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The reaction to fascism in the Catholic press can be explored through three sources which provide a representative sample of various attitudes towards the fascist ideologies, movements and regimes in Europe. The first publication is the Catholic Herald, one of the best-selling Catholic papers, which had a large amount of political and social commentary and a cross-class readership. While the Universe rivalled the Catholic Herald in sales, its focus was more on religious than political news. The second source is the Tablet, which, under the editorship of Douglas Woodruff, became the house journal of the educated Catholic middle and upper class. Finally, the Jesuit review, the Month, which had a large clerical readership, is a window into the interpretations of fascism among the holy orders.
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D. Gwynn (1936) ‘The Dublin Review and the Catholic Press’, Dublin Review, 198, 311–321, p. 317. De La Bédoyère held the editorship until 1962, with a short interlude in 1936 when the paper was edited by Donald Attwater.
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For a history of tourism in the Third Reich see K. Semmens (2005) Seeing Hitler’s Germany: tourism in the Third Reich (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).
Quoted in K. L. Morris (1999), ‘Fascism and British Catholic Writers 1924–1939’, The Chesterton Review 25. p. 31.
Leo Ward (1928) ‘The Catholic Aspect of the Action Française’, The Month, 151, p. 38.
Joseph Keating (1929) ‘Catholic Church and Fascist State’, The Month, 153, p. 487.
Joseph Keating (1929) ‘Catholic Church and Fascist State’, The Month, 153, p. 489.
Joseph Keating (1929) ‘Catholic Church and Fascist State’, The Month, 153, p. 492.
Joseph Keating (1929) ‘Catholic Church and Fascist State’, The Month, 153, pp. 220–1.
S.B. James (1933) ‘Fascism and Christian Economics’, The Month, 161, p. 219.
S.B. James (1933) ‘Fascism and Christian Economics’, The Month, 161, p. 220.
S.B. James (1933) ‘Fascism and Christian Economics’, The Month, 161, p. 220.
S.B. James (1933) ‘Fascism and Christian Economics’, The Month, 161, p. 221.
S.B. James (1933) ‘Fascism and Christian Economics’, The Month, 161, p. 222.
S.B. James (1933) ‘Fascism and Christian Economics’, The Month, 161, p. 223.
Joseph Keating, (1933) ‘The Church and the Nazis’, The Month, 162, pp. 538–40.
Joseph Keating, (1933) ‘The Church and the Nazis’, The Month, 162, p. 541.
Joseph Keating, (1933) ‘The Church and the Nazis’, The Month, 162, p. 547.
John Murray (1935) ‘A New Kulturkampf’, The Month, 166, p. 511.
John Murray (1936) ‘Problems of Church and Race’, The Month, 168, pp. 528–536.
John Murray (1936) ‘Problems of Church and Race’, The Month, 168, p. 536.
John Murray (1936) ‘Germany and Neo-Paganism’, The Month, 167, p. 134.
John Murray (1936) ‘Germany and Neo-Paganism’, The Month, 167, p. 138.
John Eppstein (1935) ‘Victims of Nationalism’, The Month, 165, p. 315.
John Eppstein (1935) ‘Victims of Nationalism’, The Month, 165, p. 323.
Joseph Keating (1935) ‘The Price of Peace’, The Month, 166, p. 343.
John Murray (1936) ‘The Lesson of Spain’, The Month, 168, p. 437.
Wilson D. Miscamble C.S.G (1990) ‘The Limits of American Catholic Antifascism: the case of John A. Ryan’, Church History, 59, 523–538, p. 532.
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Villis, T. (2013). The Press. In: British Catholics and Fascism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137274199_4
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