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THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1965
GEORGIA BULLETIN
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THE FIRST communion class of St. Peter's Parish, La-
Grange, Georgia. First row, left to right, Stacy Osmanski,
Jean Marie Kieth, Father Beltran, Sally Alford, Mary Swiatek
Second Row, Timothy Katter, Cathy Ferguson, NasorMansour.
86-YEAR-OLD YET
Military Funeral
For Nun of WWI
ST. LOUIS (RNS) — An 86
year old Rom an Catholic Daugh
ter of Charity will have a most
unusual request granted — she
will get a military funeral when
she dies.
Sister Mary Catherine Cole-
man was only one of six U.S.
nuns who served overseas in the
first World War. Now retired
and living at the St. Anne Home
for the Aged here, she still
recalls pulling a gas mask over #
her head on a World War I
battlefront and her “boot train
ing” at Camp Sheridan, Mont
gomery, Ala,
A registered nurse through
out her long service as a reli
gious, she recalled the diffi
culty in getting a gas maks over
her white starched cornette—
distinctive headpiece of the
Daughters of Charity until it
was changed recently,
SISTER MARY Catherine
said she remembers especially
the famed American volunteer
ambulance drivers decorated
by the Italian government for
heroism. The men transported
66,000 wounded and sick Italian
AT CHRIST THE KING
Training Conference
THE ARCHDIOCESAN Coun
cil of Catholic Women will spon
sor a Leadership Training Con
ference on July 21, at Christ
the King Cathedral Center.
Registration will be from 9:30
to 10 a.m. The conference is
expected to last until 2 p.m.
A luncheon will be served by
ladies of the Parish council.
Mrs. E.P. Faust Jr., re
tiring president, Mrs. Harry
Horsey Jr., incoming presi
dent, and members of the exe
cutive board have planned the
session. The Program will touch
on those aspects of organiza
tion and leadership which would
most benefit them. An opportu
nity will be provided in Dea
nery Workshops to discuss any
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THIS LEADERSHIP Training
Conference was instituted for
the first time last year. This
year spiritual moderators, pre
sidents and vice presidents of
affiliates and committee chair
men on the parish level will be
invited.
Training sessions such as
these encourage and help parish
leaders to become more effec
tive as well as bringing about a
closer relationship between the
council and the individual affili
ates.
iDOSAIC
The Talmud: I
By LEON PAUL.
MERCHANT’S SHED CHURCH
soldiers to base hospitals, she
said.
Of these men, she remem
bers especially one who was
severly wounded ~ the late
Ernest Hemingway.
Sister Mary Catherine and
five other nuns were recruited
for overseas service by the
American Red Cross, and she
still has her Red Cross pin.
Its number, 19308, is regis
tered at headquarters in Wash
ington, D.C., and will be as
signed to no other person.
THE MILITARY funeral be
gan as a wish for Sister Mary
Catherine. When she mentioned
it at the St. Anne Home, Sis
ter Mary Kelly called the St.
Louis Bi-State Red Cross and
the American Legion. They lost
no time in getting action and
approval.
At a Founders’ Day dinner
of the Jackson-Johnson LEGION
Post, Sister Mary Catherine
received an honorary Legion
membership. This membership
and Sister Mary Catherine's
Red Cross military records
helped assure her of a military
funeral.
THERE IS PROBABLY nothing in Judaism as difficult to com
prehend, as widely misunderstood, as hotly condemned by non-
Jews—as the Talmud.
Only today I received in the mail a copy of a fairly well-known
anti-Semitic newspaper. The entire back page~except for one
small corner— is an article by Elizabeth Dilling attacking the
T almud. She. advances a number of quotations from Scripture,
from the Talmud itself (supposedly) from other Jewish sources
and from history to show the evils of the Talmud and of Pharisaic
Judaism.
Her personal interpretation of Scripture,
especially of the Apocalypse (or Revelation)
leaves much to be desired. Even Scripture
scholars find the Apocalypse most difficult
to interpret. But not Miss Dilling.
THIS IS NOT the first time this paper has
attacked the T almud (as one way of attacking
the Jews)—nor will it be the last. On that
same page—in that comer—is an ad listing
some books, among them: 'The Talmud Unmasked” an “Out
standing expose of Talmud by a Catholic priest’’ for $1.
Exactly what is the Talmud?
The New Jewish Encyclopedia (Behrman House, NY, 1962)
says that Talmud means "study" and after the Bible is the most
authoritative source of Judaism. The Talmud consists of the Mis-
hnan, the first Jewish codeoflaws afterthe Bible, and the Gemara,
an elaboration (or commentary) of the Mishnah which deals with
every facet of Jewish life.
THERE ARE actually two Talmuds, the Palestinian and the Baby
lonian. The Babylonian is about 3 times larger than the other and
is the one usually meant when talking about 'The Talmud.” The
contents of the Talmud may be divided in two: the Halaka, which
is the Law, and the Hagada, which contains parables, fables,
sermons, homilies, fantasies, allegories, medical advice and
words of wisdom.
Today, the Talmud is published in English in some 35 volumes,
an encyclopedia of Hebraic law and lore. It takes a lifetime to
become familiar with the entire Talmud, and Idoubt that the aver
age Jew is familiar with it to any great extent.
The essence of the Talmud was transmitted by many Hebrew
sages ■ and teachers from about 200 years before Christ to some
500 years after. Their observations about life and commen
taries on the Scriptures were passed down from one rabbinical
school to the next, from generation to generation. Finally, the
Savora’ im, the Reasoners, brought all these scattered writings
together and edited them. Hebrew juris-prudence, as it evolved
from Moses to the academies of Bablon was finally preserved
in writing.
MOSES MAIMONIDES, the great Jewish philosopher and doctor
of the Middle Ages (1135-1204) took the vast encyclopedic writ
ings of hundreds of sages and put them in some order, in 14
volumes. In 1555 , Joseph Karo published his Code of Jewish Law,
the Shulkan Arukh, or the Prepared Table of Talmudic Law.
The Talmud is concerned with every detail of man’s relation
ship with God,''man’s relationship with man, with society, with
governments, with non-Jews, with animals, food, demons, with life
and death, reward and punishment, marriage and divorce, health
and healing, truth and falsehood and just about anything else you
can think of.
One rabbi will comment on a passage of Scripture, another rabbi
will comment on the first rabbi’s commentary, giving another ver
sion, and a third rabbi will perhaps comment on the first two-
giving the reader three different interpretations!
IN ANOTHER SENSE, the Talmud can also be compared to the
writings of the early Church Fathers and Doctors: Justin Martyr,
Cyprian, Ambrose, Augustine, John Chrysostom, Jerome, John of
the Cross and others. Some of the writings of these Church Fath
ers have today become an embarrassment both to the Church and
present day Catholics. So also with the Talmud—there are writ
ings of some of the Hebrew Sages which few, if any, Jews today,
would agree with or subscribe to. Some of the Talmudic writings
are sheer fantasy or superstition or at least in poor taste.
For an excellent description of The Talmud and its historic
background, read Herman Wouk’s THIS IS MY GOD (Double-day,
NY, 1959) Chapter 15, pages 191-225, and his Notes, 320-322.
You can also get much out of the Rev. Dr. A. Cohen’s EVERY
MAN’S TALMUD, (Dutton, N.Y. 1949).
More on the Talmud next week.,.
IN BALTIMORE
Saving To Build New Church,
Priest Lives On $4.20 A Month
RAMSGATE, Eng. (RNS)
—A Roman Catholic
priest in this ancient southeast
England harbour town and holi
day resort is allowing himself
30 shillings ($4.20) a month for
food in a sacrificial bid to get
a new church of his parish.
Father Theodore Richardson,
O.S.B., has been eating little
for years in a determined ef
fort to realize his dream. What
to ordinary people might be
regarded as necessities are to
him great luxuries,
A top honors student in his
tory at Cambridge University in
1942, he began his struggle in
1954 when named to take charge
of St. Benedict’s church in the
Ramsgate parish.
ST. BENEDICT’S was erect
ed as a temporary building mer
chant's shed before World War
I. It was established as a
church in 1931 but never had a
resident priest until Father
Richardson was transferred
there after service in Ramsgate
St. Augustine’s Abbey. St. Au
gustine landed on the coast
nearby in the year 597 and the
town has become righ in Eng
lish history since then. It has
a population of 37,000.
The parish struggled along
under Father Richardson’s
part-time predecessors; when
he was named resident priest
he determined to fight for a
new church. He set up a parish
building fund which has now
grown to $28,000 but $30,800
is still needed.
Father Richardson’s struggle
leaked out through a brief news
item in a Catholic weekly in
early June. Then a national
Sunday newspaper picked it up
and headlined the story: 'This
is Our Idea of a Saint.” Now
Father Richardson has told his
full story to Religious News
Service.
“WHEN I WAS appointed to
take charge of this church in
1 54,” he said, “I was asked
to live here and so become the
first resident priest the church
has had.
“I was able to find a room in
a neighboring house and get
there the meals I needed for the
modest sum of $7 a week. I
say the ‘meals I needed’ be
cause I was also continuing to
teach young monks in St. Augus
tine’ Abbey, and also boys in
the Abbey school, and so in
term time and on the days when
I had classes I had my dinner
in the Abbey.
“At the end of 1954 I was
faced with these financial facts:
total church collections for the
New Arrival
A son, John Darminey Paulk,
was bom in Emory Hospital on
June 28 to Mr, and Mrs. John
D. Paulk of SS. Peter and Paul
parish, Mr. Paulk is assistant -
golf professional at East Lake
Country Club and recently made
the first qualifying rounds in
Atlanta for the U.S. Open.
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BALTIMORE (NC)—Top U.S.
Roman Catholic and Lutheran
scholars assembled here for
their first official theological
discussions at a national level
and immediately decided to
probe each other’s concepts of
the word "dogma."
The experts—who were ap
pointed by the U. S. Catholic
Bishops' Commission forEcu-
menical Affairs and by the U.S.
National Committee of the
Lutheran World Federation-
had in hand and had already
studied specially prepared es
says analyzing each chwrch’s
views on ‘The Status of the
Nicene Creed as Dogma of
the Church,”
But at the start of the two-
day meeting (July 6-7), it was
learned, the participants agreed
that they needed to pinpoint the
proceeding with the various
clauses of the Nicene Creed.
That affirmation of faith, which
was formulated at the Council
of Nicaea in 325 A.D„ is used
in the eucharistic liturgies of
both churches. It was selected
as the basis for the formal theo
logical discussions at t pre
liminary meeting between the
Lutheran and Catholic repre
sentatives here last March.
THE THEOLOGICAL talks.
which were held at the chan
cery of the Baltimore arch
diocese, were opened by Aus-
diocese, were opened by Aux
iliary Bishop T, Austin Murphy
of Baltimore, who is chairman
of the Catholic bishops’ sub
commission for dialogue with
Lutherans. Bishop Murphy in
augurated the session with a
reading from St, Paul, and a
formal prayer for Christian
unity, and then all recited the
Lord’s Prayer together.
The second day’s session was
to be presided over by the Rev.
Paul C. Empie of New York,
executive director of the Na
tional Lutheran Council. ;
Lutheran participants repre
sented not only the National
Lutheran Couqcil—which in
cludes both the American Lu
theran Church, with 2.5 million
members, and the Lutheran
Church in America with 3,2
million—bit also the Lutheran
Church-Missouri Synod, which
has 2.6 million members.
THE CATHOLIC losition
paper on the Nicene Creed was
prepared by Fathers John
Courtney Murray, S.J., and
Walter J. Burghardt, S.J., both
both of Woodstock College, just
west of here.
On the Lutheran side, the
paper on the Creed was drafted
by the Rev. Warren A, Quan-
beck, professor of systematic
theology at Luther Theological
Seminary, St. Paul, Minn., and
Dr. George A. Lindbeck, as
sociate professor of historical
theology at the Yale Univer
sity Divinity School.
While all four theologians whp
took part in preparing the po
sition papers were to have been
among the 14 experts partici
pating in the meeting, Dr. Lind
beck was unable to attend be
cause of a death in his family.
MSGR, WILLIAM W. Baum
of Washington, executive secre
tary to the Catholic bishops'
ecumenism commission, was
unable to attend the first day’s
session, as he had just offered
his mother’s funeral Mass in
Kansas City. But he was on
hand for the sessions on Jyly
7.
The Catholic representatives
besides Bishop Murphy, Fa
thers Burghardt and Murray,
and Msge. Baum, were: Msgr.
Joseph W. Baker, vice chairman
of the St. Louis archdiocesan
ecumenical commission; Fa
ther Raymond Brown, S, S„
Scripture scholar on the facul
ty of St. Mary’s seminary here;
Father Godfrey Diekmann, O,
S.B., of St. John's abbey, Col-
legeville, Minn., a liturgical
scholar; Dr. James F, McCue,
of the school of religion at the
State University of Iowa, Iowa
City, a church historian; and
Father George Tavard, A.A.,
chairman of the theological de
partment of Mr. Mercy College,
Pittsburgh.
The Lutheran participants, in
addition to Dr. Empie and Dr,
Quanbeck, were: the Rev. Kent
S. Knutson, professor of sys
tematic theology at Luther sem
inary, St. Paul; the Rev. Fred
Kramer, professor of dog
matics at Concordia Theo
logical Seminary, Springfield,
Ill,; the Rev. Arthur C. Piep-
kom, professor of systematic
theology at Concordia Sem
inary, St. Louis; the Rev.
Joseph A.Sittler, professor of
theology at the Unversity of
Cicago divinity school; and the
Rev. John H, P. Reumann, pro
fessor of New Testament
studies at the Lutheran Theo
logical Seminary in Phila
delphia. It had been announced
earlier that Dr. Reumannwould
serve as a substitute at this
first meeting for the Rev, Krist
er Stendahl, professor of Bib
lical studies at the Harvard
University Divinity School,
year, $728; contribution to be
made to the Diocesan Develop
ment Fund for schools, $420;
balance for church and priest,
$308."
FATHER RICHARDSON then
saw little prospect of developing
the existing church, let alone
building a new one, so he be
gan a period of even more Spar
tan existence. He took the view
that since he was calling on his
parishioners for more and more
aid, he should set an example
himself.
He decided to leave the room
he had been renting and live and
work in a small office in the
church hall. In this office-
home Father Richardson for
four years did his own cooking,
tidying up, correspondence, and
other chores. Parishioners
frequently helped then as they
do now, with gifts of eggs,
fruit pies, and so on.
At this time Father Richard
son was still performing work
at the abbey. "Besides my din
ners from the abbey I received
other help — things like tobac
co for myself, altar wine for
the church -- from the abbey
and so was able to cut expendi
ture and yet feel that we, the
parish, paid our way because
I earned this help by the help
I gave.
“AFTER A TIME this pro
gram of teaching at the abbey
and parish work became too
much for me, and I had to stop
teaching though my services
were still required in the abbey
school for a further year or
two. It is only since I stopped
teaching altogether that I have
not availed myself of these ab
bey meals.
“Over the subsequent years,
■however, people have insisted
on helping me by supplying var
ious items of food and meals
and, rather to my surprise, I
still do not have to exceed my 30
shillings a month for food. Over
the years this has enabled me
to do a good deal of decoration ,
and repair work in the existing
church; to prepare a site for
the new church, to build a small
house, o!r presbytery, into which
I moved six years ago, and to
make considerable contribu
tions to the New Church Fund
out of ordinary revenue, which
has steadily increased.
’Thus in 1964 church col
lections for ordinary purposes
amounted to $1,850, but other
small sums were available to
augment this and after payments
of $243 each for priest and
presbytery and $420 for the
schools development fund, a
balance of $1,624 was available
to aid to the approximately
$2,240 raised for the new
Church Fund during' the year.”
THAT IS the hard statement
of facts as given to RNS by
this remarkable man himself.
Other reports have quoted him
as saying that he has often felt
acutely hungry but somehow has-
always managed to live all right.
*‘I always keep bread in the
house,’’ he is reported to have
said. “It is useful to quell
hunger. I could spend more
than my 30 shillings a month
nowadays as we have the funds
for me to have more but I
couldn’t waste a penny whilewe
still seek the new church.*’
He reportedly was willed
$2,800 by a friend— it went for
the new church.
However, as money rolled in,
it seems Father Richardson’s
outlays had to increase, for it
is understood his church’s con
tribution to the schools de
velopment fund this year is be
ing increased $980 and that this
figure will increase by further
annual increments of $16 until
it will be $1,568 in 1968. It
may thus be that he will not ,
be able to alter his present
way of life for some time.
SERVE CHRIST AS A
HOLY CROSS
BROTHER
TEACHING • ROYS' HOMES
RANCHING • OFFICE WORK
TRADES * FOREIGN MISSIONS
For information Writes
IreHwrDciwId honMl, CSC
104 Holy Cross School
49SO Dauphine Street
New Orleaiia. La. 7011?
RAMSGATE comes within the
Roman Catholic Diocese of
Southwark, headed by Bishop
Cyril Conrad Cowderoy. It has
just been elevated to a Province
by Pope Paul VI.
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