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Contents 1932


Volume 11                    January 1932             #6



Special Attention Invited... Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: For Beatification and Canonization

 -The Venerable Gemma Galgani

 -With Quite a Few Districts Still

 -The Needs of Some Gold Star Mothers

 -The "Patriarch of Mexico" Repents

 -New York's Mayor and Tom Mooney

 -And Once More Parents Attention!

 -Black Criminals and White Women

 -Baby Butsch Who is no. 1500

 -League of Nations and Disarmaments

 -One Hundred and Eighty Millions of Them

 -The Eucharistic Congress, Dublin in 1932

 -Did We Loose a Half Million?-Toasts within the Month.

Categorica... N.M. Law

Santo Stefano... Gabriel Francis Powers

Shooting the Good Old Taurus... E.S.Schwegler

The Canonization of Father Dan... Enid Dinnis

Non Voyage... Richard Reid

To One Unfaithful... John Gilland Brunini

Clement VII... Hilaire Belloc

The Golden Book of Gael... J. Carson Miller

A Rebauff and a Miricle... Daniel B. Pulsford

The Impediments to Marriage... Adrian Lynch, C.P.

The Wooden Madonna... James Grattan

The Sign Post. Questions: Answers: Communications

Porous Plasters and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis

Famous Writers from Large Families... August J. App, Ph. D.

Knight of the Perfect Heart... Frances Shannon

The Guests... Marion Pharo Hilliard

The Angel and the Donkey... Cray Conventry

Mr. Hiram's Lucky Day... John Gibbions

Notes on New Books

The Passionists in China

From a Chinese Paper... Jerimiah McNamara, C.P.

Wearing Out the Missionary... William Westhoven, C.P.

Belated Chatechumens... Dunstan Thomas, C.P.

Gemma's League of Prayer





Volume 11               February 1932                 #7



Lux Verutatis: A Summary

Current Fact and Comment: George Washington and the Bicentennial

 -The Pope Plea and two Episcopalians

 -Colombia Protects Her Uncivilized Natives

 -Unconstitutionality of Mexican Persecution

 -Promised Benefits and Actual Facts

 -Guidelines for an Individual Apostolate

 -Used Clothing and Worn Footwear

 -Nineteen Thirty-Two Will be Ireland's Own Year

 -China Roll of Honor for 1931

 -Capitalized Dirt for an Unshamed Market

 -Julius Rosenwald a Great Hearted Jew-Toasts with the Month.

Categorica... N.M. Law

Subraco of Today... Saunders-Anson

The Kiss... Frederick Reynolds

Thomas Cranmer... Hilaire Belloc

The Penny Chatechism Detectives... Michael Earls, S.J.

To Saul of Tarsus... Clifford J. LAube

A Fatal Choice... Daniel B. Pulsford

There is so Little... Millicent Claire McNicholl

The Form of Marriage... Adrian Lynch, C.P.

Three Lost Arts... A Longfellow Fiske

A Recipie For Health and Happiness... Albert F. Kaiser, C. PP. S.

The Vital Force... John Gibbions

To Dennis A. McCarthy... Annette S. Driscoll

The Sign Post-Questions: Answers: Communications

Are So Called Little Nuances to be Accepted?... Mary E. McGill

Loss and Gain... Hugh F. Blunt, LL. D.

City Hospital:Woman's Ward... Joan Lee

Back to the Good Old Cherry Tree... G.K. Chesterton

Relativism: A Modern Plague... John Julian Ryan

Notes on New Books

Porous Plasters and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis

The Passionists in China

A Rat Raid Plus... Edward J. McCarthy, C.P.

The Missionary Smiles... Anthony Maloney, C.P.

Celebrating Royalty at Luki... Leo Berard, C.P.

Gemma's League of Prayer





Volume 11               March 1932                    #8



Justice and Charity... The Apostolic Delegate

Current Fact and Comment: Ireland:The Nation With a Soul

 -A Situation that Must be Faced

 -A Clarion Call for Enlistment

 -The Counsel of Extreme Caution

 -No Compromise With Evil-Chance for a Body Blow

 -Two Catholic Laymen Give the Example

 -World Security and Rome

 -Catholic Baiting:A Masonic Program-Disarmament Within Safety Bounds

 -Toasts Within the Month.

Categorica... N.M. Law

The Legion of Our Lady... Leonard Maccabe

St. Patrick's Altar Stone... Cathal O'Byrne

The Pleasant Gateway... Neil Boyton, S.J.

Mary Tudor... Hilaire Belloc

Before My Crucifix... Mary Caroline Lyons

Painters of the Sacred Passion... Norman Kelly, C.P.

The Tolerance of Catholicism... Theodore Maynard

Forsaken... Hugh F. Blunt, LL.D.

Science Needs a New First Cause... John O'Hara Cosgrave

The Sign Post

Brother Bartholomew's Besom... Enid Dinnis

"Love Blossoms in Splendor"... J. Carson Miller

The Courage that Comes With a Crisis... Daniel B. Pulsford

Annunciation... Charles J. Quirk, S.J.

Porous Plasters and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis

Effects and Obligations of Marriage... Adrian Lynch, C.P.

"Mass for Georgie"... Katherine Burton

Notes on New Books

The Passionists in China

Gemma's League of Prayer

The Passing of Wang Peter... Leo Berard, C.P.

Starting Anew At Lungtan... Ernest Cunningham, C.P.

A Lone Missionary's Christmas... Nicholas Schneiders, C.P.

In The Willow Forest Village... Dunstan Thomas, C.P.





Volume 11               April 1932                    #9



Our Advertising Creed... Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: The Program of Pope Benedict XV

 -The Leadership of Pope Pius XI

 -The Holy See and Disarmaments

 -An Urgent Plea From Austria

 -New Items of the Eucharistic Congress

 -Indulgences of the Way of the Cross

 -Toasts Within the Month.

Categorica... N.M. Law

Mussolini Goes to the Pope... Gabriel Francis Powers

The Gift... J. Carson Miller

Queen Elizabeth... Hilaire Belloc

Philosophic Coroners at the Papal Corpse... Hugh T. Henry, 

itt. D.

At Grips With the Doubter... W.J. Blyton

Empty Arms... Theodora Bates Cogswell

The Chivalry of a Virgin Heart... Daniel B. Pulsford

It Is Consummated... Hugh F. Blunt, LL. D.

The Rite of Marriage... Adrian Lynch, C.P.

Sign or Wonder... Enid Dinnis

Porous Plaster and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis

The Sign Post. Questions: Answers: Communications

A Pilgrimage to Camaldoli... Saunders-Anson

Alfred Percival Graves... Michalel Earls, S.J.

On Educating Our Masters... G.K. Chesterton

Dollars and the Catholic Press... Mary E. McGill

Via Crucis... B. Baden

Whispering Will Makes a Medal... Nicholas Jay

Notes on New Books

The Passionists in China

Gemma's League of Prayer

Restless Ghosts and Pagan Charms... Dunstan Thomas, C.P.

Missionary Compensations... Nicholas Schneiders, C.P.

One of China's Choice Spirits... Arthur Benson, C.P.

In Praise of Lady Lung 





Volume 11               May 1932                      #10



May: The Legion of Mary... Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: A Stateman's Profession of Faith

 -Europe's Obligations to the United States

 -Not an Institution, but a Contingency-Toasts Within the Month.

Categorica... N.M.Law

Our Lady of Fatima... Christopher Curd

On Writing an Essay... John Bunker

The Chesterbelloc... Shandy Howe

Mary Stuart... Hilaire Belloc

The Returning Multitude... Daniel B. Pulsford

Ruins of an Old Parish Church... Sister M. Eulalia

The Swish of the Curtain... Enid Dinnis

Shall We Recognize Russia?... Frank E. Downs

The Christian Handclasp... Edward F. Murphy

The Separation of Married Partners... Adrian Lynch

Heart Hungary... Frances Marie Shannon

The Sign Post

Poppy: Flower of Death... T. Wayne Mallon

Porous Plaster and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis

A Poet of the Gutter... James B. Yealnts

I Know a Man... Brother Cajetan, C.F.X.

I Find My God...R.H. Karl

Water Lilly... John Gilliand Brunini

Annointing for Life's Ending... Michael Kenny, S.J.

Tabloida Catholica... Francis E. Benz

Notes on New Books

The Passionists in China

The Lungtan Mission in Ashes... Theophane Maguire, C.P.

A Missionary Muses Mules... Anthony Maloney, C.P.

The Curse of China... Timmothy McDermott, C.P.

Gemma's League of Prayer





Volume 11                    June 1932                #11



Across this Editor's Desk... Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: An American Industry Vested and Powerful

 -Two Hundred of Them, and Only a Beginning

 -The Methodists go in for Liturgy

 -The Centennial of the Oxford Movement

 -Present Position of the Church in Sweden

 -The Lay Teacher on the Street Corner

 -Prince Von Buelow Justifies Pope Benedict XV

 -"Major General of the Pie Brigade"

 -Wall Street Must Clean House Quick

 -Toasts Within the Month.

Categorica... N.M. Law

Will Power Versus Lust... Frank H. Spearman

The Oldest Catholic Republic... Neil McBrearty, C.P.

Trith and Sincerity... Albert F. Kaiser, C.PP. S.

Song... Florence Harrison

The Miracle... Gabriel Francis Powers

Before a Crucifix... Lillian Any Powers

William Cecil... Hilaire Belloc

The Prescence... Sister Miriam

Teresa of the Child of Jesus... Gerald E. Ward

Second Marriages... Adrian Lynch, C.P.

A Strange Candidate for Sainthood... John M. Ducey

Seeing and Believing... Ferdinand Valentine, O.P.

Friend... John Bunker

The Sign Post Questions: Answers: Communications

The Divine Craftsman... Charles F. Ferguson

Legend... Dorothy Fenwick

The Place of the Sinner... Daniel B. Pulsford

Our Gaelic Strain... Daniel M. O'Connell, S.J.

Porous Plasters and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis

A Sack of Potatoes... Enid Dinnis

Notes on New Books

The Passionists in China

Gemma's League of Prayer

Bowling Acquaintance With a Bonzess... Michael A Campbell, C.P.

A Pagan Sidelight on Death... Edward J. McCarthy, C.P.

The First Baptism at Ngan Kiang... Gregory McEtterick, C.P.





Volume 11                    July 1932                #12



The Charity of Christ... Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: 

 -Excerpts from Caritate Christi Impulsi: Universality of the Economic Crisis

 -Greed at the Root Cause

 -Human Hatred vs Divine Law

 - "A Wall for the House of Israel"

 -To the individual and the Nation

 -The Need of Humble and Preserving Prayer

 -For Peace Among Men

 -The Practice of Christian Penance

 -A Chief Error of Our Own Day

 -Called to Make a Definite Choice

 -The Moral Must Triumph.

Categorica... N.M. Law

Glendalough and the Rock of Cashel... Peter F. Anson

Machine Age Justice... George S. Brady

Stephen Gardiner... Hilaire Belloc

The Stop Gap... M.B.

From Kruger to Kreuger... G.K. Chesterton

Mad Dog... Aileen M. Clegg

David Laments Absalom... Katherine Burton

The National Catholic School of Social Service...P.W.Browne,Ph.D.

Tabernacle... Kenneth Leslie

Declarations of Nullity... Adrian Lynch, C.P.

When Granny Went to Splashton... Enid Dinnis

The Quarry... John Gilliand Brunini

The Sign Post- Questions; Answers; Communications

The Irrationalists... Irving T. MacDonald

Porous Plasters and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis

The Longbeard's Jest... Daniel B. Pulsford

The Allen... Theodore Le Berthon

Vigilis... T.M. Howard

The World's Wickedist City... John Gibbions

Notes on New Books

The Passionists in China

From our Hankow Diary... Alfred Cagney, C.P.

Rita Brings a Soul... William Westhoven, C.P.

A Bandit Victim as Patron... Antoine DeGroeve, C.P.

A Modern Entry by Ancient Trails... Jeremiah McNamara, C.P.

Gemma's League of Prayer

 



Volume 12                    August 1932              #1



The Church and Disarmament... Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: 

 -The Irish President to the Papal Legate

 -Not Cathedrals but the Faith

 -Vast Growth of the Church in India

 -Juvenile Crime and the Irreligious Home

 -A Compliment and a Commendation

 -American Citizens:Canonized or Not?

 -What Hitlerism Stands For

 -The Darkness is not Without Light

 -The Return to Domestic Work-Toasts Within the Month.

Categorica... N.M. Law

Lewis: A Haberdasher Turned Theologian... E.S. Schwegler

Between Ourselves... Abbie Hargrave

A Magic Circle... Enid Dinnis

The Shadow of the Cross... Daniel B. Pulsford

Turn for Turn... Edmund Hill, C.P.

In "Medieval" Pittsburgh... John J. Gorrell

Playing With Names... Hugh T. Henry, Litt.D.

Woman and Naturalism... Albert F. Kiaser, C.PP.S.

The Sign Post: Questions and Communications

Nine Rules for Dealing With the Poor... Hilaire Belloc

Third Thoughts are the Best... G.K. Charleson

The Holy Mass... Alexander MacDonald

Wealth of Poverty... Frances Marie Shannon

The Burning of Abbot Spiridion... William Canton

Nurse Twilight... Charles j. Quirk, S.J.

The Safety Post... John Gibbions

A Catholic Child's Alphabet... Shanby Howe

Porous Plasters and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis

Catholic Youth Gets into Action... Francis P. LeBuffe, S.J.

Just Ireland... Robert Petrock

Notes on New Books

The Passionists in China

Siters Loose Their Homes... Leo Berard, C.P.

Vacationing in Hunan... Nicholas Schneiders, C.P.

Told to a Troubled Flock... Dunstan Thomas, C.P.

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Volume 12               September 1932                #2



Looking Over This Issue... Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: Devota:One Worthy of the Name

 -Russia's Gain: America's Loss

 -Soviet Interest in the American Negro

 -Jason Joy: the Joyous Colonel

 -A Catholic Physician States His Convictions

 -A Slanderous Charge Promptly Refuted

 -Our Dry Friends and the President-Toasts Within the Month.

Categorica... N.M. Law

Mar Ivanios in Rome... Gabriel Francis Powers

Compensation... Anne Banville

Levity- or Levitation... G.K. Chesterton

Dusky Justice... Edward F. Murphy, S.S.J.

In Justice to St. James the Just... Helen Walker Homan

Articulate Catholic Laymen... William E. Kerrich

Tragedy of the Mixed Marriage... Frank H. Spearman

A Boon Lady!... Frances Marie Shannon

Just a Candle... Enid Dinnis

The Standard... John Bunker

Porous Plaster Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis

Playing With Family Names... Hugh T. Henry, Litt. D.

The Second Station... Matthew Richardson

The Sign Post: Questions and Communications

Fordham's School of Sociology... James J. Walsh, M.D.

Wanted: More Highbrows!... Doyle Hennessey

Some Economic Fallacies... Gerhard Hirschfeld

The Guest Denied... John Richard Moreland

Cradle and Cross... Daniel B. Pulsford

Nostalgia... Benjamin Musser

Ignatz Seipel... Denis Gwynn

Notes on New Books

The Passionists in China

Gemma's League of Prayer

Some Opium Victims... Francis Flaherty, C.P.

St. Jude Aids a Missionary... Timmothy McDremott, C.P.

Bridge Folk of Yuanchow... Edward McCarthy, C.P.





Volume 12               October 1932                  #3



In This Issue... Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: Liquor Control Under State Supervision

 -China's Bandit Spirit In The Japanese Military

 -Fellow Citizens With the Saints

 -It Surely is in the Raw

 -The Evangilicals Turn to Liturgy

 -The Future: One View of America's Curse

 -"A.G. Everett's" Plan to Refinance Church Debts

 -Toasts Within the Month.

Categorica... N.M. Law

In Exile From Lourdes... Aileen Mary Clegg

The Mysteries of the Rosary... Charles J. Quirk, S.J.

The Tide has Turned... Hilaire Belloc

Adventures for God... Alice Lee Williams

In a XIII Century Gallery... Frank J. Wiles

Sanjurjo's Revolt in Spain... Denis Gwynn

Some Puzzling Names... Hugh T. Henry, Litt, D.

With Mar Invanos at the Catacomb of Domitilla... Gabriel Francis Powers

Sympathy... Abbie Hargrave

Porous Plasters and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis

William Cardinal Allen... G.C. Heseltine

The Sign Post: Questions and Communications

The Impatient Reformer... Frank H. Spearman

Values... S.M.B.

The Enlarged Work of Lligouri... Thomas J. Sanderson, C.SS.R.

Peace... John Murray

The Ladies Liked You, Saint Philip!... Helen Walker Homan

A Prayer at Dawning... Joseph Conway Guinan

Romance Awaits Around the Corner... John Gibbions

Thunder... T.A. Roche

The Woes of One Church Goer... Patricia MacCathmhaoil

The Voices of Prophecy... Daniel B. Pulsford

Notes on New Books

The Passionists in China

Five Face the East... Theophane Maguire, C.P.

The Voice of Prophecy... William Westhoven, C.P.

As The Chinese Do It... Edward McCarthy, C.P.

Gemma's League of Prayer





Volume 12               November 1932                 #4



This IS Christian Marriage... Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: 

 -A "Pernicious Foreigner" Serving a "Foreign Power"

 -The Reids Recognize Their Strongest Enemy

 -A Protesting Voice From Switzerland

 -Bigotry:Bought and Paid For

 -Black Man's Burden Along the Mississippi

 -Even In Hollywood Wisdom May be Learned

 -The Little Pope of American Atheism

 -Toasts Within the Month.

Categorica... N.M. Law

"The Holy Valley"... Gabriel Francis Powers

The Real Situation in Germany... Denis Gwynn

Saint Paul and Bruce Barton... John C.Callahan

Where the Dutch Lead... Alice Curtayne

Calix Salutis Perpetuae... Edward James Schuster

The Old Adam and The New Eve... Hugh T. Henry, Litt. D.

God's Testament... Walter Seton Schmidt

Porous Plasters and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis

A Step Sideways... Enid Dinnis

The Great Quarrel... Hilaire Belloc

A Human Document... Dorothy Day

The Third Situation... Matthew Richardson

The Sign Post: Questions and Communications

An Old Challenge Newly Met... Edward F. Murphy, S.S.J.

Psalm: 1932... John Gilliand Brunini

The Divine Incendiary... Daniel B. Pulsford

I Join Nicodemus... Francis McNaught Hilton

A Seeing Eye, Lord!... Frances Marie Shannon

The Story... Carl J. Wileshal

The Gay Cavalcade... John J. O'Connor

Notes on New Books

The Passionists in China

Cholera Claims Sister Devota... Jeremiah McNamara, C.P.

T'Ang Joseph's First Born... Nicholas Schneiders, C.P.

I Reach My New Mission... Timothy McDermott, C.P.

Gemma's League of Prayer





Volume 12               December 1932                 #5



Greetings... Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: 

 -The Anti-God Campaign of the Spanish Government

 -The Case of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings

 -England Sets a Sultry Example

 -One Hundred Divorce Cases in Pennsylvania

 -Toasts Within the Month

 -Not Solely a Matter of Partisan Politics.

Categorica... N.M. Law

Poggio Bustone: La Foresta... Gabriel Francis Powers

"Come to Me"... John Murray

The Disaster of the Reformation... Hilaire Belloc

The Catholic Instinct in Names... Hugh T. Henry, Litt. D.

Sanctissimae Virgini... Edward James Schuster

A Burning Topic... Daniel B. Pulsford

Life-Line... Jessie Edgerly

A Child's Meditation... S.M.B.

The Sign Post: Questions and Communications

The Passionists in China

Rice and a Golden Book... Michael A. Campbell, C.P.

Tongue Training in Chinese... Cyprian Frank, C.P.

The Mind of a Mission Boy... Theophane Maguire, C.P.

The King's Foster Mother... Enid Dinnis

Motherhood... Abbie Hargrave

Ten Years of Mussolini... Denis Gwynn

Porous Plasters and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis

Christmas in Lisieux... T.W.C. Curd

Si Scires Donum Dei... Frances Marie Shannon

Spell of the Midnight Mass... Edythe Helen Browne

Truce... Clifford J. Laube

Cure': Padre: Soggarth... Michael Earl, S.J.

Were You a Match Maker, Saint Andrew?... Helen Walker Honan

No Room... Richard A. Welfle, S.J.

Notes on New Books

Gemma's League of Prayer