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Fake Trial Isolates Hierarchy
By DOUGLAS HYDE WHEN a Bishop and eight leading clergy of Czecho slovakia received sentences last week-end ranging from ten years to life imprisonment the last major step had......
Holy Father Calls For World-wide Novena
IN a 2,000-word Encyclical Letter issued on Wednesday, the Holy Father calls upon Catholics throughout the world to say special prayers during the nine days preceding Christmas......
Vocations Go Up In Germany
Vocations to the priesthood in Western Germany have risen substantially in the past 12 months, says the chancellery of The Cardinal Archbishop of Cologne. The number of......
60 Missionaries Are Missing
Vatican Radio reports that 60 missionaries are now missing in Korea.......
Duns Scotus To Be Beatified
Duns Scotus, the celebrated Franciscan theologian known as the "Doctor of Mary" because of his devotion to Our Lady. may soon be beatified, states Fr. George Roth. 0.F.M.,......
Pray For Schools
Negotiations at a delicate stage BISHOP Beck. chairman of the Catholic Education Committee and of the Hierarchy's Action Committee for the schools, writes to THE CATHOLIC......
Archbishop Roberts Resigns Bombay See
T HE Holy Father has accepted the resignation of Mgr. Thomas Roberts, Archbishop of Bombay, and has appointed him titular Archbishop of Sugdea. His Holiness at the same time has......
Pr Iests' Mothers Form Society
Mothers of priests and nuns have formed an association in Aleppo, Syria, to help in the religious work of their sons and daughters. Plans have been made to extend the......
Threatened Etna Villagers Pray Mgr. Salvatore Russo,...
visited the villges of Milo and Fornazzo as soon as he learnt of the latest eruption of Mount Etna, which threatened the safety of their inhabitants. Prayers to St. Andrew,......
Prayers For Red's
Fr. Don Costanza parish priest in Sorrento. Italy, has urged his parishioners to pray for the conversion of Togliatti, the Italian Communist leader. Togliatti is recovering in......
Teresa Neumann
Teresa Neumann, the celebrated stigmatic of Konnersreuth, Bavaria, who recently received Extreme Unction is now stated to be out of danger. She suffered a relapse while......
Religious Congregations Discuss Big. Changes
PLAIN SPEAKING IN ROME Plan to save the smaller communities T HE plain speaking foreshadowed when the 800 delegates of religious orders and congregations were on their way to......
Conscripted
The South Korean Defence Ministry has declared its intention to conscript all Korean priests and seminarians between the ages of 18 and 37 for military service. President......
New Doctor Of The Church
Franciscan saint St. Lawrence of Brindisi will be declared a Doctor of the Church by the Holy Father today at the close of the international congress of the religious orders and......
Kiss For The Holy Father
The Holy Father stopped briefly in front of an Italian woman holdtag a three-year-old girl and the child stretched her arms out and kissed him on the cheek during the audience......