ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

New Zealand Tablet, 24 July 1913, Page 35

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

J.T.M., Milton.—Thanks for leaflet. We are in communication with Levin. N.deP., Dunedin. —There is a small book entitled The Roman Index of Forbidden Books, by Francis S. Betten, S.J., published by B. Herder, St. Louis, '■'; Mo., U.S.A., in 1912, which explains all about the Index, and gives a list on pretty much the lines that you want. Write to Mr. O'Connor, Barbadoes street, Christchurch, Whitaker Bros., Wellington, or any other Catholic bookseller, and they will obtain it for you. - If you have any difficulty in procuring it, write to us again. There is also a complete Index published by the same firm, price 9s ; but you will probably find the smaller one quite sufficient. The price is not marked in our copy of the latter, but it would only be Is or 2s.

J.D., Makahu.—(l) On January 1, 1901, the value of the real property taxed as belonging to Congregations in France was 463,715,146 francs (between £18,000,000 and £19,000,000). In this was included all the property devoted by the Religious to benevolent and educational purposes. There are no authoritative figures available for the value of State property, but the annual revenue of the country is £140,000,000, and the total wealth will be at least seven or eight times that amount. (2) No definite date can be assigned for the change. All that can be said with certainty is that it dates from the clays of the Apostles. This we learn from Acts xx., 7 : ' Upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread ' ; and from 1 Cor. xvi., 2: 'Upon the first day of the week, let every one of you lay by him in store,' etc. As your argument was with a Protestant, we have quoted the Protestant version of the Scriptures.