ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 47, 21 November 1907, Page 21

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

J. Me— The name of the ' Ulster Herald ' does not appear in the latest published list of Irish papers that we have been able to consult. BALPOUK.— With reference to the French ' scandals ' you speak of, we dealt with the whole campaign of calumny from time to time, giving many instances of the methods of the campaigners. As regards^ the specific case referred to by you, we are not in a position at this moment to speak quite positively, but our recollection of the affair is that it was a ' put-up job ' of the customary- tyjpe. Even if the story, as told, were true, it would only prove that there is a Judas now, as in the . days of Our Lord. No Catholic , truth or Catholic ' principle is affected by the crime of an individual adherent. If only those who are themselves without .sin threw the first stone, if common, -sense were a little- less uncommon, and -if better argu-, ments" could be advanced against - us, you . would more seldom Hear- an alleged scandal here and there beings advanced as the typical' fact of Catholic life. . Catholic newspapers, too, do not follow the evil example =set by some non-Catholic religious journals, and snuffle around among- the street-sweepings of gossip for tit-bits of salacious' calumny or gossip to serve up to • their readers. If we did, we should not have' to resort to the arts of the fabricator. ~ But ' atjuila non pascitur ; muscis '—the eagle does not feed on blow-flies.