THE Sunday Express continues what it calls the “Canterbury or Rome Controversy”. In its last number, there appeared a refreshingly candid and straightforward article by a writer who described himself as “an Anglo-Catholic of twenty-two”, a sympathetic article by Fr. Woodlock, S.J., in which he referred to the zeal and sincerity of Anglo-Catholics, a mild defence of the “Call to Action” from Canon De Candole, and interviews with various unnamed Anglo-Catholic priests. On the page on which these articles were printed, perhaps to placate the vehement inherited Orangeism of Lord Beaverbrook, the Editor also inserted a letter from a gentleman who declared that “if the wire-pullers of the movement imagine that by capturing the Church they are capturing the State, and thereby curtailing the liberty and freedom of the subject, they have never made a greater mistake.” This letter illustrates the mentality of the critics of Anglo-Catholicism, and its insertion is proof, if proof were needed, that to certain newspapers the present position of affairs in the Church of England is merely an ephemeral stunt, to be exploited in the usual way. We none the less welcome the explanation of Catholic ideals in the columns of a popular newspaper. The interest is by no means confined to London. To quote one instance, a long and careful article called “A Word for the Anglo-Catholics” has been printed in the Halifax Courier. Newspaper editors generally are at last realizing that the Catholic revival is of sufficient importance for reasonably fair explanation, and that it is no longer good policy to allow Anglo-Catholics to be maligned without the opportunity of reply.