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THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1964
GEORGIA BULLETIN
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CARNIVAL MONUMENT
World's Fair View
Saints in Black and White
ST. PETER OF LUXEMBURG 107
BY REV. LEONARD F.X. MAYHEW
WORLD FAIR, NEW YORK: Perhaps the fair
est verdict on the Fair is that it is not so bad as
the publicity and the estimates of various critics
had made one fear. There is no avoiding the fact
that it is a carnival monument to crass commer
cialism of Disneyland proportions. The main re
lief is the spaciousness of the fairgrounds. In
spite of the crowds which throng the Fair and
have to be seen to be believed, there is none of
the jostling and crush usually associated with such
situations. The proliferation of
j dining places is another source
! of relief.
A few pavilions with imagi
native and artful exteriors stand
in dramatic contrast to the al
ternating sameness and quaint-
jness of the majority. Firstplace
I by all means must go to the
Spanish pavilion, a masterpiece
both within and without of good taste and skilfull
use of materials. The beautiful theater, dining
areas and museum of this lovely building are al
ready the subject of considerable pressure that it
be kept permanently on the site. The New York
State pavilion and the Japanese building offer in
teresting, if sharply different, exteriors. The
soaring concrete tower of the former and the rich
stone murals of the latter merit congratulations.
Unfortunately, the interiors of both are a disap
pointment. (The Japanese exhibited what seemed
like ten thousand plastically vacuous transistor
radios).
THE GREATEST disappointment of all is the
Vatican exhibit, which succumbed without a strug
gle to the hard-sell approach of the Fair. By the
entrance to the crown-like structure there is a
magnificent quotation of Pope Paul to the Council
Fathers. He presents the Church’s keen under
standing and admiration for the world in which it
lives. It is the Church’s desire, he says, not to
conquer the world but to serve it. His words con
tain all the touching warmth of the Church's mood
since the renewal of Pope John began with his
declaration that the'Church is not on the defen
sive against the world but wishes only to bring
the balm of mercy to its needs. The Vatican Pa
vilion, aside from this quotation near the en
trance, is designed without the slightest con
sciousness of this spirit.
WITHIN THE pavilion, all is confusion and jum
ble, Banners, vestments, pictures, reproductions,
flashing mottoss, slide projections - and donation
boxes - are piled one on top of the other. The
message of the whole, if it can be singled out, is
full of what has come to be called “triumphalism.’’
Far from any offer of understanding and solace to
a world weary of confusion and hate, the exhibits
present only a boastful panorama of self-congrat
ulations, The chapel is designed without regard to
liturgical participation and the Masses, which are
well-attended, are inaudible to the participants.
The main attraction of the pavilion is, as everyone
knows, Michelangelo’s Pieta. On the principle that
it is better to see a work of genius than not to see
it, one cannot regret that the statue was brought
to the Fair. Nor are the flickering blue lights and
the soupy music of Jo Mielzner’s stage-setting
quite as distracting as they seem in description.
One must wonder, however, who it was that decid
ed that a “religious’’ atmosphere had to be added
the most renowned religious sculpture of Chris
tendom.
THE CHURCH has been poorly presented before;
so why weep over one more instance? It seems a
particularly sad and unnecessary failure in this
day and age. There is an excitement and an air of
rejuvenation in the Church that has not recently
been equalled. There is renewal in ecumenism, in
liturgy, in the social apostolate. Pope John’s
"Peace on Earth’’ might have been distributed
instead of the inane booklet now available. The
hundreds of thousands who will visit the pavilion
would have been better served. It would not have
been too difficult.
QUESTION BOX
Scripture Quotes
BY MONSIGNOR J. D. CONWAY
Q. I am a Catholic of a mixed marriage. My
in-laws, neighbors and friends are predominant
ly Protestant. In reading the Bible I find myself
influenced by their telling me to “trust in God
to reveal the meaning of the Scriptures to me.”
Of course I don’t believe God will give me direct
revelation of the Bible, but I tend to “take it
literally.”
My mother-in-law is constantly quoting to me
verses in the Bible which she interprets to mean
that I am sinning by wearing slacks, jewelry
and short hair-cuts, namely I Timothy, 2, 9.
Please help me.
Another common insult is to deny the power
of our priests by 'quoting I Timothy 2,5.
A. It is often difficult to grasp the true meaning
of many parts of Scripture. It is advisable to
have at hand a commentary written by capable
biblical schoolars. One of the worst abuses of
the Bible is to quote isolated
tests from it, taking them out
of context, just to prove our
own point.
If you will start with v. 8 of
I Tim. 2, you will find that St.
Paul is writing of prayer meet
ings: “I wish, then, that the
men pray everywhere, lifting
up pure hands, without wrath
l fl nd contention. In like manner
I wish women to be decently dressed, adorning
themselves with modesty and dignity, not with
braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive
clothing. . . .Let a woman learn in silence
with all submission. For I do not allow a woman
to teach, or to exercise authority over men;
but she is to keep quiet.”
It probably would not be wise to quote that
final verse back to your mother-in-law.
In some of these detailed monitions of St.
Paul it is necessary for us to distinguish that
:part which is of enduring nature from those
elements which applied to a particular com
munity, or to the passing customs of the time.
Certainly women should always be decently
dressed, especially at prayer. But in many
times and places braided hair have been con
sidered most modest. And seldom has Chris
tian tradition condemned all jewelry. Shall we
say that Christianity has been in error in inter
preting St. Paul?
The other quotation you cite reads: “For
there is only one Mediator between God and men,
himself man, Christ Jesus, who gave himself
a ransom for all, bearing witness in his own 1
time.” All your friends need do to see the im
portance of the priesthood is to read the verse
immediately following: “To this I have been
appointed a preacher and an apostle (I tell the
truth, I not lie), a teacher of the Gentiles
in faith anu truth.” The function of the priest
is largely that which St. Paul claimed for him
self: to make known the one Mediator that all
may share in the ransom He gave for all.
Q. Why is it that young women are not or
dained, or at least serving Mass?
A. Your question so shocked me that I put
it aside for careful meditation. It is well that
I did. If I had answered immediately I might
simply have quoted our old seminary text book:
“By divine law, all and only living men of
masculine sex may validly receive the sacra
ment of orders.”
The thesis was proven by two quotations from
St. Paul: "Let women keep quiet in the church,
for they have no license to speak, but should
keep their places as the Law directs. If they wish
to learn anything let them ask their husbands
at home, for it is shocking for a woman to speak
in church.” (I Cor. 14, 34-35). "Let a woman
learn in silence and in all submission. I do not
allow a woman to teach or to exercise authority
over men; but she is to keep quiet.” (I Tim. 11).
But what of women like Phoebe, whom St.
Paul calls a deacon (Rom. 16, 1) and the
“widows” to whom he gave special directives
in I Tim, 5, 4 sq«? We know that there were
deaconesses in the early Church. But our text
book told us that these were not really ordained;
their duties were to assist women when they were
baptized, to teach religion privately, to take
care of the sick, and to guard the doors by which
women entered the church.
Furthermore, some early Christian writers
referred to a feminine priesthood as “pagan
impiety,” or at best heretical. That, combined
with the constant tradition of the Church con
cluded the proof: “It is contrary to divine law
for a woman to be a priest.”
STUDENTS ALIENATED
Your World And Mine
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4
THAT THE- experience deplored by Bishop
Moynagh is do isolated one is known to all
who have been involved in working for foreign
students in the United States or who have come
in touch with them through Catholic international
organizations. But most American Catholics are
unconcerned, and as long as they are, the work of
our missionaries is going to be undone, and the
objectives of our national foreign policy are going
to be sabotaged — not by Communist conspirators
but by people who boast they are dedicated Catho
lics and loyal Americans.
Bishop Moynah’s problem cannot be solved in
isolation, since it is merely one aspect of the
entire complex of race relations in the United
States. How vexing this is for American Catho
lics is well illustrated by a newly published
symposium entitled Black, White and Gray edited
by Texas-born Bradford Danieb Particularly
to the point is a contribution by a Negro priest,
Father August Thompson, on attitudes of white
Catholics.
"They Just don't want us,” he writes, “In
some places our young people cannot attend
camps. Too often we cannot join church
societies. Yes, it is true that we could form
our own little segregated Negro versions of
these same societies, but you lose the whole
spirit — the very Catholicity — of it when you
do that .... Do you know that 4 as a priest,
have never attended a Cana Conference? Do you
know that white non-Catholics are welcomed into
Catholic churches and can attend church functions
where 1, as t Negro priest, would not be per
mitted”?
Here are the true dimensions of the problem.
And while it remains in these national terms,
we Catholic at home will continue to be actively
engaged in negativing the efforts of Bishop
Moynagh and his thousands of fellow missionaries
in Africa and Asia,
CAMPUS PROJECT
Faiths Cooperate At North Georgia
4 and
8 value
13 triple 4
14 tip 5
15 to absorb again 6
17 science of moving army 7
or naval forces 8
19 forked 9
20 pronoun 10
22 England was won by his 11
——example 12
23 resides 16
24 Soviet Socialist Republic 18
25 map 19
27 after 21
28 N. Z. morepork (bird) 23
29 foresaken 24
30 produce 25
31 fiend 26
32 aged 27
33 overlays 28
34 Easter flowers 30
35 time loan; abbr. 31
36 tree of the birch family 33
37 become bankrupt 34
38 was one for his brother 36
40 foxhunter’s coat 37
41 Citizens Training Camp: abbr 39
44 carry 40
45 bundle 41
46 Turkish copper coin 42
47 carpenter’s tool 43
49 urn 45
50 hall 46
51 set system 47
52 sunrise 48
53 Roman Governor 49
54 alegar 50
55 situs 52
56 irked 52
57 mail; abbr.
58 pins 55
59 He was born here 56
62 twilled fabric 58
64 opposed to verso 59
66 female name 60
67 game of chance 61
68 — sparks 63
Down 64
Siamese coin
Biblical character
Name of King who invited
him to remain at court
inclined position
delicate pattern
relative
chemical ending
a shrub
appeal
cow-headed Goddess
fish food
superlative ending
He became one at age 15
rent
stings
weighing machines
beer
half
material
a shout
dike
sash
token
gloom
dish
aria
expiate
gall bladder fluid
assert
since
a North American
Jog
conoern
pedestal
fold
baby carriage
reclines
cisterns
crystal
He died at age teen
Chief Offloe of
Ottoman Empire
John; Irish
Spring beer
before
He was called “The Great"
compass point
finis
Uncle Sam
Regius Professor; abbr.
ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLE ON PAGE 7
An experiment in ecumenism
is under way this summer on
the Campus of North Georgia
College in Dahlonega. All the
religious organizations on
campus have joined the Sum
mer Inter - Faith Fellowship
program. The purpose of the
program is to make the sum
mer session at North Georgia
College religiously meaningful
for as many students as pos
sible through weekly religious
meetings and discussions open
to all.
The Summer Inter - Faith
Fellowship program is the com
bined effort of the Baptist Stu
dent Union, the Newman Club,
the Wesley Foundation, the
Westminister Fellowship, and
the Student Christian Union.
Separately the individual or
ganizations could not have had
dynamic meetings during the
summer.
The title of the meeting on
July 1 was: “Are you a Chris
tian? ” The question was ask
ed by a panel of four local
clergymen: Rev. John Worthum
Fordham Study
NEW YORK (NC)—Actor Paul
Newman and film director Ro
bert Rossen will be among the
speakers at Fordham Uni
versity’s second annual Film
Study Conference, June 29-July
2. The conference, on the theme
“The Creating of an Active
Film Audience,” will provide
suggestions for school and
community groups running film
festivals, seminars and study
courses, and will be followed
by a two-week Fordham work
shop for teachers interested in
film study programs.
Popular Bible
STUTTGART, Germany (NC)
—•With 60,000 copies sold in
three years, a common Catho-
lic-Protestant children's ver
sion of the Bible is a best
seller in Germany, according
to its publishers, the Catholic
Bible Association of Germany.
ARNOLD VIEWING
Wild And Wonderful 9
BY JAMES W. ARNOLD
It is not one of the world’s Great Truths,
but dogs are extremely cinematic. Dog actors
were impossible before the movies. But now
the techniques of re-shooting (to capture per
fect execution), sound dubbing (to eliminate voice
and whistle commands) and editing (to allow sub-
sitution of stand - ins and minimize to a few
seconds the length of sustained “performance”)
put stardom within reach of any bright canine.
Dog pictures (as distin
guished from pictures which
might be described as dogs)
have generally followed two
traditions. There is the kids-
and-dogs film, usually involv
ing melodrams and outdoor act
ion and some mean fellow
threatening to destroy the
animal-hero. The classic was
“Lassie Come Home,” and year after year the
type has helped keep Disney Enterprises afloat.
SIMILARLY there are the sophisticated dogs,
distinctly city-type inclined to take on the dis
solute habits of their worldly owners. Among
the more memorable was Asta, the raffish ter-
rior of the Thin Man pictures. The point in these
is not so much that dogs are wiser or kinder
than people. Instead the animals are used as
comic allegories, making beasts of themselves
much as humans do, and showing that such be
havior is even sillier for a thinking dog than it
is for a thinking man.
The latest of the genre is “Wild and Wonder
ful,” in which humans Tony Curtis and Christine
Kaufuann cope will Monsieur Cognac, a spoiled
TV star poodle with two major vices, women
and booze. The film is not very good (what hap
pens, mostly, is neither fresh nor particularly
funny), but it has its inspired moments. It might
be a more pleasant way to spend an afternoon
than trying to start a power mower, and small
children will like it.
The movie bears surprising similarities to the
fairy tale about the beautiful princess who is
guarded by her well-meaning but scary old father
and his pet monster, in this case, the dog,
Curtis, as an American Jazz musician in Paris,
manages to get Miss Kaufmann out of the castle
(which has a giant portrait of Monsieur Cognac
over the fireplace). But they cannot settle down
in marital bliss until the over-protective dog
is distracted by a bevy of female poodle buddle-
dancers from a traveling nightclub act.
THE OFTEN heavy - handed comparison of
human and animal mating urges is not in high-
class taste, and there are entirely too many
closeups of what is basically a nauseating image:
the alcoholic pooch lapping liquor out of a
human's discarded glass. The verbal gags are
often atrocious: e.g„ a police inspector, told to
keep knowledge of Cognac’s latest binge even
from his superior, agrees not to tell his wife.
The sequences that salvage the picture are
not really the “cute” ones in which director
Michael Anderson and trainer Frank Weatherwax
get Cognac to act human, although they are to
be credited for their patience and skill. On the
humble level of pure dog act, Cognac is an
admirable enough specimen (e.g„ capable of
switching drugged drinks by pushing glasses with
his nose, or faking an injured forepaw).
But director Anderson (“Around the World”)
scores best in a series of scenes, shot without
dialog but with satiric music background, es
tablishing the Curtis-Kaufmann romance and
Cognac’s murderous attempts to break it up.
The final sequence has Curtis standing at a
sidewalk art show holding up various paintings,
including a Mona Lisa-type portrait, while the
%dog contrives to drop a piano on his head. The
piano misses, but the face on the portrait is
lengthened about a foot.
THE FINAL 15 minutes is a hectic visual
satire on the type of TV program which in
volves an informal tour of a celebrity’s home.
The home is Cognac’s, and the tour conflicts
with the attempts of Curtis and his two buddies
(comics Larry Storch and Marty Ingels) to
snuggle in the female poodles for Cognac’s
edification. At one point, a door is supposed to
open on the dog, whom the unctuous announcer
urges to wag hello to his TV friends. Instead
we see Storch and Ingels, huddled in a closet,
terrified. They smile bravely-and chorus: “Hel-
low to my TV friends.”
The cutting in this sequence - from the dogs
to the humans to the frustrated TV people in
various locations of the house - is delightful.
But the man who steals it all is veteran comedian
Jules Manshin, as the hopelessly puzzled French
TV director who ultimately manages to have all
three of his camera crews collide. “Och," he
says, squeezing his boret, “I hope no one eez
watching.”
The movie was shot in Hollywood rather than
Paris, and the backgrounds are clearly arti
ficial and disappointing. Cameraman Joseph La-
Shelle gives his colors a fetchingly soft and
‘pretty look, with help from the designers in at
least one scene in which everything - Miss
Kaufmann’s dress, Curtis’ suit, the chairs, china
and even the flowers - are various shades of
blue.
FUNNYMEN Storch and Ingels could be lots
of help if they were given more to do (the film
is a spare 88 minutes). But Curtis performs
nobly in the one part he can really play: a
lighthearted Bronx-type American. Miss Kauf
mann is a vacuous beauty with no voice; for
this part, however, she does not need to be
Ingrid Bergman.
In short, "Wild” is innocent but stock material.
It is like many new American comedy films:
amid all the nonsense and hokum, there is 10
percent of wit and imagination, if you have the
patience (and money) to look for it.
(Baptist), Rev. Frank Ruff
(Catholic), Rev. Harry Gilmer
(Methodist), and Rev. Loweli
Sykes (Presbyterian). Titles of
other meetings during the sum
mer include: “Who are you? ”
“If you marry outside your
faith”, “What are you doing for
your country? ” “Science,
magic, or religion? ” and “Is
God on your schedule? ”
If the experiment is success
ful, a permanent inter - faith
council may be established for
regular inter-faith meetings to
compliment the activities of the
individual religious organiza
tions.
Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Salvage Bureau
326 Ivy St., N.E.
Atlanta
(Opposite Sacred Heart)
ST. VINCENT De PAUL
Desires t6 receive all USABLE furniture,
clothing, appliances, books, etc., for the
poor and needy. Scheduled pick-ups will
be made by Telephoning: 524-0343
Seminary l^und
Remember the SEMINARY FUND
of the Archidocese of Atlanta in
your Will. Bequests should, be made
to the “Most Reverend 1 Paul J.
Hallinan, Archbishop of the. Catho
lic Archdiocese of Atlanta his
successors in office**. Participate
in the daily prayers of our semi
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ed annually for the benefactors of
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God Love You
BY MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN
What are we going to do to save the world, that is, to save souls?
Our missionaries are so few and souls are so many I Eighteen mil
lion are born in Asia every year, and yet we have only 14 million
in the Church after 1900 years. Itwouldtake all of those who know
not Christ 32 years to pass in single file before a given point. What
is the answer? Does it not lie in the mission fields themselves?
We have 80,000 catechists in Africa and Asia
alone. Many of these are men who have sacrificed
their lives to bring the Gospel to their own people.
Could not some of these be given intensive train
ing for a year or more and then be ordained?
They are not like our seminarians, who have
never preached the Gospel or suffered for it. Do
these native catechists really need a minimum of
six years in the seminary? Take the case of a
leper whom I met in Africa. Both of his legs were
cut off above his knees — eaten by the disease. And yet, crawling
on these stumps, he made 40 converts a day. Has not such an
apostle, with so many years of apostolate behind him, already
completed much of a seminary course? True, he has no Ph.D., but..
Missionaries from Europe and America could be trainers and
teachers of these catechists and prepare them for ordination. St.
Paul did not drag with him Jewish fellow students who studied
with him at the feet of Gamaliel. He found natives—young men
from the ranks, like Timothy, Titus and others, and ordained
them without a long training period. Catechists with ten or fif—
tefen years of Christ-like service behind them could quickly
be prepared for ordination, for the moral and spiritual side of their
lives would already have been tested. Certainly among 80,000 of
them we could find 5,000 who could be ordained after an intensive
course-even though some were married. The same is true for
nuns. Their work, like that of missionary priests, would be to
train missionary Sisters in the mission lands. Four such Sisters
in Brazil are already running a radio station, teaching school,
preaching, baptizing and visiting the sick.
Breath a prayer to the Holy Spirit that the Church may be guid
ed aright in this matter. One thing is certain: we cannot save the
world the way we are going. We need more priests, more Sisters,
more catechists. And we need more American Catholics who will
feel a tremendous responsibility toward the Missions. Presently,
the average per capita contribution of American Catholics to the
Holy Father for the Missions, of the world is 27 cents a year. May
the Spirit inspire you to send us your autograph—at the bottom of
a check—to help you save your soul.
GOD LOVE YOU to S.W. for $2 “In thanksgiving to my parents
for my Catholic education.” ...to our Kitchen Friends in a well-
known Eastern college, who have sent $100 of their part-time
earnings to help the poor of the world. This group includes lads
working their way through high school, who never forget to let
some of their “mite” go to those less fortunate. No one can earn
so little that they cannot give something to the poor of the world
who often have no opportunity to earn anything ...to W.X.C. for
$100 “For our Holy Father’s Missions, to be applied wherever
he feels it is most needed and where it may do the most good.”
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