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It is graven on the of the greatest penances consists in the keeping of the Ten Aren't all who walk about in their health and strength to be must take pride of place . face with the cross , with mortification , with penance . But Truth to tell , her impressions of Massabielle differed little from thousands from every nation under heaven , by the glory of the torchlight procession , but above all by the unearthly courage of the Redeemer's Cross is everywhere in Mary's City . It is February our thoughts should turn to Lent and to the closing we have little difficulty in keeping , but the ' one that we find UST a year or two ago an Irish mother went to 1.nurdes . mean by this ? pondered the pilgrim from Ireland . " What I realised that not for nothing does a huge cross tower over the escaped . It is implicit in the words of Our Lady to Bernadette . spoke of it to one of the famous Lourdes Handmaids . and got it cruelty hard to obey . Do we not remember that it was the in their spirit of faith . " Her maternal heart trimmed over with mortification has its place in Lent , but the penance of duty father dermat , c.P. quiet reply . the pain-wracked invalid . " And you too , Madame , " came the we begin to see how fitting it is that in the same month of we ! " This strange pity didn't seem to make sense , so she pity for all the afflicted , but in particular for one - for a daughter of Massabielle and Lent have much in common . ' In fact , they Finally , don't take the sweetness from your penitential gift NOW perhaps we begin to see why the words ' Lourdes ' and thoughts on paper for publication in a Catholic magazine . pitied if they haven't learned , as the invalids have learned , that ' And you too . Madame ! ' What on earth can she possibly eturn . " Both Lourdes and Lent. therefore , bring us face to the Way of the Cross is the way to heaven ? ' have the Cross of Christ in common . The millions who have Nor will the Church allow us to forget the sign of our salvation Lord Himself who assured us that the proof of our love for God season she uses ashes to imprint the cross upon our foreheads ... . scowl . The Lord still loves the cheerful giver . by offering it to God with the martyred look , with the forbidding Penance , penance , penance . " of France who lay prostrate on her stretcher her face furrived been to Lourdes during the past twelve months must have Remember , man , that thou art dust , and into dust thou shalt Her pilgrimage over , she returned home and set down her what do these mean in practice ? Well , they mean a wide brows of men whose souls bear the pain which their bodies have Pic du Jer to look down on the milling throngs . Indeed the seal ours or mine . She was owed by the flaming faith of thronging s she leads us into Lent . On the opening day of the penitential patience of countless invalids , broken in body but in his for a startling explanation : " Sure of course she titled you it " are placed side by side at the top of this page . andments . " Yes , all ten of them-not just the ni te Lourdes Centenary Year . Quite obviously the discurned in the patient's eyes was limitless pity ... " pity for rned in the patient's eyes was limitless pity ... . is of men whose souls bear the pain which their bo Nihil Obstat : Imprimi Potest : censor Dep. juannes Fitzpatrick , M.A.D.D. , Joannes Carolus , Archiep . Dublinen . --- Page 9 --- faith ever burns before the Grotto . on February 18th , but the flame of The Lourdes Centenary Year closes February 1959 No. 10 . Vol.49 No.10 . In this Issue : --- Page 10 --- agnostics to theism . The lodge offers Christian Anyone with curiosity about the subject can those who believe in them are warned not to including most of Christendom , will sit in the in the immortality of the soul , is better than admission into Masonry ? We find a number of the " profane " ? Are they the keys to spiritual physical , and mental happiness ? universal religion . Masonry carries man back fruitless memorization are not even secret . easily procure all the genuine Masonic rituals the Truth , and the Life . men a pre-Christian religious worship , theology , such advantages dangled before prospective universe ? Are these secrets too blinding in secret grips and ritual mumbo jumbo . The paid in the coin of the realm and in hours of dissatisfied Master Mason must be enticed by Alas , they consist of a few pass-words and the carrot of higher and higher degrees to find the sacraments or established a Church . great nor secret . Are these the secrets of the to deny the claims of Jesus Christ and seek and morality . to convert twenty-century atheists and atheism . Masonry , however does not labour We readily admit that a belief in God and members of the lodge , but none of these with- For all Masonry cares , the Second Person of sectarian " and " peculiar " doamas and In the first place , the lodge promises to What is more , the secrets for which he has the Blessed Trinity might never have become Christ. not Buddha or Mohammed , is the Way , drag them into the temples of Masonry's mass organization of 4,000,000 men are illusory . he wishes . make its initiates privy to great secrets . They Christian revelation . man or died for man's sins , never have instituted alone with absolutely no reference to the to a pre-Christian reliance on human reason never does . The great secrets of the lodge are neither He should have known that real secrets in a will be " in " while the rest of mankind , see in the lodge which would induce him stand examination . Masonry delegates these to the categories of WHAT possible advantages would a Christian the secrets he expected in the Blue Lodge . He darkness outside . Nowhere does Masonry promise more and deliver less . not become Buddhists or Moslems because brilliance for the minds of women , children , and --- Page 11 --- Reprinted with permission of the Bruce senile from its temples . ' The only ones who are who are most unlikely ever to need charitable accepted for Masonic membership are those they do not find in their own homes or in their administers an immoral oath , and often engages Finally , some men are wooed into the lodge Christ is our Saviour . Not by the mock death conformists " may be disposed of by means grandiose titles , to command a respect that by simple vanity , by the opportunity to claim what thanks have ye ? Do not even the publicans Not the Grand Architect of the Universe many lodges . It should . Practically all the help in adversity would do better to put his opportunities to serve his fellow man need not On the other hand , one who is looking for WHEN we deny the compatibility of the Spirit is our God . Not Hiram Abiff but Jesus but their consistency . common , stocks , bonds , bank deposits , or real in or tolerates anticlericalism , we have a occupations . Some find an escape from an propagates an erroneous religion of naturalism not deny that such fellowship flourishes in Christian obligation to love Masons . of Christ which turns no one from her doors . Although we believe that Masonry ultimately and the spirit of religious indifference . oppressively feminine social life in the all-male Anyone so foolish as to rely on the lodge for must find it in the Masonic lodge . south work , in service clubs , and in hundreds Publishing Co. ) . is that any man looking for companionship and resurrection rite of the Master Mason's What no one can seriously propose , however , Protestant , bourgeois . Such jarring topics as fues and assessments into insurance , annuities . exclusive lodge and the all embracing Church of other organizations . of the black ball . but God the Father , the Son , and the Holy members fall into the same social class : white , question the sincerity of Protestant Masons degree but by the sacrament of baptism do we GOOD fellowship is another promise which religion and politics are outlawed . " Non- assistance . " If we love them that love you , look for them in the lodge . He can find abundant opportunities in his church , in Again , what a difference between the undermines the Christian basis of society . become children of God and heirs of Heaven . lodge and the Christian faith we do not estate . the lodge makes its candidates and we will the same ? ' lodge . 303 . --- Page 12 --- glorious . 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Page 13 --- Sometimes it's said that St. John . It is a treasury of literature with a king or parliament . This is the important f a co-operative work between God and human few footnotes , indicate that seven books and (sixty-five by their count ) which were written average Protestant Bible , add and subtract a of the Protestant position : in Catholic Bibles If we are properly to understand and evaluate agree that it is inspired . It is then , the result more than one thousand years , from Moses to hese differences we should consider just what by dozens of different authors over a period of the Bible is God's book ; He is the principal they give the Catholic interpretation . Seldom thing they wrote . So we may rightly say that are naturally slanted towards a justification We call it the Word of God , and all Catholics but a collection of seventy-two different books English versions came to us . impulse to write , and assisted them in every- Testament , and simply publish it with her they used their own intellect , memory , and imagination ; they chose their own words and 0 . Bibles are usually published with the danger is in the notes . a Bible society , or with the authorization of it has an Imprimatur . The Protestant Bible The sacred writers were His instruments . the Catholic Bible is edited , printed , and issued from reading the text of a Protestant Bible ; may be published on private authority , or by abundant footnotes , explanations , and com- law , narrative , in poetry and drama , prophecy writers . " God chose the writers , gave them the mentaries . In Protestant Bibles these notes difference , because the Church could take the could any practical danger come to a Catholic the Bible is and the manner in which its various a few chapters are omitted from the Old with the explicit permission of the Church : Basic Difference . expressed their ideas in their own personal style . nspiring examples of great writing in history . As you know , the Bible is not a single book . Imprimatur and thus make it her own . and parable . God's Own Letter . 1 . The real fundamental difference is that author . 305 . --- Page 14 --- call deutero-canonical , i.e. belonging to the languages . His translation of the Bible into the Septuagint , and it was the version of the consideration of these seven books - which we of that time , or at least by those who were Apocrypha . Other Protestant churches were the first Christian scholar thoroughly familiar Collecting these books was a great task : And they were likewise generally accepted by Latin came to be known as the Vulgate , and the Catholic Old Testament today . Apparently Second Canon-but finally all rejected them for a long time uncertain or important in their responsible for the translation into Greek . there ( some of them even in Babylonia during because of its venerable antiquity it is the world's St. ' Terome , who died in the year 420 , was was for succeeding centuries the most common consonants ; no printing presses or photostat On its own merits as human literature and forgotten their Hebrew and were losing contact Luther rejected these seven books and put entirely apart from all other writings on earth . beyond the borders of Palestine . They had the Captivity ) , scribbled by hand on leather . all these books were accepted by the Jews of them in the back of his Bible , calling them Christ , the Jewish people were scattered widely books , about the fifth century before Christ . as " first-class " Scripture ! IT would appear that the Torah , or Pentateuch the early days of Christianity . Tradition has given the prophet Esdras By the middle of the third century before the year 250 b.c. and all the other books by parchment , or papyrus ; no vowels used , only God's own letter to His people puts it in a class writings of a thousand years , found here and greatest anthology . But the fact that it is credit for making the first collection of sacred machines ; and only a few people able to read into Greek , so that the dispersed Jews could I and II Machabees . It had all the forty-five books which are in scriptures most widely known and used in with the Hebrew Bible and various Semitic the first five books were translated about with their Scriptures and traditions . So a the early Christians . St. Jerome's Translation the year 100 B.c. This translation is called Tobias . Ecclesiasticus , Wisdom , Baruch , and read it . 306 . translation of the Old Testament was made at all . mentioned earlier have ago among the Jews . been the subject of much dispute . It began long The seven books . ago among the Jews . The books are Judith . The seven books mentioned earlier have ago among the Jews . The book robias . Ecclesiasticus , The books are Judith . ch dispute . It began long --- Page 15 --- the eighteenth century by Bishop Richard letter written by Almighty God to His children identifiable with the original . The most know what books are in the Bible with divinely known to the children . As a wise and loving 1948 a similar group of American scholars set Old Testament from the original languages and approval . How can anyone possibly before the recent Confraternity edition of the important of these was made in the middle of by tearing it up and throwing part of it away . mother she acts discreetly . The younger be harmed by some of the passages in it . parts of the Father's letter : they might even children there in that land as their mother . easier excerpts from the letter . But she does and entirely . But even then she exercises to work on an entirely new translation of the She explains it to them in simple words . a Christian denominations ( Herder , 1945 ) . directly to her , that she may make its contents As I indicated before . the only difference visilance that they do not damage the letter and translated into English under the title the thoughtful mother satisfies them " with Bible history . Even some grownups never get but is apparently winning general acceptance given authority ? To explain this more fully Bible as the Catholics in America new it , or by misunderstanding and misinterpreting it . so the Father's letter naturally comes into thoroughly modern English . in a strange land . The Church is with the try to get all of her children to penetrate more The Church has always had the greatest deeply into the knowledge and spirit of that Challoner of London , who made two revisions What Books Authentic ? many revisions which have left it hardly Catholic Scripture scholars completely revised children would not be able to understand all a book written by the Rev. Konrad Algermissen . A Kind of Letter . sharp controversy in some Protestant areas which is basic is that of the Church's authority I am pursuing to paraphrase the words of Father Algermissen quotes St. Gregory the Meanwhile , the Douay Bible has undergone letter . that they may come to greater religious the Rheims New Testament , and it was pub- Great , who says that the Bible is a kind of mother gives them the Father's letter directly in that country . beyond the stage of children in simplicity . Sn. lished in 1941 as the Confraternity edition . In When the children are really grown up , the New Testament , was basically Bishop During the 1930's a group of American maturity . Challoner's in form and expression . of the Old Testament and five of the New . The --- Page 16 --- Lewis , was the first of the seminary priests . to attempt a lone foray into England . because of the influence of his aunt , a nun apostate , and of his five cousins who had who had forsworn her vows to marry the Charles I against Cromwell and later with all , thought the persecutors , it would not married the five Anglican bishops . After strength of religious conviction . One , for nephew of the Barlow who had been the private and to compromise in public . In enforced , the Barlows began to lose their confess that , during the years when in Wisbeck . He was saved from death possibly losing his estates by Cromwell's sequestration . versy upon Tansenism and upon Quietism . the Pretender against William of Orange . school of Port Royal , and he later led a were inhabited almost entirely by Irish political convictions , it is said to have to refusing to swear allegiance to the Dutchman . Angelique , who figured in the great contro- and another Barlow getting into trouble for It does not appear that Pere Archange was proved his identity . in the way of a puzzle . It is not surprising , then , to find a Barlow the next generation the lapse became com- mission to Brazil with twelve other disillusion him , but the fact is , as Mr. Cleary naturally suppose that those Irish immigrants He was arrested and imprisoned at The moral hardly needs rubbing in . Wales the penal laws were less strongly infected with the dangerous opinions of the But while we may honour them for their THIS part of Pembrokeshire has a quite main tool of the reformers . special interest for Irish people , because The Welsh like the Irish sided with celebrated run of Port Royal , Mere do for a Barlow to suffer death , and he the Pembroke . Mr. Cleary has quite clearly who was known as Pere Archange de A NOTHER Barlow was a leading Capuchin example , attempted to be a Catholic in Now the Irish Catholic and patriot might Capuchins . resisted the penal laws . I am sorry to common . We must face , then , something immigrants . at that time several villages thereabouts Pere Anchorage became the confessor to a plete . shows , recusancy in those parts was not --- Page 17 --- to find that the Welsh protomartyr was a 1610 at Tyburn . It is not until the Titus at that time , had the means of keeping the that many of the Welsh retained their maintains it is that of the Vaughans , who in Wales at that time , just like the Welsh have provided the Church with a quite extraordinarily large number of bishops , able example of a Welsh Catholic family like the Barlows without following such a Still , you cannot easily think about a family Roberts of Trawsfynydd , met his death in layman , Blessed Rhisiart Gwyn , cruelly put which maintained the Faith and which still Where there were Catholic gentry . the to death at Wrexham in 1584 . The great Benedictine protomartyr . Blessed John traditional Catholic mood until the middle It occurs to me that I have digressed . Oates Plot that Welsh priests such as Blessed It is safe to assume , then , that the Irish Faith held out . Perhaps the most remark - David Lewis met their death in Wales . of the 18th century . Faith taken from them . Even so , it appears train of thought . Perhaps you may complete priests and nuns . it by remembering the mission field . Why did the Irish in Ireland just across in Wales during the penal days . was quite different a nation from England Was there something in the Welsh air heard Irish Catholics talk " like this : in Ireland . ' It is all very well for you Welsh Catholics . resisted the penal laws as we resulted them ( Cardinal Sega was one of them ) , most of account for the failure of the Irish in the first critical years . It is not surprising the leading Catholic strategists sent Welsh- the sea stick to their Faith while the Irish Pembrokeshire ? No ; the answer is surely to talk about restoring Catholic Wales . But speaking priests to England , at least during of Pembrokeshire lapsed so easily ? The to be found mainly in the death of priests the fact is that Welsh Catholics never EXCEPT for a few who knew that Wales question is fitting if only because I have that slackened the resistance ? Does the --- Page 18 --- f the Church's Code of Canon Law : " A ma t. Needless to say , the Church does not approx o give the right answer . At what age may Catholic In view of obvious present-day needs , why is it after the aforesaid age is valid , yet pastors of souls knowledge alone will solve all sex problems . The behind pronounce of the highest authorities presentation of sex is purely materialistic or is should try to deter young people from marrying under pain of sin . biological and physiological aspects of the problem . more than merely suitable , but are not binding before completing his sixteenth year , and a woman before completing her fourteenth , cannot contract customs of the country , marriage is usually on the point are quite vague . - F.N. ( Co. Cavan ) . will you kindly tell me what is meant by the truths which must be accepted by Faith . It also in this wholesome manner . " Read the late Holy question , but perhaps you would be good enough daughters , father to sons ) to impart information contracted . ' Reader " ( Co. Down ) . I have heard various answers given to this to become occasions of sin . It should be noted In answer to your question , we quote Canon 1067 instruction in this matter , it actually insists upon of children on the grounds of modesty or purity ? other evils ? Drink causes many misfortunes , e.g. , of the same authorities that are intended to be of instruction , instructions or situations where the drinking from the pulpit as strongly as she condemns This phrase signifies the general belief of the that many modern advocates of sex instruction specific direction is lacking ; the intention lying -M.M. ( Glasgow ) . church in matters which have not been defined as expression , ' the mind of the Church ' ? My idea given in circumstances which of themselves ten and religious motives as well as instruction on the Why doesn't the Church condemn excessive that the Church seems to resist the sex instruction marry ?P.M. ( Dublin ) . The Church not only does not oppose proper do not believe in original sin : they feel that valid marriage . Although a marriage contract but not explicitly set out therein ; and directions neglect of family , wife , church , etc. " Thinking indicates the general practice of the Church where before the age at which , according to the received part in the December ' 58 issue of The Cross . ) Church , however , insists that there must be moral Primarily , it is the duty of the parents ( mother to Father's Address to Mothers . ' It was reprinted in ain --- Page 19 --- one of the reasons why He sent his own Son when God did all that for us , He decided at the whole world as the only genuine examples of study , a living example we might follow , and same time to give us a pattern of life we might amongst us , clothed with a human nature so become worthy children of such a Father . and mercy and condescension he decided to at things , as Christ did . They learned to speak to heights we could never have reached by well how far above our full grasp was this thing they all had in common ; one thing all Christlike . They learned to think , and to look share his own very life with us , to raise us up success stories ' ? Because all of them became idea of being his sons and daughters : that's lives in the world ; some reached a very old real lasting success , is as easy and as difficult beloved children ; when in his infinite love of them did : by the grace of God they became have done in their position . Success in life , religious , and some of them lived their whole rich and successful even by human standards , and some were single ; some were priests or ourselves , to decline us to see and love Him in learned , sometimes by slow and painful stages . well for He had made us Himself-God knew Kings and some Queens ; some were married to act in everything they did as He would I Why does the Church offer them to the age , some were more children ; some were and some were poor or even destitute . But one That pattern of life , that living example , was sees and loves His own boundless goodness ; as that . ' " AKE a look at the Saints-any of them . " God's own Son become man for us . God knew which God made them . Some of them were shadow or stain of sin . Our Lord has that idea about people and things , as he did . They like Christ and so fulfilled the purpose for reaven with all the intimacy with which He only his well-beloved creatures , but his well- exactly like ours , only of course with never a You see when God chose to make us : 3 1 1 . --- Page 20 --- truth and the life . ' " He that hath seen me . HERE's how St. Peter puts it in an early us that the disciple is not greater than the in another letter which St. Paul wrote to the of sorrow . A thread that appears even during It's what Our Lord warns us about when He Learning Christ . Loving Christ , living Christ . always topical , and applies always to everyone . adopted sons and daughters of God , younger came , God sent forth his Son , born of a woman , may not perish , but may have life everlasting . ' says : ' If anyone will come after me , let him on the best way to make a success of their there is only one way of doing it . We must make were we called : because CHRIST ALSO at any time ; God only-begotten , who is in the Christ the centre round which everything else pattern we must study and follow - is a thread in mind when He says : ' I am the way , the this is acceptable before God . For unto this in word or in work , do all in the name of the all this is of course the work of a lifetime . Now if we are to become LIVING INAGES . whole pattern is taken over by it . sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts . turns . It is only close union with Him-a real encyclical letter that was inspired by the Holy A ND now just listen to how St. Paul takes at times a hard way . Our Lord Himself warns me . ' And that is why the Sacred Passion is AN EXAMPLE , that we might follow in his crying , ' Abba , Father ! ' If we really want to footsteps . ' It's all stunned up very well way . But we mustn't be disappointed if it is Gospel when he says : ' God no man hath seen Master . And interwoven through the whole you . ' And St. John puts it very clearly in his hath seen the Father . ' ' Abide in me , and I'm writes to his Christian converts , advising them union of our lives with His-that makes us Please God THE FORUM will help us on our early Christians in Rome . In this letter he thread running through our life pattern too . tells the Roman Christians that they are lives : ' Be we imitators of me , ' he tells them , negotten Son , that whatsoever believeth in him SUPFERED for your sake , LEAVING YOU Lord Jesus Christ . ' " When thefulness of time inent until during His last hours on earth the God so loved the world that he gave his only- recognisable as sons and daughters of God . as I am of Christ . ' " All whatsoever you do His Childhood , that becomes ever more prom- as sons . And because we are sons , God hath deny himself , and take up his cross , and follow ... that we might enter upon our adoption of the Saviour , we must expect to find that Ghost : ' If we do good and suffer patiently , bosom of the Father . ' he hath declared him . ' A up this same line of thought when he make the most of the lives God has given us . pattern of Our Saviour's life on earth-the 312 . --- Page 21 --- THERE'S the trouble . That's what makes me oots being fashionable wear for ladies at the time ) . to hold their own in any company . a bit uneasy when I see your smart new Spring # Maybe , as the saying goes , you put everything honestly come by when you pass my door in your But supposing your new suit is bought with the Summer finery . Take it easy now . Let us talk it over . followed so closely on your Autumn tweeds and But I'd hate to think that your finery was not than anyone who knew your income would expect . still more indignantly , did I think you stole it ! " I hope it doesn't lie heavy on your conscience . and have many other responsibilities . # The son of the house puts his wages into CAN'T help noticing that you dress far better VANITY can make us turn dishonest , almost suit on the heels of your smart Winter wear that Father is going to have a new suit - the bills can PARDON my saving such things . Your Spring of " Russian boots and no breakfast " ( Russian ferred fashionable footwear to a rather and egg , go hang ! no matter who suffers . Even the schoolgirl has to inhabitants of a certain suburb that it was a case wear at the Bridge-party . She plunges into debt . that the clothes are honestly come by , can you ? # I really would like to say " Well done . " THAT would be nobody's business . If you pre- you earn on your back . But you have to eat , too , I feel a sort of pride in seeing my neighbours fit indignant tones and you might even demand sportswear , leaving mother to do the worrying money due for food already eaten ? You can't say about where the next meal is going to come from . you could have it so . # Fashionable mother hasn't " a thing " to smart suit . The young girl must have a new dance frock . and pay the coalman and the landlord , perhaps , without knowing . have that tennis outfit that her parents cannot suit looks fine , Sir or Madam , Master or Miss . afford . O.A Dublin comedian used to say of the NOT honestly come by ! " you may echo in 3.3 --- Page 22 --- good and avoid evil . It can be pin-pointed , how- the Vatican : unique letter , and in doing so it gives us a that every man has a right to life . Therefore , men Lost and found ! delightful glimpse of the sender : Dublin Standard tells us the story of that There is a priest in France who , as long which he received a month or two ago . The in the Sistine chapel and forgot it there . The call civil law or human positive law . It can change Holiness Pone John XXIII with Bishop Claude the Natural Law and hence is no law . Such a law as he lives , will treasure a certain letter Private property rights should be respected . Hence munity . The law passed by human legislators we These are general laws or principles , not specific means that civil law must be rooted in the unchanging principles of the Natural Law . sweater was marked with a tag bearing his name . marriage , that men should not commit adultery . have a duty to honour and obey their parents . Rome while attending the corporation of His ever , in various ways . It is clear , for instance , is voided by a higher law . The Natural Law says that we must worship Law . An example of one would be the sanctity of Father Philippe Roncon , a young priest attached The Vatican's lost and found department never Father Roncon recently received this note from stealing is wrong . the sweater you forgot in the ' Sistine chapel during tively by men . Dear son , I will return to you by the next nail today ) which prevents the worship of God violates He had taken off his sweater during a ceremony More remote obligations arise from the Natural rules to meet the given situation of some com- functioned more efficiently or with greater courtesy . the higher law , the Natural Law , known instinc- that civil law is static and can never change . . It Flusion of Saint-Claude . to meet new circumstances . But it cannot violate God . Therefore civil law has in Communist countries should not murder or kill . Children obviously to the Basilica of Our Lady . lost his sweater in the ceremonies of the coronation . You surely need We can see that Natural Law does not mean --- Page 23 --- Catholic Gazette comments are timely : stark reminder . Say what you like about her . Excuse her on the what a great whitewashing the royal lady to climb the r20 ft. , and who remained up there One of the best-known men in Dublin to tourists famous tour of East Anglia when she ordered her about Queen Elizabeth I of England . And To The Montrance are we indebted for and some Dubliners - is Bill Bailham , custodian Catholic host to prison in spite of his hospitality . It is not , we think , possible to fall in love with her is getting in some of the English Sunday newspapers ! Accordingly , we think these even allowing for the distance of time . this sombre news-item from the Far East : What a lot of talk there is these days legislation she had to be got at , worked up into a grounds of vile origins , twisted mind and whatever . Tagawa , drew up a plan for removing the ruins to The one thing she did care about was the power Nagasaki's Heiwa Koen ( Peak Park ) , where it will for any subject of hers . of the Blessed Virgin gazing skywazd , remained he told the custodian he was Lord Nelson . " and she'd in person behaved abnormably . e.2 . on her yonder if the fear of God was not in her at the end . Church of the Immaculate Conception . then explained that he is the present holder of the for at least twenty minutes . When he came down If she had a heart at all one discovers signs of it rain that the authorities , led by Mayor Tsutomo and story of Elizabeth Tudor . No double allegiance eight years . well-dressed man who paid his sixpence admission rage before Cecil could get on with the job of Municipal authorities in Nagasaki . Japan , have good Queen BESS ' serve as another memorial to the 73,884 victims of About 100 people climb the 166 steps daily to standing on the side of the historic Urakami So many petitions were received to preserve the decency . For some atrocious bits of anti-Catholic Bill climbs to the top twice daily , to clean the the second atom bomb . the top of the Pillar . " he says . " adding that " the surnev is becoming more popular with Dubliners . that from death . At other times towards Catholics Of all the Pillar stories , Bill prefers that of the of Nelson Pillar . Bill has held this job for the last strangulating the Church . " That is certain . ' At decided to preserve the sole remaining portion of A side wall , including a broken arch and a statue But the poor old thing had her moments of when she sat on the floor muttering , makes you 315 times too she , for reasons no one will ever know . bomb on the city on August 8 , 1945 . a Catholic church that was destroyed by the atom for revelation , though her two weeks in dying . only now and then . The nicest thing you can say of late . platform up there . about her is that she was no Puritan , and that is rounded on her Councillors and saved this one and title . something . It is doubtful if she cared two straws --- Page 24 --- heir emotions . Far from being an argument only the ignorant could take it seriously . Even lost ( but certainly not all ) Popes have shown serious ones is to put the whole explanation in I that the Church had finally gone off the f an infallible pronouncement , you are . as it aken as Gospel truth ? ' Or that his appoint- the Pope's passing remarks to tourists must be At best the basic logic of infallibility gets swayed by their prejudices and influenced by In such a typical litany of objections , there point of the doctrine . Such human wisdom as for agnostics it was a claim so absurd that variously taken to mean that the Pope cannot to start the discussion by answering even the were , giving a set of operating specifications . heavy artillery of modern psychology directed special divine guidance even in routine " every- declared the Pope to be infallible when he ing past actions and detailing the conditions to be held by the universal Church . " To Pro- supernatural wisdom and that he enjoys " a When you start making distinctions defend- estants this was papal pretension run riot : Few Catholic doctrines have triggered quite ing in preparation for a mixed marriage , " that an unfortunate perspective . is quite irrelevant . Just as irrelevant is the To get off on this track is to miss the whole to many Catholics it seemed a hard saying , an the human mind is in fact a major supporting against papal infallibility , the waywardness of science to realize that even else men are article designed to test the strength of their IN 1870 it seemed to the non-Catholic world are both serious questions and silly ones : but lamanded a woman once whom I was instruct- argument for it . ment of officials is inspired by the Holy day decisions . " " Do you mean to tell me . " THE difficulty of arriving at absolute truth deep end . That year the Vatican Council as many objections . The doctrine has been does not need the paraphernalia of modern somehow smothered in the larger question of ersonal loyalty and obedience to the Pope . being able to offer really detached wisdom are defines a doctrine regarding faith and morals faith . and the improbability of any human teacher in , that he is endowed with extraordinary , gainst the doctrine by secular critics . One Ghost ? 316 Dispel those foggy notions ! --- Page 25 --- policies , decrees and programmes of my church As a Protestant I subject the judgments , is , therefore , a kind of supporting argument endorsement of God and I ask for no approval so , they are logically compelled to transfer orders . ' In doing so ' I believe that I have the not be forgotten , however , is that having done are equally convinced that they are guided by general intellectual ability . He would claim and every other church to the test of the New the Holy Spirit . It also opens the door to the accept its orders . But in those matters in which enlightenment of the individual by the Holy Spirit accompanies him as he reads . He does higher than that . ' possibility of self-deception . Such difficulties has followed the suggestions of the Scribtures . " I teaching society ? ' It is logical that having Scripture , from his theological training or from The inner spiritual certainty expressed by Dr. The Catholic claim is that Christ did establish Smith-and which conservative Protestants so for infallibility . If Christ did establish an teaching church , Protestants should also reject the prerogative of infallibility ( or , if you will , He establish His Church as an authoritatively not claim to derive this confidence in his own I believe my church to be in error , or in conflict authoritatively teaching church , the doctrine this right to sit in critical judgment even if he enlightenment of the individual by the Holy Wovinced that the guidance of the Holy are not , however , the crux of the question frequently reflect in their moral judgments - to the uneducated of his own denomination . THE traditional Protestant concept of the In passing we may point out that this claim means that that church would be infallible . rejected the notion of an authoritatively matters in which I am convinced that my church with the plain teaching of the Bible , I reject its interpretation from his special studies in Spirit has led to such conflict and contradiction the conflicting judgments of individuals who supernatural basis of private interpretation Did He promise this kind of supernatural an authoritatively teaching society and that question is , what provision did Christ actually Testament , that test for me being final . In its equivalent ) to the individual . The fact that this doctrine of the special in Protestant belief makes it difficult to think of the continuing guidance of the Holy Spirit that God would use this means , but the decisive 317 makes for a great deal of difficulty in reconciling MR. Smith goes on to say that he is con- were not thus endowed , nor would be deny it make ? spirit . guidance to the individual Christian ? Or did the notion of an infallible church . What must is considered to be the product of a special --- Page 26 --- the guarantee of infallibility is not merely implicit but is contained in the very words of destruction , could prevail . Prevail in fact more church is His commission of Peter as its visible over the sharp debates of theologians . For effectively than if the Church were wiped out lower levels and could even penetrate to many Rock , " the gates of hell shall not prevail . " hat is " the universal and proximate norm " bomb it out of physical existence , but the more ection of the Holy Spirit reduced to its lowest This is an unmistakable promise of infallibility . Peter to lead the flock to poisonous pasture ? alone has the guarantee of infallibility . This is imagine that the Good Shepherd would allow guidance . For error could be asserted at these that matter even the questions raised by each The " operating specifications " of infalli- that against the Church established on this sectors without the Church itself being led institution of a visible , organized teaching members , the gates of hell , i.e. , the forces of precisely because he is the ultimate judge and spirit operates at all levels in the Church heareth Me ! " ) could come to include error in receive the graces of their station . The Holy the profession ' of faith which it requires of its and loosing . With this office goes the guarantee But though we may be convinced that God bility flow from these principles . " Papal destroying a teaching institution . The simplest way of destroying a university is probably to with His authority ( " He that heareth you , denominator . It is minimal because the Pope age are part of the Holy Spirit's operation of F this Church , speaking in His name and uncovering new treasures in the deposit of head . To Peter are given the keys of then is operating in all of these manifold ways , the which is not infailable is in fact unthinkable ! institution . The clearest indication of Christ's very authority which is enjoys then becomes effective and lasting way of destroying what Bishops as teachers , each of his own flock When Christ told Peter to feed His lambs have no guarantee of the divine protection and infallibility is actually a " minimal claim . " If Spirit broods over the meditations and even and His sheep , He was most certainly com- the very instrument of its own destruction . Kingdom of heaven and the power of binding revelation . To say this is not to deny that the Holy of existence . There are , after all , two ways of It is the teaching of the successor of Peter referee in matters of doctrine . it stands for is by corrupting its teaching . The A divinely commissioned teaching church you will , it is the notion of the abiding pro- manding the flock to follow Peter ; can we 318 astray . point is that at all of these lower levels we --- Page 27 --- Central Catholic Library Information . not known how many Catholics formally left The Nazis confiscated property , seminaries . By SHEILA O'LOUGHLIN of the Habsburgs and was being strongly opposed her schools , hospitals ; they abrogated the Con- destroyed or badly damaged by shellings . State are quite separate though interdependent the Church during the Nazi regime . ' It is was formed , but , after a few years , broke into amounted to only about 3,000 , two-thirds of bombings , etc . In addition , the Allies , during THEN came the Second World War . followed Church lost touch with the working-man . It whom were resident in Vienna . It is con- splinter groups . ' It was in this period that the it was being blamed for the political sins of the was just beginning to regain lost ground when by the occupation of Austria , during which The long alliance between Church and State from bitter experience that the Church and N this period between World War I and centralisation , the extension of the franchise and thereafter no member of the Austrian clergy . withdraw all priests from political positions Catholic TVrol alone . Yet it is often stated marriage laws , etc . Yet , by and large , their immediately after the 1914-1918 War antagon- supported traditional federalism as opposed to as political feelings became steadily more of the Church is often endangered by her entered politics . ' that the number who really left the Church attack on the Church was unsuccessful . ' It is World War II , the Church , which had of churches and Catholic institutions were left Catholics spiritually unprepared for resist- istic Socialist leaders gained power and influence . the Nazis brought about the Anschluss . Bureau . unflamed . the Austrian Episcopate decided to were killed or permanently disabled . Numbers bitter and intolerant extremism . In the period and stirred up bitterness against the Church . and the rights of the common man , found that political friends rather than by her enemies Noc too wisely , an opposition Catholic Party entities . But they learned also that the mission recorded that ro,000 left the Church in the ance to a Hitler . Under his regime they learned hundreds of priests , religious and seminarians cordat " with the Vatican : " they changed sidered that by raw most of the people who had left were won back . 319 --- Page 28 --- the occupation , retained the Church property which had been requisitioned by the Nazis . declared . Austria is a neutral federal state , Austria agreed to pay #153 millions in goods that she could not live alone . was due largely Christian principles in public life . Neither did Austrians a feeling of tolerance for the views Austria Sr. 4 billion in supporting occupation they interfere with education , except to require that existing between the conservative and and the conservative Catholic parties ( supported in concentration camps , also awakened in the common enemy , and , often , common residence by the " black " provinces and small towns ) . estimated that the Russian Occupation cost to the bitter antagonism and lack of co- Austria-Danube Steamship Co. In contrast In 1945 a second Republic of Austria was interfere with Church life in Austria , or with over a six-year period : to deliver to the scripts and incunabula . with an Upper and Lower House freely elected and Volkspartei has lost the passionate bitter- enormous sums spent on propaganda , and the ten years , and to pay Sros millions for the comparatively low living standards of Austrian There were individual acts of vandalism by U.N.R.A. and E.R.P. ( almost all of it of their fellow-countrymen . Austria's failure labour parties in Britain . Communism is chiefly between the Social Democrats ( strongest and Volkspartei have operated a coalition that children be taught Russian . ' major parties already referred to , the Socialists and the deliberate burning of priceless manu- Austria received a total of Sr.24 billions from of the war , the Allied Occupation ended . The for opening Austria's eyes to the reality ness of former days and has been compared to factories , oil fields , customs duties , and other Soviet Union a million tons of oil annually On 27th July. 1955 . ten years after the end operation between the various political groups . working people . Communist influence is private and state property . ' In addition , YET . perhaps the price was not too heavy use of Church vestments to clean out tanks , war and occupation cost Austria clearly . The forces , loss of income from confiscated plant , from the Zisterdorp oil-fields for a period of between the wars , when it was so often said U.S.A. funds ) . in " Red " VIenna and other industrial centres ) both the Nazis and the Russians , such as the practically nil . of Russian rule . Their struggle against a enable to make any headway in spite of by all citizens over 21 . Since then the two 320 good for the Catholic Church , did not , however , Now the atmosphere between the Socialists Austrian Information Service in New York The Russians , whose occupations bonded no --- Page 29 --- in the world , and that for the whole of Austria of her , but she is definitely making progress . had there is a growing appreciation within the but that many of the younger leaders are pro- is making an impression on socialist ranks . It marriage ' and to submit to Church jurisdiction . of Viennese marriages . The number of divorces Austrian working-class of the position of the tions . Religious teachers are appointed by only are contracted , the contracting parties period , and to need about another 500 . The Church as the one valuable protector of basic not yet publicly . ' They are beginning to realise is true that a long and difficult task is ahead have ordained only seventy-six priests in the between the ages of 9 and 14 years . Religious amounted to only 17.1 per 1,000 in 1948 . This the Church and State . Religious teaching is recognised where the contracting parties declare amongst women as amongst men . Several increased from 5 per 1,000 in 1930 to 14 in Catholic , privately and individually , even if an ordination . The Archdiocese of Vienna . for the Catholic Church in Austria is hopeful . smallness of wardrobe flats in the cities . dioces were as many as eight years without themselves prepared to conclude a ' canon-law instruction is compulsory ( parents may ask marriages' of Catholics . Where such marriages than opposed . Archbishop Noering has declared 1957 , as compared with a stationary figure of Church marriages comprise about 7296 of the which are attended by the majority of Austrian not compulsory , however , in the Trade Schools The birth-rate in Vienna is the lowest recorded are considered by the law as non-Catholics . which since the war has lost about 300 priests lack of vocations forced the Jesuits to give up s per 1,000 in Switzerland in the same period The Church is beginning to win back the schools , for pupils under 14 with church affilia- It is said that the old-guard Austrian Socialist The number of religious vocations in Austria human rights . working-man , who was never too far away , and do so ) in all public , elementary and high to have their children exempted . but rarely that religion is a force to be assisted rather nadequacy of child subsidy : the need for is stated to be due to the small wages ; the THERE is no Catholic school system in Another unusual feature of Austrian life is mothers to work , and the housing shortage and has declined considerably , not so much The jurisdiction of ecclesiastical courts is through death , was stated a few years ago to Austria . Education is free and compulsory will always be anti-Catholic and anti-religious , total Austrian marriages , but less than 50% he recognition of divorce in the case of civil their oldest house in Austria . Yet , in spite of its difficulties , the outlook youth . 321 . --- Page 30 --- he was received as a novice in the Monastery Benedict's request . Instead , they sent him Labre was so zealous in ministering to the of Septfonts and given the name of Brother of that particular Order lived in little cells , Twice he presented himself at the doors of the A study of the heroism of failure , spiritual and temporal needs of his parishioners torment of body . " Manfully he tried to hide fearing souls : yet they refused to accede to But Benedict merely smiled and shook his back immediately to his uncle's presbytery , Once again Benedict returned home . the parish of Erin , and Fr. Francis Joseph still Benedict persevered ; and in the end he able to stand the austerities of the Order . Yet Benedict was rejected ; but his second applica- and assured him that he was far too young to that he fell a victim to the plague and died . were of the opinion that he would never be Charterhouse , and twice he was turned down . know his own mind . urban . tion proved more successful . In the year 1767 This time his father suggested that he should to do but to give their reluctant consent . At head . It was still his wish to enter a Trappist make up his mind to settle down on the farm . both his physical and mental suffering . But apart from the world and from one another . V down . Anguish of soul was added to his mother's ear : " God does not want me at the He looked so wan and frail that the Superiors uncle advised him to go home and talk the Carthusian Order of St. Bruno . The monks There appeared nothing left for his parents At length his mother advised him to try the In 1766 an infectious epidemic broke out in When he returned home . he whispered in his Charterhouse , but at La Trappe . ' was accepted . matter over with his parents . The boy's parents were pious and God- WEEKS went by . and then his health broke monastery . Benedict agreed to follow the suggestion the first Trappist monastery where he applied it was all to no avail . nonk . Once again Benedict returned home should charterhouse , but at La Trappe . ' --- Page 31 --- our neighbour : and the third must be of when he was finally buried , the crowd that and to file down into the nearby roadways . his face and to touch his winding-sheet . And . " Holy Marv , prav for us ! " rang out on the Goodier tells us that he was " alone with God the name of the pilgrim-beggar was inscribed about any of his wanderings . Archbishop hole in the wall , close to the Fifth Station , he of the neighbouring churches where Mass was knelt within the cemetery was so large that casual observers applied to him was simply people came in countless numbers to look upon even there . Benedict refused to die on a com- kneeling before the Tabernacle in the various bed . Yet he dragged his totering steps to one To the Church of Santa Maria dei Monti his of the Cross had been erected there , and in a insisted on taking him to his own house . Yet doors of the Trappist monastery . The Stations fortable bed when his Divine Lord had died on where the early Christians had been thrown in the world ; and it was in the amphitheatre he possibly could ; and so long did he remain comply with his request . went circulating about Rome within a few FOR thirteen long and arduous years he words that trembled on many a lip and made A kindly butcher by the name of Zaccarelli . Exactly one hundred years later in 1883 - late-comers were compelled to line the streets to the lions that he took up the only permanent there was nothing either aimless or fruitless thousands of feet come hurrying to the house on the Calendar of the Saints . On Wednesday , April 16 , 1783 , Benedict Saint of the Blessed Sacrament " and " the Saint bronze for oneself . ' of the Forty Hours . " But the name which he kept repeating : and they were forced to minutes . . " The Saint is dead ! " were the Rome he loved more than all other places sound of Benedict Labre went winning to the where he was laid . the " Poor Man . Judgment-Seat of God . mortal remains were carried , and still the Sacrifice over , however , then he collapsed . everywhere and wanting no one else . " a rough and shameful gibbet . was scarcely able to get out of his so-called The priest was called in . The sacrament of Litany for the dying was recited . " The Saint is dead ! " was the news that being celebrated . No sooner was the Holy He attended up to six Masses every day that " On the ground-only on the ground ! ' vernal air : and at that precise moment the churches that he became known as " the made his abode . 323 wandered the roadways of the earth : but residence that he ever knew ' since he left the Extreme Union was administered . The Litany for the dying was recited . --- Page 32 --- Ferrat , a high jet of land looking out over in the early thirties , after years of travel these is of course Somerset Maugham who all over the globe , bought a fine Moorish permanently abroad . The most famous of villa , the " Villa Mauresque " on Cap being able to live and work where they First , some of the British authors who have forsaken their native shores to live perhaps which of these dwellings will one choose , and the sort of home an author day become literary shrines , the Mecca of interesting to his readers . ' Picture then , future generations of book-lovers . UTHORS share with artists and com- some famous writers at home , and ponder makes for himself is as revealing as it is posers the rather enviable freedom of works Naomi Jacob , far from her native ITALY is another country that has lured Yorkshire . Noel Coward spends " as much while at Fasano , on Lake Garda , lives and hospitality , surrounded by an exotic garden thousands of British tourists who visit the resort of Rapallo know that behind the elegant home , subsequently the rendezvous film-goers were given such tantalisingly full of tropical trees and flowers , of which from Nice . ' There he made himself an away more than one writer . Few of the brief glimpses in the author's personal introductions to the films of his short stories . town , in leisured and sunny retirement , of half the world's notabilities during Maugham's fabulous pre-war days of lavish the blue have of the Mediterranean , not far lives the incomparable Sir Max Beerbohm , 324 --- Page 33 --- of revelation . To put it bluntly , definitions authority . For these matters are taught with the ( Christian doctrine is a complex whole with divine guarantee is clear . Though such teach- accepted but never officially defined . That INFALLBILITY ( Continued from page 318 ) . pertains to Catholic doctrine . ' theoretical to the practical , from the abstract : of papal messages - no mean question in this philosophical , political , social and otherwise . ordinary teaching authority . of which it is true logically speaking , as the " extraordinary let alone exhaust , all the treasures in its deposit age of mass communication when the Pope's part of this " ordinary universal " teaching vailed against the Church . are in fact constantly being debated . ' There certain particular doctrines must be considered generally what is expounded and inculcated in ings may not seem to boom as large , psycho- for an official announcement . is a large body of Catholic teaching , universally Encuclical Letters already for other reasons in Encyclical Letters does not of itself demand to say , ' he who heareth you , ' heareth Me ' and D infallibility becomes more a matter for and Catholic thinkers generally are constantly Furthermore the Church has never made any living Teaching Authority . " To meet such challenges , Bishops , theologians not exercise the supreme power of their teaching many implications . many roots and tendrils . Catholics will take to all expressions of the consideration of whether or not a particular consent since in writing such letters the Popes do authority to be assigned to the different kinds . this " ordinary universal " " teaching of the re-examining and re-expressing the content of is also the further question of the exact " Nor must it be thought that what is expounded are usually made only when issues have come systematic attempt to catalogue and codify . THE difficulty arises from the fact that solemnly defined pronouncements , yet error in Humani Generis : BEYOND this point , the discussion of scrutiny results in a controversy which calls Church must also fall within the scope of the as surely mean that the gates of hell had pre- to a head . Each age poses its own problems , this ordinary , universal teaching would just most casual words are picked up by network HERE , however , we can safely turn from the crete question of the attitude that devout We can do no better than to sum up in the papal pronouncement is infailable to the con- scholar . Questions about whether or not words of Pope Pius XII in his encyclical Catholic teaching . Sometimes this sort of obvious and unanimous . Thus it is that there and news services . the theologian and the technically trained More frequently , however , the solution is not --- Page 34 --- not to the love-battered teddy bear . rib while the father lifted the blankets that the priest moved to the other end of the priest gives at the end of Mass-but nothing priest giving his individual blessing and is quite so satisfying or personal as the aised his hand in blessing , then placed his leave , he stopped short-and whispered to hree-year-old boy sleeping on a tiny bed , bless his two children . The priest tiptoed Together they groped back to the crib . your blessing . Father . " he turned to the crib where the two-year- the father that " her " head felt strange . kneeling before him . blessing was given to the tiny sleeper and Throughout the liturgy of the Church , hand on " her " head . As he turned to intering a cathedral to the blessing every into the darkened bedroom . reached down , and patted his head . " Then With a grim that lit up the darkened room . Often an older priest recalls that wonderful old girl was sleeping . covered the little girl's head . This time the day of many years ago , when a parishione- Softly . he breathed a blessing over the his blessing to his parents , family , and passing by a powerful source of strength . riests give their blessings from a Cardinal If you want to make a young priest feel Edging up to the crib in the darkness . he asks him . " Before you go , may we have the many blessings the Church offers is The first act a priest performs after rising " young father asked the visiting priest to peered down , " and gazed into the fuzzy face ONE evening recently , at the end of a of a " newly blessed " teddy bear . THE Catholic who does not make use of like a priest , ask for his blessing . friends . young , ask him for his priestly blessing . from the altar of his ordination is to give uposing his anointed hands on a person Christian Family Movement meeting , F you want to make an old priest feel 326 --- Page 35 --- to dances and the like and it won't suit if you're in I'm telling you that a few of the boys will be being quite unaware that handsome Aidan Carroll suppose my mother told everyone that came to the to acquaintances as they shed down the Knocklov street and laughed as he remarked to Marion that the visitor , by driving faster than usual . He waved Go on with you , " he teased , " if you're looking to the boys . There will be a bit of a stir . I can tell car , he in high spirits and " showing-off " a bit to " Very well . Mrs. Carroll , if you think it best , " ' Och they told me you were good-looking . you . when I walk in with a nice girl like you . " town , six miles away , and they set off in Aidan's it that point , Aidan became his gay self , relieved they would all be wondering who she was . " But I for compliments , look in the looking-glass . But garments , unobtrusively , and was much relieved this past few years , so how was I to know ? Marion seemed to struggle with her emotions Pray for her , child . That's the best we can do THE Arcadia was not in Knocklov , but in a bigger shop all about you coming . She was looking forward ' Put a bit of a coloured scarf about your neck . in the Arcadia , and I'm drain to show worn off " Will we go to the pictures ? ' There's a good film are gone are with God ? ' to learn that he need not be solemn any more . by Mrs. Carroll's decree . Know what ? " she persisted playfully . talked soft " to girls as a matter of course and She had been wondering how to shed her black neant nothing by it . Had he been asked why , he for a moment . Then she said she had some other agreement . nobody will notice the black . ' might have answered that they liked it . the girl answered quietly . John Carroll expressed himself as in complete Marion felt that she had made an impression . What do we mourn for , when you come to And you ? " she hinted . feel mother's death . " sorrowful . ' hink of it ? Aren't we all hoping that those that Indeed I saw enough photographs of you . but not tothes with her . " But-but , " she added , " I still Yes of course , " Marion agreed . 327 ARKID # EILY McAdam , or something . " Aidan's mother advised , " and black . ' to it . ' for the dead . Be sure she has no wish to see you Be sure she has no wish to see you --- Page 36 --- njoy every moment of the evening , completely dressed , and they were all nice to Aidan's friend . danced with her and she had been very nice to of him as a rich landowner's son or something like discovery that he was engaged to the plump Katie renowned beauty spot . been surprised . Aidan was also " very nice to all the ladies of the him , while probing out his social position . Her maware that she looked father than ever in the plain or pretty , smartly-dressed or less smartly- several presentable young men with partners . for a moment , intrigued Marion Davies . He had dance of the year . " he danced more than once with most of them . was intended only for interval wearing . lest her Marion had noticed that the girl was naturally . MARION appeared for Mrs. Carroll's approval . She heard him pay lavish compliments to some hostess might wish to view the dress minus that sale blue flounces . She had laughing eyes and a of them . One was a very young girl wearing white . them all for a drive round a neighbouring lake , a one night only , " Aidan told the girl . Marion did not mention that the " decent top " o'clock , said it was a lovely summer , night and reaches-and-cream complexion innocent of make- particularly interested in . " No . Well there was nobody going that I was seemed to gather round Aidan Carroll . There were up . Marion had to admit that she had charm . that . It was he who , when the dance ended at two 328 . had , somehow , dumbfounded her . She had thought by name , was one of their party " and seemed to in a yellow lace frock , long and pillow with a party . Marion , in fact , was a bit ruffled because fact she found herself one of a large party that that the running costs would be too high . Phil had . wondering what hit them . We must go to a dance , You're like an angel let down from Heaven for THE men were more respectful in their comments . the dance-frocks you see . " the war it has a decent top to it , not like some of of some of her new acquaintances , she might have on the whole , but Phil Power , who was a bank- pretty but the white frock was home-made and not matching satin coates , which she intended to slip in surprise . Indian seemed to enjoy a couple of dances with her . That's nice now . " Mrs. Carroll said . " I like There's the Nursing Fund dance in the Corner addition and be shocked . blue . flounced and frilled . " The girl , Kate Costelloe Marion had no lack of partners at the dance . in manageress of the London gown-shop , would say And you weren't going ? suggested that those who had cars should take cashier and had the manner of a duke , had declared vell cut . In fact , she criticised many of the dresses of tickets . It's a dress affair , indeed the biggest Hotel tomorrow night . It's always great . I wasn't off when dancing . to the spectacle of a plump and tall girl in powder- tressed , sure of herself . Had she heard the comments going to go but I'm sure I'll manage to get a couple ' And you weren't going ? ' Marion er Marian was not perturbed , however . She felt well- and wondered , with ironic amusement , what Gladys addition and be shocked . --- Page 37 --- MARDI GRAS : Pat Boone continues the good VIRGIN ISLAND : Some of the love scenes in this Sheriff of fractured law . THE : Kenneth Western with a difference . ( G.A. ) . inveigles a young lieutenant to meet her half-case they are engaging in passionate embracing . Many surgeon's knife , THE : This gloomy , melo- SOUTH PACIFIC : Bie. brash and boring . Its dramatic piece , keeps a firm grip of one's attention improbable story are rather close to the margin with the shears is also typical of Fellini . ( A.A. ) , daughter and , within seconds of being left alone but the tone of the film , the gaily romantic and work ( started in " April Love " ) of giving us because it is too full of coincidences . ( G.A. ) more acting than singing and it is difficult to decide if this is any improvement . Obviously this U.S. Army film is heavily weighted in the Indians' is an optical achievement , this first use of it marks idiom . The setting is the Virginia Military Institute ON THE RUN : A young man ' on the run ' from WENDERFUL THINGS : Frankie Vaughan does More and Jane Mansfield in a most untraditional which gives him ample scope for his particular of Richard Rogers are worth seeing and hearing , two main attractions - Todd-AO and the music . name of preventing crime ! ( A.A. ) calantful setting to make this a very delightful favour . Some good battle scenes but little else . PORTLAND EXPOSE : Several brutal beatings-up , SQUARE PEG. THE : A Norman Wisdom vehicle Gibraltar to London yarn is not to be taken seriously and occasionally historians Western . ( G.A. ) may enjoy the musical score ; the ladies may love brand of slapstick humour . ( G.A. ) . a retrograde step in the development of cinematic and romantic interludes are blended together in a particular , when the raucous , leaving Bloodyv Marv suicide Battalion : Good war sequences highly enjoyable entertainment in the modern before almost everyone except those necessary a girl and a man dissected by a train-all in the swINDLERS . THE : A band of confidence art . ( A.A. ) . farcical nature of it , just about saves the day . ( A.A. ) lawless hoodlums . Suspense-filled but adult . ( A.A. ) SIERRA BARON : Fast-riding , sharp-shooting for the conventional happy ending-are killed . is unpretentious and may while away a pleasant 329 , the romance and Rossano Brazzi . But if Todd-AO NAKED IN THE SUN : This Indian versus the tricksters might the very poor and miserable of two threats to blind with acid , an assault ( cut ) on throughout . ( A.A. ) . and the Mardi Gras . a veritable feast of colour , expectively , but the overall impression is that (G.A. ) . sequence , where the censor had to lay about him hour . " ( A.A. ) . MEXICO : This tale of romance and bull-fighting music and gaiety . " ( G.A. ) . Pacific island during World War II - is adult ; in full of good faces . A chaotic , organic party realism is seen in the slum scenes ; very noisy , (G.A. ) . ' South Pacific " is a filmed version of the stage their few hoarded pennies . ' The director's neo- story-of romance in an American occupied South nusual and a very static version at that . The --- Page 38 --- knowledge of the European , about enemies of the past which forced the sixteenth century . But then or the threat of enemies from or brought on by internal discussion . the Kwena tribe and the Newaketsi . of the Newato tribe are shrouded in the beginning of the nineteenth portion of the reserve . The great It is interesting to know for until they came within the continual movement and migration . all we get when we go back as far upon them this great tribal merger authentic account of their history instance , that tradition has it that It is true to say that the origins as well as the mighty Ngwato are for the most part in the eastern under pressure of famine or drought one may place very tentatively in their mighty chief Mzilikazi . suzerainty of the Chief of the century . Oral traditions - very the mists of legend as there is no with the Ngwato . were the Trek sketchy at first-but becoming centuries , go back to a date which Boers and the Matabales under Newatos . " These smaller com- and other smaller tribes located all the descendants of one man . Kaa . the Birwa . the Batswapong more ample as they come down the heroes and the brief story . handed munities include the Kalanga , the another . of their history and Because of internal commotions . down from one generation to as that are a few names of nebulous as " we have them today . " For thev split up into different tribes . centuries their life was one of without . beginning . than themselves , have accepted the protection against enemies stronger else in return for hospitality and To this tribe are attached other been absorbed by conquest , or 630000000000000000000000 communities , which have either the predominant tribe in the north . --- Page 39 --- and support . It is an indisputable Church , with its clear and defined are to-day turning to the Catholic creed and its sacramental solace fact that in such conditions as prevail in Bechuanaland today , where only three priests are toiling is vast work for the activity and few years half the population of edly if all the African Catholics at zeal of a lay apostolate . Undoubt- against such great odds , that there the " Ngwato reserve would be character of their churches . Many Catholic . May you by your prayers in this divine task , then within a present living there were to and we by our labour hasten that co-operate and assist the priests day . also be added to by regular ( or irregular ) ) subscriptions , no matter how appreciated that ET per week will not educate a priest in these days or Very Rev. Fr. Superior . C.P. , St. Patrick's Juniorate of high prices , so while a Unit is complete in itself . the Burse itself can A Burse is a sum of money invested in perpetuity to yield income for be sufficient priests to fulfil the needs of the Church and souls . a particular purpose . " The Burses listed in the adjoining panel are for grow and can do more or less work according to its size . Crossear . Belfast : or even the Mission Editor , The Cross , Mount Argus , the Education of Passionist Priests . Burses can also be established to Retreats , of Brothers on the guest . It often comes as an official query Units therefore can be completed by one person or group . They can Very Rev. Fr. Provincial . C.P. . St. Paul's Retreat . Mount the Missions and their various needs . Only the interest is used Our Burses are established in 21,000 Units which yield about fan or 640 a year according to the rate of interest . It will be readily small , made to : The above question is often asked of our Fathers on Missions and Dublin , will be pleased to deal with them . annually : the capital is left intact . from a solicitor helping a client to draw up a will . ' It always comes from ous hearted people who want to make sure that there will always 1961 62.0006, 331 . 6 EIO . t # EIO . # E16-10 . 6116 . # E63-10 . # E110 . 1956-10 . # E12 . 1 . e ... E1,000 # E21-10 . 0.2-7-6 . --- Page 40 --- There are several letters this while the kettle sings . attract attention from the figure A story of Leonardo . says . " We found it easy to do the Supper in your home ? wall of a convent in Milan about essays " by " the children of Mount Supper was painted on the refactory month and numerous beautiful cards on Francis' desk after the and a writer . He was made royal . Leonardo Da Vinci and his wonder- with a few gracious words , and month's competition . " Therese Then Da Vinci took a brush and A large packet of well written if it were real . I cannot take my remain , " he said . " Nothing shall ful work , which has lived through- dietters to Francis-the CRO If it affects you thus it shall not Art . Have you a copy of the Last treatise on art . It is said that the famous teacher who taught him . painter to King Louis XII " of Many of you have heard of gave up painting through despair . Last Supper , " he asked a friend Donnelly introduces her classmates . eyes off it . " drew it across the sparkling cup . musician , an engineer , an inventor beside us . This was late for last into his studio to inspect it . " Give cup stands out from the table as his friend , with enthusiasm , " That Many copies have been made of known everywhere . The Last the painter . me your candid criticism , " said of Our Lord . " da Vinci . It is marvellous ! " explained . this celebrated painting . It is out the ages , and has won praises . beautiful and worthy in Christian . the year 1497 . The artist was born finished his great painting of " The much interest in a study of his St. " Anne's , Milltown , lies open Learn to appreciate what is Da Vinci was also an architect , a Leo X . Students of art will find France and was honoured by is told of him that when he had many gifts and talents . Leonardo for him from every generation . It of rivelling his pupil ! kettle sings and the cricket chirps . near Florence in 1452 and had season of greetings and handshakes . fire and read them again , while the Let us rather around the February --- Page 41 --- have had and that is to have my has always been one wish that I short leg put the same as the other . Mary F. Burke tells us . " and our school has carried away most of Switzerland and to watch the boys So I hope in the new year I shall and girls ski over the snow . There has been going on all the week . " to go travelling with my father and mother . I should like to go to Catherine Carroll , Bernardino ( no to receive her prize . Her letter is Whitehouse writes : ' I should like nuns have started a dry cleaning piano , Nora Pollard says . " The the new Pope . " God grantEileen the prizes . " Glad to hear from her wishes . Angela I've was glad full of interesting items . Pauline Our young friends in St. Gerard's laundry in Clonmel . " " The Feis Lily Byrne , Kathleen Tobin , New Year messages . ' Eileen Lally go to Lourdes . Lourdes is the best Irene Mullins . " In our school toy shops in the town , " walls place a Catholic could go to . I would like to spend a few weeks . Hospital , Coleshill , have sent many at home in the New Year and then surname ) and Rosemarie Sumner . would love to go to Rome and see Ryan . 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The Atlas is printed throughout missions will be agreeably surprised to learn of consequence of that complete loyalty which we some old-fashioned prejudice but is rather a logical basic Christian objection to Freemasonry is that not thought of Passionists in terms of the foreign Catholics on both sides of the Atlantic would do random from The Best Is Yet To Come not in clear visual style type and carries eighteen maps . we to Jesus Christ , true God , true man . No sons of St. Paul not only in Europe but also in ATLAS OF THE PASSIONIST MISSIONS . Pre- geography in one " provides a clear and inspiring accept the tenets of Masonry without doing violence THE BEST ISYET TO BE. By an Ursuline Nun. out of all who would lay claim to be followers of interested in the doctrinal aspects of the Cult is picture of Passionist foreign missionary achieve - pared by Father Caspar. C.P. Secretary General his beautifully produced " history and studv begins with a blunt statement of fact : " The ( John , XIV , 6 ) . To say that many Masons are not will be the brief history of our Irish Passionists in O'Connell St. pp. 128. 61- . America . Australia , China , Japan , the Holy Land way . pp. 195. # 3.75 . to the revealed truths of the Gospel . " It is perhaps from one of those any articles by Norman Vincent Mr. Whelan proves it to the hill-that one cannot PP. Passionist , SS. Giovanni e Paolo , Roma , 847 , Dublin : M. H. Gill & Son , Ltd. , 50 Upper he chief merit of Mr. Whalen's work that this devastating conclusiveness . The argument must proposition has been proved objectively and with Christian can give assent to a creed which denies D.C.P. Catholic opposition to Masonry is not the result of ment during the 184 years that have passed since re chooses to ! " " This is a sentence chosen at The Bruce Publishing Company , 400 N. 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