THE TABLET j 4 Weekly N ew sp ap e r a n d Review
DUM V O B I S G RATULAM UR A N IM O S E T IA M A D D IM U S U T I N IN C C E P T IS V E S T R I S C O N ST AN T E R M A N E A T I S
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4, 1870.
V o l . 158. No. 4,765. L o n d o n , S e p t e m b e r 5, 1931.
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N ew s and No t e s ................293 The Next Government . . . 297 “ A Good Wife and Mother ” 299 The Catholic Institute of
Higher Studies ................. 300 R e v ie w s :
Germany: Heads or
Tails? ............................ 301 Buddhist O r ig in s ................. 301 ’ Change Alley ................. 302 Rhetoric ............................ 302
CONTENTS
R e v i e w s ( Oontd.) :
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Thence to Stapehill . . . 304 Dr. Allers on Character 304 Books Received ................. 304 New Books and Music . . . 305 Parental Right and Duty . . . 306 “ Eight Bells ” at Prink-
n a s h ....................................... 306 Catholic Education Notes . . . 307 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 309
E t Cæ t e r a .............. Page . .. 311 Land Colonization ... . . . 312 Chigwell Convent . .. . . . 312 Or b i s Terearum :
England, Scotland and Wales .............. . . . 312 Ireland .............. . . . 313 Belgium .............. . . . 314 Brazil .............. . . . 314 Canada .............. . . . 314 China .............. . . . 314 Czechoslovakia . . . 315 Danzig .............. . . . 315
Or b i s Tebbabum (Oontd.) :
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France ....................... 316 Germany ....................... 316 P e r u ....................................... 318 Portugal .......................318 Portuguese Angola . . . 318 Russia .......................318 Spain .......................318 Y u g o s la v ia ............................ 318 From The Tablet of Ninety
Years A g o ............................ 320 Coming Events ...................3 20 So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 320 Ch e s s ...........................................3 20
N O T A N D A Italy and the H o ly See. An interim note on the settlement (p. 293).
The governance o f nations with and without Catholic statesmen. A Tablet leader-writer makes a wide retrospect and offers a definite proposal (p. 297).
“ A good w ife and mother.” Strange answers from both sides at a Bonn Conference between two Protestant delegations (p. 299).
British Labour’s future. A comment on the Hendersonians and a grave warning (p. 294).
An innovation full o f promise. Westminster’s Institute o f Higher Studies. What it is . . . and is not (p. 295). 4
The Catholic Land Movement. Particulars o f its work and its policy (p. 312).
Catholic Schools. The Archbishop o f Birmingham’s clear re-statement o f their rights (p. 306).
Next year’s Eucharistic Congress. A new list o f distinguished churchmen who have accepted invitations to Dublin (p: 313).
Catholic Germany. Notes on recent Congresses in Bavaria (p. 316).
NEWS AND NOTES W H ILE the Church would fain adorn Her rites with the noblest o f music and architecture and painting, She is always ready to let these things go rather than surrender one jo t or tittle o f the Faith. In like fashion, She encourages athletic clubs by which Her children may grow in physical grace and fitness : but when such annexes to Her proper work cannot be maintained without prejudice to spiritual things, She says with St. Paul corporalis exercitatio ad modicum utilis e s t : pietas autem ad omnia utilis est, promissionem habens vita} quce nunc est et futures— “ Bodily exercise profits little, but godliness is profitable to all things, having
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promise o f the life that now is and o f the life that is to come.” So long as the Catholic Youth Associations in Italy included physical culture in their programmes, there was a danger that super-fervid and excitable young Fascists would picture them as potential enemies o f the State. The very word “ drill,” although it is familiar in connection with Swedish and other callisthenics of a purely hygienic character, carries a military connotation and is easily misunderstood. Therefore the H oly See has had no difficulty in agreeing to the Italian Government’s request that Catholic young men shall in future join with the Government’s organizations so far as physical culture is concerned. But, in the settlement between the Vatican and Italy which has happily been reached, the Church stands fast by her decision that she cannot hand over moral and spiritual education, as well as corporal, to the monopolists o f a Totalitarian regime. The first sign o f a settlement was the handing back b y Signor Mussolini’s Government of the Catholic Youth clubs to their owners ; and it is explicitly agreed that these clubs, provided their members go elsewhere for sport and athletics,' have the right to engage in definitely religious educational work. There was never one scintilla of truth in the silly story that Italian Catholic young men were drilling for an armed revolt against II Duce ; but it pleases the Fascists to be Totalitarian in the athletic sphere, il sport, which now means very much to Young Italy. On the other hand Catholics are pleased to have Article 43 o f the Concordat made clear on the vital point o f the Church’s right to form Her children, morally and spiritually, in Her own way. Next week, we shall write more about this. Meanwhile let it be understood that there is ni vainqueur ni vaincu.
Both by example and by precept, The Tablet has always given its support to those courteous publicists who have not spoken o f the Labour Party as “ the Socialists.” When letters have come to us in which “ Socialist ” has been thus applied, we have