Answers to Correspondents

New Zealand Tablet, 1 December 1921, Page 17

Answers to Correspondents

O.U.L.—Just returned from Australia and got your note. Go mairir thu. Inquirer.—There is no truth in the assertion about Lincoln and the Irish in New York. The secular clergy are the priests who are doing ordinary parochial work under the direct jurisdiction of the bishops. They are the priests who do not belong to Orders or societies such as the Dominican Order or the Society of Mary. Catholic Labor. —See our Current Topics in this week's issue for reference to your question. What we have said there may give you the information you want regarding the meaning. and scope of the action of the Catholic Confederation of England and Wales. * ■. G.G.M. (Kaitawa). —Thanks for your letter. Have been absent for some weeks. Will write shortly with reference to the books you ask about. I am afraid your description of the kind you want is so vague that if I sent you some they might not suit. Grand Abeillb.Please give us a rest. We have said all there is to say about cup-tossing. It seems as if the blessed thing is becoming an epidemic in certain institutions. Personally we have not the slightest objection to peacock feathers in the house, to thirteen at table, to starting on a Friday, etc., and if you tell us anything else that is unlucky we will take the first opportunity of doing it even though the catastrophe brought down Bill Massey himself. And that would be as bad as Humpty-Dumpty's fall, wouldn't it now? Reader. —Thanks for your kind remarks. Others also said the same sort of thing. We take it as a compliment. It is a sign you missed us anyhow. But surely you would not expect a human machine to run for ever without a rest. As for the Klu-Klux-Klan we will deal with it later on. For the present it is enough to say that if you could imagine a whole society that was a cross between Nosworthy and Howard Elliott you would have something like the American abomination.