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Comments from sixty years 'NORMALCY' & ITS DISCONTENTS T !O SOME PEOPLE man is a machine, and man is no more than a branch of physics. To other people man is an animal --mere!y-and economics,...

CORRESPONDENCE (November 1973)

CORRESPONDENCE CATHOLIC JOURNALISM November 26, 1924 London, England To the Editors: I cannot pretend to speak of conditions on your side of the Atlantic, for it has been the most...

Rewriting English Histroy (April 1936)

680 The Commonweal April 17 , 1936 REWRITING ENGLISH HISTORY By HILAIRE BELLOC T HERE is in process today a literary movement of the highest interest: it is the rewriting of...

Places and Persons (December 1930)

WERE I in tune with my time (which I thank God I am not) I ought to call this "Psychoanalysis of a Mule." I won't give it any such title for a hundred reasons, among which are these: that the...

On the Word (October 1930)

ON THE WORD By HILAIRE BELLOC THE word is a sacred thing. The day in which we live has forgotten that. Indeed, the day in which we live has forgotten most things. So the average man today when...

Tradition (October 1930)

I TRADITION By HILAIRE BELLOC WRITE here not on tradition in the theological sense— that is, upon the truth that we ought to trust tradition quite as much as documents for the establishment of...

Statistics (September 1930)

STATISTICS By HILAIRE BELLOC THERE is an old and true jest which says that there are three kinds of lies, bad, worse and worst, and there these are lies, damned lies and statistics. The reason...

Archbishop Wareham (September 1930)

ARCHBISHOP WAREHAM By HILAIRE BELLOC ' I *¦ HERE are men in history of whom one gets glimpses and •*¦ not full views, and of whom one wishes that one could get not only full views but a close...

Heroes and Martyrs (July 1930)

HEROES AND MARTYRS By HILAIRE BELLOC WORDS have a way of branching out like trees, so that a particular word which meant one thing comes to mean a dozen others: first, slightly different,...

Is Islam Impregnable? (July 1930)

264 THE COMMONWEAL July 2, 1930 But the presence of the Eucharistic Congress in Carthage suggests deeper and more disturbing thoughts. Here are we about to plant the new Christian challenge...

Money (May 1930)

May 7, 1930 THE COMMONWEAL LETTERS FROM OXFORD IF WE must admit as a general truth that the great letter writers, like the great saints, are chiefly to be found in ages past, is it not the...

The Conditions of Minority (April 1930)

THE CONDITIONS OF MINORITY By HILAIRE BELLOC THE conditions affecting a religious minority are of the highest importance to Catholics in the English-speaking countries outside Ireland, and of...

On Myth (February 1930)

ON MYTH By HILAIRE BELLOC ONE of the advantages of growing old is that one has assisted in person at two processes which are of the first importance in understanding history and the character of...

The Present Situation of England (May 1929)

12 THE COMMONWEAL May 8, 1929 THE PRESENT SITUATION OF ENGLAND By HILAIRE BELLOC IN MY recent travels which, since the war, have included North Africa and nearly all the European...

Conversation With an Angel (May 1926)

May 19, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 45 CONVERSATION WITH AN...

Catholicism: Its Case (March 1926)

CATHOLICISM: ITS CASE By HILAIRE BELLOC C OME months ago I wrote for The Commonweal ^ an article in which I suggested that the time would come for proposing the Catholic position to...

On Charlatans (February 1926)

ON CHARLATANS By HILAIRE BELLOC IT HAS happened to me some few dozen times in my life to be called a charlatan. I myself am chary of that expression. I do not remember ever having applied it to...

Farewell to Aragon (February 1926)

To a New England Poet Not yours the land where sunlight strikes upon Fantastic leaves of tropic jungles, where Color invades the mind, and chattered mirth And screaming calls of brilliant...

The Faith and the Press (October 1925)

October 28, x925 THE COMMONWEAL 609 THE FAITH AND THE PRESS By HILAIRE BELLOC WE CATHOLICS have all remarked what may be called the vicious circle" of our presenta- tion of the Catholic...

On Constitutions (September 1925)

September 16, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL 441 ON CONSTITUTIONS By HILAIRE BELLOC ONE of the most arresting of modern contrasts, full of practical effect, and affecting all our international...

What Is the Basis of Marriage? (March 1925)

452 THE COMMONWEAL March 4, 1925 MODERN MARRIAGE—ITS...

A European View of the League (January 1925)

January aS, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL A EUROPEAN VIEW OF THE LEAGUE ...

Belmonte, Nena

BELTH, MARC

BELTH, Z. L.

BELTH, ZOE L.

BELTH, ZOE LANTELME

Bemporad, Eugene Fisher and Jack

Ben-Ami, Shlomo

Benardete, Dolores