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4 Georgia Bulletin, Thursday, May 25, 1967
ARCHDIOCESE OF ATLANTA SERVING GEORGIA’S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan
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Published Every Week at the Decatur-DeKalb News
Tha opinions contained in thoso editorial columns are -
the free expressions of free editors in a free Catholic press.
Reporting
The News?
Last week in Toronto, Ca
tholic . newspaper editors
were bombarded with ideas
on renewal in the Church and
press.
A Canadian editor, Doug
las J. Roche of the Western
Catholic Reporter, said,
“We’re not only up in the
press box, we’re down on the
playing field. What we pub
lish not only reflects the
changing Church; we are a
hallmark of that change.”
sociation’s board of direc
tors.
The board protested the
failure of the NC News Ser-
vice--the Catholic news ser
vice--to report on the Na
tional Catholic Reporter’s
publication of the secret pa
pal birth commission re
ports. NC did carry a story
in which a bishop criticized
the publication of the re
ports, but did not give any
indication of what the re
ports said.
Bishop Remi De Roo of
Victoria, B.C.., defended
workers in the Catholic
press against those who hold
them “more responsible
than others for the current
problems of the Church.”
“True,” he said, “the im
pact of the news media may
precipitate an existing con
dition into a crisis. But
such is the stuff of history.
The world today evolves with
dramatic urgency and the
Chuxch must accompany it
through its’trill.”
In contrast to their well-
chosen words was a protest
by the Catholic Press As-
The board pointed out that
suppression of the story
countermanded a directive
on the pursuit and reporting
of sensitive news issued by
Bishop Clarence H. Issen-
mann of Cleveland, chair
man of the Press Depart
ment of the U.S. Catholic
Conference, which is sues the
NC News Service.
The protest was sent to
Archbishop John F. Dear-
den pf. Detroit*, president of
.the .,Na>tiojaal-~Conference of
Catholic - Bishops, and we
hope the archbishop will step
on the hands that control
censorship of the Catholic
(?) news service.
Start ‘New’ Canon
There seems little ques
tion that the request made
by the American hierarchy
last November for a ver
nacular Canon helped to
bring about the liturgical in
struction promulgated last
week. As we recall, our
bishops were overwhelming
ly in favor of providing an
English Canon for the Mass.
Last month at their meet
ing in Chicago, the U. S.
Bishops heard a taped re
cording of an English trans
lation of the Canon prepar
ed under the direction of the
International Advisory Com
mittee on English in the Lit
urgy.
It can truly be argued that
the desirability of a uniform
English translation of the
liturgy throughout the world
is of dubious value, given
the regional nuances in the
meaning of words. How
ever, even if this is judged
an important item, it should
surely be possible to find a
presently existing transla
tion which would serve satis
factorily in the interim.
The judgment of Arch
bishop Hallinan, an interna
tionally renowned leader in
liturgical reform, that an
English Canon would not be
approved for use in this
country until the First Sun
day of Advent was a distinct
disappointment.
In view of the Holy See’s
approval of June 29 as a
permissible date for intro
duction of a vernacular Can
on, we hope that the Bish
ops Liturgical Committee
might spur action by our
Episcopal Conference for
interim approval of an ex
isting Englishtranslation for
as early a date as is possi
ble after June 29.
(ST. LOUIS REVIEW)
Pope Says
Mystical Body
Not Separable
VATICAN CITY (NC)~Pope Paul VI
has cautioned Catholics against trying to
separate the Church as the Mystical Body
of Christ from the Church as it exists as
a socially organized body in the world.
At his weekly general audience, the
Pope spoke on the Holy Spirit and the
relationship of Catholics to the Church,
understood as a visible, hierarchical, dog
matic, sacramental and canonical society.
"There are those who are tempted to
regard this external ecclesial relationship
as extraneous and superfluous, as if it
were contrary and almost abusive in re
lation to the intimate 'charismatic’ rela
tionship of the soul with the Holy Spirit.
"Let us be cautious, beloved sons, re
garding this problem and let us try to solve
it properly. The Church, the Mystical
Body of Christ, does not distinguish itself
from the socially organized Church which
confers on us our title of Catholic, and
which is the indispensable instrument
whereby we have the doctrine, the sacra
ments and the guidance which lead us to and
preserve us in communion with the Holy
Spirit."
The Pope ended with a metaphor, saying,
"Yes, let us open the sail of the soul to the
wind of the spirit of Jesus, which blows
where it will, free and mysterious. But do
not let us surrender the rudder of our
bark, the rudder of the apostolic fisher
man who governs us for a good purpose."
A REMBRANDT, "Old Man Praying", one of the master's later works, has been
purchased by the Cleveland Museum of Art. The 34-inch by30-inch portrait, paint
ed between 1657 and 1661, was purchased at a cost of more than $480,000.
(RNS PHOTO)
GEORGIA PINES—
An Important Product
— By R. Donald
Change is defined in one dictionary as:
to alter in condition, appearance”etc. In
ecclesiastical usage we are used to hear
ing this word, change, very often. How
often, for example, have you heard the
expression, *‘I like the changes in our
church" or the reverse, "I don't like
the changes in our church”? What the
speaker has in mind is what the dictionary
defines; that is, our
appearance. Do you
like the different
appearance or the
different condition
our church has now?
FR. KIERNAN
The most glowing
or the most obvious
change which every-
man experiences is
in his own life. We
are daily subject to change not only inoi
bodies but also in our attitudes. And ho
people who are personally experiencir
change every day can object to changes
the structure of a church remains a my:
tery to me.
Even the businessman changes the dis
plays in his store windows frequently, and
it is a proven fact that a restaurateur
who changes his menu frequently is most
likely to profit financially. One expres
sion which is a fallacy, at least to me, is
the saying, "in the groove*’. A groove
is nothing but a rut, and a rut is nothing
but a grave with the ends dug outl
One sociologist is quoted as having said
that most people are working at 30per cent
of their capacity. If this is true, then it
becomes obligatory on the part of manage
ment to initiate change in order to bring
out the best in a man. We can't win
with old methods, no matter how accep
table these old methods wereat the time.
I think it was Rhett Butler in "Gone With
The Wind" who repeatedly said that the
South couldn't win Nvith its old methods.
WICS Installs
WASHINGTON, D.C. (RNS)--Mrs. Stuart
E. Sinclair, president of Church Women
United, a department of the National Coun
cil of Churches, was installed here as
president of Women in Community Ser
vice, Inc. (WICS).
WICS is a nationwide, non-profit, inter
religious and interracial organization of
volunteers from Church WomenUnited, the
National Council of Catholic Women, the
National Council of Jewish Women and the
National Council of Negro Women.
Its primary work is helping young women
overcome the handicaps of poverty.
The organization assists the Office of
Economic Opportunity by recruiting and
screening girls for the Job Corps. WICS
volunteers have interviewed and worked
with more than 45,000 economically and
culturally deprived young women in 50
states.
He knew that the culture of the South was
changing. No matter howimpopularTie be
came around Jonesboro, he continued to
subscribe to this philosophy. Of course,
time proved how right he was. Nothing
is worse than one who is blinded by rou
tine and refuses to let the fresh breeze
of innovation in.
Because we always did something one
way is no reason why we can’t try some
thing different. Possibly, unknowingly, the
only reason we do not change or want to
change our attitudes is the emotional block
of not having confidence in ourselves.
I’ve often wondered what it was that dis
tinguished a fighter pilot from the ace, or
the foot soldier from the hero. I’m con
vinced that the superior is the one who has
confidence in himself and is willing to test
the limits.
How often our culture puts shackles
around us. Little things tie us to custom
and we become slaves to custom itself,
and oftentimes without much reason. For
example, most men would not think of
wearing a pair of pants without a cuff on
them, yet most men would not think of
wearing a uniform if it did have cuffs.
We scorn The Beatles with their long hair,
yet we hold in reverence men like Wash
ington and Jefferson and their hair was just
as longl Who ever heard of having soup for
breakfast? Yet, I’m sure its just a nutri
tious as eggs.
Years ago after an operation thepatient
remained immobile for weeks, now he gets
up immediately. During the last century
patients with high, blood pressure were
bled, now no MD would think of that. When
it comes to saving lives, we call that
progress, but a change in our culture is
many times confused with upsetting tradi
tion.
One electrical company uses as its
slogan “progress is our most important
product". Yet how can we have progress
without change?
New President
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1500-
YEARS OLD
CHRISTIAN
CROSS
IN BRONZE
INCORPORATES
THIS IDEA,
TOGETHER WITH
THE MONOGRAM
OF CHRIST.
Style Is The Mark
Of ‘Man And Woman’
By James Arnold
“A Man and a Woman” is a lyric
French film with much more style than
substance, but the style is so extraordi
nary that it has won the movie an impres
sive array of awards, including the In
ternational Catholic award, the Cannes
grand prize, and the Oscar for best foreign
film.
It is made the way
a film ought to be
made, in do-it-
yourself style on a
low budget by young
(28) Claude Le-
louch, who wrote
the script, photo
graphed and direct
ed it with obvious
devotion. There is
no question that the
best films express the personal vision of
a single artist, and that the ordinary
commercial movie, burdened by scores
of technician's and moneyed boards
of directors, inevitably suffers from the
committee syndrome.
Amazingly, "Man" still has much pro
fessional gloss, due chiefly to Lelouch’s
incredible skill with the camera and
manipulation of sound and music. The
film is virtually a catalog of how to tell
a story via cinema technique (the hand
iest for film study groups since "Arabe
sque”), and the only real objection is that
Lelouch-the-writer is neither as original
or as profound as Lelouch-the-filmmaker.
Part of the audience appeal is that the
film is basically an old-fashioned love
story (in fact, ladies' magazine stuff_
about a widow and widower (Anouk Aimee
and Jean-Louis Trintignant) who meet
while visiting their children at a boarding
school. Their mutual attraction is slowly
built to a touching climax oflove-realiza-
tion and carried through a crisis of doubt
to a final reconciliation.
The story is so simple and sentimental
that it stretches to its relatively brief 103
minutes only by an elaboration of romantic
detail (Long conversations about the past,
charming outings with the children) and
lots of attention to the couple's unusual
occupations (she is a movie script girl,
he a race driver). One sequence, showing
him driving across France to her side af
ter completing a race to Monte Carlo,
must be one of the longest boy-runs-to-
embrace-girl passages in movie' history.
But admittedly, fee long, suspenseful
buildup makes fee reunion, when jt comes,
truly an ecstatic moment. /
I I (
The major obstacle to fee romance is fee
widow’s devotion to her dead husband, es
tablished in flashbacks that are not rea
listic but rather poetic evocations of mood,
supported by Francis Lsi's lovely music
and free cutting from one scene of happy
memory to another. This is an excellent
example of how film can capture fee way
human memory really works (in loosely
connected images and feelings rather than
complete reconstruction).
"Man" is too pleasant and nice ever
to suggest a contrast between remem
brance and reality. In fact, fee movie is
at a disadvantage in these cynical times
because one keeps expecting pessimistic
irony and gets it only now and then in
minor matters (fee death of fee first hus
band - a movie stuntman, and jabs at fee
"sporting" nature of auto racing).
The problem of attachment to a dead
spouse is human and serious, but Lelouch
only toys with it. "Man" cannot be com
pared, for example, wife Ingmar Berg
man's "Summer Interlude," which was a
remarkably similar story. Like most
young French directors, Lelouch shows in
fluences from many sources: fee New
Wave (fee playful insertions of comedy,
the stress on technique, fee in-jokes and
talk about art and movie-making); im-
provisational theater (fee dialog is made
up on fee spot by the actors); cinema
verite (random effects in real locations);
Bergman (fee long, long closeups wife
narrative behind); and even specific:
movies such as "Grand Prix” and
"Umbrellas of Cherbourg.”
The atmosphere of "Umbrellas" is
partly in the simple love story, but es
pecially in fee use of sung music as a
background for important sequences. Often
it is beautifully effective (fee love-is-
etemal-type song behind fee memories
of her first husband, fee ironic "Love Is
Stronger Than We" which has an entirely
different meaning behind fee scenes of fee
couple's break-up). But fee English lyrics
are insipid, and fee subtitles force more
attention to them than fee director intends.
A French film with strong sex interest
ought to have moral problems, but they
are minimal. The man has a mistress,
whom he quickly discards in the face of
real love; the total effect of this has to
be moral. There is a frank and somewhat
boring bedroom scene between fee lovers,
but it is hard to see how fee plot could
have been resolved wifedut it. Both the
Catholic award and fee NCOMPA-3 rating
indicate feat pre-marital relations, if un
glamorized, are not expected to vitiate an
entire film, at least for mature viewers.
Technically, Lelouch’s major marvel
is fee frequent shift from color to black-
and-white and various tints, depending on
the mood. A dream-like quality is often
achieved by replacing natural sounds wife
soft music or dialog, and depfe-of-focus
tricks turn backgrounds into soft blurs or
telescope distances. (E.g., in fee reunion
scene, fee lovers seem only steps apart,
but have to run for half a minute to reach
each other's arms).
\i \ \
1 The children get some elegant footage
' (a tender Restaurant scene, many romp-
ings about Deauville beach and harbor),
but they are a bit over-cute. Lelouch al
so seems too fond of interminable dose-
ups through auto windshields; fee constant
rain and reflections are conducive to eye-
strain.
The director's gentle view oflifeisbest
expressed in one scene where fee hero says
that faced wife rescuing a Rembrandt or
a cat from a burning building, he would pick
the cat - life over art. At fee risk of
alienating cat-lovers let me say I would
opt for Rembrandt. Either choice is senti
mental; at any rate, I’d save fee cat be
fore fee TV set.
ARNOLD
Problems Face Synod
By Gary MacEoin
ROME — May stands out as fee busiest
month in- Rome’s year. The universally
evident sign is fee student on the bus and
in fee park diligently poring over notes
in frantic pre-examination despair.
I think fee syndrome is, however, con
siderably deeper. The Romans respond
to a centuries-old biological conditioning
when they speed up
their activities now
in order to ensure
no interruption of
fee summer - long
slumber feat starts
with June’s oppres
sive heat.
One of fee more
vexing problems
which occupies ec
clesiastical Rome these days is fee im
pact which fee Synod of Bishops is likely
to have, when it meets in late September.
I find that opinions today are very dif
ferent from what they were when I was
briefly in Rome last December.
At that time, those involved hoped or
feared (depending on their interest) feat
the meeting would come or go without ruff
ling fee placid surface of a Church admin
istration just recovering from fee up
heavals of fee Gouncil years.
More recently, when the Synod agenda
was announced , fee view was prevalent
that we might have 'in September a con
frontation similar to feat of fee first ses
sion of Vatican II. To many people fee
proposed subjects seemed less urgent
(liturgy, for example) or less ready for
decision (canon law reform) than other
questions which agitate many people in
many places.
Today, on fee contrary, 1 find a wide
consensus among those who should know
that there will be no need for a confron
tation. They base their conclusion on a
series of significant happenings in and
around fee Curia during fee month of April.
It may indeed well prove, when history
looks back, feat April 1967 was fee crucial
month for Vatican II.
The most dramatic moment was the
clash between Cardinal Lercaro of Bolog
na, president of fee Council for fee im
plementation of Vatican II’s decree on fee
liturgy, and Cardinal Bacci of the Curia.
Bacci misjudged fee strength of a move
ment designed to undercut his colleague
and thereby to set back the effort of con
ciliar renewal in Italy and in fee Univer
sal Church. In incredibly bad taste, he
wrote a preface for a booklet by a little-
known Italian writer, Tito Casini, which
described his fellow cardinal as a "new
Luther” and a betrayer of the, constitu
tion on fee liturgy.
When an entirely proper (though for him
unusual) forthrightness, Pope Paul re
pudiated Casini and his curial patron at
a meeting of fee Council, April 19, headed
by Cardinal Lercaro. Just a few days
earlier, fee Pope had made a series of
changes in fee Curia which altered sub
stantially fee balance of power and fee
lines of force. They included fee resig
nation of Cardinal Cento, the transfer of
Archbishop Staff a, one of fee most ob
stinate opponents of collegiality, from fee
post of secretary of fee Congregation of
Seminaries, to a less sensitive position,
and the naming of Cardinal Villot of Lyons
as prefect of fee Congregation of fee Coun
cil.
The pattern begun with the naming of
Archbishop Garrone as pro-prefect of fee
Congregation of Seminaries and Msgr.
Moeller as sub-secretary of fee Congre
gation for fee Doctrine of fee Faith (form
er Holy Office) is now becoming clearer.
MACEOIN