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A FRIEND IN NEED, IS A FRIEND Swing on my foot, sweet child; From Bible Belt notice your great friend. forget dead parents- burned home, charred aunt. to Mary's Day you are now with friends-­ by James H. Forest ugly war ... There is a Pima Indian prayer stand­ beast action. we must because . . . ing out in large blue letters on the must justify wall: "The Creator has made the world. guilt, Come and see it." guilt ... Right now, I must smile a bit at the thought, with the piles of unanswered we must because . . . because. letters and unread journals mounting those poor men on every side, threatening to hide even are not free. the office windows from sight, even that little slice of lower Manhattan skyline look, son, we come to make you free. that keeps most of the sky from us. The dead father, chances of seeing the Creator's world, burned village, at least for the next month or so, seem fourteen year old brother remote indeed. questioned as Viet Cong, Yet I am just back from three weeks poss of world-seeing (Oklahoma City and Norman, Phoenix, Los Angeles, San ibly we're wrong. Francisco and Berkeley). The weeks again, again, are worth telling about, especially as rat-tat-tat-tat-tat. many of the persons and situations I came in touch with should be more -Sister Mary Claude, IHM Wor:d Wide widely known. Oklahoma I confess I approached "the buckle To Robert Kennedy on the Bible belt" with certain reserva­ We are writing to call your attention to matters of deep concern to our tions. A New Yorker, I have always membership. Four men identified with the peace movement in one way or been puzzled by persons who choose to another have been killed within the past three months. The first was Ivan live away from oceans. Yet my stay in Oklahoma, as guest of the St. Thomas von Auw Johnson, a student at Rochester University whose home was in More Catholic Student Center of the Binghampton, New York. Ivan was associated with the Catholic Worker University of Oklahoma, was as excit­ movement. He died on March 4, as the result of a beating inflicted on a ing as the Mary's Day festival that was street in Rochester where he was recognized as a Vietnam war opponent. to come in Los Angeles or life with the On May 16, Leo Bernard of the Socialist Workers Party was shot to intentional community in Berkeley. death in Detroit. His assailant explained that he was "killing Communists." I arrived in Norman April 23, a Sun­ The hysteria that warped this man to thinking that it was a service to our day, to addre3s wh'lt turned out to be society to kill Communists can be traced, we suspect, to the effects of the a large and enthusiastic audience. Even Vietnam involvement. the hostile questions presented by the Most recently, last Friday, May 20, our friend and fellow worker, Addi­ editors of a local "traditionalist" pub­ son Wilkins, a member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation and a recent full­ lication ("The Yellow Sheet," see Na­ tional Catholic Reporter for April 27, ( continued on page 2) p. 1) were useful for the purposes of · the meeting. Father Swett, assistant chaplain of the Center had met me at the airport. It seemed to be largely his idea to have Please Write a Check Now the Center sponsor meetings which Though Catholic Peace Fellowship appeals have happily been rare, drew upon speakers from fairly distant we must break our monetary silence before the summer sun begins areas: Fr. John L. McKenzie, S.J., driving bill collectors to our office and apartment doors. from Chicago, John Leo, Bob Ram­ The CPF is now nearly $1,000 in debt. Income, though steady, con­ busch and Dr. Mark Stern from New tinues to fall farther behind expenses. York, Michael Novak from California, etc. Fr. Swett is young, dark haired, We don't wish to bore you with the statistics. We are a frugal cool in what I can only call the hipster group, live simply and spend cautiously. But we do have a growing sense of the word. With Fr. Ross. chap­ stack of bills from the printer, the landlord, the telephone company. lain of the Center, and the active as­ We don't enioy holding out the beggar's bowl. But we must-and sistance of several lay students and hope you will help in filling it. faculty members, he has obviously done (cont!nued o>z. page 4) 2 JUNE 1966 marco i. frisbee writes Peace Week In the Abramic Spirit At latrobe Teach-in's, debates, open forums: Dear Editor: these are the basic forms of discussion In reports on the Rhodes Congress I I think we ought to go back to the well known practice of the Kings of that have been used in protesting the was struck by the fact that the Russian Vietnam war on the American campus. Orthodox delegates played such an ag­ Israel and J uda in the fifth and sixth centuries B.C. when they were having Few colleges of any worth have not had gressive role in promoting the Soviet so much trouble with Assyria and at least one teach-in or something simi­ lar. politic of "peace." This of course shows Babylon. They too were disgusted by Yet Catholic colleges and seminaries that it is very dangerous for any sentimentality and moralism, and they Church to promote a policy of peace, as might well consider a somewhat differ­ went right directly into the heart of ent form of discussion-such as was it will by the very fact cooperate in the the problem with a genuine red blooded insidious work of the Red imperialism. pioneered last February by St. Vincent religious rite: the sacrifice of the first College students and faculty in La­ I am sure this explains why so many born. moral theologians in this country are trobe, Pa. I fully realize that this suggestion At the "Week for Peace" held there, ill at ease with the thought of peace will shock sentimentalists, but this is and are putting their best efforts into the debate atmosphere was entirely re­ no time to worry about their cringing moved. While participants repr .sen ted showing us how nuclear war is the susceptibilities. We have got to get sure courageous and Christian thing after diverse perspectives on the war (rang­ fire propitiation if we ar~ going to win all. Be;tter dead than red. ing from the American Legion to the this war against the irreligious hordes. Catholic Peace Fellowship), verbal fire­ At the same time I feel we ought to Here are the advantages of my plan: works and point-getting rhetorical dis­ look for a more original and creative 1) Morally speaking, it is simply a plays were replaced by a prayerful at­ solution to the problem: a solution that choice between two evils. We choose mosphere of learning and exchange. will be at once religious and realistic. the lesser evil. Is junior going to grow After classes throughout the week, a Frankly I agree with those who are be­ up to be a Red Communist? God for­ Mass for Peace was celebrated in the ginning to be weary of the sentimental­ bid! If the war comes junior is going to Abbey church. Afterwards a bculty ism of the Sermon on the Mount. be dead anyway. If he cooperates in member addressed himself to the peace Of course, I think religion is essen­ his ritual immolation, he will be doing question in the light of his particular tial. The spirit of sacrifice is essential the greatest thing any man can do. To discipline. In the evenings (long into too. But don't you agree that the spirit pass junior through the fire, as the the evenings) "conversations" with out­ of sacrifice has become effete and sub­ quaint old phrase has it (meaning that side guests were held. Among the par­ jective in our day? It is a kind of wishy junior becomes a whole burnt offering ticipants were Professor Dietrich washy moralism, nothing more. And to Moloch), is only a physical evil, Ritschl of the FOR, Charles Strain, this leads me to my "creative" solution. whereas if he has to live under Red CPF, a Duquesne University graduate This solution is realistic, and it calls domination, that would be a moral evil. student who organized the peace vigil for intestinal fortitude! (continued on page 8) at St. Paul Cathedral in Pittsburgh last Christmas, Mr. James Flowers, com­ mander of American Legion District 61, Latrobe, William Reeds, also of the Legion, and the CPF's Thomas Cornell. To Robert Kennedy ... Culmination of the Week was a con­ (continued front page 1) celebrated Mass for Peace with Arch­ time staff member of the Student Peace Union, was shot and killed in Rich­ abbott Rembert Weakland, O.S.B., of­ mond, Virginia, along with a companion who was not known to us, Malcolm ficiating. Norment, 41, formerly of Colfax, Illinois, the son of an FOR member. The In announcing the Week a flier ex­ two were shot repeatedly from behind, and their bodies dumped in a ditch. plained: "If anything is to be accom­ We are asking your help, Senator, in pressing for a full investigation of plished by this Week for Peace it is strictly of an individual and personal the murder of Addison Wilkins and Malcolm Norment. nature. Those of us participating in We feel that extraordinary measures should be taken to ascertain the any of the Week's activities, it is hoped, motives for this killing. If, in fact, Wilkins and Norment were murdered be­ will come to some decision as to our cause of their participation in peace activities; federal responsibilities be­ particular commitment to world peace." come involved under civil rights legislation. Moreover, if it is found that A large percentage of the student these killings were in fact the result of their peace activities, an evil under­ body chose to participate. The celebra­ current in our society shall have been more clearly exposed. tion of the liturgy was joyful and deep­ Needless to say, we are horrified by these developments and by what ly moving, with new found guitars and they may mean. An increasing wave of violent hysteria bodes ill for our songs appropriate to the event. St. Vin­ cent College has demonstrated a tech­ nation. We have seen the effects of such insanity before, tragically and un­ nique that seems particularly appropri­ forgettably for the nation and for your family, in the assassination of your ate to the kind of peace education that brother John. the CPF hopes to expand in this coun­ Now, with the apparent increase in violent, even murderous hostility try. We urge you to investigate the pos­ aimed at activists in the peace movement, we are turning to you, to members sibility for similar events at your own of the Justice Department, and to our representatives in the Senate and the college campus. Bill Rosendahl at St. House of Representatives, for help in exposing and curtailing these outrages. - Vincent's, who coordinated activities Most respectfully, for the Week, assures us that he would be glad to help with suggestions, and Fr. Philip Berrigan, S.S.J. Thomas C. Cornell you may be sure that the CPF office Martin J. Corbin James H. Forest will cooperate in any way possible for Co-chairman, The Catholic Peace Fellowship the supplying of materials and speakers. JUNE 1966 3 Vietnam Eccentrics Monk Visits For Christ Thich Nhat Hanh, a monk of the Unified Buddhist Church in South Viet­ et aliis causis nam, visited the FOR unexpectedly by Richard J. Carbray Friday, May 13. He had been requested by Cornell University to lead three The dictionary definition of an eccen­ seminars on Buddhism at Ithaca. Thich tric lists, among other meanings, the Nhat feels a strong obligation to speak following: "not having the same center; out against the war while he is in this opposed to concentric; departing from country, to say what his fellow country stated methods, usual practice, or es­ men dare not say at home. He is a tablished forms." The word concentric, "militant," though hardly the picture on the other hand, is given short shrift of what one might get from TIME in the same dictionary, simply "having magazine. a common center." Now whether one At .thirty-nine years of age, Thich chooses to be concentric or eccentric Nhat IS the author of ten books. He has (or neither) and how to implement that be2n a scholar and an ascetic all his choice should be an open and debatable life. Only within the past three years question. But increasingly there are has he been involved in the social re­ those in the U.S. who would foreclose construction program of the Buddhists. the discussion, who would hallow the He is a very slight man with a thin "common center" as sacred and admir­ voice. Listening to him, so unassuming, Thich Nhat Hanh ably American ground, even admirably so humble and direct, it takes a minute Christian ground. or two to notice that his sharp intellect ferences and interviews with mass com­ All of which brings us to another has laid bare a web of contradictions munications media. word, a seemingly all-purpose word: underlying U.S. foreign policy, or that We know that our CPF members will beatnik. Our eyes and ears are assailed he has just presented a hostile interro­ be happy to know that Thich Nhat has with this word in reports of the strug­ gator with his head neatly arranged on joined them as a member of the FOR, gles presently going on in the U.S. and a platter. One also senses the humanity our first Buddhist member. Thich Nhat abroad. When newspapers refer, with of the people he represents. Thich Nhat is our courageous brother, for whose an ill-disguised sneer, to beatniks (or verified the findings of AI Hassler FOR safety and whose mission we urge all of Communists, Castro, or atheistic mate­ executive secretary, on his trip t~ Viet­ you to pray, with the remembrance of rialists) that is one thing. But when nam last year, and the findings of A. J. all the victims of this war, our own sol­ professing Christians, sometimes priests M uste, Bradford Lyttle and Karl Meyer diers, Vietnamese soldiers and civilians and bishops, make these same refer­ on their recent trip. of both sides and neither, our own ences with the same sneer, there would Thich Nhat emphasizes over again I van Johnson, Addison Wilkins, Roger seem to be a serious lack of Christian that the desire of the people of Viet­ LaPorte, Norman Morrison, Thich perspective involved. nam is to live. It is not a matter of an Quang Due and the rest in mind. Cardinal Leger of Montreal, accept­ individual being unwilling to lay down T.C. ing an honorary degree last spring at his life; but the population, the culture the University of Toronto made these the religion and the morality of Viet~ observations:" We cannot solve our prob­ nam is suffering terribly because of this lems by throwing bombs at people.... war. In answer to a question from an The Bulletin When we get to this stage we have American Marxist, whether the Viet­ is published irregularly by the Catholic stopped thinking of others as persons namese people desired peace or libera­ Peace Fellowship, one of 14 religious (emphasis added) but as abstractions­ ti~n, Thich Nhat unhesitatingly re­ affiliates of the Fellowship of Reconcilia· tlon. they are Communists or Fascists, So­ nhe:1. peace. There can be no people cialists or Capitalists ... beings to be to liberate, whatever that might mean CPF co-chairmen are Fr. Philip Berrigan, mistrusted, hated, and if possible, de­ if there is no life, no people, no sociai S.S.J., Martin J. Corbin, Thomas C. Cor· stroyed. We have forgotten that they fabric, and when the spiritual life of nell and-James H. Forest. ar3 fellow human beings with the same the people has succumbed -to the de­ CPF sponsors include Fr. Daniel Berrigan, anxieties, the same hesitations, prob­ mands of dying bodies. Thich Nhat af­ S.J., Claire Hutchet Bishop, Graham lems and perplexities before the mys­ firmed that the people, if they had a Carey, Sr. Mary Carita, I.H.M., Dom Ber­ tery of their existence." free election· (unlikely) would vote 10 nard Collins, O.S.B., Dorothy Day, Leslie percent for the Viet Cong, 10 percent Dewart, James W. Douglass, Fr. William Bishop Gerard Huyghe of Arras in a for the Saigon regime, and 80 percent H. DuBay, Msgr. Paul Hanly Furfey, pastoral letter of May 14, 1962 said: for whoever could get ·the other two out. Dom Bede Griffiths, Fr. Robert W. Hovda, "That man is a Catholic who opens Edward M. Keating, Justus George Law­ Thich Nhat Hanh's decision to speak himself to all. ~ .. He is a Catholic who ler, Robert Lax, Fr. John McKenzie, becomes overwhelmed by distress, what­ out while he is with us may well cost S.J., Thomas Merton, Ned O'Gorman, him his life upon his return to Saigon. ever form that distress may take. He is Edward Rice, Fr. H. A. Reinhold, Fr. Peter a Catholic who instinctively rejects Bu~ he is determined to return, just as Riga, Archbishop T. D. Roberts, S.J., Karl he IS determined to speak, to keep faith Stern and Gordon C. Zahn. everything that is a source of division, who cannot meet anyone without tire­ with those who have gone before and Bulletin ed!tors Thomas Cornell, James lessly s~eking out an area of agreement. with those who are in present danger. Forest. The· ~OR has. determined to use their. He is a Catholic who sees in each man resources to help Thich Nhat contact· For information, write: not t~e lab~l which is applied to him, of as many people as he can. We have had The Catholic Peace Fellowship unbeliever, or Protestant or Jew or several private meetings with religious 5 Beekman St., New York 10038 Communist, but the brother for whom leaders, and public meetings, press con- (continued on page 4) 4 JUNE 1966

Pepsi Cola Co. were 39c Woolworth variety). In an­ other Catholic Center, or in most par­ Eccentrics • • ishes, it is hard to imagine such a cere­ • mony occurring-or in conceiving of (continued from page 3) two non-Catholics wanting to be mar­ Christ died, and who has been placad ried by a Catholic priest in a Catholic in his path to receive his love." chapel. Yet here such a thing seemed to be natural. I would like to expand briefly on the I think of the stations of the Cross in cardinal's and the bishop's words, as eo me the same Chapel: all of them made by they apply to the opprobrious term the students, including Vince Maefsky, beatnik and its related slurs-Vietnik, local CPF leader and editor of the cam­ peacenik, litnik, etc., in the interest of pus SDS publication. The station for an 'I-thou' approach to our fellow Christ's condemnation was a photo­ mortals. alive! graph of the Jews being herded from Even a casual reading of Butler's the smoking remains of the Warsaw Lives of the Saints would reveal many ghetto; Christ Falls was a Life maga­ an eccentric for Christ. Need we men­ zine picture of a Negro woman uncon­ tion Jerome, Francis of Asissi, Francis scious on the Selma bridge, a police­ Xavier, John of the Cross, Catherine man with a ·night stick standing over of Siena, and Teresa of Avila? In a her body; Christ is Taken from the similar way, a casual reading of Amer­ From Bible Belt ... Cross, a Vietnamese mother running in ican history would disclose a goodly agony with the bullet-shattered corpse (continued from paae 1) number of eccentrics in secular history: of her infant child in her arms. I saw Thoreau, Garrison, Susan Anthony, much to make Catholicism something similar stations in two other churches Senators Kefauver and Morse, Norman more dynamic than the two-dimensional in the same diocese. cautious ritualism found in most par­ Thomas and A. J. Muste come to mind. While the number of Catholic con­ Although the aforementioned vary in ishes and far too many campus centers. scientious objectors is increasing at a degree of eccentricity, they share the Indicative of the quality and momen­ startling rate throughout the country, courage to dissent when almost alone tum of the work Fr. Swett has under­ there seemed to be even a higher pro­ in that dissent. Perhaps they will share taken there was an event I happened portion among the Catholic students I one other mark of distinction, too­ to witness during my four-day stay, a spoke with here. But with the kind of that, with the passage of time, history marriage in the chapel of two non­ spiritual life going on in the diocese, will have proven them all substantially Catholics. Their civil wedding, per­ with its concern with injustice and hu­ correct in their decisions to protest. formed about a half hour after the 5 man suffering, this came as no surprise. Certainly not too many people are re­ pm week-day Mass and witnessed by In Oklahoma City itself, 20 miles to turning their social security checks Fr. Swett, included Indian music, jazz, the north west, I visited Sister Nativity, while still muttering curses at Norman folk music sung by a member of the a nun who had come to Norman for Thomas, for example, and women's suf­ English faculty, Old Testament read­ the Sunday meeting. Dorothy Day had frage. appears well established. ings and the Beatles ("Help!" was stayed with her last year, I discovered. played at the end of the ceremony, Sr. Nativity had been with the Daugh­ Returning to the term beatnik, it after the exchange of rings-which seems to bother many columnists and ters of Mercy for some years, and for editors, and some earnest Christian lay­ many of those years she had sought men, priests and bishops too, that these permission from her society to carry Clean of Sock, but to the Clean of out work in the Mexican/Negro slum scorned beatniks are often casual in Heart. their attire to the point of being un­ areas of the city, but to no avail. Final­ It would appear, to me at least, that ly she and the six nuns who were inter­ kempt, unwashed, and generally offen­ our beatniks (the term for some would sive to those who lik2 their people of ested in the same nroiect were sent out include anyone to the left of William of. the diocese, each of them to different God elegant, scrubbed, fragrant with co­ Buckley or Barry Goldwater and in logne and above all, kempt. states. A year or two later, when Sr. need of a haircut), our eccentrics, have Nativity returned to Oklahoma City, But are not these beatniks, people of contributed a great deal more than she discussed her project ideas with God, if you will, persons, "with the most of their strident, less engage de­ Bishop Victor Reed. Eventually she same anxieties, the same hesitations, tractors. Perhaps these latter, devotes made vows directly to the Bishon. was problems and perplexities before the of the cleanliness-is-next-to-godliness given a small home next to a Catholic mystery of our existence"? Would they cult of Christian witness, might have school that was to be closed down. Un­ be more acceptable to the general pub­ their motto emblazoned on a banner in der her direction, the retired school lic in their picketing, teach-ins, sit-ins, their next Fifth Avenue Easter Parade: now functions as a community center. "Videri quam esse." . etc., if they were the height of fashion? A neighboring house has been made In general, maybe all this looking for Conversely, if in a parade of adults into a Montessori school. She is assist­ consensus is an indication of how our ed by several laymen in her work and down a busy metropolitan thorough­ society has drifted from what it was hopes eventually others will take vows fare, adults who might happen to rep­ meant to be. Consensus indeed! It is with her in this community. resent some of the less attractive, demi­ very possible that our Revolution I wasn't able to visit with Father monde elements of our society, would wouldn't have gotten off the ground if John Vrana, dean of the diocesan mi­ they be more acceptable to the viewing Sam Adams, Patrick Henry and the nor seminary; he was in Washington public if they were attired a la Brooks rest had gone shopping around for a for a peace meeting. Father Vrana, a Bros. or Dior than those other less consensus or for some concentrics, in­ CPF sponsor, is local chflirman for stylish people of God? stead of the eccentrics who not only the American Friends Service Commit­ This curious preoccupation with how rocked the boat, but spilled the tea tee. Father Vrana is much criticized by people look! All the bathing and show­ overboard, and didn't shave or wash for ·local conservatives: "He lives in a little ering and spraying of arm pits in TV days at Valley Forge. dump in the colored section of town," commercials has, for some time now, It may well be that some of our the National Cnthnlic Reporter was left me with misgivings. It is my un­ "beatniks" will turn out to have been told. "He's dean of a two-and-a-half derstanding that the Sixth Beatitude the conscience and the prophetic voices million dollar seminary; you'd think refers, not to. the Clean of Shirt or the of our time. (continued on page 5) JUNE 1966 5

and falls all over everything and then we EAT; bread gets inside humans.... " ... To Mary's Day The Mass for Mary's Day was pref­ aced with a film concerned only with (continued from page 4) oread, bread of every shape and color, little) "Hey, you cannot hide your love the color camera wandering around the away." he'd be able to find himself a pillow loaves like a child in wonderland: (there)." Fr. Vrana is being attacked On the cover of the program for the bread being sliced, bread coming from by the same group of "traditionalists" day were words taken from No More the ovens, black bread, wheat bread, for giving lectures on the Jesuit phil­ Strangers, the Macmillan book by CPF pumpermcket, rye, whtte. rlread being osopher-sciE:ntist, Pierre Teilhard de chairman Fr. Phil Berrigan: torn, bread in hands. "We become what Chardin. A few weeks before my visit "The future of the Church; our coun­ we eat, "Fath8r WaHy Inglis hau said at in Oklahoma, he had been one of sev­ try and the world depends directly on mass the day before, and it is a wonder­ eral priests who had taken part in a the solution of certain key human prob­ ful thing, one realized, to become like local demonstration against the Viet­ lems, to whose presence the whole of bread, whether it be Jewish matzoh or nam war. mankind reacts today, immediately and Russian black bread or Italian or unanimously, and with astonishing sen­ Los Angeles French long loaves, or even the Won­ sitivity." der Bread that can either be a brand I spent two years in Los Angeles the Inside were special songs for the day, name or which is the Eucharist. better part of a decade ago, then going the mass responses, a "Come Alive!" The mass took place mid-morning in to school. Not a Catholic at that time, I sticker, the CPF's Pope Paul button the auditorium. Above the temporary hardly noticed Immaculate Heart Col­ (No More War, War Never Again) altar on the stage was a huge POWER lege (Western and Franklin Avenues and, in the center, an essay of Father UP banner. On a 40-foot table in front in Hollywood) though I lived only a Dan Berrigan, our friend and sponsor. of the stage, oranges, bananas, cherries, half mile away and walked by the col­ It was headed POWER UP after a bread and rolls baked by the students­ lege countless times. Through several serigraph by Sister Corita and, in part, all heaped high in readiness for the of the nuns doing graduate work in read: lunch on the lawn outside which was New York last year, and through the "God has chosen his mother to put to come later in the day. Hanging in long streamers from the sides of the ll'lll were front pages from newspapers, pasted one after another, which gave the mass a sense of taking place WJth one foot inside history, one foot out. Adding to that sense of Now was the piping in of the morning news report just as the mass was getting underway: news from Saigon, from Washington, London and Paris, then local news­ civil rights, poverty, elections, etc. Everyone was wearing panchos, three by eight foot pieces of silk, with a slit for the head to come up through. Designs were stenciled on the panchos by the art department. The colors very bright. Also flowers, large and made of colored paper, all of which had been produced at a "pre-party" the night be­ fore. At the end of mass baloons (blown up and full of confetti) dropped from the balcony, carried out over the audi­ torium by fans. As they reached head­ level, the comrn11ni.tv reached up and poPJ~ed them. It sounded like a non­ Mickey Myers violent Fourth of July. As the theme of artwork of Sister Mary Corita and the an end to all distance. The first choice the day was Revolution and Evolution, community of artists and musicians of Christians is Christ. Where is your it was appropriate to the moment. there, I had become interested in the brother? Want nothing small about There followed a great colorful pa­ campus, though now three thousand men. Except maybe their words, which rade that steamed down the hill, led by miles removed. should be modest and thoughtful and a bag-piper in full Scottish attire. A It was especially good to be at Im­ almost inaudible before their DEEDS. lunch occurred beneath the banners on maculate Heart for the first week of For the rest, bigness; heart, brain; im­ a huge green hillside lawn, looking out May-Mary's Day was scheduled for agination too; let it take the world in over the city. There was a return to the 5th. For those of you who may not two hands and show us what it's like to the auditorium for presentation of have read of this remarkable event­ BE! ... Where's the man who says awards arid a· speech by Ned O'Gor­ or seen the Mary's Day film made by yes, says no, like a thunderclap? man, the poet, essayist, Princeton lec­ Baylis Glascock which the CPF has cir­ Where's the man whose no turns to yes turer and, as was said on the college culated-! should just quote one of the in his mouth-he can't deny life, he posters announcing his presence as students: "It's a day in which we use asks like a new flower or a new day or "special" guest, Great Man. natural and material things in an un­ a hero even, what more is there to love I cannot finish my account of the ordinary way, doing un-ordinary things than I have loved'? week in Los Angeles-during which I for a special day." It is obviously a day "When I hear the sound of bread spoke at Loyola, El Camino College that honors the mother of God, yet not breaking, I see something else; it seems and at a Quaker meeting house, coun­ in a vacuum removing her from the rest almost as though God never meant us selling COs in my spare time-without of the human family. It is a day which to do anything else. So beautiful a mentioning the visitors from Berkeley says (to turn the Beatie song around a sound, the crust breaks up like Manna (continued on page 7) JUNE 1966 Booklets Tapes CATHOLICS AND CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION ($1.00 per tape per day.) by James H. Forest, 15c. Martin J. Corbin on Pacifica Radio. 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I had to abandon some wounded The article appeared in Paris-Match, the French equiva.­ and dyjng. I gave them absolution. I tried to keep alive lent of Life Magazine. The author, Jean Larteguy, is an those who were still alive. The children were exhausted, anti-Communist novelist. the women wept; they dragged themselves along. It was Near Due Co, 17,000 refugees, for the most part Catho­ a real way of the cross. . . . lics from Tonkin, had been settled in some ten villages. "The march continued. The children lay down along Father Currien was their cure. He is a stocky, robust the road; they no longer wanted to move. Finally wear­ native of the Vosges. He won the Military Medal for go­ rived at a French tea plantation where they gave us to ing out among the Vietminh in 1944 to find the wounded eat and drink, and a place to lie down." French. I found him stretched out on a bed in the St. The Padre tried to turn himself on his bed but made a Paul Clinic in Saigon. He had been caught for several grimace. He showed his fist: "Today nothing remains of hours under the beams of his wrecked church and his all that region. All is razed. As for the poor mountain spine felt the effects. In his hand he held a small pyx, a people whose villages and rice granaries have been de­ small round metal vessel in which the Blessed Sacrament stroyed, they can live only as wild boars in the forest. is carried, which had been pierced by two bullets. He Before the bombardment, the loud speakers, in the planes showed it to me: above them, told them not to go into the fields and to "This was the consecrated host. In this war they even stay in their huts. They stayed in their huts and the huts shoot God himself. It all began one Monday at 9 a.m. The were bombarded anyway. Or again the Viet Cong obliged Viet Cong were in the vicinity, but not as many as re­ them to come out and machine-gunned them in the fields .. ported-many less. . . . No one was in the village except Some villages were warned, others not. I have seen my for some women, children and old people whom neither faithful burned up in napalm. I have seen the bodies of the Viet Cong nor the regular troops thought to pick up women and children blown to bits. I have seen all my to serve as coolies. villages razed. By God, it's not possible!" Suddenly the "I heard some planes. The first bomb fell at 6:05 on priest burst into tears. His nerves had given way. He my church. There was nothing left of it. I ran for shelter ursed the war and its attendant horrors and absurdities. to the presbytery, a wooden house adjoining the church. He railed at the Americans in English, as if they were A second bomb crushed it and I was pinned under the there to hear him. He finally calmed down: beams. Children cried, women shrieked and the wounded "They must settle their accounts with God. When I moaned. They were near me but I could not budge. Final­ arrived in Saigon, I could barely drag myself along. Two ly, some of the faithful who had been looking for me Americans wanted to give me a lift to the hospital in their everywhere, dragged me out. I made the women and chil­ automobiles. I couldn't stand it. Always before my eyes dren lie down under the flooring of the house. There we were those burned up women and children. I told them passed the entire night while those accursed planes ham­ to get the Hell out because I didn't like murderers. They mered with rockets and bombs at my village. were probably nice guys who wanted to help me. In Sai­ "There were on longer any Viet Cong around. They gon they probably pound away at typewriters in an air­ had fled into the forest long before. Next morning my conditioned office and know nothing of this war. They back hurt badly, but I gathered 42 women and children couldn't understand what was the matter with me."

cemetery, Forest Lawn (no relation to T~1e Worcestershire sauce on a steak, myself), and sang in this place where You, says Jesus, are the fizz in a •• a To Mary's Day death is thoroughly minimized by the Coke (continued from page 5) park/museum quality the owners have And the nuts on an Almond Joy tried to instill in the place. (For a Y au are the alligator on a short's who drove down for Mary's Day, stay­ price, the dead can listen to stereo­ pocket, ing-as did I-with Gerry Hucksby, a phonic music, we were told.) Here, in Or, 0 Christian, a new girdle's poet and memb8r of the English facul­ a land area that seems to sum up th;} stretch. ty at the college. comfortable death most of us are sup­ You are the orange glaze on a clay For Mary's Day this group had pos:d to accept in place of life, the jug pot, VIVA MARIA inscribed on their band sang the Pepsi Cola jingle, Come The scent in a grove of pines. che2ks, the same stenciled on their tee­ Alive!, until a guard offered an escort Christian, you're the fiddler at a shirts and army surplus jackets. to the gate. The incident, however, country dance. Artists and musicians themselves, the symbolized for me the work of the But what if the salt of the earth lose3 Berkeley visitors had a jug band in Christian community as salt of the its saltiness? full swing through much of Mary's earth, making me think of a poem Sis­ Or what if the fizz fizzles out, you Day, singing Spanish ballads, songs to ter Ann Peter Feagen, C.S.J., had its saltiness? Mary. Later, as did everyone else, they written: Or the elastic loses its stretch? danced to exhaustion - doing mostly You are the salt of the earth. What, when these things lose their Jewish circle dances. the salt of the earth, the salt. stuff, their tang, their shine? At the end of Mary's Day the Berke­ Or, you are the cheese on hot app~c Well, then, says Christ, ley croup went over to the famous pie, You can just call them junk. .... '5'5 w=tM

8 JUNE 1966 James Forest We Need a Car Merton Remains The CPF staff, both of us, are without wheels. Our national headquarters in Nyack is 40 miles distant from our CPF Sponsor BEekman Stre3t office. Frequent calls come to us to speak within a reason­ Despite his withdrawal to a hermit­ able radius of New York City. We age on the grounds of the Abbey of could save time and money and in­ Getsemani in Kentucky, Thomas Mer­ crease the efficiency of our operation if ton has announced his intention to re­ some kind reader would offer us an main among the sponsors of the Catho­ automobile in reliable condition, one lic Peace Fellowship. that can be operated at modest cost. Father Merton, a founding sponsor We would, of course, accept the respon­ of the CPF, released a statement to the sibility for picking the car up. We have long be:!n convinced that possessions, press on the subject in December: in the words of Thoreau, are an iron " ... I have been granted an oppor­ leg. Yet we find that sometimes the tuniy for greater solitude and more in­ lack of a piece of equipment impedes tensive prayer, meditation and study. us even more. As a result of this, I am less involved in various activities than I was before. In particular, I have no further oppor­ ANNUAL PAX WEEKEND tunity to engage directly or indirectly in politics.... The American Pax Association, an associ· Thomas Merton ation of Catholics and others who seek "However, I certainly believe it is my to promote and to encourage the prac­ duty to give at least general and moral tical application of Christian principles support to all forms of Catholic action, to the question of war, has announced especially to those which seek to imple­ Frisbee Writes that its annual conference will take ment the decrees and teachings of the (continued from page 2) place at the Catholic Worker Farm Second Vatican Council. In particular, August 29th through the 31 sf, begin· We ourselves would sin gravely in ex­ ning Friday evening. Theme of this I continue to give such moral support posing him to this danger. year's conference will be "Beyond Vat­ to those who are working to implement ican II." A fee of $10 is asked for food the teaching of the Council and of the 2) There are innumerable secondary gains, or bonuses, connected with this and lodging. Reservations may be made modern popes on war and peace. My by writing Pax Reresrvations, Catholic name remains among the sponsors of noble act. First of all it will cut down Worker Farm, Box 33, Tivoli, N.Y. 12583. the Catholic Peace Fellowship because the number of teenagers and make so­ I believe that this dedicated group is ciety as a whole more tranquil. I do not sincerely striving to spread the teach­ of course suggest that you wait until rising generation. Junior's brothers and ings of the Gospel and the Church on junior becomes a teenager. Better make be sure of our deep gratitude. war, peace and the brotherhood of your offering while he is still under the sisters are going to get a new outlook man.... " age of five, when he will be more co­ on life from assisting in this moving operative and easier to catch. ceremony. It will give them an inkling 3) If everybody everywhere can be per­ of what it means to live in the modern suaded to get in on this, it will certain­ world and snap them out of the danger­ THE CATHOLIC WORKER ly cut down the danger of the popula­ ous dream state induced by any moral­ Founded in 1933 by Peter Maurin and tion explosion. But in any case it will istic religious training they may have Dorothy Day, The Catholic Worker has be· mean one less mouth to feed in the hitherto received. come the largest pacifist monthly in the family shelter. I am sure you will take this sugges­ English-speaking world, each issue offer­ ing a highly readable selection of articles 4) The Kings of Juda sometimes made tion in the liturgical spirit in which it and reports as well as excellent artwork. this offering as part of the consecra­ is offered. Annual subscriptions are available at tion of a new fort. You might offer Yours truly, 25 cents. junior to bring down "good luck" on MARCO J. FRISBEE 175 Chrystie Street the new shelter. [Marco J. Frisbee has written for The New York City 10002 5) Finally, from the psychological view­ Catholic Worker under the name Bene­ point, it offers a challenge to the whole dict Monk.]

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