ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

New Zealand Tablet, 15 May 1919, Page 43

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

G. J. E. —Newman was received into the Catholic Church on October 9,. 1845. Manning was a Cambridge man. He received Anglican Orders before becoming a Catholic. He was made Archbishop and afterwards Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster. His devotional books are sound reading. As a literary writer he was eclipsed by his brilliant contemporary, Newman, but Manning was a far greater stylist than most people suspect. His volumes on The Holy Ghost are well known. He also wrote some historical papers. “Query.” —Henry VIII. was married about eighteen years before he developed scruples of conscience about his marriage. Age had not improved the Queen’s appearance and she had at this time a sprightly, good-looking maid, named Anne Boleyn, from whose beaux yen on the peculiar arrows which he said hit him in the conscience were shot at Hal. Later he developed other scruples as a result of which Anne and many other wives of the old man’s lost their heads in no metaphorical sense. Of course the king can do no wrong. Every good Jingo knows that. M. M. C.—There is at present in an institution not far from here a man who says he is St. Patrick. He does not always say so, but sometimes he does. In our opinion he would make a first-rate Minister of Education. He has just the sort of imagination and sanity required, as far as we can judge, and his history is also up to the standard of accuracy expected in ex cathedra ministerial excused. ■ Sean. Peter O’Connor of Waterford has the record. He does not always get credit for it but that does not matter. He has the blessed thing for ever in our opinion. He jumped 24 feet Ilf inches more than once. In Kilkenny he did 25 feet, but for some reason it was not recorded. Of course lie was only another “inefficient” Irish Catholic of the sort called on to fight for tyrants when they . are in trouble. Cathodic. The law binds all Catholics who have come to the use of reason to go to Holy Communion at Easter tide. An unworthy Communion does not satisfy the precept. If unfulfilled at Easter it still urges through the year. The law dates back to the Lateran Council of 1215. Its observance draws the line between true and nominal Catholics. Members of secret societies, Freemasons, persons living in habitual sin without purpose of emendation cannot receive Easter Communion worthily. The penalty used to be excommunication. Tourist. The best all-round guide book to New Zealand is, in our humble opinion, a work by a German medico, Max Herz. He is a keen observer and there is little in the country that he did not see. For example, he says that unless a man is removed secretly by the police at night it is impossible to move from one town to another in New Zealand without having to listen to several speeches and to carry away a pair of hair brushes. P. T. D.The answer is ignoramus (a verb, first person plural, not a noun used as an interjection). p j. s. — So far as we know Carson is not an Orangeman. Remember he is a man of brains. Quid Nunc.Missions are certainly for the purpose of reviving the faith and exciting people to fervor in the performance of their duties. But seeing how few missionaries are available and how large the field of labor it is unreasonable to expect them to visit parishes oftener than every three years. No doubt the environment is fatal to many Catholics. But we are all doing our best. The Protestants add a verse of the New Testament called the Doxology. Why they do so we are not aware any more than why they say Our Father which art in Heaven. Jesuits’ Powder or rather Jesuits’ Bark received in another form the name of quinine derived from a Baroness Cinchon; : v

T. H.—Thanks for your note. .We thought they were confounding it with Castle Fergus in "Ulster.