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Malines, 1921–1925
Authors: John Henry 
Published: July 2007

The Holy Father’s lately-issued Encyclical with its clear statement of the doctrine of the unity of the Church based upon the primacy of jurisdiction of the See of Peter, comes as an opportune commentary upon the Report of the Malines Conversations now at last published. The plan of these Conversations was to proceed by way of affirmation—to bring forward the points upon which agreement could be reached and to shelve, at any rate for the time being, the attempt to come to any conclusions upon questions where there was likelihood of radical disagreement. As the Report proceeds we become increasingly conscious of the presence of a fundamental difference of outlook underlying such agreement as was reached. To the Anglican representatives the unity of the Body of Christ’ is something desirable but unattained ; to the Catholics it is an existing fact and a necessary presupposition. This is the crux of the whole question. The corporate union of the Church of England with the Holy See, the ultimate object envisaged by the Conversations, were it ever to come about, would not be the re-joining of two separated parts of the Body of Christ, it would be the uniting of a schismatic member to the one and indivisible Body.This, implicit in the Malines Report, which did not publish negative conclusions, is reiterated by the Holy Father in his Encyclical. And to this the Anglican theologians cannot bring themselves to assent.Yet for those who see the finger of the Holy Ghost in the perplexing story of the Anglo-Catholic Revival there is much cause for encouragement in the reading of this Report.
The Balance of Power
Authors: Hollis Christopher 
Published: July 2007

I have just been reading an extremely interesting book by Dr. McNair Wilson, called Napoleon the Man. The book gives a picture of Napoleon which, the author claims in his preface, has never before been given in the English language. The claim is, I fancy, a just one; although, if he had written his book in French, it would have been hardly possible for him to establish so large a title to originality. For the thesis which Dr. Wilson urges upon us as a new and hitherto concealed truth is very much the thesis which M. Coquelle, in his book, Napoleon et V Angleterre, sets out to refute as the conventional academic interpretation of Napoleon’s character.However, be that as it may. Dr. Wilson has many very interesting and very provocative things to say, any one of which might be made the subject of an essay. Briefly, his thesis is that Napoleon was the hero of peace and democracy who gave to the world a new gospel. This gospel was temporarily defeated at Waterloo, but it was not then killed. It was the gospel for which England and France fought together during the years 1914-1918 and which eventually triumphed at Versailles.It would be giving a most unfair impression of Dr. Wilson’s extraordinarily vivid story if I were to pretend that his book was nothing but the statement and defence of a thesis, however interesting. Nor is this essay in any sense intended to be a review of his book.
The Proper of the Mass
Authors: Maginty Edward A. 
Published: July 2007

It is one of the happier signs of the times that we have advanced so far on the road of reform in our liturgical music that the Bishops can now order (what, in the past, they could only recommend) that, whenever the priest sings his peculiar part of the Mass, the choir should sing theirs. Yet, on account of certain fixed ideas, the new regulation is more honoured in the breach than the observance. One is that the Kyriale must always be sung to some harmonised setting taken from Cary’s or Fischer’s catalogue. No parochial body but a select choir can sing such a composition and therefore the peculiar business of the choir is the Kyriale. This duty they have always carried out to the best of their ability; but as it exhausts all their energies, any additional work must be ignored as a counsel of perfection. It takes time to absorb such a revolutionary idea as that the Kyriale, which the choir have only recently usurped, is the canonical right of the people; and that the Proper, which the choir have systematically neglected, is their only raison d’etre.Another fixed idea is that the Proper of Mass, like that of Vespers, if sung at all, must be sung to the official chant. The choir know nothing of this ancient idiom and there’s an end on’t. Now Catholic choristers are sensible men and women, quite as ready as other parochial workers to do the right thing when they know it.
Rustiquel the Rat-Catcher
Authors: Eden Helen Parry 
Published: July 2007

It is never safe to take it for granted that you are loved for yourself alone in this world. After all, why should you be? Even Rustiquel the Rat-Catcher had to be disillusioned upon this point. He thought he was the hero of his own story—he who shone only in the reflection of a hidden light. Yet who should be a hero if not a cat? How seriously and courteously he bears himself indoors, yet how freely and blithely he sallies forth to slay monsters and destroyers ! And if this is true of cats in general, how especially true it is of one cat in particular: that is of Rustiquel the Rat-Catcher, who flourished in the City of Paris in the reign of Philip the Fair.I say ‘flourished,’ but, to tell the honest truth, Rustiquel the Rat-Catcher, though destined to a snug and creditable lot, had a kittenhood as dangerous and obscure as any cat in Paris. In fact, it was not until he reached die lanky, introspective age, when the chasing of his own tail offered more physical difficulties and fewer imaginative attractions every day, that he was rescued from death’ by Master Robert the Scrivener, and presented by way of a love-token to Alis, daughter of Ernoul the Crossbow-maker, which was the foundation of his subsequent fortunes.It came about in this way. Master Robert, one of the youngest and neediest of all the five-hundred scriveners of Paris, was hastening back to his garret one winter evening, with a couple of tallow candles in one hand and a small eel-pie in the other, when he saw certain scholars of the Sorbonne, always an ingenious and ill-disposed crew, playing a cruel jest on an inoffensive cat.
The Economic Philosphy of Mr. A. J Cook
Authors: Huray C. P. 
Published: July 2007

No one, I think, has ever ventured to compare Mr. A. J. Cook with William Cobbett. If we are to judge by the daily press, Mr. Cook is not a popular man among the ruling classes, among the middle classes, nor even among the working classes. Not the ignorance of journalists, but the policy of newspaper owners—a remarkably small class, and daily growing smaller—is responsible for the abuse heaped upon Mr. Cook. If he has not been compared with William Cobbett, it is not because Cobbett is less well-known than he ought to be, but also that his views would be as unpopular to-day as are those of Mr. Cook. Cobbett has not yet been dead long enough for his views to be regarded dispassionately by the majority, and a century hence Mr. Cook will still have his critics. But his critics will not then be malicious. He will still be branded as an ‘agitator,’ but common sense will show that British miners and not Russian Bolsheviks were his paymasters.The Rural Rides show Cobbett to have been a keen observer, not only of nature—for he was a born farmer —but of that continually changing thing which we call the social organism. Observation of the present led him to study the past: from the effect he traced the cause, and to this we owe his History of the Protestant Reformation, which showed that upheaval to have been in this country an economic rather than a religious movement.
Protest And-Not Catholic
Authors: Pope Huge 
Published: July 2007

It is IN the course of the debate in Parliament on the Revised Prayer-Book many startling things were said, but few things can have been more startling than Sir Henry Slesser’s speech.‘The question of Rome and the question of doctrine are two separate and distinct matters. I need hardly remind the House that when the jurisdiction of Rome was repudiated in England, so little change was made in the sacramental doctrine of the Church of England that the much vexed question of transubstantiation remained the doctrine throughout the reign of Henry VIII. Therefore when we talk about Reformation, we must ask whether we mean the cessation of the Papal jurisdiction in the reign of Henry or the introduction of the German doctrine in the time of Edward VI, because they are not one and the same thing. When we come to the reign of Queen Elizabeth, when the present settlement was really achieved—though, I remind the House, achieved by Act of Parliament without the consent of Convocation—the Book which was then the Book of Common Prayer was so designed, I believe, that it was capable of both the interpretations for which the parties are contending to-day.’In other words there were two reformations, one a repudiation of the Papacy under Henry, another a reformation of doctrine under Edward and Elizabeth; these were not, as one has always supposed, two aspects or successive steps in the one reform; ‘they are not one and the same thing’ because the doctrine of transubstantiation survived the former but not the latter.
The Coming Elections in France
Authors: Gwynn Denis 
Published: July 2007

As the time for the general elections in France at the end of April approaches, the Catholics are once again faced with a situation of real anxiety; and several recent indications of the attitude which they are adopting in regard to the elections deserve close attention. There is no denying the seriousness of the danger to which the Church may be exposed if the elections should produce results at all resembling those of four years ago—when the Bloc National was overthrown and M. Herriot came into office, pledged to revive immediately the old campaign of persecution against the Church. Much has happened in the meantime, and it may be useful to summarise briefly the main factors which have altered the situation.Four years ago M. Poincaré went to the country after he had successfully carried out the threat of occupying the Ruhr—which other Governments had not dared to enforce, in their efforts to make Germany shoulder the costs of war damage. M. Poincaré put the threat into effect, with the backing of a great majority of the Bloc National Parliament, in much the same spirit in which last year he succeeded in restoring the value of the franc, by strong action and by a bold appeal for patriotic support, when all other politicians had failed to control the situation. But whereas M. Poincare’s efforts to save French credit have for various reasons succeeded, his policy in the Ruhr was disastrous not only to French finance, but to his own political position.
Verglas and Pollen
Authors: Michaelson Alexander 
Published: July 2007

‘MR Whistler is, for all I know to the contrary, an artist who has the suffrages of his brother artists, a great painter in the judgment of those who live by painting, but if he had not followed the example of Mr. Oscar Wilde his name would be comparatively unknown. He had the wit to see that genius must in these days wear the crown of eccentricity. . . . He developed a little group of characteristics which pleased the fancy and impressed themselves on the memory of society. First, he cultivated a lock of hair sprouting from amidst his tresses and fashioned after the model of a feather. Next, he substituted for a walking-stick a staff .... exaggerating his American twang [he] invented a species of Yankee dialect hitherto unknown. In this he made it his business to utter grotesque antithetical incoherences, and to ramble on in a maundering monotone from theme to theme. Some clever things he contrived to say, for he is undoubtedly an exceedingly clever man. Concurrently with this he imported a novel mode of painting.‘The critics were divided in their opinion. Some said it was genius, others said he was a daub. Society (being already prejudiced in favour of the man) now welcomed the artist, and saw in everything which came at long intervals from his studio the transcendent gifts of a great original. . . . From the artist he rose to the oracle. Having induced many gay and lively persons in London society to believe that he was the sole painter of the period who had the slightest notion of the rudiments of art, it occurred to him that he might as well explain from a public platform what these were.
Middle Class Education
Authors: Richings Ronald 
Published: July 2007

From time to time Educational Authorities have set up Committees whose members have individually and collectively advocated a liberal school syllabus to produce a definite and desirable result: but it is often convenient to invite and publish criticism; one can go one’s own way afterwards without disturbance. Education may have two aims : either it can endeavour to produce good citizens; or it can turn out a product malleable to the industrial tools. The first course is called ‘liberal education’ ; the second is simply called ‘education,’ and it is the mode generally employed in modern schools.The Charlotte Mason and the P.N.E.U. schemes are still in experimental stages, and are for the most part confined to elementary and progressive preparatory schools. There are other schemes of an unorthodox nature which receive less and less attention as time goes on. It is true that ideas promulgated by these systems are adopted in many secondary schools, but in the main they are included for purposes of variety or as links between two grades of teaching.There is little possibility of boys being educated entirely in schools offering a liberal education, for few such academies exist, and those few labour under the stigma of ‘freaks’ ; parents must be very confident of their son’s future who send him to stigmatised establishments when the employer attaches more importance to the employee’s credentials than to his potentialities. And it is impossible for the sons of impecunious parents to gain such an advantage, because when pupils in elementary schools sit,
A Saint among the Theologians II
Authors: Whitacre ÆLred 
Published: July 2007

II(3)The Acts of Blessed Bobert Bellarmine during the controversy de gratia.In a preceding paper, we were concerned to show firstly what was the real mind of the theologian, Bellarmine, concerning the theories and teaching of his confreres, Lessius and Molina; and, secondly, how his own treatise called Controversies came to be altered and mutilated in order to be brought in line to some extent with the new theories. In the following pages, which are concerned with some of the moves in the heated debate between Molinism and the traditional Thomism, it is necessary to bring into light certain activities of Bellarmine, when the theological consensus in Rome was becoming more and more convinced of the necessity for passing condemnation upon the dangerous ideas then being promulgated. The account will largely serve to reveal the zeal of obedience which Blessed Robert Bellarmine gave to his superiors, and the extent of his efforts to shield the good name of his fellow religious from public condemnation.After the third examination of Molina’s Concordia by the commission appointed by the Holy See, approximately sixty different passages taken from that work, were reduced to twenty, in which the whole of the doctrine condemned as heretical, erroneous, temerarious, and dangerous, was compendiously gathered together. It is said by Fr. Brodrick (vol. ii, p. 55) that as the examinations of the Concordia increased in number, so the numbers of propositions condemned decreased;
Dialogue
Authors: Gray John 
Published: July 2007

— Have a norange.— Mon premier est un métal précieux;Mon second est un habitant des cieux;Mon tout est un fruit déicieux.— Yes ; there’s truth in that, and scarcely exaggeration. (John, fetch the N.E.D., article ‘orange.’) It’s too great, really; too round, too golden, too juicy, too Brangwyn, too coster’s barrow, too abundant.— Augustine consecrated it in an able image.— Looking at it as segments compact in the cortex. We think of it as a bag of juice; a potable lawn-tennis ball. (What’s it say, John?)— ‘Orange, orenge, narancia, arancia, naranza, naranja, laranja; mediceval Greek, nerantzton.’— Push on.—1 The fruit of a tree {see sense 2) a large, globose, many-celled berry (Hesperidium) with sub-acid juicy fulf, inclosed in a tough rind, externally of bright reddish yellow colour.’— Thattledoo.— Globose. That dates Dr. Murray’s early education.—You can hear the governess’s voice : ‘The form of the earth is oblate spheroid; in other words, like an orange. Now if I were to take a knitting needle,’— pin, she meant, but don’t let her go on. The earth, an orange; a globose fruit (which is what theN.E.D. means);— (Look up ‘berry,’ John)— the association is impressed in our minds.— Should you think ....— ‘Berry. Any small globular or ovate fruity not having a stone'— Thattledoo. Should you think that geodesy and the orange are practically contemporaneous?— 1497. For bering the appill oreynzeis fra the schip.— It was regular merchandise in the middle ages; but I see the globose berry growing more delectable and less of a medicine as time passes ....
Leslie Stephen and Some Agnostics
Authors: Michaelson Alexander 
Published: July 2007

‘HAVE you never heard of Cupid and Pish!’ exclaimed once, with a contralto’s disdain, the English Alboni, Madame Patey (nee Whytock), when General Clark Kennedy ventured to inquire why she called her favourite dog Pish? The Dog Pish could well be the Patron Dog of the Rationalist Press, of blatant atheists like Sir Leslie Stephen : they turn on the orthodox or would-be orthodox believers and exclaim : ‘ Have you never heard of Cupid and Pish, of physical pain and moral deformity, of avoidable suffering, of Torquemada and Galileo and Voltaire and Calas and Noah and the morbid imagination of diseased nuns, of Cupid and Pish?’ Saint and theologian and ignorant Catholic know what can be known concerning Pish. . . .On a top shelf Leslie Stephen’s Essays on free thinking and plain speaking gathers dust between Buchner’s crass Kraft und Stoff and Pétrone (that Manon Lescaut of antiquity for precocious schoolboys) close to poor George Tyrrell’s later volumes, Swedenborg’s Conjugial Love and Spiritual Diary, and the Scottish Criminal Trials.In my boyhood I devoured plain atheistic cake like Buchner and Leslie Stephen: without bread, what was I to eat?‘ The ecstasy of evolution over,’ (ecstasy: did I not startle my mother when I declared I would not care to live unless I believed in Darwinism; but ecstasy soon over!) I accepted the magic lantern theory of life. Fantasmagoria, yes, but I did not worship, I had no cosmic emotions, still less admiration for moralism. I did not brood or regret, I had so much to expect, I had to grow up.
Archbishop Walsh and Cardinal Manning
Authors: Gwynn Danis 
Published: July 2007

Mgr. Walsh has added one more to the small number of volumes which provide the authentic materials from which the history of the Catholic Church in England and in Ireland during the past hundred years will have to be written. He promises a second volume to deal with the pastoral work of the great Archbishop who, during nearly forty years of rule in Dublin, played an important part in obtaining the reform of the Irish land system, and after many years of patient effort against innumerable discouragements helped to win for Ireland its National University. He became its first Chancellor, and the photograph of him taken at the time, which is reproduced in Mgr. Walsh’s biography, shows him still vigorous. But his labours on the Statutory Commission of the University brought on a nervous breakdown, which left him a physical wreck for the remainder of his life. For the last ten years he took very little active part in public affairs. He died when the Black and Tan regime in Ireland was still rioting unchecked; and when the first tentative efforts of Sir Alfred Cope to bring about a settlement by negotiations, in which Archbishop Walsh himself took part, had not yet shown any hope of peace.But though the Archbishop died a broken and disillusioned man, he had seen great improvements in the position of the Irish Catholics during his own lifetime, and no man had done more to bring them about Not only because of his ecclesiastical position, but by his intellectual abilities and courage, he was one of the most important public men in Ireland during the nineteenth century.
Increase of Food or Decrease of Population?
Authors: Ginns Reginald 
Published: July 2007

Readers of The Daily News were recently given a scare in an article on a book which treats of the world’s food supply and the increase of population. The alarming conclusion was to the effect that within a measureable space of years the world would be faced with the prospect of starvation for many of its inhabitants, unless remedies were immediately devised to avert the danger. It is hardly necessary to say that ‘a constructive method of birth-control’ was among the suggested remedies.Now this is the sort of scare that has an influence on the minds of many to-day who, through unavoidable ignorance of the true facts, are overawed by any quack who claims to speak in the name of what is called Science—a much abused word ! Science, if it be really science and worthy of our acceptance as representative of objective truth, ought to be a sure and evident knowledge of things. But many of the statements and conclusions of your modern scientist are nothing of the kind. They are, to say the best, no more than theories or hypotheses : to say the worst, they are often no better than myths which the scientists of to-morrow will throw aside as childish.And in the case of the problem of the food-supply and the population, the scare-mongering scientists cannot even claim the support of their fellow-scientists. The fact of the matter is that there is plenty of evidence, theoretical and experimental, to prove that the feeding of the world, both present and future, in itself presents no extraordinary difficulty, provided that the artificial restrictions induced by modern financial control be removed.
St. Thomas on the Incarnation
Authors: Walker Luke 
Published: July 2007

Though the following pages are concerned with the Fourth Book of the Summa contra Gentiles, we may be allowed first to mention the fact that the English translation of the Third Book has now appeared. It is sufficient here to say that, as in the case of the former books, the translation has been carefully done, and it both reads well and is reliable. One would think it would not have been difficult to publish the whole of this Third Book in a single volume, and we think it regrettable that it should have been published in two, for, thus divided, it costs the no small sum of twenty-four shillings. The work itself, of course, would be worth any price asked for it; but, in fixing a price, more consideration might have been had for the many would-be purchasers who will now find it beyond their means.There is a difficulty in the way of the translation of the Fourth Book, and it is that we are still without a critical text, that book not yet having appeared in the Leonine edition of the works of St. Thomas. It is to be hoped, however, that it will not be long before we are given a translation of it not below the level of the translation of the other books. For it is concerned with such high themes as the Trinity and the Incarnation, and St. Thomas supplies just such a treatment of them as we need to-day. Nowhere is the robust, vigorous common sense of his genius more in evidence.