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Polish Church 'pact' Discredited
Vatican repudiates it By DOUGLAS HYDE AFTER months of deliberately created tension, open and veiled persecution, duplicity and chicanery by the Communist Government, the Polish......
Mary Gives Her Little Lamb To The Pope
A SEVEN year-old girl gave the Holy Father a tiny snow-white lamb during a general audience of 45,000 pilgrims in St. Peter's on Sunday. Maria Palmisati, daughter of a shepherd......
700 British Pilgrims At Canonisation
AMONG the 50,000 people ex pected in St. Peter's on Sunday for the first canonisation of the Holy Year—that of Blessed Emilie de Rodat — will be 700 pilgrims from England and......
Candidates Keep Eye On Catholics
Catholics may decide the result of the Dumbartonshire by-election, which takes place on Tuesday next. That is the view of political observers on the spot. Labour candidate is......
The Lamp Of Persecution
The Rome magazine Ginbileo (Jubilee) is sponsoring a plan to place in St. Peter's a lamp bearing the names of countries where Catholics are now suffering persecution. The lamp......
Czechs Seize Monasteries
Orders amalgamated' THE Czech Government this week took over the majority of monasteries throughout the land. The houses have been confiscated, and their communities are being......
11 Chii I Dren And E Atomic' Father, M R. Thomas E. Murray,
whom President Truman has appointed a member of the Atomic Energy Commission, and his wife are making strenuous efforts to catch up with their scattered family of 11 sons and......
2 Cardinals At Bishops' Reception
Cardinal Gilroy, Archbishop of Sydney, paying his third visit to London this year, joined the Hierarchy of England and Wales at the Low Week recep tion on Tuesday evening at......
The Pope Receives 100,000
In St. Peter's MORE than 45,000 pil grims were received in audience by the Holy Father in St. Peter's on Saturday, and an even greater number on Sun day brought the total up to......
Pilgrims' Aerial Caravan
Aviation enthusiasts with private or small chartered planes are being invited by the Aero Club of Italy to join history's first aerial pilgrimage caravan to Rome. They will also......
Five New Missionary Bishops
A 37 yet.: - -old Indo-Chinese Dominican, Mgr. Dominic Hoangvan-Doan. is one of five new missionary Bishops named this week by the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the......
Homage To 7,000 Victims
Many Spanish Archbishops and Bishops attended the solemn opening in Valladolid last week of a " Period of National Homage " to the 7,000 priests, seminarists and religious who......
Jailed Cardinal Did Not Know His Mother
The imprisoned Cardinal Mindszenty did not recognise his mother when she visited him last year according to a Hungarian journalist who has arrived in Rome and who interviewed......
Air Ace To Join Trappists
Bernard Cordier, crack pilot of Air France, who flew from New York to Paris last year in the record time of 10 hours 31 minutes, is to become a Trappist.......
Attack On Church Too Half-hearted
Hungary's Communists complain HUNGARY'S Communist leaders have been told that they are not pursuing the attack on the Church and on religious influences in the schools with......
Half Million In, First 4 Months
Half a million pilgrims visited Rome in the first four months of this year according to the Central Committee for the Holy Year.......
U.s. Cardinal In Rome
The 82-years-old U.S. Cardinal Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadelphia arrived in Rome this week along with a party of American and Canadian pilgrims.......