Communications
COMMUNICATIONS AUTHORITY IN THE CHURCH Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y. TO the Editor:—I wish to call your attention to some literature offered to Episcopalians by an Anglo-Catholic...
...John A. Luby...
...Even in the mouth of Greta herself are put words that trifle with the idea of the future and which glorify only the fleetingness, the momentariness and the amorality of love...
...He must be brought back to the land, with many modern devices to eliminate drudgery but enough life-giving toil for his body's sake...
...It has thus taken up an attitude of defense, concentration and of severity, which its isolation forced upon it...
...How his pen is needed...
...I got Wickham's three books and tried to read them all at once...
...All this personification of inanimate things and substantializing of accidents recall to mind that trusty and rather rusty instrument which is known as "Occam's razor...
...The Church on earth is practically a separate body, needing a separate head of its own...
...COMMUNICATIONS AUTHORITY IN THE CHURCH Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y. TO the Editor:—I wish to call your attention to some literature offered to Episcopalians by an Anglo-Catholic professor —apparently for the purpose of neutralizing the present Romeward trend among Anglo-Catholics...
...The Commonweal enjoys a wide circulation among intellectual readers mostly, among whom are many fertile minds willing to cooperate...
...Skinner's review of Greta Garbo in Romance...
...The bishop, who we believe is telling this tale to his grandson to deter him from a marriage that he himself hardly avoided with another actress (Greta), is then left at the end to say that there is nothing like such romance...
...I, p. 61, note u) traces the doctrine of procedure in rem in admiralty cases...
...The whole vast and complex organization of the Vatican with its ramifications in every corner of the globe, revolves around the Pope and he wields absolute authority over it...
...Would it be possible to interest your friend Wickham in the situation...
...What I should like to indicate, however, is that she has never yet been in a good plot, with the possible exception of Love, the film version of Anna Karenina...
...And think what it would mean to you, to be directly the cause of diverting but one child to the school built for it...
...Anthony Traboulsee...
...It is to be the deodand that Holmes (Common Law, pp...
...Dunphy lacks a grasp of historical truth and orthodox theology, we must remember that he holds a position of responsibility as teacher of dogmatic and moral theology to future clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal Church...
...He will buy no luxuries until he has the full price in hand, and for cash will buy more cheaply...
...It has had to defend itself alone against schisms, alone against Protestantism, alone against modernism...
...Dunphy was specially known for his fainting-fits caused by excessive religious fasting, and also for frequent spells of "Roman fever...
...The instalment-buying of luxuries, with its consequent evils, will virtually cease, due to his renewed enlightenment and his continuing education: his necessary dealing with cause and effect...
...This thought leads us to the conclusion that we are living unnaturally and hence uneasily, not to say unhappily...
...The cause must then be removed...
...The one coin with which they might purchase an education—personal effort of their own—they are no longer asked to pay...
...And perhaps, for the sake of the plot, I'd not blame any of those who direct movieland and who try for no better than this twaddle, if there weren't the danger of corrupting the morals of all who admire Greta Garbo...
...This is justified legally because a ship is in many cases a corporation sole in the eyes of the law...
...The Commonweal comments that "all they can do is to outline the problem and hope that it may be one of the major concerns of the next decade...
...HOUSE AND ANNEX New York, N. Y. TO the Editor:—The editorial, House and Annex, in The Commonweal of September 3 and Father Ryan's article on Hoover, link themselves in my mind as differing treatments of one problem, viz., grossly unequal distribution of wealth...
...All its emphasis is laid on external organization...
...Is there not a third way of returning good for evil...
...For example, it has brought to mind that quaint doctrine in English common law known as the deodand: where a chattel causing the death of a person was given to God "by being forfeited to the crown to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by the High Almoner...
...It is entitled The Body of Christ and was written by the Reverend William H. Dunphy, professor of dogmatic and moral theology in Nashotah Seminary, Wisconsin...
...James W. Lane...
...Monsignor Pierre Batififol wrote to the same effect in Ithe English Dominican Blackfriars of June, 1923: "Let us not fear to express our regret that Roman Catholicism has, in the course of so many centuries, had so many losses...
...I am glad you published Hayes's paper...
...The benefits are, in fact, innumerably great...
...Land animal he will indeed be, whose roots are deep in the ground but whose highest branches will blossom in the heavens...
...Even after he had broken it because the girl had been in the pay of others...
...It is possible such a thing might be brought about by its becoming more open in mind and heart, but equally well by the separated churches, which up to now have shut themselves up distrustfully in their hereditary hostility, putting off their distrust...
...Without going to the base of it all, the private ownership and exploitation of natural wealth or resources, a few things ameliorative suggest themselves...
...The moral inculcated in them would not exactly pillar society...
...Not so much on religious aspects but on "the fearful mess" Hayes refers to...
...Certainly it is not the fault of those "non-attending little ones," and often might not be the negligence of their parents or guardians...
...GUILT UNDER PROHIBITION Glace Bay, N. S., Canada...
...No, Romance, though splendid for Greta and for its photography, is rotten with that venality which the modern movies love to portray for the disedification of- their audiences...
...Is it God's intention that it should renew its youth...
...To imagine only 50 percent of Catholic children attending worthy private schools, established for the welfare of all of them at inconceivable labor and sacrifices by the clergy and nuns who give up their entire lives without hope of worldly recompense beyond a bare existence, is beyond comprehension...
...TO the Editor:—As a teacher I am greatly interested in Carlton J. Hayes's paper in your issue of June 25, and equally interested in Wickham's estimate of John Dewey...
...SUFFERING THE LITTLE ONES Cincinnati, Ohio...
...Workers are needed—experienced business men and women...
...and as the Roman Church in Spain in the middle ages when Moorish sultans appointed Jews, Turks and even unbelievers who scoffed at a future life, to bishoprics...
...It is therefore not a mere accident that a ship is referred to as a "she" in popular speech...
...All that isnecessary is a constructive system, plus a sprinkle of encouragement that is so often inadvertently withheld by the laity...
...Luck...
...But no one will say that The Single Standard, The Kiss, La Rue sans Joie, or Romance could be held up in court as beneficial...
...TO the Editor:—The article on the philosophy of the punitive aspects of prohibition legislation by Summerfield Baldwin in the issue of August 27 has started a train of thoughts which I hope will find a terminus in your columns...
...If you who read this are willing to assist, why not write to the editor of The Commonweal...
...We must first ascertain the reason of so many parents' obsolescence...
...But is that really all that can be accomplished...
...Romanism treats the Church as a three-story house, consisting of the ground floor, the Church militant, the attic, the Church triumphant, and the cellar, the Church suffering...
...The gluttony for pleasure of the industrialized citizen is due, I think, to the monotony of his toil: monotonous because man is born and fitted to do a variety of things, in the doing of which he gets pleasure and education...
...Some of the poorer dioceses might require financial support and those Catholics in wealthier sections certainly will come to the rescue...
...Whether or not the directors have made for her only vehicles to appeal to "the pleasure man" one cannot definitely know...
...The ordinary Roman Catholic thinks of the Church as a society governed by an absolute monarch, the Pope, and made up of those who submit to him and his representatives...
...What shall be our attitude toward this professor of ill-will, untruth and disunity...
...Who will be the first to volunteer...
...25, 27, cited in Halsbury, Laws of England, vol...
...Also it makes a sharp and rigid distinction between those it prays for, and those it prays to, between those whom we help and those who help us...
...It emphasizes the divine foundation and authority of the Church but, like the Protestant theory, conceives of it primarily as an organization constituted, or at least maintained, by the union of human wills...
...The man (the bishop), whom real life and right reason would point to as worthy, is shown as contemptible (in an attack on his actress-love, just after he had called to save her soul) ; the bad woman is shown as laudable...
...The most tawdry or the most wrong-headed scenarios are able to enlist and to enmesh her talents...
...The article to which I refer appeared in the Milwaukee Living Church of August 2, 1930...
...Even after the beast in him also had—not too romantically—emerged...
...The Anglican Church today is distressed by many heresies, by the denial even of fundamental truths, as was the ancient Church in the fourth and fifth centuries when heretical bishops —and one heretical Pope—filled the leading sees of Christendom...
...Together we can easily create a plan of national action...
...The foundation of our entire faith rests upon our future children...
...His Living Church contribution quoted above was addressed, presumably, to intelligent Episcopalians...
...James, L. I. TO the Editor:—This is not a complaint against Mr...
...To vary the labor of man we must virtually scrap industrial society and bring man back to a relatively self-sustaining independence...
...Why not now...
...In Romance, we are told quite at the beginning that there is no difference between right and wrong, unless we are young and deludable...
...He will not be dependent on a job, itself dependent on the cupidity of the modern masters of wealth...
...in this way differing from older practices which divorced the act from the agent and punished the former regardless...
...How I wish Wickham would turn his attention to our schools and the philosophy of those shaping them...
...I think I have never seen the lovely Swede so enthralling, and he did her full justice in an admirable notice...
...Even money is not so essential, although a little will be necessary for organization expenses...
...He can assert himself freely, find a larger outlet for his individuality, conserve his family life and assure himself virtual independence...
...Leaders are required, several out of each diocese would be sufficient for a beginning...
...Romanism treats the priesthood as practically a caste, set over against the Church...
...The union is produced, not by the free coordination of human wills, but by the subordination of all other wills to one, that of Peter's successor...
...M. Faringdon Gray...
...Lay curers" in each neighborhood, out of each parish, will soon show why...
...W. J. Hanna...
...Men and women, those with a living income particularly, could not spend their time better...
...How much richer and more attractive it would be if it still included the Africa of Augustine, so soon destroyed, the East which separated from it, and England that the Reformation led astray...
...there is the widest separation between the pew and the altar, where the Mass is mumbled in a dead and unintelligible language, and the priest 'conficit Corpus Christi,' the congregation playing a merely passive part...
...TO the Editor:—Suffering The Little Ones, the worthy editorial in The Commonweal issue of July 30, is to say the least startling and imperative of immediate cooperative action...
...Though we know that Dr...
...The following statements are made by him in the above-mentioned article: "The disheartenment and the casting of longing glances across the Tiber all have their origin in the failure to grasp the scriptural and Catholic conception of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church of God...
...Children are in increasing numbers asked to do nothing toward their education...
...TEACHING SOCIAL SCIENCE Kansas City, Mo...
...Arnaldo Cortesi in the New York Times Magazine of August io, 1930, writes: "It must not be forgotten, in the first place, that the Holy See is perhaps the most perfect example of an autocracy in existence in the world today...
...Even in such delicate matters as finance, he is accountable to no one...
...There are so many of us, that just a little will do an endless amount of good...
...Romanism is an unscrupulous tyranny...
...ROMANCE St...
...In his undergraduate days at Harvard, Dr...
...Is it too late to start one now...
...Dr...
...The juvenile court idea and procedure owe their genesis to this more modern point of view...
...It is to be further noted that modern penology, outside of prohibition legislation, always considers act and agent, substance and accidens...
...And this relative independence will make an immeasurably better man of him...
...In view of the fact that all such ill-will is based on intellectual astigmatism or bad faith, must we choose between ignoring such tirades or controverting them...
...Why wait, when there are many volunteer laymen and women, ready, willing and able to do all that is necessary, so that these children may become pupils of the schools intended for them...
...Father Mereto says, "Things would have been very different had there been a great national organization," which quotation is also taken from The Commonweal article...
...Dunphy's source of inspiration is revealed when he quotes the lay Russian Orthodox theologian Khomyakoff as follows: "Romanism exalts authority to the point where it leaves no trace of a Christian man's liberty...
...All this will mean decentralization: the destruction of such sores as Manhattan, Newark, Chicago and indeed all the modern festering spots on this fair earth...
Vol. 12 • September 1930 • No. 21
