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300,000 at the Easter blessing THE Holy Father on Ea ster morning called upon Catholics throughout th e world, priests and laity, to transform themselves into " phalanxes of......
They Waited Six Hours
S IX hours before the Holy Father came on to the balcony of St. Peter's at noon to give. his Easter blessing to the City and the World crowds were already beginning to assemble......
Outcaste Converts Robbed Of Rights
By DOUGLAS HYDE CHRISTIAN converts from among India's fifty million pitiful outcastes are now being made a " depressed class" within the world's most depressed class because of......
31,068 Jesuits
Jesuits, it is announced in Rome, now number 31.068. There are 15,317 priests, 10,269 clerics and 5,582 lay brothers. The total increased by 489 last year.......
40 Killed In Church
More than 40 people were killed last week when the congregation in the Church of St. Teresa in Caracas, Venezuela, stampeded in panic after cries of " Fire." More than 110......
Mass Returns To Devon Village
A new Mass centre was opened on Easter Sunday at Countess Wear, Exeter, and Mass was offered in the village for the first time for 409 years. The celebrant was Fr. Wilfrid......
Saint's Sister Nearing 83
Birthday at Lisieux Sister Genevieve (Celine), the last surviving sister of St. Teresa of the Child Jesus, will celebrate her 83rd birthday in the Lisieux Carmel on April 28.......
Scots Abbey Begun Amid The Heather
AMID the heathery and wooded " slopes of the Lammermuir Hills, in the brilliant sunshine of Easter Monday, Mgr. Gordon Gray, Archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, cut the......
Forgotten Bishop
Still in Danzig jail MGR. Carl Maria Splett, the for gotten Bishop of Danzig—the port which Hitler chose to begin his war of nerves on Poland — is still in a Communist prison......
12th Catholic In Cabinet
THE new U.S. Attorney General, Judge James P. McGranery, is the twelfth Catholic to hold a Cabinet post since the time of George Washington. President Truman has created a......
Tito's Easter Attack On
re 1 , • • LL YUGOSLAV Catholics packed their churches in record numbers for the Easter Masses. But Tho's Belgrade newspaper Borha chose Easter Sunday to remind Communist Party......
Bishop Dies At 90
Mgr. Cogneau, Auxiliary to Bishop Fauvel, of Quimper. Britanny, died on Easter Saturday, aged 90.......
Fighting In Nazareth Two Killed
T WO people were killed and three others seriously injured when street fights broke out in Nazareth on Easter Monday between Moslem youths and Catholic boy scouts. A curfew was......
Mother And Child Was Best-seller
PAMPHLETS and leaflets on the "Mother and Child" controversy aroused by the Holy Father's address to midwives, were among the Catholic Truth Society's quickest and best sellers,......
Millionth Enquirer
From U.S. advertising A MILLION enquiries have now been received since the Knights of Columbus started its national advertising campaign designed to inform uon-Catholics about......
Instead Of More Party Conflict—
`PAPAL' REMEDY FOR STEEL By Andrew Boyle T HE Government's decision to denationalise steel after the Easter recess provides Catholics in the trade unions with a ready made......
Vigil Televised
The Easter Vigil ceremonies in the. old Church of St. Peter, Montmartre. was televised by the French National Radio network, enabling thousands of Parisians to follow the......
2,500 Dustmen Go To Holy Communion
S OME 2,500 Roman dustmen went to the great Church of the Gcsu in their working clothes to receive their Easter Holy Communion. After the Mass they went out to work in the city......