A Remarkable New Testament Publication
A REMARKABLE publication has been issued by a Jesuit of high standing in the Order, named Father Curci. Four years ago he published a volume of lectures on the Four Gospels, for which he was publicly censured by his superiors. He has now published an entire version of the New Testament, with copious notes. In the preface he makes the following statement: “The New Testament is the book of all others, the least studied, and least read among us. So much so that the bulk of the laity—even of those who believe they have been instructed, and profess religion—is not aware that such a book exists in the world; and the greater part of the clergy themselves scarcely know more of it than what they are compelled to read in the Breviary and the Missal.” Protestants have frequently made this charge, but it is something new to find it in a Jesuit’s writing.