THE TABLET s l W eek ly N ew sp a p e r a n d R e v i ew DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADD I MU S UT IN INCCEFTIS VESTR IS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief o f His Holiness Pitts IX to The Tablet, June 4, 1870.
V o l . 156. No. 4,725. L o n d o n , N o v e m b e r 29, 1930.
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News and No t e s ...................6 97 A Happy New Year . . . 701 Imaginary Law Reports.—•
H I ...........................................702 The Southworth Shrine . . . 703 Episcopal Engagements 70B Review s :
More Jesuit Relations . . . 704 Old England ................. 704 Glints of the Trinity . . . 704 Negligible ............................ 704 The Jackass Penguins . . . 705 “ Everyman ” for Some
Men ............................ 705
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New Books and Music . . . 706 Books Received ................. 707 Sermons for the Times . . . 708 St. Joan of Arc ................. 708 Catholics and Anglicans under Charles the First 709 From The Tablet of Eighty
Years A g o ............................ 710 Catholic Education Notes 710 Coming Events ...................711 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 713
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Obituary ........................... 714 Letters to the Ed it o r :
The “ Tryal ” of Blessed
Edward Coleman . . . 715 Queen Caroline .............. 715 The Westminster Catholic
Federation
. . . 715
Et CiETERA ................ . . . 716 C lIE SS ........................... . . . 717 ORBIs Terrarum :
England, Scotland and Wales .............. . . . 718 Ireland .............. . . . 719 Austria .............. . . . 719
Orb i s Terrarum
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British Africa
Canada
. . . 720
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China
Colombia
. . . 720
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France
. . . 720
Germany
Hungary
Italy
Poland
Switzerland
Venezuela
. . . 722
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. . . 724
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W il l s
. . . 724
Social and P ersonal . . . 724
NOTANDA
The Church’s New Year’s Day. A Tablet leaderwriter once more pleads the claims o f “ The Liturgy fo r Lay-folk ” (p. 701).
Hungary’s vacant Throne. An authoritative denial o f rumours concerning the H oly See (p. 697).
“ Different religions.” A short answer to a worse than foolish lecture by an Anglican Professor o f Exegesis (p. 699).
Cardinal Bourne on the Union o f Christendom. Anglo-O rthodox hopes examined and found empty (p. 699).
Armistice Day. A glance backward. What was done at Preston (p. 700).
The English Martyrs’ chapel in Westminster Cathedral. Some important additions from Rome and elsewhere (p. 703).
Gregorio Panzani and his mission to London in the reign o f Charles the First. A Lingard Society lecture summarized (p. 709).
The episcopal silver jubilee o f his lordship the Bishop o f Leeds. A note in advance o f the celebrations (p. 716).
England’s memorial to St. Joan o f A rc (p. 708).
NEW S AND NOTES vO-DAY, Saturday, is the last day of the Solemn
Triduum sanctioned by the H oly See in honour of the lately beatified English Martyrs. A great concourse o f the faithful is expected this afternoon round the shrine of Blessed John Southworth in Westminster Cathedral. But for every Catholic who can pray over the relics of Blessed John there are a thousand who must perforce be absent. Therefore we have much pleasure in mentioning a Catholic Truth Society booklet— it costs only twopence— called Blessed John Southworth, by the Rev. J. L. Whitfield, which was published last Tuesday. It is specially interesting
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just now, by reason of the attack on our Martyrs which The Tablet has lately repelled. Anybody who asserts that Blessed John died as a political rebel and not fo r a purely religious cause would not have one shred o f history to support his case. The evidence that John Southworth was hanged, drawn and quartered simply and solely because he was a Catholic priest is so overwhelming that no honest scholar would question it for a moment.
Following up our recent Note concerning the House of Habsburg and the Hungarian Throne, we are able to contradict in the most formal manner the rumours which ran round Europe last week to the effect that the Holy See has been working for a Habsburg Restoration. The Sovereign Pontiff’s influence has been exercised neither for nor against such an event. The Steenockerzeel birthday festivities, when the Archduke Otto attained his legal majority, were unostentatious; and the young Prince’s studies at the Catholic University of Louvain have not been interrupted.
A letter appeared in last Tuesday’s Times headed “ Persecution in Russia : Appeal to British Opinion.” I t was signed “ E. Sabline, formerly Chargé d ’Affaires for Russia in Great Britain.” Mr. Sabline states that representatives of various Russian organizations have recently met under his chairmanship and have asked him to call upon England to raise her voice more loudly in the cause of Russian freedom. As no British newspaper, ecclesiastical or secular, has hit harder or spoken plainer than The Tablet in this matter we cannot fairly be charged with a lack of sympathy for Russia. We do, however, regret extremely the following culpably defective passage in Mr. Sabline’s letter :
There are signs of an awakening ; the appeal of the British Primate against religious persecution in Russia produced beneficial results ; German Scientists are now protesting ; and in France La Ligue des Droits de l’Homme has recently carried a resolution of protest against the summary execution of the forty-eight.
