Page 3, 30th December 1983

30th December 1983
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1949

Whipping up a furore FR W J SEWELL, parish priest of St John's Church, Chorlton-cum -Hardy. Manchester, has received a number of letters from different parts of the country......

1959

Standing up to the Pope THE POPE said last weekend that he has asked his aids to kneel before him only twice a day, thus reducing ceremonial. He told an audience of 600 Italian......

The Church Will Have To Endure Shock And Scandal

12y Norman St John Stevas MY FIRST and pleasant task is to wish all Catholic Herald readers a happy and holy New Year. The year 1968 was in many ways one of the saddest and most......

National Appeal For Media Centre

1964 A countrywide appeal for E300,000 is being launched this Sunday by the National Catholic Centre for Radio, Television and Cinema. The Hierarchy have asked that in every......

Divine Plague Of Rats

1954 BISHOP MONCEAU, of Cotabato, in the Philippine Islands, has Issueri a pastoral letter on the subject of rats. The explanation is that for the past two years the Cotabato......

1974

German duty for the Jews CARDINAL Doepfner, Chairman of the German Bishops' Conference, has said that Germans have a duty to stand by Israel and the Jews, who are facing the......

1979

Melodious magic at midnight by Patrick O'Donovan LOOKING BACK, I still wonder at the positive magic of Midnight Mass. Nothing could have been more discouraging than that this......