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Churches, 1851

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The Duke of Wellington and the Anti-catholic Bill

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

We believe we are warranted in stating that the illustrious Duke is opposed to any legislative proceedings in reference to the restoration of the Catholic Hierarchy in this…

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Miscellaneous Extracts. Italian Church in London. (From the Times, July 2.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 October 1851 · page 6

NOTHING has been found more efficacious finally to determine the choice of the watering Protestant in favour of the Church of Rome than a visit to the Eternal City itself. The…

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Address of the Catholic Hierarchy of Canada to Cardinal Wiseman

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

We have much pleasure in laying before our readers the address of the Bishops and Clergy of Canada to his Eminence Cardinal Wiseman, by the Grace of God, and favour…

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Catholic Defence Association

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 6 November 1851 · page 6

If the present penal threats of the English Parliament should be the happy occasion of bringing about a real and lasting union of the Catholics of the kingdom in defence of…

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Interior. Presbyterian Church Extension Public Meeting. (From the Bathurst Free Press, November 8.)

Empire · Tuesday 11 November 1851 · page 3

A large and highly influential meeting of persons interested in the cause of Presbyterian Church Extension, in connectin with the Synod of Australin, was held on Thursday evening last…

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Anglican Proceedings.—the Prince Consort

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 13 November 1851 · page 7

At a meeting of the Society for the Propagation of Protestantism in foreign parts, held at St. Martin's Hall, not only did the Premier and the Colonial Secretary take…

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Canada. Catholic Defence Association in Montreal

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

A meeeting of tins society was held in Montreal on the 29th May (Ascension Thursday), after Vesper in front of St. Patrick's Church, when the following resolution sand addresses were unanimously adopted…

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Presbytrian Church Extension. Public Meeting at Bathurst. (From the Bathurst Free Press.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 November 1851 · page 6

A LARGE highly influential meeting of persons interested in the cause of Presbyterian Church Extension, in connexion with the Synod of Australia, was held on Thursday, the…

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Sofala Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 November 1851 · page 3

SINCE the last report the labour of erecting this building has been constantly maintained. The Bishop of Sydney has been on the ground during several hours of overy day, instructing…

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Catholic Defence Association

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 20 November 1851 · page 3

Day after day have our columns borne evidence to the fact that there exists a wide-spread feeling in favour of the formation of an association to defend the religious liberties of Catholics, at which the…

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Catholic University of Ireland

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 20 November 1851 · page 3

The Committee of the Catholic University of Ireland are progressing surely and steadily, and every day indicates a move in the right direction. Yesterday, the Reverend Phillip Devlin, of the…

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Miscellaneous Extracts. Catholic Education

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

At the present moment, when unity, energy, and concerted action ought to be the grand characteristic of the Catholics of London—when everything they hold dear, their…

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The Church in Danger. (From the Glasgow Sentinel, July 5.)

Empire · Thursday 20 November 1851 · page 4

The English Established Church is the most richly endowed in the world. It is said to cost more than all the other established churches in Christendom put…

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Original Correspondence. the Free Church in New England. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 November 1851 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—With reference to that part of the proceedings of the "Synod of Eastern Australia," reported in your paper of the 16th instant, in which my name is mentioned in…

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St. Patrick's Catholic Schools, London

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 27 November 1851 · page 3

The anniversary dinner in aid of this truly benevolent institution took place at the Freemason's Tavern, when the chair was most appropriately taken by…

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The Catholic University and America

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 27 November 1851 · page 6

It is with feelings of no ordinary satisfaction that we give a prominent place to the following noble address which his Grace the Primate of all Ireland has just received from…

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The Fine Arts in Connection with Catholic Worship

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 27 November 1851 · page 3

His Grace the Primate accompanied by the Lord Bishop of Waterford, the Rev. Dr. Cooper of Dublin the Very Rev. Dr. O'Brien, of Waterford ; the Rev. T. Maher, P.P., Carlow; and several eminent…

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Literature. the Music of the Church

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 27 November 1851 · page 4

Stained with the dust of the world's unmoistened paths, And with bent head and bowed form. Into the pure aspiring splendour of God's Temple…

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The House Divided Against Itself. to My Obtrusive Stepmother, the Church by Law Established

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 27 November 1851 · page 3

"The fortunes of thy house shall totter ; thy character, which led the way to them, shall bleed on every side of it; thy Faith questioned, thy works belied, thy wit forgotten, and thy learning trampled…

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The Apostate Gavazzi Again. to the Editor of the "Catholic Standard."

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 4 December 1851 · page 5

My dear friend—I promised never to speak again on the apostate Gavazzi, but it would be a crime to conceal the work of Divine Justice. O yes ! thanks be to God…

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