30 JANUARY 1959, page 6

A Spectator's Notebook

DIE DECREES of the Vatican Council of 1870 made the summoning of any more Councils unnecessary, since they declared that 'definitions of the Roman Pontiff are irreformable of......

Even If This Procedural Diliiculty Were Overcome, Which...

doubtful, it is almost certain that the dogma of Papal infallibility and the two Marjan dogmas would make much progress to- wards unity impossible. The only solution that I can......

Westminster Commentary

ON Monday they got through sixty-six questions; on Tuesday they managed but forty-nine. There is much matter for a May morning in that simple , difference of seventeen, but its......