April 7 ,1 034
THE TABLET A W eek ly 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 V E S T R IS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
Vol. 163. N o . 4900.
L ondon, April 7, 1934.
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News and No t e s ......... 425 An East-Wind Easter . . . 429 Most Catholic Spain . . . 430 From The Tablet of Ninety
Years A g o .................... 431 Easter Sepulchres and
Altars o f Repose in Our Ancient Cathedrals and Churches ............................432 Cardinal Bourne ................. 434 Reviews :
The Voice of the Shepherd 435 “ There the Matter Ends 1” 435
CONT
) Reviews (Contd.).
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Leading the Blind . . . 436 The Carthusians in the
Reformation Epoch . . . 436 Bufo B u f o .................... 437 In Georgian Jewry . . . 438 I British Sport..................... 438 , Coming Events ................. 438 | New Books and Music . . . 438
Books Received ..................439 Ch e s s ............................... 439 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 441
ENTS
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Catholic Education Notes 444 Et Ce t e r a .................... 445 Obituary ............................ 446 Ordination at Ushaw . . . 447 Cardinal Bourne’s Jubilee 448 The Low Week Meeting and
Reception ............................ 448 “ The Lonely Island” . . . 448 Ampleforth College Scholar
ships
448
Orbis Terrarum :
England ............................ 449 Scotland ............................ 449 Ireland ............................ 450
Orbis Terrarum (Contd.) :
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A r g e n t i n a ............................ 450 Barbados ............................450 France ............................450 Germany ............................ 450 India ............................ 450 Latin America .................450 Panama ............................ 450 Spain ............................ 452 Tanganyika............................452 W i l l s ....................................... 452 London University Gradua
tion Day ............................ 452 Social and Personal . . . 452
NOTANDA Crowded hours in the Eternal City. Don Bosco’s Canonization. H ow the H o ly Doors were closed and a new H o ly Year opened (pp. 425, 441-3).
“ Most Catholic Spain.” Passiontide’ s revelation o f Spanish piety. A cpiestion fo r British “ Gospellers ” (pp. 430, 452).
Tristan da Cunha. Part o f another letter from a Catholic on the Lonely Island (p. 448).
Cross-examination o f witnesses. Some admirable though overdue remarks by the Master o f the Rolls (p. 428).
H ow an east wind at Easter filled many places o f worship. A Tablet leader-writer’s reflections upon this event (p. 429).
Italy’ s claim to a democratic basis fo r her Totalitarianism. Striking figures (p. 427).
The H o ly Father’s Easter Message to German Catholic Youth. “ Y ou r Cause is Our Cause” (pp. 426, 450).
Easter Sepulchres and Altars o f Repose in England’s ancient cathedrals. Father Luck, S.J., pursues, with interesting results, a “ quest o f the H oly Grail ” (p. 432). '
NEWS AND NOTES ' " P O the multitudinous Irish Pilgrimage which war
1 in Rome for St. Patrick’s Day, the Sovereign Pontiff revealed his decision to extend the privileges of the Holy Year to the whole Church, alter the closing o f the four Holy Doors in the Eternal City. The Doors were bricked up and sealed last Monday ; and, without delay, His Holiness proclaimed to the world his benevolent plans for the coming year. A fortnight ago, The Tablet confined itself to a bare record o f the H oly Father’s words to his Irish children ; and even to-day we shall not presume to anticipate the precise directions which our own
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Bishops will soon give to us. For the moment, we simply thank our Holy Father and pray that the twelve months ending next Easter may be indeed a year of holiness and Christian activity for every one of the Church’s millions in Britain, rich and poor, lettered and unlettered, fervent or hitherto tepid in the love o f God and the service o f man.
On Easter Sunday— not Monday, as the slipping pen of a Tablet note-writer had announced— Saint John Bosco wras added to the long roll of canonized Saints. Thus has the Sovereign Pontiff carried out his great design for the H oly Year Extraordinary. There could have been no finer way of honouring the nineteenth centenary o f the Crucifixion than to bring vividly before the world’s eyes the saintly lives o f men and women to whom Christ Crucified has been ever present as the mainspring o f their sacrifices and their activities. Not that the canonized Saints exhaust the inventory of sainthood. As the Bishop o f Salford said in his broadcast sermon last Sunday, saintliness is usually hidden, and is brought to light by Divine Providence only in those cases when it is required as an inspiration to others. When Catholics sing aeterna fac mm sanctis tuis in gloria numerari they are praying that they may be saints in God’s sight ; not that they may be beatified and canonized with high rites in St. Peter’s.
In other days, German militarism was not a little mitigated by the lack o f political unity among the German peoples. Although it was long the fashion in England to laugh at the petty German dukedoms and principalities, the Grand Dukes and Princes meant much to their own subjects. After 1870, the new' German Reich unified many Germanic forces, especially the Army and Navy ; but it is only within the last few weeks that the Fatherland has wdped internal frontiers off its map and become both a centralized and a totalitarian nation. In these circumstances, it is not surprising that the rulers of the Third Reich should wish to unify
