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19,100 Ask For Faith Course In One Week
By Terence McQueen N INETEEN thousand one hundred people wrote in last week for the Catholic Enquiry Centre's course of 21 leaflets on the Catholic faith, advertised in the......
Pius Xii Play Called `monstrous'
A NEW German play which had its premiere in West Berlin on Wednesday night last week, has caused a controversy over the Catholic Church's attitude towards Nazi Persecution of......
Mgr. Slipyj Moves To The Vatican
A RCHBISHOP JOSEPH SLIPYJ, who has been staying at the Basilian Monastery of Grottaferrata in the Alban Hills outside Rome, following his arrival two weeks ago after 18 years in......
Monks Fight Fire
Monks of Buckfast Abbey last week helped the local fire brigade to put out a blaze caused when a pan of cooking oil in the monastery kitchen caught fire.......
Merger Urged For Two Churches
By John M. Todd I a remarkable document A published this week, leading representatives of the Anglican and Me thodist Churches have recommended the "coming together" of the......
Poll Shows Swing To School Aid
G ALLUP POLLS on the subject of Federal aid to education in the US indicate that in the past two years public opinion has swung over to an extent that a majority now favour......
Three More Sessions ?
Archbishop Hurley of Durban, in a recent interview, said: "I do not think that the Council will end in 1963. I guess there will be three more sessions".......
Road Plan Threatens Siirine
Catholic Herald Reporter 'THE shrine of Our Lady of the Taper, re-estab lished in the Welsh town of Cardigan only seven years ago after having been "lost" since the Reformation,......
Surrey Reader Wins Irish Trip
A PRIZE of a week's free holiday in Ireland for two, flying both ways by Aer Lingus planes with free hotel accommodation by courtesy of the Irish Tourist Board, has been won by......
London Bill : A New Bid
Committee stage memo on schools DIOCESAN MOVES By Hugh Kay ALL members of a House of Commons standing committee, which discussed the London Government Bill this week, have......
A Letter From The Bishop . . .
Pr HE bishops' Pastoral letters 1 which were read in churches throughout the country on Sunday focused attention on topics ranging from the aims and achievements of the......
Fast Day For Families
THIS year's Family Fast Day is to take place next Friday. March 8. which is also an Ember Day. The Fast Day now forms part of the Catholic Fund for Overseas Development. which......
Village Of Bungalows, Flats
OWN HOME PLAN FOR OLD FOLK By Kevin McGarry L ANCASHIRE County Council has approved in principle plans for a model Old Folks' Village to be built by the Sons of Divine......
Tibetan Refugee Children On Their Arrival At London...
are to live in the Pestalozzi Children's Village at Sedlescombe. Sussex, which was opened two years ago for war orphans and young refugees. All children in the village are......
Off To The
MISSIONS —AT 74 At an age when many missionaries are thinking of leaving their missions and retiring, Mr. Richard CantWell. aged 74, left London airport a few days ago on his......
The Pope At Santa Sabina
Repeating a custom which he himself started in the year of his election as Pope, the Holy Father on Ash Wednesday took part in the first of thesLenten Stational ceremonies by......
Papal Broadcast
At 8 p.m. (7 p.m. GMT) on Wednesday, Pope John broadcast a Lenten message to the world. The broadcast, over Vatican Radio, was re-broadcast by Italian radio and other networks.......