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Ireland's Case At Strasbourg
By Our Dublin Correspondent Last week I commented—peevishly perhaps—on the indifference shown in this country to the Council of Europe. Since the proceedings opened at......
Catholic University Inquiry
PRAGUE An inquiry is being made into the activities of the Theological School of Charles University in Prague by the Government, following the heckling of Mgr. Beran. Archbishop......
'quake Church Damage Is £9,000,000
QUITO, ECUADOR. Almost every church in the State of Tungurahua, Ecuador, was wrecked by the earthquake which shattered the State on August 5 and 200,000 people are without......
Priest
WRITER DROWNED Fr. Mareeffin Fillere, founder of the periodical L'Homme Nouveau and Professor of Philosophy at Institut Cathalique. was accidentally drowned while bath ing at......
Debate On Birth Control With " Family Planners"
From a Special Correspondent A new line in C.P.E.A. activity was struck last week when the Southwark Diocesan Catholic Parents' and Electors' Association debated the ques tion......
Disciplined Abbe May Now Say Mass
Abbe Jean Boulier, who was banned from saying Mass last month by Mgr. Roger Beaussart, Vicar Capitular of Paris, has now submitted to the ecclesiastical authorities and had the......
Pilgrimages To Normandy's Mont St. Michel
From a Special Correspondent Towering out of the sea, just off the Normandy coast, near Pontorson, a half day's journey west of Paris, is Mont Saint Michel, a small island......
Workers' Group Has 500,000 Members
Assisi. The third annual national convention of ecclesiastical assistants to ACL1 (Christian Associations of Italian Workingmen), has concluded its three-day meeting here. Some......
Four Years After The Nagasaki Bomb
By REV. PATRICK O'CONNOR NAGASAKI. The black draped bier before the altar represents not just one but 8,000 dead, for four years ago the atomic bomb dropped here on the greatest......
French Gifts For Germans
French and Swiss Catholics have recently sent valuable gifts to their coreligionists in Germany Following the French National Eucharistic Congress at Nancy, some 20.000......
The Pope Starts Fortnight's Prayer
CASTELGANDOLF0 The Pope began a two-week period of rest on Sunday last which he will devote almost entirely to prayer and meditation, in preparation for the Holy Year of 1950.......
Congress Opened With Prayers
The daily meetings of both houses of Congress, which were addressed here by President Quirino of the Philippines, were canned with prayers lay two Filipino Jesuit priests. Fr.......
"mrs. Roosevelt Dispute Ended Satisfactorily"
In an audience granted to five American correspondents at Castelgandolfo last weekend, the Pope expressed the view that the recent controversy between Cardinal Spellman and Mrs.......
Vatican's Twenty-five Rooms For Relief Effort
From a Special Correspondent One of the works which will be a monument to the name of the Holy Father is that of the Vatican Relief for Europe. On the ground floor of the......
No Use Protesting
The Government " regret that they see no prospect of intervention with the Czechoslovak Government on this subject leading to any useful result." the Catholic Workers' Guild of......