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Building Schools
The Lowest Cost SIR,-As one of the Catholic architects now engaged in wrestling with the vexed questions referred to in Fr. Tak's letter, I can assure him I would readily and......
What Is " Decency "?
Ste, " Inglesa Catolica," com plaining of Spanish customs, should read Dr. Messenger's Two In One Flesh, H, p. 196, where he quotes from St. Thomas and St. Augustine: " Offences......
The Church And The Workers
no more desire to idolize the common man than to make an idol of the uncommon man, even if the latter has written so uncommonly good a book as The Good Gorilla, a book which......
Modern Catholic
FICTION SrR,-M. W. Greenslade's criticism of Mr. Brooks's use of analogy seems to me most unfair and off the point. I know of no rules which demand that the use of analogy be......
"the Strong Man Armed"
SIR,---l am not clear exactly what Father Deacy means when he says that the passage about the strong man armed seems to support a refusal to rely on material weapons for safety.......
'the Knox Translation
SIR.-" Ex-Anglican " picks out a word here and a phrase there from Mgr. Knox's translation used in the new B. & 0. Missal, and has not one word of praise or gratitude for the......
"how Things Began"
A B.B.C. Children's Programme SIR,-May I draw your atten. tion to the prospectus issued by the B.B.C. of a series of broadcasts beginning on September 19 entitled " How Things......
The 16th Century Bishops St.-may I Add A Few Words
to Commander Kerr's letter on the 16th century Bishops in England? On the question of the Papal Supremacy, St. Thomas More, writing to Cromwell in 1534, said: " I was myself......
Charles Ii
Srit,-I am open to correction of course about Charles 11 but I do not see how any historian can overcome the evidence attaching to (1) the secret clauses of the Treaty of Dover......
High Mass In Ireland
can inform 'Cyttrow - Trofft personal experience that the proCathedral is not the only church in Dublin where High Mass is celebrated. It is celebrated every Sunday and on......
A Matter Of Honour
Three Telegrams SIR,-I submit that, in common honesty, the case of Spain-for or against the present regime thereshould not be argued so long as the fantastic silence with regard......
Liberty In Spain
Sig,-May I suggest that the remarks of Mr. B. Sullivan, the Socialist vice-chairman of the London County Council, on this subject should receive wide publicity in the Catholic......
Religious Persecution,
Sue-Mr. Frederick Lohr writes that he is puzzled as to why the hatred of Catholicism on the part of the Germans was confined apparently to certain districts and prison camps of......
" Going Through The Customs "
Ste,-Though it is rather late in the season to mention it, may I suggest that a great deal of worry and heart-burning to tourists would be saved if it were an understood thing......
Is Silence Charitable?
SIR. Some years before the War, the contemplative life, the prayers and mortifications of enclosed nuns, was recognised in the Netherlands as "an element of public benefit."......
Political Prisoners
The Voice of One of Them' SIR,-It was recently my privilege to visit a well-known Catholic writer who is at present unfairly condemned to a long term of imprisonment in Saint......
Democracy In Slovenia
Ste,---In a recent article, published in your paper, about Tito and his quarrel with Stalin, the opinion has been expressed that in " those parts of the world," by which......
Points From Letters
Bookstalls I must protest at a recent heading "Cleaning up Bookstalls." The paragraph refers to books that were displayed for sale at one book-shop in Blackburn. To most people......
Did You Say, Some Time Since, Tha " Some Marriages
of Protestant sects are not valid in the Catholic Church "? No. The marriage of non-Catholics is recognised as valid when in accordance with Natural and Divine positive Law. If......