The Henson Journals

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Saturday, September 14th, 1929.

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I spend the morning in reviving the letter for the Bishoprick, which I sent to the Bishop of Jarrow, asking him whether he thought that it might be published in a pamphlet.

Pattinson and I walked round the Park and had talk about Religion.

The Papists are holding a "National Catholic Congress & Centenary Catholic Emancipation celebration" in the Caxton Hall, Westminster: and according to the newspaper reports, they are in an arrogant, not to say braggart mood.

Cardinal Bourne, with some astuteness, seizes the opportunity provided by Anglican confusion & presents the Roman Church as the only trustworthy exponent of Christian morality, & the only adequate champion of Christian Faith. Modernism & "Compassionate Marriage" are just now being forced on the public notice with much crudity & insistence. This woeful Prayer Book Controversy has exhibited the Church of England as the patient slave of a secularized State, & internally as a menagerie rather than a family.

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