The Sign Magazine
Contents 1931
Volume 10 January 1931 #6 The Truth Still Wanted... Harold Purcell, C.P. Current Fact and Comment: The Effort For Peace -Good Will: Obstacles and Aids-Printed Smut -Catholic Lay Action-Deport Them-The Methodist Board -Russia The Anti-God. Categorica... N.M. Law The Kalendar of Shepards... G.C. Heseltine The Turks at the Gates of Europe... J. Desmond Gleeson Historical Criticism and the Catholic Church... Hilaire Belloc It Happened in January... Fra Giovanni My Card-Index on the Loose... John Gibbions The Uninvited Host... Sister Mary Benvenuta, O.P. The Sign Post: Questions and Answers A Fifteenth Century Woman of Umbria... Gabriel Farncis Powers Whom Christ Called a Fox... Daniel B. Pulsford The Curtain Rises... Enid Dinnis Give this Man Place... Hugh F. Blunt, LL. D. Fra Ruffino and Fra Egdio... W. J. Nott News on New Books The Passionists in China Father Antoine Goes to Hunan... Theophane Maguire, C.P. The Martyrs of Korea... Dunstan Thomas, C.P. Purchased Justice... Francis Flaherty, C.P. Gemma's League of Prayer Volume 10 Febuary 1931 #7 The Pope Speaks... Harold Purcell, C.P. Current Fact and Comment: The Encyclical -The Wickersham Report-A Great Jew Passes -China's Honor List for 1930 -The Protestant Confessional-The Skeptic in Our Service. Categorica... N.M. Law International Exhibition of Religious Art... Gabriel Francis Powers Love's Sorrow... B.F. Hugh The Road to Sodom... Frank H. Spearman Something Happened - and It was Grand!... Enid Dinnis The Church and Various Forms of Government... Hilaire Belloc "His Wealth of Agony"... J. Carson Miller The Hate that Clamored... Daniel B. Pulsford "Bent Bars"... Burton Confrey The Criminal with the Machine Gun... G.K. Chesterton Give this Man Place... Hugh F. Blunt, LL. D. The Sign Post: Questions and Answers It Happened in February... Fra Giovanni Brother Sparrow... C.J. Falk, S.S. A Big Man in a Small House... Robert Petrock On Lighting a Candle... Denis A. McCarthy, LL.D. My Card-Index on the Loose... John Gibbions The Passionists in China Supu, Key City to the West... Flavin Mullins, C.P. New Plans for Wangstun... Basil Bauer, C.P. Mostly About my Boys... Nicholas Schneider, C.P. Gemma's League of Prayer Volume 10 March 1931 #8 The Call of Lent... Father Harold Purcell, C.P. Current Fact and Comment: The Pope Speaks to the World Categorica... N.M. Law The Sacred Passion in Human Flesh...Aloysius McDonough, C.P., .D. The Catholic Church and Opposing Philosophies... Hilarie Belloc "I Fall Down Sometimes"... Aileen Mary Clegg The Wasted Hours... Edwin Carlyle Litsey Shadows in the Prison Yard... David Hogan The Bankruptcy of the Puritan... William F. Obering, S.J. It Happened in March... Fra Giovanni The Sign Post No Concern of Theirs... Daniel B. Pulsford Give This Man Place... Hugh F. Blunt, LL. D. Miss Martha to the Rescue... Enid Dinnis Charity... Katherine Burton My Card-Index on the Loose... John Gibbions "The Seventeenth of Ireland"... Denis A. McCarthy, LL. D. Notes on New Books The Passionists in China Dangerous Days in Paotsing... Nicholas Schneiders, C.P. Luki: A District in Distress... Theophane Maguire, C.P. Another Page of China's Golden Legend... Dunstan Thomas, C.P. Gemma's League of Prayer Volume 10 April 1931 #9 Yesterday...The Same Forever... Harold Purcell, C.P. Current Fact and Comment: The Catholic Concept of Marriage Categorica... N.M. Law Disciples by Night... Francis Shea C.P. Agustus Webly Pugin... Peter F. Anson Drapery for Charachter Cinders... Mary E. McGill Where the Church is in Conflict... Hilarie Belloc Our Lady of the Crooked Eye... Nicholas Jay Give This Man Place... Hugh F. Blunt, LL. D. It Happened in April... Fra Giovanni The Sign Post My Card-Index On the Loose... John Gibbions Claudia Procula Has a Dream... Daniel B. Pulsford Penitent's Prayer... J. Carson Miller Shingled Shakspeare... Frank Burton Crusaders... Eleanor Rogers Cox Underlying the Seven... William T. Miller Spiritual Memories of a Small Boy... Doran Hurley Noreen Gets the Best of It... Enid Dinnis Notes on New Books The Passionists in China The Red Menace in China... Alfred Cagney, C.P. From Chenki The Went to Death... Theophane Maguire, C.P. Christmas Peace in Yuanchow... Edward McCarthy, C.P. Gemma's League of Prayer Volume 10 May 1931 #10 The New Delagate to Indiana... Harold Purcell, C.P. Current Fact and Comment: "On the Condition of Labor" Categorica... N.M. Law Early Christian Mystic Signs... E. Vincent Warenig At the Foot of the Cross... Sister Mary Beatrice The Catholic Church Must Be in Conflict... Hilaire Belloc Maggie Murphy's Home... Michael Earls, S.J. The Failure of Mencken as Artist...John Bunker Prayer... J. Carson Miller It Happened in May... Fra Giovanni My Card-Index on the Loose... John Gibbions The Sign Post Give This Man Place... Hugh F. Blunt, LL. D. The Cult of the Wonderful... Irving T. McDonald The Nobody Who Got A Name... Daniel B. Pulsford After Easter... Joseph L. Dooley The Stations of the Cross Today... Donald Attwater Notes on New Books The Passionists in China Three More For China Kaotsun: A Thirlling Village... Theophane Maguire, C.P. More than 2,000 Years Years Ago... Jerimiah McNamara, C.P. The Missionary Exhaustion... William Westhoven, C.P. Gemma's League of Prayer Volume 10 June 1931 #11 Pius XI Urges Reconstruction... Harold Purcell, C.P. Current Fact and Comment: Pentacost Continued -Rome and India-Four More Clerical Converts -The Cult of Simplicity-The Basis of Culture -Censorship of the Movies. Categorica... N.M. Law Episcopal Concentration of Monsignor Leo Peter Kierkels, C.P ... .Gabriel Francis Powers The Council of Ephesus, 431-1931... Joseph Holden Paid For: One by One... Frank De Gawler The Catholic Church and Nationalism... Hilaire Belloc It Happened in June... Fra Giovanni Give This Man Place... Hugh F. Blunt, LL.D. The Sign Post The Kings Seal on Human Sympathy... Daniel B. Pulsford Love's Sorrow... B. F. Hugo My Card-Index on the Loose... John Gibbions It is Worth While... Cahrles R. Maloy A Sermon in Cats... Neil Boyton, S.J. At the Sign of the Star... G.C. Haseltine The Road Griff... Daniel A. McCarthy Diamond-Dust... Charles Primrose James An Old Woman's Cottage... David Hogan The Passionists in China The Growth of Kienyang... Theophane Maguire, C.P. About Town in China... Edward McCarthy, C.P. Gemma's League of Prayer Volume 10 July 1931 #12 August and Volume Eleven... Harold Purcell, C.P. Current Fact and Comment: After Forty Years Categorica... N.M. Law A Housing Problem... Enid Dinnis Jacks in the Pulpit... Irving T. McDonald The Church in Conflict Summary and Conclution... Hilarie Belloc It Happened in July... Fra Giovanni These Two are One... Jerome Harte Bosman An American Tribute to Pius IX... Louise Malloy Can I Marry Him?... Adrian Lynch, C.P. Where Self Pity is Justified... Daniel B. Pulsford The Sign Post My Card-Index on the Loose... John Gibbions Colloquy... A. Page Modern Professors and Ancient Fantaisias... William F. Obering Mary's Flower... Hugh F. Blunt, LL. D. The Cockade... Gabriel Francis Powers Notes on New Books The Passionists in China Pere Perin... Jean Carter Chchran Let the Nations Hear!... Dr. Ida Khan A Heroine of Hunan... Anthony Maloney, C.P. Gemma's League of Prayer Volume 11 August 1931 #1 Wanted: Subscribers Who Read... Harold Purcell, C.P. Current Fact and Comment: Pope Pius Xi a Socialist? -Solviet Rule in Spain?-Clerical Counsel for Clergymen -The Basis of Christian Unity-Children in the Underworld -Infidels in Protestant Pulpist-Mrs. Jean Norris "Judicially Unfit" -Church Merger in a "Wide Room" -Fides Intrepida Versus the Facist Program-Doctor Michael Possenti -A Protestant Metropolitian Newspaper-Toasts Within the Month. Categorica... N.M. Law Mt. Vernon and Other Things in Paris... John Gibbions King Henry VIII... Hilaire Belloc The First Christian Bread Line... Franklin J. Kennedy Shamus Goes Inside... Enid Dinnis The Five Sorrowful Mysteries... Hugh F.X. Sharkey The Canon Law of Marriage... Adrian Lynch, C.P. Porous Plasters and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis America: A Summary... G.K. Chesterton Little Altars... Mary Gordon The Ascetic... J. Carson Miller When the Devil Holds the Stakes... Daniel B. Pulsford The Sign Post Historical Briefs on Bigotry... Valentine Hill Roughly Speaking... Irving T. McDonald Time for a Tombstone... Edward F. Murphy, S.S.J. Mary's Flower... Hugh F. Blunt, LL. D. Has your Parish a Study Club?... Mary E. McGill Magdalen's Tears... Richard A. Welfle, S.J. The Moving Holy Images... Gabriel Farncis Powers Notes on New Books The Passionists In China Yuanchow Yields a Harvest... Theophane Maguire, C.P. Yang Mei Saves Her Face... Basil Bauer, C.P. China and the Church... Nicholas Schneiders, C.P. Gemma's League of Prayer Volume 11 September 1931 #2 Concerning the Sign... Harold Purcell, C.P. Current Fact and Comment: Sunday Comes Back in Russia -What is Catholic Action? -Federal Council Investigates the Movies -Colombia's "Church of the Air"-They Really Do Believe It -"Will America Become Catholic?"-The Red Cross and Acts of God -A Catholic Physicians' Guild of America-Toasts Within the Month. Categorica... N.M. Law The Reds and American Labor... Frank Duffy The Green Pastures... R. Shardy Post The Connecticut Complex... Valentine Hill One Partner: No Divorce... Adrian Lynch, C.P. Sanger, Lindsay and the Rest... R.C. McWilliams Catherine of Aarogn... Hilaire Belloc Encyclical... Clifford J. Laube Starting a Novenah in the South... John Gibbions Rose and Company... Brother Catjetan, C.F.X. The Sign Post Brother Ugolino's Ladder... E.Vincent Wareing The Heart of Mary... Sister Mary Imelda, O.P. Porous Plasters and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis The Provincialism of Protestantism... Theodore Maynard A Layman Looks at Science... Edward L. Coveney Tin Gods and the Limit... W.J. Blyton The Unwelcome Guest... Annette S. Driscoll The Man at a Distance... Daniel B. Pulsford Harvest... Richard A. Weffle, S.J. Notes on New Books The Passionists in China White Boys in Yellow Skins... Michael A. Campbell Yungshun... Theophane Maguire, C.P. Eyes East... Silvan Lator, C.P. Gemma's league of Prayer Volume 11 October 1931 #3 In This Issue... Harold Purcell, C.P. Current Fact and Comment: The German Catholic Program -Imported and Native Criminals-Episcopalians and Remarriage -Angels for Guardians-No Basement Bargains -The Spread of Bolshevism-Jacob Brenner's the Poor Box -Toasts Within the Month. Categorica... N.M. Law Are Negroes Inferior?... Mark Moeslein, C.P. The Conquest of New York... John Gibbions Way of the Cross... Katherine Burton Ballad of the Crosses... John Bunker Anne Boleyn... Hilaire Belloc Assumptions of Evolution... Alexander MacDonald May Pageant... Richard A. Weffle, S.J. Some Men Die Twice... Daniel B. Pulsford The Law of Life... Millicent Claire McNicholl Porous Plasters Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis Before Getting Married... Adrian Lynch, C.P. Perlis... Cray Conventry Why Called Catholic?... Neil McNeil The Sign Post A Mystic Plaything... Enid Dinnis The National Center of Catholic Education... H. Edward Cain University Professor and Saint... Selden Peabody Delany The Tree of Life... Hugh F. Blunt A Story of Wisdom... Edwin Essex, O.P. Hiking With Shakespeare... Kate Stevens Notes on New Books Gemma's League The Passionists in China Desolation in Hankow... Alfred Cagney, C.P. Riding the Flood... Timothy McDermott, C.P. A First Religious Profession... Francis Flaherty, C.P. Volume 11 November 1931 #4 The Crusade of Mercy Current Fact and Comment: The Exigencies of the Times -"Republican Army" and the New Communism -Gospel of Charity vs. Threat of Fear -Film Producers Fouling Civilization -Challenge to More than Depression -There are Limits to State Supremacy-We Must All Pay the Penalty -Two Fundamental Cases of Crime-Dwight Whitney Morrow -Toasts Within the Month. Categorica... N.M. Law Al Capone and Capitalism... G.K. Chesterton A New Thought on Thanksgiving... Agnes O'Gara Ruggeri Orbetello... Gabriel Francis Powers A Layman Looks at Life... Edward L. Coveney Thomas Cromwell... Hilaire Belloc The Cost of Divine Motherhood... Daniel B. Pulsford Magdellen... Katherine Burton Impediments to Marriage... Adrian Lynch, C.P. Only an Indian Funeral... George S. Brady Belloc's "Joan of Arc"... James E.P. Butler S.A.G... .Enid Dinnis Charles Caroll of Carrollton... J.H. Wade, Ph. D. For a Litle Boy... Cathal O'Bryne The Sign Post Porous Plasters and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis Night and an Old Woman Mumbling... Nicholas Jay "Into Thy Hands"... Hugh F. Blunt, LL.D. Two letters From Louisiana... John Gibbons Notes on New Books The Passionists in China With a Price Upon His Head... Raphael Vance, C.P. The True Story of a Soul... Nicholas Schneider, C.P. A Passionist in Peiping... Cyprian Frank Gemma's League of Prayer Volume 11 December 1931 #5 Seasonal Topics, Harold Purcell, C.P. Current Fact and Comment: The Jesuits in Spain -Summit to the New Regime-As Spaniards and Jesuits -Vague Accusations Repeated and Refuted -Two Definite Affirmations-Justice Asked not Priviliges -The Dangers of Federal Education -American Catholics and International Peace -The League of the Manchurian Situation -Now Comes the White Band-Toasts Within the Month. Categorica...N.M. LAw Port' Ercole... Gabriel Francis Powers The Three Gifts... Katherine Burton Tinkling Cymbal... Frances Shannon Some Old Carols... G.C. Heseltine The Blessed Thomas More... Hilarie Belloc I Thank Thee, God... James E.P. Butler Breaking the Trial to Paradise... Daniel B. Pulsford Simon and His Friends... Hugh F. Blunt, LL. D. Favored... Frederick Reynolds The New Birth of England... W.J. Blyton The Eucharistic Sacrifice... Alexander MacDonald The Silver Bells... Enid Dinnis The Sign Post Porous Plasters and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis Mixed Marriages... Adrian Lynch, C.P. A Bookcase Plus... Doran Hurley Roots... Jermoe Harte Man's Day is Breif... Martin A. Kraff, C.P.P.S. Notes on New Books The Passionists in China The Flood at Supu... Raphael Vance, C.P. The Perils of Water... Leo J. Berard, C.P. Time for a Fan... Edward J. McCarthy, C.P. Gemma's League of Prayer