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GEORGIA BULLETIN
THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1965
JOURNAL OF A SOUL-POPE JOHN XXm
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(Sixteenth in a series of 18 articles excerpted from
the forthcoming book, “Journal of a Soul,” in
nermost thoughts of the late Pope John XXI1L Here
in a sequence of devout considerations recorded in
1960, the Pope writes of the Birth of Jesus, the pre
sentation of Jesus in the Temple and how Jesus
is found among the Doctors in the Temple.)
AT THE HOUR appointed by the laws of the human
nature He ahd assumed, the Word of God, now made
man, issues from the Holy Shrine the Immaculate
Womb of Mary. He makes His first appearance in
this world in a manger: the cattle are ther, chewing
their straw, and all around are silence, poverty, sim
plicity abd innicence. Angels’ voices are heard in the
sky, announcing peace, that peace which the new Baby
has brought to us. His first worshippers are Mary
His Mother and Joseph, thought to be His Father, and
after tese some humble shepherds who have come
down from the hills, led by angels’ voices.
Later on comes a caravan of distinguished persons
guided from far, far away by a star; they offer precious
gifts, full of a mysterious meaning. Everything that night
at Bethlehem spoke a language that the whole world could
understnad.
Pondering this mystery every knee will bow in adora
tion before the crib. Everyone will look into the eyes
of the Divine Infant which gaze far away, almost as
if He could see one by one all the peoples of the earth,
one after the other, as if He were reviewsing them all
as they pass before Him, recognizing and indentifying
them all and greeting them with a smile: Jews, Ro
mans, Greeks, Chinese, Indians, the peoples of Africa
and of every region of the world, of every age of history,
the most desolate, deserted lands, and the most remote,
secret and unexplored; past, present and future ages.
THE PRESENTATION OF JESUS IN THE TEMPLE
JESUS, CARRIED in His Mother’s arms, is offered
to the priest, to whom He holds out His arms: it is the
meeting, the contact of the two Covenants. He is al
ready the 'light fir revelation to the Gentiles’, He, the
Splendour of the chosen people, the Son of Mary, St.
Joseph also is there to present Him, an equal sharer
in this rite of legal offerings according to the law.
Thei episode is continually repeated in the Church,
indeed is perpetuated there in forms which vary but
are similar in the substance of the offering.
As we repeat the Hail Marys, how beautiful it is to
contemplate the growing crops, the rising corn: 'Lift
up your eyes, and see how the fields are already
white for the harvest.’ These are the joyful and rising
hopes of the priesthood, and of thsoe men and women
who co-operate with priest, so numerous in the Kingdom
of God and yet never enough: young people in the
seminaries, in religious houses, in missionary training
colleges, also, and why not? are they not Christians
also, called likewise to be Apostles? ~ in the Catholic
Universities.
THERE ARE also all the other young shoots of the
future and indi-
future and indispensable apostolate of the laity, this
apostolate which, increasing in spite of difficulties
and opposition, even within nations tormented by perse
cution, offers and will never cease to offer such a con
soling spectacle as to compel expressions of admiration
and joy.
This Child is the Tight for the revelation of the Gen
tiles,’ and the glory of the chosen people.
JESUS FOUND AMONG THE DOCTORS IN THE TEMPLE
Jesus is now twelve years old. Mary and Joseph have
brought Him with them to Jerusalem, for the ritual
prayers. Without warning He disappears from their
sight, although they are so watchful and so loving. Great
anxiety and a fruitless search for three days. Their sor
row is followed by the joy of finding Him again, there,
under the porches of the Temple. He is speaking with
the doctors of the Law, How significant is the account
given us by St. Luke, With his careful precision! They
found Him then, sitting, in the midst of the doctors
'listening to them and asking them questions,’ In those
days an encounter with the doctors was very important
and meant everthing: Learning, wisdom, and the dir
ection of practical life by the light of the Old Testament.
Such, in every age, is the task of the human intelli-
genceL to gamer the wisdom of the ages, to hand down
the good doctrine and firmly and humbly to press ahead
with scientific investigation. We die, one after the other,
we go to God, but mankind moves towards the future.
Christ, in natural as in supernatural revelation, is
never absent; he is always in His place, in the midst:
'For ypu have one Master, the Christ.’
THIS IS TOE fifth decade of Hail Marys, the last of
the Joyful Mysteries. Let us keep it as a very special
invocation for the benefit of those who are called by
God, because of their natural gifts, or the circum
stances of their lives, or the wishes of their Superiors,
to the service of truth, in research and in teaching, in
the imparting of ancient learning or modern skills,
by means of books or wireless and television — for
all these too are called to follow Jesus. They are the
intellectuals, the professional classes and the journalists;
the journalists especially, who have the particular task
of honouring the truth, must ransmit it with religious
fidelity and great discretion, without fantastic distortions
or inventions.
We pray for them all, priests or laity; we pray that
they may listen to the truth, and for this they need
purity of heart; that they may understand it, and for
this they need profound humility of mind; that they
may defend it, and for this they need what made the
strength of Jesus and of His Saints: obedience. Only
obedience wins peace, which means victory.
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During Superiors 9 Conference
PASTOR EVICTED IN HANDCUFFS—Msgr. Fred A. Stadtmueller, pastor of St. Augus
tine’s church on the Isleta Indian Pueblo in New Mexico, was handcuffed at his rectory by
Andy Abeita (extreme left), the Indian governor, and marched off the Indians’ land.
Abeitajiaid, Msgr. T Sta<Jtmueller,questioned, his, qu.tborjty.and interfered wi$v Indian trag|? 7/
Tiohs. 'The'priesr countercharged'that the governor interfered with His 'work. Msgr.
Stadtmueller, pastor on the pueblo for nine years, was permitted to return and collect his
belongings and to close the church.
‘ANTI-SEMITIC’
WEST DE PERE, Wis. (NC)
—Religious obedience imposes
obligations on superior and sub
ject alike, a cannon lawyer said
here.
Criticizing those who feel
they should have a voice in
“practically all decisions,”
Father Francis N. Korth, S.J.
theology professor at Marquette
University, told the Conference
of Major Superiors of Men here
(July 2) that the vow of obe
dience taken by members of re
ligious communities “explicit
ly and implicityly includes the
carrying out of the just com
mands of the authority neces
sary in any society,"
Religious life, iilTsaid, *^nust
inspire a willingness to carry
out in any given instance the
Jews Hit Pamphlets By Italian Priest
ROME (RNS)— The Union of
Italian Jewish Communities has
petitioned the Catholic Bishop
ofTerni to reprimand a priest
whose pamphlets assailing the
Declaration on the Jews tenta
tively passed by Vatican II are
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considered to be violently anti-
Semitic.
It said that Father Giorgia,
a Franciscan priest from Mor-
lupo, near Rome, in criticizing
Catholics who reject the “per-
rennial guilt” a feeling was not
justified.
“IT IS not justified,”
he wrote, “either biblically or
historically, since even the Old
Testament prophets rail against
the Jewish People, and through
history we unfortunately know
their ever-increasing infamies.
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in all times up to Pius XI and
XII have through encyclicals,
homilies, treatises warned
against the epidemic Jewish di
sease, more contagious than
pestilence.,,”
Father Giorgio complained
that no “authoritative Jewish
voice” had ever denounced the
Crucifixion of our Lord...
“HISTORY proves,” he
added, “that Judaism is a
Satanic expression. The worst
destroyers of human kind are
dynamite, to Einstein, dis
coverer of atomic energy...
“From the first Masonic
lodges to the Bolshevik revolu
tion we find Jews everywhere,
from the first mayors of Rome
to the ferocious and blood-
thristy Marx, Engels, Lenin,
Trotsky, Stalin...”
“When posterity drafts an
objective and realistic history
of the last 40 years,”
the preist's pamphlet continued,
“it will discover the truth of
the gigaktic wheel operated by
the powerful Jewish propa-
gands. Only then it will be dis
covered that the six million
Jews gassed in German concen
tration camps never existed,
except in that deforming
mavhine fabricated bO the in
telligent children of Israel, who
are more astute than foxes and
more ferocious than wolves.”
FATHER Giorgio said “this
truth is beginning to appear in
the Egyptian, Syrian and Jor
dan press. Go and ask the Arabs
who the Jews are, and you will
really learn how they hate
Christ."
The complaint of the priest's
activity came from Jewish or
ganizations at a time when high
Vatican officials were forced to
deny recurrent rumors that the
Jewish declaration was to be
scrapped or “watered down.”
concrete actions, undertakings
and renunciations which in the
judgment of competent authority
are deemed necessary.”
BUT THE SUPERIOR also
has obligations, Father Korth
stressed. He said: “It is not
enough that commands be mo
rally indifferent. Thy must be
morally good in their total con
text.” They should not be com
mands which under other cir
cumstances mightbe “lesspru
dent, less good, less signifi
cant,” he added.
Even “irrational and inde
fensible” commands, he said,
do not excuse the subject from
obedience; He declared: “The
i^bfedietfeie WhiSh <(the religious
life) entails must be regarded
as the will of God, even if a
particular command appears
to be senseless,” provided of
course that “what is com
manded is not immoral in it
self.”
Father Korth suggested that
Vatican Index
Curator Dies
ROME, Italy (NC)—Father
Guy Ferrari, O.S.B., the Ame
rican-born curator of the Vati
can Library’s copy of the Prin
ceton Index of Christian Art,
died July 1. He was 41 years
old.
The Princeton Index is a
scholar's aid sonsisting of half
a million reference cards and
150,000 photographs of all pha
ses and details of Christian
art from its beginnings up to
the year 1400. When Cardinal
Spellman presented a copy of
the index to Pope Pius XII
in 1952, the Benedictine scho
lar was placed in charge of it.
Father Ferrari, who spent
almost half his life in Rome,
first came here after studying
at the Benedictine Abbey of St.
Anselm's in Rome and at the
Pontifical Archeological Insti
tute.
superiors help alleviate pro
blems stemming from dis
agreements by admitting that
‘ 'in certain circumstances sub
jects know more than they do
about certain matters.”
HE URGED superiors to avoid
“age-old rituals involving de
mands of respect from subjects,
secretiveness, manifestations
of superiority, appeals of su
periors to a higher wisdom,
displays of condescension.”
The superior, he said,
“should not try to give the im
pression that he has the im
mediate inspiration of the Holy
Spirit, but he should seek: ap
proval of his .’ commands. by
giving reasons for them... Then
the subject can obey as an in
telligent human being and not
merely aa an automaton.”
And, he added, “it might
frequently be helpful if sub
jects were consulted about the
better methods for achieving a
goal; let them make their re
commendations. The superior
will determine the object to be
gained, the policy to be set,
the determination of what is
to be done.
“PROPOSALS, experiments,
initiatives are suggested from
below; approbation and decision
must come from above,” Fa
ther Korth said.
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Father James Arthur Mc
Kinnon, 32, and two police
men were killed by a guard
at an inspection point in
Monte Plata, Dominican Re
public (June 22), as they
stood beside a jeep in which
Father McKinnon was an
swering a sick call. A month
earlier, a Jesuit priest was
killed in an accident at an
inspection station. Father
McKinnon was a native of
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BALTIMORE (NC)—Father
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appointed rector of nearby
Woodland, New York and Buffa
lo provinces. Father Cardegna
joined the Jesuits in 1946 after
he had served three years in
the Army Signal Corps, follow
ing graduation from the Univer
sity of Maryland. He was or
dained to priesthood in 1955.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS)—
A noted Negro educator told the
22nd annual Race Relations Ins
titute here that while racial
demonstrations have had posi
tive impacts on American com
munities, they also are pro
ducing negative aspects detri
mental to the civil rights move
ment.
Dr. Herman H. Long, presi
dent of Talladega (Ala.) Col
lege, cited as some negative by
products:
THE rebirth of “Negro
nationalism” as exemplified in
the Black Muslim movement;
a “vacuum in national Negro
political leadership” while
more Negroes get the vote; and
proposals for formation of a
national Negro political party.
In connection with the Black
Muslims, Dr. Long said that
the movement's "major danger
lies in its usurpation by op-
portunists who might seek to
turn it toward self-aggrandiz
ing power ends.”
Formation of a Negro party,
he added, “would be false and
foolish if designed to improve
the Negro's racial status.”
DR, LONG went on to say that
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end of World War 11 the Polish
government has aided in the re
construction of 492 churches
and in the building of 385
new ones. The reconstruction of
churches possessing artistic
value was given priority, ac
cording to the broadcast.
the “repetitious unproductive
use of the direct action protest
(such as racial demonstrations)
have become too frequent.”
He asserted that too many
demonstrations are sponsored
by persons who consider “de
monstrations of any kind...
in and of themselves, self
validating forms of action.”
The educator suggested that
demonstrations would be much
more effective if they were sup
ported by a “considerable pub
lic opinion.”
Generally speaking, he con
tinued, racial crises have shown
that the furthering of racial jus
tice is best achieved through
rational decisions. Racial
change “is not only possible,
but appears to be often are its
chief apologists,” he said.
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