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Newman and the Fathers
Authors: Chapman H. John 
Published: July 2007

In 1850 John Henry Newman wrote: ‘Even when I was a boy, my thoughts were turned to the early Church, and especially to the early Fathers, by the perusal of the Calvinist John Milner’s Church History, and I have never lost, I have never suffered a suspension of the impression, deep and most pleasurable, which his sketches of St. Ambrose and St. Augustine left on my mind. From that time the vision of the Fathers was always, to my imagination, may say, a paradise of delight to the contemplation of which I directed my thoughts from time to time, whenever I was free from the engagements proper to my time of life.’Brought up as an Evangelical, he studied the Fathers through Protestant spectacles even as late as his twenty-eighth year, when he was already under the influence of Whately and beginning to reach out to idea of a National Church with teaching powers and Sacraments. So he tells us:‘When years afterwards (1828) I first began to read their works with attention and on system, I busied myself much in analysing them, and in cataloguing their doctrines and principles; but when I had thus proceeded very carefully and minutely for some space of time, I found, on looking back on what I had done, that I had scarcely done anything at all; I found that I had gained very little from them, and I came to the conclusion that the Fathers I had been reading, who were exclusively those of the ante-Nicene period, had very little in them. At the time I did not discover the reason of this result, though, on the retrospect, it was plain enough: I had read them simply on Protestant ideas, analysed and catalogued them on Protestant principles of division, and hunted for Protestant doctrines and usages in them.
The Future of India
Authors: Foster P. D. 
Published: July 2007

In a general picture of world bewilderment before problems which have grown beyond the grasp of responsible statesmen, the bewilderment of Britain concerning India is peculiarly tragic, peculiarly ludicrous. Picture an aged burglar who, many years ago, on entering a house by force and stealth, found it occupied solely by naughty children at continual blows, with no one to control or smack them; picture him reformed and, Smee-like, turned governess, guiding the young into more orderly ways; picture him finally debating his position with the elder children, fully grown, eager now to control their own prosperity, rebellious against his dominion; picture his anxieties; are they really old enough, are not these tantrums proof of youthful lack of balance, are there not other burglars abroad? What will happen when, as still occurs, the young ones start to pull each others’ hair?Dr. Zacharias’ book is a fairly detailed account of the growing up—socially and politically—of modern India— with special attention paid to the agitation of Congress against British domination. As a Jew by birth and a Catholic by belief Dr. Zacharias claims impartiality, but he makes no secret of his whole-hearted preference for Congress and is certainly not impartial in his account of events such as the Partition of Bengal or the Amritsar Massacre.
Psychoanalysis and Catholicism
Authors: Elrington Aidan 
Published: July 2007

A point that frequently strikes the outsider about psychoanalysis and psychoanalysts is its inaccessibility to logical argument. This is not said by way of reproach, but as a statement of fact. Whenever a person raises a difficulty about psychoanalysis he is countered with the remark ‘you are putting up a resistance,’ and treated as the analyst treats the patient (making difficulties).Now, it struck me, that something similar occurs in regard to Catholicism, by which I mean, not only or merely the official teaching of the Church, but also all those currents of thought, feeling, and emotion which go to make up the life of Catholicism, a life which at times becomes so exuberant as to be considered detrimental to the truth and unity of the Church, and so has to be pruned. (As, for instance, in the outbursts of religious enthusiasm, devotions, cults, etc., which, only after careful examination are tolerated or permitted, and finally perhaps incorporated officially .... others get suppressed, but often linger on).
A Catholic Group Movement?
Authors: Bousfield M. A. 
Published: July 2007

There probably never was a time in the history of the Church when it was not true to say that the great thing needed was a well-instructed laity. To say that the need to-day is for teaching is trite, yet there is a sense in which it is perhaps unprecedentedly urgent that there should be teaching, and more and better teaching of the Faith than there ever was before. For there certainly never was a time when there was so much and such unescapable teaching going on about everything but the Faith, and against the Faith. The competition for human attention is so clamorous that many minds are simply stunned by it and rush headlong into the thing that gives them the best emotional outlet without ever stopping to think at all.It is not easy to make people think in these days, because of a habit of superficiality and unreceptiveness which is partly the result of an instinctive mental self-defence in this welter of conflicting propaganda. The sermon has largely lost its appeal and its power, not because people are hardened but because their minds are so full of the clamour and racket that they have lost the power of attention. The people with a definite need may hear in Church or on a C.E.G. pitch something that answers to their need, but the majority, who are not making any particular demand of their religion, may never develop the knowledge they acquired at school or when they were instructed.
Ground-Floor Religion
Authors: Herring A. G. 
Published: July 2007

It there is a common bond among all the non-Catholic sects it is probably their opposition to the Church; and if there is a similar bond between the various Philosophies ranged against Catholicism to-day it would seem to be their opposition to the idea of a Transcendent God. Many are willing to admit a Spirit of some kind, but Immanent in Nature, in Men, in History, or in Time. And this is true not only of those whose main concern is with life and evolution, such as Bergson and his later followers, but also of those who hold that the one reality is History or the operation of mind, such as Croce and Idealists of the extreme type. We will, therefore, examine some of these systems to see, if possible, the reasons for this condition of affairs.Among the many causes there can be no doubt that one of them is the present-day tendency to exalt Experience at the expense of Reason. One bad effect of this is a loss of objectivity, which is well illustrated by a story of the war when a returned soldier was convicted of a glaring contradiction in relating his adventures. His retort was: ‘Oh, thought you wanted experiences, not a blooming argument.’ For while Experience may satisfy an individual of the existence of an Immanent Spirit, reason is required to demonstrate to others the reality of a Transcendent God. As Maritain says, ‘it is in virtue of that intellectual operation which is the activity most profoundly distinctive of man, namely ratiocination, that it (the existence of God) becomes evident to us.’
Take Care of the Pence
Authors: Blake Gerald 
Published: July 2007

It’s an unusual experience for a community to awake one morning to find the only tangible medium of exchange is the cash in the pockets of its citizens, especially when the citizens had no warning that it would be a good idea to have enough cash in their pockets to provide for the situation. That’s what happened in New York six months ago and that’s the state of affairs that obtained there, the financial centre of the world, according to some, for more than a week.It’s a little difficult to convey the sensation derived from reading the announcement of a banking moratorium. Most people take their banks pretty much for granted. But imagine yourself of a morning entering your own dining room, ready to sit down to a nice hot breakfast. You open your morning paper. Large headlines inform you that, not only your own bank, but every bank in the country is closed for an indefinite period. Quickly you make a mental calculation of whatever small amount of money you have on your person. There’s that ten-bob note, and then there’s about three-and-six—no, that’s right, you spent ninepence on the way home—that’s two-and-ninepence in small change.
The Field of Blenheim
Authors: Hudson Derek 
Published: July 2007

On a sunny morning in August I walked out of Donauworth and took the straight tree-lined road which leads up the Danube valley towards Ulm. The time was still one for harvesting; peasants dotted the wide and open plain, piling bullock waggons with their sheaves, or eating the midday ration in the shade.A warm silence hung over contented fields. Geese gossiping down the village street, a white church rising among its cottages—these were the things of yesterday and tomorrow, the gentle ornaments of peace.In my mind’s eye, as drew nearer the battlefield of Blenheim, I saw other and less soothing symbols: English red-coats, lively with the rumour of action, tramping along the same road, with their heavy cannon lumbering behind.From the church tower at Tapfheim, on the evening of August the twelfth, 1704, Marlborough and Prince Eugene were watching the infantry of France, as they moved without suspicion of alarm to their encampment on the vast plain before them. And even I, walking through Tapfheim in the year 1933, could sense a little of their exaltation.
A New Catholic Genius
Authors: Sencourt Robert 
Published: July 2007

‘With Uriel: a hymn in praise of Divine Immanence,’ said The Times on July 28th, 1933, ‘Mr. W. Force Stead takes his place among the foremost of to-day’s poets. Uriel may be called a philosophical poem, but it springs radiantly lyrical from an immediacy of experience. There is abundant testimony both to faith and to poetry in this lovely work.’On August 17th, 1933, Mr. Stead was received into the Catholic Church. The week before he had resigned his post as Chaplain and Fellow of Worcester College. For three years he had been the only American to hold a Fellowship in Oxford; he had begun his career in the American Consular Service, after a course in the University of Virginia at Charlotteville—a course which is still remembered there. Though he has never fully given up his American citizenship or lost his love for the United States, it could hardly be said that Mr. Stead is typical of his republic: he is, it is true, devoted to the United States, but his loyalties are centred in the traditions of the Southern aristocracy from which he sprang: he is a fervent Tory and monarchist; and he has found most of his inspiration in Europe, and especially in the English countryside.
Some Thoughts on Maturity
Authors: Meredith Frances 
Published: July 2007

Children look towards adult life as to a Golden Age. ‘When I am grown-up I shall do just as I like.’ ‘I shall never be naughty again.’ They believe that truly adult life is reached when their majority is attained. Working-class children grow up sooner and for them the age of independence begins at fourteen when they go out into the world as wage earners.Before adult years have come the dream has faded to some extent. Adolescents see with a clear eye and realize that their elders are not perfect beings. They notice the hasty tempers, the jealousies, and the lack of truth to which so many grown-ups are prone. They see that ‘naughtiness’ can be found in the adult as well as in the young, though often the children are punished for the faults that their elders excuse or ignore in themselves.Maturity is not a state to which all adults inevitably attain. It is the possession of the few, and there are many who go through life with the outlook and reactions of children. This childishness must not be confounded with a childlike attitude. It is rather the immaturity of childhood without the charm of that state that is displayed and this is especially true of neurotics.
Divertimento for Harmonium
Authors: Gilby Thomas 
Published: July 2007

The white gate at the end of the privet hedge is half-open, and you go up the path. Under the hanging wire basket of moss and geraniums in the porch, an Aberdeen cocks his head at you, his little legs stiff, his tail going in little jerks. Through the open doors of the garage the back of a car can be seen; an Austin Twelve, you decide, and this year’s model. The dog moves aside, sniffs at your heels, prepared to be friendly. You scratch him behind the ear, ring the bell, and are shown into a room.You notice a large map of Palestine on the wall, and examine a group over the fireplace, young men in high collars, tight trousers, and faces that make you think of Three Men in a Boat. There are two clergymen in the middle of the front row, an old one with gaiters, a younger one with a moustache holding a splay-legged fox terrier with two heads. A time exposure, presumably, and the dog must have moved. A coloured picture also catches your attention. A figure in a white robe against an Indian background; the face is mild, the hair long and golden. You remember the smells of the bazaar, the fierce eyes, the armoured car nosing its way carefully but authoritatively through the crowd. And what’s this? a photograph of the statue of a Dominican. Yes, so it is, Giordano Bruno. And you smile as you think of the simple Romans who cross themselves reverently as they pass. Like the Holy Year pilgrims, with their rosaries in the temple of Mithras under the church of San Clemente.
Unemployment from Inside
Authors: Howard Edmund 
Published: July 2007

The fifth volume of The New Survey of London Life and Labour and The Unemployed Man are two books which deal with opposite aspects of life among the working classes in London to-day. The former describes the employed working man and relates the conditions of his employment, his wages and mode of living. The latter gives an account of the man without a job, the psychological reaction upon him of his position and the effect of the system of Unemployment Insurance in mitigating his pitiful state.The New Survey of London Life and Labour is a modern version of the great survey initiated by Charles Booth in 1886, the results of which fill seventeen volumes under the general title of Life and Labour of the People in London. This grand inquest had revealed the horrible fact that during a period of unrivalled national prosperity as many as thirty per cent, of the inhabitants of London— more than a million men, women and children—were living at or beneath the bare level of subsistence. This discovery and the other revelations which emerged from Charles Booth’s survey had a very pressing influence on subsequent social legislation. And to anyone acquainted with the social work of the last thirty years the importance of such a survey in estimating the necessity and incidence of reform must be too evident to require emphasis. The method of investigation employed by Booth was, for those days, exceptionally scientific, but the technique made use of in compiling the New Survey is of a kind to give more accurate results.
Anti Communism is Not Enough
Authors: Clayton Joseph 
Published: July 2007

Perils from without assail the Catholic Church openly throughout the centuries. Perils from within threaten more insidiously.At the close of the Middle Ages the invading armies of Islam threatened continually the faith of Christendom, and the good estate of the Holy See; while within the seeds of disaffection, neglected because unseen, ignored so blandly and when visible so virulently denounced, germinated in every land of Europe north of the Alps and Pyrennees. The Mohammedan hosts were driven back. Rome was sacked by the Lutheran troops of the Catholic emperor, the success of Protestantism accomplished the break-up of the Catholic unity of Christendom.The peril from without, quite a real peril, failed to overthrow Christendom, and in Europe (though hardly in Asia, and certainly not in Africa) the faith of Islam has steadily diminished. But Protestantism, the peril from within (for the men who made the Protestant Reformation were all Catholic priests or Catholic laymen), survives throughout the world, and is for ever threatening the faith and morals of Christian people.
The Waste of the Practical Reason
Authors: Trevett Reginald F. 
Published: July 2007

Those who are familiar with the writings of M. Jacques Maritain will remember his summary of the ancient and mediaeval teaching upon art. The foundation of these doctrines was tha distinction between the speculative and the practical reason. In the first category were placed philosophy and pure science, in the second, action and making. Any man seeking knowledge, directing his actions or making objects, was equipped for his task by a habitus, a virtue which (perfecting and directing his natural gifts) could be perfected itself by correct training and right use.The maker, artist, or artisan, working in matter, gave it a shape or form already conceived in his mind. The genesis and perfection of this spiritual form depended upon the end in view, the degree of habitus in the artist and his sincerity in the use of his gift. The form once achieved, the difficult work of individualising it in matter demanded skill, discipline, technique. The end and principle of the whole operation, however, was the intellectual form without which no art was possible. The genesis of the form requiring a true intellectual habitus, a right appreciation of the end in view; the shaping of the matter demanding a just estimate of its possibilities and an adequate ordering of the means to the end, it is clear the basis of the classical theory of making is the reason. Reason being the distinctive mark of man, we may qualify this doctrine as essentially human.
Painting and the Public
Authors: Gill Eric 
Published: July 2007

My immortal fellow guest once said that it was ‘funnier to have a nose than to have a Roman nose.’ There are many things like that. For example: it is funnier to be a Catholic than a Roman Catholic—that is to say it is funnier that a man should have any religion than that he should have the true one. Again it is much funnier to wear trousers than to wear Bond Street trousers, and when I sit eating my lunch in a Lyons teashop it becomes abundantly clear that it is much funnier to eat anything at all than it is to eat even the Lyons’ portion.But, thinking of this meeting, perhaps the funniest thing of all funny things is the thing called art. It is funnier that there should be art than that there should be any particular kind of art, however fantastic.And this is specially true in these days. The word Art of course means first of all simply skill—human skill. Thus we have the art of the dentist and that of the pickpocket and thus we have the word ‘artful,’ which is much the same as ‘crafty.’ But there is a special sense of the word art which we are concerned with here and in this sense art is not mere skill, though it involves skill (for nothing can be done or made without at least a little skill).
Ludovico Necchi and Italian Catholic Action
Authors: Hughes Henry Louis 
Published: July 2007

In 1886 the recognised leader of the Catholic laity in Italy, Giuseppe Toniolo, Professor of Political Economy at the University of Pisa, wrote as follows:‘True civilisation, which should not be confused with mere material progress, flowed out of the wounded side of the dying Christ when he inaugurated on Mount Calvary a new era of self-denial and charity. Only an imperfect preparation for civilisation existed in the world before the Cross. Outside the shadow of the Cross can only be found either the complete negation, or the gradual decomposition of civilisation. In union with the Cross the history of the advance of civilisation is synonymous with that of the progress of Catholicity.’
The Challenge of Communism
Authors: Clayton Joseph 
Published: July 2007

By this time we are all aware of the Communist ‘peril’ and ‘menace.’ But is it so clear who is imperilled? what is menaced? The fearsomeness of the unknown attends the very words ‘peril’ and ‘menace we feel that danger lurks unseen, that a hidden hand has sinister designs upon our pockets. Or alternately, the hidden hand is disbursing large sums of money sent from Moscow, much in the same manner as ‘the man in the moon,’ or a similar mysterious agent appeared at parliamentary elections to corrupt the enlightened but very limited electorate in the good old days of Eatanswill.If we do not lie awake at nights pondering how the ‘peril’ can be averted and the ‘menace’ overthrown, it is from no lack of honest endeavour. We must be scared, it seems, if we are to realise what the Communists are after. We are to be scared fix:and after that told precisely where the danger lies. ‘wants to make your flesh creep,’ said the Fat Boy to old Mrs. Wardle in the arbour before he indicated the enormities of Miss Rachel. So we are to be thoroughly frightened by suggestions of secret conspiracy and dark plot, and then we shall be ready to go any lengths in the suppression of Communist propaganda and the imprisonment of Communists. The feeling that a plot exists is sufficient to create the vision of plotters, busy and all around us waiting the signal to commence their foul and bloody work. (Catholics of all people know what it means to be the victims of panic. In the atmosphere of fog and suspicion, how many of our Catholic martyrs were done to death!)
Notes on the Month
Authors: Jacobin  
Published: July 2007

Immediate action. The state of affairs twenty years hence is difficult to conjecture. Those who foresee the break-up of Industrialism are preparing quite logically to go back to the land. Under the circumstances it is beside the point to criticise the smallness of their beginnings or to ask how townsmen can possibly be turned into successful farmers. But a general crash is far from being the only possibility. The centre of gravity is shifting from the congested industrial town, but whether it will move into the country or stop in the outer suburb is another matter. After all, there are various schemes which claim to be able to save our present system of production, although they would completely overhaul the financial system. For this reason, Mr. Foster’s suggestion in the present number of Blackfriars for Catholic housing associations deserves the most serious consideration.An economic staff. The Army has specialist officers whose function is to adjust fighting power to the economic situation. The Church, too, has its specialists; but, very naturally, they are mostly concerned with principles and diagnosis of conditions. There is room for a more immediate and utilitarian effort. Local government affects our lives more than Parliament does, and although priests are often closely in touch with local developments, there seems to be a place for a council which would inform and advise diocesan authorities on such things as future town planning, the movement of industry, the possibility of a Catholic housing scheme at some strategic point. This is work for laymen, a form of Catholic action which did things, instead of debating social theory. For the times are too urgent to wait for many theoretical conclusions; the centre of Catholic life is a church, and what is a church unless the Catholics are grouped around it?