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The Sign Magazine

Contents 1941


Volume 20                    January 1941             #6

     

Our National Defense Needs... David I. Walsh

Inside Washington... Joseph F. Thorning

Light on Spain... William P. Carney

Nazi Bombs and British Catholics... Denis Gwynn

The Case for Ireland... Joseph S. Brusher, S.J.

Salazar and the Church... Edward F. Barrett, Jr.

Religious Loafers!... James J. Walsh

Catholics and Pan-America... Theophane Maguire, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Babes in Hollywood... Brassil Fitzgerald

Anti-Aircraft... Enid Dinnis

The Passionists in China: 

 -Message from Hunan... Most Rev. Cuthbert M. O'Gara, C.P.

 -The Legend of the Sobbing Bell... William Whelan, C.P.

 -Out of the Abundance of the Heart... Sister M. Carita

 -The Slaying of the Dragon... Nicholas Schneiders, C.P.

For New Year's Eve - Poem ... Mary Fabyan Windeatt

The Love That Moves the Sun - Poem... Sister Miriam, R.S.M.

In Hora Mortis - Poem... Eleanor Downing

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

The Sign-Post: Questions and Letters

Categorica

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Books

Gemma's League - Confraternity

Personal Mention





Volume 20                    February 1941            #7

     

Why the Lend-Lease Bill?... John C. O'Brien

Two Famous Plays... Robert Speaight

Hope Long Deferred... John F. Cronin

Dean O'Sullivan's Dream.. Margaret L. Whitehead

Philosophy in Current Fiction... John S. Kennedy

English Catholics and the War... Evelyn B. Coogan

The Word of the Cross... Aloysius McDonough, C.P.

"Saving the Saved"... Theophane Maguire, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

One of Those Happenings... James B. Connolly

My Love Forever... F. B. Russell

The Widow Takes a Ride... James Francis Bonnell

The Passionists in China: 

 -Chenki Gets It... Quentin Olwell, C.P.

 -The Slaying of the Dragon - II... Nicholas Schneiders, C.P.

 -Peking Gossip... Wendelin Moore, C.P.

Personal Mention

Truth Eloquent - Poem... Burnham Eaton

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

The Sign-Post: Questions and Letters

Categorica

Books

Gemma's League - Confraternity





Volume 20                    March 1941               #8

     

Industrial Peace and National Defense... John R. Steelman

Inside Washington... Joseph F. Thorning

Relief to Europe... Melanie Staerk

Book Publishing - A Respectable Gamble... Mary Perkins

The Richness of "Poor Richard"... Helen Walker Homan

Wily Uncle Joe... William G. Ryan

The Woman and the Dragon... Ignatius Ryan, C.P.

Melting the Liberty Bell... Theophane Maguire, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Cairn on the Hill... J. K. Lyons

The Man from Bogota... E. Francis McDevitt

A King's Client... Enid Dinnis

The Passionists in China: 

 -Faith Marches On... James Lambert, C.P.

 -Tug of War... Dunstan Thomas, C.P.

 -It Pays to Imitate... Rupert Langenbacher, C.P.

Personal Mention

The Tower of Lowliness - Poem... Sister Miriam, R.S.M.

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

The Sign Post: Questions and Letters

Categorica

Books

Gemma's League - Confraternity





Volume 20                    April 1941               #9

     

Our Stake in the Far East... Hallett Abend

Strife and the Worker... John F. Cronin, S.S.

Spiritual Pan-Americanism... Joseph F. Thorning

Paying for National Defense... John C. O'Brien

Rough Road on Conversion... Jeannette Murphy Lynn

Alabama Harvest... Henry Vetter, C.P.

After the Lend-Lease Bill... Theophane Mguire, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Bird Fancier at Sea... Douglas Newton

Blank Check... Ray Carr

Bloom on the Orchard... Harold Titus

The Passionists in China: 

 -The Songs They Sing... Cormac Shanahan, C.P.

 -At The End of The Rainbow... James Lambert, C.P.

 -Sister Electa Dies... Sister M. Ethelberta

 -Lest We Forget... Bonaventure Griffiths, C.P.

Personal Mention

First Catholic Seminar to South America

Good Friday Night - Poem... Mary Claire McCauley

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Categorica

The Sign-Post: Questions and Letters

Books

Gemma's League - Confraternity





Volume 20                    May 1941                 #10

     

Fifty Years of Social Justice... John P. Boland

Inside Washington... Joseph F. Thorning

Second Line of American Defense... Charles Morrow Wilson

The Quints and the Faith... Lillian Barker

The Face Behind Hitler... Philip Burke

Revising the New Testament... Richard Kugelman, C.P.

German Catholics in Post-War Europe... W. J. Blyton

The Cause of Social Justice... Theophane Maguire, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Bridge Across the Hondo (In two parts - Part I)... F. B. Russell

The Cuckoo Call... Courtenay Savage

The Passionists in China: 

 -Peking Big Top... Caspar Caulfield, C.P.

 -Departure of Sister Jane Marie... Emmanuel Trainor, C.P.

Personal Mention

Committee on Cultural Relations with Ibero-America

Joy Sits in the Shadow - Poem... Margery Mansfield

Carmel - Poem... Sr. Mary St. Virginia

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Categorica

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

The Sign Post: Questions and Letters

Books

Gemma's League - Confraternity





Volume 20                    June 1941                #11

     

Canada at War... Frederick Birchall

Stalin Again Frees an Aggressor... Hallett Abend

Mexico Under Camacho... Randall Pond

The Government Sits on Prices... John C. O'Brien

South America: Land of Promise... Joseph F. Thorning

Tree of Life... Aloysius McDonough, C.P.

A Token for the Brave... Theophane Maguire, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Don Quixote Brady... Brassil Fitzgerald

Bridge Across the Hondo (Part II)... F. B. Russell

The Passionists in China: 

 -Humor in the News... Kieran Richardson, C.P.

 -The Chinese Have a Word for It.. Wendelin Moore, C.P.

 -A Night at the Theater... Rupert Langenbacher, C.P.

Personal Mention

Variations on an Ancient Theme - Poem... Sister Maris Stella

The Pearl - Poem... Robert O'Connell, S.J.

Triad - Poem... Sister Miriam, R.S.M.

On the Library Steps - Poem... Arthur Wallace Peach

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

The Sign-Post: Questions and Letters

Categorica

Books

Gemma's League - Confraternity





Volume 20                    July 1941                #12

     

Swastika Over France... Thomas Kernan

Inside Washington... Joseph F. Thorning

Men Who Lead Labor... John F. Cronin, S.S.

Uncle Sam Builds an Army... Capt. William Baumer, Jr.

What Shall We Do About Radio?

Printed Bait... Angela Burton

Branding With False Labels... Theophane Maguire, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

That Sensible Vacation... Christine Whiting Parmenter

Safe Crossing... Courtenay Savage

Precious Ointment... Enid Dinnis

The Passionists in China: 

 -Riding Sky High... Wendelin Moore, C.P.

 -Bomb Showers on Yuanling... Wendelin Moore, C.P.

Personal Mention

"The Bud of the Lord" - Poem... Fray Angelico Chavez

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Our Service Chaplains

The Sign-Post: Questions and Letters

Categorica

Books

Gemma's League - Confraternity





Volume 21                    August 1941              #1

     

President Prado Explains Peru... Joseph F. Thorning

Militarism and Pacifism... Fulton J. Sheen

Religion in Unoccupied France... Helen Iswolsky

The War Comes Closer... John C. O'Brien

The Divine Foundation... Xavier Welch, C.P.

They Wait for Father O'Brien... Mae Blacker Freeman

Aid to Russia... Theophane Maguire, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Judith Goes Home... Brassil Fitzgerald

When Specialists Fail... Cynthia Cantrell

The Passionists in China: 

 -Exiled Doctor in Hunan... T. M. Tassis

 -Death of Sister Catherine... Sr. M. Ethelberta

 -Jade Fountain... Caspar Caulfield, C.P.

Personal Mention

Lady of Quietness - Poem... Sister Maris Stella

Categorica

The Sign Post: Questions and Letters

Woman to Woman.. Katherine Burton

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Our Service Chaplains

Books

Gemma's League - Confraternity





Volume 21               September 1941                #2

     

The Choice is Japan's... Hallett Abend

A New Order for an Old... George Stuart Brady

Sonny Goes to High School... Michael Monday

I Saw It Happen Here... George T. Brown

After the War - What?... John C. O'Brien

The Wisdom of God... Xavier Welch, C.P.

First Offenders... John S. Kennedy

Is the United States at War?... Theophane Maguire, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

The Height of Greatness... Doran Hurley

Little Joe... F.B. Russell

Sister Philippa Gets Mislaid... Enid Dinnis

The Passionists in China: 

 -The Mission of Lasting Peace... Basil Bauer, C.P.

 -The Stretcher-Bearer Bishop... Bonaventure Griffiths, C.P.

 -Now It Can Be Seen... Photographs by Caspar Caulfield, C.P.

 -A Brush With the Bandits... James Lambert, C.P.

Personal Mention

Flower Like a Star - Poem... Margery Mansfield

Signature of Pain - Poem... Sr. M. Eulalia, R.S.M.

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Lifting Stars - Poem... Sr. Miriam, R.S.M.

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

The Sign-Post: Questions and Letters

Categorica

Books

Gemma's League - Confraternity





Volume 21               October 1941                  #3



Pioneers of American Tolerance... Theodore Maynard

Return to the Fold... Edward Doherty

The Defense-Boom Depression... John C. O'Brien

South American Welcome... Joseph F. Thorning

The Power of God... Xavier Welch, C.P.

Nazi Worship of Self... Louis J. A. Mercier

Joe College, Esq.... Richard Ginder

The Sign Seminar Reports... Theophane Maguire, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

The House of Success... Katherine Haviland-Taylor

Mr. Michael Backs the Angels... Enid Dinnis

The Passionists in China: 

 -A True Daughter of St. Vincent de Paul...Bonaventure Griffiths, C.P.

 -Yuanling Confirmation... Kieran Richardson, C.P.

 -Heaven is Nice... Wendelin Moore, C.P.

Personal Mention

Resolutions of the Sign Seminar

Question for a Later Day - Poem... Jessica Powers

Counsel from Cana - Poem... Clifford J. Laube

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

The Sign Post: Questions and Letters

Categorica

Books

Gemma's League - Confraternity





Volume 21               November 1941                 #4



Hitler's Trap for Germans... Joseph C. Harsch

A Mighty Man... Most Rev. Richard J. Cushing

What About the Philippines?... Edwin Ronan, C.P.

Such is Life... Mary Perkins

The War and the American Farmer... John C. O'Brien

University Life in Peru... Joseph F. Thorning

The Proof of Love... Xavier Welch, C.P.

Nazis, Reds, and Religion... Theophane Maguire, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Born to the Game... Tim Cohane

As Hard as Granite... William Merriam Rouse

The Passionists in China: 

 -Bombs and Breakdowns... Kieran Richardson, C.P.

 -It Happened at Dawn... Jeremiah McNamara, C.P.

Personal Mention

Comparison - Poem... Eileen Duggan

Let Us Honor Him Subtly, Subtly - Poem... Francis Maguire

St. Mary Chapel - Poem... Sr. M. Edwardine, R.S.M.

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

The Sign-Post: Questiions and Letters

Categorica

Books

St. Gemma's League - Confraternity





Volume 21               December 1941                 #5



Our Muddled Russian Policy... Eugene Lyons

The Novelist is Responsible... John S. Kennedy

Inside Washington... Joseph F. Thorning

The Destiny of Labor... John F. Cronin, S.S.

A University in Print... Bill Holubowicz

The Price of Our Purchase... Xavier Welch, C.P.

To Patrick Henry, Jr., Esquire... Helen Walker Homan

Neglected Harvest... Theophane Maguire, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

So This is Christmas!... Temple Bailey

An Old Parish Christmas... Doran Hurley

The Passionists in China: 

 -Beggars for Christ... Most Reverend Cuthbert O'Gara, C.P.

 -Travelers' Tale... Sister Jane Marie

Maternity - Poem... Robert David O'Brien, S.J.

A Groping and a Whisper - Poem... Helena Henderson

Shrine in Nazareth - Poem... Sr. M. St. Virginia, B.V.M.

Poem to Our Lady... Sr. Agnes, C.S.J.

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Song of Self-Contempt - Poem... Jessica Powers

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

The Sign-Post: Questions and Letters

Categorica

Books

Personal Mention