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Churches, 1940

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The Rebels. How the Church Fares

The Catholic Press · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 6

The old Church, the net let down into the sea, the wedding to which men are invited from highway and byway—that Church goes on. She is reproached for the…

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Berala School-Church. Foundation Ceremony on

The Catholic Press · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 28

The solemn blessing of the foundation-stone of the new church-school at Berala will take place this Sunday. Rev. Father C. Donovan will be pleased to welcome the…

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Church Latin. Aids to Pronunciation

The Catholic Press · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 26

Ah-neeyous deh-ee kooee tawllees peckkah-tah mondee, mee-seh-reli-reh naw-bees. This looks pretty forbidding, and, hammered out laboriously syllable by syllable, would…

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Young Priest's Record. Five Sacraments in One Church. London, January 5

The Catholic Press · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 16

A special dispensation was obtained for the recent ordination of Father Matthew Donoghue by Archbishop McDonald, O.S.B., of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, at the…

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Nazis and the Church. Serious Tension. Planned Campaign of Persecution

The Catholic Press · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 38

It has already been reported by our air-mail service how his Eminence Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna, imposed an interdict on the municipality of…

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Christian Science Churches

Nepean Times · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 5
Also in The Broadcaster, Liverpool News

Life was the subject in all Churches of Christ. Scientist, on Sunday. The Golden Text was: "This is the record, that God hath given to us…

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Church of England Services. St. Mary's, Guildford

The Broadcaster · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 1

The rector's subject, at last Sunday's service was the words of Christ, John 4: "But the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water…

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New School-church at Berala

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 22

His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. N. T. Gilroy will on Sunday next bless the foundations of a new school-church at Berala in Kingsland-road, about a…

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A Plan of the New Church of St. Therese at Mascot

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 19

On Sunday next, January 28, his Grace Archbishop Gilroy will visit the Mascot Parish for the purpose of blessing the foundation stone of the new Church of…

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Church's Silver Jubilee

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 10

The silver jubilee of St. David's Church, Arncliffe, will be celebrated to-night, at 8 o'clock, by a special service in the church, the preacher being the Rev. G. Stuart Watts…

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Church College Principal Dead

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 8

The Rev. Henry Clifton Foreman, Principal of the Methodist Ladies' College, Burwood, died early yesterday, aged 63. Mr. Foreman, who was born in Sydney,…

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Christian' Science Churches

The Biz · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 2

Life was the subject in all Churches of Christ. Scientist. on Sunday. The Golden Text was: ``This in the record, that God hath given to us…

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Smithfield Baptist Church Anniversary

The Biz · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 9

For 82 years Smithfield St[?]ct Baptist Church has been in existence, endeavouring to send out Gospel light and truth. Many changes have occurred, and many…

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LOOKING Backwards Our Catholic Life of Long Ago "There's many a memory bright and fair will tingle at a name, But leave unstirred the embers there we cannot fan to flame." —"Around the Bo[?]e Log." Notes From Our Files of 1904

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 6

The Catholic world here was shocked at the news of the death of the venerable Bishop of Armidale, Most Rev. Dr. Torreggiani, which took place at the end…

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Roman Catholic Synod

Daily News · Friday 26 January 1940 · page 5

The annual Synod of the Catholic clergy of the Archdiocese of Sydney will be held in St. Mary's Chapter Hall next Tuesday, January 30. when…

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Neutrality a Duty. Dutch Reply to Churchill. Force If Attacked. the Hague, Jan. 25. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 January 1940 · page 11

The Dutch Foreign Secretary, M. van Kleffens, in the Chamber of Deputies to-day, said: "Whoever takes up arms against us will be met by force."…

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Churchill Again Blunders: Offends Neutrals

Tribune · Friday 26 January 1940 · page 4

It is reported that Mr. Winston Churchill given serious offence to the neutrals in his latest broadcast. In a previous one, he was reprimanded for using the term “Huns.”…

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St. George Struggled to Victory Cricket Chatter. Players Names Altered. Bexley Christ Church Loses All Points

The St George Call · Friday 26 January 1940 · page 4

For having erased a player’s name from the scoring book after the assistant official recorder had signed it, and substituted another player's…

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