EDMD. CAN. SURMONT Vic. gen. WESTMONASTERII Die 12 Decembris 1911 ROMAN CATHOLICISM AN EXPLANATION OF CATHOLIC BELIEF TAKEN FROM OFFICIAL SOURCES BY H. B. (JOXON WITH A PREFACE BY MGR. R. HUGH BENSON LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK 67 LONG ACRE, W C. AND EDINBURGH PREFACE THERE is a considerable truth in the statement that clothes are an expression of character a truth that is not modified by the fact that fashions change while character, generally speaking, does not. For changes in fashion changes so sweeping as from a doublet to a frock-coat, or from armour to khaki denote, so far as they are genuine, a change not in the character of human nature but in its environment and needs. This is a very homely parable, yet it is a tolerable illustration of some very august and sacred truths concerning the most sacred and august thing in the world the Mystical Body of Christ. This, in itself, is even more unchangeable than human nature, since it is human nature ratified and sanctified by the