Abstract

Mr. More's Catholicism

The article presents an overview of the book "The Catholic Faith," by Paul Elmer More. More is known to the general reader as one of the leaders of the humanists--a sect which in its two short-lived periods of notoriety, just after the war and again last year, was exceedingly misunderstood by enemies and friends alike, being taken as a movement which had something to say about literature and philosophy. As a matter of fact, its axis was immediately and unreflectively social, the literary and philosophical ideas of its proponents being thoroughly heterogeneous, their common basis being, simply, similar reactionary attitudes in morals and politics. The same heterogeneity, even more pronounced, is found in Mr. More's religious camp; his present work is one of a considerable number of recent attempts, strenuous but ineffective, to crystallize an Anti-Catholic theology.