THE TABLET
A W e e k l y N e w s p a p e r a n d R e v i e w
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
V ol. 16 1. No. 4856.
L o n d o n , June 3, 1933.
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R eg is tered at the General P ost Of f ic e as a New spaper
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N ew s and Notes . . . . . . 681 The Idea of a Cathedral . . . 685 Liberia .............. . . . 686 The Religious Education of
Children .............. . . . 686 The Execution of Blessed
Richard Langhorne . . . 688 R e v ie w s :
Crime and Punishment . . . 689 More Quarterlies . . . . . . 690 A Padre’s Story . . . 690 The Song of Lilawathie . . . 691 New Books and Music . . . 692
CONT
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From The Tablet of Ninety
Years Hence ................. 692 From The Tablet of Ninety
Years Ago 693 Books Received ................. 693 Ch e s s .......................................... 694 Catholic Education Notes . . . 694 The New Abbot of Mount
St. Bernard’s ................. 695 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’ s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 697
ENTS
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Christian Feminism . . . 699 E t C/e t e r a .............................. 700 Liverpool Cathedral . . . 701 E p is c o p a l E ngagements 701 Ob it u ary .............................. 702 Buckfast Abbey: A Rail
way Poster ................. 702 L e tters to the E d it o r :
Catholic Priests as
“ Spiritualists” . . . 702 The Half-Empty Car . . . 703 Coming E vents ...................7 03 W i l l s 703
Orb i s T errarum
England
Scotland
Wales
Ireland
Argentina . ..
France
India
Indo-China
Italy
South Africa
Spain
Uganda
.U.S.A.
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So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 708
NOTANDA The Sovereign Pontiff at the Church o f St. John Lateran. A description, by The Tablet’s Rome Correspondent, o f the scenes on Ascension Day at the great basilica (p. 697).
His Majesty’s Birthday, and a forthcoming royal anniversary (p. 681).
Liverpool’s great Whit Monday. A Tablet leader-writer explains the Idea o f a Cathedral (p. 685). The exterior o f the completed Metropolitan Cathedral as posterity will see it (p. 701).
Allotments near towns. A few Notes on Canon Osmund W ood s ’ proposal (p. 683).
“ L ’ O x fo rd Movement.” A French journalist’ s odd notions o f its date and scope (p. 683).
A Protestant “ Reich Bishop ” fo r Germany’s unified “ Church.” What he does not claim to be (p. 682).
Spain. More about some recent sermons at Cordova (p. 683).
Blessed Richard Langhorne. An account o f his martyrdom from a contemporary source (p. 688).
The religious education o f children. Some further instances o f cases heard and adjudicated by the Courts (p. 686).
NEWS AND NOTES
r I 'O -D A Y , Saturday, is the sixty-eighth anni-
versary of our beloved Sovereign’s birth. His Majesty became Heir Apparent to the Throne at a moment o f national mourning, and it has been his lot to reign over us during the most sanguinary war in history or even in fable. King George’s Catholic subjects will pray that his last years shall also be his best. May there be many of them ! As our Britain has foes, within and without, other than armed belligerents, and as Kings can attain to
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glories other than naval or military triumphs, we may cry, even in peace-time,
Send him victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us,
God Save the King.
Knowing that The Tablet is read by countless Protestants, we use this opportunity of telling them what Catholics understand already. Every Sunday morning, after High Mass, or Missa Cantata, or whatever may be the principal Mass of the day, Catholics publicly and solemnly pray for the King, usually chanting a Latin “ God Save the King ” and then standing while the celebrant beseeches Almighty God that the Monarch may receive “ an increase of all virtues,” with which adorned, he may “ shun all evil doing, conquer his enemies and finally, being made well-pleasing in Thy Sight, attain to Thee who art the Way, the Truth and the Life.” Incidentally, this regularly recited prayer refutes the still-repeated calumny that Catholics do not believe a Protestant can get to Heaven.
Three-and-thirty days hence will, we hope, find the nation celebrating another Royal anniversary. On July 6, it will be just forty years since the Duke of York (who was also Earl o f Inverness and Baron Killarney) married the Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, whom we now honour and love by the homely name o f Queen Mary. Nowhere in the realm is there a home more “ adorned with virtues ” than the home of our King and Queen. Bearing herself with regal dignity on all occasions of state, Her Majesty is familiar to millions as a truly “ gracious ” Majesty, beaming kindness wherever she goes among the people. At the time o f the royal wedding, in 1893, the gardeners of public parks all over the kingdom caused the names " George ” and “ Mary ” to bloom forth in gay colours. The flowers faded forty years ago ; but time has proved that the affection of the royal pair was wrought o f immortelles.
