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including one to a Mr Newman of Littlemore: Backward glances… “My Dear Sir, No one can regret more pro- foundly than myself the circumstance that a celebrated its fiftieth birthday careless printer, in handling the letter you in 1890 by gleefully scoffing at the “decrepitude” wrote us the other day, should have printed of the and reproducing ‘harum-scarum’ for ‘homoiousion’ throughout. page after page of stories of conversions to It is these harassing details which make the . “Until the sea give up the dead that are life of an Editor so unenviable. I am sorry, in it, no rendering-up shall be quite so mar- too – I had not myself observed it – that in vellous as that made by Protestantism to retracting the error we should have printed Catholicism during the last fifty years. From ‘homoousion’ for ‘homoiousion’. But the good the Dead Sea of Anglicanism have arisen, in sense of the public will have made the cor- that period, multitudes to be the passengers rection, I feel sure, readily enough.” and the mariners of St Peter’s bark.” The satirist chortling over the missing iota Two years later the paper’s owner, Herbert was Ronald Knox. Vaughan, succeeded Manning as of Westminster, receiving the cardinal’s red FIFTY YEARS later, in the 150th anniversary hat in 1893. The indefatigable Vaughan, then inheritance, which had been making a loss issue, a congratulatory message from Robert a priest of the diocese of Westminster, had for several years, and the following year it Runcie, the , bought the paper in 1868 for £900. In his returned to lay ownership. Hinsley got £2,000 observed that he came across The Tablet in history of The Tablet, Michael Walsh recounts for it. The centenary issue appeared during vicarage studies as often as in presbyteries – that Vaughan “once told of the cramp he had the dark days of the Second World War. “The “evidence of its quiet, effective ecumenism”. suffered, working late at night translating new paganism has unloosed the powers of In a column opposite, John Harriott recalled papal documents … cramp in his fingers from the abyss,” wrote Christopher Dawson. “The how for his Lancashire family “The Tablet was holding the pen and cramp in his legs because dark forces that have been chained by a thou- like a ghost in the machine of their he could not stretch them out while his sub- sand years of Christian civilization have now life”. Each week, Harriott wrote, “it has to editor was curled up asleep under the table”. been set free to conquer the world.” stand apart from the crowd, not to rewrite or To lighten the mood, the issue featured a gloss over the unpalatable, but to see more IN 1935, the Archbishop of Westminster, collection of spoof letters from the editor “to deeply, to think more independently. It sheds Arthur Hinsley, decided to sell off Vaughan’s some of his more important correspondents”, light and truth or is not worth doing.”

PUZZLES

PRIZE CROSSWORD No. 720 Axe Across 18 Son of Omri, husband of Jezebel (4) 11 One of the conservative aristocratic Jewish 1 2 1 3 2 4 3 5 4 6 7 5 Short tax collector of Jericho (9) 19 Seventh Sunday after Easter, priesthood, named possibly after Zadok (8) 8 Rocky plateau at the foot of which the commemorating the emanation of the Holy 13 Canaanite city adopted by Levites, near 5 Nabateans carved the city of Petra (4) Spirit to the Apostles (9) where Barak fought Sisera (7) 9 6 10 7 9 Relating to Aramaic-speaking people of Down 16 Link between , Magdalenes, 8 9 biblical Babylonia (KJV spelling) (8) 1 Scene of Jesus’ first miracle, according to some Cistercian , Premonstratensians

11 10 of Glastonbury created Archbishop John (4) – and Christmas! (5) of Canterbury by King Edgar in 959 (7) 2 Schism between Rome and the 18 Semi-circular or polygonal termination of 10 11 12 12 Canaanite city rebuilt by Solomon, along East, 482-519 (7) the main building at the liturgical (east) end 13 15 16 with Megiddo and Gezer (5) 3 Moabite king who hired Balaam to curse of a church (4) 14 15 14 Austrian-born composer of oratorios Israel (5) The Creation and The Seasons (5) 4 Sikh place of worship (8) 19 16 21 20 15 Capital of the Northern Kingdom 6 Capital of the ancient Kingdom of Israel, 17 21 18 of Israel (7) then Judah (9) 22 23 17 Levite David appointed as a leader of the 7 Relating to any sacred books considered

19 Temple music (8) authentic by the Church (9)

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Solution to the 25 July crossword No. 717 Across: 7 Nazareth; 8 Holi; 9 Voodoo; 10 Merari; 11 Shishak; 13 Jonah; 15 Rhoda; 17 Massora; 20 Triune; 21 Tishbe; 23 More; 24 Chanukah. Down: 1 Naboth; 2 Bard; 3 Deborah; 4 Shema; 5 Pharaohs; www.oup.com 6 Gloria; 12 Sadducee; 14 Last Day; 16 Hermon; 18 Riblah; 19 Mercy; 22 Shur.

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