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Churches, 1846

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Government Gazette. Tuesday, June 16. Roman Catholic Church Grants

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 20 June 1846 · page 4

The descriptions of the following Grants of Land which have been appropriated to the purposes of the Roman Catholic Church, are published for general information, in order that the parties concerned may…

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Catholic Church

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 27 June 1846 · page 3

The Right Rev. Dr. O'Donnell, Bishop of Galway, has been pleased to appoint Rev. George Commins to the parish of Saint Nicholas West, of which the rev. gentleman was late administrater…

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Riginal Correspondence. Church of England Lay Association for New South Wales. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 July 1846 · page 3

GKNTLEMAN,—I trust I may be permitted, through theo medium of your widely circulating paper, to submit the following correspondence for the information of your readers…

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Conversions to the Catholic Church

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 8 July 1846 · page 4

We have long wished to be enabled to present our readers with a complete catalogue of the recent conversions of the members of the Anglican Church to the Roman Catholic Communion. We do not…

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Original Correspondence. Episcopalian Church, Port Macquarie. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 July 1846 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—Through the medium of your daily paper, I beg the favour of obtaining information, as to whether it is customary or even legal for a trustee of church property to…

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The Church and Colonies. (From the Colonial Gazette, March 21.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 July 1846 · page 3

A MEETING was held on Tuesday. In the Egyptian Hall, Mansion-house, with the view of devising means to oncourage the spread of public worship and religious instruction in the colonies. The meeting was very…

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The Catholic Clergy—the Law of Marriage

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 1 August 1846 · page 3

It is possible that few, if any, of the Catholic clergy of Ireland have had their attention directed to the case of "the Queen v. the Rev. Richard Taggart," a notice of which, as it came before the…

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The North Shore Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 August 1846 · page 3

THE new Church on the North Shore, called St. Thomas's, in the parish of Willoughby, was consecrated yesterday by the Bishop of Australia. His Lordship was met at the west…

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Original Correspondence. to the Advocate of Roman Catholic Supremacy in West Maitland. (Per favour of the Sentinel.)

The Sentinel · Thursday 13 August 1846 · page 3

SIR,--It is some months since you gave notice of a motion, of a very peculiar nature certainly, in the eyes of all men of sense; but still no one imagined you intended to come forward as the advocate of one party and…

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The Great Apostacy; Or, the Church of Rome Proved Not the Church of Christ. But the Greatest Enemy to Christ, to His Doctrine, and to His Religion. an Answer to Cgbbit's History of the Reformation

The Sentinel · Thursday 13 August 1846 · page 4

THE foregoing is, partly, the title of a work, which has been put into our hands for publication, the arguments it contains, derived from a divine origin, being so conclusively condemnatory of Popery…

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To the President, Vice-President, and Officers of the Church of England Lay Association

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 August 1846 · page 3

Gentlemen,—I accept with pleasure the congratulations of your association on my arrival in this colony, and I receive with satisfaction the expression of your attachment to the sacred person of our Sovereign, and of your…

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Church of England Lay Association

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 August 1846 · page 2

ON Monday, the 3rd of August, the quarterly meeting of the Church of England Lay Association for New South Wales, was held in the Infant School House, Castlereagh-street. A…

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Local Intelligence. Church of England Lay Association

The Australian · Tuesday 18 August 1846 · page 3

An adjourned quarterly meeting of this Association was held on Friday last, at the Schoolroom in Castlereagh street, at which their Lordships the Bishops of Australia and…

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The Great Apostacy; Or, the Church of Rome Proved Not the Church of Christ. [Continued From Our Last.] But the Greatest Enemy to Christ to His Doctrine, and to His Religion. an Answer to Cobbett's History of the Reformation

The Sentinel · Thursday 20 August 1846 · page 4

Is any thing to be found, from the one end of the New Testament to the other, in the least degree resembling the worship described above ?; Can anything like it be found in the worship and devotions of the Apostles?…

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Catholic Burials—indecent Interference

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 22 August 1846 · page 4

A few days since we learned with painful interest the death of a respected citizen, the late Surgeon Robney, of Kildare-street.; On Thursday his sorrowing friends and relatives followed his remains…

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The Great Apostacy. Or, the Church of Rome Proved Not the Church of Christ. But the Greatest Enemy to Christ, to His Doctrine, and to His Religion. an Answer to Cobbett's History of the Reformation [Continued From Our Last.]

The Sentinel · Thursday 27 August 1846 · page 4

9. But you say," Why should any body, and particularly our countrymen take such pains to deceive us? Why should they, for so many years take the trouble to write and publish books of all sizes, from big folios down…

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Van Diemen's Land. Presbyterian Meeting at Hobart Town. (A bridged from the Launceston Examiner.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 August 1846 · page 2

A PUBLIC meeting was held at Hobart Town, in St. Andrew's Church, to deliberate on certain passages in the charge recently published by the Lord Bishop of Tasmania to his clergy…

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Presbyterian Meeting at Hobart Town

The Australian · Thursday 3 September 1846 · page 3

The meeting was well attended, and the proceeding were characterised by a spirit of christian charity and forbearance highly creditable to the presbyterian body. They had…

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The Great Apostacy; Or, the Church of Rome Proved Not the Church of Christ. But the Greatest Enemy to Christ, to His Doctrine, and to His Religion. an Answer to Cobbett's History of the Reformation [Continued From Our Fast]

The Sentinel · Thursday 3 September 1846 · page 4

How careless is this man of truth ! . In charity, as well as in every thing else, Protestantism is superior to Popery while the latter dooms all heretics, shutting them out of heaven, the former prays for Papists, and…

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Original Correspondence. the Anglican and Romish Churches

The Spectator · Saturday 5 September 1846 · page 387

MR. SPECTATOR--I have followed, with feelings of deep interest, the series of papers lately reprinted in your valuable journal, and entitled "A Year among the Jesuits." No member of a Christian community…

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