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GEORGIA BULLETIN
THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1965
SERRA PRESIDENT
Hits Indifference
Toward Injustice
HEADS SERRA—Joseph M.
Fitzgerald, South Florida at
torney, was elected president
of Serra International at the
23rd annual convention of
the society which encourages
vocations to the priesthood.
A Knight of St.. Gregory,
Fitzgerald is a former na
tional president of the alumni
association of Mount St.
Mary’s College, Emmitsburg,
Md.
BY MARJORIE FILLYAW
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—In his
first address as president of the
11,000-member Serra Interna
tional, Joseph M. Fitzgerald of
Miami said Catholic laymen
"can be indifferent no longer
to the social, economic, racial
and even spiritual injustices
that surround us."
Hie new president, an attor
ney and father of five children,
spoke during the 23rd annual
Serra convention’s closing ban
quet following his installation by
Thomas M. Coughlan, of Man
kato, Minn., retiring president.
rewarded success both in our
nation and throughout Latin A-
m erica. May you always sus
tain your noble tradition of ser
vice to God and your fellow-
men," the President's message
said.
North Americans must be
careful to avoid quick judgments
on situations in Latin America,
a member of the Latin American
hierarchy said at one conven
tion session.
BISHOP Mark McGrath, C.S.
C., of Santiago de Veraguas, Pa
nama, speaking during the an
nual Governors’ Luncheon, cau
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FOR ALL
“HISTORIANS of the future
may justifiably look upon our
age as being one with paradoxi
cal extremes," Fitzgerald said.
"On the one hand, men have
made sacrifices and achieved
perfection and practiced virtues
both in the temporal and spiritu
al order which have been nothing
less than heroic. On the other
hand, great masses of people,
again in both the temporal and
spiritual order, have evidenced
nothing but complete indiffe
rence,” he said.
“We have too often shown
indifference, in one degree or
another, to the spiritual wel
fare and salvation of others.
Even so-called 'good Catholics’
are indifferent to the spiritual
welfare of those around them.
They offer no word of counsel
or prayer for the conversion
of the atheist or the benign
agnostic,” he stated.
PRESIDENT Johnson com
mended Serra in a telegram to
Bishop Coleman F. Carroll of
Miami, convention host.
"Your organization has,
through both individual and col
lective efforts, encouraged the
practice of human charity and
brotherhood, and the tireless
work of your members in be
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"We cannot apply economic,
social and political formulae
made in the U.S.A. to Latin
America without serious consi
deration and adaptation.
"We desire universal suf
frage. But it is one thing in
New York City and quite another
in rural area of Bolivia, Gua
temala and Panama, where ill
iteracy rates may run well over
70 per cent.”
BISHOP McGrath emphasized
that effective universal suffrage
requires education—"not only
or principally in reading and
writing, but also and more so
in the meaning of civic and
community responsibility."
“The very concept of politics
and its function of service to
the community is vastly dif
ferent in a centuries-long aris
tocratic society where the cul
tured few have considered it
their duty and right to rule with
a more or less enlightened pa
ternalism: which, crudely in
terpreted, means a greater or
lesser dedication to helping the
masses, without however en
dangering the privileges of a
few,” Bishop McGrath declar
ed.
Jesuit Aids
ROME (NC) — The general
meeting of the Jesuit Fathers
here has elected four assis
tants to the new general of the
Society of Jesus, including'ah
American and a Canadian.
The assistants t» Father Ped
ro Arrupe, S.J., are 45-year-
old Father Vincent T, O'Keefe,
S.J., president of Fordham Uni
versity, New York; 58-year-old
Father John L. Swain, S.J., of
Canada, who was vicar general
of the Jesuits until the election
of Father Arrupe; 64-year-old
Father Paolo Dezza, S.J., of
Italy, and 48-year-old Father
Andrew Verga, S.J., a Hungj-
ian exile who has been living
in New York.
THE LATIN SCHOOL
Under the Patronage of
Archbishop Paul J, HaUinan
Director of School
Monsignor Patrick J. O’Connor
Director of Vocations
Faculty
Mr, Charles LaDuca
Classes to be conducted at Saint Pius X Catholic High School
Five nights a week for three weeks
July 19 to August 6 inclusive
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Pre-Registration through July 16
Telephone 524-8559
Registra-Mrs. HJ$. Winfield
Final Registration at St. Pius X High School first day of class
No charge for attendance at The Latin School
Eligible for Attendance
Yeung boys who are entering high school and those who are now
attending Catholic or public high schools who may believe that
they have a vocation to the Sacred Priesthood and who wish to be
priests of the Archdiocese of Atlanta are eligible for attendance.
Further- information may be obtained by writing or contacting
Monsignor Patrick J. O'Connor, or from Reverend Matthew W.
Kemp at Saint Thomas More Rectory, Decatur. Phone Dr. 8-4588.
Archbishop’s
Notebook
Humor In Heaven
• ART FOR ART’S SAKE
Man’s ability to laugh stamps him as a human being just as
surely as his bent toward thinking and creating. He is not
only homo sapiens and homo faber; he is (or can be) homo
ridens. This raises a question—what ever became of the men
who -created laughter? Have they disappeared?
True, the situation "comedies” of TV still come out like
XEROX copies of the same old gag: women are sly, men are
stupid. True, speakers tell jokes but they read like commer
cials. True, the renowned comedians of our age are available
like tap-water, but always at an unexciting room temperature.
The old “sick” jokes died a merciful death; but the malignancy
could be localized more in the teller’s mind than in the jokes
themselves.
But there is Art Buchwald, Whom Georgians can read every
day in his column and whose book is entitled "...And Then I
Told The President (the Secret Papers of Art Buchwald).”
Buchwald is in the solid American tradition of Mr. Dooley,
Goolier’s Uncle Henry, Will Rogers, the early Stoopnagle and
Bud and a few others. I respectfully submit that most of today’s
funny men read and sound like telephone books compared to these.
How can they beam in on the chuckle and the belly-laugh when
one eye is chasing Nielson Ratings?
• HUMOR HAS A PULSE
Most anthologies of humor are pretty deadly diets. You need
the teller’s gleam or the writer’s intimacy. Mr. Dooley, se
parated from the mixed emotions of the American scene of
1898, does not strike the spark he did when he said to his foil,
Mr. Hennessy—” ‘Tis not more thin two months since ye
larned whether the Philippines were islands or canned goods.”
Or, in 1924, when he discussed the "Dimmycrat” platform:
“Wb~: w iii our platform be like? I don't care.
No wan iver reads a platform but th' boy that
wrote it. The Dimmycrat platform this year will
be wan instince; *We p’nt with pride to th’
rotteness iv th’ RaypublicansI’ We’re goin’ to
appeal on their record.”
Dated? Dialect? Sure, but not dull to. anyone who loves Ameri
can politics with all its vices and absurdities.Will Rogers’ columns
of the 1920’s would fall flat today, but it’s my guess that Rogers
writing for today’s newspapers would be as sharp as Buchwald.
Buchwald has the knack of slyly taking on big themes—the
President, foreign policy, liberals, conservatives,—and reducing
them, right out loud, to their human, often uproarious dimensions.
He is as gentle as a steak-knife, and about as lethal. He is not
afraid of social and moral themes, but no one will ever call him
a crusader. His crusades march on neither to intellect nor to
heart. They concentrate on the funny-bone that links the two.
***
• "IS HEAVEN SEGREGATED?”
Upon hearing Governor Wallace state, "God made you and me
white, he made others black. He segregated us”, Buchwald left
the proposed blasphemy to the theologians and injustice to the
courts. Instead he got to thinking, "maybe there are two hea
vens.” He speculated on the project:
"I’m not too sure the white heaven would be such
a heaven without negroes. First, there are an
awful lot of white sheets to wash. Secondly, in
order to really have a nice heaven, you would
have to keep it immaculately Clean. This is work
the Southerners depend upon the negro for.
"Presumably, even in heaven there are crops to be
harvested and meals to be cooked and doors to
open and cars to be parked...and shoes to be
shined and garbage to be removed, and without ne
groes the Segregationists would have to do it them-
selves....you wouldn't call it very much of a heaven.”
Buchwald, obviously sensitive to Wallace’s dilemma, comes
up with this consoling answer: "If there are two heavens in the
hereafter, one for whites and one for blacks, I believe, if I was
a segregationist, I’d rather go to hell.”
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• WHO’S ON FIRST?
The rash of Pope John jokes (most of them probably invented)
was a tribute to the dearly human traits of a man who could
say of the Papacy—“Here I am at the top of the heap, and the end
of the rope.” It reminds us of Pope Pius IX as he presided at
the opening of the First Vatican Council in 1869: "When the
Council ends, I do not know whether the Pope will be infallible,
but I do know that he will be broke,”
Christianity does not teach humor; it presupposes it. Any
religion that can propose tofrail man that he will* bejifted out
of this grim routine to .the glory of the children of God needs
a philosophy of homo ridens as well as homo sapiens. A good
sense of humor is but the expression of a good sense of balance.
Man is saved in spite of himself.
The Christian joke is on usl
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ARCHBISHOP OF ATLANTA
‘Proving Grounds’
MUNICH, GERMANY (NC)
—The archbishop of Munich has
called today's highways
“a proving ground for human
responsibility, and a place
where men can prove them
selves Christians.”
Julius Cardinal Doepfnertold
a traffic conference in this city
that Christians should accept
modem means of transportation
as a “gift of God.”
'There is food for thought,”
he said, "in the fact that
60% to 70% of traffic accidents
are the driver's fault. In modem
driving people have a fas
cinating opportunity to put their
Christian faith and morals into
practice.”
The cardinal cited disre
spect for the rights of others
and for the Christian command
ment of charity as the main
causes of traffic accidents. He
called upon all motorists to
look upon themselves as mem
bers of a group in which every
one is “a man for others.”
ON SEMINARIES
Cardinal Scores
Negative Critics
MIAMI BEACH, FLA. (NC>—
Lawrence Cardinal Shehan of
Baltimore protested here a-
gainst “radical and almost ut
terly negative” criticism of
seminaries which he said is
keeping young men from the
priesthood.
Cardinal Shehan, addressing
the 23rd annual convention of
Serra International (June 30),
charged that such criticism
"for some time has been ap
pearing in one vociferous seg
ment of the Catholic press.”
HE SAID “dark, one-sided”
criticism of seminaries is “not
only false but...mischievous.”
“Critics of this school pic
ture the seminary as a dreary
place of regimentation, bells
and minute rules, of mental
apathy and spiritual gloom, into
which hardly any ray of intel
lectual or truly religious light
can possible penetrate,” the
cardinal said.
"I am indeed far from say
ing that the present seminary
program is without defects,”
he continued, "but I know of
no seminary in which those in
authority are not making
earnest efforts at improve
ment.”
The cardinal told the Serra
members, whose organization
is dedicated to fostering vo
cations to the priesthood, that
negative criticism of semin
aries is “mischievous pre
cisely because it is calculated
to discourage bright and prom
ising young men from pursuing
the vocation to which, in the
providence of God, many of them
certainly are called.'*
'THAT THE picture is also
false,” he added, “canbe shown
by many of the outstanding
priests who not only have been
produced by seminaries but who
often have also willingly de
voted themselves to a life of
seminary training.”
Citing the many "internation
ally known figures” bn the fac
ulties of U.S. seminaries, he
asked: "Are these men in any
way inferior to those critics
who are so ready to paint a
darkened picture of the semi
nary?’
‘That picture needs to be
corrected—perhaps to be wiped
out and replaced by a true pic
ture of seminary life,’ he said.
CARDINAL Shehan also em
phasized the importance for
laymen of the chapter on the
laity in the Second Vatican
Anglicans
Name Six
Observers
LONDON (RNS) — Arch
bishop Arthur Michael Ramsey
of Canterbury announced the
appointment of six delegate-
observers to represent the
worldwide Anglican communion
at the Vatican Council’s fourth
session opening Sept. 14.
Two of them are from the U.S.
They are Dr, Clement W, Welsh,
canon theologian of Washington
Cathedral and director of
Studies at ecumenical officer of
the Episcopal Church’s Execu
tive Council and former editor
O.f the Living Church magazine.
THE other four are Bishop
John Moorman of Rilon, Eng
land, who has been an observer
at the Ecumenical Council's
previous three sessions; Bishop
Najib A. Cuba’in of Jerusalem,
whose jurisdiction extends to
divinity at Trinity College, To
ronto, who also attended the
Council last year; and John W.
Lawrence, editor of Frontier,
an Anglican publication in Lon
don.
All of the six Anglicans will
not be present at Council meet
ings at the same time, but some
will act as alternates.
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Council’s Constitution on the
Church.
He said the present ‘ desper
ate” need for priests indicates
that the Church’s efforts to
foster vocations have had “lim
ited” success up to now, and
added:
"May not part of the reason
for lack of success by attribut-
p re sent we have relied almost
exclusively oil priests and Re
ligious for the direct develop
ment of vocations? Should not
the laity be more directly in
volved?”
AS LAYMEN assume a more
important role in the Church,
the cardinal said, they should
also assume “their just share
of responsibility for this all-
important work.”
“Critics who raise their
voices against some of the
human defects they see within
Church should ask themselves
what they are doing for the
production of that ideal priest
hood for which they seem to be
clamoring,” he said.
“I am not asking that the
voice of criticism be stilled.
But I am suggesting that it
be tempered and guided by the
self-examination which the
council proposes to all of us,
clergy and laity alike.”
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THE HOLY FATHER'S MISSION AID TO THE ORIENTAL CHURCH
To convert the 25,000 non-Catholics in Chel-
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must build a parish church. “If only we can
have a church of our own, hundreds, then
thousands, will come to be baptized!’’, he says.
. . . You are struck by what you see. For 28
years in this simmering, turbulent city, native
THE Sisters have taught grownups as well as children
GOOD how to read and write, to be useful, how
YOU DO to save their souls. “Need all this be wasted?’’,
GOES Father Thomas asks. . . . The church he needs
ON AND ON can be built for as little as $3,800. “But to col
lect $3,800 here is impossible,’’ he says. “The
average family's income is less than $2 a week!”
. . . You feel you must help this extraordinary
missionary. He can begin to build his church
next month if you (and other readers) will send
him right now as much as you can ($100, $75,
$50, $20, $10, $5, $2, $1).—Or perhaps this is
the church you will build all by yourself in your
loved ones' memory, to honor your favorite
saint? If you write to us today, Father Thomas
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