THE TABLET Ml W eek 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 ADDIM U S UT IN IN CCEPTIS V E S T R I S CON STAN TER M AN EAT IS

From the Brief o f His Holiness Pitts IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.

V ol. 155. N o . 4,684.

L ondon, F e b r u a r y 15, 1930.

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New s and No t e s ...................1 93 The Whitening Fields . . . 197 The Education Question . . . 198 In Hoc Signo Vinces . . . 199 The Holy Father’s Anni­

versary ............................ 200 R e v i e w s :

“ Humanized— Picturized ” 200 The Objectivity of the

Atonement ................. 202 Matter for Argument . . . 202 Oblomovism ................. 202

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R e v ie w s ( contd.) :

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Beware of the Ape . . . 204 Nicholas Malebranche . . . 204 Books Received ................. 204 New Books and Music . . . 205 Catholic Education Notes . . . 205 From The Tablet of Eighty

Years A g o ............................ 206 Ch e s s ...........................................2 06 Correspondence :

Rome (Our Own Corre­

spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 209

ENTS

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Ob it u ary ................ 212 The Heritage of the Sea 212 The Conference of Higher

Studies .............. 212 Marriage ................ 213 Coming E vents 213 E t CiETERA ................ Or b i s T errarum : 214

England, Scotland and Wales .............. 215 Ireland .............. 216 Canada .............. 216 China .............. 216

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Or b i s T errarum {C ontd.):

Czecho-Slovakia .............. 217 France ......................... 217 India ......................... 218 Italy ......................... 218 Morocco ......................... 218 Natal ......................... 218 South Africa .............. 218 Spain ......................... 218 Switzerland .............. 220 The Ukraine .............. 220 U.S.A.................................... 220 Yugo-Slavia .............. 220 So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 220

NOTANDA The Soviet arraigned before the Christian world. A full translation o f the H o ly Father’s letter (p. 2 0 9 ) ; and a recapitulation, by a Tablet writer, o f some o f the offences against God and man in M oscow ’ s black record (p. 199).

“ The Pope o f the Missions.” In a leading article The Tablet reasons with a few thoughtless Catholics who have not yet awakened to the great place occupied by Foreign Missions in the contemporary life o f the Catholic Church (p. 197).

Cardinal Gasparri’s retirement. H igh honours conferred upon H is Eminence by Italy and France. The new Cardinal Secretary o f State (p. 194).

The anniversary o f the Sovereign Pontiff’s Consecration. Many countries assist once more, by their diplomatic representatives, at a celebration at Westminster Cathedral (p. 200).

Some notes from Spain in which the Editor o f The Tablet corrects, from immediate and first-hand experience, the idea that the fall o f the Dictatura has led to a troublous state o f things (p. 194).

A Nonconform ist Minister has something to say about the Church which is “ romping forward ” (p. 214).

NEWS AND NOTES T^ROM the Vicar o f Christ a clarion call has rung throughout Christendom, a call to supplication on behalf of the victims o f persecution in Russia ; and it has found responsive echoes in every civilized land. In the letter addressed by His Holiness to Cardinal Pompili, of which The Tablet prints a translation from its Rome Correspondent, the Sovereign Pontiff has uttered a protest, stem and weighty, against the Red T e r r o r ; and he bids not the faithful alone, but the whole Christian world, to join him in prayer and reparation to the Divine Heart for the sacrileges perpetrated by the Soviet power. What those sacrileges are, and with what attendant horrors they have been accompanied, is once more summarized, in another column, by a Tablet writer whose pen has found a special apostolate in making known the truth about Moscow’s iniquities. _________

In the chorus of approval of the Holy Father’s action sounded this week in the British Press, a swift and loud note came from the Morning Post, a journal foremost in the campaign to enlist public opinion against Soviet atrocities. Three words only : “ The Pope Leads,” stood out boldly last Monday morning on a poster which thus spoke to the hurrying crowds the fact that there was a leader and a cause in which to lead. In the paper itself, the chief editorial, h eaded : “ The Pope Leads Christendom,” welcomed the Pontiff’s “ high authentic note of righteous wrath.” The welcome, however, was tinged with r e g re t : “ Our chief regret is that the Church o f England has not been led by her leaders in the spirit which inspires the Papal message ” ; and the Post then administered a chiding to the Anglican Primate, closing with the words : " W e shall not, in this case, complain if the Archbishop o f Canterbury follows the lead of Rom e .” At the respective Convocations o f Canterbury and York last Wednesday both Dr. Lang and Dr. Temple expressed Anglican indignation ; and members of the Church of England are invited to make Sunday, March 16, a day o f prayer on behalf of the victims o f the persecution.

What effect will the Pope’s protest and its wide endorsement have upon our own Government ? Many persons both inside and outside the Church are likely to have framed that question in their minds during the past few days. At the time of the Genoa Conference the Powers there concerned were implored by His Holiness to make religious freedom in Russia a condition precedent to diplomatic recognition. That advice was not followed ; but Mr. Henderson and those for whom he speaks know perfectly well that “ where there’s a will, there’s a

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