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Belgium Awaits The King
From a Special Correspondent IT is confidently expected in Royalist circles that the King of the Belgians will return to his throne in a few days. The Government, pledged to......
Abbot Dies At Tre Fontane
Dorn Leo Ehrbard, for 46 years Abbot of the Cistercian Abbey of Tre Fontane, near Rome, died at midnight on Saturday. Born in Alsace in 1866, he was elected Abbot in 1900. In......
Martyrs' Day In Ancient Abbeys
50,000 form living chain from Leeds to Kirkstall ruins THE battered ruins of Kirkstall Abbey in York shire, and the few remaining stones of the ancient Abbey of the Holy Blood......
V.c. Announces His Conversion
Group-Capt. Cheshire Group Capt. Geoffrey Cheshire, V.C., triple D.S.0.. and D.F.C., announced this week that he became a Catholic about a year ago. He was received into the......
Cardinal Verde
Cardinal Verde, 85-year-old Archpriest of the Basilica of St. Mary Major. suffered a stroke on Saturday night. His condition on Monday was described as satisfactory. Ordained in......
13-year-old Walks 700 Miles To Rome
A 13-year-old Belgian boy and his miner father have arrived ie Rome as pilgrims. after a walk of more than 700 miles from Charleroi, Belgium. They started on April 25—......
Seven New Churches Inside Basilica
. HOLY SEPULCHRE PLAN THE building of a great new Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, which would contain seven separate churches with free access for all to the Tomb......
Expelled Envoy Feted In Rome
A HERO'S welcome awaited Bishop Patrick O'Hara, the Papal Regent, who has been expelled from Rumania, when he arrived in Rome from Bucharest on Sunday evening last. A cheering,......
'the Lily Of Quito' Canonised
T. Peter's was crowded by 45,000 people on Sunday when the Holy Father canonised St. Maria Anna de Paredes y Flores—" the Lily of Quito." Ten Cardinals accompanied His Holiness,......
100 Converts From Legion Talks
About 100 men and women have received instruction as the result of talks given for non-Catholics by the Westminster diocesan Praesidium of the Legion of Mary. Since the work of......
Murdered 7 Days After Ordination
JUST a week after his ordina tion, Fr. Francis Xavier Tuan was killed by Vietminh while cycling from Hue in Central Vietnam to celebrate his first High Mass in his home village.......
Still No News From Korea Missions
" Naturally special orders to tell the missionaries in Korea to remain where they are have not been sent, nor are such orders necessary." The spirit of the Catholic missionaries......
Seoul's Bishop Flies Back
Bishop Ro, Vicar Apostolic of Seoul, left Paris by air last week. He said he hoped to obtain permission to return to the capital by way of Tokyo. Mgr. Ro came to Europe to make......
10,800 Sign Luton School Petition
A deputation of Luton Catholics, led by Fr. Arthur Brewer, last week presented the Minister of Education with a petition bearing 10,800 signatures asking for a Catholic school......
Canonisation Delayed
Lack of approbation for the second miracle proposed in the cause of Blessed Antonio Giannelli, it is now learned. is the reason for the delay in his canonisation. Blessed......