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Churches, 1851

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REVIEW. Lectures on Certain Difficulties felt by Anglicans in submitting to the Catholic Church

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 2 January 1851 · page 4

By John Henry Newman, Priest of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri. Lecture XII. London : Burns and Lambert. We owe an apology to our readers for…

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The Catholic Party in the House of Commons

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 2 January 1851 · page 6

It is not an uncommon thing to hear Catholic Emancipation cried up as one of the greatest boons ever wrung out of one body of religionists by another ; and looking at…

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Original Correspondence. Catholic and Protestant Schools. (To the Editors of the Freeman's Journal.)

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 16 January 1851 · page 10

GENTLEMEN,—A great deal has been, said and written lately on the subject of Education, and men have come to think that after all it is more a party question than anything else, and not one about…

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Miscellaneous Extracts. Sir James Brooke's Mission to Siam. (From the Singapore Free Press, October 18.}

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 January 1851 · page 2

ON the third of August last, H.M. Steamer Sphinx, with H. C. Steamer Nemesis in tow left Singapore for Siam, and arrived off the bar of the Menam on the 9th. The rumours that…

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Pickings From Punch Mr. Punch on Church and State Education

Empire · Wednesday 22 January 1851 · page 3

MR. PUNCH has often made his appearance at Willis's Rooms, but, being a decided opponent of "National Education upon strictly Church Principles," he kept away from the building last…

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Catholic Miracles

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 23 January 1851 · page 5

An immense number of persons, both infidels and Protestants, especially in soberminded england and Scotland, treat every professed Catholic miracle as a portion of…

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Dr. Newman to His Anglican Friends

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 23 January 1851 · page 6

There is but one set of persons, indeed, who inspire the Catholic with especial anxiety, as much so as the open sinner, who is not peculiar to any communion,…

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A Catholic Choral Society. (To the Editors of the Freeman's Journal.)

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 23 January 1851 · page 11

GENTLEMEN,—Until lately Australia had little to boast of respecting her progress, in literature, science, or the fine arts. Her inhabitants were devoted to the accumulation of wealth, and Mammon…

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[?]tical Intelligence the Synodical Address of the Fathers of the National Council of Thurles to Their Beloved Flock, the Catholics of Ireland. (Continued from our last) Catholic University

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 23 January 1851 · page 2

It is then, in our conviction, quite unnecessary to assure you that everything which concerns your welfare, all that regards the advancement of your interests, whether temporal or eternal, is bound up…

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Catholic Funerals

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 30 January 1851 · page 7

When the "Reformers" shut their eyes to the clear proofs afforded by Scripture and tradition of the doctrine of purgatory, and the consequent practice of praying for the…

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Classification of Anglican Clergymen

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 30 January 1851 · page 5

I divide your English clergy and laity, apart from the Dissenters and Papists, into some fifteen or sixteen distinct sections; and I assure you, Mr. Herder, that in making…

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Protestant Misconception of Catholic Doctrine. (The following extracts are from Mr. Wards "Four Years Experience.")

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 30 January 1851 · page 6

Here, too, 1 must add a word respecting that singular notion which Protestants entertain with regard to the supposed Catholic rule, that we should always pray in a set…

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Submission to the Catholic Church

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 6 February 1851 · page 4

Submission to the Catholic Church. By A [?] J. Hanmer, B.A. This little work is addressed to inquiring friends, anxious to be informed why the…

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Ireland. the National Catholic University. Proceedings of the Committee

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 6 February 1851 · page 2

We take the following from the Dublin Freeman's Journal of October 5:—We are able to-day to announce to our readers the glad tidings that the first step has been taken…

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Church Unions. (From the Spectator, October 19.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 February 1851 · page 3

SOME movements in the Church Societies of Bristol and London attract attention. In the Bristol Society, as the Times reports, "a division arose with reference to the headship of…

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Protestant Misconceptions of Catholic Doctrine. {The following extracts are from Mr. Ward's Four Years Experience") Supposed Credulity of Catholics

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 13 February 1851 · page 5

It cannot be denied that, among Catholics, i as among all mankind, there exists an immense variety of personal character, and that in such a matter as credulity op incredulity,…

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The Church in Sardinia and Piedmont

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 13 February 1851 · page 2

"The mission of M. Pinelli to Rome," says the Turin correspondent of the Times, " is considered now to have been a complete failure, and I presume the government only waits the personal…

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The Pope Too Many for the (Anglican) Bishops

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 20 February 1851 · page 4

The tiara begins to take its ancient place of supremacy. It towers far above the mitre. Even the Cardinal's hat enforces are involuntary reverence, and Peter fairly…

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The Empire. Monday, February 24, 1851. the Church of England and the Colonies

Empire · Monday 24 February 1851 · page 2

THE South Australian Clergy appear to be at issue with their Bishops upon some of the points involved in the Episcopal manifesto lately promulgated from this…

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Freland. Address of the Catholic University Committee to the Catholics of Ireland. (Concluded from our last.)

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 27 February 1851 · page 2

If there are strong reasons for provididing a Catholic education for Catholic youth in every country, they acquire peculiar strength from the special cicumstances of Ireland. Here the Catholic…

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