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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 August 2024
The present article continues the study begun in the May number of The Life Of The Spirit under the title of our Lady in Tradition. In that article there was occasion to remark on the benign and gratifying way in which the great organs of the secular press have reported the events connected with the centenary celebrations of the apparitions of our Lady at Lourdes. But I went on to say that this seemed too good to last, and that the year would not pass without a resurrection of the old threadbare objections to Catholic doctrine and devotion concerning the Mother of God. We have not had long to wait. In a recent review of the new book on Cardinal Newman by the French Oratorian, Père Bouyer, we are treated to such judgments as the following:
'It did not take him (Newman) long to realize that in the Roman Church, as he found it, creative theology was dead.
1 The Times Literary Supplement, May 23, 1958.
2 Chap. X, page 416-7.
3 Sess. III, chap. 2.
4 M. J. Lagrange, La Méthod Historique (1903). p. 52.
5 Ibid., pp 13-14.
6 De Praescriptionibus adversus haereses, 19.
7 Cf. The Life of the spirit, August 1957.
8 In Eusebius, Hist. Eccl. iii, 29.
9 Phaedrus, Lysis and Protagoras, trans. by J. Wright, p. 106.
10 The Immaculate Conception, Ullathorne, p. 200.
11 Op. cit. pp. 415-6.
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