Page 5, 21st April 1950
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In Soviet Zone
AUSTRIA'S PEASANTS DEFY TROOPS Final results in the recent elections in agricultural Lower Austria show a victory for the strongly Catholic Austrian People's Party despite the......
Bishop Preaches In Street
Village visitation The new Coptic Bishop of Thebes and Luxor, 41-year-old Mgr. Ghattas, making his first pastoral visitation, has been travelling 40 days and nights among the......
`best Citizen' Bing Crosby
The General Federation of Women's Clubs in America has nominated Bing Crosby one of Hollywood's " best citizens." The nomination was made to film stars for outstanding service......
Ordained At 60
Sixty-year-old Wilhelm Schroeder, a former railwayman has been ordained a priest by the Bishop of Mainz.......
33 Converts In
Tojo's prison Eight more prisoners have been baptised in the Sugamo prison' in Tokyo, where the wartime Premier, Tajo, and his associates spent their last days. The prison now......
Red Revival In Costa Rica
The Communist Party in Costa Rica is beginning to rebuild its forces in an attempt to regain official recognition from the Government. The party was banned in September, 1948,......
British Books In Rome Exhibition In May
Some 324 books by and about British Catholics have been sent to Rome by the British Council for a Holy Year exhibition which is expected to open in May. Most contemporary......
Irish Clergy Make Social Surveys
Irish priests, organised in the Christus Rex Society, have in the past 12 months conducted valuable surveys examining social evils in the context of local conditions, seeking......
Medieval Exchange' System
PRISONER-FRIARS IDEA REJECTED From L. G. Walmaley : Rome THE story that the Franciscans intend to revive the medieval practice of allowing friars to offer themselves as......
Six Sisters At Brother's Consecration
Six sisters of Mgr. John MeEleney, S.J., saw him consecrated as titular Bishop of Zeugma and Vicar Apostolic of Jamaica by Archbishop Cushing on Saturday. in Holy Cross......
Blessing For Mother Over Barbed Wire
A newly-ordained priest gave his widowed mother his first blessing over a barbed-wire fence marking the boundary between Italy and Yugoslavia in Gorizia last week. Fr. Brecelli......
New Prince At Papal Court
Historic honour The Holy Father has nominated Prince Filipoo Orsini as Prince Assistant at the Pontifical Thronethe highest dignity conferred upon a layman at the Papal Court.......
Nuncios Consecrated
Cardinal Micara, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites, on Sunday consecrated two Papal Nuncios Mgr. Antonio Samore, Nuncio to Colombia, and Mgr. Armando Lombardi, Nuncio......
Japan Now Has .740 Priests
Statistics gathered under the direction of Fr. Bruno Bitter, S.J., at the request of the civil and ecclesiastical authorities show that at March 10, this year, the Church in......