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Mass Attendance Doubles Beside Enormous Lapse'
"EXTRAORDINARY progress" in the number of people attending Sunday Mass in the Southwark diocese, but also an "enormous lapse " In Catholic practice are mentioned in the current......
Vestments Lost In Dorchester Fire
Vestments and ornaments valued at nearly £500 were destroyed by a fire on Monday at the Church of Our Lady and St. Michael, Dorchester. A nun discovered the fire when she opened......
Scots C.t.s.
rally draws 2,000 "THE greatest battle the world has ever known is being fou g ht today. More than one third of the world's population is tinder Communist domination. If we do......
Nautical School Opened On
Isle of Wight The new premises of St. Swithin's Nautical Approved School at Yarmouth, Isle of Wi g ht, conducted by the De La Salle Order, were blessed last week by the Bishop......
Persons And Places
The Apostolic Delegate, Archbishop Godfrey. will preach at the Mass to be celebrated by Bishop Beck on Sunday at St. George's. Walthamstow, to mark 100 years of Catholic......
Three-year Scholarship For £40 10s.
THE Union of Catholic Students-the student section of the University Catholic Federation of Great Britain-is hoping as part of its Relief Campaign to provide at least one......
First Nuptial Mass For 400 Years
Hundreds of Catholics and nonCatholics attended the first wedding with Nuptial Mass for 400 years at Bale, Wales, on Saturday in the Church of Our Lady of Fatima. The bride and......
Papal Cross For Miss M. B. Hewitt
Miss Molly Balvaird Hewitt, hon. secretary of the Interval Club-the London club for Catholic actors and actresses has been awarded the Papal Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice. She......
Publishers' Congress
A three-day international con g ress of Catholic publishers be g innin g in Rome on Sunday will establish a Catholic Publishers' Information Centre in the city.......
Mtnister Opens School Extension
MR. R. R. Stokes, Minister of Works, last week formally opened a new extension at St. Angela's Urstiline Convent, Forest Gate. After the assembled school had sung "Bless this......
Canon Heffernan
Cardinal Griffin has appointed Canon William Heffernan, an honorary Canon and parish priest of Holy Trinity. Brook Green, to be a Canon of the Metropolitan Chapter.......
Legionaries Take The Platform.
TO promote wider interest in their Work of conversion, the Heston (Middlesex) branch of the Le g ion Mary has entered the field of public debate. By puttin g forward the......
Students Of 5 Continents At Newman H.q.
Graduates and students from the five continents were welcomed at the Newman International Centre in London on Saturday evening at a reception arranged to give members of the......
Catholics Who Want To Be Their Own Pope
" IT is said that we all have some blind spot in our spiritual vision," writes Mgr. Murphy, Bishop of Shrewsbury, in his Advent letter. "He practises methods in the family life,......
Diocese Must Find F2 500 000
A sum of 0,500,000 will have to be found hy Catholics of the Nottingham Diocese to meet the requirements for school building under the 1944 Education Act. Announcing this last......
Five New Churches : Seven Consecrated
DESPITE the difficult economic le' conditions, writes M g r. Cowderoy, Bishop of Southwark, considerable progress has been made since 1949 in work of church and school building......
Holy Year's Lesson For I Dictators =
.nations rise and fall, a sense of Insecurity pervades the councils of Governments, hut the Catholic Church, enjoying the permanent presence of Christ and animated by His......