Answers to Correspondents

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 41, 18 October 1923, Page 25

Answers to Correspondents

L. ■ H.From the Treasury of Indulgences, we quote. the following answer to your query: "For saying the 'Rosary (at least five Mysteries) either publicly or privately: Seven years and seven quarantines. Once. «* - "For saying same on Rosary Sunday and on each day of its octave: Plenary any one day. Usual Conditions. And Visit." J. Mo. The Irish names you ask about are: Una (Agnes), Isibeal, or Sibeal (Elizabeth), Aoife (Eva), Eibhlin (Aileen or Eveleen), Sile (Cecily), Doireann (Dorothy), Blath (Flora), Siobhan (Joan or Johanna), Grainne (Grace), Meadhbh (Mabel), Mane (Mary), Sorcha Sarah),- Sadhbh (Sophia), Alastar (Alexander), Lughaidh (Louis), Art (Arthur), Brian (Barney), Searlus (Charles), Donnchad (Denis), Domhnall (Daniel), Eamonn (Edmond), Eoghan (Eugene), Prionsias (Francis), Amhlaoibh (Humphrey), Seamus (James), Eoin or Seaghan or Sean (John), Peadar (Peter), Tadhg (Thaddeus), Liam (William). Reader.—The principles of true liberty are opposed to any intervention by the State which is not both just and necessary. Undue intervention is an aggression on the rights of the subject. Wise rulers never interfere ex- . cept when justice and necessity demand. Foolish statesmen and politicians are constantly interfering with the rights of individuals, families, and communities, to the ruin of good order. The tendency of modern British governments is towards over-much interference, and it is one sign of the decay of the Empire. Catholic. The Moral Modernism condemned by the Pope referred to the tendency to revolt against authority and to put individual and private opinions or whims above the guidance of authority. The revolt against the ruling of the Hierarchy was one concrete instance.