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Contents 1930


Volume 9                January 1930                  #6



Two Replies... Father Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: After Fifty - Nine Years

 -Father Power's Grave-The War: A Plain Fact

 -Finds the Church Triumphant-Peeping: At a Price

 -The Intolerance of Luther-Catholic Book Clubs.

Categorica... N.M. Law

Some Churches of Rome... Peter Anson

Conflicting Loves... Mary F. McGill

Stadia or Studia... Lenord J. McAdams

"The Fairest Things"... Marie Joyce

Said the Privileged Tree... Peter O'Rourke

The Lure of Rome... Stanley B. James

Poor Mr. Towler... Enid Dinnis

"In the Evening of My Thought"... Francis Shea, C.P.

The Sign Post

At the Threshold... Victor E. Challenge

The Grace of God In Overalls... Christopher Henderson

The Autobiography of an Embryo... Theodore Manyard

Wisdom: Real and Imaginary... Clearence Burkhardt

Leave it to a Jew... Charles R. Maloy

A Man... John Murray

The Dream of Gormalai... Cathal O'Bryne

Out of the Mouth of Babies... M. Hanburry Dodd

The Apostolate of the Catholic Library...Sister M. Agatha, O.S.U.

Index to Worthwhile Books

The Passionists in China

Gemma's League 





Volume 9                February 1930                 #7



An Ad With a Moral... Father Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: Four Outstanding Events of 1929

 -Again the Color Line-The Hubert Bequest

 -Senator Shepard's Proposed Law

 -Evangelical Christianity-Retreats: The Pope's Remedy.

Categorica... N.M. Law

Some Churches of Rome... Peter F. Anson

America's Starving With You... Philip Johnson

Thirty Pieces of Silver... E.M. Almedigen

Salvator... P.J. O'Connor Duffy

The Blue Letter Paper... Ethel King

The Sign Post

The Counsellor... Anna Blanche McGill

To a Mexican Martyr... H.H.G. Rope

The Bridge Building Brotherhood... Edmund B. Maloney

For the House of Israel... David Goldstein

Lourdes in Silence... Cyril Baker, C.P.

The Gulity One... Hugh F. Blunt, LL. D.

The Faith of St. Francis

The Birth of Social Science... Clarence F. Burkhardt

Cross or Crucified?... Charles F. Ferguson

"If I was God"... James B. Yelants

Saint Brigid... Pierce Oge

Index to Worthwhile Books

The Passionists in China

Gemma's League 





Volume 9                March 1930                    #8



Lent: March 5 to April 19... Father Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: Are the Movies Running Your Children?

 -The New (?) Humanism-Two Frock Coat Saints.

Categorica... N.M. Law

Where Faith Abounds... P.W. Browne, D.D., Ph. D.

Frank Denning Learns Wisdom... Grace Keon

The Church and Social Reform... Stanley B. James

Rex Judaeorum, Rex Coelests... Matthew Richardson

Mlle. Deschamps Talks... Aileen May Clegg

The Sign of the Passion... Charles Schipfamacher

The Sign Post

Christ and the Profiteers... Reginald Ginns, O.P.

Symbols... John Richard Moreland

The Woman Who Held On... Robert Petrock

Mesenger... Whitelaw Saunders

It is the Law... Burton Confrey

Anita Goes Riding... James B. Yelants

What Price Love... Lillian G. Baldwin

The Church Today in Norway... Veronica Lorentzen

When the Church Comes into its Own... Charles F. Ferguson

The Bond of Faith... Theodore Maynard

Index to Worthwhile Books

The Passionists in China

Gemma's League





Volume 9                April 1930                    #9



Christ's Great Missionary Command... Father Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: The Empty Tomb

 -Bigotry in Harriman, N.Y.-Death Summons Archabbot Aurelius

 -Human's New Prefect-Passion Plays-Sisters in Human

 -Christian Educaion.

Categorica... N.M. Law

The Red Blosom of France... Edythe Hellen Browne

Carthage Comes to Life... Joseph Holden

Communion... Rev. Charles Hugh Doyle

Retreats and the Lay Apostle... Edward Warren Joyce

Heaven Beyond the Pine Trees... Grace Keon

The Sign Post

The Levitical City... P.W. Browne, D.D., Ph. D.

The First Station... Matthew Richardson

Aunt Betsy Sees to It... Enid Dinnis

Clem Lewis' Reparation... Charles F. Ferguson

The Sparrows... Eleanor Rogers Cox

The Sinless Sufferer... Francis Shea, C.P.

A Pledge... Leonora Arent

Pope and Maguire... E.J. Quigley

Index to Worthwhile Books

The Passionists in China

Gemma's League





Volume 9                May 1930                      #10



Wherein God People Do Wrong... Father Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: Fighting Against God-Broken Homes

-A Priest on Broken Homes-Catholic Radio Hour

-Religion for Scientists-It all Depends-Amos 'n' Andy.

Categorica... N.M. Law

The Growth of Marian Art... P.W. Browne, D.D., Ph. D.

Jang Ssu of Changcha... Winifred Feely

As Woman to Woman... Mary E. McGill

Tyrone Among the Bushes... Cathal O'Bryne

A Great Pageant of Faith... Walter Lennox

The Miricle Wrought in Joan... James B. Yealnts

Thanksgiving... Bertha Rademaker Lahey

Dangers of Psycho Analysis... L.A. Parry

Red Tulips... Sophie Tunnell

The Sign Post

A Catholic Utopia... Stanley B. James

Where Lived the Sainted Vianney... Charles carter

Spiritual Vessel... Catherine Mary Bresnan

Why Catholics Submit... F.F.O. Orchard

Love's Offering... Kate Randle Menefee

The Virtues of the Holy Name of Jesus... G.C. Heseltine

Catholicity in China

Old Carl Adams... Grace Keon

The Prodigal's Return... Charles F. Ferguson

The Sepulchre... Matthew Richardson

Our Lady of Perpetual Help... Francis Shea, C.P.

Mater Dolorosa... Armel O'Connor, C.P.

Index to Worthwhile Books

The Passionists in China

Gemma's League





Volume 9                     June 1930                #11



An Announcement... Father Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: A.S.L.-"Born of God"

-The Country on it's Own Feet-Page Father Matthew

-Jewish Rabbi on Pope's Encyclical

-Waning Influence of Women-Pius XI on Immodesty in Dress.

Categorica... N.M. Law

How Master Sylvester the Priest Was Called... Gabriel Francis Powers

Medical Miracles... P.W. O'Gorman, M.D.

The Right to Kill... P.E. Hallett

The Crook's Friend... James B. Yealnts

Judas... Peter O'Rourke

Moscow Unveiled... Charles F. Ferguson

Point Counter Point... E.M. Almedigen

The Cleansing Years... Kate Randle Menefee

The Sign Post

Figures of Padre... Jerome B. Hannan

Some Catholic Aspects of Sex Education... Letita Fairfield

Underarmed... Catherine M. Bresnan

Eastern Wisdom... Robert Petrock

Some Irish Humor From Ultser... Cathal O'Bryne

Hymn... Theodore Manyard

From Communism to Catholicism... Todd McGinsky

Know Yourself... Mary E. McGill

A Visit to the World... Donald Gleeson

The Two Sisters... Aileen Mary Clegg

They Have their Pride... Jerome Harte Bosman

A Little Story of the Cross... F. Jerome, O.S.B.

Educator: Ecclesiastic: Editor... Clarence Buckhardt

Index to Worthwhile Books

The Passionists in China

St. Gemma's League





Volume 9                     July 1930                #12



Comming in August and Later... Father Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: Objecting to History

 -Pragmatic Religion-St. Bonaventure's Seminary

 -Not One Day Only-Not the Last.

Categorica... N.M. Law

Whither Judaism?... David Goldstein

Simon Bolivar 1783-1830... Francis Montgomery

Creators... Floe B. Straitwell

Brother John's Stigmata... George U. A. Cain

Tante Pascale... Aileen Mary Clegg

Two Visitors to San Juan Capistrano... Mary Mendenhall Perkins

His Spirit Dwelling Within Us... Catherine Mary Bresnan

The Sign Post

"The Kindness of God Our Savior"... Francis Shea, C.P.

Girolamo's Day of Music... Robert Petrock

Simple Simon and Simon Peter... W.J. Blyton

The "Pardon" of the Three Neuvas... Peter F. Anson

"Casting Bread Upon the Waters"... Ingeborg Stone

To Saint Jude... Annette S. Driscoll

The Blind Shall See... Corine Frazier

The Unwelcome Guest... Hugh F. Blunt, Ll. D

Just Plain George... James B. Yelants

Index to Worthwhile Books

The Passionists in China

Gemma's League





Volume 10                      August 1930              #1



Unemployment of the State... Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: The Maltese Question

 -"Untouchables" and the "Saint"-Sherlock Holmes Returns

 -St. Peter Never in Rome?-The Omaha Congress

 -Churches and their Clergymen.

Categorica... N.M. Law

Bridey McNulty Finds Tomorrow... Enid Dinnis

The Old Church and a New Conflict... Hilarie Belloc

Bought With a Great Price... Francis Shea, C.P.

Yellowstone: Bear by Bear... John Gilland Brunini

Memory... Philip Hagreen

My Card-Index on the Loose... John Gibbons

To Dismas... Hugh F. Blunt, LL.D

Table D'Hote Shakespeare... Frank Burton

Three Business Virtues... H.V.T. Burton

The Sign Post: Questions and Answers and Communications

The Bargainer from Keriote... Daniel B. Pulsford

Archbishop of the Sea... G. Barry Lane

Shylock and Internationalism... G.K. Chesterton

Morale in the Home... Anselm Secor, C.P.

It Happened in August... Fra Giovanni

From Red Terror to White Peace... E.M. Almedingen

The Lark...Dennis A. McCarthy

In Aid of Convert Ministers... Frederick W. Chambers

Notes on New Books

The Passionists in China

We Entered a Besieged City... Jeremiah McNamara, C.P.

A Chinese Mother... Rupert Langenbacher, C.P.

Nothing About Much... William Westhoven, C.P.

Gemma's League of Prayer





Volume 10                 September 1930                #2



The Churches in Politics... Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: 

 -The Maltese Question: Rhode Island Sentinellists

 -Two Million of Them-The Stuttering Churches-As Phelps Likes It.

Categorica... N.M. Law

The Atonement of Pablo Molido... Geoffrey Bradley

The Strength of God... Francis Shea, C.P.

What, Then, Is This Catholic Church... .Hilaire Belloc

It Happened in September... Fra. Giovanni

Jonas of the Waterway... Enid Dinnis

Patrick F. Moran: 1830-1930... Joseph Holden

The Motion Picture Code... Eugene Weare

September Seventeenth... Philip Hagreen

Shopping with the Poets... Kate Stevens

Mind and Matter... P.W.D.B.

The Sign Post: Questions and Answers and Communications

Theophile Mary Aileen Clegg

The Baltimore Oriole... Denis A. McCarthy

A Rock From Sand... Daniel B. Pulsford

My Card-Index on the Loose... John Gibbons

From Red Terror to White Peace... E.M. Almedingen

The Quest... Hugh F. Blunt, LL. D.

Notes on New Books

The Passionists in China

Installation of Msgr O'Gara, C.P... .Edward McCarthy, C.P.

"Robbed Clean-Safe Keinyang"... Dominic Langenbacher, C.P.

The Seige of Yuanchow... Sisters of St. Joseph

Gemma's League of Prayer





Volume 10                 October 1930                  #3



The Flesh Fully Emancipated... Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: The New Episcopalians

 -The Name Catholic-Newest Nasty Thing-A Dead Man Speaks

 -Out Goes Cole Blease-The  Dean's Doctrine

 -For Pure Drugs-An Imperative Work.

Categorica... N.M. Law

The New Salvation... T.W.C. Curd

The Shadow... Hugh F. Blunt, LL. D.

When the Night Comes... Francis Shea, C.P.

Acceptation: Faith and Reason... Hilaire Belloc

"...  And the Criminal"... J. Desmond Gleason

A Lay on the Apostle Saint Paul... E.M.D.

Blind Man's Dog... Enid Dinnis

Home and Home Brew... Anselm Secor, C.P.

My Card-Index On the Loose... John Gibbions

The Bloom on the Peach... Jerome Harte Bosman

The Sign Post: Questions and Answers and Communications

It Happened in October... Fra Giovani

The Flaming Heart... J. Carson Miller

A Trickster in Sacred Vestments... Daniel B. Pulsford

I Shall Not Fear... J. Barry Philipson

Honor... Ingeborg Stone

Thirteenth Station... John Richard Moreland

Notes on New Books

Gemma's League of Prayer

The Passionists in China

I Return to China... Quentin Olwell, C.P.

Good Thieves and a Golden Legend... Dunstan Thomas, C.P.

Summer and Secret Societies... Raphael Vance, C.P.

A True Fish Story... Jeremiah McNamara, C.P.





Volume 10                 November 1930                 #4



A Justified Protest... Father Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: No Compromise

 -Prisoner and Psychiatrist-The Truth Wanted

 -An American Abroad-No Time to Retrench

 - Mother Alphonsa Lathrop.

Categorica... N.M. Law

Some Remus... Enid Dinnis

The Fall of the Man and the Real Presence... Hilarie Belloc

A Midsummer Night's Dream... T.J.F. Rust

J. Caiphas: Priest and Politician... Daniel B. Pulsford

Betsy Prays... E.M.D.

My Card-Index on the Loose... John Gibbions

The Greased Pole of Progress... A. Longfellow Fiske

Belinda's Only... Nell Hanson

A Form of Catholic Lay Action... William E. Kerrish

Gladness... Charles Primrose James

The Sign Post: Questions and Answers

Give this Man Place... Hugh F. Blunt

It Happend in November... Fra Giovanni

The Quite Prisoners of Kilman... David Hogan

Notes on New Books

The Passionists in China

A Veteran Goes to China... The Editor

Muan Joseph Tells a Story... Basil Bauer, C.P.

Travels in Human... Casper Conley, C.P.

Gemma's League of Prayer





Volume 10                 December 1930                 #5



Personal to Our Friends... Father Harold Purcell

Current Fact and Comment: Are Protestants Catholics?

 -The Klan Played Out-The Jacobites Return

 -Simon Bolivar: 1830-1930-A Scientist Speaks

 -The Church as Savior-Heroic Liu-Chin-Chu.

Categorica... N.M. Law

Bethlehem and Nazareth... Peter F. Anson

The Enemy of Christmas... G.K. Chesterton

It Happened in December... Fra Giovanni

Moriarty's Christ Child... Enid Dinnis

Carol of the Magi... John Bunker

The Science of Man... Hilaire Belloc

My Card-Index on the Loose... John Gibbions

Autumn... Charles Primrose James

The Sign Post: Questions and Answers and Communications

The Passing of Shan... M. Winifred Heenan

The Toys... Sister Mary Benventua, O.P.

A Real Jesuit in Disguise... A. Leslie-Squire

At Work in Lourdes... Katherine L. Edgerly

The Scarlet Figure of History... Daniel B. Pulsford

Catholics and Our Public Schools... Burton Confrey

The Changing Home... Anslem Secor

Queen of Our Peace... Francis Gabriel Weldon

Give This Man Place... Hugh F. Blunt, LL.D.

Notes on New Books

The Passionists in China

Sick Calls: An Invasion... Nicholas Schneiders, C.P.

Wanted: Peace in China... Raphael Vance, C.P.

The Golden Legend in China... Dunstan Thomas

Gemma's League of Prayer