Communications

...On the contrary, a good deal of my information has been of lack of management and of neglect...

...Of course Mr...

...This theme could be elaborated on with many painful illustrations...

...As Mr...

...This is the only Body to whom the Holy Ghost was corporately sent and given to lead her into all truth...

...In Newman's controversy with Kingsley, the latter refused to believe the author of the Apologia even when common-sense men all agreed that he was telling the truth...

...The real trouble today is not that we have too many people too "wise" to accept the teachings of the Catholic Church...

...Every Protestant I know of who is sufficiently intelligent and fair-minded to learn just what the Catholic doctrine is on all essential matters of faith, ends up by becoming a Catholic...

...that is to say, one who knows all the main teachings of the Catholic Church and really has a conscientious scruple against accepting some point of major importance...

...the anti-narcotic law does not permit him to enjoy the iridescent dreams of the opium-eater...

...Burnham would admit that the individual's freedom was seriously curtailed when he became a member of the social state...

...If all Roman Catholics were as fair-minded as James S. Coster, Anastasia Lawler, and Mary Foote Coughlin, it would be an easier matter for one like myself to become a convert...

...One reason Protestants are so bitterly opposed to Roman Catholicism is because of the attitude of such people as N. Kelly, Courtlandt van Winkle, and the convert Marion Pharo Hillard...

...My experience of "Anglo-Catholic" books is that, as in the case of their ritual, vestments, devotions, etc., they get their substance from Catholic sources...

...WALTER STUART...

...DEVOTION T O T H E HOLY SPIRIT Brooklyn, N. Y. TO the Editor:—In these days of religious controversy, one wonders if Catholic writers are obliged to concentrate on points of attack...

...It is out of place in The Commonweal...

...Is he an amateur "higher critic" who is suggesting with satirical jocularity that it is necessary to return to the "flatearth" theory so as to make our religious beliefs plausible...

...Howard R. Patch's letter under the caption, "Two Religions" of Anglicanism, and beg to make . some remarks about it...

...Or is he muddle-minded and unscientific enough to want to turn the world back a thousand years and scrap scientific knowledge beyond that which isj compatible, for instance, with the theological knowledge of an average colored "parson...

...factories closed, especially those in country places, that gave employment to girls and kept them and others of their respective families from the emigrant ship...

...WALTER H. SMITH...

...That is a decision requiring great courage, being sure to involve the loss of valued friendships and old associations, and the inevitable criticism of Protestants and Roman Catholics alike, and numberless innuendos as to one's motives...

...True, Governor Smith's answer to Mr...

...TO the Editor:—Please let us know why such a letter as that of W. v. Lyons's in the issue of April 20 comes to appear in your paper...

...Nevertheless, they do lack a certain unction which pervades Catholic devotional and theological works...

...This Church in the Acts of the Apostles is called, about five times, by God the Holy Ghost, "The Way...

...But The Commonweal and the letters of Mary Foote Coughlin and James Coster are an incentive for one to seek more diligently after the truth...

...No friend of Ireland, of course, wishes the country to become so thoroughly industrialized as is England...

...Now Christ is 'The Way" and His Petrine Church is "The Way" because she and she alone is His Body...

...I discovered a whole world of difference, despite external imitations and resemblances, between the "Anglo-Catholic mass" and the Melchisadechan Oblation of, say, the Catholic Church of the Latin rite, my rite...

...M K S OUR PERJURED GLOBE AGAIN Bristol, Pa...

...Patch now...

...An appealing and convincing statement could be well worked out from the sermons, speeches, and declarations of the late Cardinal Gibbons, if the handling of the matter were placed in the hands oi a William Franklin Sands, whose sincerity, lucidity of expression, and diplomacy are so closely related to those of the old Cardinal...

...embroidery work failed or weakened as well as knitting and cloth-making...

...It is particularly evident in the recent discussion on Mr...

...Once allow the truth of Catholic doctrine to enter the intellect and even a perverse mind will cease to militate against its acceptance...

...T W O RELIGIONS" OF ANGLICANISM New York, N. Y. TO the Editor:—In the issue of your esteemed review of April 20, I read Mr...

...An "AngloCatholic mass" is no more of a mass or true real objective sacrifice than Dr...

...Burnham's recent letter in your review is correct in the main, but gives the impression that prohibition was the primary inroad on man's freedom...

...The purpose of this letter is not to make arraignment for past errors, but to point out the injustice of charging to oppressive tactics by the non-Catholics of Scotland economic disabilities due to qualities, or lack of qualities, in the unfortunate people themselves and in their ecclesiastical leaders...

...What else could it be under the circumstances...

...when not less but more scientific knowledge will be in the grasp of mankind, and humanity vrill reject all religions but the One Religion, which will then stand proven historically, philosophically and logically...

...May one hope that another Pentecost will find something on the subject in every church rack throughout the country, where it will be within the reach of all...

...How can it be when "Anglo-Catholic" priests are not true priests...

...Patch imagines...

...So much controversy is of little avail, I think, for this reason...

...Maybe that is a prophetic utterance...

...HENRY B. SHAW...

...Burnham is correct, therefore, in saying the question is one of expediency or safety, and relates wholly to the duty of protection from a known evil, owed by the state to its members...

...Loyalty need not be suspicious, however, nor intemperate...

...Marshall, and the two articles in The Commonweal tell for enlightenment...

...No better friend of the change from the old to the new than I, but I love truth better...

...Roman Catholics are not troubled about the Anglican "development," as Mr...

...First, why "two religions" of Anglicanism when the whole world judges that there are more...

...ANNE D'AUGUSTIN...

...I have just read Brett's Via Mystica...

...Pope Leo XIII only confirmed the traditional witness when he finally issued his bull condemning Anglican Orders...

...If these two reasons compel the Protestant to disbelieve the Catholic, why put-the question at all...

...May that adorable Spirit enlighten Mr, Patch's private judgment and that of his co-deluded brethren and lead them into the truth as it is in Jesus and Peter, then shall there be one Flock and one Shepherd...

...I have been kept in touch with affairs in those districts for the last five years, and nothing has been put in my way to suggest what you say...

...FRANCIS J. GOSTOMSKI...

...but rather that it is entirely too hard to find people outside the fold with sufficient intelligence to comprehend the teachings of the Church when the teachings are explained to them...

...Bayonne, N. J. TO the Editor:—^As a member of the "Anglican Catholic" Church, I have followed with interest the "Two Religions" of Anglicanism communications...

...Men have eyes and see not, ears and hear not, minds and think not, because they will not...

...I should say, I would have the greatest possible respect for such a man or woman "if" I knew where to find one...

...It is practically based on Saint John of the Cross, Saint Teresa, Saint Bernard, etc., who are therein copiously quoted...

...It is presumed, of course, that you have sufficient data with which to verify it...

...In so many cases, it would seem that the Protestant imagines he knows more about Catholic doctrine than the Catholic does, or, what is probably worse, he does not credit the Catholic with real honesty...

...WILLIAM FRANKLIN SANDS...

...I would like to know of just one man in America who can state the Catholic position correctly on every point of the Apostles' Creed, the Immaculate Conception, the Virgin Birth, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection, the Holy Eucharist, Veneration of the Blessed Virgin, the Infallibility of the Pope, Holy Orders, Baptism and Matrimony, and remain a Protestant and advance logical reasons for doing so...

...The author's own historical and critical acumen will cause him to concede that the first statement is a fact, the second an exaggeration, and the implication of their juxtaposition a delusion...

...Smith's eligibility for the Presidency...

...H. GALLAGHER...

...Denis W. Brogan states: "The last legal grievances have gone, we have come out of the catacombs...

...It is not new...

...T H E DANGER OF BIGOTRY Washington, D. C. TO the Editor:—^Your correspondence column is, as I believed from the beginning of The Commonweal that it would be, one of the most important and valuable parts of your work...

...The letter of Marion Pharo Hillard simply places another obstacle in the way of one seeking the courage and conviction necessary for conversion...

...If that is not forthcoming, he refuses any...

...Since man's entrance into society many things have transpired to limit his freedom of action...

...TO the Editor:—In The Commonweal for April 20, speaking of subsidy to the Gaeltacht, which is mostly the old Congested District, you say: "Already there is a great deal too much paternalism in the management of these districts—it is actually possible to find in them men who believe that the government should pay them for cultivating their own fields...

...Why not say "Anglicanisms...

...The standard of living, though still compara lively simple, has advanced in the last fifty years, and the long and the short of the whole situation is that there must be industries in order to create exchange and therefore keep going...

...Christ said: "If any man hear not the Church, let him be unto thee as a publican and a sinner...

...But there is need for a great deal more in the way of simple, brief expositions of the doctrine of the Indwelling...

...No wonder Saint Irenaeus said in the second or third century, "Where Peter is, there is the Church"—"Ubi Petrus, ibi Ecclesia...

...True, in addition to the pamphlet referred to above, there is an excellent little volume by the Very Reverend Bede Jarrett, O.P., entitled The Abiding Presence of the Holy Ghost in the Soul...

...It has led people to voice opinion, and to define their meaning in such a way as to make better understanding among those who, until your coming, were perforce inarticulate...

...GEORGE E. DOWNES...

...PROHIBITION AND EXPEDIENCY Syracuse, N. Y. TO the Editor:—Mr...

...and the highway traffic law attempts—not always successfully—to limit his use of the highways...

...Orchard's "Congregational-Catholic mass" in London, or the "Lutheran-Catholic mass" in Germany, etc...

...With statistics at hand, it would make a very interesting and enlightening theme to compute how much Ireland has had to depend on the United States in the last fifty years...

...This incident is but one illustration of the curious masochistic tendency of the Catholic ecclesiastics and laity in Scotland to huddle themselves together, to create a sort of "imperium in imperio" inimical and impervious to all suggestions and opportunities of entering into the fuller and broader life around them...

...The book is "sound and edifying...

...The fact is this: When a Protestant in all seriousness asks a question on Catholic doctrine or policy and receives from a Catholic a straightforward answer, the Protestant will not accept the Catholic's answer...

...The consternation which the Cardinal's speech in Rome threw into the camps of unionists in Europe, Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox alike, and his repeated declarations that separation of Church and state was best for both, should be better known...

...Most of the works available are too technical for the average layman...

...It looks as though the Protestant who essays a question has already formulated (hke many pedagogues) in his own mind just what kind of answer he wants...

...The danger of bigotry or of uncharitable bitterness" is never negligible, and does exist...

...Whitehead on the two religions in Anglicanism, and for the laying of Protestant suspicions against American Catholics...

...What does trouble Catholics terribly is the sad spectacle of so many "Anglo-Catholic" souls deluding themselves about what is "available in Anglicanism...

...Cherry Valley, N. Y. TO the Editor:—I think there is hardly an enlightened Catholic who does not feel that the present is the greatest opportunity for the emancipation of some Catholics, such as those who objected to the illuminating article by Dr...

...The old Congested District Board, whose president was the present cardinal, was done away with and nothing worthy substituted...

...For my part, I think it exaggeration with a vengeance...

...Were you to bring out, in about three articles in The Commonweal, this positive doctrine, and then print it in a booklet form, you would perform a great service to the present and future generations of Americans, Catholic and Protestant alike...

...There would be surprises, to be sure, and perhaps the surprise that would open our eyes the widest would be the amount of cold cash that has entered Ireland in the last five years...

...That is why she is necessarily infallible, cannot err in her teaching and teaches only one religion...

...And this is the need for the present and future...

...But some industries there must be...

...It was, as it is, a difference between reality and non-existence, between an objective sacrifice and a subjective persuasion and feeling...

...I hope that W. V. Lyons will excuse my frankness...

...Patch's scriptural accommodation is irrelevant...

...Its obvious and manifold advantages were secured for the Catholic children of Scotland only by direct action of the Vatican authorities over the protests of the majority of the Scottish Catholic clergy...

...That is a terrible statement...

...The Latin Church in England from the beginning of the so-called Reformation has ever declared their Orders invalid...

...REV...

...What are they doing to explain doctrines of value in the development of the inner life...

...The better the mental equipment of the recipient is the better the result, consequently we need more know^ledge, including all true "science," rather than less...

...PROTESTANT CONTROVERSY Corfu, N. Y. TO the Editor:—A fact, curious and puzzling, often appears in Protestant controversy...

...The fish and game laws have seriously restricted his natural propensity to pursue and kill other species of animals...

...But they are only answers to objections, and not a full, positive statement of the Catholic standpoint...

...I know a b'ftle of what I speak When I read the optimistic accounts of the wonderful success of the present government, I cannot help but smile...

...The Church He referred to is necessarily the Church that He, Almighty God Incarnate, founded and is building on Peter according to His own familiar words—Tu es Petrus, etc...

...SUBSIDY TO THE GAELTACHT Evansville, Ind...

...The sojourn of the Catholic population of Scotland in the dim underworld has been, and is, due primarily to their own love of life in the shades, and to the inhibitory influence exerted by many of their ecclesiastical leaders upon all attempts at egress...

...Loyalty" for instance, as used in your issue of May 4. Loyalty surely is and should be the root of such discussion as called forth your correspondent's comment...

...Surely now, if ever, is the time for that increase of devotion to the Holy Spirit which, as Father McSorley of the Paulists writes (Devotion to the Holy Spirit) "earnestly cultivated, will lead all dissenters into the Catholic fold and inspire all Catholics to lives of sanctity...

...Catholicism is going, by God's help, to triumph more fully than in the past in some future age, not too remote, I pray...

...A curious fact worthy of mention is that at no time for many years was there employment for the young men of these districts, except relief work in road-making in very bad times, after the work of the fields was finished...

...Could that period of idleness from the beginning of November to the middle of March be without influence to deterioration, let alone the financial loss...

...FRANK HOPKINS...

...And the fact that he was never called upon by Rome to retract is of vital interest and importance today...

...Brc^an must surely know, the Education Act of 1918, inspired by the then Minister of Education, Sir H. A. L. Fisher, was bitterly opposed by every member of the Scottish Catholic Episcopate save one...

...I have the greatest respect possible for a Protestant who is a real protestant...

...Long ago I assisted at "Anglo-Catholic masses," but since following the footsteps of Marion Pharo Hillard, or preceding her into the Catholic Church, the one true spouse of Jesus Christ Our God, I discovered something I never imagined possible as an "Anglo-Catholic," any more than does Mr...