Note 481 — Chapter VIII · Opposition to Jesuit Education.

The case of Sir Henry Howorth furnishes a good illustration of the “trustworthiness” of the attacks against the Jesuits. This gentleman asserted (Tablet, Nov. 23, 1901), that he had often read, in the Civiltà Cattolica and in two German Jesuit publications, “abominable slanders of England and its people.” Sir Henry was challenged repeatedly to produce one passage from the two German publications containing a slander of England. One of these periodicals, the Stimmen aus Maria-Laach, has very often praised England and its liberal institutions; and the other (the Theologische Zeitschrift of Innsbruck) is a purely scientific paper which never touches political questions. After many evasions Sir Henry at last wrote (Tablet, March 15, 1902), that he had read the “abominable slanders” in the Berlin Germania, “which, as he was informed, was largely owned and written by the Jesuits.” But the Jesuits have nothing to do with the Germania. And yet, for three months Sir Henry had maintained that he had read with his own eyes the slanders in the two mentioned Jesuit publications!