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Churches, 1887

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An English Catholic Bishop on the New Zealand Catholic Irish

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 18

THE following is the main portion of a press comment on a recent utterance of Bishop Luck, of Auckland, N.Z. It is from the New Zealand Tablet, owned by Dr. Moran, the patriotic Bishop…

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A Clever Catholic Lady Student

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 18

OUT of seventy-one students who presented themselves for the first year in connection with the late University examinations in Arts, forty-two failed, and twenty-nine succeeded in passing the critical…

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Campbell-street Presbyterian Sabbath School Picnic

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 3

The Annual Excursion and Picnic in Connection with the above school, was held on Wednesday last at Clontarf, and as usual proved to be one of the most attractive…

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Catholic. Story of an Exiled Community

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 17

A COMMUNITY of Ursuline nuns has been established at Armidale the last four years, but as yet the Order is very little known in Australia. This may be accounted for partly because this is the…

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Catholic. the New Bishop of Perth

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 15

DR. Matthew Gibney, who was appointed Coadjutor just before the death of the venerable and lamented Bishop Griver, will be solemnly consecrated Bishop of Perth, Western Australia, on…

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The Acting-governor of Tasmania on Catholic Education

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 8

AT the annual distribution of prizes in connection with St. Mary's Presentation Convent, Hobart. His Excellency, the Acting-Governor, and Miss Dobson, were among the visitors…

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The Mayor of Auckland N. Z. and Bishop Luck. His Worship Declines to Preside at Proposed Public Meeting. The Roman Catholic Position re Religious Objects

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 8

It will be remembered that at the meeting of Roman Catholics held on Wednesday last to devise measures for the raising of subscriptions for the speedy re-building of St…

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Letters to the Editor. Lord Randolph Churchill at Bradford. (To the Editor.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 8

SIR,—At the great Conservative Conference at Bradford, held on Tuesday, 26th October, and reported in the Times, October 27th, 1880, Lord Randolph Churchill made a very lengthy speech…

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The New Church of St. Patrick's in Rome

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 7

THE subscription list to the new church is headed by the handsome donation of £160 from his Holiness Pope Leo XIII., who has on so many occasions shown his liberality and loving remembrance…

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England. the Beginning of the Churchill Row

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 6

In connection with the recent resignation of Lord Churchill, the following from the Catholic Times, November 23, is interesting :— Something like a process of disruption has…

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Does the Roman Church Really Believe in Its Own Claim to the Possession of an Infallible Guide?

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 4

The history of the controversy respecting the immaculate conception of the Blessed Virgin will strikingly illustrate this question. In the beginning of the…

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Church Affairs at Ryde. to the Editor of the Mercury

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 3

SIR,—What a capital joke that the correspondent “ Ryde,” in your last issue, should have been on the wrong scent. My letter, as you might remember, was signed originally…

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Baptist Church

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 3

ON Monday last a pleasant gathering took place in the Baptist Church, Blaxcell-street, Granville, when the members of the branch of the Scripture Union in connection with the…

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Church of England Journalism. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 9

Sir,—With reference to your special cable from London in this day's issue "that the Guardian is the leading Church of England journal in England," I beg respectfully to say that the Guardian is not the leading Church…

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The Churches. "O day of rest and gladness, O day of joy and light; O balm of care and sadness, Most beautiful, most bright." Sermon for the Home

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 8

Under this heading, Sermons, by eminent preachers, are published in this widely-circulated journal in order to present sound religious literature in the colony, and especially in the remote interior. By this means the isolated free…

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Church of England Journalism. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 January 1887 · page 9

Sir,—Mr. R. M. Armstrong's statement, which appears in your issue of to-day, concerning the principles of the Guardian, will be news to most of your readers who know anything about Church of England journalism. To say…

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Presbyterian Church of New South Wales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 January 1887 · page 6

The Presbytery of Sydney met at St. Andrew's Church last evening. Present: Revs. D. Smith, M.A. (Moderator), R. S. Paterson, J. Cosh, M.A., H. Macready, Dr. Kinross, R. Collie, F.L.S., G. M'Innes, B. D. (clerk), J. Paton, J…

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Roman Catholic Teachers

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 15 January 1887 · page 9

Among the various reasons urged by the Roman Catholic Church to secure the attendance of the young at her own schools, the assertion is broadly made that the Catholic…

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The Roman Catholic Church and the Recent Outrage

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1887 · page 9

The Rev. William Kelly, S. J., addressing the congregation of St. Mary's R. C. Church, St. Loonards, on Sunday last, spoke at some length on the subject of Christian education and its effect on the morals of society…

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Wisdom at the Moruya Mission

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 15 January 1887 · page 3

Father Doyle has been holding a "jubilee mission" at Moruya, and amongst his subjects was that old and profitable one of pick-purse purgatory…

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