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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.

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