Queries And Answers

PEARSON, BEAUMONT What arc the principles of the Distributive Party?
Enquire for full particulars of The Distributist League, 718, Rolls Passage, London, E.C.4.
P1TTUCK, OXFORD
A week or so ago I read a paragraph which gave light to several rumours which are gaining credence among Protestants:
• (i) The Pope had helped Mussolini to finance the Abyssinian War.
(ii) That His Holiness had a similar interest in the present war in Spain.
(iii) That Protestant Missionaries were being expelled from Abyssinia.
" What about it?"
First accusation utterly false and officially denied by Vatican sources. Second so absurd as not to be worth denying. Vatican has only just recognised (13 months after outbreak of war) the Salamanca Government. Third is true, but. Alussol ini's action, not Vatican's.
REIDY, WHETSTONE Would you kindly let me know if a War God-mother has any obligations, and if so, what are they.
We imagine that they would include corresponding with "war god-sous," sending material help to them in the way of " woollies," etc., and not least:, praying for them especially.
What is your present opinion of Jacques Maritain, French "Philosopher "? His writings on the Spanish war betray not only the grossest ignorance of the facts, and often deliberate misrepresentation, with a
childish acceptance of the Guernica and Badajoz legends as truth, but also show his " philosophy" to be based on the heresy of Quaker-Pacifism. (See his article in the current Colosseum). Does he not stand discredited as a Catholic philosopher?
Iteis the Church's business, not the private Catholic's, to condemn those worthy of "condenination. Maritain is an eminent Catholic figureand a leading philosopher. If the writings of a person of his influence were considered dangerous to faith or Morals, the Church would not hesitate to strike. Any individual is at liberty to disagree with anyone else. but his view commits no one but himself.
Good King Wenceslaus— But there was no Snow
In the heat of a Czechoslovakian September (the 28th) there were great rejoicings in that country. It was the feast day which celebrates the martyrdom of their patron, Saint Wenceslaus. In the morning crowds flocked to the Cathedral of St. Vitus in Prague where the relics of the saint lie in a chapel built by the great Bohemian King Charles IV. After Pontifical High Mass, the new leaders of Catholic Action in Czechoslovakia were presented to Cardinal Kaspar by the general director of Catholic Action, Dr. Wenceslaus Janda, On the next day there took place a giant procession from the church of St. Nicholas to the superb castle of Hradcany, formerly the palace of the Kings of Bohemia, but now residence of the President; and thence to the Cathedral.