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8 GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1967
1 Letters To The Editor |
EDITOR:
Since we have no "Priest
Appreciation Day" I am writ
ing this letter. The priests in
Georgia serve over 100,000
people, but do we give them half
the thanks they deserve? May
be you are going to say, "It*s
their job, why should they be
thanked?" Sure it’s their j'ob,
but is there anything wrong
with saying, "Father, thanks
for everything you have done for
me," 'Even, “that was a nice
sermon you gave today." This
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preciated for the endless
amount of things he does for
us. Keeping this in mind, let
us try to make every day,
“Priest Appreciation Day."
JACK SMITH
Christ the King School
Grade 8
EDITOR:
About this time of the year, I
find myself faced with the same
question, the same kind of gnaw
ing sadness during Holy Week.
On Easter Sunday morning
the most important, the most
miraculous event in the Chris
tian church is not symbolized
when one attends a Catholic
church. Where is the empty
cross to signify the Resurrec
tion? Where is the Risen
Christ?
Were it not for the joyous fact
that Christ arose from the dead
to redeem all of mankind, there
would be no Christian church.
There would be ;no reason to
spread the "Good Word;" there
would be no good word.
1 feel sad because this act is
not stressed, is not shouted
with joy from the Roman Cath
olic sanctuaries. True, none of
us is worthy, none of us deser
ves God’s love and forgiveness,
but because He chose to love us
and chooses to forgive us, Eas
ter Sunday is a time of great
joy for a Christian. Can there
not be an empty cross to demon
strate the fact of the Resur
rection, the joy that says "He
is,risen, indeedl?"
JEAN LOMBARDI
Atlanta
EDITOR:
Re.: Your rave notice of the
Communist film: ‘The Gospel
According to Saint Matthew”
may be as excellent as you say
it is, but I must take exception
to some of your premises. I
have not seen the film, and I
do not deny that Communist art
might be as true and sympathe
tic toward its subject as Chris
tian art, or in some cases per
haps more so. I quarrel only
with your proofs.
GOV. Lester G. Maddox Presents to Daniel J. Keane, State Deputy of the Knights of Columbus, a
proclamation designating March 29 as Knights of Columbus Day in Georgia. Brother Knight Asa
Kelly, Director of the State Board of Corrections, looks on as the Governor honors the 85th Anni
versary of the founding of the Order.
Masons, Knights
Meet Together
JOHNSON CITY, N.Y.(NC)
— The joint agreement to work
for a better world reached by
high echelon Knights of Colum
bus and Masons was character
ized as a "Magna Carta of
fraternal cooperation" by K.
of C. Supreme Knight John W.
McDevitt here.
I
The head of the 1.2 million-
member Catholic society told a
brotherhood dinner (March 18)
^jointly sponsored by local K. of
C. and Masons that the state
ment of agreement is “an acorn
from which I envision the grow
th of a giant oak of productive
. partnership in the exercise and
promotion of responsible ci
tizenship."
The accord was reached in
January at a summit meeting
of top K. of C. and Masonic
officials in New York. A few
weeks later a joint statement
outlining the first nationwide
program of cooperation between-
Masons and K. of C. was is
sued.
McDevitt told the dinner
meeting here the importance of
this "trenchant document be
comes clear as we analyze the
far-reaching significance of its
principal concepts."
The first concept mentioned
is the brotherhood of man under
the fatherhood of God, “a cure
for many of the ills that plague
our society," McDevitt said.
‘ Our two organizations are
in a unique position to teach
the world the values of brother
hood. In essence' it consists
of regarding every member of
mankind as a blood brother
and extending to him the consi
deration, love and respect that
we tender to members of our
own family. Universal accep
tance and • practice of such an
ideal undeniably would purge
away serious social blights
which infest our communities,
our nation and the world. They
are poverty, hunger, discrimi
nation, hatred and crime.”
McDevitt said the second
point of the statement calls for
united effort "to halt and re
verse the deterioration of mo
ral values in the United States."
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A work of art, whether a
film, novel, painting, poem, or
whatever, does not require ab
solute fidelity to documentary
facts. If it did, an awful lot of
Christmas cards showing
Christ as a Negro, a. Chinese,
or other improbable charac
ter, would lose the sponsorship
of a lot of art lovers who see
in them an EXTENSION of the
idea of Christ, not a photo
graphic reproduction.
As for the "coarse, dirty
bread” that served as the Host
in the Communist film, not only
does it down-grade the spiritual
concept that ought to come
through any representation of
the Last Supper, but it is in
violation of the very documen
tary truth for which your re
view pleads. No one could be
more meticulous about the pur
ity of sacramental food than a
Jew. (Have you ever seen a
pantry In a Jewish home during
their sacred holidays?) The
inviolable laws set down in the
Old Testament and the Talmud
were, I understand, most rigid
ly kept at Passover, then and
now.
As for the Apostles being
‘‘rough men" of no table man
ners, I doubt it very much. If
you have ever lived among very
poor, even illiterate people who
were devoted to Christ, you
must have noticed that their
manners at table on sacred oc
casions were formal in the ex
treme, rather than the con
trary, People of similar eco
nomic status, but who despise
God and all God-fearing people,
have an entirely different bear
ing.
The people exemplified in
traditional Christian art, what
ever their origins, were trans
formed by Faith, and no longer
uncouth and irreverent. The
absence of levity in Scriptures
attests to the high seriousness
with which all participants in
the Gospel comported them
selves. Modern art does grave
disservice to truth (as modern
translations do when they in
troduce connotations that are
not inherent in the original),
when it teaches otherwise. What
art has to say in depicting the
spirit of the twentieth century,
with its frivolity, cynicism, and
despair, may be accurate; it is
not justified in imputing this
spirit to Christ or His true
followers.
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Book Says Universities
Have Outmoded Concept
WASHINGTON (NC) — A book
to be published at Notre Dame,
Ind., next month says that some
Catholic colleges and univer
sities are laboring under an out
moded concept of academic
freedom at variance with that
held by their secular coun
terparts.
It. attacks the practice of Ca
tholic universities which have
invoked administrative or ec
clesiastical authority, without
right of appeal, "in order to
maintain doctrinal purity."
"Academic Freedom and the
Catholic University" was co
edited by Edward Manier, of the
department of philosophy at the
University of Notre Dame, and
John W. Houck, a member of
the university's department of
management, and president of
the Notre Dame chapter,
American Association of Uni
versity Professors. It will be
published by Fides on April 7.
Manier said that some of the
book’s most pertinent passages
were aimed at St. John's Uni
versity, Jamaica, N.Y., where
31 professors were dismissed
in December, 1965. He noted,
however, that the Vincentian
Fathers who operate the uni
versity recently offered to sub
mit their case against the pro
fessors to binding arbitration
by an outside party.
Manier also asserted the book
is "relevant” to the situation
at the University of Dayton,
Ohio, where a long-standing
doctrinal dispute among faculty
members was settled recently
by a commission appointed by,
Archbishop Karl J. Alter of
Cincinnati. The archbishop's
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the findings of a University-
appointed investigating com
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Dayton professors had opposed
the teaching authority of the
Church.
"A Catholic university can
only represent the Church
learning and not the Church
teaching," Manier stated.
Manier cited three instances
in which, he said, the Catholic
concept of academic freedom
has lagged behind that of secu
lar thinkers. Where the latter
believe that the freedom to in
vestigate, publish, and teach is
limited only by standards of
competence and professional
ethics, "Catholic authors have
implied that this freedom may
also be limited by an institu
tional commitment to the
magisterium (teaching autho
rity) of the Church."
Secular universities hold
that college and university stu
dents have a right to be pre
sented with the evidence for the
major alternatives in any con
troverted field of inquiry, but
"some Catholics have argued
that a student’s loss of faith
is too great a price to pay for
such academic sophistication,"
he continued.
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