Answers to Correspondents

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LI, Issue 8, 21 February 1924, Page 23

Answers to Correspondents

Plain Speaking. —Your letter is to the point but we cannot \ accept it as you do not sign your name. The discrepancy between preaching and practice is indeed ridicu-, f us - Wo could give you many other instances. The jnost vituperative letters we ever saw were written by a person never done preaching about the amenities of correspondence. But, unicuique cani dies sua, as Macquadius hath it. Critic.— Your letter dealing with the distraction caused by people who come in late for Mass only repeats what is t said time and again by our pastors and preachers. When you say that even nuns come in late you probably forget that the Sisters have already heard one or more Masses during the morning and that they gladly snatch time from their duties to hear even a part of as many Masses as possible. ■k- H. Please tell your clerical critic that our local correspondents are invariably selected on the advice or with the approbation of the local clergy. If they are not the best judges of who is suitable we do not know who are. New Zealand is a wonderful country dor destructive critics who never did and never will do any good for anything or anybody. J. L.—There are-several cheap books of the kind you want. We can recommend The Question Fox, Questions ami Answers on the Catholic Church, Short Answers, and Plain Farts. For general principles you might get Faith of Our Fathers, Catholic Belief, Dr. Sheehan’s Apologetics, or any similar work. Many of the Catholic Truth publications will also be helpful.