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M.p.s Endorse Bishops' Declaration
All-party support for their radical Asian policy LABOUR, Conservative and Independent M.P.s and prominent politicians, Catholics and non Catholics, this week hailed the......
Japan Has 11,000 New Converts
CONVERTS in Japan have in creased from 1,394 in 1946 to 11,345 in the past twelve months. states the Apostolic Delegation in Tokyo. Alto g ether the Catholic population-157,241......
Vatican Printer Killed
Absolution and Extreme Unction were administered by the superior of the Salesian Fathers who direct the Vatican Poly g lot Press when one of the printers, Giovanni Di Tullio was......
You Can Win' Poles Are Told
IN a letter to the Bishops of Poland last Monday, the Holy Father urged Polish Catholics to remain steadfast in their faith, with the certainty that they can win victories......
Dutch Build 13 Churches In One Year
From our Correspondent in the Netherlands A YEAR after launching a 10 year plan to build 50 new churches in his diocese, the Bishop of Haarlem, Mgr. Huibers, announces this week......
Blind Man Claims Fatima Cure
Eduardo Antunes Vasconcelos Airosa, a 30-year-old Portu g uese. who had been blind for six years after a brain operation, is reported to have been cured after visiting a statue......
18-year Sentence For Bishop Of 80
Rumanian Red court jails ten AN 80-year-old Rumanian Bishop, M g r. August Pacha of Timisoara, was sentenced to 18 years' solitary confinement by the Bucharest Military Court on......
Tobruk General Dies In Sydney
Major-General J. J. Murray, D.S.O., M.C., commander of the 20th Infantry Bri g ade throu g hout the sie g e of Tobruk, has died in Sydney Cardinal Gilroy presided at the Re q......
Parliamentary Candidate A Convert
Mr. R. J. Harvey, who fought the East Woolwich Parliamentary byelection in the Conservative cause earlier this year has been received into the Church by Fr. Peers-Smith, S.J.,......
Catholic Candidates
I N view of the coming General Election, " The Catholic Herald" invites Catholic candidates now to send their names and the names of their constituencies for publication. Some......
Massinmountain Shepherds' Cave
Two Masses were celebrated in the Cave of the Ox, 7,000-ft. hi g h spot in the Serra da Estrela mountain range in central Portu g al, for the Feast of Our Lady of the Stars,......
Rome Awaits Three New Saints
FINAL preparations are being made for a series of historic ceremonies in Rome during October and November. More than 500 lay leaders from 25 countries have now made their......
Bishop Of 2,000,000 Square Miles
Mgr. Thomas Feeny, S.J. who escaped death when. on his way from the Pacific, he decided to g o by train instead of by an airplane which crashed, has been consecrated by......
The Pope Denounces
FLOOD OF EVIL Obscene books and pictures THE flood of obscene and erotic books and illustrations now bein g made available to the youth of the world was denounced by the Holy......
Month Of Prayer
T HE Holy Father, in his second Encyclical Letter within a week, calls upon the whole Catholic world — especially fathers, mothers and children kneelin g to g ether in their......
0.a.p.s' Unite For Jantaica Orphans' Fund
" pVERY little helps" wrote '4 the Mother Superior of the Sisters of Mercy's hurricane-devastated Alpha school and orphana g e in Kin g ston, Jamaica, in an appeal for funds......