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`ecce Homo' Tube Televised
Scenes from the sacred pageant, Ecce Homo, which in accordance with custom the Westminster Catholic Club is staging in the Cathedral Hall, have been televised and will appear in......
Cardinal's Plea Brings The Houses
Flats in convent Numerous projects have been started by French Catholics in response to an appeal by Cardinal Gerlier, Archbishop of Lyons, reminding the " well - housed" of......
There Are Now 35,000 Catholics In The Three Scandanavian...
'fhe largest group of Catholics 9,000-is in Copenhagen. 35,000 Catholics among 16,000,000......
Notre Dame Decorates A General
General J. Lawton Collins, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, has been awarded the 1950 I.aetare Medal, oldest American Catholic medal, by Notre Dame University.......
Priest Speaks In Protestant Church
A million Canadians heard an address which Fr. Joseph Scannell, 0.M.I., former provincial of the English Oblates, broadcast from the pulpit of a Protestant church in Ottawa. Fr.......
Suicide ' Attempt In St. Peter's Was A Stunt
From L. G. Walmsley AT 11 o'clock on Friday morning, just when 4,000 pilgrims led by Cardinal della Costa, Archbishop of Florence, had entered St. Peter's, a young man in a......
Pilgrim Card
Brazil, too, makes it a passport The President of Brazil has signed a decree granting to the Pilgrim's Identity Card the same value as a pa ss port. Brazil is the fourth country......
Don't Marry In Church
Russian paper tells youth league Young Russian couples should not get married in church states the Communist Youth League newspaper Komsomolskya Pravda. Saying that such......
Opposition To U.s. Envoy At Vatican Renewed
The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America reaffirmed last week its " unalterable opposition " to United States diplomatic representation at the Vatican. Mr. Myron......
Priest Honoured
at Rhine H.Q. The senior Catholic chaplain in B.A.O.R., Fr. C. J. Winstanley, celebrated the silver jubilee of his ordination with High Mass at Rhine Army Headquarters. At a......
Child's Murder May Revive Death Penalty
The murder in Rome of 12-yearold Anna Bracci she was killed while defending her virtue-has led a Christian Democrat to propose a taw reviving the death penalty for the murder of......
Catholics Aid Negroes
A disclosure that the 65,000 Catholics among the 3,000,000 residents of Alabama have raised $3,500,000 over a period of years to improve the lot of the negroes of the State has......
'ch.' Proposal Hit European Target
MINISTERS FOR GERMANY Notre Dame mEMBERS of Parliament unusually conversant with European affairs have been praising THE CATHOLIC HERALD this week for its farsightedness. Three......
30 Ft. Cross On Welsh Mountain
The Fathers of the Divine Word Society at St. David's College, Carrog, - North Wales, will on Good Friday afternoon erect a timber cross 30 ft. high on the mountain overlooking......
Jerusalem Cross In Turkey
The Jerusalem Cross, which has now been carried through 20 countries including England in three continents since it was blessed last Good Friday on Mount Calvary, has reached......
Indonesian Pilgrims
About 100 Holy Year pilgrims have left for Rome from Djakarta, capital of Indonesia.......
Tyneside Rallies To The C.s.g.
• By a Stan Reporter FOUR meetings aimed at strengthening and developing still further the already very successful work of the Catholic Social Guild on Tyneside were held last......
Largest Audience Yet On Rome's Strike Day
On the very day Communists vainly sought to paralyze Rome with a general strike, the largest number of Holy Year pilsp - ims so far assembled in St. Peter's Basilica for a......
Conversions Are I Increasing N British Africa
The Catholic pepulation of Tanganyika, British East Africa, has increased by seven per cent. in the past year, reports Fr. William Collins, Maryknoll superior in Africa.......
The Pope Gives New Church To University
The new church which the Holy Father has given to the University of Rome was opened last week and dedicated to the Divine Wisdom by Archbishop Traglia, Vicegerent of Rome,......
Congress On The Holy Shroud
Experts from Italy, Czechoslovakia, Canada, France and Spain will take part in the first international congress of experts on the study of the Holy Shroud to be held in Vatican......
Prayer For India
The Indian Hierarchy have published a prayer for the Indian Republic to be recited at the end of Mass on Sundays and holy days of obligation.......
Theresa Neumann's Mother Dies
Anna Neumann, mother of Theresa Neumann, the stigmatic of Konnersreuth, Bavaria, has died at the age of 77. She had been ill since last spring.......