T H E T A B L E T
N Weekly N ew sp a p e r a n d R e v iew DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS V E S TR IS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
Vol. 159. No. 4,787.
London, February 6, 1932.
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Ni*vs and No t e s .............. 165 Un ostracismo Glorioso . . . 169 “ Ex-M onk” Ouseley 170 The Mosaics in the Lady
Chapel of Westminster Cathedral ......................... 170 Review s :
A Puzzle ......................... 173 Easier Divorce .............. 174 Bridging the Rhine 174 Nigerian Problems 175
CONTENTS
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Books Received ................. 175 New Books and Music ... 17G Sermons for the Times ... 176 Persecution R e - s e t ................. 178 Catholic Education Notes . . . .179 School Sports ................. 179 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) 181 Coming Events ................. 182 ET CETERA............................ 183
Shrewsbury’ s Bishop
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Coadjutor ............................ 184 Obituary ............................ 184 Prom The Tablet of Ninety
Years A g o .....................184 Letters to the Editor :
Social Service ................. 185 The Branch Theory . . . 185 The Crusade C r o s s .......... 185 Orbis Terrarum:
England, Scotland, and Wales ............................ 185
Orris Terrarum ( Contd.) :
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Ireland ............................ 186 Czechoslovakia ................. 186 Prance ............................ 186 I t a l y ....................................... 188 Mexico ............................ 188 Palestino ............................ 188 Spain ............................ 190 Uganda ............................ 190 Episcopal Engagements 190 The Prince’ s C a l l ................. 192 “ Bolshevist Education ” . . . 192 Social and P ersonal . . . 192 Chess ........................................192
NOTANDA The Spanish Government disbands the Jesuits, and despoils them o f their property. The reason. Un osfraeismo Glorioso (p. 169). A survey o f the Society’s social, educational and charitable work in modern Spain (p. 190).
Geneva. A Tablet note-writer discusses Mr. Henderson’s inaugural speech and the Bishop o f Chichester’s preliminary sermon on the Disarmament Conference (pp. 165-6).
One with the Twelve. The sermon preached by the Archbishop o f Liverpool fo r the consecration o f the new Bishop o f Clifton (p. 176).
Monsignor Moriarty’ s consecration as Bishop Coadjutor o f Shrewsbury (p. 184).
Russian timber. Some new points fo r readers who wish to approach their respective Members o f Parliament (p. 166).
“ L ow Mass,” “ High Mass,” and an “ O .S .B .” in a Protestant church. H ow three Irish girls were deceived (p. 168).
New Mosaics in Westminster Cathedral. Mr. Gilbert Pownall’s work in the Lady Chapel (p. 170).
NEWS AND NOTES TTEFORE another batch o f “ News and Notes ”
is printed, the Lent o f 1932 will have opened. Once more, we beg layfolk to keep it as " a Lent with the Liturgy.” There are now thousands of busy men and women who act every year upon The Tablet’s reiterated suggestion that the best prayer-book is the Missal and that, even when we cannot hear week-day Masses, we ought to appropriate to ourselves those rich Mass-Propers which are provided for every day from Ash Wednesday to Low Sunday. A few shillings will buy a complete Missal, in Latin and English, which will be a possession for life.
N ew Series. Vol. C X X V I I . No. 4,186.
Friday of next week is the tenth anniversary of our H oly Father’s Coronation as Sovereign Pontiff. Under the management of the Society for the Maintenance o f the Apostolic See, this happy day will be celebrated in Westminster Cathedral. At four o ’clock in the afternoon, during Benediction, a Te Deum will be sung ; and afterwards His Eminence Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop o f Westminster, will hold a reception.
Hardly one in a thousand o f those who read these lines can be bodily present at next Friday’s Te Deum in Westminster Cathedral. But most of us, if we make an effort, can hear Mass on that day for the Holy Father’s intentions. Therefore we offer advice. During Mass, at the very beginning o f the Canon, attentive Catholics have noted the words una cum famulo tuo Papa Nostro N . ; “ together with Thy Minister, Pius, our Pope.” Una is a strong little Latin word. It means that we are much more than companions and associates of our Holy Father when he himself says Mass in Rome. We are “ one ” with him. What is done at a Catholic altar is not all the celebrant’s doing. There is Catholic truth in that doctrine o f the Universal Priesthood o f Believers which Protestants fondly cherish as their very own. After the priest has offered the Bread and the Wine, he turns t o the faithful charging them to pray that " m y sacrifice and yours ” may find favour at the throne o f God. The humblest Catholic can and should unite himself with the far-away Pontifex Maximus as well as with the visible priest at the near-by altar when the Canon begins. To do so next Friday will be a pious and a profitable work.
Many things were in Mr. Arthur Henderson’s disfavour when he stood up t o inaugurate the Disarmament Conference at Geneva, last Tuesday. First, there was the speaker’s knowledge that his persistence in clinging to the chairmanship was resented by millions o f his fellow-countrymen and by not a few o f the foreign delegates. Mr. Henderson