Page 1, 19th August 1949

19th August 1949
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Archbishop Beran Indicts

Czech Communist Government SLOVAKS DEFY GUNS TO DEMONSTRATE LOYALTY TO BISHOPS By a Staff Reporter MGR. BERAN, ARCHBISHOP OF PRAGUE, HAS ACCUSED THE . CZECH GOVERNMENT OF......

Young Catholics' United Effort

VATICAN CITY. The Italian Catholic Action Youth Association, in collaboration with the Bureau International de In Jeunesse Catholique of France, is preparing for the publication......

Communists' Abuses

Communists are "a conquering power and do not fear. once they have conquered, to abandon themselves to deplorable abuses" the Pope told the new Peruvian Ambassador to the Holy......

" No Action Against The Church"

PRAGUE. T he Czech Board of Bishops rnet following the consecration of the two new bishops at Trnava in order to decide what measures to take to counter the Communists' attack......

Two Basilicas Being Renovated

Row. Major repair and renovation work is now going on in two Italian basis (lets in preparation for the Holy Year 1950. In the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. in Rome,......

Consistory This Year?

The Pope will almost certainly hold a consistory before the end of the year. and it is rumoured, though not confirmed in Vatican City. that he may create a number of new......

Death Sentence For An

Armed Band's 'Chaplain , WARSAW. A Polish Jesuit has been sentenced to death and four other priests to terms of imprisonment on charges of robbing Government and Co-operative......

Woodruff And Lunn Head "reaction" At Pax Romana

FRIBOURG, SWITZERLAND. Sharp differences over how much stress the Church should give the social problem today were expressed at a round table discussion by Catholic......

Priests' Loyalty Pledge

PRAGUE. A group of Czech Catholic priests forced their way into the chambers of 82-year-old Bishop Mono Picha of the Hradec Kralove Diocese, to pledge their loyalty to their......

New Decree:

62 Arrests Sixty-two Polish priests have alfeady been charged with violating the new Government decree, issued last week, purporting to guarantee protection of conscience and......

Bishop Of Nancy Is Dead

Mgr. Marcel Fleury. Bishop of Nancy, France, died on Wednesday at the age of 65, after a short illness. Ordained in 1917, he was appointed Bishop of Nancy in December, 1934, and......

" Give Catholics A City Church"

Says Anglican By a Staff Reporter The generous suggestion that Anglicans should turn over at least one of their churches in the City of London to the Catholic Church has been......

Cardinal Seward's Successor Appointed

PARIS. Archbishop Roncalli, Papal Nuncio in Paris, has announced the appointment of Mgr. Maurice Feltin to the Archbishopric of Paris, as successor to Cardinal Suhard who died......

Dr. Morgan For Warrington

Dr. H. B. Morgan, Catholic M.P. for Rochdale, will not he contesting Rochdale at the General Election, but will be contesting Warrington. Dr. Morgan. who is 64, was born in the......

Bombay To Have Evening Masses

In virtue of an Indult granted by the Holy See to the Archdiocese of Bombay, evening MOSS may be celes brated and Holy Communion distributed on Sundays find holy days of......

Gift From Peron Castelgandce .fo.

Pope Pius XII received in private audience. on August 12, an extraordinary Argentine mission bearing 1 • a letter from President Juan Peron and a large sum of money for Church......

500,000 Greeted The Jerusalem Cross

By a Staff Reporter It is estimated that over a quarter of a million people individually venerated the Jerusalem Cross while it was being carried through England, and as many......

By What Law.. ?

From the two rooms in his palace to which he is confined and whilst surrounded by political police, Mgr. Beran, on Wednesday last, sent out a letter which indicted the Czech......

Churches For Sale

T HESE are the six City churches for sale: St. Andrew-bysthe-Wardrobe. St. Alban, Wood Street. St. Stephen. Coleman Street. St. Mary, Alderrnanbury. St. Swithun, London Stone.......