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...HEAVENLY LADDER - Compton Mackenzie-Doran ($2.50). Mr. Mackenzie has been for some time occupied with the spiritual salvation of Mark Lidderdale. The Altar Stops and The Parson's Progress have already brought him into the Anglican ministry. In The Heavenly Ladder, he has taken a living in Nancepan, minute fishing and farming parish. He sets to work to startle the population into salvation, introducing the most advanced rituals of Church of England Catholicism. The horrified villagers retaliate by savagely underhanded attacks on the man who, to their minds, is guilty of extremest blasphemy. Finally, he finds peace...
...Shaw is correct in his supposition and cetainly he proves it by his own example--Mr. Coolidge exists on a diet composed solely of beef steaks, what time his running mate is making burnt offering on the altar of Ceres...
...Grace Michael J. Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore, welcomed to Washington 100,000 or more delegates to the 650th anniversary celebration of the Holy Name Society. F"our days of demonstration were to conclude with a monster parade to the Washington Monument before which, at a specially erected altar, the vigorous young Archbishop was to celebrate a pontifical mass. History. Pope Gregory X and the second Council of Lyons, in 1274, enjoined that the "faithful" should "demonstrate more reverence for the Name above all names, the only Name in which we can claim salvation-the name of Jesus Christ." This special...
Replied the Pope (Pius XI, master of pointed phrase): "When Politics come near the Altar, then Religion, the Church, the Pontiff have not only the right but the duty to give directions and indications to be followed by Catholics...
...world, the flesh and the devil outside of his villa: "I beg you to declare that I have become the solitary, proud artist of 1911. It is my firm decision not to care or to know what happens outside my villa. Every evening, I burn before an altar of stone the heap of the day's unopened and unanswered letters. To write to me is useless, to come to my door equally useless. I answer nobody; I receive nobody. Neither prayer nor insolences can break my monastic enclosure. My dogs are wise and bite well. Have I made myself...