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CATHOLIC REUNION. By Viscount Halifax. (Mowbray and Co. Is. 6d.)
Loan HALIFAX has issued a pamphlet containing an address on Reunion which is marked by his deep piety and knowledge of ecclesiastical history. We, like everybody else, respect these qualities and his long experience, but his point of view is not one from which we can sympathetically follow his arguments. With the address is printed a moving account of his visits to Cardinal Mercier's bedside and funeral. This is of interest to all. The British generally had known nothing of the late Cardinal, but when the gloom of 1914 was suddenly illuminated by his Christmas Pastoral Letter, Europe realized that here was a man who combined the qualities of a humble and saintly priest with those Of a true Prince ol
the Church, a spiritual leader of men.
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