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When God Rends Iron Curtain .
"wHEN God rends the Iron Curtain, the Franciscans will be there." This is the slogan of the Friary of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in the Connecticut hills near New Canaan, where......
Missionary Ship Home After 3 Years
The missionary supply ship "Regina Polaris," belonging to the vicariate of Hudson Bay, has returned to Montreal after an absence of over three years. The vessel has covered more......
Holy Father Names His 1951 Intentions
Twelve months of prayer to end hate and aid the missions THE Holy Father's general intentions for prayer throughout the Catholic world during 1951 include an " end to the spirit......
Beatification Sought For Nazi Victim
THE beatification process for the Servant of God Fr. Maximilian Kolbe, a Conven tual Franciscan of Niepoka lan-ow, Poland, is being advanced. Fr. Kolbe ads killed in the......
Still The Pilgrims Arrive
Thou g h the Holy Year is over, pilgrims are still arriving in Rome in lar g e numbers. On the last Wednesday of the year His Holiness received several thousand in the Hall of......
Coadjutor For Patriarch
Tile Bishop of Cochin. Mgr. Vieira Alvernez, has been transferred to the titular archiepiscopal see of Anasarta and appointed Coadjutor with the right of succession to the......
Atom Bombing Could Be Justified
FR, Edmund Walsh, vice-president of Geor g etown University, states in an article in the Washington Star that the United States would be justified in droppin g atom bombs first......
Under-secretary For Religious The Holy Father Has...
Battista Scapinelli di Le g ui g no of the Papal Secretariat of State of he Under-Secretary of the Sacred Congregation of Religious. Mgr. Scapinelli, a secular priest, succeeds......
Christmas Posters
What did you think of them? \VAT did you think of the Christmas Posters 7 And of the idea behind them ? Three thousand of these huge posters went op on street hoardings, in......
He Waited 30 Years To Be A Priest
Fr. M. G. Dunlop dies: Cardinal's Gentiluomo for 21 years A N extraordinary career of devotion and service to the Church as a layman and a priest ended by the death last week at......
Archbishop Made Army General
The rank of General of the Colombian Army has been conferred by the Government upon M g r. Luque, Archbishop of Bogota and Primate of Colombia. When ,he became Archbishop last......
Holy Year Amnesty
The Republic of Salvador, on the occasion of the closing of the Holy Year, has granted an amnesty of three years to all adult prisoners and complete amnesty to all minors......
Bishop Is To
6IVE VISAS TO MISSIONARI ES New Indian rule Little surprise has been caused amon g missionaries in Britain by the news from Delhi that the Indian Government has urged Mgr.......
Little Sisters Won A Beauty Prize
The Little Sisters of the Poor in San Francisco won a beauty prize— $200 worth of merchandise or treatments at the Elizabeth Arden salon. But the Sisters, whose normal source of......
G.b.s.wrotei To The Abbess
.1r1OR several years before his death Bernard Shaw corresponded with the Abbess of an con vent. She wrote to English co him on his last birthday to tell him that it would he......
They Discuss Next Christmas
New Year for the Board of Education at White Plains, New York. is to meet Catholic and non-Catholic clergy to formulate a policy of Christmas programmes in the schools that will......
Pilgrims Shadowed By Israeli Guards
FR. Rosario Lapointe, a French-Canadian priest recently returned from a pilgrimage to the Holy Places, has complained of many difficulties and restrictions imposed on pilgrims......
The Pope Blesses Foundation Stone
The Holy Father last week blessed the foundation stone for the new buildings of the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Prof. Ludwi g Lippmann presented the stone to His......