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I was going through my late parents' archive & found the British edition of my grandparents 1935 'Catholic Who's Who'. It is a relic of a peculiarly British #Catholic life that was a parallel society & not all that interested in 'joining' the Anglican settlement. Herewith....
Now, this is a bookplate that all #Catholic publishers should aspire to in 2020....
Even in 1935 the "Who's Who" has to have the #Catholic Biblical and Missal style of red and black text
There are advertisements for books by Jesuits at a time when, especially for British Catholics, the Jesuits were the order of St Edmund Campion SJ and were implicitly trusted, especially for those with sons at Stonyhurst....
Catholicism has no real tradition of pacifism, so, naturally, there was an advertisement for His Majesty's gunmaker next to the Roman calendar for June, thus you know your religious obligations as well as shooting or hunting options for the northern summer here.
There was advertising for all manner of very sound Catholic societies for the improvement of the student youth and the enormous war veteran cohort of the British interwar period - none of this sort of leftcath fair trade nonsense
Ampleforth was the Benedictine school (my grandfather went to Doaui). The school's Army Council approvals reflects that the Catholic gentry often went into the British Army (as well as the diplomatic corps) where being Catholic was no hindrance cf Major Frank Foley's career
The British Catholic publications of the interwar period often seems to have had a surfeit of advertising by gunsmiths and firearms providores
More advertising for sound Catholic books, almost all by Jesuits, who were presumably then highly orthodox and not looking for a 'pastoral approach' to avoid addressing moral deviancy....
Finally advertising in 1935 to the wealthy British Catholics for their donations to various Pontifical charities, such as this one for the redemption of pagan children ..... Note Object II: "To redeem children from slavery"
Very finally, even in 1935, there was an effort made to explain in clear terms to all Catholics the more Traddish and peculiar parts of the #Catholic faith. One for all the impenetrable Trads here with their motets, antiphons, oratores, etal ad infinitum, to reflect on.
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