1st November 1940
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Catholic Action In The Forces
R.A.F. Institutes Guild of the Sword of the Spirit From a C.H. Reporter " The R.A.F. is in the fore-front of the tight being waged against Germany," said Mgr. Beauchamp, " we......
Belgium's Catholic Premier Readies London
By PETER 1. O'GRADY [Our former correspondent in. Belgium] The Catholic Premier of Belgium, M. Pierlot, and Foreign Minister, M. Spaak, arrived with dramatic suddenness last......
Bolshevik Behaviour Godless Tyranny Works In Occupied...
The murder of an Archbishop and the torturing of monks were cited by the Vatican Radio, speaking to Germany, as examples of Bolshevik behaviour in Soviet-occupied countries.......
Czech Mass
Czech and Polish Ministers filled the nave of Spanish Place last Monday for the Mass celebrated on the occasion of the twentysecond anniversary of the founding of the......
These Children Were Bombed
The main portion of the building of a Boys' Orphanage in North London in charge of the Sisters of Charity of St. Viacent de Paul. suffered damage as the result of a direct hit......
Bishop Of Portsmouth Dead
We reed to announce the death of the Right Rev, W. T. Cotter, third Bishop of Portsmouth, which has occurred suddenly. He had been a Bishop longer than any other member of the......
Axis Plan "europe For The Europeans"
From Our Diplomatic Correspondent The Italian attack on Greece is one incident in an ever widening circle of warfare for which the whole world is now becoming the stage. The......
Inertia And Mismanagement In Large Aircraft Factory
WORKERS' GRAVE ALLEGATIONS TO CATHOLIC HERALD A startling story of inefficiency and mismanagement in a large aircraft factory has been brought to the attention of the Catholic......
45,000 Refugees In Lourdes
Summer is the season for the great pilgrimages to the Grotto of Massabielle, but last summer with war clouds hovering, pilgrimages were cancelled and Lourdes became a deserted......
Papal War Requiem
The Pope officiated at a Requiem in St. Peters on Thursday last for all persons killed in the present war, according to a report issued by B.U.P. a semi-official agency authority....
Aid Britain U.s. Prelates, Professors And Catholic Lay...
Sixty prominent Catholics in U.S.A. have appealed for aid to Britain. This is their appeal : " We, as American citizens - and Catholic Christians, believe that American......
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The Question Of Size Vital To Liberty
SIR—YOU have published a letter which suggested that size was one of the factors to be recognised in social reconstruction, i.e., every organisation tends to become too large.......
T.u.s And Catholics Remember Cardinal Manning
SIR—The difficulties in these days of reporting, writing up, cutting down, and proof-reading must account for the extraordinary mix-up of the sentence in my account of the......
Forgiveness
SIR,—One thing seems very strange to me now (I miss very few sermons in our church). Since the start of this war with Germany I have never once heard a sermon preached on " Love......
St. Jude
SIR,—Would you allow me to thank all those who have sent me booklets and particulars about St. Jude? In many cases the senders have not given their names—hence my request that I......
Christian Social Order The Economists
SIR,—Captain Curd's reply to my letter follows very much the lines that I expected it to take. The question 1 put to him is, of course, again unanswered, for to speak of myself......
False Philosophers
Ste.—The point about the experts mentioned by Mr. Benvenisti is not so much that they are orthodox economists as false philosophers. They are out to produce the maximum amount......
The Small Machine Sir,—i Was Very Glad To See The
letter of Mr. E. H. Bliss in this week's issue, and Particularly to note that the writer sees the (Continued in next column). dilemma confronting the user of the small......
England's Resistance The Christian's Opportunity
SIR.—Events have confirmed my belief that Herr Hitler expected, by an overpowering air assault, to subdue Britain in October and exact an armistice on November 11. He reasoned,......
Army Morals
Ste,-1 am afraid Mrs. Ncilan begs the question when she says that if a woman is soliciting a soldier he should repel all her advances and tell her to clear out. By reason of an......
"shamado Loyalty" When Churchill Was The Enemy
Sul,—The " Loyalty " of the Six Counties of Ulster I have experienced since I was born in Portadown seventy years ago, and its brass faceduess has in no way altered, only that......
Business As Usual
Apostolate of the Prayer-Card is still going full swing in spite of the disaster to the Mission House, and is now definitely established among Anglicans, whose clergy especially......
Poplar Catholics
Ste,--1 was horrified to see the results of carelessness in my notes last week, so that I said " last year's evacuation from Poplar resulted in notable infidelity among the......
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Your Garden Is Vital In War
By E. I. KING, M.A., F.R.H.S. SOME little time ago I mentioned that if you are going to plant fruit trees this year you should dig over the site. Following my advice, you now......
In A Christian Society Physical Labour Is Holy
By Erie Gill A S usual it is necessary to begin at the beginning. Work, as the dictionary says, is " the exertion of energy, physical or mental." In cornmon speech, however,......
Here's The Answer..
LONGS ASTROLOGY: We have received further letters on this subject, and, since interest in such pretended sciences always increases in time of war or crisis, we have decided to......
7. L. Benvenisti Writes On
A Just International Order (XXI) Before I go further may I draw attention to a very comical misprint in last week's note by which I was made to speak of something called " the......
Rota, The Tribunal Of The Christian Family
" Let us implore divine pity and clemency that the tempest which has hurled humanity into misery may be tranquillized, that the sky may be cleared and the dawn of peace, so......
English Cooking Stimulated By
WAR By Louis Borrill " VACANCIES at -Farm. Country Food Cooking." Does that suggest plates crouching in ashes, huge fireplaces where little pots perch upon iron lips, and......
Fr. Gabriel Richard Priest Who Served In Congress
Fr. Gabriel Richard, only Catholic priest ever to serve in the Congress of the United fastes. richly deserves to be remembered," President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote in a......
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The Lesson Of Greece
T HE wanton invasion of Greece by Mussolini raises once again what we have stated to 'be the fundamental problem of contemporary Europe: the divorce between Christian moral......
Savin G The Home He Country Is Indebted To The London
Evening News for a recent leading article, entitled " The Fight For The Home." Having pointed out how Hitler " has steadily undermined the family life that is the basis of......
Col Umn
7 HUMPHREY JOHNSON Gibraltar W HEN I was three years old my father brought home two handkerchiefs from Gibraltar. One had a picture of a bull-fight and the other a picture of......
Recent Remarks
Wise and Otherwise "The world ought never to be cynical again. Horrible as air war is, the heroism and patience with which it has been endured are greater still, and ought to......
Are We Unpatriotic
The Danger Of Complacent Drifting Only A Victory For Christianity Can Save Us By Michael de la Bedoyere I F are fighting to save our own necks and to prevent Britain or her......
In A Few Words
Peter's Bark Sinking ? I WONDER how many readers noticed a rather sensational misprint in last week's CAI HOLIC HERALD in a report of a speech made by the Bishop of Nottingham?......
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Italian Attacks . Against The Pope Assailed In A Stinging...
Attacks levelled against the Pope by Roberto Farinacce editor of Regime Fascista, have drawn a stinging rebuke from Mgr. Giovanni Canard, Bishop of Cremona. " It is sad, and......
Rest Of The News
Maritain Appointed to Columbia; Jacques Maritain, French philosopher and s leading authority on the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas, has been appointed visiting professor of......
"we Can No Longer Afford To Be Moles"
—SAYS U.S. PRELATE Mgr. Francis I. Spellman, Archbishop of New York, one of America's most influential prelates, lately illustrated the remarkable change which has come over......
Nazis Still Persecute Religion —but They Do It Underground
Silencing and ridicule, rather than outward persecution, is the method now adopted by the Nazi regime against the Christian Churches, and particularly against Catholics,......
Catholic Action In Unoccupied France
Conditions in unoccupied France are such at the moment that Catholic Action can be pushed forward intensively in response to the watchword of its leaders: "Go ahead, more than......
Notes And Comments
DIPLOMATIC MANCEUVRES jvilit. Churchill's speech to the French was made in view of the HokinHitler meeting which took place immediately afterwards in an unmentioned part of......
Communism Is The Great Danger Of Civilisation
—Says Capt. McCullagh "Having lived both among the Nazis in Germany and the Bolsheviks in Russia, I can testify from personal experience that the Bolsheviks are the more......
Priest Settles Labour Dispute
A Chicago parish priest recently settled a dispute which had involved two strikes since April of this year, Mgr. Dennis J. Dunne was accepted as chairman of a board of......
Irish News Letter
BRITISH REFUGEES Are Welcome in Ireland Front Our Own Correspondent DUBLIN. Those of us in Ireland who have friends and relatives in England (and who has not?) rejoiced when......
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By Julian Laughter
B ECAUSE, it is associated with things of the mind rather than with things of the spirit, laughter has never been accorded its true place in the scale of degrees by which Saint......
Let's Have A Personal Social Reconstruction
By C. C. Martindale O N arriving in Rome, we naively promised ourselves a speedy visit to the new Apostleship of the Sea centre down the Tiber. Vain imagination. In the few......
Boys Town Broadcasts Fr. Flanagan Speaks To Parents
Boys Towns Nebraska, Fr. Flanagan's famous home which was filmed, has a turn on the radio now on Sundays, It is fr. Flanagan's personal programme in which he is featared with......
Answers To Ecclesiastical Quiz
Questions are on page 3. 1. A Council, convened by the Holy See, of the Bishops, and others entitled to vote, of the whole world, or a representative number of them. Papal......
To All Who Desire To Understand Ireland This...
The Irish Free State rind its Senate: A Study in Contemporary Politics. By Donal O'Sullivan. (Faber and Faber, 25s.). Reviewed by SENATOR DESMOND FITZGERALD T HE first purposg......
None Of This Suicidal
policy of palliation However. our young students stuck to it, and impressed them so much that some of them, after going to confession, almost ivorked harder than the students......
Christian Peace
Lord, If. Thou wilt, Bid men their warfare cease. And bring to suffering peoples Hope, and peace! Plant in all hearts That Love, and Charity. Without which on this earth no......
Film Nollywood's
Anti-Divorce Film BY IRIS CONLAY HOLLYWOOD'S first contribution towards the fight of the Church against divorce " is the hierarchy of America's reaction to a new Paramount......
Fiction
CONVICTION COMES SLOWLY Compton Mackenzie's hero approaches Catholicism West to North. By Compton Mackenzie, (Chatio and Windus, 9s 6c1.). Fame ts thy Spirt. By Howard......
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Episcopal Engagements
Cardiff The following engagements for Mgr. M. McGrath, Archbishop of Catcliff, are officially announced: Friday, November 1.—Attends Solemn High Mass at the Cathedral at II......
Appointments
Hexham and Newcastle The following newly-ordained priests have been appointed in the diocese of Hexham and Newcastle: The Rev. Joseph Smyth, Our Lady Immaculate and St.......
Jubilees
THE REV. E. COSTELLO The Rev. Edward Costello, St. Patrick's, Felling, celebrated his 50th, year in the priesthood last Monday. Educated at Ushaw College, near Durham, where he......
90 For Huts
After providing for thetr own canteen for the Forces at Newcastle, the Newcastle C.W.L. has forwarded a subscription of £90 to the headquarters of the C.W.L. towards the upkeep......
Bishop's Broadcast From Leeds Cathedral
The Bishop of Leeds, Mgr. H. J. Poskitt, will preach at a special service of hymns and prayers to be broadcast from St. Anne's Cathedral, Leeds, on Sunday morning next. November......
The Church Of Our Lady Of Seven Dolours, Stowmarket,...
is to have a stained-glass window, the gift of the late Rev. F. Donovan, who died last summer....
Victory Shrine For London? Suggested Pooling Of...
An interesting suggestion was made by Canon Walton, parish priest of Our Lady of Victories, the Kensington church which was recently destroyed in an air raid, when he preached......
Ordinations
St. Edmund's, Ware At an ordination held at St. Edmund's, Ware, on Sunday, October 27, Bishop Myers , conferred the Diaconate on the Revy. H. Thompson, L. Collingwood, E.......
Cathedral Choirmaster • St. Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham,...
of the services of its choirmaster. Mr. Basil Krauth is now in a searchlight regiment, and has composed a motet for boys' voices and organ, which was sung recently for the first......
Glasgow Learns That London Town's Not Falling Down
Front Our Own Correspondent GLASGOW. The Goebbelesque picture of a London razed to the ground; of bombers roaring over seething wreckage and sheets of flame while the......
C.y.m.s., Birmingham
At the annual meeting and quarterly conference of the Birmingham North District Council of the C.Y.M.S., held last Sunday at St. Augustine's, Handsworth, the Rev. Joseph Boland,......
Obituaq
Canon Lee POPULAR PLYMOUTH PRIEST Canon John Lee, parish priest of Axminster, Devon, was found dead in bed on October 22. The Canon had suffered Irons heart trouble for nearly......
Five More In Honours Lists
Recent awards include the George Medal to Fire-Sergt. Daniel James Collins and to Sub-Officer William Brown, both of the Cardiff Fire Brigade, in recognition of gallant conduct......
Fr. Wilfrid, O.f.m. Cap.
On Saturday, October 12, the Feast of St. Wilfrid of York, there died in St, Pancras' Hospital, London, one of the oldest priests of the Capuchin Franciscan Order in England.......
Dom Maternus Spitz, O.s.b.
News has been received via America of the death, last month, at Louvain of Dom Maternus Spitz, O.S.B. He worked in the parish of Erdington Abbey, Birmingham, from 1905 to 1922,......
On Active Service
Pilot Officer Aubrey Leslie Mayo, R.A.F., 26, of Kilburn, killed by bomb whilst on leave. Aircraftman Edward Moore, Cardiff, died on active service....
The Church Moves On Mgr. Marshall Opens New Kettering Church
Front a Special Correspondent KETTERING. When the new £11,000 church of St. Edward, Kettering, was opened recently, it was announced that a legacy of £5,000 left by the late......
Besford Court Annual Survey
Statistics taken from this year's official Survey issued by the Besford Court Mental Welfare Hospital, Worcester, show that at the date of publication (June 30) there were 131......
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Anglican Bishop's Tribute To The Pope
By A. C. F. BEALES Here at last, in the universally known series of " Penguins " that sell by the million, is a book that will be sold at every church door in the country. The......
U.s.a.'s Catholic Youth Rally Condemns Aggression, Wars...
" Catholic Youth Speaks on the ROle of Christian Democratic Ideals in the New World Order." On this *erne a three-day conference of 4,000 Chicalgis Catholic youth was held last......
Thousands Of Poles Sent To Siberia
Several hundred thousand Poles in that section of their country now under Soviet Russian domination have been ruthlessly deported to Siberia, the Polish Embassy in Washington......
U.s. Communists Banned From The Vote
The American Democracy is beginning to realise that its Liberalism does not mean that every citizen is free to do or speak as he likes. The rising patriotic fervour accompanying......
Canadian Chaplains' Chief Coming To England
Mgr. C. L. Nelligan, Bishop of Pembroke and Ordinary to the Canadian Active Service Force, will soon be going overseas to see the troops and chaplains there. Bishop Nelligan......
Occupied France's Priests Write Of Two Hungers-religion...
" f am a prisoner in a huge camp. I do not know when we will be liberated. I am preaching retreat after retreat. Life Is hard. Many die from hunger." " I escaped once, but was......
Acmonital Coinage For Papal City
A new series of coin for the Papal State, made of acmonital, a special alloy adopted by Italy to save nickel for war purposes, will be in circulation soon, states B.U.P.......
Catholic Evacuation Report To Be Sent To Bishops
From Our Own Correspondent MANCHESTER. " There is little evidence that Catholic children suffered physically, spiritually, ar morally from being in the reception areas, though......
Montreal's Seminary Celebrates Centenary
The Grand Seminary of Montreal, Alma Mater to some eighty Bishops and over seven thousand five hundred priests of whom three thousand two hundred are still living, celebrated......
Why Was H. G. Wells Allowed To Represent Britain In U.s.a.?
"A pagan of the pagans" comments M.P. The pagan views of H. G. Wells were the subject of stinging comment in the House of Commons last week when the question of granting him......
News Of Famous French Writers Paul Claudel Is Safe
It is reported from France that the wellknown Catholic poet and writer, M. Paul Claudel, formerly French Ambassador to the United States, is in safety and is living -Ittietly in......
Nun Cured At Loreto
The remarkable cure of a nun during a pilgrimage to Loreto has just been made known in Vatican City, writes the N.C.W.C. Sister Santina, of the Daughters of Divine Providence,......
More Rosaries Wanted Urgently
Rosaries for the troops are still uigently needed and the CATHOLIC HERALD collection is getting low. Practically every letter from Chaplains to this office includes an appeal......
Fordham's Million And A Half Dollar Centenary Fund
The Jesuit University of Fordham, New York, has announced that it will attempt to raise a Centenary Fund of 1,570,000 dollars in connection with the all-year celebration of......
80,000 Cardinal's Crosses Distributed
Over 80,000 of the Cardinal's Crosses have so far been distributed, and mainly to members of His Majesty's Forces. The committee managing the distribution was bombed out of the......
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Production in this factory decreased with each reverse After reading the memorandum and listening to them speak for a few minutes in a language less restrained than the letter......
" Church Times " Accuses Jesuits The Society's Answer
A paragraph in the Church Times of October 4, commenting on the centenary of the Society of Jesus, after admitting " the virtues and achievements of the Order of St. Ignatius,"......
French Royalist Paper Changes Its Mind The Extraordinary...
has I taken place in the French Press in the last two months with regard to Great Britain was reflected in an editorial published by the Royalist newspaper L'Action Francaise.......