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Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta
Vol. 15 No. 6
Thursday, February 10,1977
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That’s Entertainment
A “sleeper” a la the movies,
they tell me, is an unexpected
Smash Hit. Not many show up at
the end of the year to get an
award but some do. MGM had one
two years ago and the awards and
rewards have been super-stardom
all round. In fact Mr. MGM is still
smiling.
They called it “That’s
Entertainment” and they called it
that because it was. It was
entertainment going back 50 years
in music and laughs from the files
of this great studio. From the
Marx Brothers through Durante to
vintage Mickey Rooney to a
clowning Bing Crosby, it was
chuckle-full.
In the Song-Dance department
it went back to Nelson Eddy and
forward to the supreme mastery
of Judy Garland, Astaire, Kelly,
Broadway and so on. The
dramatic heroes were not
forgotten either. Gable was well
remembered and fine recollections
of Spencer Tracy and his ilk were
there in plenty.
It was all put together, almost
by chance to give a grand re-run to
us of indepth entertainment. The
startling effect came for me when
following the dreaded moment of
ending, the live audience stood to
applaud this non-live but deeply
satisfying performance. “Now
That’s Entertainment” was the
clear message.
The possibilities for greatness
in the entertainment world are
surely legion when you mull over
the miracle age of technology
dropped into our lap. The
gold-mine of talent is there. The
mining equipment of science is
there. But blindly we pass it up.
Instead we go for the quick thrills
and the escapades of unreal
violence".
Recently, the National PTA
met in Atlanta carrying loud cries
against the industry for their lewd
productions that give birth to
criminals and perverts, wholesale.
The industry must take their
lumps for their casual disregard of
responsibilities. They owe us
better. However, it should be
noted that a movie not attended, a
soap opera not watched, a “Helter
Skelter” turned off relegates the
production to the scrap-heap, and
the stars to welfare. It’s not just
the industry, it’s us too. We have
the last act of power. It’s our
show to watch or not. It’s our
money to give or withhold. We
have the final say. ,
I was reminded of this recently
when I saw the SPORTS
ILLUSTRATED annual foretaste
of the sights we can expect on the
beaches next summer. Their color
shots were spectacular for their
detail of almost non-existant
fashions. If the editors of SPORTS
ILLUSTRATED plan an annual
venture into the skin business,
they should tell us. Then we won’t
put the magazine in our schools
and we won’t give it to children
for Christmas. We have the power.
Let’s use it. *
Funny things and serious things
are going on in entertainment
these days. A lot of it is really not
entertainment at all. Now, MGM’s
sleeper - that’s different. That’s
Entertainment!
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WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS
TOUCH A HUNGRY WORLD - With this theme Catholic Relief
Services-USCC has launched the 1977 American Catholic Overseas Aid
Appeal at a recent meeting in New Orleans. Attending the day-long
meeting were (1 to r) Archbishop Philip Hannan of New Orleans, Father
James A. Micelli, CRS Diocesan Director for Atlanta, and Bishop Edwin
B. Broderick, newly appointed Executive Director of CRS. Catholic Relief
Services, the principal beneficiary of this annual collection sponsored by
the Roman Catholic Bishops of the U.S., is dedicated to relief and
development activities benefitting some 20 million persons in 75 of the
world’s poorest nations.
RHODESIA
Pope Condemns Murders
VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul VI and the Vatican Daily newspaper have
denounced the massacre of seven white missionaries by black nationalist guerrillas in
Rhodesia.
The paper, L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO, noted that Bishop Donal Lamont of
Umtali, Rhodesia, has been sentenced to prison for breaking Rhodesian laws by
protecting guerrillas.
Pope Paul expressed grief and outrage in a telegram to Archbishop Patrick Chakaipa
of Salisbury, sent by his secretary of state, Cardinal Jean Villot.
“Holy Father profoundly grieved at the killing of seven missionaries,” the telegram
said. “He denounces this destestable act of violence perpetrated on defenseless bearers
of Gospel Message of Christ’s love and invokes upon those who have died eternal rest
in the glory of the risen Lord.”
L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO commented editorially:
“We are faced with a sanguinary absurdity in which the very people who claim to
be victims of injustice themselves perpetrate the gravest injustice by assassinating those
who work in the name of Christian justice and charity.”
The editorial recalled that last December a black terrorist in Rhodesia had
murdered retired Bishop Adolph Schmitt, a priest and a missionary Sister.
“That crime,” the editorial said, “coupled with the present outrage, begets a sense
of horror and shock.”
The paper called the murders senseless attacks on people who are working for the
spiritual and material welfare of the African people in the schools, colleges and
hospitals.
Dead were two English Jesuit priests, Fathers Martin Thomas and Christopher
Shepherd-Smith; Irish Jesuit Brother John Conway; German Dominican Sisters
Magdela, Cesalus and Epiphany; and English Dominican Sister Joseph Wilkinson.
Jesuit Brother Dennis Adamson escaped unharmed and Jesuit Father Duncan
Myerscough escaped after being wounded. Both are English.
Several African Sisters from a local congregation, who also work at the mission,
were not harmed.
The murders drew a strong condemnation from Archbishop Patrick Chakaipa of
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Convocation Of Priests
The Tenth Annual Convocation of Priests from Georgia and the Carolinas will meet
in Atlanta February 14-16. They will hear Father Alvin Illig, a Paulist, and Father
Donald Senior, a Passionist, speak on “Evangelization of the Unchurched.” The
meeting will be held at the Center Inn.
Pope Prays For Chicago Victims
VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul VI sent a telegram of solidarity to the citizens
of Chicago and the families of victims following the Feb. 4 transit disaster in that city.
The telegram, signed for the Pontiff by the papal secretary of state, Cardinal Jean
Villot, referred to the derailment of four elevated trains as a “great tragedy.” The
disaster took 11 lives and left about 200 people injured.
Lenten Program Planned
Is American society consumer-oriented? Do we judge our
nation great because of its high standard of living? Do we tend
to evaluate life and success in terms of what a person has, his
possessions, and his overall standard of living, rather than in
terms of who he is and the quality of his relationships with
others?
These questions and others like them are rasied by the
Archdiocesan Lenten Program, “Where Your Treasure Is,”
which will be used during the Lenten season in many parishes
throughout the area. The general goal of the program is to
examine values present in our society today, and to stimulate
reflection on these in the light of the Gospel. Each week the
GEORGIA BULLETIN will carry an article focusing on an
aspect of the Lenten Program.
Five areas of human experience will be studied, to examine
some of the value judgements made in each. These five areas
include homes and possessions, jobs and education, the family,
the world itself, and finally personhood.
The key to implementation of the program each week is the
Sunday Liturgy, which will include a homily addressing itself to
one of these areas of human experience each week. The program
will follow through with meetings of families in the home, adult
groups, or classroom discussions on the same theme. Central to
all the ideas discussed during the program will be the one
implicit in the title, “where is your treasure?” “what things are
really most important to you?” “what are your priorities in
life?”
We have all met the man or woman who is obsessed with golf
or bridge, the youngster who is sports-crazy, the man who is
known as a “work-aholic” because he is addicted to his job and
neglects his family. All these areas of interest are in themselves
good, but an obsession with them may become an evil.
Other areas which are as important but less obvious are
covered in each week’s thought and discussion:
Week one: How much importance do we place on the things
we own, or those we would like to own? Are we using our
possessions for some good purpose, or do they sometimes seem
to be using us?
Week two: Are our jobs seen only in terms of the money
they bring in, or the prestige they give us - or do we see them as
having some worth in terms of service to others? Do we see the
education we choose for our children as preparing for life, or
simply in terms of preparation for a well-paying job?
Week three: How are our family relationships balanced? Are
we overly child-oriented, or overly adult-oriented? Do we make
room for others who do not belong to the immediate family
circle? Are we sometimes complacent when all is well in our
own family, without trying to reach out to others?
Week four: Are we mainly concerned about our own
community and nation, or do we really see ourselves as part of a
world community or world family? Would we be willing to
lower our own standard of living somewhat if we knew that this
would help others in other countries to pull themselves out of a
subsistence-only economy?
Finally — week five - How do we value ourselves? Do we, as
persons, judge ourselves by false standards, seeing ourselves as
important only in terms of what we can do, how much we earn,
what our families are - or do we accept God’s judgment of us as
part of his creation?
The title of the Program is taken from Luke, Chapter 12,
verses 32-34: “Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good
pleasure to give you the Kingdom. Sell your possessions, and
give alms, provide yourselves with purses that do not grow old,
with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief
approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is,
there will your heart be also . . .”
CONGRESS:
Running For The Fifth — Fowler
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Wyche Fowler
presently holds the office of President of the
City Council in Atlanta. He is Atlqnta
educated and received his law degree from
Emory University. Next week, we will present
the views of Republican Congressional
Candidate Paul Coverdell.)
I believe that the most effective
congressman you can have to represent
you is one who has worked in
government on the local level and the
federal level - a person who has a sense
of balance and a sense of the
interrelationship between Washington
policy and local policy.
I’m running for Congress because I
have that experience and I want to put
it to work for you in the Fifth District.
As the chief aide to a U.S. congressman
for two years, I was a congressman in
every way except voting. I tried to fight
the bureaucratic problems, tried to see
that we had a fair shake in this district
for the programs that were
implemented; I handled constituent
problems on a daily basis, learning how
the Congress works, how policy is set in
Washington, and even more important I
learned the things that don’t work.
Here in Atlanta I’ve served you as an
elected official for eight years. What I
have found is that a tremendous
percentage of everything we try to do is
governed by policy set in the Congress.
Not only the policy, but the majority of
our funding comes from Washington. I
think that experience here on the local
level will help boost those programs that
work for our people and get rid of those
that don’t.
Everybody seems to be asking what
is THE major issue of this congressional
race. Because of the diversity of this
district, there are many issues, not just
one, that we must face, that we must
deal with.
Right now, not only in the Fifth
District, but throughout the entire
country, we have come to the painful
realization that we have hot solved our
energy problem. I believe that the
cornerstone of our energy policy must
Mr. Wyche Fowler
be conservation. We must lower our
patterns of consumption in this
country,, and it is time that elected
officials at every level told people the
truth: we do not have unlimited
resources and we cannot continue to
selfishly use over one-third of the
world’s resources in this country. It is
less costly, both economically and
environmentally, to save energy we now
have rather than produce more energy.
We as Americans have got to learn to
sacrifice.
The problems with our economy
affect all of us. Unemployment
continues to be a major concern, but I
believe that the best way to begin to
solve this problem is with tax incentives
to private enterprise that will encourage
them to hire and train people for jobs
that won’t be replaced by machines.
Putting people to work in public service
jobs - cleaning up the streets and parks
- does not provide a future for those
people. When those jobs end six months
from now, we’ve got a worse problem
than before.
Another area that I think needs
attention is bureaucratic reform. We’ve
all heard a lot about zero-based
budgeting - reevaluation of programs
and expenditures every year. I contend
that we also need zero-based taxation -
looking at whether or not the revenue
source is doing what it is supposed to do
and how much money we want to
collect. In other words, we would
assume that tax rates expire or fall to
zero, periodically forcing
the government to make a decision
about the amount of revenue it wishes
to collect.
This is a big district and a big job. If
you elect me your congressman on
March 15, I’ll put all of my experience
to work to give you the best
representation possible.
Inside This Issue ...
- Focal Point: Father John
Kieran, Archdiocesan Scout
Chaplain, tells the story of
Scouting in North Georgia.
-- Parish Goals for the
Charities Drive coming March 6.
- Father Horan looks at a
special project affecting this
area.
- Baby Snow is remembered
editorially.