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Churches, 1939

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LETTERS Church And International Issues

Daily News · Wednesday 8 March 1939 · page 4

Val Gadd, Ourimbah, writes:-- The observations of Bishop Burgmann in the Daily News should appeal to all lovers of peace and truth, and start a…

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Judge's Daughter Wed At St. Mark's Church

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 March 1939 · page 9

A quiet wedding took place at St. Mark's Church, Darling Point, yesterday morning when Mrs. Lorna Mackellar, second daughter of Judge and Mrs. Mocatta, of Darling Point, married Colonel George Douglas, formerly of the King's Own Borderers…

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Glimpses Of Catholic Mission Life— 'Twas a Circus!

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 March 1939 · page 3

"The only large animals the natives had seen prior to our coming were the pig and the dog. Horses and cows were…

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Catholic Notes. the Catholic Ball

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 March 1939 · page 31

The Catholic Ball of 1939 will take place in Mark Foy's Empress Rooms on Wednesday, June 14. The committee is already making preliminary…

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Church Jubilee Holroyd Methodist Celebrations

The Broadcaster · Thursday 9 March 1939 · page 2

Holroyd Methodist Church will celebrate its golden jubilee next month. It is 50 years since the little old church was elected in Holroyd Road. A larger…

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Orange Lodge Service Methodist Church, Fairfield

The Biz · Thursday 9 March 1939 · page 4

The above service took place on Sunday, March 5, at 7.15 p.m., in the Methodist Church, Fairfield. Rev. P. Williams was the preacher, assisted by Rev…

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Fairfield Catholic Club

The Biz · Thursday 9 March 1939 · page 5

On Wednesday night, 8th inst., the weekly meeting of the Catholic Club was held. Two visiting priests gave a very interesting lantern-slide lecture, the…

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A Methodist's Confession

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 March 1939 · page 24

THE retiring President of the New South Wales Methodist Conference, the Rev. R. H. Campbell, in hie address at the opening of the Methodist Conference last week, stressed the need for more intensive moral and religious training. A wave of spiritual Indifference had swept the world, he said, and it…

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Goulburn Catholic Benefit Societies

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 March 1939 · page 27

The third annual combined picnic of the Sacred Heart Branch of the H.A.C.B.S. and the local branch of the A.H.C. Guild, held on Sunday, February 19, was a…

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Mission Schools in Indo China

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 March 1939 · page 3

One of the moat flourishing and best organised mission fields in the Far Bast is that of Indo China, comprising Cochin China, Tongking, Cambodia, and Annam…

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Catholic Evidence Guild. Weekly Meeting

The Catholic Press · Thursday 9 March 1939 · page 21
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There was a fair attendance at the weekly meeting of the Catholic Evidence Guild hold in St. Mary's Chapter Hall on Monday last…

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Catholic Missions Office in Brisbane

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 March 1939 · page 13

The National Director, Very Rev. Dr. J. Hannan, visited Brisbane in January, at the invitation of his Grace the Archbishop, to finalise…

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Tanganyika Education Department Lauds Mission School

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 March 1939 · page 17

Rubya (Tanganylka).—Indicative of the cordial relations existing between the White Fathers and the colonial authorities in British East Africa, the Normal…

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Catholic Medical Guild Established in India

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 March 1939 · page 15

Bombay.—A branch of St. Luke's Guild for Catholic doctors was opened here towards the end of last year. Some sixty doctors attended the inaugural…

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Fourteen Baptised at Tientsin Catholic University

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 March 1939 · page 17

Tientsin (China).—Thirteen students, throe of whom are in the University department, were baptised here on December 11. Fourteenth member of the…

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Annual Catholic Ball. Wednesday, June 14

The Catholic Press · Thursday 9 March 1939 · page 25

The Catholic Ball of 1939 will take place in Mark Foy's Empress Booms on Wednesday, 14th June. The committee is already making preliminary arrangements…

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Caledonian Catholic Association. Father Herbert Farewelled

The Catholic Press · Thursday 9 March 1939 · page 10

On Tuesday, 28th ult., in the Austral Salon, the Scottish Catholics of Sydney said an revoir to the Very Rev. Father Herbert. O.F.M., who left Australia by the…

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Sydney University. Catholic Young Men Freshers

The Catholic Press · Thursday 9 March 1939 · page 12

All the young men who are about to commence their University career are invited to meet the Campion Society at the University steps in Parramatta-road, at 11…

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Spanish Franciscans Open New Mission in Morocco

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 March 1939 · page 37

Ifni (Spanish Morocco).—Ever since the first Franciscan Missionaries shed their blood on the Moslem soil of North Africa the sons of St. Francis have…

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