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MOODY, JOSEPH N. (Ed.). Church and Society: Catholic Social and Political Thought and Movements, 1789-1950. Pp. 914. New York: Arts, Inc., 1953. $12.00

MOODY, JOSEPH N. (Ed.). Church and Society: Catholic Social and Political Thought and Movements, 1789-1950. Pp. 914. New York: Arts, Inc., 1953. $12.00

Book Review: Catholic Political Thought 1789–1848

Book Review: Catholic Political Thought 1789–1848

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:Catholic Political Thought, 1789‐1848. Text selected with an introduction and Biographical Notes by Béla Menczer.Religion in Britain since 1900. By G. Stephens Spinks.The Ascent of Mount Sion. By Bernardino of Laredo. Translated, with introduction and notes, by E. Allison Peers.Gurilt. By Caryll Houselander.Beyond East and West. By John C. H. Wu.Institutiones Theologiae Moralis. By E. Genicot, S.J., and Jos. Salsmans, S.J. Seventeenth edition by A. Gortebecke.Grundriss der Liturgik. By L. Eisenhofer, herausgegeben von Joseph Lechner.Saint Thomas Aquinas. A. biographical study by Father Angelo Walz, O.P. Translated from the Italian by Father Sebastian Bullough, O.P.The History of the Popes. By Ludwig Freyheer von Pastor.British Empirical Philosophers: Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Reid, Mill. Edited by A. J. Ayer and Raymund Winch.Personalism. By Emmanuel Mounier. Translated by Philip Mairet.The Need for Roots. By Simone Weil. Translated by Arthur Wills, with a Preface by T. S. Eliot.Piers Plowman and Sripture Tradition. By D. W. Robertson and Bernard F. Huppé.Return to Chesterton. By Maisie Ward.Ezra Pound and the Cantos. By Harold H. Watts.The Millennium of Hieronymus Bosch. Outlines of a new interpretation by Wilhelm Fränger, translated by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser.Adventures in Two Worlds. By A. J. Cronin.

POLITICAL CATHOLICISM AND CATHOLIC POLITICS

POLITICAL CATHOLICISM AND CATHOLIC POLITICS

C.F.S. Movement in Holland

Catholics in the Netherlands have always taken a great interest in the film problem. Very soon after the first cinemas appeared (about 1912) there arose among Catholics a movement for the erection of so-called ‘White Cinemas,’ where only those films would be shown which had been properly censored in accordance with the dictates of moral theology. This movement failed, however, owing to lack of experience and of the necessary funds. Meanwhile, at the instance of the Catholic National Purity League, there was set up a board of film-censors operating mainly at Amsterdam. This committee, however, lacked the authority of an official body, and did not sufficiently meet the just claims of the people outside the big cities.In 1926 The ‘Cinema Act’ was passed in Parliament. Among other things it lays down the principle that, in the Netherlands, onlv those films may be shown publicly which have been passed by the National Board of Public Censors. It also empowers the Board to suppress certain films as being contrarv to good morals and public order. The Committee, moreover, reserves to itself the right to forbid the attendance at certain films by young persons under the age of 14 or 18. With the co-operation of the Catholic politicians a clause was added to the law enabling those institutes and societies which have been set up for the prevention or destruction of social and moral dangers in connection with the film industry, to exercise a further censorship on films already passed by the National Board of Film Censors. These institutes and societies may obtain an official authorization for this purpose from the Home Minister.

Review: A Manual of Catholic Politics

Review: A Manual of Catholic Politics

Review: A Manual of Catholic Politics

Review: A Manual of Catholic Politics