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Mission Property Escaped
THE majority of Catholic mission buildings in North and South Korea have escaped complete destruction, but many have suffered partial damage and also a great loss of equipment,......
Christian Unions Back The Schuman Plan
A conference of bodies affiliated to the International Federation of Christian Trade Unions, held in Brussels, has expressed agreement with the general principles of the Schuman......
Anti-catholic `smear' Campaign To Be Probed
Recent election campaign activities of a professional " smear group" are being probed by a U.S. Senate sub-committee. according to the American weekly Newsweek. The group is......
Airport Chapel
A chapel where travelling priests may celebrate Mass is being built at Lisbon's newly-enlarged airport.......
Sign For Ciiristian...
E r.: IN GETHSEMANE `REFORM' OR ELSE... Chinese Reds threaten Catholics THE recently published " Manifesto " of a group of 40 Chinese Protestant leaders is now being used......
The Toys Too Must Go Communist
TN their war on Christmas, the rulers of Russian-occupied Eastern Germany have turned their attention to toys. Manufacturers in Thuringia have been ordered to discontinue the......
Priests At Peace ' Congress
AT the Warsaw Second World " Peace " Congress last week a short statement, said to have been issued by the Polish Bishops, was read to the delegates. Signed by Mgr. Z.......
The Church Works For Peace
THE Holy Father received 20,000 Holy Year pilgrims in a mass audience in St. Peter's Basilica over last weekend and told them, as he has told many such groups before, that the......
Poland Hears The Catholic News
Radio Free Europe, which has been broadcasting to people behind the Iron Curtain for the past three months, has initiated a broadcast of Catholic news to Poland. The broadcasts......
New Priests To Send Blessing Over Radio
Vatican Radio will next month revive the pre-war custom of bringing newly-ordained priests of the Venerable English College to the microphone to broadcast their blessings and......
Russians Plan Anti-god Campaign ?
Nearly 30 million copies of antireligious and godless literature are to be distributed in the near future all over Soviet Russia by the " Russian Society for Political and......
Christian Festival Takes Over Reading
By IRIS CONLAY THE Reading Christian Coun cil in organising a Christian Arts Festival in their town have set a standard for other centres to copy. When I arrived at Reading this......
Deep Concern Is Felt For The Holy Places '
THE Osservatore Romano has reiterated the Holy See's attitude to the problem of the Holy Places and denied rumours that the Church no longer insists on its solution by......
Press Pilgrims
Italian and foreign Catholic journalists in Rome will make their Holy Year visits to the four Patriarchal Basilicas on Sunday.......
Papal Mass
The Holy Father is to celebrate Mass in St. Peter's on Sunday, December 17, for the people of his own diocese of Rome. All the parish priests of the diocese will be proem %......
Holy Year Fares
The Italian State Railways has issued a circular pointing out that the Holy Year fare reductions end on Christmas Eve and that care must therefore be taken that no tickets are......
Pope Pius X
Premier president for beatification The Italian Prime Minister, Signor De Gasperi, at an interview last week with Dr. Parolin, grand-nephew of Pope Pius X, accepted the......
Archbishop Godfrey Leaves Rome
Archbishop Godfrey, Apostolic Delegate to Great Britain, left the Venerable English College in Rome at the latter end of last week after a fortnight's stay. Mgr. Godfrey......
Aer Lingus Trophy
Aer Lingua (Irish Air Lines), all of whose planes bear the names of saints, has been presented with the Alice Cumberland Trophy, an international award for efficiency and......
Diocese Has 16 Bishops In Missions
Figures just published show that the diocese of Bruges, Belgium, which has a population of fewer than a million inhabitants, has 2,075 living missionaries. They Include 16......
Consecration At Czestochowa
Czestochowa's cathedral, the largest church in Poland, has been consecrated by Bishop Kubina in the presence of many members of the Hierarchy. It was begun in 1900, 25 years......