THE TABLET y l W e e k 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 VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANE AT IS
From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
Vol. 156. No. 4,713. London, September 6, 1930.
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New s and No t e s ...................2 97 The Catholic P r e s s ................. 301 Contardo Ferrini: Theist,
Christian, Catholic . . . 302 A Notable Lancashire Parish 303 R e v i e w s :
Darnley’s Powder Plot . . . 306 Mental Health ................. 306 A Life of Mahomet . . . 307 Not Enough Nuraghi . . . 307 “ With a Purpose” . . . 308 False Lights ................. 308 New Books and Music . . . 308
CONTENTS
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Ch e s s .................................. 310 Cardinal Bourne in Hun
gary ....................................... 310 Books Received ................. 310 Coree spondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from ) .............................. 313 From The Tablet of Eighty
Years A g o .................... 314 Coming Events ...................3 14 E t He t e r a ...................... 315 Liverpool Cathedral . . . 316
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At Catterick C am p ................. 318 Catholic Education Notes . . . 318 Ob it u ary ...............................3 19 London Examination Results 320 L etters to the Ed it o r :
Animal “ R ights” . . . 320 Oberammergau : A Warn
ing ....................................... 320 Or b is Terrarum :
England, Scotland, and Wales ............................ 320 Ireland ............................ 322
Or b is Tjsrbabum (Oontd.) :
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Argentina .............. . . . 322 Austria .............. . . . 322 Bolivia .............. . . . 322 Czecho-Slovakia . . . 322 France .............. . . . 323 Germany .............. . . . 324 Holland .............. . . . 324 I t a l y ......................... . . . 324 Mauritius .............. . . . 324 U.S.A......................... . . . 324 Yugo-Slavia . . . 324 So c ia l and P ersonal 324
NOTANDA
“ T o be with the Pope we must always be with the Bishops.” The H o ly Father’s address to the members o f the pilgrimage from Malta (p. 313).
A t Budapest. A speech in Latin by His Eminence Cardinal Bourne at the great Eucharistic meeting in the Jubilee Hall (p. 310).
Liverpool Cathedral. A report in extenso o f the address delivered in Thingwall Park last Sunday by his Grace the Archbishop to a gathering o f 250,000 Catholics o f the North (p. 316). Concerning a page in the P ost (p. 315).
The Catholic Press Congress at Brussels. A Tablet leader-writer, present at that gathering, discusses, in an interim article, the need fo r an International Bureau and Vigilance Department fo r the strengthening o f the Catholic news service (p. 301).
Walton-le-Dale. A Lancashire antiquary, Mr. George Hull, brings together many facts o f interest in the history o f this ancient and notable parish, apropos o f a coming golden jubilee (p. 303).
From Theism to the Church. The story o f Contardo Ferrini (p. 302).
NEWS AND NOTES
SE P T EM B E R is dear to the oyster-eating gour^ met and to the grosser pork-lover because, as “ a month with an R in i t ,” it brings back his joys. But the September R which interests ourselves most deeply is the R which stands for Return. Les rentrées are many and varied. Children return to school ; and therefore pedagogues return to work. Litigants and their legal representatives prepare for renewed hostilities after the truce o f the Long Vacation. Holiday makers come home— choirs, in those churches where it is the debatable practice to suspend Missa Cantata during August, come back
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to the chancels or western galleries. In a sense, September brings more of a New Year than does January. Therefore we express our earnest hope that the all-round resumption of work may begin in a temper worthy of our nation. As we have often remarked, a Scylla o f unjust optimism imperils our course on one side o f the strait while a Charybdis of premature defeatism dominates the other. It is a moment for prudence, for fortitude, and for gallant adventure.
That the Catholic Church is Universal and not Latin is a fact which has been declared in these Notes again and again. We have not confined ourselves, however, to bare declaration, unsupported by instances. Every Note o f ours on this point has been based on some quite recent experience. We return to the theme for a few moments to-day, because we have seen, since Midsummer, at least a dozen Protestant articles and reports of speeches in which the tiresome old remark that " Romanism is well enough for Latin races ” has been complacently repeated.
Last Sunday we were in Malines, for the cloture of Belgium’s National Eucharistic Congress ; and there we beheld utterly Catholic manifestations of piety such as could not have been excelled in Spain or in Italy or on any Mediterranean island. Wheeled traffic practically ceased. Nineteen houses and shops out of twenty flew flags or hung out tapestries. Many citizens went and came all day through their back doors, so that the front doors might be kept open showing floral shrines across the whole width of the entrance hall. Triumphal arches, crowned with eucharistic emblems and Latin or Flemish legends in honour of Christus Rex, spanned the streets. Even the cafés had shrines raised high above their awnings. There cannot have been less than ten thousand flags flying in Belgium’s primatial city : and when diocesan contingents poured in from all parts o f the country, their moving banners made the city so glorious that one said Vexilla Regis
