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GEORGIA BULLETIN,THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1968 5
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ARCTIC PRIEST Father Bernard Brown, a native of
Rochester, N.Y., has built Our Lady of the Snows mission
at Colville Lake, 1,000 miles north of Edmonton, Alberta,
in the North West Territories. (NC Photos)
Honor
Society
Twenty students were
initiated into the St. Joseph’s
High School chapter of the
, ^National Honor Society in a
ceremony held on December 10,
1968.
The senior members initiated
were Patricia Bergen, Julie
Briscoe, Michael - Green, Susan
Gunter, Lynn Jones, Patricia
Sapp, and Margaret Williams.
Thirteen juniors were selected
for membership into the Honor
Society. They are Margaret
Behlmer, Betty Ann Daniel, Mark
Daugherty, Floris Herbert, Milton
Jones, John Linam, Lislie
Lozano, Charmaine Maloof,
Marselle Maloof, Bernadette
Smith, Thomas Sutherland,
William Troscak, and Marcia
Vuchetich.
On Weekday
Film Editor
6 C’ Rating Causes
False Conscience
HUNTINGTON, lnd.
E. Fitzgerald, film critic for “Our
Sunday Visitor,” the national
Catholic weekly, has urged the
National Catholic Office for
Motion Pictures to abolish its
“Condemned” rating and, also, to
take a less militant stand against
film nudity.
Fitzgerald, a long-time
member of NCOMP’s board of
consultors, said “the C-rating
must go” because it is responsible
for the formation of false
consciences.
“For too long many
Churchgoers have wrongfully
believed it’s ipso facto a sin to see
a ‘C’ film,” he wrote in a column
timed to appear when Catholics
throughout the country “are
called to the aid of the party”
during Pledge Sunday. “And a
few Churchmen have even
allowed such false consciences to
be formed.”
The critic called for a new
term to replace “Condemned” in
the way that “film offices of
other countries have done.” He
asked for “a word or phrase
.which would signify that because
a film has failed artistically, it’s
judged because of that to be
possibly dangerous and degrading
to an average adult. Thus
Catholics and non-Catholics alike
may agree and stay away from
trash and mediocrity, not in fear
or misunderstanding, but because
the reasons and reasoning offered
makes plain good sense.”
On nudity, which has been
responsible for NCOMP
condemnation of many films it
otherwise would not have
objected to, Fitzgerald warned
that “we cannot allow the
Church’s film apostolate to
deteriorate into a mere crusade
against ‘technical nudity,’—a
fanatical obsession with keeping
the undraped form from the
American screen.”
One of NCOMP’s key
arguments against nudity on the
screen has been that nudity is
“never an artistic necessity,” a
stand which Fitzgerald attacked
because, he said, moralists should
not be allowed to determine what
is or isn’t artistically necessary.
Mass Said In Latin
Begun In Decatur
On November 27th, at the
request of a number of
parishioners and with the
permission of the Most Reverend
Archbishop, a week-day Latin
Mass was begun at Sts. Peter and
Paul Church, Decatur, l'his M ass
is offered each Wednesday
evening at 7:30. (This schedule
will be resumed January 8th,
after the Christmas season.) The
Christmas Midnight Mass at Sts.
Peter and Paul will be sung in
Latin. The public is cordially
invited to assist at the week-day
Mass and also at the Midnight
Mass of Christmas. It will be
noted that the Latin Mass as well
as the singing of the same is
provided for by the Second
VaticanCouncil (Constitution on
the Sacred Liturgy, articles 36
and 116). As yet there is no
Sunday Mass in Latin, but should
a sufficient number request it,
one of the Sunday Masses will be
offered in Latin.
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“The matter of necessity must
be determined by the artist, just
as a doctor--not a
t heologian—determines the
necessity of an appendectomy
since he is the expert on such
matters,” Fitzgerald commented.
“When the moralist plays
scientist, as some have done,
we’re caught in embarrassing
situations such as the Galileo
incident, for which we’re still
apologizing.”
He admitted that “with the
increasing numbers of backsides
and bosoms we’ve been exposed
to lately, some very concerned
and not unintelligent
people--many of them
parents-might easily tend to
panic in the face of such a
trend.”
But, he said, there is a
difference between “nudity” and
“nakedness,” and that only the
latter should cause concern.
“Nudity is abstract and
universal and pure and
non-erotic,” he explained. “The
pleasure it gives is aesthetic and
not venereal as is that of
nakedness, which is concrete and
particular and has a
self-conscious, look-me-over
quality of sexual suggestiveness
to it-a hint of ‘come on,’ sleazy
and teasing.”
Fitzgerald gave no examples in
his column, but in a later
interview he said “Romeo and
Juliet,” “Zita,” “The Stranger”
an“The Pawnbroker” were films
in which the nudity is acceptable:
“It isn’t dwelt upon; the camera
doesn’t play upon the body; it
isn’t italicized, like in a ‘Playboy’
layout.”
He cited, on the other hand,
“Lady in Cement,” and
“Barbarella” as examples of films
in which there is “deliberate
nakedness, a really cheap
capitalization on the female
body.” Also to be deplored, he
said, was “the gimmick like the
wet, see-through blouse.”
(Catholic Press Features)
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