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Churches, 1870

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The Church of Rome and the Bible

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 19 March 1870 · page 12

ONE would have thought that the Church of Soma had removed her people to a safe distance from the Scriptures. She has placed the gulf of tradition between them and the Word…

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Shocking Catastrophe at Liverpool. Fifteen Persons Crushed to Death in a Church

Evening News · Monday 21 March 1870 · page 3

Full details of the frightful accident at the Roman Catholic Church of St. Joseph, Liverpool, are published in the Liverpool morning papers. The church is situated in one of the poorest and most densely…

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Frightful Catastrophe in a Church at Liverpool

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 March 1870 · page 2

The Liverpool Albion, of January 24, publishes the following account:—Last night, about 8 o'olook, a catastrophe of a frightful character occurred at the Roman Catholic chapel of St. Joseph, Grosvenor-street, Scotland Road, which…

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Shocking Catastrophe at Liverpool. Fifteen Persons Crushed to Death in a Church. (From the Times, January 2[?]th.)

Empire · Monday 21 March 1870 · page 3

[?] details of the frightful accident at the Roman Catholice Church of St. Joseph, Liverpool, are published in the Liverpool morning papers. The church is situated in one of the poorest and most densely…

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Religious Memoranda. Church of England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 March 1870 · page 8

MARCH 16.—A meeting of the parishioners of St. Peter's, Woolloomooloo, was held, at which it was resolved to purchase the buildings recently erected between the church and Forbes-street, making thereby…

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The Dis-established Church-its Prospects of Harmony

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 March 1870 · page 6

On Tuesday last the lay and clerical delegates representing the united dioceses of Dublin, Kildare, and Glendalough, met in the Ancient Concert Rooms, Dublin, for the…

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Frightful Catastrophe in a Church at Liverpool

Sydney Mail · Saturday 26 March 1870 · page 6

The Liverpool Albion, of January 24, publishes the following account:—Last night, about 8 o'clock, a catastrophe of a frightful character occurred at the Roman Catholic chapel of St. Joseph, Grosvenor-street, Scotland Road, which…

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Parliamentary Paper. Roman Catholic Orphan School, Parramatta

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 March 1870 · page 6

The Inspector of Public Charities to the Principal Under Secretary. Sydney, 8th February, 1870. SIR,—I have the honour to report, for the information of…

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The Roman Catholic Orphan School at Parramatta Disgraceful State of the Institution

Evening News · Wednesday 30 March 1870 · page 2

THE Inspector of Public Charities has issued a very unfavourable report of the state of the Roman Catholic Orphan School at Parramatta. Mr. King calls attention, in the first instance, to the fact that there…

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The Roman Catholic Orphan School at Parramatta

Empire · Thursday 31 March 1870 · page 4

The Inspector of Public Charities has issued a very unfavourable report of the state of the Roman Catholic Orphan School at Parramatta. Mr. King calls attention, in the first instance, to the fact that there…

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The Roman Catholic Orphan School at Parramatta

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 April 1870 · page 5

The Inspector of Public Charities has issued a very unfavourable report of the state of the Roman Catholic Orphan School at Parramatta. Mr. King calls attention, in the first instance, to the faot that there…

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Parliamentary Papers. Roman Catholic Orphan School, Parramatta. The Inspector of Public Charities to the Principal Under Secretary. Sydney, 8th February, 1870

Sydney Mail · Saturday 2 April 1870 · page 2

SIR,—I have tho honour to report, for the information of the Honorable the Colonial Secretary, that I inspected the Roman Catholic Orphan School on the 7th instant. 2. Before proceeding to remark on the state of the…

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Frightful Catastrophe in a Church at Liverpool

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 April 1870 · page 4

The "Liverpool Albion," of January 24, publishes the following acount:—Last night about 8 o'clock, a catastrophe of a frightful character occurred at the Roman Catholic…

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Suicide of a Catholic Priest

Evening News · Monday 11 April 1870 · page 3

ON Wednesday morning last our citizens were shocked to hear that the Catholic priest residing here bad committed suicide the night before hy shooting himself. The particulars, as we have…

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Suicide of a Catholic Priest

Empire · Tuesday 12 April 1870 · page 4

ON Wednesday morning last our citizens were shocked to hear that the Catholic priest residing here had committed suicide the night before by shooting himself. The particulars, as we have…

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Proposed New College in Connection with the Wesleyan Methodist Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 April 1870 · page 2

A PUBLIC Breakfast to initiate the building fund of the proposed new Wesleyan College to be crected at Stanmore, was held in the Masonic Hall, on Tuesday morning. About two hundred persons sat down to an excellent…

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Wesleyan College. Proposed New College in Connection with the Wesleyan Methodist Church

Sydney Mail · Saturday 16 April 1870 · page 3

A PUBLIC Breakfast to initiate the building fond of the proposed new Wesleyan College to be erected at Stanmore, was held in the Masonic Sail, on Tuesday morning. About two hundred persons eat down to an excellent…

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A Roman Catholic on Papal Infallibility

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 16 April 1870 · page 4

To decree the personal infallibility, of the Pope and the bodily assumption of the Virgin Mary, together with giving its sanction to the Syllabus of Plus IX, is…

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George Iii. on Roman Catholic Emancipation

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 16 April 1870 · page 10

THE following anecdote, showing the King's deeply earnest and conscientious feelings on the subject of the Coronation Oath, was communicated to Lord…

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Twelve Persons Abjure the Church of Rome

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 16 April 1870 · page 11

WE translate the following letter from L'Aurore:-- To the Rev. M. Charbonnier, Cure of St. Cecile, Province of Quebec…

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