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Churches, 1880

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St. Patrick's Church

Evening News · Monday 16 August 1880 · page 2

On Sunday, as impressive service which was attended by a large congregation, was held in St. Patrick's Church. High mass was celebrated by the Rev. P. Henze. assisted by Fathers Le Menant and…

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The Pope and the Church of Rome

Evening News · Friday 20 August 1880 · page 3

The Pontiff is following up his encyclical on the Thomistic philosophy by on active personal interest in the Roman seminaries. Recently, attended by a number of prelates, he…

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Catholic St. Patrick's Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 August 1880 · page 14

THE anniversary of the glorious Assumption of the Blessed Virgin was celebrated with more than usual brilliancy, solemnity, and devotion in the various city and suburban churches this year…

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America. Bishop Keane, a Catholic Bishop, by Request Preachers to Protestants

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 August 1880 · page 7

Lately Bishop Keane received an invitation signed by a committee of gentlemen, residents of Boydton, Mecklenburg County, Va., and within a few miles of the Richmond…

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Home and Foreign. England. Mr. Fawcett, M.p., on Catholic Appointments

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 August 1880 · page 5

The Right Hon. H. Faweett, M.P., who at the conclusion of a lengthened" speech at the celebration of the Liberal victory, speaking of the Marquis of Ripon's appointment…

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St. Patrick's Church, Parramatta

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 August 1880 · page 15

ON Sunday last a very interesting service took place at St. Patrick's Church, when a large number of children—some three hundred in all —were confirmed by his Grace the Archbishop…

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"Placing the Stats Seals on the Doors of the Church of the Jesuits in the Rue De Sevres."

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 August 1880 · page 12

AMIDST shocking acts of impiety, callous indifference to age, learning, and character, and a sovereign contempt for the rights of citizenship, the Jesuits have…

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Mission to the Blind

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 August 1880 · page 6

Yesterday afternoon, a meeting of the friends of the Bliud was held at the Rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association; the Dean of Sydney in the chair. The meeting was opened With prayer…

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St. Bartholomew's Church, Pvrment

Evening News · Wednesday 25 August 1880 · page 2

The thirty-first anniversary of the laying of the foundation-stone of St. Bartholomow's Church of England, at Pyrmont, of which the Rev. Alfred Yarnold is the minister, was celebrated last night by…

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Mariners Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 August 1880 · page 3

On the evening of Tuesday, the 24th instant, a large gathering of both sexes, among which were conspicuous a considerable number of blue-jackets in their best holiday attire, sat down to an excellent tea in the room underneath…

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Church and State in Geneva

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 August 1880 · page 7

The popular vote in the canton of Geneva for the separation of Church and State has resulted in the rejection of the measure. The Majority has surprised everybody in Switzerland by its magnitude. Of 13,000 ballots cast, out…

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Catholic

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 August 1880 · page 15

THE Rev. P. Lynch, C.C., of Carcoar, has been registered for the celebration of marriages. FATHER Hennebery made 227 converts to the temperance cause at Gulgong…

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The Catholic Manifesto. the Catholic Vote at the General Election

Evening News · Saturday 28 August 1880 · page 7

CONSIDERABLE curiosity has been naturally enough inspired as to the intended action of the Catholic section of our community in the forthcoming contest—a curiosity certainly not…

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The Catholic Vote at the General Election

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 August 1880 · page 12

THE political atmosphere is thickening, and men of delicate sensibility find some difficulty in breathing. Political ambitions and aspirations are gathering…

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Home and Foreign. England. Huxley Compares Protestant and Catholic Clergy

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 August 1880 · page 5

Prof. Huxley, in the lecture delivered before the Liverpool Philomathic Society, on "Scientific Education," said:—"It was my fortune, some time ago, to pay a visit to one…

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Destruction of a Church. London, Aug. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 August 1880 · page 5

A disastrous fire occurred this evening resulting in the total destruction of Whitechapel Church recently erected on the site of the old building…

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Is the Church of Rome Part of the Church of Christ? (To the Editors of the Protestant Standard.)

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 28 August 1880 · page 7

DEAR SIRS,--I hope that this letter will have a place in your Christian paper. I have read carefully Dr. Hodge's article on the Church; and I say, advisedly, that the Church of Rome…

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Correspondence. Ritualism and High Church. To the Editors of the Protestant Standard

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 28 August 1880 · page 6

SIRS,--On reading your sub-lender in the Standard of the 14th instant, it reminded me that I have often previously wondered why such frequent malpractices in churches calling…

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The Pope and the Church of Rome

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 August 1880 · page 27

The Pontiff is following up his encyclical on the Thomistic philosophy by an active personal interest in the Roman seminaries. Recently, attended by a number of prelates, he…

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A Wesleyan View of the Church of England

Evening News · Monday 30 August 1880 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Monday.—Rev T. Osborne, Wesleyan Minister, preachedlast night upon the "Church of England and its work." While repudiating its apostolio succession, yet he…

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