Communications
46 THE COMMONWEAL May 19, 1926 is a very good motto. I know that it is good because ...
...Spearman seems to think, and grounds...
...Vernon tells us: "Only last week, no occasions are exceedingly rare...
...For this reason, she limits her activities "I must have tumbled out of bed to children and looks to the future rather than to the immeLast night in paradise...
...Doubtless this is in accord with Mrs...
...a pupil of Dom Mocquereau, Dom Gatard, and "I will," said the Angel...
...Catholics In the light of these facts I venture the judgment that the of the Byzantine rite are able to enlighten western Catholics United States should be very much concerned with the "rights on this matter...
...with insult, with affection, with command, in all the The official court languages of the Holy See are Latin, French, seven moods which inflect the Basque vocative...
...the canonical liturgical languages of the Roman he remained dumb, nobly illustrating the sentiment of Church are Church Latin and old Slavonic (in Glagolitic the psalm, In Exitu, wherein it is thundered out that characters...
...Have you lost your way...
...I gave it up as a bad Eucharistic worship of Catholicism is performed under Roman, job and left him for the night so that he might have Byzantine, Alexandrine, Antiochene, Armenian, and Edessene time to recover his temper, but when I went back the forms in the following languages: Church Latin, old Slavonic next morning before taking my train, to see whether (in Cyrillic and Glagolitic characters) modern Rumanian, he was in a more genial mood, he still remained offen- modern Arabic, Church Greek, old Armenian, old Syriac (two dialects) Gregorian, modern Magyar, Coptic, and Geez...
...Carlton J. H. Hayes...
...Lansing, however, was not content with forwarding to to bridge the gulf between pious jazz and the sacred melodies the Senate these verbal promises...
...T O the Editor:-In the article, Peace with Mexico, by John A. Ryan and Mr...
...The trustees expect One other point calls for comment...
...Gregorian" is a misnomer for the plainsong of the not fitted in...
...tered such a case...
...The choir of the Pius X School is composed of girls belonging to the Church of the AnnunciaThe First Violet tion who are taught by the religious of the Sacred Heart, "Pardon, little stranger, and at present it sings the Mass each Sunday at that Church...
...Supplement, p. 466, is not a saint of the Church) : "What REV...
...I am ciation as exists, say, between Harvard and Radcliffe...
...visited it during the past year...
...prejudice, sometimes thinly veiled, some- NICHOLAS MOSELEY...
...Frenchmen are first nationalists...
...during the singing of the common of the Mass...
...Finally, we are not "dedicated especially to giving instrucIt is apparently necessary to establish that experience...
...be viewed from three angles of interest . . . third, the Besides, it isn't necessary...
...Mexico would respect the rights of religion as all civilized Metrical hymns, organs, segregated choirs, and private devo- nations do, and that his government would do all it could tions are the greatest hindrances to, and enemies of, liturgical in a friendly manner to see that such rights were respected...
...Moreover, so many of the younger members of the congrega(Never princess so forlorn, tion have been or are pupils of the Pius X School, that the Gold and purple gay...
...Frank H. SpearMoreover, prejudice against Catholics as persons pro- man's letter to you, under the title, French Catholicism fessing a religion is not even a difficulty in public life...
...I had no more mottoes for sundials...
...At last he could bear it guage...
...It is refreshing to read a Catholic paper which opens its columns to free dis- ALBERTUS MAGNUS COLLEGE cussion of this sort...
...Senators who professions, and in the country at large, who are taxed with disagreed with the commissioner on debatable grounds would nationalism, are invariably the champions of religion...
...through its library, museum, collections, and public lectures Father Largan renews emphasis upon numbers, upon civic can bestow on the residents of the city in which it is situated...
...I have been told that the Ward method that inasmuch as the reestablishment of peace within order wonderfully develops latent musical ability in the child but and law is the purpose of the government of Mr...
...never, general, hampering enmity because of religion...
...munity...
...Verses that are traditional and copied from somewhere unconsciously are always better than Garrison, N. Y. your original, sudden, uncooked stuff...
...tutionalist government, that Mexico would respect the free- Dr...
...Dom Gajard, and an alumnus of the Pius X School of Liturgical Music, I should like to criticize some statements "Shall I make you yet another...
...when it comes to facts, not notions, I would much sooner There has never been a time in American history when believe Father Durand than le Reverend Pere Sullivan...
...times unconcealed, of course...
...far as a man, through the effect upon him of divine praise, is I have asked one or two friends who have been in lifted upwards toward God, by so far is he w:Lhdrawn from the place since...
...Both statements contain a number of petering out by the way in which the middle one had errors...
...in a better way than this...
...congregation itself now joins in the singing...
...But she did, in the persons of some of her Spanish as against their own government...
...Therefore, the Proper breathing, timbre, sound production, and articulation constitutionalist government will respect everybody's life, propare quite as essential to the art of good congregational singing erty, and religious beliefs without other limitation than the as an intelligent grasp of the principles of rhythmic phrasing preservation of public order and the observance of the instior Latin grammar...
...a zeal which resulted in the surrender to the secular arm The United States recognized on October 19, 1915, the of too many privileges which rightly belonged only to the government of Carranza as a de facto government...
...Certainly, as Mr...
...Vernon ing to my work as poets will after the first half hour...
...The Church has a glorious record broad question of the rights of Mexicans in spiritual matters in Mexico...
...must admit, was zeal for the evangelization of the country, Sands makes in this particular context...
...It was located in New Haven so that the faculty discussion is clarifying and useful, may I be permitted a re- and students might have the privilege that a great university joinder...
...The whole reason of does not explain everything...
...real, not moreover in allowing certain Yale instructors to do part time artificial quality...
...The mistakes of the past must my writing so persistently on this subject lies in my belief also be reckoned in the accounting...
...singing is concerned...
...Never has any such thing interfered with FRENCH CATHOLICISM the public career of any of us, nor has any of us ever encoun- Paris, France...
...324, Sixtyit is our duty to shun the less worthy texts of plainsong...
...motive which first gave rise to those mistakes has been lost May I affirm that in the face of historical fact it is not only sight of...
...I happen to know this Hollywood, California, an Irish missionary of the name of case personally...
...others say they have not...
...Sullivan...
...You could not serve the cause of truth New Haven, Conn...
...the future of music...
...Freely rhythmical, unaccom- Because of these promises the United States Senate finally panied, popular singing of the Church's Mass prayers are recognized Carranza...
...Notre Dame, Ind...
...government, but only after it had received the most solemn It was largely out of that frustrated violence that the Mexiassurances from Senor E. Arredondo, representing the consti- can anti-clerical movement grew...
...T O the Editor :-I feel that The Commonweal should be PEACE WITH MEXICO commended for the...
...I am speaking of present and future Catho- work on the faculty of Albertus Magnus...
...never a time obvious, especially to anyone who visits Mexico now or has when discussion was more free and more generally intelligent...
...ignorance, certainly...
...TO the Editor:-In your issue of May 5, 1926, on page 705, (under the column headed Week by Week) there is a paragraph devoted to Albertus Magnus College...
...The wise to the point...
...This constitution both proscribes religion and proper time and place, but their time and place is not in church destroys educational freedom...
...The most archaic and would soon be bettered if we recognized Carranza and that beautiful pieces of Roman plainsong are oftentimes the simplest...
...In 1917 the present Mexican conIs it not quite remarkable that in our day the stitution was voted by a hand-picked military convention withHarvard Glee Club should sing in concert the third Mass out any reference, at that time or since, to the Mexican people of Christmas...
...My In the second place, the faculty is at present almost equally question...
...still stands...
...A more accurate name would be I shall not say another word," nor did he...
...less a figure than Cardinal O'Connell invited the girls' choir That conversation with the Angel was held nearly of the Pius X School to sing at High Mass in the Cathedral a month ago, and during all that time I have not been in Boston...
...worship among Roman Catholics...
...Ward has found, through saddening experience, that "Oh, sir, you are kindly met"- Catholic young men are quite hopeless so far as liturgical (What tears were in her eyes...
...Senate Document No...
...Organs and rosaries and choirs have their for approval...
...But and Italian...
...I know that it is good because COMMUNICATIONS I feel at the back of my mind that I copied it from CHOIRS FOR A NEW AGE somewhere...
...We must wait and see...
...Yale has been extremely generous in allowing Albertus MagMay I make it clear that I am not speaking of these things nus, and especially its faculty, the full use of its facilities, and primarily...
...The T O the Editor:-Since Reverend Charles B. Largan, S.J., trustees, however, have asked me to request you to correct has consented to carry a step further the discussion of one or two impressions which your words might convey...
...In 1916 spiritual...
...music and the Latin language constitute the official public So I again thought for some time, remaining silent prayer of the Church-a universal music and a universal lanand attempting to compose...
...education as distinct from schooling...
...using "Catholic" and "education" in their full meaning...
...monweal is to be commended and congratulated for publish- WILLIAM FRANKLIN SANDS...
...Pius X School seems certainly can speak and do so on occasion, yet those to be predominantly-though not exclusively, of course-a feminist activity...
...In American Catholic education begun in The Commonweal some the first place, the college has no official connection with Yale months ago, and evidently agrees with me thereby that this University...
...things having nothing to do, intrinsically, with our religion...
...With- tion in Thomistic philosophy...
...fourth Congress...
...T O the Editor:-I have just read Mr...
...All three of us have encountered hours in some other field during her junior and senior years...
...afterward, In America today it is a confusion of "Catholic" with other Catholics...
...Such terse formulas are always successful with a section of I must disagree also with Father Largan's illustration of the American public: otherwise I should not protest against this "ingrained bias" as evidenced by a recent senatorial con- the publicity given to this one...
...writes: "It cannot be too often repeated that the Gregorian "If you like," said the Angel, without enthusiasm...
...failed to keep his promises...
...Lansing, Secretary of State, School fits teachers to teach girls but sometimes it is quite is explicit: unadaptable to boys...
...Popular chironomy is desirable, but "Complying with your excellency's request asking me what is it always practicable...
...Roman plainsong...
...But, as Dr...
...out of ample experience...
...My correspondent the proportion eventually to be one-third lay and two-thirds again emphasizes prejudice, "ingrained bias" in America religious, but they hope always to have a strong lay faculty, against Catholics...
...Then," said he, "if you have no more Roman rite because it leads persons to imagine that Saint mottoes for sundials, I have no more use for you and Gregory was the composer of the text of the Vatican kyrial, gradual and antiphoner...
...With the third it is safe hierarchy, make mistakes...
...46 THE COMMONWEAL May 19, 1926 is a very good motto...
...Grenville Vernon in his article, Choirs for a filled with vanity in spite of my rebuffs, and also warm- New Age (The Commonweal of March 24...
...Spearman to ask hostility against the President's appointee was a powerful rea- him how it is that the Frenchmen in the Chambers, in the son for the size of the favorable majority vote...
...REGARDING MEXICO LAWRENCE MAYNARD GRAY...
...As is well known, President Carranza what is wanted...
...Ryan infers, this Real religious hostility may come...
...Justine Ward's no longer and said, "Hurry up...
...There is not, nor lic influence upon American civilization and culture through does either institution desire that there ever be, any such assoCatholic education...
...Moreover, it is impossible historically I still addressed him, with irony, with solicitude, to prove that Saint Gregory the Great ever was a Benedictine...
...tolerance by French Catholics of their un-Catholic governThis obsession of lurking hostility, of persecution, is largely ments, given to him by a French missionary of the name of inherited from other times, when it was real in other lands...
...ing letters like those mentioned above...
...which guarantee individual freedom of worship according to Very few Englishmen or Americans know how to speak well...
...Greek Catholics have never lost the tradition of Mexicans in spiritual matters" if for no other reason than of popular liturgical singing...
...Catholic weekly of The Commonweal's high standing...
...Spearman eviprivate life a sincere Catholic who knows his faith, is every- dently attaches importance to the explanation of the seeming where respected and always has been, in the United States...
...CHARLES PHILLIPS...
...That motive, as even partisan readers of history not safe but very false to posit any such assumption as Mr...
...Americans were so sincerely interested as they are today in ERNEST DIMNET...
...that if it comes it will grow out of our own fault...
...out exception, whether nationals or foreigners, may equally enThe Ward Method has been criticised unfavorably because joy the benefits of true justice, and hence take interest in coof the fact that it develops the voice in an indirect, individual operating to the support of the government, the laws of reform, way-that there is no systematic training in voice production...
...He himself stated that it of, let us say, the unadultered kyrie, Orbis Factor, to be was the belief of the Department of State that conditions found in the appendix to the kyrial...
...That the reds, the communistic fanatics, 48 THE COMMONWEAL May 19, 1926 have taken advantage of the situation in Mexico is, of course, religion and, in particular, the Catholic Church...
...I am speaking of quality, not numbers...
...But if you T O the Editor:-As a former member of Solesmes comdon't like it, as I say, you can leave it...
...Why tolerate the Missa de Angelis longer than is necessary Mr...
...Actually, this means that tion of the republic...
...There not stand the implication of voting against him on religious is more in a name than Mr...
...Mr...
...tutions in accordance with the laws in force and the constituWe ought to aim at the best...
...It is true that the curriculum out going further into personal matters I would remind Father is to some extent built around the course in philosophy, but Largan that the professional public service of my paternal this course occupies only twenty semester hours of the 120 grandfather, my father, and myself total 140 years of closest required for graduation, and every student must take twenty intimacy with public life...
...So I left him for worldlings but Saint Thomas's saying remains true: "So to it, and was gone...
...publication of its several articles on Washington, D. C. Mexico in the issue of May S, especially the letters from Dr...
...I asked, being now made by Mr...
...Still, in principle, the Church remained right in the United States Senate, acting upon the request of Presi- opposing the violence to which Hidalgo's inflamed followers dent Wilson, gave de jure recognition to the same Carranza resorted...
...prominence proportionate to numbers...
...not in the But the point that I would make is this: that The Com- least degree out of our religion...
...The AMERICAN CATHOLIC EDUCATION college is extremely grateful for such favorable notice from a Washington, D.C...
...This act of the Cardinal ought to affect able to make up any more mottoes for sundials...
...May i9, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 47 The normal training received by plainsong apostles at Plus X letter of Senor Arredondo to Mr...
...William Franklin Sands [The Commonweal, May Hayes points out, nothing is to be gained, and much lost, by at5] it is stated that "the present situation in Mexico may tempts to "whitewash" the record of the Church in Mexico...
...Should there be handy in firmation to an important commission...
...sively and pig-headedly silent, carrying his ironical "The proper execution of Gregorian Chant and music writsmile in a fixed, exasperating manner which showed me ten in the Gregorian spirit" may be "extraordinarily difficult" that he knew all about the great world...
...Venustiano that its success in founding a true, popular, and liturgical Carranza, to the end that all the inhabitants of Mexico withplainsong tradition is not so evident...
...Very likely Mrs...
...and it is her misfortune that the to posit that our government has nothing whatever to do...
...In my judgment the injection of religious Durand or Dupont, I would advise Mr...
...JAMES H. RYAN...
...Ward's method and school...
...Ryan's protest against the "diabolism" theory is likedom of religion and of education of all Mexican citizens...
...is more pleasing to God than to hear the whole Christian people sing to Him in unison...
...Said Clement of Alexandria that its trust has been shamefully abused by a foreign nation (who, contrary to the statement in the Catholic Encyclopedia and its faith in promises solemnly made put to a severe test...
...With deference to his opinion, I disagree, including outstanding Catholic scholars in the various fields...
...is the official music of the Catholic Church as Latin is her In fact, he might have seen for himself that I was official language...
...There is no official and unique liturgical lanimages of stone have mouths but cannot speak and guage or liturgical musical text of the Catholic Church for the cannot clamor their gutterals...
...diate present...
...SISTER MARY LOUIS This policy, in my estimation, has two possible dangers...
...Some say they have spoken with him, those who are in opposition to God...
...I believe those who say I suppose the members of the movement that has its dynamic they have not, partly because it makes me proud to centre in the Pius X School of Liturgical Music, already apthink I was the only man with whom he exchanged preciate the disadvantages of their method, but it is only fair words during that long space of seven centuries, and to voice what a number of persons think to be the weaknesses partly because I thought I knew, of course, that statues of Mrs...
...In A New Era, in your issue of April 14- Mr...
...I told him that it opening paragraph of Gregorian Chant : "Gregorian Chant was hopeless...
...divided between laymen and religious...
...If girl choirs are the best and quickest is the attitude of the constitutionalist government in regard means to congregational plainsong, let us indeed have and to the Catholic Church in Mexico, I have the honor to say encourage such choirs...
...everyone's conscience, shall be strictly observed...
Vol. 4 • May 1926 • No. 2
