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SPOTLIGHT ON SOCIAL REFORM What Is A Socialist? Saints in Black and White ST. GERTRUDE 125 • Father Mayhew’s column will be resumed after his return to the Archdiocese from vaca tion. BY WILLIAM J. SMFTH , S.J. There is a sentence in the encyclical of Pius XI on "Reconstruction of the Social Order" which, through misunderstanding or misinterpretation, has caused untold harm to both Christian and civic unity in this country. The sentence reads: "No one can be at the -same time a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist," The im portant word in that sentence is the adjective true. THOSE WHO use that papal pronouncement as a weapon to indict others for "softness to- [ ward Communism" usually as- sume that "socialization" as we 'know it in America must be Identified with true Socialism, The fallacious reasoning could be put in the form of a syllogism that would read: "No one can be at the same time a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist," But, social legislation is true Socialism. THEREFORE, anyone who supports social leg islation cannot be at the same time a sincere Catholic. The false reasoners go on to state that this thing which they call Socialism leads to Commu nism and therefore the so-called 'liberal Catho lic" is a tool, wittingly or unwittingly, of the Communist conspiracy. The simple fact is that the true Socialism, to which Pius XI referred in his time, hardly exists in this country today. You will find it in some of the weak, but articulate Socialist Parties which are hardly much more than a name on the ballot in the voting booth. Or perhaps among some of the Trotskyite groups. They still advocate complete destruction of the right to private property, the placing of the total means of production in the hands of the government, the class struggle and an end to capitalism. At least ten years ago, however, the Interna tional Convention of world-wide Socialist Parties had so modified their basic tenets that a true Socialist of the time of Pius XI would not have recognized the child of the parent. In this coun try most of the leaders of "Socialism", while they still have a nostaglic affection for the old term "Socialism", should be more properly characterized as "Public Welfarists". IRONICALLY enough, in practically every coun try in the world, especially among the trade union ists, the most aggressive, the most effective anti communists are to be found in the ranks of those who still like to call themselves Socialists. Commenting on the changes in Socialism, even in his own day, Pius XI in his social encyclical remarked, "Class warfare, provided it abstains from enmities and mutual hatred, is changing gradually to an honest discussion of differences, based upon the desire of social justice. If this is by no means the blessed social peace which we all long for, it can be and must be an approach to wards the mutual cooperation of vocational groups. The war declared against private ownership has also abated more and more. In such a way that nowadays it is not really the possession of the means of production which is attacked but that type of social rulership, which, in violation of all justice, has been seized and unsurped by the owners of wealth. This rulership in fact belongs not to the individual owners but to the State. ' If these changes continue, it may well come about that gradually the tenets of mitigated So cialism will no longer be different from the pro gram of those who seek to reform human society according to Christian principles." HAVE WE NOT seen in our own day this hope of Pius XI fulfilled in many ways? Advocates of varying political beliefs, of differing religious creeds, are seen uniting in common cause for the enactment of needed social legislation for the cultural, social and economic betterment of the poor and the needy. Through every papal encyclical on the social order runs the theme of the right and duty of the State to promote the Common Good. Pope John XXIII amplifying Catholic social doctrine de clared it the duty of the State, taking proper precautions of prudence, to protect, where nec essary the rights of the citizens to opportunities for employment, to the preservation of health, education, welfare benefits for the aged-in a word what we today call social security. Argue, if you will, as to the practical means of attaining any and all welfare programs that might be proposed. But the principle is clear. The State has the right and the duty to promote the Common Good and when necessary to intervene directly in the economic and social lives of the citizens. No Catholic may be called insincere or socialistic who cooperates with his fellow citizens, regard less of race, creed or color, in supporting social legislative measures when the facts of life clearly reveal the need. NEW PRESIDENT of the National Council of Catholic Women is Mrs. Marcus Kilch (left) of Youngstown, Ohio, shown here with the retiring president, Mrs. Joseph McCarthy of San Francisco (center) and Miss Margaret Mealey, executive director ‘of N.C.C.W. AFRICAN LESSON Your World And Mine CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 substantially complete and a new equilibrium al ready established on the continent. The African view is very different. The freedom of All Africans is in jeopardy while one remains in bondage, WHETHER THE liquidation of colonialism re quires the physical withdrawal of the whites, some of whom are settled in Africa for centuries, is a question which Africans consider these whites themselves must answer. What is clear in the minds and intentions of black Africans is that political and economic domination by whites mino rities must end where it survives, and that social discrimination by whites must end everywhere. This objective has been attained in the recently freed countries. It is proceeding in Northern Rhodesia and in the remaining British colonies of Bechuanaland, Basutoland and Swaziland, all of which are moving rapidly towards self-govern ment. The issue remains, nevertheless, in a vast region in the south of the continent, in Portu guese-held Angola and Mozambique, in the self- governing British possession of Southern Rho desia, and in both the Republic of South Africa and the trust territory of South-West Africa which it administers, THE INDEPENDENT states of black Africa and the Arab League states of North Africa encourage independence movements in all these territories. They know very well, however, that South Africa's economic and military power is overwhelmingly THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1964 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 5 NUNS FROM INDIA 6 Sari Sisters 9 Steal Show At Womens 9 Convention V 74 71 ! fr I FT J ACROSS 1 She became one 4 She was known for her—— of the Pas sion 8 adder 11 not women 14 upward 15 long time 16 python 17 expert 18 container 19 fan’s stick 20 part of a headdress 21 frequently used Catholic symbol 22 Biblical character 24 Greek township 26 uniform In color 27 Injury 30 ordinary 33 mark of disgrace 36 watertight 40 churlish 43 used at funerals 45 part of the eye 46 ancient Roman dates 48 not the clergy 50 sub 51 church courts 53 Malayan tree 65 red 56 Family name of an American foundress of a religious order for women 58 challenged 60 Indefinite article (Fr.) 61 substance found in blood serum 63 Australian novel ist’s maiden name 65 Abyssinian measure of weight 67 Her is also a canonized saint 71 sustain 74 to enlarge a hole 77 patient 78 French verb 79 month In which her feast occurs 81 flabby 84 route 85 designates maiden name 86 animal 87 scold severely 88 ivy thicket 89 Libyan measure 90 Order of the Eastern Star 91 woman’s name 92 without surviving Issue (Latin) DOWN 1 Province of So. Africa 2 bind 3 ninth day before the Ides 4 scientist’s refuge 5 above 6 not binding 7 nine (comb, form) 8 She was one 9 coin 10 Greek god 11 armor 12 sound again 13 snug abode 23 Eve’s origin 25 amplification factor 26 She was In Latin 28 planet 29 part of digit 31 Japanese verse 32 abode of dead (Egypt.) 34 trim 35 removed moisture 37 having knobs • 38 to call (arch) 39 gnawing animals 40 feathered verte brates 41 pay homage to 42 hinder 44 rein 47 She was born in 49 growl 52 var. Of seal 54 vegetables 57 illuminated 59 the gods 62 leaf veins 64 reward of valor (abbr) 66 concerning 68 fruit pies In Eng land 69 obstruct 70 stalks 71 stoop 72 one who puts to service 73 Island, New Zealand 75 grass. No. Africa 76 move In a circle 79 recent (prefix) 80 Indebted to 82 May In Paris 83 sacred vessels ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S PUZZLE, PAGE 7 BY FR. RALPH HARTMAN (N.C.W.C. News Service)* WASHINGTON — The women who "stole the fashion show" at the National Council of Cath olic Women convention here wore no mink. They were two vivacious nuns from India who caught the eye in blue and white sari habits. Sister Frances Esper and Sister Rosemary Nampudakem are members of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart, founded in Krishnagar, near Calcutta, India, by Texas-born Bishop Louis L. R. Morrow 14 yegjrs ago. THE 184 Sisters of the dio cesan congregation dress in the manner of women in India. The sari they wear is a long band of cotton cloth which they wind about themselves, using one end of the cloth to make an at tractive head covering. They find that people, es pecially the shy women of In dia, come to them much more readily when they are so dress ed than if they wear a western- type garment. Even with a hem line at their feet, the Sisters say that the sari is very prac tical and prove the point by showing a picture album with photographs of sari-wearing nuns working in medical dis pensaries, teaching and riding bicycles—their usual mode of f transportation. Sister Frances is a native of Detroit and the only westerner in the congregation. She and her dark-eyed companion have been in the United States five ARNOLD VIEWING Dreadfully Arty Tragedy BY JAMES W* ARNOLD greater than their combined strength, andthatto- day’s major weapons must be sabotage, guerrilla war and such world opinion as they can muster. They are confident, nevertheless, that Portu gal’s presence in Africa will not survive the Sa lazar regime, and an independent Angola and Mo zambique will represent a major advance for them and a substantial outflanking of the remain ing salient. They recognize that South Africa would readily embark on a military adventure to retain control of the labor force of these Portu guese territories, without which their gold mines would be in serious trouble, but they believe that for once the West and the Soviet bloc would join in action to prevent such a crude revival of colon ialism. Meanwhile, the position of the West, including the United States, on this issue of human rights in southern Africa will play a major part in the evo lution of African attitudes towards us. As of now, Africa is obsessed with a fear of what it calls neo-colonialism. It interprets all help from the United States and its allies as motivated by a de sire to consolidate economic control over Africa as a prelude to renewing political control. It sees South Africa, Southern Rhodesia and the Portu guese territories as the "white salient" held for the purpose of mounting the counter-attack, If we fail to take a clear stand on the moral is sue, each time the question of human rights in this region is raised at the United Nations o^else- where, we confirm the black Africans in their conviction. About halfway through "Lilith," you get the awful feeling that what you are afraid is going to happen will happen. This will be a dread fully arty tragedy, and you’re not going to care, and you’re not going to know much more about human life than when you started. Perhaps something could have been made of this complex story about a young sanitarium attendant who falls in love with a pretty schizo phrenic patient. (The moddy tale is from J. R. Salamanca’s moody 1961 novel). Producer-direc tor Robert Rossen (last film: "The Hustler") uses every poetic device known to film to make it seem profound and important. It's unquestion ably more fun to watch what Rossen is doing and ignore the characters. BUT WHAT we get, ultimate ly, is an over-wrought varia tion on the girls-are-no-darn- good theme. The patient (Jean Sebrg) turns out to be mad in the medieval sense; evil, pos sessed, a sort of Section Eight Lucretia Borgia. She is apparently Intended to be a figurative incarnation of Lilith, the female vampire of Jewish folklore, the corrupter of chil dren, who uses sexual desire to lure humans to their destruction. The hero (Warren Beatty) makes a simple mistake. He insists on being the exclusive victim of this unearthly charm. When she stub bornly spreads its around to others of all ages and sexes, he becomes jealous and precipita tes multiple disaster. In the end, he seems to achieve moral regeneration by realizing the ture nature of her madness. At least that is one interpretation. Another (shades of "Dr. Caligari") is that it is all Beat ty’s mad dream, an approach that would raise intriguing questions about the bourndaries be tween sanity and insanity, good and evil. It would also help explain the film’s misty dream like quality and the murky demonic implica tions not really needed in the first interpreta tion, where the point seems simply that mad ness can be attractive but that we approach it at our peril. MY UNCLE HAROLD, being blunt and uncom plicated, will object, of course, that this is in any case just another psycho-ward-and-sex film, that these are not the kind of people who live next door (at least as they can be observed through the kitchen window), and that it is all irrelevant to life as usually lived. In truth, this is an era when film-makers are more interested in female demons than female humans. (The story has a decidedly sick view of women, whether it is the author’s or meant to be the hero's. Of the other three main female characters, one is cold and sexless, one is pe culiar, and the other, married to a boor, attempts to seduce Beatty, who seems to spend most of his film career fending off predatory women). If the heroine is a demon, we can, goody goody, have all kinds of sin scenes, healthy, unheal thy and uncategorizable. This is not to criticize the motives or taste weeks hoping to spread the news of their charitable apostolate among the poor of India by speaking to women's groups. Asked how long they intend to stay. Sister Frances said, * Well leave that up to the Holy Spirit." FOR those who tire of speak ing in English (which she man ages with British perfection), Sister Rosemary is prepared to discourse in Malayalam, the vernacular language of the In dian liturgy in her area, or in Hindi or Bengali. Even ancient Syriac comes into the discussion when Sis ter Rosemary is asked if other members of her family are Catholic, Without a moment's hesitation she replies that her family has been Catholic from the time that the Apostle St. Thomas evangelized India. The Syro-Malabar liturgy of India is so ancient that is an argu ment that the Faith was brought to India at least by the third century. Sister Rosemary demonstrat ed the characters of the lan guage by writing on a black board, "May Jesus the Mes siah be praised." This is the usual greeting among Catholics in her homeland, she explained, just as Americans say hello. Use of the title, Messiah, is al so proof of the ancient tradi tion of Catholic life in the East. SISTER Frances gave some sidelights on the forthcoming Eucharistic Congress in Bom bay, which Pope Paul will at tend. She said all the Catholics of India have been praying and making sacrifices for its suc cess for the past year. Dele gates will come, she said, from every corner of the vast country of over 450 million people. Even the poorest have made contribu tions to pay for the congress, she said. Sister Frances decided to give up her work as a budding journalist and secretary of a real estate broker in Detroit to work as a Sister among India's masses after meeting Bishop Morrow. The "Sari Sisters" also expressed gratitude to the dele gates of the convention of the National Council of Catholic Women for Madonna Plan aid, assisted by Catholic Relief Sei> vices—National Catholic Wel fare Conference. The Sisters receive $100 per month to help them care for poor children. The Sisters are staying in the U.S. at Dunbarton College of Holy Cross here. . .xmMbmkS HOST — Valerian Cardinal Gracias, Archbishop of Bom bay, will welcome Pope Paul VI and thousands of the faithful from around the world to the 38th Interna tional Eucharistic Congress, to be held in Bombay from Nov. 28 to Dec. 6. of Rossen, long one of my favorite directors ("Walk in the Sun," "All the King’s Men"). The several sex sequences are impeccable and among the most lyrical in a lyrical movie. But lyrical movie. But lyrical or clumsy, they are bound to keep an audience awake and its mind off popcorn. ROSSEN HAS clearly let himself go on "Lil ith." He had photographed it in superb, fresh locations (the Great Falls area of the Pot- tomac in Maryland, the 18-room Oyster Bay mansion-estate of a Brooklyn banker). He uses Befgmanesque forest and fog, the irridescent waters of "Lord of the Flies," the reflected- pond beauties of "Sundays and Cybele." He works the slow fade (one scene, more or less interminably, melts into another) as it has seldom been worked before. He uses .sound creat ively, sometimes turning up natural sound for effect (the town band downs out everything dur ing a fair sequence), sometimes exphasizing a dramatic or rhythmic element (a clock ticking, ping pong balls bouncing, pool balls clicking). Most closeup camera setups are contrived so that at least two actors are in the frame, us ually the speaker and a third party reacting in the background. The cutting is often beauti ful; the montage of shots at the country fair jousting tournament is one obvious example. The trouble is that the film's point is either too obscure or too shallow to be worth such a pretentious production. Rossen slights an essen tial; one has to give a hang about the charac ters, even become emotionally involved with them. If it can't be with the girl, who is both insane and wicked, it must be with the boy. BUT BEATTY plays him like all the others he has played: surly, slouching, intense, close mouthed, insolent-eyed. His idealism and innoce nce should contrast with Lilith, but he comes off as the town cut-up killing time until his mo torcycle is fixed. Miss Seberg is the country girl from Iowa who flopped as St. Joan and went on to success as a "perverse ingenue in French New Wave movies." Here she is attractive enough and even perverse, but has not more an air of real moral decay than the cheerleaders at Des Moines Cen tral High School. Ah well, rack up points for Peter Fonda, whose image of tennis-shoed male innocence is flaw less; Kim Hunter, a fine actress who is asked to contribute little more than raised-eyebrow reaction shots; and Anne Meacham, whose subtle projection of evil as a silkenly charming pat ient is what everyone else was trying but didn’t quite achieve. CURRENT RECOMMENDED FILMS: Superior: Behold a Pale Horse, Fall Safe. For special tastes; Night of the Iguana, A Hard Day’s Night, Four Days in November Better than most: Topkapi, Mafioso, One Potato, Two Potato, Fate is the Hunter. God Love You BY MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN It is very difficult to convince anyone of the words of Our Lord: "Give, anditwillbegiventoyou," The advice that the world gives is common sense: "Keep it for yourself, and you will have it." Though the world often cannot see it, those who have followed the Lord’s advice have always prospered spiritually, but not neces sarily those who hoard. Recently this letter came to our attention: ’Twenty-two years ago, I promised the Lord that if He would provide work for me, I would give a tenth toward His work. Soon I had my first job. I earned eighteen dollars in six weeks. Gladly I placed a dollar in the offer ing, but how the devil tempted me not to part with the eighty cents, then with a quarter, then to with hold a nickel. Fortunately for me, the Lord re minded me to keep my promise, and I resolved to give (pot cheerfully though, I admit). God had kept His promise so I thought to do the same. Never have I been tempted since to withhold any of the Lord's portion. He continues to open the windows of heaven and pour out blessings. He has increased my earning abilities twenty times in twenty-two years. I also have increased my giving. In stead of one-tenth, I am now giving three-tenths of my earnings. There are many blessings in giving to the Lord, but mostly this: Where your treasure is, there also is your heart." The next problem is: To whom should you give the Lord’s por tion? This is something you can decide for yourself, but always keeping in mind the words of the Vicar of Christ: "Charity to The Propagation of the Faith exceeds all other charities as heaven exceeds earth and eternity, time" In other words, the best way of remembering Our Lord, is to help extend the Faith to others. Always keep in mind that The Society for the Propagation of the Faith is the Holy Father's own Society. All the money that you give to his Society goes directly to him. No distribution is made by any bishop, or any diocesan or national director in this country. The Vicar of Christ distributes where he sees the need to be greatest. "Give and it shall be given to you" is not a matter just for par ishes and dioceses but for each individual. Think of the blessings that HAVE been given you. In the spiritual order, if you were the only sinner in the world Christ would have died for you alone. Think of His mercy to you in the past and His patience with you in the present. What have you given? How much do you love in re turn? Enough to feed the starving, clothe those aching with hard, dull bitterness of cold", educate a native priest so that the poor may have the Gospel preached to them? Enough to sit down now and mail a sacrifice to The Society for the Propagation of the Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10001? GOD LOVE YOU to M.J.B. for $50 "In thanksgiving to Our Lord for helping me through a tumor operation. I hope this check will help others, so that they, too, can know God and His Love." ...to W.S. for $5 "We are a couple, 74 and 69 years of age and not too well, but we send this little offering for your poor to help them a little and to thank God for all the blessings we have received," Do you find yourself perplexed by problem Christmas presents? What to give a teacher, priest, nun, relative, is always difficult to decide, A welcome gift for anyone on your list (or for yourself) is a subscription to WORLDMISSIQN, a scholarly quarterly maga zine of current missionary activities edited by Most Reverend Fulton J, Sheen. Read about the frontiers of the Church in the world today. Send only $5 for a year’s subscription to: WORLD- MISSION, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10001, Cut out this column, pin your sacrifice to it and mail it to Most Reverend Fulton J. Sheen, National Director of The Society for the Propagation of the Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10001, or to your Diocesan Director, Rev. Harold J. Rainey, P.-O Box 12047, Northside Station, Atlanta 5, Georgia,