15th April 1954
15th April 1954
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Laity Are Beginning Apostolate Among The De-christianised
PRIEST-WORKERS REACHING THEIR FINAL DECISIONSAll are now discussing personal crises with the BishopsBY DOUGLAS HYDEF 1FTY PER CENT. of France's priest-workers have now......
Communion Fast Rules For Easter
THE Holy See has re-stated the rules about the Eucharistic fast for people who receive Holy Communion at the Easter Vigil Mass.The purpose is to make it clear how the rules......
1,000 Are Now Enrolled For Instruction
EASTER Sunday will find more I—than 1,000 potential converts studying the course of instruction in the Faith offered by the new Catholic Enquiry Centre.Weeks ago the Centre......
`end Colour Bar In Schools' Says Archbishop
Archbishop Lucey of San Antonio, Texas, has directed that "henceforth no Catholic child may be refused admittance to any school maintained by the archdiocese merely for reasons......
Papal Committee Suggests—
Street shrines of Our Lady in MayHE Rome committee of Our Lady's Year in a letter to all the j_ Bishops suggests that during May the faithful should specially decorate chapels......
Bishop Dies At 95
Bishop Echavarria of Saltillo, Mexico, has died at the age of 95. He was ordained 67 years ago, and was named Bishop by Blessed Pius X in 1904....
Body Of
BI. Pius X in RomeprocessionTHE Holy Father has approved a proposal by Archbishop Traglia, president of the committee of Our Lady's Year, that the body of Blessed Plus X......
Easter Egg For Fr. Mcgill
X2,000from ‘Calhohc Herald' readersAN Easter egg in the shape of a cheque for 0,000 went this week from "Catholic Herald" readers to Fr. Patrick -McGill in Kenya. It will be......
Father Of Eight To Be Priest In A Leper Colony
IN the Pope's Cathedral the Archba silica of St. John Lateran —on Holy Saturday a 63-year-old former businessman with three sorts studying to become Jesuit priests will himself......
Reds Win In Nazareth
COMMUNISTS arc now the strongest party in the local administration in Nazareth.In the first election since the Israeli Government was set up, they emerged with the largest......
Catholics Lose In Belgium
The Christian (Catholic) Social Party lost their majority in both the Chamber and the Senate in Belgium's general election on Sunday, the Cabinet has resigned, and a......
Hiroshima Church The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Church Will...
on August 6 —the anniversary of the atom bomb disaster—by Archbishop de Furstenberg, Papal Internuncto to Japan. Catholics and non-Catholics in many parts of the world have......
Truth In A Mystery
The magnificent sanctuary and apse mosaics of the cathedral of Cefalu in Sicily, illustrated in the just-published second impression of Vincent Cronin's "The Golden Honeycomb"......
Food For The Arabs
The Papal Mission for Palestine has begun the distribution of some 4.400 boxes of cheese (161 tons) and 2,000 barrels of powdered milk (180 tons) to Arab refugees in the eastern......
`osservatore' Editor Praises The Dien Bien Phu Defenders
`Heroes of Our Civilisation'MUCH interest has been aroused in Western 'Europe by striking comments on the IndoChina situation by Count Dalla Torre, Editor of the Vatican......
Day Flight
TO LISIEUX100 pilgrims will fly to see consecrationFOR the consecration of the Basilica of St. Teresa on Sunday, July 11, three planes will take nearly 100 pilgrims to......
She Taught The Rosary To St. Bernadette
During the Assumptionist pilgrimages to Lourdes m June and September there will be a coach pilgrimage to flames, where St. Bernardette worked as a shepherdess shortly......
Saigon Chaplain Dies In Lyons
Fr. Minot, chaplain of the Saigon garrison, has died in the military hospital in Lyons. He is the 11th Catholic chaplain to die as a result of the Indo-Chinese war. Three......
Blessing Of Tools Bishop. Heenan Will Bless The Tools At...
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Dying Priest: `i Forgive My Murderer' It Is Now Known
that Fr. Costa, parish priest of Kairouan in Tunisia, whose sudden death was announced recently, was killed by a man on the run from the police. Fr. Costa was struck down near......
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A Great Lead
Cathedral gives the ExampleSitt,-I am sure that I speak for thousands of Catholics in London, from both sides of the diocesan boundary, when I express my gratitude to the new......
The H-bomb
Ste,-The public realisation of the horrors of the hydrogen bomb should be seen by Catholics as a trernendous opportunity for ttpostolie activity which should stand in stark......
Communism And Social Reforms
Sue-Surely the desirability of social reforms should not depend on their effect on the growth of Communism.If the reforms are in accordance with Christian principles that......
Converting Ourselves Before We Convert The Stranger
Sie,-Your recent article, "Students Find It Too Chilly," is both timely and welcome. It expresses the views that have been put to Fr. Coonan by several of us here. But as much......
Devotion To St. George
Sne-Surely the main reason that Irish devotion to St. Patrick is so much more pronounced than that of England to St. George is due to St. Patrick having actually lived and......
Veiling Of Processional Cross
SIR,-There appears to be disparity of opinion with regard to the veiling of the Processional Cross on Maundy Thursday. Some churches use a white veil, whilst others use a......
Catholics And The Trade Unions
SIR.-Mr. C. J. Newman spoke a true word when he said that the trade union movement will be safe if Catholics in it inspire fellow-members to Christian principles. But how can......
Addressing A Bishop
SIR,-Unlike your correspondent, I am all for simplifying the method of referring or speaking to Bishops.In these realistic times, people are no longer impressed by the......
Our Lady's Dowry
Pilgrimage MapSIR, Since the map of Our Lady's English Shrines was published last December, enormousinterest has been taken in the subject. In view of the many indi......
Our Lady Of Abingdon Sue-i Have Before Me Your Map,
"Shrines of Our Lady." Among the shrines no longer in existence is marked Abingdon. We have had a 14th-century statue of Our Lady restored by P. Lindsey Clark, F.R.B.S., in......
The Liturgical Movement'
SIR, -While I fully endorse Fr. J. F. Prince's statement that "We are in desperate need of spiritual revival," I would like to add some comments.The Church is based on the......
Taking The Oath
SIR.-During the War, as witness at a military court-martial, I objected to taking the oath on a non-Catholic Bible. The president was rather taken aback and hurriedly......
Scripture And The Junior Student
S/R,-Catholic booksellers inform me that no adequately annotated Catholic version of the New Testament suitable for my examination purposes exists. If this, indeed, is the......
The Monster Can Be Made To Serve
TVTHE current issue of Black friars concentrates on the subject of television and its appearance gives me the opportunity of breaking away from the rather sterile task of......
'fresh Young Voices' Herald Easter
ADIO, With Holy Week in ourthoughts, inevitably the family's listening was more serious this week. Among the many pregrammes preparing us for Easter, one particularly stood......
If It Is Possible For People, At Least In Some
eases, to be released from religious vows, why is it not possible for them to be released from marriage vows ?BECAUSE what joins husband and wife together is not just a vow......
Manual Of Prayers
April 9, Old Timer mentions a few anomalies go be found in the official Manual of Prayers. A curious error persists in the Our Father, We always say "as we forgive them that......
Teachers' Appointments
Sue-In one parish situated. let us say, somewhere between the Thames and the Wash, the recent case of the appointment of a head teacher may be pertinent to this discussion.......
For Marian Year
Ste,-Could not the following American custom be revived again during Marian Year in the month of May? The children of Mary and Angel Sodalities process up and down the aisles,......
Children And The L.c.c.
SIR,-At the same council meeting at which I asked a question regarding children in the care of the L.C.C., the answer to which you published on April 2. I asked a similar......
Hydrogen Bomb
SIR,-Why, if we ban the H-bomb, would the Soviet not dare to use it? I should think it would just do away with their one motive for hesitationthe fear of getting it back. I......
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Jerusalem A Easter
By Lt.-Col. H. E. Crocker, C.11.6., D.S.O.DROCESSIONS crowding up the steep road to the Jaffa Gate-banners staggering aloft--shouts and jovial greetings -met me as I entered......
Alcuin On The Latest Books
THE MANHOOD OF CHRISTTHE MAN JESUS, by Fr. George Bichlmair, Si. (MercierA LL during Our Lord's life on rk earth, and for generations after it, all that concerned the......
Stargazer's Folly The (try And The Wave, By Jon
Godden (Michael Joseph, 10s. 6d.).By Liam GervaisLEN CHASE, the unheroic hero of Miss Godden's oddly atmospheric novel, is a spoiled priest, a lapsed Catholic, a Eurasian......
All Sorts : By Fr. Bernard Basset, S.j.
Eloquent silence on a sublime reunionMO mention is made in the gospel,of Our Lord's meeting with His Mother after He had risen from the tomb. The meeting is certain and the......
'guarding Of The Heart'
ON CLEAVING TO GOD (DE ADHARENDO DEO), translated from the 01h-century Latin MS attributed to St. Albert the Great, Elisabeth Stopp (Mowbray, 2s. 6d.).By Teresa PullerTHIS......
Guide To Israel
ISRAEL (Nagel's Travel Guides, Clematis Press, 25s.).This seems as good and as intelligibly detailed as the other excellent 'guides in this series. It is the first important......
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Goebbels
He Knew How to use Truth, tooEVIL GENIUS, by Erich Ebermayer and Hans-Otto Meissner, freely adapted by Louis 'Hagen (Allan Wingate, 15s.).By Otto HerschanTT is a pity that......
Highlands
and The Story of KashmirISLANDSThe Glory that was GreeceBy Major Lewis HastingsTHIS IS KASHMIR, by Pearce Gervis (Cassell, 25s.)./EGEAN GREECE, by Robert Liddell......
Victorian Champion Of Fallen Women
PORTRAIT OF JOSEPHINE BUTLER, by A. S. G. Butler (Faber, 21s.).By Barbara WallJOSEPHINE GREY was born in 1828 into a land-owning Northumberland family. After an idyllic......
Professor Among The Gangsters
By Julian HolroydA FLAME FOR DOUBTING THOMAS, by Richard Llewellyn (Michael Joseph, 12s. 6d.). THE escape theme, it seems, has to crop up sooner or later in the work of......
Gray's Poems
SELECTED POEMS BY THOMAS GRAY, with an Introduction by John Rodgers (Grey Walls Press, 7s. 6d.).MR. RODGERS reminds us that Gray was a lonely and solitary man—a scholar and......
II Nightmare In
0 1 DaylightiFAHRENHEIT 451, by Ray Bradbury (Rupert Hart-Davis, 9s. 6d.). i READING Mr. Bradbury's book I was reminded of the silent film "Metropolis," the nightmare of a......
The Intricate Art Of Cricket
IJoy galoreon the greenPIKE HUGHES has addedanother delightful book to the literature of that peculiar English Weltanschaung, the cricket field —a book that is......
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Efor The Love Of Man And In Praise Of God
= Play for I VoicesBy DEREK STANFORDUNDER MILK WOOD, by Dylan Thomas (Dent, 8s. 6d.).THIS "Play for Voices," as g1 the poet called it, is the gladdest thing that Thomas......
Theatre In East End
EAST END ENTERTAINMENT, by A. E. Wilson (Arthur Barker, 30s.).By Otto Herschan MR. WILSON is and has been for some time a familiar figure in the West End theatres of London.......
Behind The
Picture— the -± WorkshopTHE PAINTER'S WORKSHOP, by W. G. Constable (Oxford University Press, 21s.).By Teresa FullerTHE author of this delightful book claims, with undue......
Huysmans The Gateway To Beauty
Strange life amid odd peopleTHE FIRST HIRAI/INT : Being the Strange Life of J. K. Huysmans, by James Laver (Faber, 25s.).= By Michael de la BedoyereTHE life of the French......
Protestant From Mexico Has A
LOVELY REPLY TO A LADY—who hat never visited Mexico SIR DESMOND MORTON-.2TEMPLES OF THE SUN AND MOON : A Mexican Journey, by Michael Swan (Jonathan Cape, 21s.);NOT long......
`horse-bones' Dismissed
THE BLESSINGS OF OLD AGE, an anthology gathered and arranged by Marjorie E. Maxwell (Faber and Faber, By Fr. C. C. Martindale AFTER a strong dose of the "new" poetry, it is a......
French Film Makers
FRENCH FILM, by Georges Sadoul (Falcon Press, 16s.).By Grace ConwayFRENCH film-making dates back to the 1890's. and Georges Sadoul's French Film covers its history from......
Don Quixote Taken Neat
DON QUIXOTE OF I, A NIA NCHA, By Miguel Cervantes Saavedra, translated and edited with a biographical prelude by Walter Starkie (Macmillan 21s.).By Prof. A. A. ParkerTHERE......
Man-eaters In Malaya
THE TIGERS OF TRENGGANU. by Lt.-Col. A. Locke (Museum Press, 16s.).Itakes very contemporary times 'for a book like this to be introduced by the Commissioner-General for the......
A Murder Not So Foul
MORE MURDER IN A NUNNERY, by Eric Shepherd (Shoed & Ward, 10s. 6d.)."TT'S a wise man that knows his town convents"--and this author has already shown his unerring wisdom in......
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The Easter Revolution
IT is at Eastertime that we should most strongly feel the quality of Christianity—the quality that is in such glaring contrast with the values of the world, especially the......
By
Signs in the HeavensFr. Conrad Pepler, O.P.WHEN Daniel was delivered from the lions, the King of Babylon praised the God of Daniel because he worked "great signs and......
Douglas Hyde's
COLUMN What Are They Up L To?DOUGLAS HYDE'SCOLUMN What Are They Up IT ispossible that the Press may give some of its space to the Twenty-Third National Congress of the......
In A Few WordsBTY
lo.ta lo.taEaster and Books EVERY year, the Catholic papers—or those of them who are keen on reflecting the liturgical seasons—are faced by the lack of synchronisation......
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Trotsky—
Out of His Own ArchivesBy DOUGLAS HYDETHE PROPHET ARMED. by Woe Deutscher (Oxford University Press, 300.THEstory of Communism's first triumph, in Russia in 1917, like......
They Will Tell You That Vital 'the Despoiling Of Christ'...
SLY ASSAULT ON FREEDOMBy Donald NichollAuthor of 'Recent Thought in Focus'THE FUTURE OF THE WEST, by J. G. de Beus (Eyre and Spoftisnode, I 2s. 6d.).THE WESTERN DILEMMA,......
Therapists And Patients
Importance of the personal relationshipPSYCHOANALYSIS AND PERSONALITY, by Joseph Mann (Sliced and Ward, 16s.).THERE are many signs that the orthodox Freudian creed is......
A Box Of Fiction
The Golden Ball, by Ruth Manning-Sanders (Hale, 9s. 6d.). Spirited circus story. Lifelong friendship of famous clown and circus acrobat-inventor. Authentic background. The Brid......
Human Weakness In The Church
A courageous book by a professorTHE HUMAN ELEMENT IN THE CHURCH OF CHRIST, by Dr. Paul Simon (Mercier, 7s. 6d.).THE Mercier Press have added to their most valuable......
Seven Green Plays
GREEK DRAMA FOR EVERYMAN, chosen and translated by F. L. Lucas (Dent 21s.).By P. G. WalshTHIS is a survey of all Greek drama, with translations of six tragedies......
Gallic Valery Will Live In His Verse
There's no excuse for ignorance nowTHE ART OF PAUL VALERY, A Study hi dramatic monologue, by Francis Scarfs (Heinemann, 25s.).I HAVE often wondered why English readers have......
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Three Friends In The Days Of Confusion
THEIR MENDS WERE YOUNG, THEIR HEARTS WERE REDBy W. J. IGOEFRIENDS APART : A MEMOIR OF THE 'THIRTIES, by Philip Toynbee (MacGibbon and Kee, 12s. 6d.).COMMUNISM was the......
'find Out What You Can Love . . And Love It'
'All the Poets are Around You ..'A LAYMAN'S LOVE OF LETTERS, by G. M. Trevelyan, O.M. (Lonmstans, 111. 6d.).By Ion McCullochDTREVELYAN repudiates the R. name of critic in......
Turgatorio' In A Good Translation
By Fr. J. D. CrichtonTHE PURGATORIO. From the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, translated by Sydney Fowler Wright (Oliver and Boyd, 10s. 6d.).I T is surprising that so few......
Notes Of A King
HIS MAJESTY PRESERVED (Falcon Press, 12s. 64.).This is a reprint of the account of King Charles 1I's escape after the battle of Worcester as it was dictated by the King......
Yes, Equal Pay For Us All
EQUAL pay—the rate for the job—this is a subject which brings heated comments from even the most unpolitically minded. As a member of a profession for whom equal pay is taken......
A Six Mont Hs' Present
IAM indebted to Woman for 'this "Good Idea" which it received from a correspondent:"My husband and I have retired. My daughter and son-in-law are very busy young people."My......
Children's Corner
DEAR Children: Such a funny L./thing happened last week. Just after I had finished writing to you about palms, an old friend whom I had not seen for some time turned up.......
Daily Mass Guide
April 18-25SUN. APR. 18. Easter Sunday. with first prise ewe (White) SUN. APR. 18. Easter Sunday. d.lcl. with first priv. oct. Creed, Preface of Easter. (White)..`11"HIS......
Business Girls Too—
Learn to manage a family—And how to 'keep house on a lean purseASHORTHAND typist living in digs and whose total knowledge of cookery and household management can be summed......
Wisdom
LET us rest OR our laurels, Shut off the steam. • Switch off the ignition,Lie back and dream While a few slow centuries roll . . .THE factory, rattling with lathe and......
Answers Answers On The Records
The Catholic Record Guild in New York has put out a series of longplaying „records giving answers to Catholic questions for use in the home. The series deals with marriage......
Former Anglican Rector Received.
The Rev. Aubrey Tompsett, from 1939 to 1953 Anglican Rector of Lansallos, near Polperro, Cornwall, has been received into the Church by Fr. White, C.R.L., of Launceston. He is......
A Dirge General For The
MARCHING SONG (St. Martin's) ifR. JOHN WHITING'S third IVI play is something of a dialectical part-song with the necrophilie atmosphere one found in the author's Saint's Day.......
Makers Of .priests
Holy Father praises the laybrothersALETTER praising the laybrothers who teach in the schools—men who "by special vocation of God renounce the priestly dignity and the......
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Schools For 1,200 On One Site
1J HEN Cardinal Griffin last week VI' blessed and opened the new St. Charles's Primary School in North Kensington, he also announced that there would be a new permanent church......
Archbishop At Funeral Of A Grail Worker
Archbishop Gordon Gray of St. Andrews and Edinburgh attended a Requiem Mass offered by Bishop Walsh of Aberdeen in St. Andrew's Church, Ravelston, Edinburgh, on Saturday for......
Bromley Candidate
Mr. F. W. Berringer, an accountant and chairman of the governors of Holy Trinity Convent Grammar School, Bromley, Kent, is to contest the Town Ward as a Conservative in the......
'romance' ,sailor Gets A New Home
Caroline islanders give their missionary a housemissionary who "graduated" from an outrigger canoe to a 45-ft. square-rigged brigantine to get round his 105,000-square-mile......
A New Parish To Split Steel Town
Owing to the great increase of the Catholic population of Scunthorpe, Lincs, Bishop Ellis of Nottingham has decided that there shall now be two parishes for this steel centre of......
New C.e.g. Master
Mr. M. Redmond is the new Master of the Birmingham diocesan Catholic Evidence Guild, and Mr. V. Waterson the new vice-master....
Obituary
Canon Emile BuntCanon Emile Burt died last week at the Sussex County Hospital, Brighton. aged 77.• Canon Burt was one of the last surviving priests who studied at Henfield.......
A Passion Play Under Piccadilly
The Assumption Church hall under Warwick Street, off Piccadilly, was twice filled last week for a Passion Play, "Because by Thy Holy Cross,' the first production of the drama......
Douai Boy Killed In Air Crash
Two 19-year-old midshipmen in the Fleet Air Arm stationed at Culdross, Cornwall, Robert Anderson, of Skipton, Yorks, and Ian Young, of East Croydon, were killed when their......
Three Views On Colour
By a Staff Reporter13A N Archbishop, a distinguishedformer Indian Civil Servant and an African discussed "The Catholic Church and the Race Question" at the Challoner Club in......
Village Children Play To 600
Thirty-four children of the little parish of Ash, in Surrey, have now performed their mimed Passion Play before more than 600 people. The children came from five villages and......
Sergeant Has I An Easter I
: • 1 i AA-ASTER SERGEANT I LVIC LIFFORD PRICE, I U.S.A.A.F., who until recentlysurprisehad his home in Edinburgh, discovered this week that he has a Catholic wife, Mrs.......
! Lady Mary Was! On PilGRimaGE I With A Bottle
of Lourdes water slung from her shoulder, Lady Mary Filiation Howard, daughter of the Duke of Norfolk, arrives back in England after a pilgrimage to Lourdes with a party of......
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No Religion For Children In Red Palace
'Catholic Herald' Staff ReporterA BRITISH trade unionist, Mr. Michael O'Dowd, whohas just returned from a visit to the Soviet Union, told me this week how he was taken to......
1,434,000 Became Protestants
A STATEMENT issued last week by Fr. Paul Bussard, Editor of the "Catholic Digest," shows that in the past 20 years 1,434,000 Catholics in the United States have become members......
In Western Isles
Highlands priests lead co-operativeTWO Highland priests are leaders 1 in a new co-operative marketing venture launched by Western Isles crofters—Mgr, Neil MacKellaig, of......
Sacred Hosts Last Year In Jungle Heat
A STORY of the preservation of 1-1kSacred Hosts for over a year in Indo-China's intense jungle heat and humidity has been told in Hanoi by Bishop de Coonaan, Vicar Apostolic of......
New Wing For Seminary Among 150,000,000
A new wing to accommodate 80 students for the priesthood has been blessed and opened by Bishop Lucas, Papal Internuncio in India, for the seminary at Allahabad.Archbishop......
'four Witnesses' For An Tostal
Shop managers, bank clerks, teachers, office workers and tradesmen will be among the cast of 140 who will take part in a Morality Passion Play, "Four Witnesses," which will be......
Priest-workers Deciding
Conthwed from page 1 bringing spiritual aid to those who are starved of a Faith.For this reason they are still seeking a new form of mission. but it may be some months before......
Listen To This
"Fr. Flanagan of Boys Town": An episode from the book by Fulton and Will Oursier. To be included in "Home for the Day" (the Sunday supplement to Woman's Hour). Sunday, 9.10......
Lucille Is Taking No Chances
By GRACE CONWAY 'Catholic Herald' Film CriticTHE LONG, LONG TRAILER Empire: Certificate UUDirector: Vincente Minnelli NLESS you read the Amencan reviews reviews and......
U.s. Bishop To Open Rochester's New Church
Bishop Kearney of Rochester, New York, will go to Rochester, Kent, on May 23 to open the new church dedicated to Cardinal St. John Fisher. The Bishop will then pontificate at......
