THE TABLET u4 Weekly N ew sp aper and R ev iew DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
V o l . 156. No. 4,7 15 . L o n d o n , Septem ber 20, 1930.
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News and No t e s .......... 361 In Medio Tutissimus ... 365 Catholic Belgium: 1830
1930 366 Imaginary Law Reports—
No. II ............................ 367 The Prayers After Low Mass 367 E p isco pal Engagements 367 Rev ie w s :
En Clare ............................ 368 Dayton’s Left Wing ... 368 Whose Son is He? ... 369
CONTENTS
New Books and Music ... 370 From The Tablet of Eighty
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Years A g o .............................. 371 Sermons for the Times ... 372 Notes for Musicians ... 374 The Little Sisters of the
Assumption ................. 374 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................377 Ch e s s .......................................... 378 Et Ctetera ...............................379 Books Received ................. 371
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Catholic Education Notes ... 380 “ O. S. B.” 380 Obituary .............................. 381 L etters to the Editor :
To Catholic Old Har
rovians ............................ 381 Orbis Terrarum :
England, Scotland and Wales ............................ 382 Ireland ............................ 382 Australia ............................ 383 Austria ............................ 384 Belgium ............................ 384
Orb is Terrarum (Contd.) :
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British Honduras ... 384 Czechoslavakia ................. 384 France ............................ 384 Germany ............................ 386 Holland ............................ 386 Italy 386 Spain 387 Switzerland 388 U.S.A....................................... 388 Yugoslavia............................ 388 Coming Events ...................388 W il l .......................................... 388 Social and P ersonal . . . 388
NOTANDA
Germany’s new Reichstag. A Tablet leaderwriter distinguishes between Socialists, true and false. The Centre’s heavy task (p. 365).
Malta. Lord Passfield’s blunder. The Tablet makes a personal statement (p. 363).
Belgium’s Great Week. H ow her Catholicity has been the cement o f her nationality (p. 366).
A sidelight on 'J a cobite activity in the reign o f George the First. The Tablet deciphers an important letter, hitherto hidden in numerical code, concerning a plan to restore the Stuart line (p. 368).
W hat happened at Brom ley? D id the Protestants turn the by-election? W ou ld a non-Catholic standard-bearer o f Lord Rothermere’s programme have been elected? (p. 362).
Another Imaginary Law Report. Can ill-will be good-w ill? (p. 367).
The scholarship o f Dayton, U .S .A . A Modernist on St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Patrick (p. 368).
NEW S AND NOTES
T7 XACTLY threescore years ago— the day was a
Tuesday— Rome was entered by General Cadorna’s forces, the Sovereign Pontiff having decided that further resistance b y his little army would involve an unjustifiable sacrifice of human life. From that day almost until our own, the Twentieth o f September has been a public holiday in Italy. Everybody has known, however, that it gave little satisfaction to genuine Romans. The anti-clerical and even anti-Christian masons, whose usurpation o f power in the Eternal City lasted absurdly long, made the most and the worst o f this annual opportunity for affronting the Pope ; and they were encouraged to do so b y anti-Papal influences from other countries, especially our own. But, all the time, the best Italians knew that the Twentieth of
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September had never been a day o f glory for their Fatherland; and now it looks as if they have become magnanimous and sensible enough to look facts in the face. It is stated that the Twentieth o f September will cease to be an official holiday, and that its place will be taken by the Eleventh o f February, when the Accords o f the Lateran were signed and the Roman Question was answered.
Many Catholics of the present generation do not know how copious has been the Church’s prayer for the blessing which was granted on the Eleventh o f February last year. Our younger people have read in their missals that certain prayers were ordered by Pope Leo X I I I ' to be said after Low Mass ; namely a thrice-uttered “ Hail, Mary,” a Salve Regina, and the tw o special prayers Deus, refugium nostrum et virtus, and Sancte, Michael Archangele. It has come to be thought that Pope Leo prescribed this devout postdict to Low Mass merely to foster general piety and edification. This is a mistake. Ascending the pontifical throne as the first Pope to be elected after the overthrow o f the Temporal Power, Leo X I I I had to face not only repeated humiliations but grave obstructions in the exercise o f his pastoral office. He knew that Pontifical Independence was essential to the ministry o f Christ’s Vicar. So the familiar prayers after Low Mass were said, first and foremost, for the restoration of Pontifical Independence and for a settlement o f the Roman Question. Priests, and our older lay-folk, have never forgotten this, and have always joined in the prayers with the Roman Question in mind.
To-day the Roman Question is a Question no longer. But, instead o f abolishing the prayers after every Low Mass to which the whole Church has become accustomed and attached, the Sovereign Pontiff now gloriously reigning has been pleased to direct that those selfsame prayers shall henceforth be prayed pro Russia, “ so that the persecuted children o f Russia may have peace and freedom o f worship.” The Cardinal Archbishop of West
