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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. 1964 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 5
AUSPICIOUS EVENT
Liturgical Renewal — I
BY REV. LEONARD F. X. M\YHEW
The Liturgical Week in St. Louis was held under
Ideally auspicious circumstances. Indeed, it was
an easy occasion in which to indulge one’s en
thusiasms. The gentle and zealous Cardinal of St.
Louis, an authentic American hero of the Second
Vatican Council, offered the Convention his patro
nage. It was the twenty-fifth annual Liturgical
Week and the first since the Liturgical Move
ment had entered the land of
promise. The Vatican Council,
In its Constitution on Sacred
Liturgy, put the seal of appro
val, not only of Catholic offi
cialdom but of the Holy Spirit,
on the labors of a host of far
sighted pioneers. It was an oc
casion filled refreshingly with
both emotion and meaning.
The most striking facet of the Week, as one ar
rived in St. Louis, was the multitude and variety
of the nuns present. Their number was myriad
and the array of their congregations and habits
was in itself a tribute to some kind of subsidiary
Catholic Inventiveness. Far more substantial was
the verve with which they entered'into the pro
ceedings until hours far from familiar to con
vent schedules. The Sisters are no longer to be
patronized with the syrupy "good" or "vene
rable” of former days. They sang with enthu
siasm, questioned with sharpness and discussed
with heat all the matters which are of concern
to God’s people. They applauded an archbishop
telling them that the parish church is the center
of liturgy and that they are not to retreat into
convent chapels for a segregated worship. Mrs.
Mary Perkins Ryan, author of a controversial
book on parochial schools, told of nuns who
grasped her hand and said "we’re with you”. The
calculation of the countless other nuns and innu
merable pupils these Sisters will reach is stu
pendous.
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Two other groups - one not old but no longer
young and the other still young - attracted atten
tion. The number of grey-haired priests was
noticeable. These men, if perhaps they did not see
twenty-five years when a Martin Hellriegel pro
posed his visions, do see now when the Church
they love and serve faithfully has spoken its
solemn word. If any presence spoke hopefully of
the people of God "ready as a giant to run his
course”, it was theirs.
The young who Indicated a great hope were,
above all, the seminarians. There were many lay
high school and college students whose presence
and enthusiasm cheered the occasionbut the semi
narians, future men of the Church, future fathers
and pastors of souls, were indeed a harbinger
of great good. If there is a "new breed” in the
coming generation, its ranks will include young'
men like these seminarians. They listened and
learned with a seriousness and questioned and
contributed with a freedom uniquely their own. On
such an occasion as this they willingly fitted the
theory they had learned with the experience and
practicality of their elders.
The celebration of holy Mass each day at the
Liturgical Week was a glorious experience of the
Church at worship. It wrote large the dictum of
the Vatican Council that "the aim and object of
apostolic works is that all who are made sons of
God by faith and baptism should come together
to praise God in the midst of his Church, to take
part in the sacrifice, and to eat the Lord’s
supper." If there is still anyone who doubts that
the renewal of worship is either possible or
worthwhile, he should have been in St. Louis last
week. Thousands of voices raised in song, thou
sands of breads carried to the altar in offering
and received in the banquet of Christ’s body:
these would have convinced any doubter.
(This is the first of a series of articles drawn
from the 1964 Liturgical Week).
QUESTION BOX
Forbidden Books?
BY MSGR. J. D. CONWAY
Q. Why is there an Index of Forbidden Books? To
what extent is a practicing Catholic expected to
avail himself of knowledge of its contents?
As a person with an intellect I feel insulted by
the idea that one man may tell another, "Oh, no,
you must not read that! It’s for
bidden!” Everyone has a brain,
and ought to use it, and not lean
upon someone else’s judgement.
A. The Index of Forbidden
Books is a relict of post-Nicene
days; and its value to the aver
age Catholic Is minimal. Out-
aide of a few novels, like Notre
Dame de Paris and Madame
Bovary — loss objectionable than 90 per cent of
those you find at the corner drug store - there
are few books on the Index which would interest
the average Catholic. It causes most trouble In
colleges and universities, and its death is long
overdue.
However, as a person with an intellect I feel
that I should be guided by people wiser than myself
as to what reading is valuable, what is worthless,
and what is harmful# I recognize the Church as a
teaching authority established by Jesus Christ
and guided by the Holy Spirit; and I accept that
authority as a guide to my reading. But I must
admit that, as a mature person, I would prefer
that this guidance were given me in paternal
manner, by way of recommendation or warning,
rather than by prohibition. I do not feel Insulted
when Church law forbids me to read a book; I
don’t even feel rebellious. But I don’t like it.
***
Q. Could you please tell us how the church col
lections are supposed to be used?
A. To avoid repetition I have omitted the detail
ed listing from your questions; since it would
have to be repeated in the answer anyway. Re
garding some Items there may be differences In
diocesan regulations:
The weekly envelope collection: for the support
of the school, church, rectory, convent, and parish
works in general.
The loose bills and change In the weekly col
lection: for the same purposes as the envelopes.
The special Easter envelope collection: in some
dioceses for the pastor personally; in others for
the seminary, or other designated purpose.
The special Christmas envelope collection: in
most dioceses for the pastor personally; In others,
reserved for some designated purpose.
Money gifts at a baptism: for the pastor, who
may permit that they be retained by the person
who does the baptizing.
Money gifts at a wedding: for the pastor, who
presumably will be fair with an assistant or other
priest who performs the ceremony.
Money gifts at a funeral: for the pastor, as
above.
(Depending on local custom-or diocesan regula
tions - the offerings at weddings and funerals may
include payment to organist, choir and altar boys.)
The odd dollars here and there for such favors
as looking up a baptismal or confirmation date:
not provided for by general law of the church,
which apparently sees such favors as professional
courtesies for which no payment should be de
manded.
Etc.: under this, your final heading, I will men
tion Mass stipends, which belong to the priest who
says the Mass.
Q. Only a lay woman might know how incomro*-
ient it is to have to wear a head covering In
church. I do sacristy work so that I need to go be
fore the altar in working clothes, and often should
dash in on the spur of themomen. Also it prevents
me from making a visit when I pass a church.
This is true because in our culture head covering
for women is no longer normal. It has lost its
former significance. Now you see women in church
with a drooping handkerchief, a bow of ribbon, a
flower, and sometimes the Sunday announcements.
This seems pretty ridiculous. But the essential
reason is that the idea of a woman’s hat signifying
respect is no longer valid.
A. Your argument is surely valid, and practical
too.
Canon 1262, which says thatmen’s heads should
be uncovered in church, and women’s heads cover
ed, also expresses the recommendation that men
be kept separate from women in the church. Once
we get all the women on the Gospel side of the
church, and all the men on the Epistle side, then
I am going to Insist that every woman in my
church wear a Sunday bulletin on her head, if
she has no hat. Until then I hope she will not miss
her sacristy work or a good pious visit because
of lack of head covering - and a swatch of Kleenex
is worse than no covering at all, in my opinion.
A canonical authority whom I consulted on this
question says that a bald-headed man they wear a
head-covering in church if his head gets cold. So
I conclude that if women get hot-headed about this
subject they may leave off their hats.
THE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
Your World And Mine
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4
percentage of the children can get education, this
constitute a discriminatory application of state
funds.
The Catholic authorities have shown an admir
able readiness to meet their critics more than half
way. In Tanganyika, for example, they recently
stated that the Church recognizes that education
is a social service and that accordingly its schools
are equally open to all without religious test. They
added that the Church would not open further
schools in any district in which schools guarantee
ing freedom of conscience already exist.
BOTH IN Tanganyika and elsewhere the bishops
realize that education if going to become more and
more a state function. They believe the cause of
religion will best be served by accepting the in
evitable gracefully, cooperating in the transfer,
and developing new social activities calculated to
benefit the entire community and to further the
national objectives as established by the people
through their own representative institutions.
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ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S PUZZLE ON PAGE' 7*
Nun Asks
‘Honest’
Approach
NEW ORLEANS (NC) — A
nun-author said here that .in
their vocations approach to
young people religious com
munities "mustbehonest—nei-
ther formalistic nor pietistic."
Teenagers "want something
virile and courageous they are
not really interested in how
many home visits Sisters make,
or the number of daily medi
tations," declared Sister Maur
een of St. Paul, Minn., author
of the book "The Convent in the
Modern World.”
SHE SPOKE at a vocations
workshop sponsored by Voca
tional Instruction Toward Apos-
tleship» (VITA), an organiza
tion of women's religious com
munities which has vocational
promotion as its function.
Another workshop speaker,
Father Ignatius M. Roppolo,
director of the vocations of
fice of the New Orleans arch
diocese, said it is the job of
religious communities them
selves to clear away obstacles
to vocations.
TODAY'S teenage genera
tion, he said, "is just as ide
alistic, generous, cooperative
and realistic as genera
tions past.” He cited the re
cord of the Peace Corps and,
such lay mission groups as
the Papal Volunteers for Latin
America and the Extension Lay
Volunteers.
If any religious community is
lacking or losing vocations,
Father Roppolo said, it should
"turn inward” for the solu
tion to its problem.
ARNOLD VIEWING
Scrambled Hitchcock
BY JAMES W. ARNOLD
Alfred Hitchcock's "Mamie” is a haphazard
collection of odds and ends from other films,
some by Hitchcock and some not, that hangs to
gether about as coherently as a boardinghouse
clothesline on washday afternoon.
Often illogical and contrived, this over-long,
130-minute film is filled with the familiar Hitch-
c(>c fc ingredients: the frosty blonde heroine, here
for the first time explicitly
frigid; ±e True Confessions-
type Freudianism, juiced up
with lurid symbolism; the
■lightly twisted sex relation
ships; the shallow, disagree
able characters; the trail of
psychological terror leading in
evitably to the Neurotic Mother.
AFTER nearly 40 years as a
■Miter of movie suspense, Hitchcock has become
■ controversial topic among film buffs. On one
side the French have anointed him among the Im
mortals and found more hidden metaphysics in his
scare epics than in the whole New Wave. Other
connoisseurs consider him a commercial philis
tine who cynically caters to the audience’s worst
impulses while he turns the terror on and off with
clever but obvious technical tricks.
Wherever the truth lies, several conclusions
are certain: (1) Hitchcock does not hold custo
mers’ tastes in high esteem; (2) his image of man
and human relationships is often degrading; (3)
as his artistic freedom has increased through the
years, his inclinations to vulgarity and cynicism,
to either mock or exploit his characters, have be
come less disguised.
IN "MARNIE,” for example, there are two
main points of dramatic interest. What will hap
pen when the beautiful but sexually maladjusted
psychotic (Tippi Hedren) marries a fellow (Sean
Connery) who is attractive, determined and super
masculine? What sensational, spicy arid frighten
ing event caused the girl’s problem to begin with?
Hitchcock paints both answers in broadly garish,
comic-book colors. It is hard to know whether to
be more appalled at the director’s instincts or at
the audience’s response.
The females in this film are morbidly fascinat
ing. The heroine is a compulsive criminal with the
warmth of a seven-watt bulb(admirably suited to
the mannequin-hard prettiness of ex-model Hed
ren), and far more attention is devoted to her odd- -
ballness than to working up any compassion for it.
Her mother (Louise Latham) is a man-hating ex
sinner (with Tennessee Williams drawl and cripp
led leg) who suffocates her child with self-pity.
There is a scheming debutante (Diane Baker)
singularly devoted to spreading malice.
WOMEN, clearly, are No Darn Good. Even a
girl-child, who appears briefly, is a calculating
creature with the requisite feminine character
traits: surface good looks covering internal sel
fishness, jealousy and malevolence.
day-old glass of been.
WHILE HE bilks the customers, Hitchcock is not
above kidding them and himself. Once he has Con
nery, dedicated to curing Miss Hedren (how sick
can a confession of love be: "Whatever you are,
I love you...horrible, isn’t it?”), looking through
a book entitled "Sexual Aberrations of the Female
Criminal.” Again, during the honeymoon Miss
Hedren attempts to drown herself in the pool of
an ocean liner. As he gives artificial respiration,
Connery asks why she didn’t Jump overboard. She
gasps: "The idea was to kill myself, not feed
the damn fish.”
There are several cliches the director could
hardly have Intended seriously. In one, the prin
cipals spill out all their problems on the front
doorstep so eavesdropping Miss Baker can wort
herself into the plot. In another, at a crucial mom
ent in a romantic encounter, the camera pans duti
fully to a porthole to denote the passage of time.
FUNNIEST is the heroine’s phobia for the color
red. Whenever she sees it (flowers, ink, a red
coat) she goes wild-eyed and the screen turns the
shade of a ripe California tomato. What she does
waiting for traffic lights or applying lipstick is
never made clear. But It seems likely Hitchcock
is satirizing his own use of a similar color
fetish (black lines on white) in his early clas
sic psychodrama, "Spellbound.”
Amid all the intended and unintended nonsense,
there are a few cases of artistry. Among them: a
typical mysterious opening in which a single girl
walks away from the camera down a railroad
platform in utter solitude and silence; an urbane
tea party with an indefinable undertone of nasti
ness; a splendid horseback riding accident in which
the few moments of real time are spread out over
30 or 40 tension-filled seconds. Probably the most
obvious shows Miss Hedrin robbing a safe on one
side of the screen unmindful of a cleaning lady
swabbing a floor on the other.
CONNERY, the virile Scotsman seen here pre
viously only as James Bond, struggles good-nat
uredly with his improbable role, and Miss Hedrin,
whose little mouth can be cruel as well as fetch
ing, is a kind of female Alan Ladd - up to the stoic
scenes but not the emotional ones. A definite asset
is the tight closeup and mobile photography by Rob
ert Burks (long a Hitchcock collaborator). His
penetrating work has an x-ray quality found in the
recent character-study films of IngmarBergman.
CURRENT RECOMMENDED FILMS:
For everyone: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World;
Bridge on the River Kwai (re
issue).
Better than most: What a Way to Go, Becket,
Black Like Me, Fall of the
Roman Empire, The Pink Pan
ther, Island of the Blue Dolphins
It may be argued that only disreputable types
are fit subjects for the bizarre plots in which
Hitchcock revels. Even so, the old man’s touch
used to be lighter. He didn’t always need thunder
storms, loud music, bedroom dramatics, or shots
of children slamming pokers into people’s heads
to produce Shock. The climax scene, a bloody
three-way wrestling match between a child, a sail
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The priests of the United States are awakening to the great
need of the Church in other lands. Sometimes this is inspired
by visiting mission lands or acting as chaplains. In any case,
some are sending their inheritance to the Propagationof the Faith,
others their savings, others their salaries and their stipends.
One priest, when sending in his sacrifice, wrote,
"We have to stop giving God the few crumbs and
start giving His Church at least five per cent of
the income of every parish; then I am sure God
will bless our country and the whole world with
peace and victory over Communism."
As soon as the Spirit of Christ invades the heart
of a priest, he looks beyond the confines of his
g parish and his diocese and out to the poor where
Christ lives in humanity. This is also true of
Protestant ministers, one of whom wrote, "I have just read
MISSION. I am not a Catholic. I have a heart instead of a stone and
I am herewith enclosing my personal check in the amount of $5.00.
i have no earnings, cuff links or any old gold to give, but such as
I have I give to you in the Name of Our Lord with the sincere pray
er that it will help some poor soul, I shall try to keep MISSION in
mind as long as I have life. I wish that your magazine MISSION
could reach more Protestants."
We wish that we could be more personal about the saintly
priests who have sent in their sacrifices but in every case they
have asked that their sacrifices not be acknowledged, or that no
thanks be rendered. This is an added proof that they have given
it to the Lord and for the Lord, May such priests multiply in our
midst. If this column is read by any priest who has been so in
spired by his brother priests, kindly cut out this column and write
to me.
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Christ and His Mystical Body? The Society for the Propagation of
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Mystical Body throughout the Missions. It lifts the Cross out of the
rock of Valvary and through three distinct episodes, plants it in
different parts of the world, giving an entirely new understanding
of the modernity of the Mass. Calvary becomes something that IS
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