The Henson Journals

[46]

Thursday, May 24th, 1928.

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I spent the morning in writing a review of "Jix's" book, which I had read through before

going to bed last night. It was designedly severe in order to express my feelings satisfy

Dawson's desire. He – Jix – is certainly a poorer creature than I had supposed.

I walked in the Park, and on my return wrote to Kenneth.

Miss Scott Plummer lunched here. She has been working in the Cosin Library where, she says, she had found many interesting documents connected with Bishop Morton.

The new volume of Pastor's Popes begins thus:

"At the present time the attention, not only of Catholics, but of the whole world, is more than ever divided to the Holy See, which stands out as the one solid rock amid the subversive anarchical tendencies of our day. For the proper understanding of this, the most ancient, yet still so vigorous international power, it is above all necessary fully to understand her historical development".

But it is precisely the history of the papacy which destroys its Divine Right.