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'brain-washing' In Prison
Priest tells of his own experiences T HE cruelties involved In Communist "brainwashing" In a Pekin prison were described at Garston, Liverpool, on Sunday by a priest who went......
Daily Routine
We had daily nine to 10 hours' 'discussion ' divided into four periods of two to three hours each, during which time we were sitting in a circle on the stage. which served as......
Cruel Travesty
"For weeks the growling, like that of a pack of hounds, could be heard throughout the prison, of inmates bullying fellow prisoners so as to make them reveal their inner minds. "......
Mood And Mind
" A ' toucheng ' was a heavy burden for the attackers themselves no less than for the victim, and to spare the cell another everybody did his best its the present ' toucheng.' •......
Listen To This
about their speeches. To denounce others was meritorious. " Nobody would ever dare to conceal any fellow prisoners' faults. On the contrary, many false denunciations.......
No Honest Case
,, I doubt if I have observed one single case of an honest conversion to Communism," said Fr. Meiners. " All coneersions were simulated. And the Government of course knew this......
Liturgy On The Air
Fr. Clifford Howell. S.J„ wellknown writer and lecturer on the liturgy and its meaning, will broadcast a talk " Holy Week and Its Liturgy.' accompanied by the Farm Street Choir,......
"trigger Spots" Discovery Brings Hope To Rheumatism...
H ERP is wonderful news for rheumatism sufferers.? Doctors believe they have discovered the cause of the commonest forms of rheumatism. and a simple treatment bringing almost......
Mass At The Corners Of Battle Hill
W HEN Archbishop Campbell of Glasgow said the first Mass on Saturday at the new Oratory of St. Joseph in the Marist Brothers' HOOSC at Langside, Glasgow, he remarked that the......
For Vietnam
Collections in the Hexham and Newcastle diocese for the. Vietnamese refugees total more than £2,500.......
Bro. Andre On Way
TO BEATIFICATION Founder of Canadian basilica ITTLE Brother Andre, who built that very big Basilica of St..loseph on Mount Royal, Montreal, has now had the introduction of his......
Village Calvary
A large wayside Calvary erected in the grounds of St. Aldhelm's. Turton, a little Moorland village near Bolton will be unveiled and dedicated on Sunday afternoon by Fr. Octanes,......
Oa Tm?, New Films
E 'ON W Al The Airborne Gremlins Are Still At It 1 - 4 Lucrezia Borgia: I 'The Brute': Maria Schell: The Return minninnio of Anouk THE NIGHT MY NUMBER CAME UP Certificate U:......
Moral Practice Is Their Problem
By Fr. Joseph Christie, S.J. T HE hard contempt we used to be up against in this country has been shot to bits by the hard facts. Secular liberalism is quite unable to cope with......
Realisation
The type of man you meet in journalism and the B.B.C. can see quite clearls that if the Catholic Church is wrong, all Christianity is wrong. A qualitative change of heart among......
Piccadilly Organist Is Honoured By The Pope
T HE organist at the Plaza Cinema by Piccadilly Circus has been awarded the Bene Merenti Medal by the Holy Father. He is Mr. William Maurice Meier. His award is for more than 25......
Garrison Church Centenary
The centenary of St. Michael's Garrison Church. Stanhope Lines. Aldershot. will he celebrated on Sunday. April 17. at 11 am. with High Mass in the presence of Archbishop Mathew.......
Oldest Cardinal
Cardinal Verde. the senior Cardinal Priest and Archpriest of the Basilica of St. Mary Major, celebrates his 90th birthday on Sunday. He is the oldest Cardinal in age and in the......
Catholic New York
A survey carried out by the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York during 1952, now tabulated, indicates from a crosssection of 7,425 families, that 47.6 per cent. of the......
Farmhouse Chapel
Vv BITING the Quantock hillside village of Bagborough, West Somerset. Bishop Rudderham of Clifton last week blessed a farmhouse oratory—a small chapel adapted from a 16th......
Young Men Looking For A Lead
By Fr. Peter Blake, S.J. Superior of Loyola Hall Retreat House W E Catholics have had a plate. If we would o England before long would One hour before you telephoned me about......
Not Cranks
So up went the posters advertising a discussion for later this month on the question: " Do miracles happen ? " and announcing that Cheshire. V.C.. says they do. One could......
Please Remember The Urgent Need Ol
THE CRUSADE or RESCUE & Homes For Destitute Catholic Children The Crusade of Rescue exists to prevent, as far as possible. any Catholic child from losing its faith or virtue......