A Prize Blunderer

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 19, Issue 42, 19 October 1905, Page 18

A Prize Blunderer

Some time ago a prominent New Zealand daily paper added to the gaiety of its Catholic readers by a description Mf an * evening Mass ' which ,(it alleges) was " performed ' in a cathedral 111 one of omr largest centres of 'population. And did not the Rev. Di. (JiM)- once define the ' OlTeitory ' as ' that part of the Mias<i which follows the Consecration ' 7 The 'Prison ' Leader ' '1m» discovered another gold-medal blunderer in a ' Call ' reporter oT that city, who told his readers that 'at solemn Benediction the (local) Archbishop besprinkle*! the altars and blessed the holy rituals with incense ' ! Max Adelcr and the Dan bury News Man made much elephantine fun out of the artificial blunders perpetrated in a church reporter's description of a prize fight, and, in a sportmg reporter's account of a church sen ice. But they arc all -surpassed by the serenely unconscioans tomfooleries perpetrated by the well-mealning blunderers who think they kmow something about Catholic ritual

and are eager jfco impart tiieir knowledge to an - expectant world. Some of ttheir miraculous stupidities," that have been from time to time reproduced in our columns:, coiuld only be achieved by genius, backed by inspiration.