THE TABLET
N W e ek ly N ew sp a p e r a n d R e v ie w DUM V O B I S GRATULAMUR A N IM O S E T IA M ADDIMUS UT IN IN CCEPTIS V E S T R I S CON STAN TER M AN EAT IS
From the Brief o f H is Holiness Pius I X to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
Vol. 156. No. 4,704.
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New s and No t e s ......... 1 “ A Spade a Spade” . . . 5 A New Entente .......... 7 Documents Concerning Malta— I I ................... 9 R e v ie w s :
The Bishop of Newport 10 Will Training .......... 12 Gustav F ren s s en ........ 12 La G ouvernante........ 13
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New Books and Music . . . 14 Books Received .............. 15 Ch e s s ........................................ 16 From The Tablet of Eighty
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Religious Policy . . . 20 E t C/e t e r a ............................ 21 Catholic Education Notes . . . 22 Lord FitzAlan on Malta . . . 24 The Converts’ Aid Society 26 Or b i s T errarum :
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NOTANDA A new Entente Cordiale. H ow French and English Papists signed an A c t o f Federation on Montmartre’s holy hill (p. 7).
Malta. The Preface to the Vatican White-book (p. 9). Lord FitzAlan’s speech fo r the defence on an imperfect brief (p. 24). A Tablet article (p. 5). Professor de Zulueta’s fine letter (p. 2).
Another great function in St. Peter’s. The canonization o f the Canadian Martyrs, o f Cardinal Bellarmino, and o f Teófilo da Corte (p. 20).
Education. Manchester follow s Liverpool in a great Catholic demonstration o f solidarity (p. 26). Some comments by The Tablet’s Educational Correspondent on the failure o f the Bill (p. 22).
Has Moscow had a change o f heart? The M orning P o s t ’ s weakly-grounded hope that the persecution o f religion in Russia is over. The Tablet’s word o f warning (p. 1 ).
Blessed Anne Line, Martyr. A coming celebration in her native town (p. 2 1 ).
The new Rector o f the English College at Rome (p. 32).
Noteworthy conversions from Protestantism (P- 21). ' _________________
NEWS AND NOTES
\ X T HILE enemies of the Holy See are again tirading
' ' against what they call “ the futile medievalism” o f the Church, men o f exceptional intelligence and knowledge (such as the three scholars o f whom our “ Et Castera ” columns have something to say this week) are still humbly and gratefully entering her kindly gates. As for the converts of older standing and the so-called “ born ” Catholics, if anyone knows the truth about Catholic liberty and Catholic discipline it is they ; and their devotion to the Sovereign Pontiff waxes greater every year. We have used the title “ Sovereign Pontiff ” ; but
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it is significant that the immeasurably more frequent name for the Pope is “ our Holy Father.”
Last Sunday— the Feast o f SS. Peter and Paul— was a Day of Prayer for His Holiness and a Day the more remarkable inasmuch as the prayer was nearly everywhere spontaneous and informal rather than commanded and regimented. In Paris there were wonderful doings o f which a returned pilgrim gives an account on another page o f The Tablet. The sacred hill o f Montmartre beheld a reunion of French and English Catholics on the Petrine basis appropriate to the Feast. Our fine Westminster Society for the Maintenance of the Apostolic See— which “ maintains ” the Pope in his teachings and is not content with offering him money aid alone— literally made common cause with the French Volontaires du Pape. Parchments were signed and sealed, binding those concerned in a close union of prayer and action for the Pope.
To far too many English-speaking folk, Montmartre is an unhallowed name. They know only that garish and strident belt in which Britons and Americans sheepishly support dull haunts of com mercialized " pleasure.” But the true Mount of the Martyrs is crowned by a glorious temple, vowed to the Sacred Heart of our Divine Redeem er; and it was there that the faithful o f England and of France pledged their troth. For centuries, Protestants hoped to wean France from Rome by working up Gallicanism into open schism. Last Sunday the failure of these efforts was emphasised by the fact that Catholic France and Catholic England knit themselves together with bonds not iust generally Catholic but specifically Papal. The French, no less than ourselves, are Maintainers of the Apostolic See ; and we, no less than they, are Volontaires du Pape.
All of us hope that the Morning Post is accurate in its announcement that the persecution o f religion in Russia is over ; but many o f us fear that the
