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PAGE 4 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1964
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Worship Meet
The upcoming Conference on
Worship, which will run from
October 22 through 25, is one of
the most important undertakings
ever planned in the archdiocese.
The Council of Catholic Men now
adds this splendid liturgical pro
gram to its record of annual pro
jects, which includes the archdio
cesan census and Operation Un
derstanding,
The example set by these zea
lous Catholic men is one of ser
vice, Instead of confining their
efforts to themselves, they are
conscious of every member of
the archdiocese. Evexy Catholic -
priest, laity, man, woman, young
adult - is being given the oppor
tunity to learn by instruction and
experience the full meaning of the
liturgical renewal.
The underlying concern of the
Conference on Worship is with
the reason for the various meas
ures of liturgical renewal and re
form. It is quite impossible to ac
cept these steps in the proper
spirit without an understanding of
the mind of the Church and the
"why” which lies behind them.
Each of the four days will bring
outstanding authorities to speak
to those who attend the Confer
ence. These speakers - Father
Gerard Sloyan, Msgr. Daniel
Tarrant, Mr. John Mannion, Mrs,
Dr. King’s
Occasionally, something almost
too right and appropriate to be
expected actually takes place.
When it does, it inspires a re
action very akin to awe. This is
how we were affected by the news
that Dr. Martin Luther King has
been awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize. With humility we wish to
add our congratulations to the
compliments which will come to
Dr. King from all over the world.
It is an irony that a man who
has stood inthe midst of such
intense conflict should so char
acteristically be a manof peace.
This is what makes the Nobel
Peace Prize award so appro
priate, It would not have been so
dramatic for Dr, King to receive
an award for contributing to free
dom and equality. The honor he
now will receive, for promoting
peace, focuses our attention on
what is truly the deeper and more
essential arena of his work.
The real violence inherent in
Discussing
The debate by the Council Fath
ers on the future status of the
laity within the Church has
brought forth quite a number of
surprises. One has been the read
iness of many of the Council
Fathers to stand up and be count
ed in defense of Lay rights while
the draft text has been stressing
mainly the duties.
We are especially proud of the
interventions by AmericanBis-
hops in defense of the Laity. Car
dinal Ritter, Archbishop of St.
Louis, raised his voice early in
the debate and called for a com
plete revision of the text. He
said it was, "Too clerical” and
"patronizing”. He was joined
by another American, Auxiliary
Mary Perkins Ryan - willexplain
the reasons why the Vatican
Council decided that renewal in
liturgy was necessary and the
measures that are being taken.
One of the most important
means of learning is through ex
perience. The principle of‘learn
ing by doing’ is valid for all of
us. Each day of the Conference,
then, there will be a Mass cele
brated in the latin-english rite,
to be introduced everywhere on
November 29. These Masses will
make use of the fullest kind of
active participation onthe part
of all present. On Sunday, Octo
ber 25, a Sung Mass by an inter
parish choir as well as the entire
congregation will expose most of
us for the first time to the beauty
of the use of English in the liturgy.
The schedule of the events of
the Conference is printed in this
newspaper. Every concerned and
informed Catholic owes it to him
self to attend all, or as many as
possible, of the programs. The
experience that will be gained in
this way will make unnecessary
an explanation about the necessi
ty of the liturgical program being
undertaken by the Church and our
archdiocese. The most meaning
ful sign of our appreciation to the
Council of Catholic Men will be a
full attendance at each of the
Conference exercises.
Peace Prize
America’s racial revolution is
not the morally justified civil
protests carried out by the op
pressed Negro; it is not even the
heinous murders, burnings,
bombings used by some of their
enemies to halt their efforts. The
underlying violence is in the
moral sphere, built into the ac
ceptance of injustice, segregation
and discrimination by American
society. The outward conflict - as
terrible as it has sometimes be
come - is symptomatic, symbolic
of the moral disorder and lack of
peace eating away at our society.
By selflessly devoting himself
to justice, by accepting the suf
fering and pain that has come to
him, by urging on all Americans
only the basic mandates of Chris
tian morality, Dr. King has con
tributed to peace. He has fought
disorder and moral violence.
Without justice and love, there
can be no peace. The Nobel Peace
Prize is honored more by Dr.
King than he is by it.
The Laity
Bishop Stephen Leven of San
Antonio, who called the draft
text, "timid and hesitant.”
It seems a pity that even at this
late stage some feel that the laity
are not yet ripe for consultation
as to the best way in which to
achieve their divine dignity and
eternal destiny. Yet, it is obvious
from the utterances of Pope Paul
VI that he feels that the Laity
have a right to be consulted on
matters of import within the
Church. The Liturgical Reform
approved by the Council Fathers
and promulgated by the Pope, has
laid to rest the fallacy that the
Sanctuary Rail separates the laity
from the rest of the Church,
More Updating
GEORGIA PINES
Fastest Mace In The East
BY REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN
One of the “official duties’* of the Sheriff of
Clarke County (Athens) is to lead the academic
procession at graduation exercises of the Uni
versity of Georgia. It is a colorful Pageant,
with the professors in their academic robes
and the students about to receive their degrees
displaying the various colors of their studies, all
being led by the sheriff carrying a mace.
This practice dates back to
the day when unfriendly
Indians would upset the pro
cession as it moved from one
side of the campus to the other
through woods. The presence
of the sheriff with his firearms
discouraged the intruders.
THE PRACTICE has been
perpetuated through all these
years and the sheriff's presence is part of the
academic ritual right to this day.
I sat in Sanford Stadium last Saturday and
read the program prior to the Georgia-Clemson
game. Thousands of people crowded the stadium
and the new buildings around the stadium give
the stadium a sort of cavernous effect. The
thought passed through my mind, as I heard
the cheerleaders trying to whip up enthusiasm
and school spirit if our educational institu
tions had not grown too big and would we not
be better off starting more schools in the dif
ferent sections of the state.
VINCE DOOLEY’S Bulldogs played a spectacu
lar game over the favored Tigers of Clemson.
A s the game went on I thought too of another
member of Saint Joseph’s parish who did a spec
tacular job with the Bulldogs years ago.
Now retired, Harry Mehre, is a favorite dinner
speaker around the Atlanta scene. One of the
favorite stories which Harry tells is the oc
casion when Georgia whipped one of the
Ivy League teams and the president of the
University was so jubiliant that he put his arms
around Harry and told him that he had a job foi
life. **My only regret’*, Harry says now, “is that
I didn’t get it in writing!”
Sitting in the stands were two of the Costa
brothers. Native Athenians, they helped finance
the team in its infancy and when the stadium
was originally built they helped with the
financing. I dare say that a Georgia team ha
never played a game, in all these years since
football began at Rutgers', that a Costa has not
been in attendance.
ALL THE old grads remember Monsignor Jim
King and his support of the Bulldogs. Years back
when the Monsignor served as pastor of Saint
Joseph's he kept “his eye’* on boys like Nick
Azar, and became a sort of chaplain to the foot
ball squad.
The most memorable event which I recall
in Sanford Stadium though, was a graduation
exercise at which the junior senator from Mas
sachusetts gave the graduationn speech. He
had just finished a book named Profiles in Cour-*
age and he himself was a rising figure on the
American political scene. As I sat in the south
stands and listened to John F. Kennedy speak
there was an Atlanta executive sitting directly
in back of me. This executive had just finished
a term as president of a national organiza
tion. I overheard him say to his companion,
“keep your eye on Kennedy, that boy is going
places 1’*
AS GEORGIA’S score mounted the crowds
began to leave the stadium. (It reminded me of
those people who leave Mass at the last Gospel!)
While the crowd pushed and shoved I returned
my thoughts to the Sheriff and wondered if his
presence isn't still needed today just to protect
the spectators.
HONG KONG
Your World And Mine
BY GARY MacEOlN
Hong-Kong. .... Not even San Francisco’s
Golden Gate or Istanbul's Golden Horn is more
spectacular than the harbor of Hong Kong. Day and
night the scene is one of incomparable natural
grandeur and manmade magnificence. On either
side the mountains rise majestically, the roads,
factories ^id skyscrapers of the twin cities of
Victoria and Kowloon climbing ever higher to
wards the peaks.
The harbor itself, today the most active point
of contact between Red China and the free
world, is the primary reason for the galloping
expansion. Here ride at anchor
ships of every flag and nation.
Clustered around them are
sampans and junks, each a
floating home and floating
truck. From the holds of the
ships pours the merchandise
of the West. Into them gc the
artificial flowers, Christmas
decorations, toys and ready-
to-wear clothing which Hong
Kong produces in endless quantities, as well as
the jade, ivory, gold, laces, brocades and other
wares which China here exchanges for the manu
factures it desperately needs.
FIFTEEN YEARS ago, when the Red Chinese
completed the conquest of the mainland, Hong
Kong was already densely populated, nearly
two million people living on 400 square miles
of largely mountainous territory. The population
has since doubled to almost 10,000 persons
per square mile, as compared with a density of
49 per square mile in the United States.
Five years ago, a million refugees were still
unassimilated. Squatters on rooftops alone were
estimated at 200,000 , Nobody knew how many
more had gone to swell the floating population
on unsanitary, unsound and overcrowded house
boats in the bays and the harbors of Hong Kong’s
75 islands. There seemed no hope of employing
them. They were kept alive by emergency feed
ing programs in which Catholic Relief Services
and other American voluntary agencies played a
magnificent part.
Subsequent progress is little less than mira
culous. The unquenchable energy and drive of
the Chinese is even more evident here than in
Singapore. Private industrial construction and
government-sponsored lowcost housing have gone
hand in hand. Substantial shortages of labor have
developed in the clothing and other industries.
Wages are low and life is dear, but mostly every
one can make enough to survive,
THE NEW apartment buildings are severely
practical, of a spartan simplicity that would
hardly appeal to Americans. One walks up the
first seven flights to catch an elevator running
from there to the fourteenth floor. Each living
init has a 10-foot front and a depth varying
between 10 and 18 feet according to family -
size. Each floor is served by communal show
ers, toilets and laundry areas. Sea water in
the toilets serves to conserve the precious fresh
water, some of which is piped from Communist
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ADL SURVEY
Are Catholics
Anti-Semitic?
BY GERARD E. SHERRY
Nothing irritates a writer more than to be sitting
on a confidential report to find that someone
has been all but breaking the confidence. This
was my situation the past couple of weeks in rela
tion to a program of research on American
Anti-Semitism sponsored by the Anti-Defamation
League of B’nai B’rith.
A couple of weeks ago, a confidential report on
preliminary findings,
especially in relation
to the charge of Dei-
cide and Anti-Jewish
prejudice among
Catholics, was leak
ed in Rome and sev
eral of us bright
journalists were
“scooped” for our
honesty.
The study was done at the survey research cen
ter of the University of California and consisted of
Christian Church members randomly elected from
the membership rolls of Protestant groups and
Catholic Parishes in the Archdiocese of San Fran
cisco. In all 2,326 Protestants and 545 Roman
Catholics filled out lengthy questionnaires during
the spring and summer of 1963. An analysis of
personal interviews conducted with a random sam
ple of persons who failed to return the question
naire indicated that our data was representative
of the church member population in this area.
I’D RATHER quote sections of the report ver
batim than try to digest it for it is too import
ant to distort.. Here then are sections which
shoul&prove of great interest:
“The decision to study the possible conse
quences of church teachings on anti-Semitism
stemmed from the growing dialogue among both
clergy and laity over this issue. In particular,
Christian churchmen have been troubled by the
possible unintended effect the crucifixion story
may have onthe attitudes of many church mem
bers towards Jews. Many have felt that ambi
guous handling of the role 'the ancient Jews
in the death of Jesus many leave sincere Christ
ians with the impression that the Jews alone
bear the guilt of the crucifixion. Despite this
concern, no one really knows whether, or to what
extent, such a process goes on today. Basi
cally , the general problem breaks down into
three related questions:
“1. Do modern Christians typically blame
the historic Jew for the crucifixion?
“2. Do these historic images get trans
lated into an image of the modern Jew as
guilty of the “crimes’* of his ancestors?
“3. Supposing the first two answers are
“yes,” do-negative religious images of the
Jews predispose persons to accept negative
secular stereotypes of the Jew?
“In the study, efforts are made to answer
these questions. A synopsis of the most signi
ficant data provides a fairly clear picture.
“To begin with, the project tried to deter
mine whether, and to what extent, present-
day Catholics recognize and acknowledge the
mutual Judeo-Christian heritage of the Old
Testament. Some of the key findings were:
75% identified the Jews as God’s Chosen
People in Old Testament times, and 11%
thought the Christians were the Chosen
People in the Old Testament.
15% thought of Moses, David and Solomon as
Christians, and 72% thought of them as
Jews.
61% thought of Peter, Paul, and the Apostles
as Christians, and 19% thought of them as
Jews.
47% thought of Judas as a Jew, 28% as
a Christian.
“Generally speaking, the majority of Catho
lics acknowledge their mutual roots with
Judaism, although there is a modest tendency
to Christianize the Old Testament. However,
as can readily be seen, the shadowy figure
of Judas resists Christianization and he is
likely to be remembered as a Jew.
“Moving on, the project next considered ima
ges of the role of the ancient Jews in the cru
cifixion. The findings were very definite;
79% believed Pontius Pilate wanted to spare
Jesus from the cross, and only 7% believ
ed Pilate did not want to spare Jesus.
46% not only believed Pilate wanted to spare
Jesus but that he failed to do so “because a
group of powerful Jews wanted Jesus dead”.
61% named the Jews as the group “most
responsible for crucifying Christ,” and 22%
fixed the responsibility on the Romans.
“From this data we must conclude that the
three major elements in the traditional inter
pretation of the crucifixion, the beliefs which
have caused so much concern recently, re
main the predominant view among present-day
Roman Catholic parishioners.
“Similarly, these respondents were inclined
to attribute evil motives to the Jews for re
jecting Jesus as the Messiah:
42% agreed the Jews “were deceived by
wicked priests who feared Christ.’*
39% agreed that the Jews rejected Jesus be
cause **They couldn’t accept a Messiah
who came from humble beginnings.”
16% agreed the Jews rejected Jesus because
they “were sinful and had turned against
God.”
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