We keep finding that Catholic enterprises fail because there is no public opinion, and no business-sense, about them. There is a public opinion, for example, about Lourdes and the value of going there on pilgrimage. There is, to a considerable extent, a public opinion about Catholic schooling. There is to some extent a public opinion, now, about SS. John Fisher and Thomas More; but, if I may risk mentioning a personal impression, not all the heroic work of Mgr. Hallett and of others who so long toiled for their canonization, suceeded in creating it: perhaps it was largely due to the determination of the Holy Father that two men, who clearly deserved to be canonized, should be canonized. A kind of “public opinion” in the sense of a Catholic opinion, i.e., not confined to one nation nor universal in any one nation, to the effect that most religious Art is bad, and that the Liturgy is good, seems to be forming itself. An ecclesiastical “general” opinion certainly seems to be growing up, to the effect that Mass should be preached in a different way, that St. Paul should be studied increasingly, and that the doctrines of grace and incorporation with Christ (and all their consequences) should be made more of in and even out of retreats or convent-exhortations. Nuns keep telling one that “retreats are quite different from what they used to be.” Maybe writers like Abbot Marmion, Abbot Vonier, Fr. Prat, Karl Adam, are outstanding figures among those who have helped towards this. Abbot Chapman, Fr. R. Steuart, and others, have alike witnessed to and assisted a somewhat new and “general” appetite in the matter of prayer; and it is quite obvious that Blackfriars from its very beginning has similarly witnessed to and fostered a better conscience in what concerns social justice.