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...Donnell of the University of Notre Dame; vice presidents include Agnes Repplier, Aline Kilmer, Theodore Maynard. Last month the Catholic Poetry Society adopted a constitution, last week in Manhattan held its first public meeting. The Society's headquarters are next door to those of America, urbane Jesuit weekly whose literary editor, Father Francis Talbot. S. J., is chaplain to the Society. A onetime English teacher at Boston University, Father Talbot helped found the Catholic Book Club which selects secular books for the faithful to read. This month he is to publish a book of plays. Shining in the Dark...
...Author. Born in J. M. Synge's Arran Islands in 1896, Liam O'Flaherty has infused something of the Playboy into his career. Educated in a Jesuit College, as a youth he was intensely religious, scandalized his family by joining the Irish Guards to save Catholic Belgium. He was shell-shocked in the War; returned to Ireland for the Irish Revolution. Since then he has roamed over half the world chopping logs, working in restaurants, printshops. He was employed in a Hartford tire factory when he began to write his first short stories, invariably waste-paper-basketed when...
When on May n, 1871, Ferdinand Foch, a young student at the Jesuit College of St. Clement's at Metz, heard the classroom windows rattle to the guns' announcement that the city was now German, the nightmare of the Franco-Prussian War turned into a dream of revanche. He fed the dream with legends of Napoleon; his religious training gave him the very highest sanctions. From the Polytechnique he pushed through the Ecole d'Application, the Cavalry School at Saumur, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. In 1890 he was summoned to the General Staff at the Ministry...
...Club, Basque royalist society, attempted to hold a meeting last week in Bilbao. Socialists, Communists, Republicans attempted to break down the doors, and the fun began. Civil Guards were called out, four people were killed, three wounded. Mobs wrecked a Catholic newspaper, hurled gasoline on the doors of a Jesuit monastery and attempted to burn it down. Inside the monastery somebody fired on the mob. As another crowd stormed the jail and attempted to lynch the 70 Tradicionalistas who had taken refuge there, 30 artillerymen saved their lives. Police searched the convents and monasteries of Bilbao for hidden arms. Socialists...
Excited by stories of the gunfire coming from Bilbao's monastery, the government of Premier Manuel Azana drew up a long-contemplated decree abolishing the Jesuit order in Spain, confiscating all its property, estimated at $30,000,000 exclusive of security and trust holdings in the name of individuals, said to amount to $70,000,000. President Alcala Zamora signed the order. Jesuit superiors were expecting it, novices were ordered to pack up and get ready to leave the country, but suddenly the government grew timorous. Days passed, the decree was not published in the official gazette...