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World-wide Papal Broadcast
Powerful Transmitter will pierce 'Curtain' THE Holy Father's Christmas message to the world, and the Papal Blessing Urbi et Urbi, to be given this year on Sunday, three days......
Fasting And Abstinence At Christmas On The Friday Following
Christmas (December 271 j there will be no Abstinence this year in England and Wales. In the Westminster Diocese ; only, the Christmas Fast ► Day which is usually on I Christmas......
Lourdes Centenary
CARDINAL. GERLIER; Arch bishop of Lyons, and formerly Bishop of Lourdes. will preside at the ceremonies for the opening of the centenary year of the Apparitions on February 11......
Let The Heavens Rejoice:
let the earth be glad.. P s 01 Reds will For'Christmas this year we are not reproducing one of the Old Masters, but a scene from a live Crib of today. Every night from now until......
Prepare
Textbooks A CATHOLIC priest, Fr. Fernandez, was arrested at Quilon, Kerala, by Tiruvalla district police after he had re fused to hand a Catholic school over to the Tiruvalla......
`alcuin' Dies At 56
MR. BERNARD J. PRENT1S, B.A., died on December 12, 1957, at the age of 56. Mr. Prentis for some years has been a regular reviewer in THE CATHOLIC HERALD of religious books.......
Ex-lutheran Ordained
A former minister of the Danish state established Evangelican Lutheran Church. Fr. Asger Strange, was ordained to the Catholic priesthood last Sunday. Fr. Strange, who was a......
'states Of Perfection'
REAL NATURE OF OBEDIENCE C URRENT criticisms of obedience within religious orders were answered last week by the Holy Father in an address to the General Congress of " States of......
Passports To Red China ?
The U.S. State Department will issue pasiports to China for close relatives who wish to visit the six Americans still imprisoned there, it was announced in Washington last week.......
New Swiss President
The recently appointed President of the Swiss Federal Republic is a Catholic. Mr. Thomas Holenstein, a Doctor of Jurisprudence who was born in 1896. has practised lass in the......
Dorothy Sayers
Author of 'Man Born to be King' dies CATHOLICS, among many others, will have learnt wilh particular regret of the death, on Tuesday. of Dorothy L. Sayers, best-known for her......
Polish Bishop Dies
Auxiliary Bishop Franciszek Sonik of Kielce, Poland, who administered the large diocese during the six years its Ordinary, Bishop Kaczmarek, was under arrest on charges of......
Abbe Pierre Ill
Abbe Pierre, well-known for his apostolate among the poor and homeless in France, has entered Geneva Cantonal Hospital for a "very important" stomach operation.......
Christmas At The `ends' Of The Earth
R EPORTING from the South Pole last weekend. Noel Barber of the " Daily Mail described an event of "momentous, symbolic significance-the hauling up of the flag of the United......
Bethlehem
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Papal Bull
is U.S. gift A distinguished new inhabitant arrived this week in the Papal Estate at Castelgandolfo, near Rome. He is "Christy" a fourmonth-old bull a gift from American......
Ass
each evening at Cathedral IN order to comply with the Archbishop's desire for regular instructions at Mass, the early Sunday morning Masses in Westminster Cathedral will be......
Priest Dies In Fire
Hospital Chaplain RELIEVED to have died through B ELIEVED when his study caught fire early on Tuesday morning. Fr. Patrick Brendan Denis O'Daly was Chaplain at St. Vincent's......
Mass At 4.50 A.m.
For the benefit of Catholics working in newspaper offices in the printing trade and on other night work. an early morning Mass will be celebrated every Sunday. from January 5.......