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Contents 1927


Volume 6                      January 1927                #6



Current Fact and Comment: Today's Horoscope-The Last Laugh

 -Manning Is Amazed-The Faith of Our Mothers

 -Bishop M. J. Hoban-The Mexican Crisis

-Mussolini and the Pope- Moscow in China.

The Cross: As Represented in the First Ages of the Christian Church

   ... By Gabriel Francis Powers

The Bonds of Christ...  N. K.

Categorica

The Sign Post

Archconfraternity Comment

L'Action Française...  Denis Gwynn

The Word of the Cross... Francis Shea, C.P.

Laura Mulvaney Revolts... Jerome Hart Bosman

The Antonia... Placid Wareing, CP.

Lobsters and Souls... B. J. Murdoch

New Year's Gifts... Sister Mary Benvenuta

Mere Marie Eugenie... Katherine Brégy

The King's Trouvère... Hugh F. Blunt, LL.D.

Our Junior Readers

With the Passionists in China

Index to Worthwhile Books





Volume 6                      February 1927                #7



Current Fact and Comment: Methodist Temporal Power 

 -Mary of Nazareth-The Timely Stitch 

 -Apostolic Opportunities-The Landing Marines

 -The Alabama Clown-Radio Religion-A Reader Reacts

 -Printed Filth-Anglican Compromise.

Punishment vs. Reparation... James J. Walsh, M. D., Ph. D.

Self-Valuation... Hugh F. Blunt, LL. D.

A Punched Railroad Ticket... Wilfrid Ferguson

Three Passion Poems... Sister M. Benvenuta, 0. P.

Categorica

The Sign Post

American and Catholic... Anthony M. Benedik, D. D.

Light In Darkness... Winifred A. Feely

Herod's Palace... Placid Wareing, C. P.

Learn of Me... Francis O'Shea, C. P.

Archconfraternity Comment

Janet Moffat... Ethel King

Politics... A. J. Reilly

Initiation... Pierce Oge

My House of Silence... Sr. M. Emmanuel, 0. S. B.

Our Junior Readers

With the Passionists in China

Index to Worthwhile Books





Volume 6                      March 1927                #8



Current Fact and Comment: The Purpose of Lent

 -Science and Religion Again-Paul Claudel-Forward China!

 -Young Suicides-Pre Marriage Agreements

 -Protestants and the Confessional-Our Special Folly

The True Cross... Dr. Francis Whitaker

The Apostate... Eleanor Rogers Cox

Categorica

The Sign Post

The Fiery Cross... Then. A. Thoma

Acrobatic Anglicans... Grant Morgan

Archconfraternity Comment

The Lithostrotos... Placid Wareing, C. P.

The Angelus... P. J. O'Connor Duffy

Redeeming the Time... Francis Shea, C. P.

A Lily Grew In Galilee... M. C. Kelley

Our Junior Readers

With the Passionists in China

Index to Worthwhile Books





Volume 6                      April 1927                #9



Easter: The Meaning to Us of Christ's Resurrection

   ... Father Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: The Risen Christ-The Chief Cause Omitted

 -Pre Nuptial Promises- Literature for Rural Missions

 -Archbishop Canevin-Disintegrating Protestantism

 -Prayers for the Dead.

Cross and Tomb: The Appeal of Jesus Crucified... Francis Shea, C.P.

The Atrium: Ninth Chapter in the Highway of the Cross

   ... Placid Wareing, C.P.

Categorica: Set Forth in News and Opinion... N. M. Law

Do Converts Deteriorate: Prejudice Naturally Has Its Anticipations

The Sign Post

The Chicken Feud: No. 1 in a Story of the New Jersey Pines

   ... Marion Pharo Hilliard

A High Romance The Life of Father Fidelis of the Cross

   ... Catharine McPartlin

Between the Acts: An Actor Convert and His Conversion

   ... Richard Stoneleigh

Archconfraternity Comment

Moling: Satan Pays Tribute to a  Saint... Cathal O'Byrne

A Son of the East: The Americanization of a Chinese Boy

   ... Edward F. Crowley

Our Junior Readers

The Passionists in China

Index to Worthwhile Books

By Such Sacrifices God's Favor is Obtained





Volume 6                      May1927                #10



"In Act Apostles, Martyrs in Desire"... Father Harold Purcell, CP.

Current Fact and Comment: The Virgin Mother

 -Oracles of Wisdom Christ's Policy Continued - Church Enrollment

 -The Fullest Fountain-Catholic Civil Allegiance

 -ReMailed Literature Appreciated.

Sea Homilies: The Ship; The Sea; The Storm; The Voyagers

   ... John M. Simon, O.S.M.

Our Lady of Ashes: Whence Comes the Miraculous Element in Statues

   ... Enid Dinnis

Notre Dame de Paris... J. W. Hardwick

The Sign Post

France: The Catholic Counter-Attack Against the Action Française

   ... Denis Gwynn

A Bigger Stage: Whereon the Actor Convert Plays a New Role

   ... Richard Stoneleigh

Invisible Spears... P. J. O'Connor Duffy

Categorica: As Set Forth in News and Opinion

   ... N. M. Law

Via Dolorosa: Chapter Tenth in the Highway of the Cross

The Scourging... Sister M Benvenuta, 0.P.

Our Lady of Pity: The Appeal of Jesus Crucified

   ... Francis Shea, C.P.

The Haunted Mill: No. 2 in a Story of the New Jersey Pines

   ... Marion Pharo Hilliard

Broken Wings... Hugh F. Blunt

Archconfraternity Comment

Our Junior Readers

The Passionists in China

Index to Worthwhile Books

Donations



Volume 6                      June 1927                #11



"God's in His Heaven, All's Well With the World" 

   ... Father Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: The Vatican not Concerned

 -Manning Again Regrets-The Reds in China

 -Condemnation of Immoral Books-For Better Understanding

 -The Colosseum Cross-The Flood Sufferers

 -Catholic Theatre Movement.

Wanted: More Comedy... Allan R. Whitner.

Who Slipped? Miss Hoyt Makes a Strange Discovery

   ... Jessie F. Edgerly.

Gemma Galgani: The Progress of Her Cause for Canonization

   ... Benjamin Wirtz, C.P.

Categorica: As Set Forth in News and Opinions

   ... N. M. Law.

The Passing of Puritanism.  First: The Welsh Country Chapel

   ... Stanley B. James.

The Sign Post

Archconfraternity Comment

"I Am For It"... Edmund B. Maloney.

Calvary: Eleventh Chapter in the Highway of the Cross

   ... Placid Wareing, C.P.

The Chinese Story Teller... Winifred A. Feely

Lindbergh's Mother and Another 

The Seven Days: As Recorded in the First Two Chapters of Genesis

Woman Leadership: The Civic Obligations of Catholic Women

   ... A. J. Reilly

On the Death of a Young Man... J. Corson Miller

The Jersey Devil... Marion Pharo Hilliard.

Mane Nobiscum, Domine... John Gray

The Holy of Holies: The Appeal of Jesus Crucified

   ... Francis Shea. C.P.

A Solitary Novelist: Three Novels By Montgomery Carmichael

   ... Donald Attwater

Our Junior Readers

The Passionists in China

Index to Worthwhile Books

Donations



Volume 6                      July 1927                #12



Current Fact and Comment: The Heart-Rending Tragedy of Shenchow

 -Rt. Rev. 3. J. O'Connor, D.D.-On the Wings of Prayer

-Rather Late Arrivals.

Maria Sarto.  An Interview with the Sister of a Pope

   ... Gabriel Francis Powers

The New Dark Ages.  Wherein the Barbarians May Again Triumph

   ... G. K. Chesterton

The Crown of Thorns... Pierce Oge

Categorica: As Set Forth in News and Opinions 

 ... N. M. Law

Archconfraternity Comment

Pro Ecclesia et Pontice. A Fitting Epitaph for the Late Father

   Felix Ward, C.P. ... Frederic Pratt Arlsen

The Sign Post

Basil: The Hermit of the Pillar Meets a Herder of Geese

   ... William Canton

Hairdressers and Heaven... J. Desmond Gleeson

The Magnet of Hearts. The Appeal of Jesus Crucified

   ... Francis Shea, CF.

Who Was Dorcas? Something About an Apostolic Social Worker

   ... Sara Kountz Dietheim

The Prayer Meeting. No. 2 in The Passing of Puritanism

   ... Stanley B. James

Adam and Eve, From the Second and Third Chapters of Genesis

Counterfeit Catholicism.. Some Personal Experiences of 

   Episcopalian Vagaries... Grant Morgan

The Sepulchre. Twelfth Chapter in the Highway of the Cross

   ... Placid Wareing, C. P.

The Flowering Thorn... Sister Mary Benvenuta. O.P.

Queer Street. Where Folks are Mostly Going Down... Beatrice Barry

The Beatitudes... Eleanor Rogers

Our Junior Readers

The Passionists in China

Index to Worthwhile Books

Donations





Volume 7                   August 1927              #1

Tzen Twen Tzen

Current Fact and Comment: When Nations Sin

 -The Quality Group-Legalized Polygamy-Other Flights

 -Henry Ford Apologizes-The New Yorker-Mary: All Mother

 -The Colombian Spirit-The Chinese Situation-A Catholic Science.

The Colosseum Cross... Gabriel Francis Powers

St. Laurence... J. Carson Miller

Categorica... N.M. Law

Americanism and Catholicism... John K. Sharpe

Archconfraternity Comment

Strings of Sand... H.L. Macnair

The Last Adventure Story... Jerome Harte Bosman

The Sign Post

Cain and Abel

One Thousand Miles... Princess Almedigen

Titulus Circuis... Dr. Francis Whitaker

Mexico... Charles N. Lischka

A Living Sacrifice... Francis Shea, C.P.

Winter Sunset... J. Carson Miller

The Preacher... Stanley B. James

Our Junior Readers

Index to Worthwhile Books

The Passionists in China

Mission Donations





Volume 7              September 1927                #2



Catholic Medical Missions... Father Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: A Layman's Assumptions

 -Unmeaning Mouthings-Gin Marriage Law-"Admiral" Heflin

 -All Cut and Dried-The Lausanne Conference-The Cauliflower Industry

 -Not for the South Only-What They Don't Know. 

Dominic Barberi, C.P... .Richard A. Roberts

The Converted Pugilist... Stanley B. James

Categorica... N.M. Law

The Church and Re-Union... Donald Atwater

Timothy... Jerome Harte Bosman

The Reason... St. John Wickingham

The Sign Post

The Bridal of the Sea... P.J. O'Connor Duffy

The Thirteenth Station... Enid Dinnis

The Deluge

Archconfraternity Comment

Marriage in Christ... Francis Shea, C.P.

Uttermost Being... Armel O'Connor

The Crown of Thorns... Dr. Francis Whitaker

Faith and Creed... Anthony M. Benedick, D.D.

The Poetry of Symbolism... .George Bingham

Our Junior Readers

Index to Worthwhile Books

The Passionists in China





Volume 7                   October 1927             #3



Mission Sunday... Father Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: Frauds and Hipocrites

 -The Presidency Again-Infanite Paralysis Women's Dress

 -Foreign Mission Brothers-Religion in Business

 -Labor and Industry-For the Missions-Cincinnati's School Problem.

Colored Catholicism... Mark Moeslein, C.P.

Kevin O'Higgins... Dennis Gwynn

Categorica: As Set Forth in News and Opinions... N.M. Law

The Holy Nails... Dr. Francis Whitaker

Some Crimes Against the Fine... Sister M. Elanore, C.S.C.

Sodom and Gomorrha

The Sign Post

Mixed Motives... Mark O'Byrne, C.P.

The Lord's Supper... Stanley B. James

Old Bells Re-Jangled... Cathal O'Byrne

Watching Christ... Francis Shea, C.P.

Our Junior Readers

Index to Worthwhile Books

The Passionists in China





Volume 7              November 1927                 #4



Requiescent in Peace... Father Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: Five and Seventy Years

 -Chip On Shoulder-Dante Hears Mass-Robbing the Cradle

 -Dishing the Dirt-Fossils-Good for the Cannon!

 -What Price Doctors?-Layman's Retreat Conversion.

The King of Kings... Edmund Maley

Spiritual Types... William Cardinal O'Connell

Categorica... N.M.Law

Lost - A Vocation... Mary Gordon

God's Stooping... Mark Moeslein, C.P.

The Fourth Station... Enid Dinnis

The Split... Stanley B. James

Woods in Autumn... St. John Wickingham

Archconfraternity Comment

The Sign Post

Abraham's Sacrifice

I Can Face America... Walter Glenn Narblon

For Want of Pickers... Egbert Albert, C.P.

Prisoners in Pain... Francis Shea, C.P.

Our Junior Readers

Index to Worthwhile Books

The Passionists in China





Volume 7              December 1927                 #5



Christmas: A Suggestion... Father Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: The Divine Disarmament

 -A One-Arm Concern -Rotten Apples -Negro Worth -Boys and Toys

 -Barnum Fever-Presbyterian House Cleaning.

Ephrata: Beth-Lehem: Beit-laham... Donald Attwater

St. Bride's Lullaby at Bethlehem... Cathat O'Bryan

Christmas Day... Armel O'Connor

Cecile... Charles Duff Gordon

Categorica... N.M. Law

The Abbe' Rergey... Denis Gwyn

A Wife's Faith... E.E. Almedigen

Peace on Earth... M.C. Kelley

The Sign Post:Communications 

The Woman's Side of It... Julia O'Flann

Anniversary... St. John Wickingham

Esau and Jacob... From the Book of Genesis

The New Minister... Stanley B. James

God's Own Gift of Gifts... Francis Shea, C.P.

The Sifting of Peter... Ethel King

Archconfraternity Comment

Our Junior Readers

Index to Worthwhile Books

Passionists in China

Gemma's League

Thanksgivings

Donations