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The Sign Magazine

Contents 1933


Volume 12               January 1933                  #6



No Missionary Depression... Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: The Holy Father's Christmas Message

 -The Holy Year: April, 1933-1934

 -Our Hospital Bill: A Suggestion

 -Bread and Bricks: Professor Gumbel

 -Mr. Tanis Pays an Unconscious Tribute

 -A Non-Catholic Sees the New Italy

 -The Paulists:Their Foundation and Work

 -Toasts Within the Month.

Categorica... N.M. Law

Babies: Cats or Creations... G.K. Chesterton

Broken: The Snare of the Fowler... Ida Mary Smalley

Eid Dinnis as Poet... Paula Kurth

"Joseph Taylor"... Regis Duffy

The Protestant Domination... Hilaire Belloc

Fonte Colombo: Grecco... Gabriel Francis Powers

Indian Mound by the River... LeGarde S. Doughty

Two Make a Visit... Joan McCarthy

The Sign Post: Questions and Communications

The Passionists in China

The Gangplank to China... Bonaventure Griffiths, C.P.

We Go To Prison... Jeremiah McNamara, C.P.

Fenghwang: Border Bulwark... Flavian Mullins, C.P.

Merlac's Mirror... Enid Dinnis

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

Porous Plasters and Wooden Legs... Ig NIkilis

The Catholic Press of France... Denis Gwynn

Think With the Church... John F. Power

To One Owing a Letter... Sister Miriam

The Skeleton at the Feast... Daniel B. Pulsford

A Promise... Abbie Hargrave

The Intellectual Freedom of Catholics... Theodore Maynard

Our Gregorian Calendar... P.W. Browne, D.D., Ph. D.

The Chesterbelloc... Thomas Derrick

Not That One... John Gilland Brunini

Notes on New Books

Gemma's League of Prayer





Volume 12               February 1933                 #7



Catholic Press Month... Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: 

 -As Others See the Pope's Program for 1933

 -Patricia Garvan and the Chemical Foundation

 -A Muddled Dean in Hartford, Conn.

 -Calvin Coolidge: Examples of Catholic Action Abroad

 -Toasts Within the Month.

Categorica... N.M. Law

Kylemore Castle... Marion Pharo Hilliard

The Ninth Station... Matthew Richardson

Causes of the Protestant Domination... Hilaire Belloc

Is Money Everything?... DeWitt Clinton

Winter Years... le Garde S. Doughty

A Kitchen Idyll... Dorothy Day

Beautiful Names Degraded... Hugh T. Henry, Litt. D.

Pontifex Maxiums... Edward James Schuster

The Sign Post: Questions and Communications

The Passionists in China

Seven Sail for China... Theophane Maguire, C.P.

For the King in Kingstown... Basil Bauer, C.P.

Two Who saw Tragedy... Jeremiah McNamara, C.P.

Divine Anachronisms... Daniel B. Pulsford

Porous Plasters and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis

The White Lute... Enid Dinnis

Great jewler of Heaven... C.P.B. Weaver

Europe as '33 Begins... Denis Gwynn

What Greif Were Mine... Denis Gwynn

What Grief Were Mine... Sister Miriam

Without Guile, But Not Without Style, St. Bartholomew... Helen Walker Homan

Should Priests Write?... Helen Walker Homan

"Pure Religion Breathing Household Laws"... James H. Moynihan

The Black Virgin of Sous Terre... Elizabeth Belloc

The Alternative... Aileen Mary Clegg

Notes on New Books

Gemma's League of Prayer





Volume 12               March 1933                    #8



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

Current Fact and Comment: To All Redeemed By the Blood of Christ

 -Some Centanaries Occurring in 1933

 -A Catholic Revival in Spain

 -If in Ninteen Eleven Why NNot Thirty Three

 -Two Hundred Thousand Boys "On the Road"

 -More Examples of Catholic Action Abroad

 -Toasts Within the Month.

Categorica... N.M. Law

Happy Ravenna... Gabriel Francis POwers

From "Nothing at All"... John Moody

After Prohibition - What?... Frank H. Spearman

"The Lowest Point"... Hilaire Belloc

Death... Abbie Hargrave

The Celestial Relator... Mary E. McLaughlin

Impregnable... Frances Marie Shannon

Inflation: A Warning... Gerhard Hirschfeld

The Sign Post: Questions and Communications

The Passionists in China

The Open Door of Charity... Edward J. McCarthy, C.P.

On to Human... Alban Caroll, C.P.

Scattered Mission Notes... Michael A. Campbell, C.P.

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

The Devil's Dive... Enid Dinnis

Psalm for Two Testaments... John Gilliand Bruini

Porous Plasters and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis

The Devotion of the Stations... Hugh F. Blunt, LL.D.

Catholic Action and Disarmament... Denis Gwynn

Fronts: Moral and Historical... J. Desmond Gleeson

Up the Mountian... Michale Earls, S.J.

Christ and Six Collegians... Alfred J. Barette, S.J.

The Way of the Cross... Florence Gilmore

Piety Plays With Names... Hugh T. Henry, Litt. D.

A Beggarman's Blessing... John Desmond Sheridan

Bernadette's Early Years... Aileen Mary Clegg

The Toilers... Theodora Bates Cogswell

St. Patrick Takes a Hand... Agnes O'Brien

Notes on New Books

Gemma's League of Prayer





Volume 12               April 1933                    #9



Russia Should Not Be Recognized... Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: OGPU: O-Gay-Pay-Oo... Edwin C. HIll

Categorica... N.M. Law

Recognize Russia?... Ernest Oldmeadow

Holy Year... P.W.Browne, Ph. D.

Just One Year?... Sr. M.B.

The Road of Pain... Hugh F. Blunt, LL. D.

Playing with Saintly Names... Hugh T. Henry, Litt.D.

The Seeds of Change... Hilaire Belloc

The Sign Post: Questions and Communicatoins

The Passionists in China

Our Own Mrs. Murphy... Paul Ubinger, C.P.

Wang Sees a Light... Nicholas Schnieders, C.P.

From My Mission Gate... Cormac Shanahan, C.P.

Gemma's League of Prayer

To the Ghost of Lord Macaulay... Charles Willis Thompson

The New Regime in Germany... Denis Gwynn

Bernadette Soubirous... Aileen Mary Clegg

Porous Plasters and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis

The Pedlar's Pack... Enid Dinnis

Lure of the Abyss... Danile B. Pulsford

Ravenna and Classis... Gabriel Francis Powers

The Altar of Repose... Katherine Burton

Notes on New Books





Volume 12                    May 1933                 #10



Hitlerism on a Rampage... Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: The Holy See and the League of Nations

 -Canterbury Seconds the Voice of Rome

 -Massachusetts Gives the Good Example

 -Race Hatred and Bigotry at Decatur, Ala.

 -Pittsburgh's Clerical "Day of Reconciliation"

 -Governor Murray's Plan for Educational Coordination.

Categorica... N.M.Law

Gemma Galgani... Atun M. Evneb

Hitler's Uneasy Partnership... Denis Gwynn 

Green Fields... Theodora Bates Cogswell

The Illiberal Liberal... Charles Willis Thompson

1933... Earl Lawson Sydnor

The Queen's Garden... Enid Dinnis

The Sign Post: Questions and Communications

The Passionists in China

Fire at Our Gates... Edward McCarthy, C.P.

Chenki's New Mission... Jeremiah McNamara, C.P.

Seminary in a Rice Bin... Leo Berard, C.P.

Fair and Unfair Name Plays... Hugh T. Henry Litt. D.

The Catholic Change... Hilaire Belloc

In a Parisian Asylum... Mary E. Gross

Christ Before Pilate... Hugh F. Blunt, LL. D.

Love is Blind... Frances Marie Shannon

Porous Plasters and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis

Around the Adriatic... Gabriel Francis Powers

Wealth... T.M. Howard

In the Fullness of Time... Daniel B. Pulsford

The Lourdes Grotto... Aileen Mary Clegg

Notes on New Books

Gemma's League of Prayer





Volume 12               June 1933                     #11



The League for Social Justice... Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: 

 -President Roosevelt Introduces the United States to Europe

 -The Four Power Pact for a Ten Years' Peace

 -In Anniversary Witnessing to a Three Century Success

 -Dictatorship in Government:Infallibility in Region

 -The American Slaughter of Countless Innocents

 -"The Human Price of a Bargan"

 -"The Catholic Worker": A New Venture in Catholic Action

 -Toasts Within the Month.

Categorica... N.M. Law

Easter in Rome... Gabriel Francis Powers

The Song of the Leper... Earl Lawson Sydnor

The Catholic Ressurection... Hilaire Belloc

Pieces of India... Douglas Newton

The Converging Witness... George Coulehan

Priests and the Press... A Clerical Scribe

The Sign Post: Questions and Communications

The Passionists in China

The Sisters Succeed Again... Jeremiah McNamara, C.P.

A Medicine Man in Human... Nicholas Schneiders, C.P.

The Missionary Sister... M.S. House

The Messenger... Enid Dinnis

America and the New European Situation... Denis Gwynn

Names and Naming... Hugh T. Henry Litt. D.

A Deliberate Verdict... Danile B. Pulsford

Porous Plasters and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis

Pilate Condemns Jesus... Hugh F. Blunt, LL. D.

Bernadatte Grows... Aileen Mary Clegg

The Thirteenth Station... Matthew Richardson

A Biblical Zoo... John Gilland Bruini

Notes on New Books

Gemma's League of Prayer





Volume 12                    July 1933                #12



Neither Gold Nor Silver... Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: The Foundation of Lasting Peace

 -The N.Y. Times is Out of Joint

 -The Symbol of Grey Awakening

 -Chicago Celebrates a Century of Progress

 -Catholics and the Public School System

 -La Povera Gemma

 -"Poor Gemma"

 -Catholic Action in Foreign Parts

 -Toasts Within the Month.

Categorica... N.M. Law

The Gem of Christ... Gabriel Francis Powers

The Effect of History... Hilaire Belloc

To Cardinal Newman... Katherine Burton

Hitler and the Polish Corridor... Denis Gwynn

The Signifigance of Names... Hugh T. Henry Litt. D.

Vagary... Earl Lawson Sydnor

Newman and the Oxford Movement... Edward A Wuenschel, C.SS.R.

A Pair of Shoes... John Desmond Sheridan

The Sign Post: Questions and Communications

The Passionists in China

A Second Chinese Postulant... Jeremiah McNamara, C.P.

In Journeying Often... Basil Bauer, C.P.

The Faith of Ruth Mao... Ernest Cunningham, C.P.

Porous Plasters and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis

Christ and the Critics... Daniel B. Pulsford

The Meeting...S.M.B.

Orate Fratres... Enid Dinnis

The Apparitions... Aileen Mary Clegg

The Blood of the Lamb... George N. Schuster

A Fable for Publishers... Francis Williams

Jesus Takes His Cross... Hugh F. Blunt, LL.D.

The Fourteenth Station... Matthew Richardson

Oznan: Prophet of Social Betterment... P.W.Browne, Ph. D.

The Uses of Faith... J. Desmond Gleeson

Notes on New Books





Volume 13                   August 1933              #1

This Magazine Business... Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: 

 -John Henry Newman and Father Dominic Barberi

 -The Vincentians and Father Ignatius Spencer

 -Activities of the Liturgical Arts Society

 -The Blue Eagle and the NRA Label

 -Cooperating With Our Police

 -"The Utter Rout of Preacherdom"

 -Judgement Against the Block Blocking System

 -Toasts Within the Month.

Categorica... N.M. Law

The World Conference in London... Denis Gwynn

Cincinnati Sets an Example... Theo A. Thoma

The Grandfather... Theodora Bates Cogswell

The Golden Glimpse... Enid Dinnis

Priests and Publicity... A Secular Scribe

Rainbow Over Eden... Earl Lawson Sydnor

The Oxford Movement and the Catholic Revival... Edward A. Wuenschel, C.SS.R.

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

The Sign Post: Questions and Communications

The Passionists in China

God's Boundry Pushers... Theophane Maguire, C.P.

The Shadow of the Reds... Timothy McDermott, C.P.

The Yuan Tribune... Edward Joseph McCarthy, C.P.

The Economic Breakdown of Protestantism... Hilaire Belloc

A Son of the Earth to the Son of the Man... J. Carson Miller

Dusty... Frank H. Spearman

My Roman Road... Alice M. Russel, Ph. D.

Buchmanism - A New Religion?... Edward S. Schwelger

Some Facts About the Popes... Louise Malloy

Insolvent... S.M.B.

Washington Brain Crust... Gerhard HIrschfeld

The Third Station... Hugh F. Blunt, LL.D.

The Questioning... Aileen M. Clegg

The Rich Man of Assisi... Atun M. Evneb

Flowers From East Side Pavements... Dorothy Day

Notes on New Books

Gemma's League of Prayer





Volume 13              September 1933                #2



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

Current Fact and Comment: 

 -American Bishop's Social Manifesto (The Communist Menace;

    The Educational Problem; Independant Ownership; Christ's Rightful Place)

 -The Holy See and the Hitler Government

 -Cardnil Innitzer and the Russian Famine

 -Bishop Heelan Sets the Example

 -Toasts of the Month.

Categorica... N.M. Law

Europe's New Perspective... Denis Gwynn

Unblushing Birth Control... Frank H. Spearman

The Praying Tree... Atun M. Evneb

A Woman of the Drexels... Helen Grace Smith

As Her Husband Dies... Helen Walker Homan

The Void... Hilaire Belloc

The Return of Caesar... G.K. Chesterton

Some Bits of Broken China... Winifred Feely

Christ on the Cross... Matthew Richardson

The Sign Post: Questions and Communications

The Passionists in China

A Franciscan Martyr... Bonaventure Griffiths, C.P.

Shanghi to Shenchow... Sisters of Charity

A Human Gulliver... Anthony Maloney, C.P.

Mission Miniatures... Michael Anthony Campbell, C.P.

Recovering the Divine Vision... Ross J. S. Hoffman

Goar of the Ferry... John Gilland Brunini

Ireland Sings in its Tombs... Daniel A. Lord

On the Open Road... Charles F. Ferguson

The Fourth Station... Hugh F. Blunt, LL. D.

The Eagle and the Sparrow... Gerhard Hirschfeld

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Until Eternity

The Appasitions Again... Aileen Mary Clegg

Notes on New Books

Gemma's League of Prayer





Volume 13                   October 1933             #3



At the Editor's Desk... Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: 

 -Catholic Sacrifice and Service in China

 -The aRightful Claims of the Negro

 -Wrighth Patman Challenges Will Hays

 -Toasts Within the Month.

Father Sullivan Latour, C.P.

Categorica... N.M. Law

Catholic Social Reform in France...Denis Gwyn

The Heresy of Extremes... R. Burnham Clinton

Prayer for Wonder... B.C.P. Weaver

Buonconte's Death... Gabriel Francis Powers

Alchemy... Sister Mary Eulalia

What is Comming?... Hilaire Belloc

For a Golden Jubilee of Priesthood... Atun M. Evneb

The Constitution of the United States... Charles Willis Thompson

The Sign Post: Questions and Communications

The Passionists in China

Yuanchow Our Goal... Sisters of St. Joseph

The Gospels in China... Nicholas Schneiders, C.P.

Map: China - Passionists Prefecture... Joachim Beckes, C.P.

The Catholic Daily... Frank H. Spearman

A Dirge for Summer... Richard A. Welfle, S.J.

Prisets and the News... Vincent DePaul Fitzpatrick

Friends and Enemies... Aileen Mary Clegg

The Watching Chamber... Enid Dinnis

Thorn... Clifford J. Laube

The Code that is One Sided

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Catholic Memorials in the National Capitol... John K. Ryan

A Revolutionized Outlook... W. Dudley Carleton

The Tenth Station... Matthew Richardson

Simon of Cyrene... Hugh F. Blunt, LL. D.

Notes on New Books

Gemma's League of Prayer





Volume 13              November 1933                 #4



Justice Not Charity... Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: 

 -The State's Competence and the Church's Aid

 -Recognition of Russia: Under What Conditions?

 -Pope Pius Speaks to the Unemployed Workers

 -The Difficult Problem of Handicapped Children

 -On the Making of Wills and Last Testaments

 -Toasts Within the Month.

Categorica... N.M. Law

The Judaism of Hitler... G.K. Chesterton

Austria and the New Germany... Denis Gwynn

The Canonization of FIF... Arnold Lunn

The Love Story of John Moody... Frank H. Spearman

St. Catherine's Treatise on Purgatory... Albert F. Kaiser, C.P.P.S.

Hymn of Angels... From Newman's Gerontius

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

The Sign Post: Questions and Communications

The Passionists in China

Home at Shenchow... Sisters of Charity

A City of Fear... Francis Flaherty, C.P.

In My Mission... Michael Anthony Campbell, C.P.

The Forty Second Street Saints... D.H. Moseley

Maryland's Tercentenary... J. Elliot Ross

A Little Crippled Friend... Richard A. Weffle, S.J.

The Road to Mr. Rosebury... Enid Dinnis

Funeral... John Desmond Sheridan

Inflation Talk... Gerhard S. Schwegler

Why Neo-Eboracensis?... J.M. McBurney

The Bat in the Watch-Tower... Edward S. Schweger

Sunset... S.M.B.

The True Likeness... Hugh F. Blunt, LL.D.

Life in Lourdes... Aileen Mary Clegg

Notes on New Books

Gemma's League of Prayer





Volume 13                   December 1933            #5



To Men of Good Will... Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: 

 -Recognition of Russia: Basis of Agreement



 -Freedom of Conscience in the Solfiet Russia

 -Communist Propaganda in the United States

 -The Concordat Between Germany and the Vatican

 -Toasts Within the Month.

Categorica... N.M. Law

"It Happened on Christmas"... Aloysius S. Horn

Will the Eagle Ever Rise?... Gerhard Hirschfeld 

A New Approach to Disarmament... Denis Gwynn

"The Imitation of Christ"... Katherine Cleveland

The Man in the White Coat... Enid Dinnis

A Christmas Cradle Song... E.M.D.

The Sign Post: Questions and Communications

The Passionists in China

The Death of Mr. Lauber... Bonaventure Griffiths, C.P.

"I Was the Man"... Edward McCarthy

The Public Professiom... .Francis Flaherty

Eve, I'd Like to Pull Your Hair... Helen Walker Homan

With Dyed Garments... Dominic Mear

Dawn in the East... Margaret Yeo

Mute... Earl Lawson Sydnor

Gerard Raymond... Carl H. Meinberg

A Manger Song... E. Vinecent Wareing

How Socialists Are Catholics... George Stuart Brady

The Star of Judea... J. Desmond Gleeson

Speaking: A Roman Missal... Mary E. McLaughlin

Woman to Woamn... Katherine Burton

The Second Fall... Hugh F. Blunt, LL.D.

At Nevers... Aileen Mary Clegg

Notes on New Books

Gemma's League of Prayer