100 priests at Oxford congress

HALF of the 400 international delegates to the Patristic :ongress in Oxford this week are atholics. More than 100 of tern are priests.
This is regarded as a striking roof of the vitality of modern 'atholic scholarship in the study f the theological writings of the ethers of the Church—a study to .hich Pope Pius XI gave new life nd impetus.
The delegates at Oxford include le leading Patristic scholars of urope. France and Germany are articularly well represented.
Two of the best known speakers re Fr. Boyer, S.J., editor of Unitas rid a professor at the Gregorian Iniversity in Rome, famed as an uthority on St. Augustine, and Fr. /anidlou, the Jesuit scholar and uthor of many works, whose book n Origen has recently been transited into English.
Fr. Gervase Mathew, 0.P., of lackfriars, has spoken on Greek atristics; Fr. Joseph Crehan, S.J., f Heythrop, on "A New Fragment f Ignatius ad Polycarpum." and, n the occasion of a visit to New. ian's Church, Mgr. Henry Davis, f Oscott, addressed delegates on Newman in Oxford."
Abbot Butter. of Downside. was (petted to speak, and distinguished nglish and foreign Benedictines, iorninicans and Jesuits have been rominent at the Congress conferIces.