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Laity's Share In New Liturgy Of
HOLY WEEK W hat the laity will see and hear -and particularly what they themselves will do — during the restored « Early Christian » Holy Week this year is described in a......
Queen Caroline Documents
George IV letters were removed c Abdication is still the price "--% of conversion to the Catholic Church or marriage to a Catholic for an English monarch under the Act of......
Diem Is Now Stronger
Big majority won in general election THE position of Mr Diem, Viet I I •am's Catholic President, has been greatly strengthened as a result of the general election. Between 90......
Four Jesuits Die In Fire
T HREE priests and a laybrother lost their lives soon after midnight on Saturday. in a fire which destroyed the Shadowbrook Jesuit Seminary in Massachusetts, The house and......
Chinese Bishop Arrested
News reached Kong last week that Mgr. Joseph Wan, Bishop of Hongyang, and his Vicar General, Fr. Chang, were arrested some weeks ago. The 12,000 Catholics in the diocese still......
I The Pope Crowned I
R OME was huddling under wintry weather on Sunday morning when the Holy Father went to St. Peter's to celebrate! the 17th anniversary of his coronation. Snow and sleet swept......
Floreat Catholic Herald
T he printing dispute, affecting weekly papers printed in London, continues, and we are still obliged to look to our friends in Antwerp for the printing of the Catholic Herald.......
British Are Welcome
T HE INDIAN MINISTER of Home Affairs, Mr. Dater, has announced in New Delhi that missionaries from the British Commonwealth will not be subject to restrictions limiting the......
Next Lord Mayor Of Liverpool
The next Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Liverpool will be Alderman John and Mrs Jane Sheehan. Alderman Sheehan, who is 70 and comes from London, married Mrs Sheehan, who was......
Mass For Prince
Pontifical High Mass for the centenary of the birth of the Prince Imperial, son of Napoleon III, will be celebrated to-day (Friday) by the Abbot of Prinknash in the crypt of St.......
Five Dioceses For West Indies
THE. Holy Father has created two new diocc.:;es in the British West Indies and raised three vicariates there to the rank and status of dioceses. The new dioceses are named......
Blind Eyes See Again
The gilt of a priest TWO Italian children, a boy aged 12 and a girl aged 17, are able to see again after operations which gave each of them one of the eyes of Don Carlo Gnocchi,......
New Bishops For Holland
The appointment of two new bishops for the recently created new dioceses in the Netherlands has just been anrounced. Bishop of the new see of Rotterdam is to be Father M. A.......