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IQOth MCNIVERSARY R0M**l CHHOUC BIOCESE ROCHESTER NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE QF ROCHESTER Vol. 79 No. 46 16 Pages; Rochester, New York Price: 15tf Friday, August 16, 196ft What Peter and Paul Said Would Happen In Our Time \The time is coming when men will not tolerate wholesome teaching. They will want something to tickle their own fancies, and they will collect those who will pander to their own desires. They will no longer listen to the truth, but will wander after man-made fictions . . .\ \Even in those days there were false prophets just as there will be false teachers among you today . . . many will follow their pernicious teaching and thereby bring discredit on the way of Truth. In their lust to make converts, these men will try to exploit you with their bogus arguments. But judg- ment has been for some time on their heels and their downfall is invitable.\ MY DfcAR BROTHER PRIESTS AND PEOPLE: If there be a city with a polluted lake, we should not be surprised that there may al- so be a home with a polluted liturgy. We know of seven of our priests who are in- volved in serious profanations of the Sacred Mysteries. One has come in repentance and amendment. Out of the six remain- ing, and out of six hundred and three priests in the diocese, a few have recently been given publicity. We must now with full consciousness of our re- sponsibility to God and to Hjs Truth speak out. In these days when Lucifer has a greater appeal for the world than the Cross on Calvary, we must not be surprised that some, whom the Lord has called to Himself, will claim that all their wars\ against the holy are holy, that all their excesses are but an emphasis on the good, that all their hatreds are righteous and that all their inanities are foreshadbwings of what will be. Only those cradled in the sacred associations of Christ and His Church know how to betray, as Judas knew how to find Christ in prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane. Christ is so Sacred that His betrayal must al- ways be prefaced by some mark of affection, as Judas blistered the lips of Our Lord with a kiss. What was done in the dark then, is done in the dark now: \The Lord Jesus, on the night when He was betrayed ...\ As a mother's heart would break on hearing that her young daughter had been raped, so every good priest's heart is crushed at the profanation of the Eucharistic Liturgy and the laity are scandalized by the perversion of the holy. The Old Testament tells of priests who violated the sacrifice and liturgy of the Old Law and warned how difficult it would be for them to re- ceive mercy: \If a man sins against man, God will be the arbiter, but if he sins against Yahweh who will intercede for him?\ Those unworthy priests called it the \New J-iturgy.\ But actually it is as old as the naad deviations in- the groves of Israel; it is as old as Nineveh where silken husks were given under the guise of the bread of life and new wine which intoxicated in- stead of the \wine which germinates virgins\. With its euphoria, its baptized LSD, its gestures, prostrations and gyrations, its bid for secrecy like a veil fluttering between 'sworn friends', its Simon Magus appeal to the 'spirit', its poetic heaviness s^ and spooky cavernous blackness, its instinct for neuroticism and madness mocking the accents of love—all these have generated a new kind of priest whose heart is not burning, whose eyes are not ablaze, whose face is gray with the pallor of those who live Underground. Two Ways to Wound Christ There are two\ways to wound the Heart of Christ —with a sword and with a kiss. The Communists who roped priests to a cross for four days, then laid them on the ground and made other prisoners release the needs of nature upon them, as the Communists shouted words of consecration of the Mass, negated Christ with the sword. But those who, as St. Paul tells us, \profane holiness by maintaining a 'facade' of religion and are self-willed and conceited\—do it with a kiss. May God in heaven not visit upon them the pen- alty given to the liturgically errant priests of the Old Testament: \Their sins shall not berpurged by sacrifice or offering forever\. In cojiefusion: 1. House Masses will continue. Counterfeit does not invalidate money, nor will liturgical zanies de- prive God's people of the right to have the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass properly offered in their homes. 2. We cannot agree with many requests which have come to us that a penalty be given to those who have desecrated the holy. It will be recalled that many wanted Pius XII to excommunicate Hitler, But where there is little faith and where reli- gion is considered nothing more than something subjective, like the taste of caviar, a spiritual pen- alty has no effect. Not even the words and the sad face of Our Lord induced the youth to follow him. 3. The house in which Divine Liturgy is carried out according to the norms of Mother Church will have a blessing descend upon it. The bouse v=vhich permits the desacralization of the Divine Masteries, shall, whenever it permits such profanatLons aaid liturgical deviations, live in dread of the words of Our Lord: \Your house shall be left to you desolate.\ 4. The sins of a few are the sins of us all. These are our \brothesr prie>sts—these are our people. May I ask each priiest at his convenience to offer up a Holy Mass of reparation to the \Body of Christ\ in order- that as the Scriptures say: \God may give them a different otitlook, and they may come to their semises amd be rescued from the snare of the devil and set ^o woxk for God's purposes\. My good people, it really could be that \famili- arity breeds contempt\. Our Eucharistic Lord has so mucli thro-wn rl imself in our way that He ex- poses Himself: to irweverence. Husbands grow used to v/ives and ^vives grow used to husbands, and so do we to the^KHchatristic Presence. Like Simon we forget to pay \Our L.ord the courtesies and respects due His Dlvirnity. It would have required great faith to have seen Emmarmuel in swaddling bands; it is the same faith which sees Him under a whitened wafer. Each day the Lor-d says to us: \Who will come and get him- self food, no rprice to be paid\- Keep your rfaith sensitive, delicate andl ever con- scious of youar blessings. I write these lines to you after ftwe coa-tlmioas hours in the Presence of the Eucharistic L-ord, begging Him to grant power to these words, shcallntg to our poor sinful hearts, and more love foar His mercies. Help Rural Communities: E rt -«*»» IWKfc •' ^?** *$* : ' .'•. „«*ttfSS«* ; t •sfce&K/w--. • tr:-,^ W$ reeman \\Wki.*\' : «-%%<i. \ t fffll-'\***\ *n* MrJF^ Pope Paul Working On Nigerian Peace St. Cloud, Minn.—(NC)—The Na- tional Catholic Rural Life Conference closing a three-day meeting here heard Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman call for national planning to stimulate the development of rural communities. He said that the massive migration from the countryside to the cities was a \blind rush to self-destruction\ requiring a national policy to guide the development of inner cities. The secretary made a strong appeal for national policies which would of- fer a free choice of a good life every- where. He said: \We need a national policy to guide the development of our inner cities — to change them from seething volcanos of unrest to convenient, clean, healthy centers where people can live in dignity.\ He called for: \—A national policy to guide the growth of our suburbs—not let them degenerate into unruly, unsightly ur- ban overflows, but to plan them to fulfill their promise of space, fresh air and quiet \—A national policy for the de- velopment of new cities in the coun- tryside—new cities that offer their own sources of employment, esthetic satisfaction and ample culture, social and recreation facilities. • Vivfe^.. «,'*. '***. .\'V .\'.• •> »0f !.\~S* V i -**:- .W'-3^ *' -f*-^ 1 ^. •&•&& V&H.* *%A*i Mother and Child Find Sanctuary A woman and her child huddle inside a bunker near their home in Socltaiig, South Vietnam, about 100 miles southeast of Saigon. United States troops who found the pair released them after they checked the woman's identity papers. (RNS Photo> \atlcan City—(RNS)—Pope Paul lias sent a message to Emperor Hille Selassie of Ethiopia, who Is hosting peace talks between the Nlperlans and Btaf rans, asking that priority bo given those \who arc dying of; hun- ger and disease.\ The telegram which was sent Aug. 10> was published by L/Osscrwatoro Romano, the Vatican City dally. The paper also stressed that tho Church was seeking only a humaraitarlajn role and was not intending any \political implications\ in Its efforts on fcelialf of Biafran refugees. Meanwhile It was learned that Ihe Pope was holding meeting! at his rammer residence of Castcl Gasadolfo with a bishop from Blafra ml John Garbo, the Nigerian iiaJbumJoT to \Italy: = In his message to Hailo Selassie the Pope expressed \profound r-eliof\ at Ihe resumption of peace tallcs tnd \our ardent wish that It may b»e-pos- sible through the generous endeavors of both parties to reach positive re- sults.\ \We cannot but be deeply dis- tressed and worried at the sufferings Publishes ProfHnai off tho victims of the current conflict,\ toe pontiff said. \On this occasion we presume to set forth our insistent appeal that In v*ew of the pressing necessity that threatens the lives of thousands and thousands of Innocent persons proper pa-iorlty may bo given to tho serious problem of humanitarian aid and of the practical possibility of bringing it Ira time to the people whvo are dying with hunger and disease.\ In an- artlclo entitled \The Holy S«o and Nigeria,\ tho Vatican City dally recalled the efforts of tho Holy S«ee to help bring peace to Nigeria axid In particular to aid those refu- gees of war who face starvation. It Is essential, the paper noted, that rt elp should be given as quickly as p»osslble for people who arc dying of Jannger and sickness, Tho action of the Church, it .said, In appealing to the rulers Involved h-as no political Implications, being a rtatural consequence of the mission of the Church. Sho proceeds, it continued, without discrimination, with esteem and af- fection for all the populations In- volved, asking only that her attempts to give hope should not be hindered. ON THE INSIDE Around the Country 4 Around the World 5 Commentary 15 Diocesan 7 Editorial 6 Entertainment 13 Interracial 4 Pat Answers 7 •a IF YOU MOVE ... ^ let us know about it so we can keep your Courier coming to you on time. Phone or/nail us rT6TiceT~ot your changtTbT ad\ dress. Include your old address and new address and the name of your parish. Courier-Journal, 35 Scio St., Rochester, N.Y. 14604. Phone 716-454-7050. Is NCOMP Planning His School Victim of Earthquake g^ t(> p^ R at j ngs } By ALEX MacDONALD Manila was rocked with a violent earthquake on Friday, August 2. Hun- dreds were buried alive in the debris of toppled buildings. The world's news-services reported the sad. details as terror, tears. and hopeless grief gripped the crumbled city. But next day when new tremors hit the Philippines, in the Quezon prov- ince 200 miles from Manila, where a Rochester priest, Father John D. Hur- ley is pastor of Mt. Carmel Mission, no reporters cabled the story. There were no deaths or major injuries to record. The destruction of the new parish \schoolrtheHong-needed-fulfillment-of- years of hard work, was a tragedy only Father Hurley could report. \He called us last weekend\ his brother Donald Hurley, of Cole Rd, in St. Louis parish, Eittsford, said. \He was terribly low. The quake hit his parish abouf 4 a.m., the day after Manila was struck. His school, only 2 years old, was levelled. He worked so hard with his people to put it up. They begged and sacrificed to find funds for it. And then in an instant it became a pile of rubble \ Father Hurley, ordained from St. Bernard's Seminary in 1942, has been in the Philippines for 10 years, on loan from the Rochester diocese, at his own request, for missionary work. Formerly assistant pastor at Holy Rosary in Rochester, St. John's in Spencerport and Our Lady of Lourdes in Elmira, he also served as Air Force Chaplain from '48 to '58. Besides duty in Greenland and Okinawa, one of his service assignments had been at a Philippine air base. This led to his desire to return to serve the Filipinos after leaving the Chaplain Corps. \Father John ^aid that no one in his parisrr^-and the whole town is Catholic, of course—was killed by the earthquake, but all terribly\ frlghF cned,\ Mr. Hurley said. \Rebuilding will be slow and hard to do because they arc so poor. \He hasn't been back here since late 1963. I hope a little notice in the COURIER - JOURNAL could prompt friends in the diocese to drop him a note or send him some help.\ Father Hurley's address Is: Mt. Car- mel Mission, San Luis, Quezon Prov- ince, Philippines. FATHER HURLEY New York — The latesrt annaal re- port of the National Catholic Ofllce for Motion Pictures features a de- tailed proposal In favor of ondlaigthe moral classification of films, The proposal is in the forna ol a \resolution\ that was first o*ffercd by a representative of the Prench- Canadian Catholic Film Ofllce at the 1987 Berlin Film FestlvaL It has just now been published by NCOMF*. with the comment that it has \great signi- ficance for the future relatlonslilp of the Church to s the cinema.\ NCOMP has not announced plans to terminate its moral ratings—which range from A-l to Condemned!—but its Inclusion of the French-Canadian proposal in its review- of thes- 1997 filihi year is significant, Is Ihe NCOMP weighing such a policy \cRange\? Under a heading that reads, mere- ly \Documentation NCOMP pre- sents in full the French-Canadian proposal which begins by statin* that \the moral classification of films such as is presently done by nM»t of the National (Catholic) Film pfflces does not respond to the condHtlons of a pastoral ministry adapted t» our time.\ The resolution says that \moral classification, indeed, stirs up anajor difficulties we can no longer ignore\ a_nd goes on to list three principal «-nes: 1, \Tiie negative categories do not respect enough—at least seen through Uhe eyes of the public — the consci- ence of the persons who have to de- c-ido themselves, after due informa- tion, whether or not to see nich films.\ 2, \It is practically Impossible for a moral classification committee to r>Tonounco with certainty upon the p-resumed influence or^ range of a film, The rescarch-worteeri in thii field are only starting to discover triis Influence.\ 3, \The moral categories function for an 'average public' which it 1$ not. easy to define. One could almost say tfciat there are as many public*, as spectators.\ - Acknowledging that national Catho- Ifcc film offices still have an obliga- tion to \Inform the faithful about tfae value of films\ and that \this Is mrore necessary than ever because p rodurctlx)ns get more and more audacious and censorship become* mmore tolerant than before,\ the French-Canadian resolution goes on: (Continued on Pare i) iil ./
