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The Church Will Welcome Independence On Thursday
GAMBLE OF THE NEW CONGO Leaders were trained by Missionaries N EXT Thursday Archbishop Sigismondi, secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, will......
Three From Britain
THE POPE NAMES COUNCIL TEAM C ARDINAL GODFREY, Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Heard, the Scots-born curial Cardinal, Cardinal D'Alton, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of......
The Commission Will Examine The Conclusions Reached By...
committees — the ten preparatory commissions set up by Pope John in his Motu Proprio of Whit Sunday—and will decide on the final version of all documents connected with the......
Cathedral's 'find'
To preserve a medieval mural of St. Cuthbert discovered in the Galilee Chapel at Durham Cathedral. experts are being called in. The life-size painting is thought to be one of......
Papal Treat
Pope Pius XI, who died in 1939, left two bottles of wine to be opened by his successor in the year 2,000, it is revealed in a biography written by his former secretary, now......
Thousands Walked In Homage
THE FORTY MARTYRS' BANNER O UT into last Sunday's summer sunshine came the Corpus Christi processions. There were the country parishes who could walk their procession peacefully......
Cardinal At Rome Olympics
A CARDIN Al .—as yet unnamed—will be present at the opening of the Olympic Games in Rome. This is in accordance with a Statute of the Games which calls for a representative of......
'40 Martyrs' : Appeal To The Pope
A LONG letter of supplication from the Postulator of the cause for the canonisation of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales is to be presented to the Holy Father within the......
A Record?
First Communion class of 566 children is reported from California's satellite city of Norwalk, near Los Angeles.......
Follereau's Passport Is An Olive Branch
NOBEL PRIZE FOR LEPERS' CHAMPION ? By Marian Curd A CHEERFUL, smiling man of 62, a small metal olive branch in his lapel, friend of governments of both East and West, may be......
A Lightning Change In Belgian Policy
By Dr. RUTH SLADE F ROM the time of its foundation in 1885. the Congo independent State was virtually the private possession of Leopold II. King of the Belgians. until in 1908......
`champion Strider'
Here is Flight Sergeant Patrick Moloney (L) marching into New York on the last lap of recordbreaking 3,000 mile walk across the United States. With Sergeant Mervyn Evans, he did......
What We Think
LIFE and DEATH T HE defence of basic moral principles in a largely unprincipled world should not rest wholly on the Catholic Church. Hence it is right for us to welcome plain......