Communications
493 COMMUNICATIONS LOU FELIBRE D'IRLANDO Buffalo, N. Y. TO the Editor:—The article, Lou Felibre d'Irlando, by Charles Roger Miller in The Commonweal of January 26, gave me the strangest...
...Brownson did not enter the Catholic Church until 1844, and it was not until 1857 (I believe) that he published the work which told of his conversion to that religion...
...Gladstone is said to have replied: "I feel very deeply for you that you should think it necessary to tell me this...
...The entire article should be recast, for it is most obvious to anyone interested in Brownson that it was written by a party whose ideas of this American thinker were neither numerous nor distinct...
...Gladstone and a recent court decision in England, it is refreshing to recall that the welfare of homeless girls in certain notorious sections of London was his chief private charity, a personal charity, not undertaken through an organization and paid workers...
...He himself has decided against the counter-reformation...
...or on the Congrua Bill improving the material status of the Catholic clergy—whatever he means by this insinuation...
...To the best of my recollection, Madame Laetitia Bonaparte-Wyse was obliged to take absent treatment after her performance...
...Hlinka, in his Slovak, January 19, 1927, states his reasons for going over to the government and one of the reasons is Communism...
...In this work (written, as you will note, four years before he entered the Roman Catholic Church) he expressly rejects Catholicity as unsuited to the age...
...This pamphlet was published privately in Boston when he last visited that city, and was distributed among friends...
...For unless the Catholic Church is the Roman Church, and no other, then all converts are fools, and all the English martyrs suffered in vain...
...that the Pope isn't any more necessary to Catholicism than any other bishop...
...The article is indeed of great interest and value, and Mr...
...May we hope for more from the same pen on Provencal literature...
...The people are with him...
...Of course not, but the man in the street doesn't realize that...
...To tell the truth, I think that Mr...
...493 COMMUNICATIONS LOU FELIBRE D'IRLANDO Buffalo, N. Y. TO the Editor:—The article, Lou Felibre d'Irlando, by Charles Roger Miller in The Commonweal of January 26, gave me the strangest feeling of pleasure mingled with sadness...
...Fisa should not lay stress on the personality of Dr...
...The work mentioned in the article referred to was a record of his religious transformation from a rank sceptic to an adherent of a very diluted form of Christianity...
...Svehla, the prime minister, pleaded for the safety of the republic, and because Hlinka is not against it, he^went over to the government...
...AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA FOR CATHOLICS Chicago, 111...
...Every son of the Czech people who knows Czech history must decide either for the reformation or for the counter-reformation...
...Whitehead's article seemed to us worth while, not because it restated an Anglican theory formulated years ago, but because it reflected contemporary movements inside the Protestant Episcopal Church which might be more than usually interesting to Catholic observers...
...Miller is to be congratulated on giving many readers so unusual a piece of biography and fascinating literature...
...F. E. M. IS PRIVATE CHARITY DANGEROUS...
...Fisa knows that the President of the Czecho-Slovakian republic is of the same conviction today as in 1895 when he expressed himself thus: "Every conscious son of the Czech people finds in the history of our reformation his awn ideal...
...Marion Pharo Hillard...
...We sincerely deplore any misunderstanding that might have been created, although we feel that reactions to the article are distinctly valuable in so far as they reveal issues really at stake—issues some of which, at least, have been discussed from both points of view at the Vienna Conference and elsewhere...
...Gladstone, in the country, who provided places for his rescues...
...It is, too...
...Receiving his instructions from Praha, he knows that the opposite is true...
...Fisa very interesting...
...Mary E. Gibbons...
...In order to bring this about, his entrance into the government was brought about...
...neither will educated Episcopalians who read in a Catholic paper such statements as: "The fact that the Protestant Episcopal Church is an integral portion of the great Anglican communion, one oi the three historic branches of the Church founded by Christ, as distinct from any sect...
...It was called The Convert, or Leaves from My Experience...
...How she learned of the lady's manner of showing disdain I do not know, for the manor of St...
...on the presence of some Catholics within the cabinet...
...The following words were addressed to the managing editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and are selfexplanatory : "In your article, 'Brownson, Orestes A.' in the eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia, and most probably in the later editions, there appear several errors of fact...
...The incident may have been recorded in a Waterford City journal and reproduced in the paper of the smaller town...
...It remains to be seen whether Svehla and the "Mama Association" will remember this service or not Jozef A. Skoda-Scribner...
...My mother was a native of Dungarven, a seacoast town of the County Waterford...
...It is recorded in one of the Gladstone books that one of his private secretaries was made aware that people hostile to his chief had observed him on one occasion, when he brought home some forlorn woman from the street and kept her in his house till he could send her to Mrs...
...Sramek (Sramek has no use for Slovaks or for things Slovak...
...There, I told you so...
...CZECHO-SLOVAKIAN DIFFICULTIES Hartford, Conn...
...Whitehead's paper was designed to appear as one in the series of articles on problems of church union, which we have been publishing in response to the Holy Father's plea for interest in this matter.—The Editors...
...TWO RELIGIONS" OF ANGLICANISM New York, N. Y. TO the Editor:—In your issue of February 16, I find (advertised on the outside page of your magazine in large type, and ranked next to Father Martindale's wonderful defense of the Church) an article by a Protestant Episcopal minister exploiting the Anglo-Catholic myth, the most insidious error of modern times—an error which keeps thousands of earnest Christians out of the Catholic Church (which did keep me out for many years) by teaching that Anglicans are just as good Catholics as "Romans" (a little better...
...For if the "three-branch" theory, boldly stated in the second paragraph of Mr...
...TO the Editor:—A most impressive reason why Catholics should have their own encyclopaedia came to my attention recently...
...I can hear my Episcopal friends say...
...Washington, D. C. TO the Editor:—Concerning Mr...
...Brownson and the very satisfactory article about him in the Catholic Encyclopedia...
...TO the Editor:—I find the letters of Father Novajovsky and Mr...
...William Franklin Sands...
...We regret that an additional explanatory note did not emphasize, what is often implied by discursive articles appearing in The Commonweal, that the editors do not share the opinions expressed...
...For example, Mr...
...I recall having heard as a child the expression (if memory serves) "Anne Laetitia Bonaparte-Wyse"—perhaps the Laetitia came first, perhaps it was Madame instead of Anne...
...In his pamphlet, Europe from the Slav Point of View, he states that the Vatican is the enemy of the Slav people and should be renounced with all its works and pomps by them...
...However, Hlinka does not go ahead too rapidly, thus giving the people a chance to catch up with him...
...Its pecu494 liar relation to the Reformation movement gives it a logical [!!!] position as the ideal basis for ecclesiastical unity...
...So thinks the editor of the Slovak v Amerike, but the Separatists agree to disagree with him...
...Contrast the article appearing in the Britannica on Dr...
...Like an echo of long dead years the name BonaparteWyse flashed on me from the printed page...
...The Czech...
...Seeing that Communism is taking root and spreading, he wants to prevent its advance...
...In regard to the most glaring error of fact, which you might easily verify, allow me to quote the following from the article: 'Of his numerous publications in book form, the chief during his lifetime were: Charles Elwood, or The Infidel Converted (1840, autobiographical) in which he strongly favored the Roman Catholic Church...
...The harm that may be done by giving publicity to such, heresy is incalculable...
...Is it possible that private charity is becoming dangerous...
...Dr...
...The "Laetitia BonaparteWyse" stands out distinctly and the story was that the lady had made herself very obnoxious to her non-Catholic neighbors (of the Orange variety doubtless) by decorating the soles of her slippers with bows of orange ribbon and parading the streets or the walks of her estate so tricked out in scorn of the observance of July 12...
...John's, Waterford, must have been near the city of Waterford—distant, as distances were regarded in those years, from Dungarven...
...I request you to publish my letter, as I wish to find out how other Catholics (and especially converts) feel about this matter...
...The secretary told him of the scandal...
...They agree that Communism is spreading, for the people are hungry and have no work, but they are not so sure that going over to the government will help the people...
...The religious question is not the whole trouble nor is it the most important question...
...I had been curious in later years about the Bonaparte part of the hyphenated name, but if my mother had explained it the facts had lain dormant in my memory too long to be awakened in a flash...
...On entering the Church he disavowed this book...
...You will probably reply that a signed article does not express an editorial opinion...
...The latter work, for reasons of which the above is but one out of many, is indispensable to the Catholic who would be well informed...
...The editor of the Slovak v Amerike tries to justify Hlinka's move—because "Jednota" does not like this step of Hlinka's— by saying: "He sees into the faraway future, and for this reason he has gone to the side of the government...
...Whitehead's article, be not wholly false, then the "Roman claim" to be the One True Church is a preposterous impertinence—which is exactly what Manning and all the enemies of the Church have always said...
...Question...
...the typical ecclesiastical body...
...Roman Catholics are acknowledging at last that we are the real Catholics...
Vol. 5 • March 1927 • No. 18
