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...Paul) contains Vespers for Sundays and principal feasts in addition to the Masses for every day of the year...

...607 THE JURY SYSTEM Columbus, Ohio...

...Aubrey G. Taggart...

...The evidence clearly showed that she pursued her would-be seducer down the stairs and shot him in a dark hallway as he was leaving the building...

...TO the Editor:—In your issue of March 2, in a review of Ibanez's work entitled The Pope of the Sea, occurs the following remarkable sentence: "The climax came at the Council of Constance where the various rivals were convened, and John XXIII saw wisdom in a sudden escape...

...A young Italian woman of good repute was charged with shooting her brother-in-law...

...Politics make strange bed-fellows...

...New York, N. Y. TO the Editor:—Permit me, through you, to congratulate the Catholic Church...

...TO the Editor:—Your contributor, William Franklin Sands, continues to instruct American Catholics on a variety of subjects...

...But what is it practically...

...PAMPHLETS ON CHURCH SERVICES Collegeville, Minn...

...It was the sheet anchor of the Caroline divines...

...Her clever attorney painted a very tragic picture of her wrongs...

...It will be remembered there was a great panic that year and authorities on industrial statistics, government and politics, said that "over-production" was responsible for glutting the markets, bringing industry to a standstill...

...The answer is, I think, that when Catholics come to realize something of what the liturgy really is, they will desire to participate in its celebration...

...The Kluxers may be in the pay of Tammany...

...This phase of changing industry will have to be met the same as the street railway has had to meet the competition of automobiles...

...Is not the Armenian Church an historic church...

...Those who have become interested in the official worship of the Church and perceive something of the sublime treasures of the liturgy of the Mass and Divine Office, desire to see the liturgy explained in a simple manner that could be understood by all...

...that it is an astute but dishonest political manoeuvre...

...In his thought-provoking book, Prisoner at the Bar, Arthur Train gives an example of the stupidity of a "special jury" of perfectly intelligent men...

...The suggestion that a bilocation should in any way increase the papal entities of the time fills the reviewer with a pious confusion.—Thomas Walsh...

...Your readers may wonder whether Ibanez or his reviewer attributes power of bilocation to both Pope and anti-Pope, and whether the Church has ever given sanction to the belief in this stupendous miracle...

...Some of the things we have seen in print concerning the chances of a Catholic entering the White House do not seem to bear the stamp of the Smith machine...

...It is an illusion...

...The stress laid upon the religious affiliations of Governor Smith in public speeches, in newspaper stories and magazine articles, is all part of a carefully devised plan...

...By ruling out the greatest body of Christians...

...Is it barely possible that his love of honesty and fair play has led him into a trap and made of him an easy victim to the darts of the Governor's political enemies ? Fred A. Casey...

...But one can never tell...

...To meet this need the Benedictines of Saint John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota, recently organized the Liturgical Press, which in addition to Orate Fratres, a monthly liturgical review intended to foster active participation in the services of the Church, publishes moderately priced pamphlets on the liturgy, including a small manual, Offeramus, containing the Ordinary and Canon of the Mass with full explanations of them...

...Even if we take the matters in which every admittedly ancient church is in agreement, what of the matters in which they differ...

...Whitehead combines these essential qualities in such nicely adjusted proportions as to approach being a work of genius...

...TO the Editor:—Miss Hillard's letter about the Reverend Whitehead's informative article, "Two Religions" of Anglicanism, was, of course, unfortunate, and one feels grateful to you for the editorial appendix which the letter's rather disagreeable ill-temper seemed to make desirable...

...Jury trials should not only be abolished in civil cases, but in criminal cases as well...

...But what a task to expect him to master the great collections of Migne...

...His article bears every evidence of having been carefully written...

...He had attempted to persuade her to yield to his desires and she claimed to have shot him in self-defense...

...In so doing they would destroy themselves by means of a dishonesty which would approach the imbecility of the letter in question...

...The present methods of mass production can only be met by mass consumption, and in the main, must be utilized by the people who produce it...

...With tears streaming down their faces, the jurors rushed over to the murderess and shook her hands "in the presence of the bereaved mother and father whose son had been so wickedly slain with malice aforethought...

...And yet, while I rejoice, I cannot but reflect upon the unhappy state of the "thousands of earnest Christians" who are being kept out of the Catholic Church by the teaching that "Anglicans are just as good Catholics as 'Romans.' " May I suggest that hereafter when a Protestant Episcopal minister is permitted to express his opinions in your periodical, you insert on the same page a cut of the Statue of Liberty in red, white, and blue as a gentle reminder to the unthinking that here in America we sometimes like to hear the other fellow's story and that most of us would not believe that the present Pope is an Irishman even though we saw such a statement printed in the Gaelic American...

...So, far from the Anglican Church being "a sample ecclesiastical body," and one which has "a logical position as the ideal basis for ecclesiastical unity," it is an example of unique confusion...

...In substance, the commission recommends the abolition of the provision which makes conviction by jury possible only by a unanimous verdict...

...everything there is to be said upon the strategic and important subject which he so admirably discussed with precisely (it seems to me) the right balance and exactly the combination of conservatism and truth which makes an article of this kind worth while...

...It was the answer of a great body of splendid men...

...Can The Commonweal have become a convert to the "threefold branch theory," thought I ? The matter was explained when I discovered by means of the Living Church Annual that Mr...

...Gompers said that the trouble with American industry was not "over-production," but "under-consumption...

...Jury-fixing is frequently resorted to in civil suits involving large sums...

...Gregory discreetly sending his abdication from his castle in Viterbo...

...It held Pusey in its thrall...

...We have come to lose our true conception of liturgical worship through the necessity of pioneer missionary labors which absorbed the whole energy of the clergy...

...Sands is undoubtedly in a more favorable position for getting at the facts than we of the Pacific slope...

...As the reviewer of Blasco y Ibanez's book, The Pope of the Sea, I am startled by the amusing uncertainty resulting from my phrase, "Where the various rivals were convened...

...The "Smith for President" politicians of New York, and elsewhere, are responsible for it...

...Edward Hawks...

...Herein are several categorical statements...

...Whitehead is an Episcopalian clergyman...

...Certainly the older Anglican divines of the "catholic school" violently repudiated the doctrine of "a change of substance...

...Whitehead's article, as should be entirely obvious to the most moderate intellect, required a rare combination of courage, knowledge, and tact to produce at all...

...and Benedict XIII hearing of his deposition afar in his family castle of Pefiiscola near Valencia, Spain...

...Quite late in its history, the Greek Church accepted the equivalent term for transubstantiation...

...William Collins...

...This, of course, is not a solution to the present condition in the textile industry where silk has been substituted for cotton by the consumer...

...MEETING UNEMPLOYMENT Yonkers, N. Y. TO the Editor:—Your correspondent, William H. Bastion, writing in the issue of March 23 on Meeting Unemployment, pursued a very circumspect method of meeting this evil...

...It was even the feeble excuse proposed by the Anglican reformers themselves when they met the trained logic of the Catholic teachers of the Counter-Reformation...

...He is nearer the scene of action...

...Cleveland, Ohio...

...Having successfully disposed of the question in Mexico, maintaining against all opponents, including our own Chief Executive and the Department of State, that the troubles of our neighbors to the south are by no means attributable to Bolshevism, he now proceeds to tackle a few problems nearer home...

...THE POPE OF THE SEA Santa Barbara, Calif...

...After the nine had been chosen, it was found that three of them had been bribed...

...He possesses a nice appreciation of the value of words...

...For this reason I am inclined to think that the recent proposal of the Crime Commission of New York State is impractical, if not useless...

...As there are many interpretations of the Scripture so there are many interpretations of the fathers...

...Won't he please tell us how much of what he has written is based on fact...

...He understands fully what he means to say and he says it...

...It is bad enough to ask him to read through the 700 pages of the Bible...

...Anglicans are consequently divided in their opinions concerning the Eucharist...

...Los Altos, Calif...

...It is true that the only Pope who appeared at the Council of Constance was John XXIII, yet the other claimants were represented by followers and delegates, as Gregory and Benedict maintained their decorum afar...

...There are, one fears, altogether too many persons of the disposition of the writer of the letter in question...

...TO the Editor:—More than a decade ago, The Outlook editorially wrote that of all the customs then "antiquated, moth-eaten and wasteful, the jury system was the worst...

...He offers as a solution for the problem of church unity "the theology of historic Christendom...

...To refer any ordinary man to the voluminous writings of the fathers of the Church is to take advantage of his ignorance...

...Indeed, if the non-Anglo-Catholics of the Anglican communion were all to "disappear rapidly" as Mr...

...In a more recent case, a woman shot her lover because he had become engaged to another woman...

...She was promptly acquitted despite the fact that her story was a fabrication...

...certain popular Gothamite," presumably Governor Smith...

...Sands be a bit more explicit...

...XT _ Nathan Friedman...

...Won't the zealous Mr...

...It is as easy, on the principle of ruling out the Roman Church in the matter of supreme authority, to rule out the Greek Church on the matter of the Eucharist...

...Sands is a master of good English...

...Hence there may be truth in the very serious charges he brings against the person or persons who have brought to light the fact that the genial governor of New York is a Catholic and because of this liability his chances of receiving the Democratic nomination are in jeopardy...

...Thomas E. Sherman...

...I see by your issue of March 9 that Marion Pharo Hillard has come into the fold...

...Whitehead...

...For the article by Dr...

...After all, Senator Heflin of Alabama may be only a henchman of Al's...

...To quote from the communication referred to (The Battle in Gotham, The Commonweal, March 2): "There are many outside of 'Gotham,' perhaps some in it, who feel that quite possibly the most serious point against a certain popular Gothamite as candidate is that insistence on this false issue is deliberately intended to bring out favorable 'Catholic' votes in both parties because of the inevitable 'religious antagonism' it will arouse...

...Low-priced translations of the Roman missal are now stocked by all leading Catholic publishers...

...There are Anglo-Cath6o6 olies who think the Greek Church left the ancient theology in this respect...

...The Methodist Church may really be an emissary of Rome...

...Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy, in an address said that in a certain case of great public moment it took the presiding judge some six months to choose nine jurors...

...THE BATTLE IN GOTHAM...

...It is my opinion that the trade-unions furnish the most direct remedy for unemployment by the principles so well enunciated through their spokesman, the late Samuel Gompers, when writing in The Forum of 1893...

...This bitter indictment is just as applicable today...

...In this matter, Mr...

...Among other interesting topics discussed by him in recent issues of The Commonweal, is that of the possible candidacy of "a...

...Some say this is a vicious circle, but that may be said of all methods of dealing with the profits of industry...

...He has said nothing that could offend an Anglican...

...TO the Editor:—I rubbed my eyes when reading the article, "Two Religions" of Anglicanism which appeared in your issue of February 16...

...Way out West many of us are wondering whether this is true...

...TO the Editor:—May I have the courtesy of your columns to reply to Miss Byles's letter, Pamphlets on Church Services, which was published in The Commonweal of March 16...

...As I study it, it becomes more and more apparent that you did more in accepting it, or in securing its production, than merely (as you say) to provide something ''interesting to Catholic observers...

...The doctrine of the Real Presence is one case...

...Whitehead's eminence in his own communion, and possessed of his learning, should, as a possible sop to the Hillards among your readers, stultify his own position and so ruin that which he has to say...

...How will "historic theology" crack this nut for Anglicans...

...that the injection of this false issue is not only stultifying to the candidate himself, but harmful to the church to which he belongs...

...James S. Coster...

...The most pressing difference and the one that chiefly concerns unity is the doctrine of papal infallibility...

...Her question is one being asked by thinking Catholics the world over...

...The "historic theology" does not even end the Anglican difficulties...

...Hence the conclusion he wishes us to draw is obvious...

...In less than five minutes she was acquitted...

...The Saint Andrew Daily Missal (Lohmann Company, St...

...Whitehead prophesies they will, those who are left behind would still present to the world the spectacle of a church in confusion, a church as ready again to fall into parties and cliques as it ever was...

...The Day Hours, in Latin and English (Burns, Oates and Washbourne) is now on the market, and a complete LatinEnglish edition of the breviary is in course of preparation by the Benedictines of Stanbrook, for the Burns, Oates and Washbourne Company...

...It sounds better than the appeal to the Bible as a final authority, ft looks like an application of the so-called Vincentian rule...

...This is simple and can be understood by the least informed in economics...

...But the difficulty is still nearer home for Mr...

...Harold Kenneth Van Buren...

...For, is it not obvious to the many persons of a superior intelligence who read The Commonweal, that articles, especially informative articles written by persons out of communion with the Holy See, would simply disappear, to the detriment of your policy and all that The Commonweal means, if such persons were obliged to take the "Roman Catholic" viewpoint in their writings...

...But which are the historic churches...

...nothing that should offend a Catholic...

...The only other alternative would be to omit all contributions from sources other than "Roman Catholic...

...It can hardly be expected that an Anglo-Catholic writer of Dr...

...Who, for example, has ever been able to say exactly what Saint Augustine himself really taught ? Doubtless we shall be answered that the "historic theology of Christendom" is to be found in the practice and in the current teaching of the historic churches...