Love All Missionary Beggars

—SAYS A.P.F. DIRECTOR
By a Stag Reporter
A younger edition of Dr. Heenan in looks, Fr. Stephen Shaw, new Director of the Association of the Propagation of the Faith in England, refers to himself as an ordinary "Presbytery Priest." He issued in September his third book, addressed to other Presbytery Priests ("Salt of the Earth," B.O.W.), accent being on ascetical theology, for which he has a flair.
Yet he enters on his new job as successor to Mgr. Telford in the direction of missionary work in London in the conviction that " if we emphasise the Conversion of England to the exclusion of that of our brothers the Blacks, then we are just forgetting what the doctrine of the Mystical Body is all about."
As he explains: " The good health of the Church in one part is reflected in another part of the world. Providence will see to it that the White country that most helps a Black Country will itself benefit at home from a truly apostolic action." Fr. Shaw ceases in January to be a Presbytery Priest at Stephendale Road, Fulham, where, he confesses, he has all along " welcomed beggars, all and sundry,' meaning that he has in his own way contributed to foreign missionary work by allowing preachers and collectors for the cause to occupy his pulpit from time to time, and to take second collections at Mass, He is confident that you lose nothing by "casting your bread in missionary waters."
Hard commonsense go hand In hand with an itch to write: his grandfather was a Nonconformist Yorkshire minister-writer; his own father meant to enter the ministry, gave it up, came to London. became a Catholic and a journalist, wrote popular sea stories under the name of Captain Shaw. His brother is the business-like Westminster Financial Secretary, parish priest of Maiden Lane, Fr.
John Shaw. .