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QUESTION BOX More Social Justice? LEGION OF DECENCY BY MSGR. J. D. CONWAY Q. It costs us to send a child to a Catholic high school or university, or to be admitted to a Catholic hospital; yet when we work for a Catholic school or hospital as an employee we are paid the lowest wages in town. The Catho lic Church teaches me that the primary pur pose of marriage is the procreation of chil dren; yet when I applied for a job at a Catholic hospital, I was told by the one in charge that I should not take the job, because I could not sup port my family on the wages they paid. The same low wages are paid at the Catholic uni versity arid the other Catholic Schools. The same Catholic Church asks us to tithe. How is this possible when we cannot support our family on the wages I ask for your prayers that I employment. they pay us? may find decent A. We do much preaching about the duty of an employer to pay a living wage, but very often we do not practice what we preach. Possibly it is because Sisters have a vow of poverty, with no personal need for money, and priests are paid extremely low salaries (though few of them suffer want). We may fail to realize the needs of families. Another possible reason is that we are wrap ped up in the works of charity, education and religion which our institutions are performing; we dedicate our lives to these purposes without really expecting proper monetary compen sation; and we tend to expect similar sacrific es from others — for the good of the cause. We fail to implement the truth we teach and believe; that neither charity nor religion can be virtu ously achieved at the cost of justice. The only consolation I can give you is that the situation is gradually improving. Probably the majority of Catholic institutions are now paying a just and living wage — and some others are having trouble keeping their help. I realize that this slow wave of improvement gives you no help in supporting your family now. Q. I am no saint. I am not even a pious Cath olic. But I have always been a believing Catho lic, and as such I have always been asked ques tions about my faith by non-Catholie friends. It is my responsibility .to answer these ques tions, and I do so to the best of my ability. I have been asked the usual questions; Why do we use Latin instead of English in our ser vices? Why are Catholics not allowed to attend Protestant services? Why are Catholics not who is in heaven and who is not; and why do we pray to the Saints? Why must the non-Catholic partner in mixed marrages promise to raise their children in the Catholic Church? Why not birth, control? I gave answers to these and similar questions. Some answers were accepted; others challenged. And now those who challenged my answers are saying to me; "See, I told you so," Sudd enly, there is no Latin in the Mass. Suddenly Catholics are actually encouraged to see and hear Billy Graham, (Just a few weeks ago I was told in a sermon at Sunday Mass that this would be a mortal sin.) Suddenly there is no Saint Christopher. (My mother would not let me out of the house without my St. Christopher medal.) So who have I been praying to all these years? And whose relics are in the altar stone at St. Christopher’s Catholic Church. Now, I understand that the non-Catholic part ner in a mixed marriage will no longer be re quired to promise to raise their children in the Catholic Church. How many marriages were call ed off, and how many lives were destroyed because of this rule? And how many souls are suffering hell’s torments for disobeying this rule, which may now be changed? And what about birth control? A. It is with regret that I omit great portions of this interesting letter. The continuation of that question about birth control is very chall enging, but space requires that we save it for another time. This questioner has my sympathy. I have ans wered these same questions and many others repeatedly; and my answers are in print where they stare back at me smirkingly. I refuse to read some of my older columns. However, I am very happy that I need no longer answer many of them. Oh, the replies I gave were very convincing; they even convinced me, for a long time. But the oftener t repeated them the less convincing they became. I sought new ways of saying them; so I could accept them myself. There is still plenty of Latin in the Mass, but now the explanation for its being there is eas ier. The human reluctance to change life-long habits is so evident it needs no explanation. We know that more of the Latin will gradually go; and in a few years there will be no need to explain why we use our own native language in our prayers, our Scripture readings, our songs, and our Sacraments. The problem of Catholics’ attending Protes tant services—for good sound reason—causes me less embarrassment. I have long been ac cused of laxity in this matter. The law of our present Code of Canon Law is strict and formi dable, at first reading, but it leaves some con venient loopholes for sensible* practical appli cation. I have loved those loop-wholes; and -npw the ecumenical spirit will surely widen them. Of course it has never been true, that Catho lics know who is in heaven and who is not— except for properly canonized Saints. We do not even know that Hitler is in hell—much less Judas Iscariot. Those mixed marriage promises have always been a problem, both to explain and to put into practice. Often they failed to achieve their pur pose, and became a point for resentment. Note,' however’, that no change has been made 1 in this matter to date. Maybe none' wll 1,"but'>1'hope Sb.' 1 The proposfedchanges would ’ SimpS y' ‘pUf'a“douBle“' burden of responsibility on the Catholic part ner to see that the children are rightly rais ed. And the non-Catholic partner might coo perate more readily because he has not been coerced. About birth control—-patience please. Oh, yes, about good old St. Christpher; he is just as credible—or incredible—now as he has ever been. The Church hasn’t changed his sta tus of bit. I doubt that his name was-eyer ment ioned in the Vatican Council; though probably many of the Fathers carried his medal. Phon* 522-6500 Noe 8 & c<^ 589 Fmnn do, N. E. • Atlanta 12, Ga. Smoking Study CAMDEN, N. J. (NC)—Cath olic schools in the Camden diocese are cooperating in a study by the Atlantic County Medical Society to determine why youngsters start smoking cigarettes. The study will fea ture distribution of a ques tionnaire * on attitudes toward smoking to children in grades 5 through 12. A spokesman said the study’s purpose is to "come up with a preventative type of approach to the prob lem." A-1 (Unobjectionable lor All) Apache. Rifles Boy 10-Feet Tall Capture That Capsule Cavalry Command Cheyenne Autumn Circus World Dimka Dream Maker, The Disorderly Orderly Duke Wore Jeans Earth Dies Screaming East of Sudan Emil and Detectives Fall of the Roman Empire Fate Is the Hunter Father Goose F.B.I. Code 98 Finest Hours First Men on the Moon Flipper's New Adventure Four Days in November Gladiators Seven Godzilla vs. the Thing Golden Arrow, The Goliath and the Sins Of Babylon Guns of August Hard Day's Night ” Hey There# It's • Yogi Bear Incredible Journey Invasion Quartet Island of the Blue Dolphins It's a Mad, Mad, - Mad, Mad World Lassie's Great . Adventure Law of the Lawless Lilies of the Field Lively Set McHale's Navy Magic Fountain Mary Poppins Master Spy Mediterranean Holiday MGM's Big Parade of Comedy Moon-Spinners# The Murder Most Foul Murder Ahoy My Fair Lady My Son, the Hero Mysterious island Never Put it in Writing One Man's Way Only One N.Y. Pied Piper of Hamelin Pirates of Tortuga Purple Hills Queen of the Pirates Raiders, The Ready for the People Rhino Ride the Wild Surf Robinson Crusoe on Mars Samson and the Slave Queen Santa Claus Conquers Martians Secret of Magic Island Sergeant Was a Lady Seven Faces of Dr. Lao Snake Woman Son of Captain Blood Swingin' Maiden# The Tattooed Police Horse Teenage Millionaire Thief of Baghdad Thomashta Those Callaways Tiger Walks Unearthly Stranger Valley of Dragons Voyage to Bottom of the Sea Voyage to End of Universe When the Clock Strikes Who's Minding the Store Wild and the Wonderful World Without Sin Yank in Viet Nam You Have to Run Fast A-2 (Unobjectionable for Adults, Adolescents) Aphrodite Advance to the Rear And Suddenly It's Murder Atlantis# the Lost Continent Bandits of Orgosolo Behold a Pale Horse Blood on Arrow Bullet for a Badman Captain Newman, M.D. Chalk Garden Children of the Damned Chushingura Convicts 4 Dark Purpose Devil Ship Pirates# The Distant Trumpet Dr. Blood's Coffin . Escape by N»ght Ensign Pulver Evil Eye Evil of Frankenstein Fail Safe Family Diary Fiances, The Frantic Gold for the Caesars Goliath and the Island of Vampires Gone Are the Days Good Neighbor Sam Guns of Darkness Hide and Seek Horror of It All, The Householder, The I'd Rather Be Rich Kings of the Sun Ladies Who Do Ladybug, Ladybug Last Man on Earth Lawrence of Arabia Man From Galveston-, The Moro Witch Doctor Muscle Beach Party Night Walker Night Train to Paris Nightmare No My Darling Daughter One Potato# Two Potato Pit and the Pendulum Point of Order Quick Gun Ring of Treason Robin and the Seven Hoods Roustabout Sardonicus Satan Bug Seance on Wet Afternoon Scream of Fear Secret Door, The Secret Invasion Secret of Deep Harbor Send Me No Flowers Seven Days in May Shock Treatment Sing and Swing 533 Squadron Sound of Trumpets Suitor# The Stagecoach to Thunder Rock Stop Train 349 From Berlin Swingin' Affair Taggart That Man From Rio Thunder Island Trunk# The Twenty Plus Two Unsinkable Molly Brown Voice of the Hurricane Walk A Tight Rope Walk Into Hell Walls of Hell War Is Hell Weekend With Lulu Witchcraft World of Henry Orient, The Young Doctors Your Cheatin' Heart A-2 (Unobjectionable for Adults) America, America Andy Ape Woman Armored Command Bebo's Girl Becket Bedtime Story Bikini Beach Billy Liar Blind Corner Buddha Bus Riley's Back In Town Cardinal, The Cartouche Ceremony, The Code 7, Victim 5 . Commando Couch, The Crooked Road Dead Ringer Don't. Tempt the Oevil. Eyes of Annie Jones, The Face in the Rain Fargo Flight From Ashi For Those Who Think Young Global Affair Goldfinger Goodbye Charlie Great War, The • Guest, The Guns at Batasl Hellfire Club Horror Castle Invitation to a Gunfighter Killers. The Kisses For My President . Love With the Proper Stranger Los Tarantos Luck of Ginger Coffey Mafioso Mail-Order Bride Man Who Couldn't Walk Mon's Favorite ; Sport iya Marnie Money, Money, Money Move Over Darling Muriel Naked Kiss Nightmare -in the Sun One Plus One Out-of-Towners Outrage, The Panic Button Panic in the Year Zero Paris When It Sizzles Pink Panther Prize, The Rio Conchos Rocco and His Brothers Rounders Season of Passion Seduced and Abandoned Soft Skin Strait-Jacket Strange Bedfellows Take Her# She's Mine Tamahine Thin Red Line Third Secret# The Threepenny Opera Three On a Spree Thunder of Drums Torpedo Bay To Bed or Not Bed Topkapl Twilight of Honor Two Women Victors. The West Side Story Where Love Has Gone Woman of Straw Woman Who Wouldn't Die, The Youngblood Hawke Young Lovers# The Zulu to Adam and Eve - Best Man, The Black Like Me Case of Dr. Laurent Cleo from 5 to 7 Cool World, The Devil's Wamon Divorce# Italian i . Style. Dr. Strangeloye Easy Life, The Eclipse . A-4 (Unobjectionable for Adults, With Reservations* ) Long Day's Journey Strangers in the City Into Night This Sporting Life Tom Jones Never Take Candy To ° Y oun * to Lov « From a Stranger Under the Yum Yum Night of the Iguana Tree Nothing But the Best victim “—*— Visit, The Walk On the Wild Servant, The slde Sky Above and the Young and the Mud Below, The Willing, The 8Vr ’ F^eud Girl of the Night Martin Luther Girt with the Green ^ 0n ^ 0 5 a . ne Eyes Important Man intruder King of Kings Organizer, The ij„ Pressure Point L-Shaped, Room, The p umpkin 6ater La Dolce Vita Lilith Lolita 8 (Objectionable in Part for v Americanization of )j J tfd Black Sabbath Carpetbaggers, The • Cleopatra Corhedy of Terrors ’ Coniugal Bed, The Crazy Desire Cry of Battle * Curse of the Living Corpse Dementia 13 Devil -and ,Tcn Commandments diary of Bachelor Pour F or Texas « From Russia With • l ove Get Yourself a College Girl Affair of the Skin, An And God Created Woman Baby Doll Balcony, The Bed of Grass Bell'Anfonio Boccaccio 70 Bonne Soupe, La Breathless Christine Keeler Affair, The Cold Wind in August Come Dance With Me Contempt Doll, The During One 'Night Empty Canvas Expresso Bongo Five Day Lover Girl With the Golden Eyes Green Carnation (was: Trials of Oscar Wilde) Green Mare Gun Hawk, The He : ’Rides 1 Tllf n Honeymoon Hotel-H Horror of Party , Beach House Is Not A , Home, A Irma-La .Dduce- John ' Goldfarb,'-' Please Come Home Joy House v - Kissin' CouS«ns Kitten with A Whip llady in a Cacje Long Ships, The Looking For Love Love on the Riviera Love# Italian Way Man in the Middle Masque of the Red Death New, Interns, The Night Must Fall No,Greater Sin (was: 18 and Anx'jous) Nutty, Naughty, Chateau Of Human Bondage Pajama Party Palm- Springs Weekend Psyche 59 Racing Fever Seventh Dawn Sex And The Single Girl C (Condemned) Heroes and Sinners I Am a Camera I Love, You Love Image of Love Joan of the Angels? Jules and Jim Kiss Me Stupid Knife in the Water L'Avventura La Notte (Night) Lady Chatterley's Lover Law, The Les Liaisons Dangereuses Let's Talk About Women Liane, Jungle Goddess Love Game Love Is My Profession Love on a Pillow ■Lovers, The Mademoiselle Striptease Magdalena Maid in Paris Mating Urge Miller's Beautiful Wife Mistress for the Summer# A Mitsou Molesters, The Mom and Dad (Slderoad) Moon Is Blue, The My Life to Live Never on Sunday Nude Odyssey, The Odd Obsession Of Wayward Love Oscar Wilde Passionate Summer Phaedra Playgirl After Dark Please, Not Now! Port of Desire Pof Bouille (Lovers of Paris) Prime Time Private Property All) Shot in the Dark, A Small World of,. Sammy Lee# The Soldier in the Rain Station Six Sahara Strangler, The Sunday In New York Three Fables of Love Time Travelers Tiara Tahiti Under Age Vice And Virtue Viva Las Vegas What A Way to Go Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Question of Adultery Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Savage Eye Seven Capital Sins Silence, the Sins of Mona Kent Slave Trade In World Today Smiles of a Summer Night Tales of Paris Temptation Third Sex Too Young, Too immoral Trials of Oscar Wilde Truth, The (La Verlte) Viridiana War of the Buttons Wasted Lives and The Birth of Twins Weekend Woman in Dunes Women of the World * An A-4 classification is given to certain films, which while hot morally of* tensive in themselves, require caution and some analysis and explanation as I protection lo the uninformed against wrong interpretations and false conclu sions. BRANAN & SCHMITZ REALTY CO. NEW YEAR’S MESSAGE Pope Prays For Peace 4641 Roswell Rd. N. E. Atlanta, Georgia 255-7770 BUYING OR SELLING A HOUSE? contact Branan & Schmitz for qualified personal service! Specialists in AREAS I & II- Residential Sales - Acreage - Insurance - Leases WHERE INSURANCE IS A PROFESSION NOT A SIDELINE, yruiu'ianoe m all ifd 91 it%> written, w# wnite it. . . Sutter & McLeHan 1422 RHODES HAVERTY BLDG. JAckson 5-2086 VATICAN CITY (RNS)—New Year’s Day saw Pope Paul VI blend good wishes to all man kind with a prayer that 1965 would see the world enjoy peace, "the peace that is so fragile and continuously threa tened and offended, yet is ever more nec ssary and yearned for." Appearing at the window of his private study, the pontiff spoke briefly before leading the crowd gathered in St. Pet er's Square in the noonday An- gelus. "WE are pleased," he said, "to express our good wishes to you and to all your dear ones, to all mankind near and far, to all the faithful in the Church, to all Christian breth ren still separated from us, because our duty is to all and our Christian love must be spent for all... "May the world enjoy thd pro sperity it needs this coming year. This is our wish and our hope. May the world think and plan along good lines, in jus tice and honesty, freedom and concord, to make it a better and a happier place." Going on to express his de sire for peace, the Pope said he had in mind especially "those places where brother fights brother, where human blood is spilled, where there are plans for domination and feelings of revenge." ,vj "let our prayer," he said, reach those places where the councils of men decide the fate of nations and the places ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLE of nations and the leaders of thought and ideas shape the souls of peoples. "We dare to address our selves to the supreme hope of the world, to Christ Our Lord, the Saviour of mankind, Mas ter of Peace and Redemption, the Brother and Friend of all men. "We beg Him the Hope of the World, to grant us peace in the year ahead. And we pray for this through the most powerful' intermediary mostd-ar to Him, His and our Mother, Our Lady, the Blessed Virgin Mary.” Cite Volunteers CHICAGO (NC)~ The Papal Volunteers for Latin America' movement, which has national headquarters here, will receive an award for "leadership in humanitarian endeavor” at the Festival of Leadership dinner sponsored in the Palmer House Jan. 28 by the Little Flower Society to help finance the edu cation of 400 Carmelite sem inarians. THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1965 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 7 BLAMES PRIESTS. BISHOPS Historian Hits Clerical Silence On McCarthyism WASHINGTON, D. C. (RNS) — More than a decade after the McCarthy hearings and "McCarthyism” was ad ded to the vocabulary of Amer icans, the priests and bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in the U, S. have come under fire for not taking a clear-cut stand on the Wisconsin sena tor and his controversial inves tigative tactics. But rising to the defense of the bishops, was the Most Rev. Philip M. Hannan, Auxiliary Bishop of Washington, who said he believes the Catholic laity has enough “maturity in the faith” and competence in de ciding for itself what it be lieves on national politics not to make it necessary to appeal the bishops for an "official” position. THE charge that priests and bishops were weak when the Senate hearings were being held by Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R. -Wis.) between 1950 and 1954 was made by Dr. Vincent P» De Santis, head of the Modern American History Depart ment at the University of No tre Dame. He read his paper before ne arly 300 members of the Ame rican Catholic Historical Asso ciation, one of 28 history so cieties chartered under the American Historical Asso ciation in 1884 by Congress. Some 5,000 of its combined membership of 12,000 convened in Washington for the 79th annual convention. Bishop Hannan said, in a critical analysis of the pap er, that in Washington and in other archdioceses *‘we are under strong pressure from many fronts to speak out on this or that political issue. Frankly, I do not think the com monweal is particularly endow ed with infallibility.” HE HELD that "nobody knows completely the case for or against McCarthy," and no one ever will until all the documents of Russia and other nations are made known just how much accuracy there was in the Sen ator's probes and accusations. The bishop said he believes it premature to make full jud gments on the issue. He added that there was strong pressure to take a definite stand purpo rting that the late President Diem of South Vietnam was the main roadblock to fighting the Communsts in that country. But he said not enough time has elapsed or enough evidence is available to make such a pro nouncement against Diem, who was a Catholic. "I believe the laity is compe tent and that this can be handl ed in the forum of the laity." IN HIS paper, Dr. De Santis related that the preponderance of Catholic opinion at the time of the hearings was in favor of the Wisconsin legislator. Fifty-eight per cent of Cat holics polled, he said, favored the Senator’s program and tac tics in probes of' alleged Com munists in the U. S, govern ment, while only 23 per cent of them disapproved and 19 per cent expressed no opinion. To his knowledge, he said, only one priest publicly spoke out against McCarthy, and only Auxiliary Archbishop Bernard J. Sheil of Chicago among the bishops spoke out publicly against him. "Many persons in America got the mistaken hotion that Catholicism and support of McCarthy were inseparable. The Senator was a Catholic. HE blamed the Catholic press for much of this, along with the laity and the clergy in general.. Of 46 Catholic weekly news papers analyzed, he said, af ter Archbishop Sheil made a public attack against McCarthy and his tactics, 22 ignored it altogether, while 24 ran news stories and editorial com ment on it. Only two used the story on page one, although the speech received headline trea tment in many secular news papers across thenation. Only two used the entire text of the critical speech; the Catholic News Service had made it ava ilable to all of them. Dr. De Santis said that be cause of this treatment and the Silence of the clergy, there was very strong danger of it becom ing a Church issue between Catholics and Protestants. "Catholics were being made guilty by association with the Senator." THE Notre Dame historian hel d that there were three principal reasons why the Catholics expressed a strong sentiment for the Senator, apart from the fact he was a Catho lic: 1. Reaction against a gene- rally-held view that Protestants believed Catholics were more loyal to the Vatican than they were to America. As a result, anything that appeared to be strongly American was war mly praised by the Catholics. To be against communism was, therefore, the height of Ame ricanism. threat, and were "convinced that you fight Communists in the same way you fight rat tlesnakes — without a rule book" The menace, therefore, justified the technique. Mc Carthyism became to Catholics a necessary nuisance." 3. McCarthy embodied the ide als of the isolationist element within the American Catholic Church. The historian was parti cularly critical of Francis Cardinal Spellman, Arch bishop of New York, who, he said, by his presence at a test imonial dinner for the Senator during the hearings, added sup port to his practices. Peace Medal For Bishop Wright 2. That only Catholics "fully understood" the Communist Students Assist EAST LANSING, Mich, (NC) --Catholic students atMichigan State University pledged $145,792 in the first phase of a $400,000 drive to expand the facilities of St. John’s Stu dent Parish which serves the student body. Catholic students at Michigan State now number 6,000 and are expected to toatal 9,000 by 1970. PITTSBURGH (NC)—Bishop John J. Wright of Pittsburgh will receive the 1964 Peace Medal of the Third Order of St. Francis at a Jan. 16 lunch eon in the Penn Sheraton Hotel here. Awarded annually for "truly Christ-like efforts in behalf of peace among all men," the medal has gone in the past to such men as Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, FBI di rector J. 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