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frAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY. AUGUST 13. 1964
Mr. Jimmy Chastain, President of Student Government Organi
zation, winner of the Mother Catherine McAuley Award and
best all-around student, receives his Nursing Diploma from
Monsignor Joseph G. Cassidy. • See story, page 6.
CATHOLIC SACRED MUSIC
Luther Battle Hymn
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CINCINNATI (NC) — Martin
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Reformation, "A Mighty
Fortress is Our God,” will
appear for the first time in a
Catholic hymnal soon to be
published here.
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modern English version of the
hymn in The People’s Mass
Book, which bears the impri-
mature of Auxiliary Bishop
Paul F, Leibold of Cincinnati.
THE ORIGINAL music and
text were composed by Luther.
Published in 1529, it was im
mediately taken up by his fol
lowers, The words are a para
phrase of Psalm 45, which be
gins, "God is our refuge and
our strength, an ever-present
help in distress.”
The popular English version
sung today in most Protestant
churches is attributed to
Frederick Henry Hedge, 19th-
century author.
The new version to be
published by the World Library
is based on a modern transla
tion of the psalm, using up-to-
date language.
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SUPREME COURT
Cardinal Hits
Smut Rulings
DENVER (RNS) — Francis
Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop
of New York, charged here that
the U.S. Supreme Court, in “re
cent ominous decisions” up
setting anti-pornography laws,
reflected “an acceptance of
degeneracy and the beatnik
mentality as the standard way
of American life.”
In an address before the
Grand Aerie Convention banquet
of the Fraternal Order of
Eagles, the Roman Catholic
prelate said the decisions up
holding publication of “The
Tropic of Cancer” and the re
lease of the film, “The
Lovers,” caused ”a regret
table but obvious conclusion.”
THAT CONCLUSION, he
held, “is that the community
standards prevailing among the
Supreme Court judges who voted
in such a way, are substantially
below the standards of the com
munities over which they sit in
judgment.”
Cardinal Spellman said law
enforcement agencies, seeking
to act against the spread of
pronography, have been fru
strated “by court decisions
rendered by a few misguided
high ranking judicial officials.”
"It seems that in this age of
drift, minds are driven by
every wind of doctrine and
theory, lacking all standards by
which to judge and evaluate what
is happening,” he continued.
“There seem to be no fixed
points.
"Some misguided individuals
keep changing them and calling
this progress. Once you say that
men have no other standards
than those taken from the quick
sands in which they are
dwelling, it becomes impossible
to induce them to build their
houses on solid foundations.”
CARDINAL Spellman said
that in upholding publication
and distribution of “The Tropic
of Cancer,“five judges “struck
down the rulings of courts in
several states including Illinois,
Florida and New York, all of
which declared the book to be
vile and obscene.
“Their judgment of morality
has been imposed on the people
of the United States. Such a
shocking decision indicates a
great indifference to the prin
ciples of decency and morality—
the strong right arm of the
framers of the Cqnstitution of
our United States.”
He termed “incredible” the
New York Court of Appeals de
cision declaring die novel,
“Fanny Hill” not obscene by a
4-3 vote.
“Like the three dissenting
judges,” Cardinal Spellman
said, “we cannot accept these
court decisions quietly and
without reservation, if this na
tion is to survive. These decis
ions impose upon us the re
sponsibility for immediate,
continuous action.”
HE HAILED the recent action
of the House of Representatives
in approving, 325-19, a measure
designed to keep “morally of
fensive” mall from being de
livered to homes. He noted that
“judges” involved would be
“the heads of the households.”
Freedom of the press, he
said, was never designed “to
afford protection to the shame
less, profiteering degraded
merchants of filth.”
The cardinal called upon all
Americans to join in a crusade
that will “ideal a mortal blow
to this powerhouse of porno
graphy, reaffirm the ideals of
the family and our young people
and preserve the strong tradi
tions of a free America.”
Pornography if a “$2 billion
racket,” he said, describing it
as an “all - out assault of
paganism” which made “un
fortunate victims. . .with ac
companying effects of violence,
crime and immorality” of the
nation’s young people.
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i A Good Address in Atlanta
ABBOT Augustine Moore, O.C.S.O., of the Monastery of the Holy Ghost, Conyer*, chats with
local Civil Defense officials at opening of CD hospital unit, first of its kind in the area. Medical
supplies, accumulated and stored at the Monastery, would be moved into Conyers at in the event
of an emergency.
MAY SET PRECEDEyr
Orthodox Wedding In Church
PHOENIX, Ariz. (NC) — dox and Catholic churches.”
An Eastern Orthodox Church
marriage ceremony was per
formed at the altar of St. Agnes
Catholic Church here.
Special permission for the
(Aug. 2) ceremony was granted
by Catholic Bishop Francis J.
Green of Tucson.
MSGR. ROBERT J. Donohoe,
pastor of St, Agnes, said: 'The
wedding may set a precedent.
It should help to establish a
new era of understanding among
Catholic and Protestant
churches everywhere, es
pecially among Eastern Ortho-
The Rev, Anthony Gabriel,
pastor of St. George Orthodox
church here, officiated as Lynda
Saliba, 23, of Peoria, Ariz.,
became the bride of Kenneth
Hadded, 30, of Mesa. Both are
parishioners of St, George.
Father Gabriel said he asked
Catholic permission to hold the
ceremony in spacious St. Agnes
church because his 150 - seat
sanctuary would not accommo
date the more than 600 guests
invited to the wedding.
BISHOP GREEN said: ’The
Orthodox and Catholic churches
are in agreement on so many
areas of sacraments and priest
hood, it seemed natural for us
to afford our facilities to Father
Gabriel. The only difference is
the non - acceptance by the
Orthodox Church of the primacy
of the Holy Father, the Pope of
Rome.”
Father Gabriel said: “Since
the late Pope John XXIII opened
the doors toward reunion of the
Eastern Orthodox Church.
VOTE! VOTE!
WYMAN C.
LOWE
5th District
Democratic
Candidate
for Congress.
Atlanta lawyer for 17 years-
high school and college teach
er before then for *0 years-
World War II veteran, now
Major in U.S. Army Reserve-
Ret’d.
Replace the very young incum
bent with Mr. Lowe, who is
better qualified, will no:
change his stand on legisla
tion like the incumbent
changed his votes on the Civil
Rights Bill and the Federal
Pay Raise Bill, and who will
use more mature judgment!
IN ZAGIIER, ERITREA, CATHOLICS do not have
Sunday, and children are
FOR VATICAN COUNCIL II
Newman Developed Atmosphere
The following article recalls
the contributions of Cardinal
Newman to the development of
thought now flowering In the
Second Vatican Council. Written
by the vice president of the
Catholic Broadcasters As
sociation, the article comes on
the centennial of the cardinal’s
widely known book, “Apologia
Pro Vita Sua.”
BY FATHER EUGENE C. BEST
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
John Cardinal Newman’s
book, “Apologia Pro Vita Sua,”
written 1(X) years ago, changed
the image of the Catholic Church
in England. It also led to the
development of Catholic thought
which has its flowering at the
Second Vatican Council.
Newman wrote the Apologia
after a personal slander by the
eminent British historian and
novelist Charles Kingley.
Kingsley had challenged not only
Newman’s personal Integrity
but also the honesty of all Catho
lic clergymen. He wrote in late
1863 that “truth for its own
sake had never been a virtue
with the Roman clergy.’* He
added: “Father Newman in
forms us that It need not, and
on the whole ought not to be.”
NEWMAN answered Kingsley
in a work of conscientious and
sensitive self - revelation. He
wrote: “There are virtues in
deed, which the world is not
fitted to judge about or to up
hold, such as faith, hope, and
charity; but it can judge about
truthfulness; It can judge about
the natural virtues, and truth
fulness is one of them.”
Newman found himself after
his conversion In 1845 cut off
from his former Anglican
friends and never fully accept
ed by the “old Catholics.” Fail
ure followed failure during his
early Catholic years. A pre
judiced court found him guilty
of libel in the famous Achilli
trial. Newman wasted years
working on the Irish Uni-
vers ity project. He began to edit
the Rambler magazine, only to
have the bishops stop publica
tion. From 1859 to 1863 New
man, who had written con
stantly as an Anglican, wrote
nothing. Had he died In early
1864, he might well have been
forgotten to history.
Yet for many Catholics to
day, Newman is the key to a
better understanding of the
Second Vatican Council. Pope
Paul recently stated that New
man “traced an Itinerary the
most toilsome, but also the
greatest, the most meaningful,
the most conclusive that human
though ever traveled during the
modem era.”
IN A SENSE, Newman lived
and wrote 100 years too soon.
His "Essay on the Develop
ment of Christian Doctrine”
written In 1845 was long mis
understood at Rome. When he
wrote “OnConsulting the Faith
ful In Matters of Doctrine” in
1859, Newman was denounced
to Rome as formally heretical.
For some 30 years after his
conversion, he lived under a
cloud. He was invited to the
First Vatican Council in 1870,
but declined because of poor
health. Then In 1879 Pope Leo
XIII made Newman a cardinal.
At the time Newman said:
“Now the cloud is lifted from
me forever.” He spoke too
soon. After he died in 1890,
Pope St. Plus X still had to
defend him against Modernist
heretics in the early 1900’s.
The Second Vatican Council
continues to lift the cloud from
Newman. He Is constantly quot
ed in council books and
speeches. And he influences the
council through his Insights,
through truths which he dis
covered or reemphasized.
Several themes basic to New
man's thought are often stress
ed in council debate.
NEWMAN was first to write
on the development of Chris
tian doctrine. Scholars today
take development for granted.
Next, Newman emphasized
the role of the layman In the
Church when that role had long
been ignored.
Thirdly, he was a loyal and
constructive critic of the
Church when criticism wts
often suspect as disloyalty.
Fourthly, Newman wrote the
greatest defense of freedom of
Fourthly, Newman always
continued to love his former
Anglican friends, and he thus
anticipated today’s ecumenical
movement.
Lastly, Newman wrote the
greatest defense of freedom
of conscience in the English
language, and thus helped pre
pare the way for a council
statement on religious liberty.
SINCE the Protestant Re
formation, Catholics have
tended. to view the Church as
“unchanging.” The tendency
resulted from early Protestant
claims that the medieval Church
had been essentially corrupted.’
Newman wrote in 1845; “In a
higher world it Is otherwise,
but here below to live is to
change, and to be perfect is to
have changed often.” New
man saw the Church as living
and developing. Pope John XXIII
reflected Newman's insight
when he told the bishops at the
beginning of Vatican II: “The
substance of the ancient de-.
posit of the Faith is one thing,
but the manner of its presenta
tion is another.” Pope Paul
reflected Newman even more
clearly when he stated bluntly:
“The thological doctrine (about
the Church) can receive many
noteworthy developments.”
The council continues to de
fine and refine the layman’s
role In the modern world. New
man had often Insisted that
baptism means for all the faith
ful a total commitment to
Christ. From Involvement In
the work of God he would neither
exclude nor excuse the layman.
As early as l85l Newman had
written words which sound like
the appeal of a bishop at Vati
can II:
“1 WANT A laity, not ar
rogant, not rash in speech, not
disputatious, but men who know
their religion, who enter into
it, who know just where they
stand, who know what they hold,
and what they do not, who know
their creed so well, that they
can give an account of it, who
know so much of history that
they can defend It. I want an
intelligent, well - Instructed
laity.”
A third Newman contribution
to the council is his spirit of
frankly loyal and constructive
criticism. Reacting against a
tradition dating from the Refor
mation, bishops at the council
are openly admitting human,
fallible elements in the Church.
Pope Paul himself listed Catho
lic renewal as the second goal
of the council. Recognition of
need for self - criticism and
self-renewal has been part of
genuine Catholic tradtionfrom
the beginning to the Reforma
tion. Newman helped us recall
that the divine element is
wedded to weak human Instru
ments, in the Church.
NEWMAN was ecumenical
when the word was not yet used.
We may call this his fourth con
tribution to the council, New
man’s understanding love for
separated Christian brethren
has helped bring to the council
Orthodox observers after their
absence of 900 years, Pro
testant observers after their
absence of 400 years. Newman
knew frorti personal experience
with what difficulty even the
most sincere person over
comes the prejudices of early
training. He always urged
patience and sympathetic un
derstanding for the non-Catho-
lic point of view. His advice,
sound today as when given, is
that we try to enter the mind
of another and understand pro
blems from his point of view.
A fifth theme recurrent in
Newman’s writings will be re
flected in the council statement
on religious liberty. In his cele
brated letter to the Duke of Nor
folk, Newman wrote defending
papal Infallibility: “If I
obliged to bring religion into
after dinner toasts (which in
deed does not seem quite the
thing) I shall drink—to the Pope,
if you please—atlU, to con
science first, and to the Pope
afterwards.”
ERITREA: GRASSHOPPERS AND GOD
Mass on
not taught the catechism. In fact,
thev seldom see a priest. The rea
son? Grasshoppers . . . The naked
*.v>Ms of an unfinished church over
shadow the villager*’ thatched hois.
The hut in which a priest once lived
is n~w a mishmash of mud and straw
. . . Five rears ago. inspired‘by their
priest, our Catholics in ZAG1IER
began to build the church. Since
then, however, grasshoppers have
destroyed the crops year by year,
leaving c.ur people completely lin-
rhe Holy Father’s Mission Aid p 0V erished. The priest, to survive,
for the Oriental Church had to leave the village. Now
ZAGIIER is a parish without God ... "I am very worried about
ZAGHER,” the Bishop writes. “The parish is practically
abandoned, and a priest goes there only occasionally. To save
the Faith we must finish the church and build a new house for
a resident priest.” . . . Will you help? The Bishop assures us
that the parishioners, who have no money, will do all of the
construction work free-of-charge. Desperately, he asks for help
to purchase building supplies ... To complete the unfinished
church will cost $2,800. To build a house for the priest, $1,750
. . Can jou spare $1, S3. S5, S10 to save the Faith in ZAGIIER?
Perhaps you can send more. Please send it now. ZAGIIER
needs God.
THE CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION
IS THE HOLY FATHER’S MISSION AID FOR THE CHURCH
IN 18 UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTRIES. WHATEVER YOU
GIVE IS USED UNDER THE HOLY FATHER’S DIRECTION.
HELP FOR EXPECTANT MOTHERS. Lay apostles known as
the AFI (Auxiliares Feminines Internationales), who conduct a
clinic for expectant mothers in ZERKA, JORDAN, need $23 each
month to pay the visiting physician . . . Most of the mothers
cared for are Moslems . . . Will you help for a week (about $6)
two weeks ($12), a month (S23>, or a year ($276)?
VOCATION EXPLOSION. Sister Roselima and Sister Tos-
silla, of the Sisters of the Destitute in INDIA, are anions the
hundreds of young novices who need help to complete t’uii
training . . . Like to “adopt” one of them? . . Her overall ex
penses amount to about $12.50 a month, $150 a year <$300 lor
the entire two-year training period* ... The Sister you ‘ adopt
will write to you and pray for you. You’ll share forever in the
good she does.
THE OFFERING YOU MAKE WHEN YOU ASK HIM TO
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