ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

New Zealand Tablet, 24 February 1921, Page 39

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Inquirer.—The . supreme power .is vested in the Parliament. The King is merely entitled to summon or prorogue 7 Parliament.! : j He may •technically- dissolve Parliament but as a matter of fact he does Jso at the discretion of the Cabinet.^ He. can no longer either declare war or peace 'without the consent' of Parliament. His signature was affixed to the Asquith Home Rule Bill which was passed formally and held up by a suspensory clause. ■'.•■v-iuuM \-<.b.\..-. i ;

Catholic— reference to the daily paper you mention we are aware that a qualified man was turned down because:after it was proved ; that he, was not a Catholic it was alleged that his wife was. Can you expect anything better than what you get from a paper run on such principles? ,;_ . W.F.M. —The Branch Theory is ft modern invention which is popular with a small section of the Anglican High Church Party. According to this view the Church of Christ is made up of the Latin, Greek, and Anglican Churches, which are as branches of the same tree. Its futility is clear, from the fact that both Latin and Greek Churches are at.one in rejecting Anglicans from

the fold of the Catholic Church.

E.S.— "Civis" not only denied that he made the reference to "Old : Moran" and "his pigs" but he actually : tried to make his readers believe that it was an invention of the Tablet's. In the Tablet, May 13, 1892, we read: "Last Saturday week our contemporary published a note over the signature "Civis" in which : insistence was made that the block-vote would be used in r the Bruce election/ The' notes' to' which we pointed last * week were, as we said, extremely scurrilous. In one of them Irish electors were- stigmatised as pigs';, in the other the Bishop of Dunedin was called ' Old Moran —old Moran driving his nigs to market—was the manner in which a -Catholic Bishop advising his people as to how they should try to obtain justice was 'spoken of. The passages from the Otarjo Daily Times of April 30, 1892, were the following :-j-"If the Bishop gets 5 all his pigs to market (my metaphors are getting mixed, but that comes of reading Mr. . Lee Smith's speeches)—if the Bishop. I repeat, gets all his pigs to market, he will poll 250 votes solid." In another paragraph "Civis" writes: "Scene a midnight interior. Government candidate soliloquises: '. f . . Then there's the" block vote. D the block vote. Nobody Uelieves that I care a dump for religious edu- - cationold Moran . least of •all.'.'? ■ l^:,: : :y ■■ i •