February 17, 1931.
THE TABLET A 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 Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
V ol. 16 3 . No. 4893.
London, F e b r u a r y 17.. 1934.
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N ew s a n d No t e s ................. 193 M o ra ls ....................................... 197 Mr. Runciman’s Blunder . . . 197 Ein Faschingsschwank Aus
Wien
The Unique Title of “ The
Yenerabile ”
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Cardinal Bourne ................. 201 From The Tablet of Ninety
Years A g o ............................ 201 Coming E ve n t s ...................2 01
CONTENTS
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A German and a Frenchman on Ire la n d ................. 201 Spilling the S a l t ................. 202 A Forgotten Pioneer of
F r e e d om ............................ 203 Copper and the Bantu . . . 203 New Books and Music . . . 204 Lenten Pastorals : Westminster .................204 The New Church at Neath 207 Frederic Edward Price . . . 207
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Ch e s s ...........................................2 07 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 209 The Seal of the Confessional 210 A Warning from Rome . . . 211 E t Cj e t e r a ............................ 212 The Sovereign Pontiff’s
Coronation Day ................. 213 Catholic Education Notes . . . 213 Ob it u ary ............................214
The Servite Seventh Cen
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The Lourdes Festival . . . 216 Duke Carl of Rosenmold . . . 216 Orb i s Terrarum :
England .................. 216 Wales .................. 218 Ireland .................. 218 France .................. 220 Spain .................. 220 Uganda .................. 220 So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 220
N O TANDA H ow the twelfth anniversary o f the Sovereign Pontiff’s Coronation was celebrated in London (p. 213).
Lent begins. A Note on “ Staying the Course ” (p. 193).
Cardinal Bourne’s recovery. The Lenten Pastoral o f His Eminence on Public Honesty, Christian Modesty, and Catholic Action (pp. 197, 204).
The Seal o f the Confessional. Lady Violet Bonham Carter’s unveracious excuse fo r running away. More non-papal infallibility (p. 210).
Priesthood and the H o ly Eucharist. Particulars o f a commemoration next month in the Eternal City (p. 209).
Bad manners towards France. Mr. Runciman’ s lamentable haste (p. 197).
Bloodshed in Austria. A plot to “ bring Bolshevism westward.” The disgrace o f the Nazis (p. 198).
A unique title. The Rector o f the English College explains “ theVenerabile.” A sixteenth-century broadsheet (p. 199).
Seven F ounders: seven centuries. The Servite celebration at Fulham (p. 215).
NEWS AND NOTES A GA IN we are in full Lent. Seeing that this penitential season extends over a one-eighth part o f the year, it deserves more careful attention than it usually receives. W e attend to November’s fogs, to December’s and January’s frosts, to February’s ’ flu, and to the bitter winds o f March by wrapping ourselves up against them. Spring finds us ready with blood-purifying medicines; and in summer lighter foods and thinner clothes prove our prudence. But Lent, which, to all who accept its ob
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ligation, comes with both rigours and opportunities, is lived by most o f us haphazard, without prescience, attention, or technique; and this is one o f the reasons why Christians who get up on Ash W ed nesday resolved to make a good Lent, go to bed on H o ly Saturday disheartened by the glaring discrepancy between intention and performance. What, then, ought those o f us to do who have hitherto failed to stay the course ? The best plan is to consult our spiritual guides, who are ready to give us not only Absolution, but Direction too when we repair to them in the Confessional. They will tell us how to fasten our minds and wills upon one lap at a time instead o f risking discouragement by peering fearfully towards a goal six long weeks away. Last Wednesday’s (A sh Wednesday’s) Collect prayed that the starters in the race may also be finishers— secitra dcvotione percurrant. Our percurrence will be easier i f we take one day o f Lent at a time, just as we take one day’s ration o f our work or o f our recreation.
Cardinal Bourne’s Lenten Pastoral is a mine with many workings, whence much precious ore can be extracted. Our leading article to-day brings out some o f the gold and silver; and this Note briefly directs attention to the words o f His Eminence concerning the League o f Nations. It would not be possible to express more tersely and justly the defects, difficulties and opportunities o f that institution. The Osservatore Romano has also come to the support o f the League in its hour o f need.
Our article o f last week, “ Equality and Security,” wound up with a request that Germany should withdraw her resignation from the League; and influences vastly more powerful than ours have been directed to the same end. I f the first Carnival Procession through Munich under Nazi auspices ” is to be regarded as official, or even semi
