There has been a good deal of discussion lately about religious broadcasting. Some people will not have wireless at any price, think it is undermining our lives like the rest of the mechanical inventions, and would not have Catholics touch the accursed thing. Unless wireless is in itself wrong—and the example of Vatican City seems to settle that—there is a good deal to be said against the withdrawal of Catholic broadcasts, but it is not the purpose of this article to try to say it. Other people object to the way it has to be, or at any rate is, done. They criticise the matter of broadcast sermons, and resent what they regard as interference with Catholic worship. Father Martindale has several times explained, and again recently in The Southwark Record, that Catholics are free to present the whole faith, but the impression seems to remain that they do, in fact, water it down for wireless audiences.

Like most discussions, this is best—if not most warmly—argued by people with knowledge, and the knowledge required is not perhaps possessed by the ordinary layman. He knows what his own acquaintances think of Catholic broadcasts and what he himself feels about them, but no more. Priests like Père Lhande, of Radio-Paris, and Father Martindale really have some chance of judging of the effects of their talks, and the clergy are the best judges of the material considered suitable for wireless audiences. But there is a line of approach to the whole subject that is within the competence of anyone who has done a good deal of listening-in and is prepared to think a little, and I am not sure that the most has been made of it.