THE TABLET y l Weekly N e w s p a p e r a n d R e v ie w DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the B rief o f His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
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New s and No t e s ................... 373 “ P r im o Goes B a c k ” . . . 377 A L i tu rg ic a l Fallacy . . . 378 The Encyclical L e tte r ( Con
t in u e d )
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R e v ie w s :
C a rd in a l B ou rn e ’s Sermons 382 C e n s o r s h i p ................................3 83 Some P sa lm s in E nglish 383 Ad Ephesios ................... 383 Books Received ................... 384 New Books and Music . . . 384
L enten P astorals :
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B irm ingham ................... 385 Cardiff ................................3 86 Ecclesiastical Education in
L a n c a s h i r e ................................38 6 Catholic E ducation Notes . . . 387 Correspondence :
Rome (O u r Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly L e tte r from ) ................................38 9 F rom The Tablet of E ighty
Y ears A g o ................................3 91 E t C.e t e r a ................................3 92
ENTS
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Obituary ................................39 3 W i l l s ............................................ 394 Coming E v ents ................... 394 The B ishop of Portsm outh’s
Episcopal J u b i l e e ................... 394 St. P a t r i c k ’s D ay Celebra
tio ns . . . 394 E p is c o p a l E ngagements 394 Orb i s Terr arum :
E ngland, Scotland, and W ales ............................... 395 I r e la n d ................................396 A rm enia ................................3 96
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Bolivia and P a ra g u a y . . . 396 B razil ............................ 396 Ceylon ............................ 397 China ............................ 397 F ran ce ............................ 398 Germany ............................ 398 H ungary ............................ 398 Norway ............................ 398 Po r tu g a l ............................ 399 Spain ............................ 399 U.S.A. ............................ 400 Social and P ersonal . . . 400 Ch e s s . . . ............................ 400
NOTANDA
Russia. Christendom at prayer. The Daily Herald’s amazing statement about “ Papal Control.” A specimen (from Bath) of the pro-Muscovite pleas with which British Labour is courting disaster (pp. 373, 374).
Miracles. An English rendering, from The Tablet’s Rome Correspondent, of an address by the Holy Father containing many lessons (p. 389).
“ Primo.” A Tablet leader-writer on the late Dictator’s vindication (p. 377).
Ireland. Sinn Fein’s anti-clericalism comes out. An English cinema-paper’s misrepresentation of the Irish Catholic Bishops (p. 376).
Lenten pastorals. Extracts from the letters of Their Graces the Archbishops of Birmingham and Cardiff (pp. 385-6).
Cardinal Bourne as preacher. A collection of two and twenty sermons reviewed (p. 382).
The strange Freedom of the Free Church Council. How an oligarchy can rule (p. 375).
Saint Patrick’s Day. How the feast was kept, religiously and socially, in England and Wales (p. 394).
NEWS AND NOTES
\X 7TTHOUT any of the pomp and circumstance
’ ’ which would have jarred on penitential austerity, the Sovereign Pontiff has offered the Holy Sacrifice in reparation for the insults heaped upon God’s holy name in Russia and in supplication for our persecuted Russian brethren. Meanwhile, Bolshevik rage against His Holiness knows neither dignity nor common decency. The names by which the widely-circulating Moscow Worker calls the Pope cannot be translated in a self-respecting English paper. We may mention, however, that the Moscow Worker, after attacking “ Archbishops |
Canterburyski and Yorkski,” goes on to Cardinal Bourne—we don’t know why not Bournski or Westminsterski—and adds :
Cardinal Bourne is even more plain. He makes a naked appeal to attack the Soviet’s land. But i f Mr. God’s armies dare cross our frontier, we will give them a warm reception. At home, that pitiable Chairman of the Congregational Union, the Rev. T. Rhondda Williams (with whom The Tablet dealt faithfully in another contest, not long ago) has told a congregation in Brighton that he is taking no active part in “ the agitation ” against the Russian persecution, because he is ” convinced that the agitation in this country will be misunderstood in Russia.” We were not wrong in our earlier estimate of Mr. Williams.
From all parts of the country, we hear that the faithful responded grandly to the appeal for prayers and communions on behalf of Russia. In many places the congregations a t early Mass last Wednesday reminded observers of the nine or ten o’clock Masses on Sundays. I t was our privilege to spend the memorable morning at St. Mary’s, Derby, when Cardinal Bourne was the celebrant a t eight in the morning and the preacher at a Pontifical Mass (sung by the Bishop of Nottingham) later on. Of the Derby sermon we shall say more next week.
To think of Arthur James Balfour as “ Lord ” rather than plain “ Mr.” Balfour never became easy to those of us who knew the great statesman in his prime. Yet his elevation to the peerage and his advancing years had not abated the intellectual power of his “ Mr.” days. Almost to the end, his was a personality to be reckoned with in the inner circles of politics. Arthur Balfour’s name was associated with many administrative and legislative doings concerning which Catholics were disagreed, from the Irish Question to the American Debt, and from Insular Free Trade to the Jewish National Home. All of us, however, recognize his friendliness to Voluntary Schools. In giving us an instalment of justice, Mr. Balfour knew that he would be
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