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Churches, 1898

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A Distinguished Catholic Official

The Catholic Press · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 1
Also in Freeman's Journal

Mr. Reginald Arthur Egerton, recently appointed secretary to the General Post Office, Dublin, is the first Catholic who has ever filled that position, which is one of…

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The Catholic University Question

The Catholic Press · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 1

Meetings in support of the demand for a settlement of the Catholic University question are being held in various parts of the country. The attendance at Ennis was both…

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Proposed Irish Catholic University

Evening News · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 6

LONDON, February 18.-In the House of Commons last night an amendment to the Address in Reply to the Speech from the Throne, moved by Mr. John Diliou in favor of the…

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The Central Mission Difficulty (To the Editor.)

The Methodist · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 9

DEAR SIR,—Allow me to echo the wish of your contributor, S.P.C., that Mr. Prescott or Mr. Taylor formulate a scheme for submission to the Conference, by means of…

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"Lead, Kindly Light." Conversions. Distinguished Men Who Have Joined the Catholic Church. a Refuge for Great Souls

The Catholic Press · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 11

Boswell relates that when Dr. Johnson was once told of a clergyman who had given up great prospects in the Church of England on his conversion to Catholicity, the…

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Proposed Roman Catholic University. Negatived in the House of Commons

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 9

LONDON, Friday-- in the House of Commons yesterday Mr. John Dillon, member for "East Mayo, proposed an amendment to the "Address-in-Reply in favor of the…

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The Catholic World. Notes and News Interesting to Everyone. in All Quarters

The Catholic Press · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 3

On New Year's Day the Holy Father, accompanied by the members of his Pontifical household, descended to the Hall of Beatifications over the Portico of St…

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Mission Work in New Guinea Its Influence for Good. Arrival of the Rev. W. E. Bromilow

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 10

"Well, what can I do for you," said Mr. Water house, of Waverley, to a "Daily Telegraph" reporter. who called at his office in Pitt- street yesterday…

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How to Live on Nothing a Year. Sydney's Street Cadgers. Is It Such Hard Work to Live Without Work? Special, for "Catholic Press,"

The Catholic Press · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 3

How many men, we would like to know, are there in this city who live and never worry, on nothing a year; that is to say, whose only means of sustenance are derived…

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A Talk by Telegram. a Unique Interview. What are the Prospects of Federation ? an Important Article, Replying to Mr Lyne. a Bright Outlook Special, for "Catholic Press."

The Catholic Press · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 15

Last week Mr. Lyne came to town, and threw cold water on the work of the Federal Convention. Mr. Lyne is clearly an anti-federalist, and his remarks were…

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The Church in Western Australia

The Catholic Press · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 20

The Very Rev. Father O'Farrell and the Rev. Father Plunkett, members of the Redemptorist Order, are visiting the western colony at the invitation of the…

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Dominican Church of the Holy Cross, Sligo

The Catholic Press · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 1

This year the Dominicans of Sligo celebrate the golden jubilee of their present church in High-street. It was blessed with great pomp and splendour (for those days)…

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The Silver Jubilee of Cullen Church

The Catholic Press · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 1

The pretty village of Kilcullen (County Kildare) was en fete last month, the occasion being the silver jubilee of the Catholic Church. Entertaintments were given, the…

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Parents. Duties Commanded by the Church

The Catholic Press · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 3

1. To love their children, and to show them love. 2. To provide for their temporal life—, (1) By carefully guarding them from…

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Castlebar New Church

The Catholic Press · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 1

The erection of the above much-needed now church progresses rapidly, and Very Rev. Father Lyons, P.P., is being congratulated on his laborious undertaking to provide…

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The Birthplace of St. Brigid. New Church at Faughart

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 21

MR. P. Doherty, of Pambula, who has taken a great interest in the erection of a new church to St. Brigid, Patroness of Ireland, sends us a collection card he lately received from the Rev. Father Segrave, parish…

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New School-church at Leichhardt

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 16

ON Sunday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, the Cardinal-Archbishop will lay the foundation-stone of a school-church which is to occupy a site in what is called the old Balmain Cemetery. The…

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The Story of a Church Debt, and How It Was Paid

The Methodist · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 1

We were in the position so common to the Methodist Connexion—of having a debt upon the church for which a mortgage was given over the property…

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The Churches. Organ Recital at Petersham

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 11

Last night an organ recital, in aid of the new choic stalls fond, was given in All Saints Church, Petersham, by Mr. F. W. Harmer, organist of St. John's, Bishop thorpe. Glebe. After a shortened form of evensong, the…

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