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Rios,0.S.B.John Morson,O.C.R.  \nBarbara Barclay Carter  \nEDITORIAL  \nREVIEWS  \nONE SHILLING  \nBLACKWELL0XFORD  \n# SUITABLE ASCHRISTMAS‘CARDS'\n\nPAMPHLETS FROM BLACKFRIARS  \n1.Fr.Vincent McNabb,0.P.,Memorial Booklet.Reprinting,Ready in Mid-December1/6(by post 1/7)  \n2.Prisoners of the Lord,by T.0.S.D.The Life and Work of Pere Lataste,O.P.3d.  \n3.On the Ways of God,by St.Thomas AquinasTranslated by Bernard Delany,O.P.1/-  \n4.God's Happy Warrior.By Bernard Delany,  \n0.P.  \nThe Panegyric on Fr.Vincent McNabb,O.P.6d.  \n5.On the Manifestation of Divine Knowledge.By St.Thomas Aquinas.The NovemberSupplement.9d.  \n6.Prayer and Unity.  \nBlackfriars Church Unity Octave,1942.5/-  \n7.Blackfriars Review.  \nTo ensure a copy every month it is necessary totake out a subscription:12/6 per annum,6/6 forhalf a year,post free.SEND 'TO THE EDITOR,BLACKFRIARS,OXFORD  \n# BLACKFRIARS\n\nA MONT HLY REV IEW  \nEdited by the English DominicansPublished by Basil Blackwell,Broad Street,Oxford  \nYol.XXIY.No.285DECEMBER 1943.ONE SHILLINGPoLITICS AND THE MYSTICAL BoDYThe Editor441ST.LEO THE GREAT ON CHRISTMASRomanus Rios,O.S.B.447THE ESSENCE OF PoLITICSProfessor G.Leibholz353THE WoRLD OF IDEAS OF Don Barbara Barclay Carter460LUIGI STURZO  \nTHE PoLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF Watkin Williams466S.BERNARDMoNASTIC EcoNOMICSJohn Morson,O.C.R.469REVIEWs:Walter Shewring;Maurice McLoughlin;J.F.T.474Prince;Edward Quinn,etc.  \n# POLIT ICS AND T HEM Y ST ICA L BO DY\n\nTo choose this title is to court criticism from those who only toleratereligion when excluded from politics,more justifiably also from thosewho realize the harmonies and undertones of the relationship betweenreligion and politics that demand the most delicate treatment if theyare to be sung truly.The title is however topical and important.His Holiness Pius XII.on June 2gth issued a penetrating encyclicalon)the subject of the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ,a pon-tifical utterance that has come to crown the considerable labours ofmodern theologians who have approached the doctrine from manydifferent angles,and it will provide also a guide for those outsidethe Church who have been inspired by St.Paul's great theme ofincorporation in Christ.But this pontifical teaching and these theo-logical enquiries are not simply the speculations of a leisured bodyof clergy.With a new urgency and under a fresh light they callattention to the one ship of salvation.As men become conscious ofthe desperate storm into which they have drifted,they search thehorizon and send out signals for help that should be answered by  \nthe one Church.In the storm men see queer will-o'-the-whisps andstrange mirages so that they must be continually reminded of theconcrete reality of the saving craft.Ship,Kingdom,City,Body,whatever metaphor we choose,we shall find that the bond of unitywhich is expressed in these varying terms is the one hope of restor-ing unity to the present disintegrating civilisation.His Holinessgives this as one of his chief reasons for sending this encyclical forthto the world at this juncture.Politics,which arranges the things ofthe world,must take account of the Church,the Body of Christ,ifpolitics is to guide temporal man out of present chaos into anythinglike a human civitas.  \nBy the politics of the Mystical Body we may mean either the in-ternal composition and government of the Church as the Body,asupernatural polis,the City of God,or the relation of the Church asa compact body of men to the human and changing politics of thenations in which she finds herself.Both questions have been treatedoftenl enough before under different aspects,but we need not apolo-gise for returning to the theme to-day.  \nIn the first place there are many who do not understand or re-cognise the internal policy of the Church because of false conceptionsof the Mystical Body.These errors His H","cbCaipHr8tn2JGE5","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipHr8tn2JGE5","pdf",1957883,44,"English","# POLITICS AND THE MYSTICAL 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