Holy Father said he must be “first and principally aided." \ c. Paul VI today aids all parts of the world, all missionary acti vities. The more Catholic you are, the more you will sacrifice for him through his Society for the Propagation of the Faith. GOD LOVE YOU to Mrs. R.A.C. for $5 "In thanksgiving for a favor received." ....to E.M.B. for’$2 “For God’s poor." ....to Mrs. A.M, for $1 “We are able to send this by having given up a fancy dinner for Christmas, I have known what it is not to have food to eat and am happy to share what 1 have with others." 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, NewJYork lx, N. Y. or your Archdiocesan Director, Very Rev. Harold J. Rainey P. O. Box 12047 Northside Station, Atlanta 5, Ga.