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Dockers, Back At Work, Are Still
Looking For Lead By GERRY SHERRY " We've had it, and we will be glad to get back to work." Such was the general feeling of dockers on their way to the Victoria Park meeting last......
Spain Should Be In The Atlantic Pact
It is of first importance that Spain should be included in the countries combating the threat of Cqmmunism. said Dr. Salazar, the Prime Minister, speaking at an extraordinary......
Bishops Named For Hungary And Czechoslovakia
VATICAN CITY. The Pope has named a new Bishop in Hungary and another in Czechoslovakia. Mgr, Abrose Lazik, Apostolic Administrator of Tirnava, was made Titular Bishop of Appi,......
Two Bishops Consecrated
Two new English Bishops were consecrated this week. At Lancaster, on Monday, Archbishop Godfrey, Apostolic Delegate to Great Britain, consecrated Mgr. Pearson, Auxiliary Bishop......
Bishop Attacks Beach Immodesty
VAT ICAN CI Y. The Vatican semi-official daily the Osservatore Romano published a warning to holidaymakers on Monday last by reprinting a pastoral letter of Mgr. Giuseppe Siri,......
Italians End Food Rationing
By decision of the Italian Cabinet announced on Tuesday last all food rationing in Italy will end on Mon day. In practice this means that bread and macaroni, the last remaining......
12 Designs For Doors For St. Peter's On View
Models by twelve outstanding artists, eleven Italians and one French, entered in the competition for the design of the huge bronze doors of St. Peter's went on exhibition in......
The Pope Calls On
Women To Fight Materialism VATICAN CITY. The Pope told 40,000 women of Italian Catholic Action on Sunday last that they must take part in the fight against post-war materialism......
Figures Expose Czech Propaganda
Priests Stand Firm The inability of the Czech Government to influence anything more than a tiny minority of priests despite all its efforts was revealed in figures circulated at......
Polish Reds Follow Czech Example
The Polish Government, following the Czech example, has forbidden the excommunication of Poles belonging to the Communist Party. It simultaneously announced that it had agreed......
Belgian Crisis Continues
BRUSSILLS. The Belgian Senate and House of Representatives met last Tuesday to appoint their presidents and other officials. But the political crisis which followed the recent......
We Stop Priests Going Home
COLOGNE. A number of German missionaries who recently returned from China have been denied permission by British occupational authorities in Cologne to return home. The priests......
Gift For The Pope
VATICAN CITY. Mgr. John Treacy, Bishop of La Crosse, Wisconsin, has presented the Pope with a special stamp collection, made up entirely of stamps with a sacred subject or......