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Catholics Lead The Fight To Oust Gallacher
Fife's unique campaign against Communism BY A STAFF REPORTER An election fight which is unique in Britain is being conducted in West Fife, the Scottish constituency which for 15......
The World Needs More Laughter
—Holy Father ROME. The Pope received Ole Olesen and Chic Johnson, the U.S. film comedians, in a special audience last week and told them : " The world needs more laughter and a......
Birthday Blessing For Kreisler
ROME. Fritz Kreisler, world-famous cornposer and concert violinist, received a special Apostolic Blessing from Pope Pius XII on his 75th birthday. The violinist and his wife......
For Bishops' Centenary
Rally in sports stadium Evening Mass? A GREAT national dernonstration in one of London's football grounds or big exhibition halls is planned as the culmination of the......
Unsatisfactory
The proposal to internationalise only those sectors of Jerusalem in the immediate vicinity of the Holy Places is unsatisfactory to Catholics, says the Italian Catholic Action......
Latin Patriarch
Mgr, Alberto Gori, the newlyconsecrated Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, and Fr. Giacinto Paccio, the new Custodian of the Holy Land. have left Vatican City on their way back to......
Speaker Dies At Meeting
Mr. Richard Sullivan, aged 50, of 139 Little Horton Lane, Bradford, collapsed and died suddenly after addressing an A.C.T.U, meeting at the C.P.E.A. Rooms in Sunbridge Road,......
The Pope's Appeal To U.s. Children
The Pope will make his annual broadcast appeal to the children of the United States to help poor children in Europe and Asia on Sun., Feb, 26. it is announced in Vatican City.......
Tax Demands May Help This Polish Priest
By a Staff Reporter " Perhaps some Samaritan. persuaded by taxation, inflation and commiseration, will oblige," says an appeal for " a small car, in good order, and at a......
Refugees In New Danger
Red Cross Mission soon to end BEIRUT. About 310 000 Palestine refugees in the Lebanon, Syria and Jordan will be without any relief agency to take adequate care of them after......
Improve Religious Teaching
—SAYS THE POPE VATICAN CITY. Religious teaching most match in intensity the teachings of the enemies of religion, said the Pope this week. In a letter to the Vicegerent of the......
To Our Readers
14UNDREDS of thousands " of Catholics in this country do not read a Catholic newspaper from one year's end to the other. For them the life and death struggle of the Church and......
15,000 Pray In Wind
AND RAIN Parish priest leads service By a Staff Reporter N just about the most miserable London Sunday afternoon for months, over 15,000 men and women, headed by Cardinal......
The Pope Receives Pressmen
VATICAN CITY. The Pope received a group of 35 reporters in a special audience in the Consistorial Hall of the Vatican Palace on Sunday last. The Holy Father did not address the......
Make Law Against Pornography
VATICAN CrrY. A law protecting youth against obsence literature, films and theatrical productions in Austria was demanded by Mgr. Andrew Rohracher, Archbishop of Salzburg, in an......
" Gil" Catholic Electoral Platform No4 1
RICH MOTHER OF EIGHT FIGHTS FOR FAMILY Lady Pakenham tells us why MANY people dislike the phenomenon of the Woman in Politics. Their J-v-Lreasons may range from steadfast faith......
Page Of Ancient Isaias Scroll Comes To London
By ANDREW BOYLE Dr. E. L. Sukenik, Professor of Palestinian Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jeru salem, told me on Tuesday of the Pope's deep interest in the discovery......
Lips Plea For Martyr Saint
TOKIO. Japanese Catholics have started a movement to ask the Vatican to canonise Ukon Takayama, a 16thcentury Japanese feudal lord who became a Christian martyr. A letter was......
Sir Hartley Won't Talk
By a Sta.° Reporter Standing before a large crucifix in Lowe House School, St. Helens, on Thursday night last week, Sir Hartley Shawcross conducted a political meeting in......
Russian Doctor For Cardinal
MINDSZENTY VIENNA A Hungarian priest who arrived in Vienna from Budapest last week brought a report that a Russian heart specialist is seeing Cardinal Mindszenty almost daily. •......