THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD FROM TIME to time, of late, there have appeared in the columns of our daily press brief news dispatches concerning an event which will occur in a South American country...
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WEEK BY WEEK IT WAS a week for soothsayers, and one could take one's choice between purveyors of glad tidings and glum Cassandras offering lumps of future black as coal. The general The tenor of...
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1934 AND POLITICAL CHANGE AMONG the laughable absurdities of that comical creation the human mind is the inveterate complacency with which it dwells on the difference between its present...
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THIS YEAR'S PASSION PLAY By EDYTHE HELEN BROWNE THIS year the Passion Play at Oberammer-gau is fundamentally the same production as that of years past, having the text by Father Otmar Weiss, a...
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The White Planet Single as one consuming love, once given, Bright Venus blazes into the smouldering dusk, The only pharos in the expanse of heavenPlanet presaging all the stars to be, Sole...
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NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICE By MARJORIE McGILLICUDDY AT THE end of 1933, Secretary Perkins said that she considered the passage of the Wagner-Peyser Act, the finally adopted version of the...
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SEVEN DAYS' SURVEY The Church.-Mass for international peace will be celebrated every month in the chapel of the great statue of Christ the King which was recently dedicated by the Bishop of Annecy...
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THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Romance of a People THE RECEIVERS of the old Roxy Theatre have introduced a daring novelty in stage entertainment by importing a reduced edition of...
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COMMUNICATIONS THE LAST TURN OF THE SCREW New York, N. Y. TO the Editor: Your editorial in the August 24 Commonweal, "The Last Turn of the Screw" prompts me to make some observations gleaned on a...
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BOOKS Pope Pius as an Historian Essays in History, 1896-1912, by The Rt. Rev. Mgr. Achille Ratti, now His Holiness Pope Pius XI: translated by Edward Bullough. New York: P. J. Kenedy and Sons....
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