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Bishop Of Aberdeen Dies At 49
Consecrated in 1947 LESS than three years after his consecration, the Bishop of Aberdeen, Mgr. John Alexander Matheson, died last week at the age of 49. Mgr. Matheson had been......
Second Catholic Candidate For Wallsend
Mr. Gerald Cuthbert Crangle, who was last week recommended by the executive committee of WalIsend Divisional Conservative Association as prospective Conservative candidate, is a......
U.s. Woman's Leader Retiring
Miss Mary C. Duffy, Supreme Regent of the Catholic Daughters of America for 27 years, is retiring. Born in Ireland, Miss Duffy went to the United States when she was a child.......
Daily Prayer For Koreans
Mgr. Boyle, Archbishop of Washington, has called for prayer daily for "the unfortunate people of Korea, Catholic missionaries there and our gallant servicemen."......
Arabic Hymns For The Holy Father
Hymns in Arabic were heard by the Holy Father when a large group of pilgrims from Egypt sang for him at a general audience last week. The group was led by the Coptic Catholic......
Seminaries Crowded In Japan
MORE Japanese young men are entering seminaries now than ever before in the coun try's history, reports Brother Clement Hansan, an American Maryknoll brother in Kyto.......
Archbishop Of Birmingham Protests
GOD IS BEING TAKEN OUT OF EDUCATION By a "Catholic Herald" Reporter "( - ZOD is in actual fact being taken out of the educa tion of this country," declared the Archbishop of......
Former Governor Converted At 76
Mr. Francis Burton Harrison, former Governor General of the Philippines, has been received into the Church. He is 76. He was appointed Governor General in 1913 by President......
M.p.s Want Slacker Divorce Laws
OVER 100 URGE MORE 'REFORMS' By ANDREW BOYLE I N the House of Commons and the country at large, a determined move to widen the field of divorce by reforming alleged weaknesses......
Fathers Would Be Demoted By New Austrian Law
THE rights and duties of the father in the home are reformed in Austria's proposed new Family Law, which is meeting with sharp criticism from Catholics. The new law is to......
New Judge
Lt.-Col. Patrick Redmond Joseph Barry, K.C. MC., an old boy of Downside School, is one of the two new judges of the High Court. His father, the late Rt. Hon. Redmond Barry. was......
Sculptors Chosen For Doors Of St. Peter's
Three Italians have been announced as the winners of the international competition for designs for the bronze doors of St. Peter's. Nearly 80 sculptors from 20 nations sent......
Cleaned Fish Shop On Pilgrimage
T w° young Bristolians have just returned from a Holy Year pilgrimage which included car-washing, fruit-picking and the cleaning of a fish shop. They are Bernard Riordan and......
General Robertson At The Vatican
General Sir Brian Robertson, former Commander-in-Chief, British Forces in Germany, was last week received in private audience by the Holy Father.......
Editor Wins
The editor of Como's Catholic daily L'Ordine, Fr, Giuseppe Brusadelli, was acquitted by the Milan Court of Appeal on a charge of libel brought by the Communist Member of......
Editor Weds
Mr. Willaim Dowdell, editor of the Rome Daily American, was married last week at the Church of St. Susanna to Miss Augusta Chang a Chinese diplomat, who was received into the......
Proxy Pilgrimage
Among pilgrims who have recently arrived in Rome was a delegation of five led by Fr. Horvak, representing would-be-pilgrims in Bohemia and Slovakia who, through no fault of......
Irish American Priest Killed In Air Disaster
Fr. Augustine Walsh, a member of the Graymoor Fathers' Mission Band, was one of the 58 people killed when an airliner crashed into Lake Michigan. Fr. Walsh was born on Christmas......
Michelangelo Celebrations In October
The Holy Father has shown great interest in the preparations that are now being made to honour the memory of Michelangelo who was born on March 6th of the Holy Year of 1475. For......
Hundhammer Banned A Ballet
IN London this week as the guest of the Government tinder the auspices of German Educational Reconstruction is Dr. Alois Hundhammer, Bavarian Minister of Education and Culture.......
New Archbishop
Mgr. Armando Fares. formerly a nrofessor of the Lateran University. was consecrated last week by Cardinal Piazza as Coadjutor Archbishop to the Archbishop of Catania. Sicily.......
Case Against Convent School Dropped
Would have challenged parents' rights A DECISION by the Attorney-General of South Africa to prosecute the nuns of the Loreto Convent in the cathedral parish of Pretoria, for......
Congregationalist Call For Cooperation
The idea that separation of church arid state means that government must discourage religion and churches must be silent on political issues was denounced at a general council......
Priest In Rome Going To Poland As Bishop
Fr. Adalbert Turowski, Rector General of the Pallotine Fathers in Rome, recently appointed Coadjutor with right of succession to Mgr. Teodoro Kubina, Bishop of Czestochowa, will......
New York Keeps Centenary
1,260,328 Catholics New York will celebrate its centenary on Wednesday with Pontifical Mass offered by Cardinal Spellman. later this year. Masses will he offered in thanksgiving......
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harassed orders' To make monastic life impossible, as the Hungarian Government is now doing, is to deny the whole principle of freedom of religion, say Hungary's Bishops in a......