Answers to Correspondents

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XLIX, Issue 39, 5 October 1922, Page 17

Answers to Correspondents

Killarnet.— The editor regrets that he has no more of the ballad, “Master McGrath,” than appeared in the Tablet. , - G. G. (Wellington).— editor of the Advocate is Mr. : O’Leary. The editor of the Bulletin is Mr. O’Kelly. You are the only one who has informed us that they have gone through a course of theology and secured their degrees. Until you have studied for some ten years to come, wo assure you that you may without fear of making any great error take the Irish Hierarchy, as a safe guide on ethical questions. They are far more likely 'to be right than amateur lay-theologians. R. H. (Fernside).— Your message to the Manager has been delivered. Traffic or bartering in the matter of,Masses such as you suggest is strictly forbidden. S. V. de Paul.— May, 1833, in the office of the Tribune Gatholiquc, the first Charity Conference, which was to develop into the St. Vincent de Paul Society was held. Inquirer. —The Knights of Colombus now total 800,000 members in the 11.5. A. They have 42 State jurisdictions and 2,400 local councils. Forty years ago they began with 11 members, and at their first convention, held at Newhaven, their total was only 800. Christchurch. —No ! Bishop Grimes of New Zealand was an Englishman, while Bishop Grimes' of Syracuse, N.Y., who died last July was a native of Limerick. He was born there in 1853 and went to America when only sixteen years of age. Cynic. —Decidedly the habit of giving boys and girls outlandish, high-sounding names is no healthy sign of a Christian spirit among parents. Fair dinkum, we would not call a mongrel puppy by some of the “naice” names we hear sounding round us where young folk congregate. It is nothing short of cruelty to saddle for a life-time with a poetic name like Guinevere, Adelaide, or Muriel, some plain, every-day kind of girl, and it is even worse to call a common or garden hobbledehoy Clarence, or Ethelred, or Adolphus when there are any amount of common-sense names like Pat and Tony to go round. Of course the children are not consulted, but if they had a choice it is likely they would rather be called after a saint than a patent medicine or a bug destroyer. Gallus— Pierre TErmite is a French parish priest named Loutil—Canon Loutil, in fact.' He is 59 years of age and pastor of the parish of S. Francois de Sales, in the Parc Monceau district of Paris. He is best known . as a leader writer for La Croix, but he has also found time to write a number of novels, among which La Grande Amie, FEmprise, Le Soc , and Bestcz Chez Vous have had a large circulation in' France. Earlier he had charge of a parish right in the heart' of the swiftest part of Paris, all round the Moulin ' do la Galette and the night cabarets, frequented- by artists of all kinds.