12 MARCH 1921, Page 11

SEMPER EADEM?

(To THE EDITOR or THZ " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Can any of your readers explain how it comes about that whilst the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church were offici- ally denied to Father Tyrrell, S.J., being an excommunicated Roman Catholic, we now see Roman Catholic priests adminis- tering these rites to persons about to be executed, who presumably have been excommunicated by the Bishop of Cork? Perhaps Lord Hugh Cecil is right in assuming that an ounce of modernism is more serious in the eyes of the Church of Rome than a larger measure of murder.—I am, Sir, &c.,

A DOCTOR OF MEDIOLNII.