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Some Sicknesses and Their Saints
Authors: Gibbons John 
Published: July 2007

While St. Vitus’s Dance stands in this twentieth century as a term perfectly well recognised, a query as to St. Hubert’s Disease would probably puzzle even most doctors in a sort of ‘How much do you know’ medical examination. But time was when it was quite a common synonym for Hydrophobia. The Saint, of course, was converted while in the hunting field, and so became the Patron of Hunters and incidentally of their Hounds. ‘His’ disease, then, was the ailment that occasionally attacks the pack. And this is only one out of plenty of similar instances.In the Middle Ages ‘radegoundes’ was a recognised and very prevalent disease. It comes over and over again in the literature of the day, a notable instance being a reference in Piers Plowman. A kind of running sore, it owes its popular name to the patron saint of Poitiers, in France, Ste. Radegonde, wife of Clotaire the First. So many cures were effected at her tomb—later sacked by the Huguenots in 1562— that the ailment itself began to be called by the name of the saint. In precisely the same way St. Avertin’s Disease was an ancient name for epilepsy, so many miraculous cures having been wrought at the tomb of this saint, a friend, by the way, of our own St. Thomas of Canterbury, that in old French the word ‘aver-tineux’ figures as meaning epileptics. While on the subject, one might remember that the same malady had two other popular names, ‘St. John’s Evil’ often standing for epilepsy, and ‘St. Mathuron’s Disease’ being one more title sometimes found in the old medical books.
The Anonymous Article
Authors: Swinstead A. E. H. 
Published: July 2007

During the last year or so, English Catholics have been subjected to a good deal of criticism. Their taste, their devotions, their religious education, their papers, have all been weighed and found wanting. Criticism is no bad thing, and Catholic criticism of Catholics is no new thing; for a certain measure of criticism is a sign of life, and, as Père Brou has well said of the Church, ‘Sa grande tradition, si l’on peut le dire, c’est de vivre.’ But the criticism to which I am now referring has this to distinguish it, that it is anonymous. No doubt, that is no new thing, either; but whether it is desirable is worth considering. We are told that an anonymous article is judged on its merits, as things should be judged; and we are led to presume that the signed article is judged with too much reference to the name, distinguished or not, that is appended to it.The argument has had the support of some respectable names, and it might, at first sight, seem to have the authority of The Imitation of Christ, where it is written : ‘Non quaeras quishaec dixerit, sed quid dicatur, attende.’ But the quotation occurs in the chapter on the reading of Holy Scripture, and the attitude is recommended just because the scriptures are to be taken, not at their face value, but on the authority of God. And whatever the authority behind the opinion, it can hardly blame us for considering it on its merits, as, in fact, it bids us do.
Judas
Authors: Maynard Theodore 
Published: July 2007

‘Where are you going, Judas,With that rope in your hand?’To scatter what God will not forgiveTo the dark wind and the sand.’‘Why is your purse empty, Judas,Dangling light and loose?’‘Silver I had; but all earth’s goldCould not ransom Him from the Jews.’‘Could you not cry for mercy, Judas?His kindness has no scope.’‘The kindest things that I shall find Are a tall tree and a rope.’‘Oh fool! fool! Even this sin, Judas,He will pardon from His cross.’‘The death that saves all other men Is my eternal loss.’‘Wait, and you shall see Him risen, Judas.’‘His eyes would be to me a rod—For I have betrayed an innocent man.’‘Nay, Judas, only a God.’Theodore Maynard.
The Church To-Day in Norway
Authors: Lorentzen Veronica 
Published: July 2007

The Scandinavian countries, and not least of them Norway, have long remained strongholds of Lutheranism. That is, in outward appearance, for the Norwegian State Church counts among its members an unusually large proportion of formal adherents, people who are baptised and ‘confirmed’ in the Lutheran State Church, but who remain for the rest of their lives totally indifferent in religious matters, never attending Church services, or otherwise manifesting any interest whatsoever.This general apathy has now begun to react on the State Church in a marked degree. Methodists and other Free Church sects have steadily increased their influence and numbers, and have drawn over a large proportion of members, who are recruited from the same classes as in England, namely from among prosperous tradesmen and the best section of the working class population.Catholicism, on the other hand, here as elsewhere, makes her primary appeal to the intellectual section of the community, but as the first movement broadens and deepens, she sweeps with her people of all ranks and conditions.The first establishment of the Catholic Church in Norway was made in 1856, in Oslo, then Christiania, under the patronage of St. Olaf, the saint who brought Christianity to the heathen Norsemen. Since then Churches and chapels have sprung up in the larger towns throughout the country, and Norway numbers at present nineteen Catholic churches and twenty chapels.
Cardinal Bourne's Congress Addresses
Authors: Zulueta A. de 
Published: July 2007

The success of the recent Ninth National CatholicCongress, held at Westminster, marking as it did the celebration of the Centenary of Catholic Emancipation in this country, lends an added interest to this handy little volume, which contains the pith and kernel of those principles so steadily upheld and so well expounded on innumerable public occasions by His Eminence of Westminster.Catholics in this country have come to look with confidence and affection towards Cardinal Bourne during the twenty-six years in which he has occupied the chief ecclesiastical position amongst them. They can safely look to him not only for the maintenance of Christian principles, but also for opportuneness in the statement of them and wisdom in their application. To these qualities His Eminence adds others peculiarly suited to his position in this country, strong but intelligent feeling for England and the British Empire, and a thorough sympathy with the English character. He is a thorough Englishman, most suited to guide the destinies of the Church in England at a time when Catholics are becoming increasingly numerous and increasingly free to take an active part in the life of their country and of the Empire. To start from this trait, we cannot fail to notice in the volume before us how His Eminence identifies himself throughout with the national life in its widest manifestations, whilst on the other hand his international outlook and above all his position in the Universal Church do not permit him to remain blind to the particular limitations of the British race and to the dangers to Catholic principles which have arisen at the present stage of British civilization.
Bored and Entranced
Authors: Dimnet Ernest 
Published: July 2007

A ParableA few years ago I travelled from Montreal to Quebec in a Pullman car which, strange to say, never contained more than three passengers till we reached our destination. Opposite me sat a McGill girl—a junior I inferred from her conversation with two other girls who were seeing her off On the other side of the aisle sat a young man, one of those handsome, perfectly well-tailored youths, so attractive that you are willing to ascribe genius to them as well as a host of minor perfections. This demi-god was reading. The McGill girl looked across at hjm for some time, till their eyes met. ‘Reading?’ she half queried, after an interval of mute presentation leading to a simultaneous smile. ‘Yes,’ a very uncultivated voice answered, ‘what I want is a love story with a kid in it and lots of devilry in him.’ The book was handed across the aisle, and the girl began to read. The voice had been an anti-climax, and so evidently was the book, yet the girl read on, skimming and skipping. After a while my conscience smote me, and, bending over the love-and-kid-story, I whispered : ‘Have you ever read Vanity Fair?’ The girl looked up, flushed a little, and answered : ‘Dickens?’‘No,’ I said, ‘Thack------’ ‘Oh! Thackeray, ofcourse! No, it was not on our list.’What would I not have given to have Vanity Fair in my valise, open it at random, and watch the girl’s delight at Becky Sharp’s introduction to Sir Pitt’s town house and to his immortal charwoman!
Content and Happiness:
Authors: Maynard Theodore 
Published: July 2007

‘Man should aim, at a happiness too great for man.’—Aristotle.A crust of bread,Brook water, and, for condiment,Wild berries, rushes in a cave for bed—With these my soul could be content.But when I seeThe kindled stars upon the skies That stretch to desolate infinity,I tremble, and tears cloud my eyes.My hands reach out To happiness, the unattained :This palace for my pleasure, that redoubt For my protection . . . Naught is gained!Like other foolsI brood and strain to foil my fate,Greed using wrath and cunning as its tools To force life’s adamantine gate.In vain! The.lockHolds fast. But ah! the skies still draw My spirit as an eagle of the rock To heights of mystery and of awe.Content, was I,With rushes, water, berries, bread?Content. But happy only in the sky With God’s fierce bosom as my bed.Theodore Maynard.
St. Thomas on the Incarnation
Authors: Walker Luke 
Published: July 2007

There is only one way of making supernatural truths manifest, only one way of showing such truths to be truths, and that is by showing them to be vouched for, and therefore revealed, by God. If they are really truths, before they were revealed, they were, as being supernatural, known to the Divine Wisdom alone, and we can come to the knowledge of them only by getting His word for them and taking them on His authority. Before, then, we can accept such truths as truths, the assertion of them must come to us clothed in some way with the light of His divine authority.By adequate signs the Divine Wisdom showed His presence in the Christian Faith, showed that what was asserted in the preaching of that Faith originated from Him; from Him, too, the inspiration of those who preached it. These teachers of the Christian Faith taught, not only by the spoken, but also by the written word. This written word was later gathered together to form what we know as the New Testament. Hence what is taught in the New Testament comes to us invested with divine authority.
The Reformation in Ireland
Authors: Clayton Joseph 
Published: July 2007

The course of the Reformation in England—’ that catastrophe in the history of Christian civilization —the Reformation so-called ‘—is plain sailing, the proceedings in the alteration of religion are clear. It is otherwise with Ireland. Confusion and obscurity attend the narrative of events and historians of the period have for the most part earned an advocate’s reward and left truth to take care of itself. The work of Father Ronan is therefore the more valuable, and this second volume, which covers the critical years from Elizabeth’s accession till the death of James Fitzmaurice, is of high importance.The story itself is dreary enough. It was ‘an age of insincerity, inconsistency, bluffing and temporising on all sides.’ Pride and avarice are exhibited, and at their worst; treachery and murder most foul are recurring incidents in the history of the relations of the English government to the people of Ireland. The feuds of the great Norman-Irish chieftains, of the houses of Butler and Geraldine in especial, the overweening pride of Shane O’Neill—whose patriotism is not to be denied, though Father Wolf, S.J., the papal commissary, wrote him down ‘a cruel, impious heretical tyrant’ —the nominal submission of chiefs and nobles to the sovereignty of Elizabeth, the acceptance by seven of the Irish bishops of the Elizabethan supremacy and the further acceptance by five of the seven of the Protestant order of service—all these conspicuous things make melancholy reading. But despite the failure of the Irish chiefs to stand together in the presence of a common enemy and despite the utter misery and savagery of the people, the Elizabethan ‘reform’ had no success in Ireland.
Daniel O'connell and Ellen Courtenay
Authors: Gwynn Denis 
Published: July 2007

To discuss the private life of Daniel O’Connell as though it required vindication is, especially around the centenary year of the Catholic Emancipation Act, an impertinence which would have called forth a scathing rebuke from the Liberator himself, if he had not passed beyond the range of those bitter controversies that saddened all his later public life. But a vindication has, in fact, become requisite in view of the extraordinary and quite gratuitous attack upon O’Connell’s moral reputation which was made a few years ago in a book which has attracted a great deal of public attention both because of its sensational style and because its author is not only an Irish Catholic but a former Lord Justice of the Irish Courts.In all the vast output of recrimination with which O’Connell was assailed during his long struggle to win Catholic emancipation, and later as the leader of the Repeal movement, there is certainly no more astonishing and vindictive attack than that which was made quite recently by the Rt. Hon. Sir James O’Connor in his History of Ireland 1798-1924. And as this ex-Lord Justice has seen fit to attack O’Connell’s reputation from a new angle, throwing into the scales against a dead man his own prestige and authority as one of the principal former members of the Irish judiciary, the attack cannot, in fairness to O’Connell’s memory, be left unnoticed. The present writer has by accident discovered quite recently new evidence bearing directly upon the flimsy testimony which Sir James O’Connor produced.
Charlemagne in the Clos-Poulet
Authors: Balfour M. C. 
Published: July 2007

In that stretch of country that may be described as lying between France and Brittany—the pays gallot —there is a still narrower district that encircles the Three Towns (Saint-Malo, Saint-Servan, and Dinard) and lies along the banks of the Rance. It is known in the local speech as the Clos-Poulet, a quaint phrase with a ring of the patois about it, and like the patois itself venerable and significant; for it has a meaning that is plainly declared by the name of a village within its borders, Saint-Pierre-Marc-en-poulet, or in the Latin Sanctus Petrus de Marco in pago Aletho.Now this ‘Aleth’ deserves at least a word in passing. Very long ago—I cannot give a precise date, but it was in ‘the time of the Saints’ when they crossed the water (in stone boats or not, as you may prefer) as missioners to the folk of Armorica : when Saint-Malo found his way to Saint-Aaron’s hermitage on the rock then rising in the midst of forests that was later to be called after him; when men of our own race, our own blood, Scots, Welsh, and Irish, came here to conquer, to teach, and to pray, saints and fighting-men, an endless list of amazing names, Coulfmith, Armaël, Cadocanam, Jagu, Maclou—somewhere in the fifth or sixth century, Aleth came first into being. Very little is known of that first settlement, but it was the home of one of the many early bishops or missioners, more important than the rock of Malo to which some centuries later the Bishop and his Chapter removed. And somewhere very early in the ninth century it emerges from the shadows, if not into the full light of history, at least into the daybreak of a clear tradition.
Daniel O'Connell and Ellen Courtenay
Authors: Gwynn Denis 
Published: July 2007

Ellen Courtenay’s ultimatum to O’Connell, declaring that she had received promises of assistance from ‘many persons,’ and that ‘it would make her fortune’ to denounce him publicly, was posted to O’Gorman Mahon, the young Member of Parliament for County Clare, at the end of February, 1831. It was exactly a year later that, in the Fleet Prison in London, she added the date to the last footnote to the pamphlet, which was published and at once broadcast over England, by the Editor of the Satirist. He must have made a very handsome profit on the sale of so small a publication at the price of half a crown per copy. The pamphlet comprises twenty-seven small pages of narrative in large black type, followed by ten pages of footnotes in smaller type, which are mainly concerned with a denunciation of O’Connell’s public activities as an Irish agitator, and are written in the familiar style of all his political critics at the time.The first footnote, for instance, denounces ‘this man of atrocity’ for having ‘violated the sanctity of the Lord’s day by changing even its title, and styling it “the O’Connell Sunday”’ with the object of ‘wringing from the poor Peasantry their last penny .... to enable him to pursue his insatiable ambition.’ And the concluding footnote, which is quite obviously written to serve as political propaganda for quotation throughout England, fills four pages of close type.
The Art of Mr. Eric Gill
Authors: Bennigsen George 
Published: July 2007

Two recent reviews of Mr. Eric Gill’s latest book, Art Nonsense, make us think that it is time Mr. Gill’s art was discussed from the point of view of his own writings and the Thomistic philosophy of which he professes to be so ardent a follower.Few living artists enjoy the distinction of being the subject of special books; both Mr. Joseph Thorp and J.K.M.R. in Mr. A. Rutherston’s series of Contemporary British Artists have written with keen appreciation of Mr. Gill’s artistic achievements, illustrating their books with numerous reproductions of his sculpture and carving. Yet opinion as to the merits of his work is widely divergent. Whilst some admire it unreservedly, others dislike it as intensely. Undoubtedly the same divergence of opinion exists concerning all artists’ works, but in the given case the Artist who is at the same time a writer will help us to a correct appreciation of his work as judged by his own principles. And in fact it is not the writing but the work that matters, for, as Mr. Gill himself reminds us : ‘There are plenty of lying documents, and very great skill and judgment is required to use them. But works are infallible guides .... You may write an elaborate series of lies on paper, but your handwriting will betray you and show what manner of man you are.’ So we shall proceed with the examination of these ‘infallible guides’ in the light of Art Nonsense which one of its reviewers declares to ‘say the last word on matters which have long been spoken of in vain.’
What is Marriage?
Authors: Lechmere Joscelyne 
Published: July 2007

To Catholics marriage is a Sacrament. Wealthy persons treat it as a settlement in life. For ordinary people it may spell a career in the man’s case, and to the woman an emancipation from family ties. Doubting souls may call it a vocation. As regards the ‘masses,’ the only ‘classes’ which really count in these Labour days, marriage appears to be a lottery in more ways than one. Catholics, and I speak of adherents to the ‘old-established firm with its headquarters at Rome’ —the expression is Henry Labouchere’s—have a very definite conception of marriage. ‘Hoc est magnum sacramentum,’ exclaims St Paul. And he adds the proviso : ‘Dico autem in Christo et in Ecclesia.’ It is the life-long union of man and woman indissoluble as the union of Christ with His Church.Marriage implies children. Catholics adopt this principle as their own. In Catholic countries the birth-rate remains at high tide. Their women accept child-birth as a natural incident of married life. Therefore, they are not afraid of it. Birth control is anathema to Catholics. And by this I mean artificial birth prevention. The Church does not forbid control by abstention. She insists on the Pauline precept of each party according to the other its due rights. But if both parties agree to live for a space as brother and sister, either to limit a family or for any other such reason, the Church does not say them nay. So far the Catholic standpoint. It is held wholly by High Churchmen, and partially by other religious bodies.
The Worst of a System….
Authors: Gilby Thomas 
Published: July 2007

In a quite common and considered estimation, it is at once the strength and weakness of a scientific philosophy in general and of the Scholastic in particular to be considered abstract, universal, and necessary. A settled and valuable mood of the intellectual is satisfied when the mind is imagined as living its proper life in the timeless world of essences, forced only by the needs of its present state to shifting and momentary accommodations with a welter of contingent concrete individual things. But our deepest desire is to know the real, and the whole real. Now the real, if it is anything, is concrete, while for us the concrete is unique, inexpressible, and fugitive; antithetical to a scientific philosophy. Hence the feeling that the cost of a system is the sacrifice of the real.While the structure of Thomism, as it appears in the text-books or even from a superficial reading of St. Thomas, cannot fail to strike the imagination with the vastness of its conception, the coherence of its parts, and the impregnability of its logic, there is to some a haunting air of unreality about it, which is none the less felt because well-nigh incapable of formulation in the face of such an impressive, or what I might even call crushing, perfection.
The Ethics and Psychology of Neomalthusian Birth-Control
Authors: McNabb Vincent 
Published: July 2007

[This paper was read to a group of members of the Guild of St. Luke, St. Cosmas, and St. Damian in London in 1923, and was first published in The Catholic Medical Guardian, the quarterly journal of the Guild (Vol. II, No. 5, January, 1924). We are indebted to the Editor of that journal and to Father Vincent McNabb for permission to reprint the article. Its publication is timely in view of the declaration of a majority of the members of the Lambeth Conference to the effect that where the moral obligation of birth prevention exists, it is open to the parties concerned to employ any method to prevent conception, provided such method be in accord with Christian principles. Father Vincent McNabb’s paper, written seven years ago, is an adequate answer to the Lambeth pronouncement.'—Editor.]We have deliberately used the phrase, ‘NeoMalthusian Birth-Control,’ because the simple phrase ‘Birth-Control’ is likely to mislead. It is not accurate to say that the Church condemns birth-control. What the Church condemns, or rather what the Church has no power to allow, is not birth-control, but birth-control by sinful methods. The Church has always had a most efficient method of birth-control, by conjugal and virginal chastity. She has never urged what Neo-Malthusians say she has urged : ‘reckless propagation.’ Indeed, her normal action seems everywhere to have resulted, not in such an increase of population as this island has seen since the Industrial revolution, but in a steady maintenance of a high level of population largely dwelling on the land.