T H E T A B L E T , September 2 3rd, 1950

THE TABLET A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER AND REVIEW

PRO ECCLESIA DEI, PRO REGE ET PATRIA

VOL. 196, No. 5757

FOUNDED IN 1840

LONDON, SEPTEMBER 23rd, 1950

SIXPENCE

PUBLISHED AS A NEWSPAPER

HIERARCHY CENTENARY NUMBER

ON THE OCCASION OF THE

CENTENARY OF THE RESTORATION OF THE HIERARCHY

THE TABLET JOINS ITS READERS IN OFFERING RESPECTFUL CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CARDINAL ARCHBISHOP OF WESTMINSTER

AND THE ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS

OF ENGLAND AND WALES

C ardinal W iseman, from the pa in t ing at Oscott ; w it h a facsimile of the letter to H. R. Bagshawe in

WHICH HE GAVE THE NEWS OF THE RESTORATION BY PlUS IX OF THE HIERARCHY OF ENGLAND AND WALES

Contributors to this Commemorative Issue include:

DOUGLAS WOODRUFF CHRISTOPHER DAWSON MGR. R. A. KNOX

CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS J. M. CAMERON CHARLES BURNS J. C. HEENAN P. H. CATCHSIDE, Inst.Ch. PHILIP HUGHES MICHAEL DERRICK CANON J. CARTMELL HENRY ST. JOHN, O.P.