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New German Constitution Gives Catholics Workable Basis...
By ANDREW BOYLE Well informed German Catholics see the proposed constitution for Western Germany, to be approved at Bonn this week, as giving Catholics throughout Germany rights......
Polish Primate's Friend Arrested
By a Staff Reporter hi a dawn raid on All Saints' Church, Warsaw, last week, Polish secret police arrested Mgr. Kaczynski, who has acted on behalf of the Hierarchy in their......
What — —we Think
The Ireland Bill ?PIE provisions of the Ireland 1 Bill will naturally affect a great many Catholics In this country, and they are of a character cakulated to set at rest the......
We Still Oppose Spain
Mr. C. P. Mayhew (Foreign Under Secretary) told the House of Commons on Monday that Britain would oppose any move to include Spain. with her present regime, in the Council of......
Belgian King Wants To Return
With Belgium on the eve of a General Election, King Leopold has sent a letter to his brother Charles, the Belgian Regent, Contending that it is now possible for him to return to......
Catholic M.p. Backs Dock Pension Scheme
By GERRY SHERRY Mr. Bob Mellish, the Catholic Labour M.P. for Rotherhithe, has received details of a stop-gap pension scheme worked out by six dockers and is to submit it to the......
Olympic Committee's Gift To The Pope
Members of the International Olympic Committee now meeting in Rome went to the Vatican to present the Pope with a clock, on the occasion of his jubilee,......
Stokes Hits At
Peron's Argentine By a Stall Reporter After a three-month tour of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru, Mr. Richard Stokes, M.P., has reached home with a bagful of somewhat mixed......
Argentine's Gift To The Pope
The Argentine Ambassador to the Vatican is to present to the Pope on behalf of President Peron and the Argentine people a golden chalice set with jewels to mark the Pope's......
Pilgrim Cross On Way From Holy Land To Liege
BEIRUT, LEBANON. The pilgrimage of a huge wooden cross containing relics of the true Cross, which began in Jerusalem in Holy Week, developed into an unparalleled manifestation......
Gromyko Threatens " Other Red Robes ,3
A thinly-veiled threat against the Church leaders of Eastern Europe was made by Mr. Gromyko, Russian Foreign Minister, before the United General Assembly during the debate on......
150,000 Dubliners In Vast May Day Protest
From a Special Correapondent In what was described as one of the largest and most resentful demonstrations seen for years, 150,000 people protested against the imprisonment of......
Great Philippine Catholic Killed
Mrs. Aurora Quezon, widow of the first President of the Philippines, was recently killed by Fillipino outlaws in a machine-gun ambush. Eleven other persons. including her......
Church Must Change With The Times Says The Pope
VATICAN CrIY. The Church must always be adapting itself to the changing conditions of the world, said the Pope, in an address to the alumni, 300 priests and seven bishops, of......
.40 Years Of Poverty To Pay For Schools
—Says Bishop Of Salford Unless the financial burden placed on Catholics under the new Education Act is considerably eased, the Salford diocese faces 40 years of poverty. This......
Memorial Services Became Political
Mgr. Mimmi, Archbishop of Bari, has banned further religious services held in memory of the war dead because recent services have become almost " political demonstrations in......
Plane Hits Tower Of Cathedral
An aircraft carrying the whole of the Turin football learn is reported to have crashed on Wednesday with a loss of 28 lives. The plane is said to have hit the tower of the......
The Pope Sees Sir Stafford
The Pope received Sir Stafford and Lady Cripps in a private audience in his library in the Vatican on Tuesday morning (May 3). The audience lasted 35 minutes and afterwards the......
Munnings On Moore's Madonna
By a Staff Reporter When I spoke to him on the phone on Monday, Sir Alfred Munnings, President of the Royal Academy, was seheerfully impenitent about the verbal mills-bomb he......