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The European Crisis "catholic Heraid's" Views
SIR.—I want to thank yDu for your articks on the European crisis. They are, at this perilous momeet, unique in balance and insight. They are free from fanaticism and hypocrisy,......
If War Conieg
_ . was much impressed by the summary of the European crisis published in yesterday's issue, and feel sure it must represent the opinion of all fair-minded people, whose first......
Was It Unfair?
SIR,—Under the heading " Is Germany Getting a Fair Deal?" in your last issue you state that: " We are trying to prevent or to delay the accomplishment of the inevitable union of......
Correspondence Course In Church Latin
hope to have the correspondence course in Church Latin, which I described last week, organised and started by midOctober. So far I have answered all appIicares personally; if......
What Does Youth Think Of Temps Present?
SIR,—I am a professor in a college in France and ara on holiday in London. I receive in France every week a copy of your excellent paper through a friend, and I have nothing but......
Prayer For Peace From The Middle Ages
Su,—I have been reading for the first time some of the poems of Charles of Orleans, the gentle contemporary of Joan of Arc. Much of his work, probably, is of interest only to......
Posts For Catholic Governesses
SIR,—Surely the real snag in the way of a governess (September 9), obtaining a post is not her religion, but the fact that she is uncertificated, and therefore at an immense......
Walsingham's Parent Parish
SIR,—The consecration of the Slipper Chapel being fresh in the minds of your readers together with the news of the erection of the territory of Little WaIsingham, the Slipper......
Voltaire Ignorant Criticism
horn Mr. Alfred Noyes Sere—You have allowed many correspondents, without much knowledge of the facts, to express their views about my Voltaire. In the interests of fair play,......
Mere Title—voltaire--and Shut Their Eyes With A Shudder...
should see him " white-washed." It was not intended as " propaganda." The alleged Arch-Sceptic Was chosen as a subject for the very reason that he was regarded as the......
The Bible In England
SIR.—A quotation from Hilaire Belloc may he of use in the discussion on English Bibles, orthodox and heretical. In A Shorter History of England, pp. 201-202, he writes: " A......
Catholic And To Be A Patriot Are Not Incompatible, That
while ever " rendering to God the things that are God's," we, as Catholics, can " render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's." Finally, let us have more and more Catholic men......
Do So Again? May I Submit That Professor Pantin Has
done no mean service to the Church by pointing the way, the only way to touch the heart of the nation, when he bids us to take an ever-increasing active part in the national......
Former Prisoner Asks— Is Naval Blockade Humane ?
SIR.—Mr. Jerrold makes the assertion that sea-power—meaning blockade—is the most humane of all weapons, and the most effective. I agree that it is the most effective, .but my......
Catholicism And The National Life Plea For Closer Contact
SIR,—"It seems to me most important that Catholics should not regard themselves as an exotic sect, a peculiar people. . . . The Church represents the normal, the traditional,......
But We Do Know Which Country Invaded Belgium In 1914.
You ask " us " (whoever " we " may be) to " look up the history of the British isles," implying that " we" also " have fought for justice by foul as well as by fair means......