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Russia and Reality
Authors: Prince J.F.T. 
Published: July 2007

I was staying a few days in a Missionary College, where two hundred boys, of all ages and types, are doing their schooling, so that when they go forth to teach all nations they shall not be found wanting. I had said the Community Mass, and was making my thanksgiving. Two little boys—my servers—were putting out the candles, they were solemn-eyed, radiant, and the red of their cheeks outshone the crimson of their soutanes. I was distracted: insistently those children associated themselves with something. Remotely, subconsciously, an analogy was forming. But for the time I got no further. In the evening I remembered. I had been walking, and when I returned the college was wrapped in a toga of mist, the hills were frosted, the world white and grey, transfigured by the moon. A year back—almost to the very day— rattling through a land of frozen forest and morass, I had been sitting for twelve hours in a railway carriage. Opposite me were two young Bolsheviks. It was they (I realised with a shock) in their crimson exuberance that co-ordinated and completed my analogy.They, too, were missionaries, those Bolsheviks. They even hoped to convert me. They, too, were ardent, sincere and well instructed. But the gospel they preached was not of the Saviour of mankind. Their gospel was the story of despair, man made, man tricked, man rebellious, self-assertive against he knows not what. (For here is a generation that cannot admit the God its heart is seeking, and secretly has always loved.)
Magni Nominis Umbra
Authors: Knox Ronald 
Published: July 2007

Every scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old. (Matt, xiii, 52).My text is one of those which we are accustomed to carry in our heads without remembering the occasion upon which the utterance was made, and, partly for that reason, to hesitate about the precise meaning we should attach to it. It comes, actually, at the end of that great chapter, his thirteenth, in which St. Matthew has collected for us seven of our Lord’s parables, six of which, if not all seven, deal with the growth of his kingdom, the Church; the Sower, the cockle among the wheat, the mustard seed, the leaven the hidden treasure, the merchant seeking pearls, the net cast into the sea. And four are particularly concerned to point out to our Lord’s hearers that his kingdom was not, as some of them imagined, to be a clean sweep of all that went before it, a complete break-away from all human experience. It was not to be a millennium, in which all sin and suffering would have disappeared ; those who were partakers of it would not be all perfect souls, already confirmed in goodness and destined for eternal life. No, the new kingdom or ecclesia of Christ was to be in some ways like the old ecclesia, the old congregation of the Jews. There would still be tares among the wheat, worthless fish among the catch, side by side with the others.
Thomism for the Times
Authors: Gilby Thomas 
Published: July 2007

He witness of The New Scholasticism, a quarterly review and the organ of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, to a vigorous Thomist movement in the United States, is confirmed by a book recently published, Contemporary Philosophy and Thomistic Principles, in which Thomism is presented as a complete and authentic philosophy, not a sort of philosophical parasite on a religion of authority; and as a philosophy able to meet present problems and complete the solutions advanced by modern thinkers. It lays the ghost, evoked by Mr. Wyndham Lewis in Time and the Western Man, of a Thomism incurably conservative, forever the old against the new, anti-modern in a stupid historical manner. The page-references to Aquinas, Thomas, steadily grow in the index to names in books of science and philosophy. His name comes readily to the journalist’s pen and the mouth of that public which reads the review pages of the more serious dailies, and a lady over the tea-pot can quite easily remark, ‘Of course, Mr. So-and-so, you know, is a tomist.’Dr. Bandas begins with a particularly firm and downright piece of writing on Fundamental Principles (Chapter I). The foundation of Thomism on Being is clearly indicated, as well as the transcendental value and immunity from empirical criticism of the principles immediately deriving from Being—identity and contradiction, substance, sufficient reason, causality.
Shanghai—Japan's Justification: By a British Resident
Authors: Anstice E. H. 
Published: July 2007

It is March, and an uneasy armistice rules in Shanghai. Now that the dust and heat of the conflict have subsided, passions and prejudices run a little less high, and the demands of the actual moment are less insistent and exclusive, there is time to look back on the events of the past five weeks; to attempt to arrive at a considered judgment on the rights and wrongs of the situation; to ask whether the chorus of condemnation with which Japan’s actions have been greeted in certain quarters is justified, if the disapproval, tacit or otherwise, which the West seems to have chosen to exhibit, is fair.The first thing to be remembered is that the provocation suffered by Japan was considerable, far greater in fact than appears to be realised except by those who were witnesses of it. Not only was there the boycott with all its attendant illegalities of confiscation and intimidation, there was also the constant outpouring of a rancorous anti-Japanese propaganda of the most hostile and insulting character, which was condoned, if it was not actually inspired, by the Government; and there were the constant outrages and indignities suffered by Japanese residents. To secure redress by the ordinary methods of diplomatic intercourse was impossible. Protests were unavailing, for the Government, even if willing to control its subjects, was unable to do so. Moreover, with the overthrow of Chiang Kai Shek’s administration there was only a very shadowy government to protest to and negotiate with. Nor was China’s past record such as to inspire trust.
The Area of Catholic Controversy
Authors: Valleley Charles 
Published: July 2007

The area of possible controversy among Catholics is of course wide—as wide as the life of the man who is head or member of a family and a citizen. Controversy has been common enough among members of the Church in the past. It is inevitable when essentials of the Faith are concerned, and has rightly gone beyond mere words when schism or heresy raised its. head, as in the time of the Albigenses. More recently, bitter debate has been justified when the implication touched some basic principle and Rome felt called to intervene, as with the Jansenists or, in the more definitely political sphere, with the Action Française. There are lower fields of controversy, aesthetic, literary and purely political, where there is difficulty in finding justification, where the well known dirty-linen metaphor stands as a warning against entry, and where as a general rule debate should be restricted as far as reasonably possible.There have been one or two examples recently of foolishly provoked controversy among Catholics, and in view, for one thing, of the persistence—the extreme urgency in these days—of the call for Catholic Action which first sounded in Rome, it may be worth while reflecting on the position in general terms and as discreetly as possible.
The Teaching Christ
Authors: Valentine Ferdinand 
Published: July 2007

In the eleventh chapter of St. Matthew, Our Lord says (v. 29):‘Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: And you will find rest for your souls.’These words are patient of a threefold interpretation:First, Christ might be pointing to himself as the exemplar, and mean: Learn meekness and humility of me. This is the usual and popular interpretation of the text; though there can be little doubt that so understood it was not intended by Christ and is an accommodated sense. The correct translation of the conjunction, in the Greek original of St. Matthew, is ‘because’ or ‘by reason of.’ Père Lagrange renders the passage: ‘Recevez mes leçons par ce que je suis doux et humble de cceur.’ ‘Embrace my teaching, because I am meek and humble of heart.’
The Changing Trend of Capitalism
Authors: Betty F. A. Kemmis 
Published: July 2007

Though many may disagree profoundly with the conclusions reached in The Coming Struggle for Power, by John Strachey, nevertheless they will admit that they are grateful for its publication. It requires such a book, which challenges all the ideals upon which this and previous generations have been brought up, to rouse people from taking things for granted and to make them ask themselves such questions as ‘whither is our civilization leading us?’Mr. Strachey has no doubts but that communism is the goal to be aimed at, and that it is also the goal towards which we are being irresistibly drawn. It would be unprofitable to examine in detail the multiplicity of arguments which he has advanced in support of his general thesis, but the general trend of the argument in the book needs careful attention—Mr. Strachey first points to all the evils which at present exist in the world; wars, famine, and poverty on the one side, over-production and accumulation of vast fortunes on the other; periodical crises, booms and slumps; tendencies towards monopolies and nationalism. All these, he says, are the obvious results of capitalism, and it is impossible for capitalism to provide a cure for these evils. This, in brief, is the first stage in his argument, and I think it is worth our while to consider it at some length.
The XIX Centenary of the Redemption
Authors: Callus Daniel M. 
Published: July 2007

The beginning of April witnessed the opening of the Holy Year and the proclamation of the extraordinary jubilee. The Redemption is the chief event in history, not only for Catholics, but for everyone for whom Christ is not merely a name, but a living reality. It is out of the Redemption that ‘has come this civilisation in which we rejoice and on which we pride ourselves.’ This event carries with it ‘a wonderful succession of divine gesta,’ above all ‘the institution at the Last Supper of the Holy Eucharist, entrusted to the Apostles, who saw themselves elevated to the priestly order by these words: Do this in memory of Me; the Passion of Jesus Christ, His Crucifixion and His death for the salvation of men; the Virgin Mary, constituted, at the foot of the Cross of Her Son, Mother of all men; then the wonderful Resurrection of Jesus Christ, the sign and assurance of our own; presently the dispensation to the Apostles of the power of forgiving sins; the true primacy of jurisdiction given and confirmed to Peter and his successors; and, lastly, the Ascension of Our Lord, the descent of the Holy Spirit, and forthwith the prodigious and triumphant teaching of the Apostles.’In his Christmas broadcast, the Pope had said that although 1933 is regarded as the centenary year in the common opinion of the faithful, and that in this they have scientific support, scholars have not yet fixed the date of the Crucifixion with absolute certitude. As some controversy has lately arisen on this point, it may be well to review briefly the grounds on which the date has been traditionally established.
The Anarchy of Ideas
Authors: Prince J. F. T. 
Published: July 2007

The case against the moderns is clear enough. Less than three centuries has been sufficient to allow the inductive method an uninterrupted passage through the domain of the physical sciences. And face to face with problems no longer of inanimate nature but of conscious behaviour, the modern mind (for our present purpose essentially the product of inductive procedure) continues unchecked in the impetus of conquest. Infatuated by his discoveries, the scientist incontinently postulates faith in wholly unverified theses—enchanting his disciples with the vague and the transcendental.Psychology is substituted for metaphysic. Empirical introspection is found a more amusing pursuit than the problems of ontology. Subjective verification is the vogue. To criticise the interrogation of consciousness (to identify introspection with the arrestation of the process under examination) is to return amidst contumely to the Middle Ages. Psychology in its turn is content to take its media axiomata from physiology. There is little resentment at the annexation of mind to matter: attention is unduly urged towards the physical antecedents of what were formerly know as moral states and actions. Nor does the specialist abstain from aggressive dogmatism on matters which lie wholly outside his legitimate province. We are fairly familiar with the physician turned Father Confessor, the journalist turned theologian, the tradesman turned economist. And the hopeless diffusiveness which is mistaken for universality goes hand-in-hand with a mania for unification.
Bolshevik Theory of Jurisprudence
Authors: Prince J. F. T. 
Published: July 2007

I remember once hearing a Bolshevik discuss the difficulties of a Soviet representative at an imaginary pan-European rapprochement. I asked him whether ne referred specifically to confusion and embarrassment in ethical issues, and he answered me with a frank outline of the hybrid, and indeed unreal, nature of an entente between traditional Western democracy and the Soviet. He talked, too, I recollect, of the obvious unfruitfulness of external arbitration in matters of justice and discipline in the U.S.S.R.This was long before M. Litvinoff applied himself (for the benefit of Great Britain) to the defence of the G.P.U. procedure in respect of foreign nationals. If sabotage (an extremely comprehensive term, by the way) is a sin crying to the State for vengeance, and if a man be adjudged guilty by a constitutional tribunal functioning normally, who can complain because the tribunal is the G.P.U., or because (the discharge of its austere commission being a trifle arbitrary) its patients, once convicted, are dispatched swiftly and without show?
Using Art to Sell Beauty
Authors: Brocklehurst Mark 
Published: July 2007

As Mr. Hannen Swaffer said some time ago, they are using Art to sell Beauty. The remark was made, I believe, on the subject of the enlightened and progressive windowdressing of the shops in Regent Street, but it applies to quite a large number of things. In the first place, the capital ‘A’ recalls the unfortunate incident described by Anatole France, where the man who had learnt all the Art in the world was suffocated in his own catalogue.The problem which is called, very impressively, the Adjustment of Art and Life, and which, in theory, has been solved over and over again, is, in practice, the subject of the most discouraging caricature. In spite of intelligent window dressing, of fine buildings and bridges, the ultimate comment, it seems, should be ‘they are using Art to sell Beauty.’Mr. Gill, with his classical and impersonal precision, again gives us light on the subject.
The Centenary of the S.V.P.
Authors: Kildany Herbert 
Published: July 2007

A hundred years ago eight .young law-students of the Sorbonne gathered in the back room of a Paris newspaper office. Tired of decrying the low ebb to which the Faith had fallen in the chaos of the preceding half-century they had decided to put their hopes to the test of action. Under the patronage of St. Vincent de Paul, whose indefatigable zeal for the poor was not yet forgotten, they constituted themselves into a lay confraternity with the object of achieving their own sanctification through charitable works. Their rule was perfectly simple, in its first article it welcomes all young men anxious to unite in prayer and good work, in the second it states that no work of charity may be regarded as foreign to the aims of the society.From this modest beginning the Society has grown from strength to strength, so that in May of this year representatives of provincial Councils from the four comers of the earth met in Paris to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the foundation. Instead of merely stirring the youth of France to a proper sense of its responsibility, the Society has come to be one of the most active spiritual organisations for Catholic laymen, and as such perhaps the best example of social action in modem times. Yet because its work is done unobtrusively, it is not as well known as it deserves to be outside the humble homes which enjoy its special care. Yet in the course of a hundred years of diligent activity the society has increasingly shown its ability to cope with the multifarious problems which are not and cannot be dealt with directly by the Church.
A Land Reform in The U.S.S.R.
Authors: Jensen G. 
Published: July 2007

After a short trip to Russia Lord Passfield has published a few articles dealing with Russia and Communism. Russia, according to him, ‘has a will and a plan,’ whether it is the will of the people themselves, or one which has been forcibly imposed upon them, the writer does not tell us, and yet this is precisely what the average reader is anxious to know. Nevertheless, despite this reticence, Lord Passfield conveys a sufficiently clear idea of the only state which has adopted in its totality the teaching of Communism.To begin with, the population of this Socialist State is strictly divided into classes. At the summit stands a very small minority—the Communist Party. The writer estimates it at one and an half million strong, which represents less than one per cent, of the total population of one hundred and sixty millions. This Communist Party, which does not wish to increase its membership but remains numerically stationary by a process of continuous weeding-out, is, as the writer puts it, the ‘governing class’ holding all power in the State. Next to it stand the candidates for membership. These are selected from another half million whose fidelity to the régime has been tested. Then come various other classes of the population graded according to their economic importance to the State, and lastly the people who have no right to exist in the Socialist State and must be ‘liquidated’ or destroyed not only as classes but as individuals also. These Socialist ‘untouchables’ do not interest Lord Passfield: he knew of their existence, for in one of his articles he has a passing reference to one of such classes, namely the kulaki.
A Student Crisis
Authors: Perquin Bonaventure 
Published: July 2007

In the Church's appeal to common action hardly any sphere of activity has received less attention from either clergy or laity than the universities. This remissness suggests that in the hurried apostolate of our times there is a lack of appreciation of the great importance of university education in the social life of the Church. It cannot therefore be a matter of surprise to those who have had this in mind, to see how in many countries ecclesiastical authorities are now much alarmed by the feelings of distrust and opposition exhibited by the anti-clerical or non-clerical attitude of young intellectuals. As no movement in the Church is more alive to the position of university students than Pax Romana, its annual report may be considered a suitable starting point for some observations on this question.The administrative secretary, M. Rudi Salat, merely hints at this problem when he says ‘Car pour le travail international catholique futur, la sympathie et la collaboration des théologiens est indispensable.’ The question at issue is, therefore, not only the desirability but even the need of the co-operation of priests and students in catholic activity. That this collaboration is of prime importance can be of little doubt, but it seems that the way in which it should be brought about has not yet been sufficiently discussed.
Revolving Stage
Authors: Valleley Charles 
Published: July 2007

The world’s a revolving stage, and the scene changes diurnally. Indeed, the admirer of this era of the machine would say that it is, in effect and appropriately enough, a stage supporting a ‘talkie’ screen, for the flicker of changing terrestial affairs occupies the eye of the remote unsleeping observer throughout the twenty-four hours. At our midnight, the light still shines above the earth’s Big Ben, and discussion or action, charged with immanence of immediate influence on the life of man, is taking place half way, east or west, towards the other side of the globe.While, as always, we know not what to-morrow will bring forth, we dare no longer tempt fate by forecast. If a state of war does not formally exist in the Far East, war is proceeding in actual fact, tentatively or may be very explosively, with a prompt possibility of louder local repercussions, and a more remote chance of extensive international complications. At the same time two men sit over a cup of tea in Washington, and their talk may decide the fate of mankind for generations and may reinforce or disintegrate the very foundations of our civilization.
The Comfort of the Stars
Authors: Sainsbury Harrington 
Published: July 2007

In these days of widespread anxieties with little trust, owing to small belief, anything, any influence which may bring assurance, in whatever degree, should be welcomed. It is fortitude based on confidence that we need, as we face the issues of life seeking how they may emerge, whether to our welfare or our undoing, before all things asking—do we see guidance or is it chaos that confronts us?It is to the great towns and cities, particularly the industrial and manufacturing, that we would draw attention here, and to London imprimis, the World City; our quest —how these influence their indwellers especially their outlook visual and mental; for the business of the thronging multitudes is wont to obscure the sight by interposing a pall of smoke and dust betwixt them and the skies. Nor is this all of obscurity that results from the activities of men, for strange to say their very efforts to illumine the darkness of their thoroughfares by night, do but hide the more effectively the lights of heaven: —in the glare of the street lamp even thy glories, Orion, are extinguished; and thus it comes about that the more brilliant the near light, the more are our eyes blinded for far-vision, to our incalculable loss.
Newman's Approach to the Church
Authors: Walker Luke 
Published: July 2007

The first of the Tracts for the Times, published in Sep tember, 1833, and entitled Thoughts on the Ministerial Commission respectfully addressed to the Clergy, was devoted to the proclamation of the chief of those truths which it was the special aim of the Tracts to enforce. ‘There are some,’ Newman therein wrote, ‘who rest their divine mission on their own unsupported assertion; others who rest it upon their temporal distinctions. This last case has, perhaps, been too much our own; I fear we have neglected the real ground on which authority is built—our apostolic descent . . . [the many] have been deluded into a notion that present palpable usefulness, produceable results, acceptableness to your flocks, that these and such like are the tests of your Divine commission. Enlighten them in this matter. Exalt our Holy Fathers, the Bishops, as the Representatives of the Apostles, and the Angels of the Churches; and magnify your office, as being ordained by them to take part in their Ministry.’The leaders of the Tractarian Movement were not, as some seem to imagine, ardent Ritualists, if by that term we mean men enamoured of ritual for its own sake. They were on the whole distinguished by soberness in their use of ritual. What they were seeking primarily was to renew and to deepen the supernatural Christian life of the members of the Church of England. For this it was necessary to be sure of the possession of two things—the revealed truth and the ordinary means of grace, both committed to the Apostles.