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Prague's Empty Churches
SEVERAL of Prague's once most crowded churches are standing empty. To the faithful they are huge silent tombs. The Jesuit Church of St. Ignatius has been given over by the......
Mr. J. P. Boland To Be Honoured
LL.D. at 80 The National University of Ireland, Dublin, will on Monday confer the honorary degree of LL.D.. upon Mr. John Pius Boland in recognition of his services on the......
U.s. Catholics Here For Music Festival
Many Catholics will be among a party of 200 American students visiting Cheltenham for the Festival of British Contemporary Music which lasts from July 3 to 15. The students are......
German Catholic Press Welcomes Schuman Plan
The Catholic press of Western Germany has hailed the Christian initiative behind the Schuman Plan for merging Franco-German coal and steel resources, while sounding a note of......
Guide For Holy Year Confessors
First copies of the Holy Year confessors' vade mecum a 60-page booklet intended as a ready guide through the canon laws, moral theology and apostolic constitutions relating to......
The Pope Aids Peru Churches
The Pope has sent a " Pontifical contribution" of $2.000 to help in the reconstruction of the churches most seriously damaged in Cuzco. Peru, during the recent earthquake.......
2 Churches For 12
Two Catholic churches in Bratislava. the Slovak capital. will soon be handed 0,cr to the Russian Orthodox community, in spite of the fact that there are less than a dozen......
Abbey Church To Hold 1,000
From a Special Correspondent BLUE-OVERALLED monks are this week laying the first bricks on foundations they began digging last January for London's biggest monastic pile-the......
Mexico Returns 2 Schools
The Mexican Government has returned to the Salesian Fathers two buildings that had been seized during the religious persecutions of the 'twenties. The ceremony was attended by......
Vatican Radio's New Wavelengths
Vatican Radio has made a slight change in its wavelengths. The following programme will continue until further notice: Daily news: 4 p.m. (B.S.T.) on 19.87, 25.55, 31.10 and 796......
Pilgrimage With The Gilt On
Brazilian boys do the thing in style By HEATHER WOODS HOW to do a Holy Year pilgrimage on the grand. luxurious scale was shown by 41 Brazilian schoolboys who flew into Lortdon......
New Loudspeaker System To Relay Papal Masses
An elaborate loudspeaker system for the whole of the Via della Conciliazione leading from the Tiber to St. Peter's is to be installed to enable pilgrims to follow Mass and other......
Eucharistic Congress On Gold Coast
The newly-established Hierarchy in British West Africa, the Cameroons and Togoland are organistng the Gold Coast's first national Eucharistic Congress, to be held on February......
First Negro Priest From S. Carolina
South Carolina's first Negro priest, Fr. Leonard Aloysius Cunningham. a Holy Ghost Father. offered his first Solemn Mass in the Cathedral of Si. John the Baptist, Charleston.......
Red Peace Is An Act Of War
Cardinal Schuster, Archbishop of Milan and one of the Church's most outspoken enemies of Communism in Italy. told Catholics last week to reject the Communist petitions against......
Marshall Aid For Pilgrims
Sonic 1,800,000,000 lire (about £1,000,000) in Marshall Aid funds have already been allocated to help provide accommodation for Holy Year pilgrims to Rome and religious shrines......
Descendant Of Persecutor To Be A Priest
Michael Tokugawa, descendant of Tokugawa leyasu, a violent Japanese persecutor of Christians during the 17t h century, has entered a seminary in Kyoto. Ieyasu began his attempt......
Chinese Cold War' On Church As Bad
as persecution MISSIONARIES in China today, despite the official pretence of religious freedom, work in an atmosphere of suspicion, misunderstanding and rnisrepresentation which......
40 Converts
A WEEK WITH LAY HELP Baptisms of adult converts, at the rate of thirty and forty a week are reported by a missioner of more than twenty years' experience in China, who has been......
4 Points For
social progress Cardinal Caro, Archbishop of Santiago, Chile, together with other members of the Bishops' Permanent Committee, has issued a pastoral letter on social problems......
Centenarian At Mass
Then takes a taxi to visit the aged To celebrate his 100th birthday, Mr. James Punton, of North Shields, went to an early Mass at his parish church, St, Joseph's, Chirton. When......
New American Archbishop
Mgr. Charles Alter, Bishop of Toledo, has been appointed Archbishop of Cincinnati, succeeding the late Archbishop McNicholas, 0.P, Mgr. Patrick McCormick, Rector of the Catholic......
T.u. Leaders' Courses
The first school for trade - union leaders has been opened in Montevide, Uruguay, by the Catholic Unien of Social Action. Courses in political and national economy, Catholic......
Name Mass In Crypt Of St, Peter's The Crypt Of St. Peter's
where the Holy Father recently consecrated one of seven newly-constructed altars -was to be Opened to the public yesterday. Feast of SS. Peter and Paul, to enable them to attend......