THE TABLET A W eek ly N ew sp a p e r a n d R e v ie w
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEFTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
Vol. 162. No. 4861.
London, July 8, 1933.
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New s and No t e s ................ 33 National A p o s ta s y .............. 37 Dancing Before the Lord 40 R e v ie w s :
The Thirty-Nine Articles 41 “ The Downside” . . . 42 Religion T o - d a y .............. 42 Nearly All Wrong . . . 42 Books Received .............. 43 New Books and Music . . . 44 Back to the L a n d .............. 44
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From The Tablet of Ninety Years A g o ......................... 46 Ob it u a r y ............................ 46 The Crusade of Rescue . . . 47 Ch e s s .................................... 47 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’ s Weekly Letter from) ......................... 49 The Postponed Low Week Meeting ......................... 50 Et CiETERA......................... 51
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Catholic Education Notes . . . 52 The Converts’ Aid Society 53 Saltley: The New Church 54 Coming E ve n t s . 54 Ordination at St. Edmund’s
College ......................... 54 From Chelsea to the Tower 54 The Holiday Season 54 Or b i s T errarum :
England
Wales
Ireland
Australia
Belgian Congo
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Or b is T errabum (Contri.) :
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Central Africa
France . . .
Germany
Holland
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Japan
Poland
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Spain The International Euchar60
istic Congress
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S o c ia l a n d P ersonal . . 60
N O TAN D A
The Sovereign Pontiff at St. Paul’ s. An account, from The Tablet’s Rome Correspondent, o f the visit by His Holiness to the famous basilica “ Outside the Walls ” (p. 49).
The O x fo rd Movement a hundred years after. W h o were the deserters? (p. 37).
Russian Trade. The urgency o f the private embargo (p. 34).
Canon Edward Murnane. His life and labours in South London as priest and social worker (pp. 46, 52).
A Riverway Pilgrimage from Chelsea to the Tow er o f London (p. 54).
Forestry in Britain. Some Tablet Notes on its possibilities (p. 36).
The Archbishop o f Liverpool on “ Back to the Land ” (p. 44).
Abbot Butler’s reminiscences o f Dean Armitage Robinson. W h y did not Catholics wait fo r St. Paul’ s and the Abbey instead o f building Westminster Cathedral ? (p. 42).
NEWS AND NOTES A CLOUD broods over London. Although
Britain is only one of the six and sixty nations represented at the World Econom ic Conference and has no right of hegemony or dominance over the proceedings at the Geological Museum, we Londoners are the hosts o f the threescore and five delegations from overseas and their troubles are doubly ours. During the week now ending, the prospects o f the Conference have become very dark. President Roosevelt has held firmly to the policy o f which these “ News and Notes ” spoke last week and has been very bitterly upbraided b y several nations, especially France. At the moment of our writing these lines, certain delegates with whom we are in touch want an adjournment o f the Conference sine
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die. The majority seem to favour a suspension of plenary sessions but a maintenance o f the more promising Committees on points where international agreement appears to be achievable. While it is too early for pessimism, the task o f the optimist is hard. Englishmen are sensitive hosts, who would hate to think that many small and poor countries are paying out cash which they can ill afford to our hoteliers, possibly for nothing at all.
W ith the centenary of Keble’s famous Assize Sermon only a few days ahead o f us, we are giving a good deal o f space this week to the Oxford Movement. Soft-hearted readers have urged us to speak very kindly o f the Anglican celebrations. Heaven forbid that any ungenerous word should slip from our pen. It would however be an enormous insincerity if we began rejoicing over the existence and influence o f the High Anglicans. Their persistent misuse o f the word “ Catholic,” as when they claim to be Catholic priests and to represent the Catholic Church in this realm, has done untold harm by blurring the sense o f “ Catholic ” and by putting into the public mind the false and easy-going idea that there can be several kinds o f real Catholics, out o f communion with one another. It is not a good thing to hear some thousands o f clergymen calling themselves Catholic priests when they are nothing of the kind.
Adolf Hitler may go down to history as one more proof o f the saying that “ he who eats priests dies o f his dinner.” That grim and true old proverb does not assert that the priest-eater falls down as dead as a stone before he can rise from the table, like a reveller who has been served with a cup o f poison. Long years may pass between his rash feast and his punishment. By “ priest ” in this connection we do not mean only a true sacerdos, with valid orders. We include non-Catholic pastors, such as those good Lutherans who are just now passing through an ordeal in the German Reich. A week or two ago, the Nazi chiefs were smacking their lips in the fond belief that they could gobble up such independence
