TABLET A W e e k l y N ew sp a p e r
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTR IS CONSTANTER VANEATIS
From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4, 1870.
V o l . 157. No. 4,732. London, January 17 , 1931.
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New s and Notes . . .
Casti Connubii
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69
Soft Woods and Hard Hearts ......................... 70 R e v i e w s :
The Church and World .............. the 72 A Millennium of Persian
Art ......................... 72 For the Clergy 73 New Books and Music 74 Books Received 74 Ob it u ary ............... 75
CO NT
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W i l l s .......................................... 75 The Reply of the Catholic
Archbishop of Liverpool to the Protestant Bishop of that City ................. 76 Progress at Wealdstone . . . 77 L etters to the E d it o r :
The Chair of Unity
Octave ............................ 78 The Slaves of the Camps 78 Catholics in Regimental
Bands ............................ 78 St. Disibod 78 Dalman’s Gospel Studies 78
Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
Page spondent’s Weeklj Letter from) 81 Ch e s s ........................ 83 E t CzETERA . . . 84 From The Tablet of Ninety
Years Ago
Coming E vents
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Catholic Education Notes 86 Lady Anne Kerr Orb i s T errarum : 87
England, Scotland and Wales ......................... 87
Or b i s T errarum ( Oontd.) :
Ireland
Argentina
France
Haiti
Italy
Palestine
Poland
Spain
Turkey
Ukraine
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E p is c o p a l Engagements 92 So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 92
NOTANDA
Christian Marriage. A summary o f the Encyclical Casti connubii, and some preliminary remarks about it (pp. 69, 81).
North Russia again. “ Soft Woods and Hard Hearts.” A Gladstonian’s expostulatory sonnet (pp. 66, 70).
A Review reviewed. The Clergy R ev iew ’ s good start (p. 73).
“ The Hound o f Heaven as a Retreat-book.” Father Bede Jarrett’s remarkable address to the Catholic Poetry Society (p. 68).
Strange behaviour. How an opponent o f Catholic Schools has tried to deceive Kentish readers (p. 66).
Dr. David’s house-of-cards topples over. The Archbishop o f Liverpool’s reply (pp. 67, 76).
Befania. Flow the children of Rome kept the festival which is for them the greatest attraction o f the year (p. 82).
Lord Brentford on “ Reformed ” Churches (p. 68).
NEWS AND NOTES
T T is not permissible to say more about this week’s
Conference on Education than that it came to an end on Wednesday afternoon and that Sir Charles Trevelyan is expected to make a statement next week concerning the future of his amended Bill. But, although we must be silent respecting the Conference itself, we may record with thankfulness the fact that our Catholic people responded grandly to the request that they should approach the altar rails last Sunday and offer their communions for the success of the deliberations. Success does not always mean the full and immediate realization of our human hopes. Sometimes it means a fresh complex, presenting new and better opportunities for securing a happy issue.
N ew S er ie s . Voi. CXXV. No. 4,131.
Now known as “ The Chair of Unity Octave,” the annual eight days of prayer ut omnes unum sint begin to-morrow, Sunday (the Feast of St. Peter’s Chair at Rome) and finish on the Feast of St. Paul's Conversion. We are to pray to-morrow for the return of all “ the other sheep ” to the One Fold ; on Monday, for the Eastern schismatics ; on Tuesday for England’s return to the Roman Unity ; on Wednesday for Lutherans and other Continental Protestants ; on Thursday for non-Catholic Christians in America ; on Friday for lapsed Catholics ; on Saturday for the Jews ; and on the last day for Missions throughout the world.
Our Note on Liberia last week was written on the strength of The Tablet’s own information, which was grave enough; but when the International Commission’s Report appeared in print, a few days later, our worst fears were outrun by the horrors disclosed. Blacks have been flogged to death by other blacks ; men have been half roasted over fires on which pepper has been thrown ; mothers have killed little babies sired by their tormentors ; and reprisals have taken the ugly form of poisonings. As a result of these findings by the Commission of Inquiry, the President of the Liberian Republic has resigned ; but we do not hear of any strong and humane native statesman who is capable of taking the helm in his stead. The moment has now come for saying that the Liberian experiment is a failure, and probably a hopeless one. Whites will have to take the places of blacks as District Commissioners. The job is one which our own Colonial Office could tackle ; but regard must be paid to the fact that Liberia was established with money and emigrants from the U.S.A. and that an American company is at present the chief industrial concern in this black Republic. The bright side of a very dark business is that the corrupt Americo-Liberian minority which has hitherto misruled the country is now so completely disgraced that the civilized world, working through the League of Nations, will not permit a relapse into the old iniquities.
