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Labour Should Drop Socialist Aims
Annual conference is chance to alter constitution By DOUGLAS HYDE C HRISTIANS in the Labour movement have the opportunity at this moment of getting the Labour Party to drop the......
Mcginty Joins The First Class Names
From II Correspondent A NEW name has come into the news to join the small hand of Catholic first-class cricketers: Ralph McGinty, who last week took his first first-class......
Double-decker Holiday F Or Their Annual Outing, The...
Guild took eight double-decker buses to the Carmelite Priory at Aylcsford. The pilgrims numbered more than 400. The Prior led them in the Rosary at the open-air altar and later......
Evening Mass On A Racecourse
B Y special permission of the Holy See, Pontifical High Mass was celebrated in the evening on the Durban racecourse during South Africa's National Marian Congress which closed......
Negress Mot11111 Of The Year
A NEGRESS, Mrs. Macro Thomas, mother of nine children, has been chosen Catholic Mother of the Year in the United States. The choice is made in May each year by the National......
This Rosary Campaign Had To Be Held Up
B LESSED Rose Venerini, who was beatified in St. Peter's on Sunday, started a Rosary campaign in the town of Viterbo-30 miles from Rome, where several Popes have been......
Pastoral Letter Mutilated
Spanish Cardinal protests C ARDINAL SEGURA, Archbishop of Seville, accused the Spanish civil authorities last week of censoring and curtailing publication of his pastoral......
`dead' Flier Ordained
Officially listed as "missing, believed dead," after being shot down over Germany in 1944, J. Thomas Farrell, a former Royal Canadian Air Force officer, has now become Fr.......
Franco To Release Thousands
T HOUSANDS of prisoners in Spanish jails will be released by an amnesty decree granted by General Franco in honour of the International Eucharistic Congress which opens in......
` Going One
worse than Communism' B ISHOP ELLIS told the Union of Catholic Mothers at a 1,000strong rally in Nottingham last week that attacks are developing more and more openly on family......
`young Worker' Is Out Again
The Young Christian Workers went with the May Day processions from all parts of London to Trafalgar Square, and more than 100 young men and girls went about the square calling:......
Papal Academicians
News has been received at the Vatican of the deaths of two members of the Papal Academy of Science, the Marquis Giuseppe Lepri de Rota. Professor of Zoology in the University of......
'no Politics' Rule
On the eve of Italy's local elections the Vicariate of Rome has reminded all Roman priests that they are strictly prohibited from attending political rallies. The reminder was......
Bl. Pius X's Home
The President of Italy has declared the house in which Blessed Pope Pius X was horn in the little town of Riese to be a national monument.......
Atlantic House
£52,000 extension T HE extension of Atlantic House, the Apostleship of the Sea's residential and recreational club in Liverpool, at a cost of £52,000—ineluding £22,500 for the......
Sir Hartley Speaks Up For Catholics
QM HARTLEY SHAWCROSS, OPresident of the Board of Trade in the Labour Government, spoke in favour of more State aid for Catholic and other denominational schools at a May Day......
`our Lady Of The Floods'
All the parish priests and a large group of lay pilgrims from the districts flooded in the Po Valley last November arrived in Rome with a statue of Our Lady which they took to......
County 'double'
Alderman L. M. Haines, of Studley, has been elected chairman of the Warwickshire County Council, and Alderman Lieut.-Colonel F. Blennerhassett, of Balsall Common, has been......
Vicar Capitular
Mgr. William Bohan has resigned the office of Vicar Capitular of Galloway because of ill-health and has been succeeded by Mgr. McHardy, of Ayr, who will administer the diocese......
Succeeds Cardinal
Mgr. Giacomo Lecaro, Archbishop of Ravenna and Bishop of Cervia, has been named Archbishop of Bologna in succession to the late Cardinal Nasalli-Rocca. Archbishop Lercaro's......
Jordan Church
Cardinal Gregory Peter XV Agagianian, the Armenian Patriarch. will go to Amman, Jordan, on Monday— Mother's Day—to dedicate the new Church of Our Lady of the Assumption. The......
Baseball And Card Tricks For Nuns
Dominican sisters, in their white habits, recently played grey-robed Franciscan nuns at baseball at Ladycliff College, New York, when 63 nuns from 15 different orders attended a......