THE TABLET
s i W e e k l y N e w s p a p e r a n d R e v i e w
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the B r ie f o f H is Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
V o l . 161. No. 4853.
L o n d o n , M a y 13, 1933.
S i x p e n c e .
REGISTERED AT THE GENERAL P O S T O l T I C E AS A NEWSPAPER.
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News and No t e s ................. 585 Life More Abundant . . . 589 Divorce Without Co-respon
dents
The Restoration of Bessa-
rion’ s House in Rome . . . 591 From The Tablet of Ninety
589
Years A g o ............................ 591 Coming Events ................. 591 Reviews :
Learning and Knowledge 592 From Ennius to Rapin... 593 The Land of the Lion-
Hunters ............................ 594
CON
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New Books and Music . . . 595 Catholic Action .............. 596 Obituary .............. 598 Marriages .............. 598 St. Laurence’s Petersfield 599 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ......................... 601 Catholic .Education Notes . . . 602 Grace D ie u : The New
School ......................... 603
ENTS
The Birmingham Eucharis
Page tic Congress . . . 603 Et Ca s t e r a ............................ 604 Ch e s s ....................................... 605 Books Received ................. 606 Holy Trinity, Sutton Cold
field ....................................... 606 W il ls ............................ 606 Letters to the Editor :
A Call to General Prayer 608 A Point of Exegesis . . . 608 The Tablet and “ The
Gods ”
608
Letters ( Contd.)
The Versailles Club Flags for Flying . .. Orbis Terrarum :
England .............. Scotland .............. Ireland .............. C h ile ......................... France .............. India .............. Italy .............. Spain .............. U.S.A......................... Social and Personal
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NOTANDA
An appeal from the Holy Father. How all his children can help his apostolic work (pp. 589, 599).
Attacks on Marriage. Dr. O ’Donovan’s noteworthy speech in the House o f Commons. A decision o f the French Courts favouring concubinage (pp. 588, 589).
Two Voices. How our Muscophils cry “ Down with War ” in Hyde Park and applaud the sabrerattling o f Moscow (p. 586).
Austria’s future. Her new Constitution’ s Catholic basis. A Christian Republic’s need o f support (p. 586).
A Tablet reviewer weighs a new Life o f Christ and finds it wanting (p. 592).
The golden jubilee o f his lordship the Bishop o f Leeds. A note in anticipation o f next Friday’s rejoicings (p. 604).
The call to Catholic Action. Points from the speeches at last week’s great demonstration at Kensington (p. 596). *
A striking new church in the Midlands. Holy Trinity, Sutton Coldfield, described and illustrated (pp. 606-7).
NEWS AND NOTES 'C 'A S T flows Paschal-Tim e : as fast as the flood egrediens de templo. In three weeks, the Feast o f Pentecost w ill be fu lly com e. F o r England, and indeed for all Catholic Christendom, the W h it suntide o f 1933 w ill be made memorable b y an impressive event. W h it Monday, unliturgically known as Bank H o lid ay, is to see laid the foundation -stone o f a huge church— a cathedral which will riva l or surpass in scale such world-fam ous piles as those which d ign ify Milan and Seville and Cologne. I t is to be h oped that m any Catholics who have leisure and means fo r the jou rney w ill be in L iverpool on the D ay. The great c ity on the Mersey can herself accom m odate a throng o f visitors ; and there are neighbouring towns (some o f them , such as Chester, o f h istoric interest) which can lodge m any more. I t is true that the actual rite m ay in v o lv e a little fatigue and d i s c om f o r t ; bu t this ought n o t to frighten our younger Catholics. Those w h o attend w ill be p roud, when the Cathedral is rising towards com p le tion , to say that they saw its first stone blessed and laid.
Prayers w ill be breathed in abundance not on ly fo r the success o f the L iv erpool cerem ony as a whole, bu t particularly fo r the Papal Legate. Francis, Cardinal Bourne, has been graciously chosen b y the Sovereign Pontiff to represent H is Holiness on this resounding o c c a s i o n ; bu t the strength o f H is Eminence has been sapped b y grave illness, and he w ill need to husband it with meticulous care if he is to sustain the h eavy burden and discharge the multiform du ty which a Legatine commission imposes. H appily the Cardinal has a nature sensitive to sym pathy, and the knowledge that he is one o f the best beloved and most p rayed-for men in England w ill be a potent medicine or, in the exact sense o f the word, a cordial, helping him back to full health and vigour.
F or the benefit o f readers whose knowledge o f German is to seek, it m ay be explained that the tw o w ords Volkischer Beobachter (the name o f Herr H itler’s own party newspaper) mean The P eople’s Observer. A t this moment, there is a great deal for the Herr R edaktor to observe. He has ju st seen in the colum ns o f the Vienna Reichspost— a Catholic paper— the m ild statement that official visits o f Nazi statesmen to Austria are not desired at this juncture. The v ery gentle hint has been enough to set the Berlin paper a-blaze, like tinder. The Beobachter calls its Vienna con tem porary’s w ords “ a monstrous insult,” and warns the Austrian Government “ to realize before it is to o late the incalculable consequences o f Government support being given t o this infam ous campaign b y infam ous
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