ALL SORTS

By
Fr. Bernard Basset, S.J. Give Us Peace AWRITER in the Observer
recently called our attention to dubious peace movements which are springing up like weeds. Support for them is being sought in the professions. Writers have the Authors World Peace Appeal: the clergy arc catered for in Christians and the Crisis; musicians can join the Musicians Organisation for Peace: for teachers there is Teachers for Peace and now the scientists have Science for Peace. Older than all these is the organisation for getting the young to Peace rallies about which we heard so much last year in Berlin.
Youth Peace Festival
AFESTIVAL for Youth. based on the Berlin rally is planned for Sheffield during the Whitsun holiday this year. There are to be sports, cultural competitions, concerts, discussion groups and a monster rally on Whit-Sunday. "Challenge," the weekly paper of the Young Communist League. and The Daily Worker are to give all the publicity they can to this Festival. Poor Sheffield seems to be having more than its share of peace.
Rome Rules by Fear
Rrules by fear. We all may share, The secret of her awesome spell. The Church without a seat to spare, Frightens her flock with fear of Hell. Beverley Nichols tells us so.
And he. apparently, should know.
Beverley, that's all very well. But Catholics are free to quit.
If we thought Rome was wrong, then Hell Would matter not a little hit.
We are not Catholics from fright.
We first find out that Rome is right.
Loyola Hall
rr is an annual pleasure to record • the progress of Loyola Hall, the
Lancashire retreat house at which I was stationed four years ago. A retreat house is no easy place to run in these days, especially a retreat house for men. Loyola Hall has increased its numbers by 800 in four years. Last year 2.000 men made retreats. 626 attended leadership ccurses, 450 school leavers made a day's retreat and, if we count in Clergy retreats and days of recollection, 3.300 men used Loyola Hall.
Promotors
viR, Peter Blake, the Superior. • whose hard work has reaped
such an abundant harvest, admits his great debt to the clergy and to those stalwart Lancashire men who work all the year round to foster interest in retreats. The same recipe would bring the same success in the sale of Catholic papers. Anyhow. Loyola Hall enters a new year with growing confidence and with a course of Cana Conferences planned,
Who put You on to the Herald?
A CORRESPONDENT writes:. " I " was first introduced to THE (...1THOI IC ilERALD by the late PE. Bede Jariett. 0.P., and have.heen a satisfied reader for more than twenty years. Shouldn't you run a series ' Who tried to put you off the HERALD?' I could supply many names. But they all read it in secret."
Tailpiece
A PENI FENT, living on an island " came to confession on the mainland. He had to admit that it was a year since his last confession. The priest suggested that he should go more often. " Father." said the man, "I cannot afford the time for the crossing by boat." "Come by aeroplane," said the priest, " the new service is now open." "Father," said the man, an aeroplane is too expensive for venial sins and too risky for mortal sins."