In a Few Words By Jotter

Pentecost Apostle
Pat Keegan I MUST start this week with a few words about Pat Keegan, who is to receive the Knighthood of St. Gregory on Saturday, even though I write just before the tremendous feast of Pentecost. Nor is this inappropriate. for Pat may be said to be a Pentecost man. For years he has been trying to co-operate with the Holy Spirit in renewing the earth. And this is quite literal, as any reader who turns to the profile of Pat on page six this week will see. Out of the masses of Young Christian Workers, the Founder, Mgr. Cardijn, chose Pat to accompany him on the immense apostolic tours to every corner of the globe to study the social situation, to preach the Christian dignity and vocation of the worker. to offset Marxist materialistic error by Catholic idealistic truth. to establish the Young Christian Workers and, in doing so, to establish the principles of contemporary lay epostolate which would be taken up by other movements besides the Y.C.W. One reason was certainly that Pat was an Englishman possessing the lingua franca of the international scene. But the international secretary of the J.O.C. has many qualities apart from speaking English. Mgr. Cardijn is one of the world's shrewdest judges of men.
No clericalised layman ONE must speak with restraint of living people—especially of their virtues, else they will never speak to you again. But what I like about Pat is that he possesses all the qualities which we do nor associate with what I once described as the clericalised layman. He says all the wrong things. He is a bundle of nervous energy. He is a "good companion"—the embodiment of the anti-puritan. After ten minutes' conversation you find yourself quite surprised that there is any Church left. Rut all this, you soon discover, is simply his immense Incarnational hope, his certainty that the face of the earth can be renewed with commonsense, with zeal, above all with the weapons which the Church, which the Popes, have put into the hands of every Catholic with a little imagination and real apostolic sense. He just instinctively goes to the heart of the matter. and 1 am sure that he is terribly mystified that everyone else does not go with him Writing about • Mgr. Cardijn I PERSONALLY owe to him a recent commission to write up the life and work of Mgr. Cardijn. I could hardly believe my ears when he told me that no book about this great pioneer of the modern lay apostolate or about the Y.C.W. itself with its two mil• lion members had ever been written. They were all much too busy to make themselves properly known. I started knowing practically nothing. but I soon found myself amazed at the fact that it was in the first and second decades of this century that the young Abbe Cardijn worked out the principles of the lay apostolate, linked with liturgical development throughout the Church. He was interested in the young worker. then the prey of Marxism and anticlericalism, but in working out the apostolic solution for that particular problem, he also found the basic solution for the modern apostolate. This is a big claim. but I believe it is true. Mgr. Cardijn, I believe, is one of the biggest men in the Church today.
Prince Charles Edward
LORD DILLON, a Vice-Presid
ent of the Royal Stuart Society, while gently protesting at a Catholic paper calling Prince Charles Edward the "Young Pretender", says "it is true that Prince Charles Edward Stuart did make a declaration of Protestantkm in the Anglican church of St. Mary-le-Strand". He adds: "1 am glad to say that he was reconciled to the Catholic Church later on." And he refers those interested to "Charles. Prince Regent" by A. G Goyder. Another correspondent. Colonel Malcolm Castle, gives a list of five biographies which deal with the matter. But Sir Compton Mackenzie in "Prince Charlie" holds that the reception was in either St. Martin-in-the-Fields or in St. Clement Dane's.
The full story MR. DONALD C. POWELL ' gives a longer account which will be of interest: "It is not generally known," he writes, "that the Young Pretender visited England more than ohce after the failure of the '45. On September 12 (1750), he left Antwerp. arrived in London on the 16th; and without any warning walked into the drawing-room of Lady Primrose in Essex Street, Strand. in the middle of a card party at which half the company were Whigs. After this he strolled round the Tower of London with a Colonel Brett. and discussed a project to seize it by a coup de main. He met fifty of his followers in a room in Pall Mall. including the Duke of Beaufort
and the Earl of Westmorland, examined St. James's Palace, and wound up this extraordinary visit by being received into the Anglican Church at St. Clement Danes —some say at St. Martin's-in-theFields."
1809 Appeal for Funds QTONYHURST are ingeniously " basing their appeal for funds to enlarge the school and equip more adequately for science on an interesting historical precedent. In 1809 the Hon. Robert Clifford made a similar appeal for help for " the gentlemen of Stonyhurst who were forced to make a precipitate retreat from Liege" because "the present advanced state of Science in Europe makes it absolutely necessary for persons charged with the Education of Youth to replace these losses at
least in part." Among those who helped on that occasion was the non-Catholic hero of the Rattle of Cape St. Vincent in 1795, ViceAdmiral Jervis, who was made Earl
St. Vincent for his pains. I reproduce the letter he wrote to Clifford which refers to Hoare's Bank, which still stands only a stone's throw away from the CATHOLIC HERALD office and is patronised by some of our staff.
The Letter DEAR Sir,—The education of
several of my young friends, among the Cathulicks, appears to me so vety defective, that I most willingly have directed my Bankers (Messrs. Hoare of Fleet Street) to lode Fifty Pounds with Messrs. Wright of Henrietta Street, as my subscription to the Stonyhurst Seminary. of which I augur well, from the proficiency you made under its auspices; and I trust the time is fast approaching when all the Professions will be open to a Numerous and Loyal Body of my Fellow Subjects.
Lady St. Vincent sends you her best wishes and 1 always am yours most truly.
Rochetts St. Vincent Literature for Burma THE problem of counteracting cheap Communistic and antiChristian literature in the East can only be disregarded at our own peril. I have received a suggestion that in memory of the murder of Brother Edmund Burke, the La Salle Principal in Burma, readers would wish to respond to the appeal from St. Paul's High School. Rangoon. Lower Ittirma. which reads: "3.100 English speaking Burmese Boys — Urgently needed to counteract Communism, etc., all kinds of Catholic literature, books. C.T.S. and other pamphlets. magazines. newspapers," There are 24.000 Catholics in Rangoon. but apparently no Catholic readingmatter in the shops.