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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. - 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. Saints in Black and White / * T~ H w i tr ST. 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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. 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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. GOD LOVE YOUtoC.H. for $10 "1 never really thought of send ing money anywhere, but after listening to you I’m going to send you the few dollars that I have to my name," ....to V.V. for $40 ’This is my ten per cent opt of my five weeks pay, and my wish is that it be used for the starving children of the world." ....to P.F.F, of Salt Lake City for $7,00and an additional gift of jewelry valued at $50 "....to be used for food, clothing and medicine for the poor and the sick." How many of us really live the Mass? How many of us really understand its meaning, or are purged to a greater union with Christ and His Mystical Body? The Society for the Propagation of the Faith has made available an unusual, thought-provoking, full- color film, "God’s Road Company” which shows us how to live each part of the Mass - at the altar, in our lives, and in Christ’s 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 happening, not something that has happened. Narrated by Most Rev erend Fulton J, Sheen and produced for The Society for the Prop agation of the Faith, '\3od’s Road Company" is available to schools, retreat houses, community groups, and clubs. For more information contact your Diocesan Director, 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 Fi^tth* 3*66 Fifth Avfenue, New York lx, N. Y, orj your Archdiocesart Director, Very Rev, Harold- J v Rainey P, O. Box 12047 Northside Station, Atlanta 5, Ga.