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United In Prayer For Peace
From our Netherlands correspondent I N all the churches of the Netherlands — both Catholic and Protestant a joint pastoral letter was read last Sunday urging Christians to pray......
Sound Advice For Men And Employers
By Douglas Hyde TWO May Day processions left London's Thames Embankment last Sunday afternoon and ended in great rallies. The first was supported by many of the great trade......
Sunday Express Schools 'scare'
T HE"Sunday Express" on Sunday told the world in large front-page headlines that "Church Row Blows Up". They suggested that the Free Churches were going to fight against any......
Not Behind The Iron Curtain
The recent decree of the Holy Office forbidding Catholics to vote for a candidate who favours Communism, whether he is a Communist or not, does not apply to countries behind the......
Berlin Auxiliary
Fr. Alfred Bengsch, who was appointed rector of the seminary at Erfurt, the only seminary in the Eastern Zone of Germany, only last month, has now been named by the Pope titular......
Surrealist Church?
Salvador Dali, the Spanish surrealist, was received by the Pope in special audience last Saturday. He is reported to have told Pope John XXIII that he would like to design a new......
Moscow To See U.s. Religion
A display illustrating religious life in the United States will be included in the American exhibit at the Moscow Fair this summer. This assurance was given to Senator Dodd of......
Olympic Audiences
Speaking to those taking part in the annual congress of the Italian Catholic Sport Association, the Pope said he would gladly take the opportunity of receiving the sportsmen......
Pentecost Novena For Unity
" WE desire that the novena in preparation for the feast of Pentecost, ■ -.= which is usually universally observed and which this year falls in the month of May, should be......
`my First Encyclical Will Be On Truth'
S PEAKING on Monday evening to the 300 journalists attending the third Congress of the Italian Catholic Press, Pope John XXIII said that "the importance of truth" would be the......
For Military Bishops
All bishops-in-ordinary to the forces must now pay an ad lintina visit to Rome every five years to report on their activities, according to a papal decree published last week.......
Education Day
Education day will be observed with Solemn High Mass in Westminster Cathedral at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, at which Cardinal Godfrey will preside and preach. All teachers are invited......
Two Saints Will Meet In Rome
CARDINAL MICARA, Vicar General, asks all Catholics in Rome to take part in the solemn procession that will accompany the bodies of St. Pius X, returned from a triumphal progress......
Symbol Of The Risen Christ
T HE building of new churches and chapels all over Britain is one of the signs of the vitality of the Church in England and Wales, the cause for which we pray especially this......