Collectanea Commissionis Synodalis

COLLECTANEA COMMISSIONIS SYNODALIS. - A bimonthly organ of the synodal commission created by order of the first plenary Council of China (1924) in order to deal in an organic and practical manner with the school problem, the Catholic press and Catholic Action in China.

It has been published in Beijing since 1928, in large issues of about a hundred pages, and forms an organ of liaison with the missionaries: the editorial staff, besides official indications or information concerning teaching, welcomes the collaboration of missionaries, especially the correspondents of each vicariate. Every subject entrusted to the review (school, press, Catholic Action) is illustrated with general theoretical and practical studies, statistics, inquiries, documentation, various orientations, bibliographies. The Latin, French, English and Chinese languages are admitted; the more important articles also carry a summary in Latin. The review also bears alternative titles in French and English: Dossiers de la commission synodale, Digest of the Synodal Commission. From 1948, reorganizing itself according to the wishes expressed by the foreign and native clergy, it began to appear under the title China Missionary, in 6 annual issues (cf. China Missionary, 1 [1948], pp. 2-4).

Pasquale D'Elia