Page 2, 19th August 1949

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Sartre And St. Thomas

SIR,-1 am always a little nervous lest the difficult language in which philosophical issues have to be discussed. may obscure from the general reader the grave matters at stake.......

The Practical Choice Sir, — In The Spanish War I...

Nationalists in spite of the fact that they had accepted the assistance of a dictator who was even at that time persecuting the Church. The Benedictine who showed me over the......

Catholic Scientists

SIR,—One paragraph in Dr. Sherwood Taylor's fine article provokes me to join issue with him On what, I think, is a very important matter. I do this with the reluctance and......

Sewer Gas In Catholic Novels

following passage appears to be so very much to the point that you will perhaps allow me to quote it at length, '' During the last quarter of a century . . . the English man of......

Churchill's Moral Judgments

St,'—Mr. Churchill's great qualities as a war leader tend to obscure the fact that he is also a politician with an eye (roguish or otherwise) not seldom directed towards a......

Tenth Collection Sie,--1 Have Always Been Opposed To A...

collection at Mass on the ground that it is distracting, especially to communicants. Recently, however, I spent some four weeks in Holland, and the multiplicity of collections......

Protestant Schools In Spain

Slit,—Now that Fr. Iribarren has abandoned Dr. Halliday Sutherland I have no excuse for taking up any more of your valuable space oti this matter. Fr. hibarren's letter is a......

Tithes And Offerings

SIR, - 1 am afraid that in these days of excessive taxation, only to mention one item, is asking too much of the ordinary folk. I do think, however, that we have far too many "......

Irish Delegates At Strasbourg Sig.—your Dublin...

Irish News Letter" stated that the Irish delegation to the Assembly of the Council of Europe was picked on a broad basis. This statement is not correct. All those picked were......

Points From Letters

Was It Necessary ? Was it really necessary for Fr. Brodrick, in answering Mr. Comfort's arguments, to say that he finds Mr. Comfort's novel nauseating, and his poems too......

Is There Not A Great Development Of Devotion To The...

Yes. A development of expression, an unfolding of the implicit. All is " in a nutshell " from the earliest ages, The lush flowering of later ages—e.g., of St. Alphonsus, or St.......