COLLECTANEA COMMISSIONIS SYNODALIS. - Bimonthly organ of the synodal commission created by order of the First Plenary Council of China (1924) to deal in an organized and practical way with the educational problem, the Catholic press, and Catholic Action in China.
It has been published in Peking since 1928 in large issues of about a hundred pages, and serves as a means of communication with missionaries: the editorial staff, besides official notices or information concerning teaching, welcomes contributions from missionaries, especially from the correspondents of each vicariate. Each subject entrusted to the review (schools, press, Catholic Action) is illustrated with general theoretical and practical studies, statistics, surveys, documentation, various orientations, and bibliographies. The languages admitted are Latin, French, English, and Chinese; the most important articles also include a summary in Latin. The review also carries alternative titles in French and English: Dossiers de la commission synodale, Digest of the Synodal Commission. Since 1948, reorganized according to the wishes expressed by the foreign and indigenous clergy, it has been published under the title of China Missionary, in 6 annual issues (cf. China Missionary, 1 [1948], pp. 2-4). Pasquale D'Elia