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PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1965
ROCKET NI'X Sister Alberta, O.S.F., prepares a rocket
she made to be launched by Dr. Elva Bailey of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration. Rev. Edward F.
Jenkins, O.S.A.. Chairman of Villanova University’s Depart
ment of Astronomy organized a ten-day NASA sponsored
- space science workshop at Villanova, staffed by scientists
from the'Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Mary
land.
SA YS CHURCH
SAN FRANCISCO (NC)--The
Catholic Church has “never
earnestly solved social justice*’
the national chaplain of the
Knights and Ladies of St. Peter
Claver told the group’s conven
tion here.
: The history of the Church’s
involvement with the civil rights
movement has been one of “he
roic devotion of small grbups,”
rather than “widespread popu
lar action among the members
at large,’’ said Father Harold
R» Perry, S. V.D., of St, Augus
tine Seminary, Bay St. Louis,
Miss.
However, he said, "Catholics
have not been silent on inter
racial justice,” He added:
“Statements concerning broth
erhood and racial equality have
been made in abundance. But
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now it is time for us to join
the Negro freedom movement
and commit ourselves to the
work of teaching, leading and
giving example in the daily life
of the community for Christian
conduct in race relations.”
FOR THE MOST part, Father
Perry said, Negroes “have only
been reluctantly welcomed to
Catholic community life,’’ re
sulting in a paternal relation
ship between the Church and
Negro Catholics. A by-product
of this policy, he said, is "a
strong conservatism among Ne
gro Catholics when faced with
opportunities to promote bet
ter race relations within the
Church.”
This, in turn, has “minimiz
ed the great inspirational im
pact that Negro American Cath
olics in general could have
exerted on the growing Church
in Africa,” he said.
An archdiocesan spokesman
told the convention that "Chris
tians are not adequately meas
uring up” to the obligation of
being "the most active workers
in the struggle for social jus
tice.”
FATHER Eugene J. Boyle,
chairman of the Archdiocesan
Commission on Social Justice,
said Christians “have for the
most part ignored the repeated
teachings of the Holy Father,”
The civil rights struggle
needs “active leadership” by
Catholics rather than “a few
private acts of charity,” Father
Boyle added. "Christians must
believe in the social efficacy
of their faith. They must rid
themselves of disbelief, which
is a form of sloth and laziness
and a kind of comfort that
dispenses them from effort.”
Archbishop’s
Notebook
Milledgeville Story-Teller
Probably the most authentic voice of literature is that of the
Story-teller. I found myself thinking about it while reading Miss
O’Connor’s posthumous book of short stories, Everything That
Rises Must Converge. Dramatists, poets, essayists go at rea
lity in their own peculiar ways. The story-teller dips it out with a
generous ladle, and if she has talent, the result will be a true
delight.
It’s a year since Miss Flannery O’Connor died at Piedmont
Hospital, after an incredible literary life of about fifteen years.
Suffering painfully most of that time, she produced two novels,
Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away and two collections
of short-stories, A Good Man Is Hard To Find and the present
one. She lit a persistently bright flame in America’s literary
world, and her admirers and critics will not let her die. It is a
sad thing that her fellow-Georgians know so little of her. A colum
nist last week wrote that copies of her latest book could not be
found in Atlanta's bookstores—he should have called the Notre
Dame Book Shop.
SHE WAS A deeply religious Catholic. “She was catholic in the
oldest and truest sense of the word,” as Professor John Clarke of
the University once wrote. She herself reflected her owngrasp
of what it meant:
“When people have told me that because I am a Catholic,
I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply ruefully, that be
cause I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than an
artist.”
Her faith infused her vision, but the Bible-quoting rural South
gave her the materials. She once said that if she should live in
Japan 20 years and then try to write a story about the Japanese,
the characters would all talk like Herman Talmadgel She'is a
part of Milledgeville, a part of rural Georgia, a part of the South-
these identities gave her vigor and vision.
SYMBOLS SHE COULD use, and irony. Style she had in the gro
tesque forms that cried out at the plainness and ugliness of our
world. But as you read Everything That Rises Must Converge,
the subtle is forgotten in the straight-forward tales she is telling
—of Julian’s mother on a bus finding a giant of a Negro woman
wearing a purple and green velvet hat exactly like her own—
and the tragedy that ensued. Or of Mrs. May’s overseer’s wife
who cut out morbid newspaper stories of women who had been
raped and criminals who had escaped, and train wrecks and plane
crashes, and buried them in the earth as she fell flat over them
mumbling and groaning. The men are angular in their virtues,
the women are ridiculous in their sentiments. But stories emerge-
-sharp, understandable tales of a people in need of redemption.
She wrote of the South, but her vision was of the world.
Flannery once wrote Sister Mariella Gable: “I probably have
enough stories for a collection but Iwantto wait and see what this
turns out to be that I am writing on now.” When I asked her, at
her farm in Milledgeville in 1962, whatshewas presently working
on, she replied—‘‘111 have to wait and see how it turns out.” I
didn’t understand what she meant then. But now as I read the
book that appeared after her death, I think I do.
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EARLIEST PORTRAIT OF CHRIST IN BRITAIN’
BELIEVED OLDEST
English Mosaic
Christ Unearthed
ARCHBISHOP OF ATLANTA
LONDON (NC) The oldest
portrait of Christ in Britiain
and one of the oldest in the
world is believed to have been
found deep under the earth of an
English village field.
An almost Intact fourth-cen- 1
tury Roman mosaic pavement
unearthed near a blacksmith’s
forge in the village of Hinton
St. M ary, Dorset, shows as
its central decoration the head
and first Christians behind his
head. On each side of the head,
which is facing front, is a pome
granate.
The head is encircled by
colored mosaics. It is sit
uated in the middle of a large
panel, at each corner of which
is the head and shoulders of
a man with wind-swept hair.
These are believed to be ei
ther the four winds, or the four
Evangelists, or both.
THE PAVEMENT, a vast fine
mosaic jigsaw measuring 20
feet by 30 feet, has been ac
quired by the British Museum
for a reported $84,000 from the
blacksmith, W.J. White. Ar
cheological experts and mosaic
craftsmen have been lifting the
whole pavement carefully for
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WASHINGTON (NC)~'"Ihe
national interests that have
brought us into the Vietnam
struggle are valid, and they do
not become less so just be
cause the going gets rough and
the end is not yet in sight.”
These words were spoken by
William P. Bundy, Assistant
Secretary of State for Far Eas
tern Affairs, last January, and
have been republished more re
cently by the State Department
as part of a statement of U.S.
policy in Southeast Asia. Three
separate developments here
served to recall them to at
tention.
Chow Shu-Kai, who had pre
sented credentials as Nationa
list China’s ambassador only
days before, told a National
Press Club luncheon that the
Chinese communists would ne
ver agree to a peacful settle
ment of the war in Vietnam.
U.S. ROVING ambassador A-
verell Harriman, returning
from recent talks in Moscow,
expressed the belief that Soviet
Russia wants a peaceful settle
ment of the Vietnamese situa
tion, but is not able to do much
in that area.
Retired U.S. ambassador to
South Vietnam, Gen Maxwell D.
Taylor, came home to say U.S.
and South Vietnamese forces
could “make it Impossible for
Hanoi to have any hope of winn
ing on the ground” in the long
run, but indicated the Viet Cong
could not be punished enough to
force Hanoi to negotiate in the
near future.
At the same time, there were
reports of peace mhves on Viet
nam in scattered places around
the world, but there was no in
dication that any of these had
got through in any way to Pek
ing, Hanoi or the Viet Cong.
Officials here saw little hope
of immediate tangible results.
AMBASSADOR Chow said
“the Chinese communists
would never allow Ho Chi Minh
and or the Viet Cong to ne
gotiate peace, as any peaceful
settlement would deny Peking
the full use of Indochina as a
spring-board for further expan
sion.”
Chow could be expected to
prejudiced where Red China Is
concerned, but official state
ments of our State Department
make it clear that we ratified
the Southeast Asia Treaty in
1954, when it became “clear”
that communism "was virtually
certain” to take over the suc
cessor states of Indochina” and
to move beyond. With France
out of the picture, “no power
other than the United States
could move in to help fill the
vacuum.”
The ambsssador also said
something that might help to un
derstand whatever differences
there are between the Russian
Reds and the Chinese Reds, and
why Peking may not be willing
to be led around by Moscow.
Any analogy between the
Chinese and Russian communist
leaders is a mistake, he said.
THE CHINESE communist
Pap er Gold
BOSTON (NC)~Take it from
Richard Cardinal Cushing,
there’s gold in old newspapers,
just like in “them thar hills.”
The cardinal disclosed that in
the last 17 years 350 parishes
in the archdiocese realized $1,
513,751.30 from the collection
and sale of scrap newspapers.
The money has been used for
the cardinal’s education, chari
table and missionary programs.
hierarchy has always been a
sophisticated one,” he explain
ed, “They are not uneducat
ed peasants. They are pervert
ed intellectuals driven by blind
ambition and possessing intense
fanaticism and evil genius for
carrying out their mad
dreams.”
It is the position of our State
Department that, “as a great
power, we are now and will
fcontinue to find ourselves In
situations where we simply do
hot have easy choices, Where
there simply are not immediate
or ideal solutions. We cannot
then allow ourselves to yield
to frustration but must stick to
|he job, doing all we can and
doing it better.”
, Asked if he could predict a
“clear-cut military victory” in
Vietnam, Gen. Taylor said “you
really cannot use that term
as applied to guarrillas and in
surgents as we are facing.”
SECRETARY of Defense Ro
bert S. McNamara said the same
day that “a communist success
in South Vietnam would be tak
en as positive proof that the
Chinese communists’ position
is correct and they will have
taken a giant step forward in
their efforts to seize control
of the world communist move
ment.”
“Thus, the stakes in South
Vietnam are far greater than
the loss of one small country
to communism,” he added. “Its
loss would be a most serious
setback to the cause of free
dom and would greatly compli
cate the task of preventing the
further spread of militant Asian
communism.”
“And if that spread is not
halted, our strategic position in
the world will be weakened and
our national security directly
endangered.”
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permanent exhibition later in
London.
The discovery has aroused
some controversy among ex
perts. Some serious scholars
have debated whether the head
is that of Christ or of the Em
peror Constantine. The ar
gument hinged on the Chris-
tain significance, if any, of
pomegrantes versus the pagan
meaning, if any, of the Chris
tian Chi-sign.
But now after prolonged study
the experts are finding it dif
ficult to see in this head any
thing other than a representa
tion of Christ and, according
to the British Museum, care
ful iconographic study, by Prof.
Jocelyn Tonybee, leading Brit
ish archeologist, “maf be said
to have established this:”
If so, it Is not only unique
in Britian but also a great ra
rity generally. Fourth-centruy
portrayals of Christ are con
fined to a few paintings, mo
saics and carvings in Italy.
The story of this excitingfind
began two years ago when White
the blacksmith, decided to build
an extension to his forge. Dig
ging post holes for the found
ations he struck the edge of
the mosaic with his shovel and
very wisely stopped and called
In the local archeologists. A
team soon was busily and care
fully scraping away the earth.
, The mosaic is divided into
two Continuous panels, presum
ably the floors of two inter
connecting rooms of a Roman
house. The smaller panel,
which was first unearthed, con
tained a damaged central
roundel the legendary Greek
hero Bellerophon the winged
horse Pegasus spearing the Ch
imera, a mythical monster]!
part lion, part goat and part
snake, with hunting scenes on
either side.
The second larger panel also
has hunting scenes with trees
in lunettes on three sides. In
the fourth lunette is a lone tree
with outstretched leafy branch
es. Then there are the four
figures in the corners and the
central portrait.
After the discovery the site
was scheduled officially as an
ancient monument protected by
law. The mosaic was recover
ed and a perm anentgrard placed
on the Site.
British Museum experts car
ried out a thorough exploratory
excavation of the whole site last
year. The site is presumably
that of a Roman villa but noth
ing elsd has been found apart
from the mosaic. It looks as
if later pillagers stripped and
carted off the whole place, in
cluding the stone work, for re
building elsewhere, while per
haps superstitiously leaving the
. pavement in place as something
holy.
The official British Museum
report said: “The fine preser
vation of the pavement alone in
a site otherwise very heavily
robbed is remarkable. ” As
there were no other substantial
remains justifying keeping the
pavement in its orginial posi
tion , the museum with the a-
greement of all concerned
bought the pavement for the na
tion. They will carefully con
serve and restore it and hope
to put it on exhibition in Lon
don at the end of 1966.
NEW ORLEANS (NC)—Gov
ernment is a relative newcomer
to fighting poverty and it wel
comes advice from churches,
Gillis W. Long said here.
The assistant director of the
U.S. Office of Economic Op
portunity noted that churches
have been helping the poor for
centuries.
Long spoke at a dinner to
raise funds to meet a $190,000
deficit incurred in expansion of
Ozanan Inn here, a hospice
for homeless men. The Little
Brothers of the Good Shepherd
staff it and the St. Vincent de
Paul Society of the archdio
cese of New Orleans sponsors
it.
THE NATION, Long said, is
now involved in a massive an
tipoverty program in which the
government hopes to mobilize
all social resources, “and wel
come and encourage support and
advice from our churches. ”
He noted that religious groups
all over the country are deeply
Involved in the government’s
anti-poverty program, and in
fluential church leaders serve
on the national advisory coun
cil to the Office of Econonic
Opportunity.
As public servants or as re
ligious leaders, he continued,
“we are engaged on our pre
sent jobs because we wish to
better the human condition. ”
THE CONCERNof both state
and church, he said, "is the to
tal man. ”
He underlined the need for
close cooperation in overlap
ping areas of the fight against
poverty. "Church and state
can work harmoniously, without
jeopardizing the position of ei
ther,” he said.
Long urged church, civic and
business leaders attending the
fund-rasiing dinner to remind
government people of the hu
man factors involved in the war
on poverty.
WHEN WE visit the slums to
see what needs to be done,”
he stated, “help us avoid think
ing solely in terms of urban
renewal, public housing and
welfare checks; instead, remind
us of the potential doctors, en
gineers, priests and legislators
who will neverrealize their po
tential unless someone takes a
personal interest in them. ”
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The answer is easy: they welcome the oppor
tunity to do something needed where it's
needed. Sometimes, besides, they build the
church in memory of their loved ones, name
it for their favorite saint. . . . Where is a new
church needed? In hundreds of towns and
villages in our 18-country mission world. In
Koom-pan-mala, south India, for instance....
Koom-pan-mala, with 2,500 Catholics, has no
church or full-time priest. The people are
pitiably poor: the average family earns less
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CAN □ The Masses you arrange for will be offered
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Write: Catholic Near East Welfare Assoc.
330 Madison Avenue vNew York, N.Y. 10017
Telephone: 212/YUkon 6-5840