THE TABLET s i W e ek 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 VE STR IS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
V o l . 155 . N o . 4 ,690.
L o n d o n , M arch 29 , 1930.
S ix p e n c e .
R e g is tere d at the General P o st Off ic e as a New s pape r
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N ew s and No t e s ...................4 05 Dr. Lidgett’ s Half-Loaf . . . 409 Blessed Philip of Arundel at Home ............................ 411 The Encyclical Letter {Con
cluded) ............................ 412 R e v i e w s :
A Perjurer’s Testament... 414 Lancashire Legends . . . 414 Making of the Christian
Mind ............................ 415 Books Received .................416 New Books and Music . . . 416
C O N T E N T S
Ch e s s . . . Catholic Education Notes .. Forty Hours’ Exposition .. New Franciscan Friary in
Oxford ......................... Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
Page .. 418
. 419 . 420
420
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................423 Coming E ve n t s .................. 424 St. Mary’s, D e r b y ................. 424 Monsieur Jacques Maritain 425 E t Ct e t e r a .............................. 426
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L etters to the Ed it o r :
Church Buildings in
Poland ............................ 428 “ The Creation of the
Human Soul ” ....................428 Animals ............................ 429 “ Orbis Terrarum ” . . . 429 From The Tablet of Eighty
Years A g o ............................ 429 Ob it u ary ............................430 Or b i s Terrarum :
England, Scotland, and Wales ............................ 430 Ireland ............................431 Albania ............................ 432 Australia ............................432
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Or b is T errarum (Contd.) :
Ceylon ...................... 432 France ...................... 432 Greece ...................... 434 Holland ...................... 434 The Holy L a n d ................434 Hungary ...................... 434 I t a l y ....................................... 435 Monaco ...................... 435 Nigeria ...................... 435 Spain ...................... 436 Yugo-Slavia ................. 436 W i l l .......................................... 436 Ep is c o p a l Engagements 436 So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 436
NOTANDA
An “ olive branch ” which camouflages a gun-pit. A long Tablet article exposes a plot against Catholic Schools (p. 409).
Water or wine? The Unitarian Inquirer’s odd illustration (p. 406).
“ Persecutions ” in Poland. Count Bennigsen in a Letter to the Editor, and a Tablet note-writer in several paragraphs, examine an untimely and quite untrue story (pp. 405, 428).
A Pugin church restored. The renewed glories o f St. Mary’s, Derby. Cardinal Bourne’ s fine sermon from St. Mary’s pulpit (p. 424).
Blessed Philip’ s “ A t Home ” in his own Arundel. A high week-end fo r the Catholic Theatre (p. 411).
A fte r seven hundred years. The beginning o f the second Franciscan friary at O x fo rd (p. 420).
The future o f Gilling Castle. H ow Ampleforth Abbey has preserved its amenities and also saved an historic mansion from the housebreakers (p. 426).
Monsieur Jacques Maritain in London. The reception at the W a ld orf (p. 425).
W ar books. A note o f warning to those about to visit bookshops or libraries (p. 408).
N E W S A N D N O TE S
T TNEMPLOYMENT in Great Britain is now as bad as it was in 1921, when “ the slump followed the boom .” As Lent still has half its course to run, Catholics ought to ask themselves what self-denials are possible with a view to giving out work. Unfortunately the modern specialization o f industry has gone so far that Unemployment cannot be cured by making odd jobs for the workless. Such jobs, however, can relieve individual cases and even put heart into thousands of men who have come near to despair. That we are unable to do everything is a poor excuse for doing nothing.
New Series. Vol. CXXIII. No. 4,089.
That the Sovereign Pontiff’s activities against the Russian Terror would provoke rage in Soviet-land was to be expected ; and the expected has happened. Pravda, the Soviet organ, has not only called the Pope a thief, a liar and a devil, but has quite seriously declared that the censures o f the Catholic Church against excessively short skirts are explained by the fact that the Pope’s family has large moneyinterests in the cloth trade ! We repeat that this kind o f thing was expected. Catholics were not prepared, however, for the anti-Papal outbursts of the Protestant weeklies in our own country. Both the Methodist Recorder and the Methodist Times have chosen this moment for inflammatory writing about Catholics as persecutors. The dishonesty o f this we shall illustrate in the following Note. Meanwhile we ask a friendly question. When our Protestant brethren try to discount the action of Pope Pius X I by recalling unhappy and different days, are they not also discrediting their own intercession for the persecuted Russians ? It was not by Catholics that Servetus was burnt in Geneva, that Irishmen were massacred in Drogheda, that Scottish Covenanters were tortured and slain. But we Catholics of 1930 would not be so mean as to taunt our Protestant contemporaries with hypocrisy for saying public prayers, the Sunday before last, on behalf o f the poor Russians.
At a moment when all true Christian men should be standing behind or alongside the Pope in his efforts for their tormented Russian brethren, the Methodist Times devotes the whole o f its front page to an article entitled “ Persecution o f Protestants in the Ukraine ; Churches closed by the Roman Catholics.” The vast majority of readers will take this to mean that Catholics have been shutting up Ukrainian Protestant churches ; but, when we have waded through four columns o f type, we find ourselves without one specific instance of such a closing. What we get is :
The Poles have shut up 700 o f the Orthodox churches and are preparing to shut tip 734.
