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Churches, 1875

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Dean O'brien on the Catholic Position

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 1 May 1875 · page 4

A GATHERING of the friends and members of the various Young Men's, Societies in Liverpool, was lately held in St. George's Hall, the Very Rev. Dr. O'Brien, D.D.,…

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The Duke of Wellington's Speech in 1829, on the Granting of Catholic Emancipation

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 1 May 1875 · page 5

FOR some time past (writes our Albury correspondent) we have learned much from telegrams, monthly mails, and pamphlet expostulations, about Catholic loyalty, or rather…

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St. Francis's Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 1 May 1875 · page 12

ON Sunday last about 300 of the children of the above ecclesiastical district of the city, made their first Holy Communion, and were subse-qnently confirmed. They assembled at the 7…

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Public Schools and the Church of England Synod. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 May 1875 · page 3

SIR—Under this head Mr. Moreton refere to me for an an answer to certain questions. I willingly comply with his request, but I must first say that the questions have no connection with anything that has been debated in the…

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Religious Memoranda. Church of England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 May 1875 · page 7

APRIL 10.—The foundation-stone of the western portion of St. Matthias' Church, Paddington, was laid by the Bishop of Sydney. The foundation stone of a church at Dubbo, to be…

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A Church Crushed. Several Persons Killed

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 May 1875 · page 6

A TERRIBLE and fatal accident occurred on the evening of Thursday, February 25, at the Catholic Church of St. Andrew, New York city, while the congregation were assembled…

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The Anglican Metropolitan Question. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 May 1875 · page 6

SIR,—My attention has been directed to a paragraph in your Melbourne correspondent's last letter, which appears to me to call for a few words of comment and explanation. To meet a plain and distinct charge of hasty and…

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Terrible Accident in a Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 May 1875 · page 3

A TERRIBLE accident occurred in St. Andrew's Church, New York, on the 26th February. The New York Tribune gives the following particulars:— A terrible calamity, attended with a deplorable loss…

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Telegrams This Day. Cable Message. Wreck of the Steamship Sculler. Further Particulars. Went Ashore in a Fog. Loss of 311 Lives. Forty-four Persons and a Portion of the Mails Saved. Emperor of Russia Arrived at Berlin. the Result of the Interview Between Two Emperors Anxiously Awaited. Italy and the Church. London, vis Singapore, May 11. Received In Sydney May 3.35 a.m

Evening News · Wednesday 12 May 1875 · page 2

The steamship Schiller went ashore on the Stilly island in a thick fog, and became a total wreck. There were three hundred and fifty-five persons on board at the time the ship struck, and three…

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A Presbyterian Minister on Catholic Missions

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 May 1875 · page 7

The News, a paper published at Oakland, California, reports the following as a portion of a sermon delivered in the Independent Presbyterian Church of that place by Rev…

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A Refractory Roman Catholic

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 May 1875 · page 27

Mr. Henry Petre, the administering of the sacraments to whom has been forbidden by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Salford, has published the correspondence between himself and the…

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West Australia. the New Church at York. {Perth Record, April 6)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 May 1875 · page 7

THE seventeenth of March, last, will be memorable in the annals of the York Catholics. The feast of St. Patrick was happily chosen as the day on which to lay the foundation stone of a…

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A Church Crushed In.—the Congregation Overwhelmed

Evening News · Saturday 15 May 1875 · page 2
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal

A terrible calamity, Attended, with a deplorable loss of life, and occurring in circumstances of impressive selemnity, took place in New York on the 26th February. In the very middle of services in…

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Anniversary of the Congregational Church

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 15 May 1875 · page 4

The annual services in connection with the above church were commenced on Sunday last, by the Rev. W. Matthison preaching in the morning, from 1 Timothy, e vi., v. 12,…

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The State for the Church

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 22 May 1875 · page 3

"The State, " declares Father Liberatore, one of the acknowledged writers in the Civilta Cattolica, the Papal organ of the Vatican--"The State," this Jesuit Father declares, "must…

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Glebe Presbyterian Church

Evening News · Monday 24 May 1875 · page 2

The new temporary Presbyterian Church At the Glebe was formally opened yesterday, when special services were held in the morning, afternoon, and evening. Large congregations attended at each of…

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Enthronement of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Sandhurst

Evening News · Friday 28 May 1875 · page 2

The enthronement of the Very Rev. Dr. Crane, the newly appointed Roman Catholic Bishop of Sand hurst, took place on Sunday, 16th instant, at the 11 o'clock mass, the Most Rev. Archbishop Geold and a…

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Germany. Catholic Germany

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 29 May 1875 · page 5

IN the Encyclical addressed by the Pope to the Prassian Bishops he declares that the Falk Laws are invalid, being contrary to the divine institution of the Church; for Christ…

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Victoria. Mission at St. Joseph's

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 29 May 1875 · page 7

The principal exercises of the mission given in Joseph's chapel, Collingwood, in connection with the jubilee, were brought to a close on Friday week. His Grade the Archbishop preached on…

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