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Pope Pins Xll Condemns
Invasions "Against Will and Rights" of Belgium, Holland and Luxemburg On Saturday morning Pope Pius XII telegraphed the following messages to the Sovereigns of the three neutral......
"in This Tragic Spring"
In a public audience granted to 4,000 pilgrims, including 500 newlymarried couples, on the Feast of the Apparition of St. Michael, the Holy Father alluded to the sadness of......
The New
ARCHBISHOP OF PARIS T HE Pope has appointed Cardinal Suhard, Archbishop of Rheims, to the Archbishopric of Paris in succession to Cardinal Verdier, who died on April 9. The so......
Relations Between Italy And The Holy See
POSITION OF VATICAN PAPER By Our Own Correspondent Rom E. Farinacci's grouse is that the Oscarvatore Romano does not confine its attentions to strictly parochial matters. " We......
Feelings Won't Move Italians This Time " Interests " Will...
From Our Own Correspondent VATICAN CITY. The Italians often hear through the foreign Press or radio that they love France and England and hate the Germans. The Italians now have......
Bombs In Return For Bread
Dutch Journalist Comments On German Invasion By a C.H. Reporter ONLY THE FACTS M R J. H. BOAS, London correspondent of De Maasbode, one of Holland's leading Catholic papers,......
Day Of Special Prayer
BISHOPS FIX MAY 26 Cardinal Hinsley, Archbishop of Westminster, and Archbishop Amigo. Bishop of Southwark, have signed on behalf of all the Bishops of England and Wales a letter......
Belgian Pro-nazis Ambassador Protests
Baron de Cartier de Marchienne, Belgian Ambassador at the Court of St. James, has written personally to the CATHOLIC HERALD to protest against an article from our Antwerp......
Gifts Sent To Spain Cardinal's Crucifix
From a Special Correspondent A DELEGATION is leaving for Spain this week to present gifts to Cardinal Goma, Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain, in aid of the restoration......
I Saw The Invasion Begin Whit-sunday In Antwerp
The following eye-witness account of the opening days of the German invasion of Belgium is from our correspondent at Antwerp, who reached England on Tuesday. F RIDAY before dawn......
Press Reactions: Italy And Spain
The Italian Press in general, we understand, has not featured the Papal telegrams to the Sovereigns whose territory was invaded, but the Osservatore Romano has spoken out......
Typical Of The Care Of The Vatican Paper To Be
strictly objective is a COCCS, " leader " on the -tension in the Mediterranean. " Let us, " it says, " recapitulate the most recent facts, rigorously abstaining from the many......