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Churches, 1905

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St. Peter's Mission

The Catholic Press · Thursday 13 July 1905 · page 23

On Sunday afternoon his Eminence the Cardinal visited Surry Hills and administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to over 70 adults, including a few converts. He…

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NOTES. All Around the Catholic World

The Catholic Press · Thursday 13 July 1905 · page 17

The German Emperor has bestowed the "Gold Medal for Art and Science" on the Jesuit Father Fock at Zi-ka-wei, near Shanghai, in…

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The Children's Columns. For Boys and Girls Who Read the "Catholic Press." The Letter-Writing Competition

The Catholic Press · Thursday 13 July 1905 · page 30

As several letters in the Letter-Writing Competition! "What you consider the most interesting event in Australian history" are yet unpublished…

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The Bathurst Catholic Young Men's Society's Junior Debating Team, which recently defeated the Senior Team of Bathurst Baptist Debating Society

The Catholic Press · Thursday 13 July 1905 · page 25

The Bathurst C.Y.M. Society reasonably claims to possess the youngest debating team of any society in the Commonwealth. This society has made…

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The Orange Rabble. The Shabby Leaders of Attacks on the Church. Congregationless Parsons

The Catholic Press · Thursday 13 July 1905 · page 19

July, as usual, has brought the Orange rabble forth from the wretched obscurity to which it ordinarily belongs, and the community has been…

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Baptist Church Congress

Evening News · Thursday 13 July 1905 · page 4

LONDON, Wednesday, 2.50 p.m.—The first world's congress of the Baptist Church is now being held at Exeter Hall. These are 4000 delegates present, including over the…

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The Churches. Cooma

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 July 1905 · page 11

The Rev. Father Norris, parish priest of Cooma, who was recently transferred from Bombala, has been made the recipient of purses of sovereigns from Bombala,…

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The King of Spain. His Visit to London. at Church and at the Opera. Melba to the Front

The Australian Star · Thursday 13 July 1905 · page 5

During the Diamond Jubilee celebration of Queen Victoria in 1897 there was a most impressive Roman Catholic service at the Brompton Oratory. The Princes and…

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The Church and the World. Protest by a Minister. Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 July 1905 · page 6

The Rev. Stephen Sharp, the minister of the local Baptist Church, has written to the press, communicating letters sent by him to Bishop Barlow and Archdeacon Bartlett regarding…

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The Churches. Gulgong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 July 1905 · page 4

The second annual meeting of the Missionary Association was held last night in the Presbyterian Church, the Rev. A. Doig presiding. There was an overflow meeting. The…

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Scottish Churches Bill. London, July 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 July 1905 · page 7

The Scottish Churches Bill, which has for its object the making of an equitable distribution of the property of the Free Church between the United Free Church…

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Scottish Churches Bill

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 14 July 1905 · page 5

LONDON. Thursday.--The second reading of the Scottish Churches Bill was carried last night in the House of Commons by 203 votes to 63…

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Catholic World

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 July 1905 · page 9

His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, recently ordained two negro priests. Seattle is to have a, mew cathedral at a…

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In a Country Parish

The Mosman Mail · Saturday 15 July 1905 · page 2

The Wire of a North of England country vicar has seat to the “Gentleman’s Manilas a few notes illustrating the [?] side of a clergyman’s [?]…

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Sydney City Mission

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 July 1905 · page 14
Also in The Daily Telegraph

The monthly meeting of the council of the Sydney City Mission was held on Thursday afternoon. The president (the Rev. George Campbell) occupied the chair, and 2[?]…

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Catholic Notes and News

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 July 1905 · page 24

The Third Plenary Council of the Catholic in Australia will be held in September at Manly. His Eminence the Cardinal will lay the…

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Dedication of the "George Brown " Mission Yacht

The Methodist · Saturday 15 July 1905 · page 3

On Friday afternoon last, a service was held on board the new mission yacht Privateer, lying at Parbury's Wharf, for the purpose of dedicating the vessel to the work in which she is to be…

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Children of the Poor. Soup Day at the City Mission

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 July 1905 · page 18

Soup day at the City Mission occurs twice a week -- Tuesdays and Fridays. It is a pitiful, but apparently a necessary, thing that this small army, averaging, it is stated, from 50 to 8.)…

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Archbishop Murphy, Hobart. the Doyen of the Catholic Episcopacy. No. 4

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 July 1905 · page 36

A writer in the old country has been lately informing his readers that the venerable Archbishop has just visited Rome, that he stood the fatigue ami heat of the Indian…

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