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Churches, 1944

2,405 stories in Sydney's papers · page 73 of 121

Anglican Worship No Duty!

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 17 August 1944 · page 12

Q.: "Sometimes." writes the Rector. "we near Church people telling themselves and others that it is their duty to go to Church."…

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RADIO Catholic Sportsman

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 17 August 1944 · page 8

The man in the street knows who Gone Tunney is. He won the world's heavyweight boxing championship in 1926, and has…

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PEOPLE Catholic Writer

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 17 August 1944 · page 9

Helen Constance White, novelist, Catholic lay loader, and prominent figure of the University of Wisconsin, where she is the only…

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World's Catholic Population

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 17 August 1944 · page 2

The new "1944 Britannica Book of the Year" estimates that the number of Catholics on the American continents…

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The War "A Real Little Parish"

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 17 August 1944 · page 8

We have moved away from the mainland of Australia, and are really seeing the tropics. There are some discomforts; but…

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Careers For Catholic Boys

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 17 August 1944 · page 1

It was a matter for great regret that in the past many Catholic boys had entered occupations which had led them nowhere, said…

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Activities of Catholic Debating Societies

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 17 August 1944 · page 6

Following are reports of the recent activities of the Debating and Social Societies: BALMAIN : On July 28 the evening was set for a religious dis-…

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WILCANNIA-FORBES Nyngan Parish Aids Diocesan Burse Funds

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 17 August 1944 · page 20

On the occasion of the visitation of his Lordship the Bishop (Most Rev. T. M. Fox, P.D.) to the parish of Nyngan, the Children…

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Catholic Youth Is Formed In Sydney

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 17 August 1944 · page 1

THE annual conference of the New South Wales Catholic Debating and Social Union which concluded on Sunday was the most momentous since the inauguration of the Union 29 years ago…

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Are Catholics Afraid? "Catholic," North Sydney

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 17 August 1944 · page 13

Q.: A Presbyterian friend after listening to your session, asked me what the Catholic Church teachers about hell. I told her that those…

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Catholic Chaplains Receive D.S.C.

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 17 August 1944 · page 2

Catholic priests number four of the only five American chaplains to have received the Distinguished…

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Latest Catholic News of the World English Bishops' Second Letter on Sex Education

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 17 August 1944 · page 2

TEXT of the second pastoral letter on sex education to be issued by the Hierarchy of England and Wales during the past few months has reached Australia…

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Religion Only Hope of Our Native Races Bishop Gsell's Story Of Mission To Aborigines

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 17 August 1944 · page 5

"The Australian mission is the most difficult and the most extensive in the world," his Lordship the Bishop of Darwin (Most. Rev. F. X. Gsell, M.S.C., D.D.), who has been on the mission for 44 years, told members of the…

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A Page For Catholic Schools The Short Stories Of Jacobs, Merrick, Forester And Montague

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 17 August 1944 · page 23

CHESTERTON we are keeping for a special note, and so shall begin with the work of W. W. Jacobs…

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Germans Use Safe-Breakers To Steal Church Treasures

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 17 August 1944 · page 2

Monsignor Charles Ruch, Bishop of Strasbourg, has branded as unlawful and sacrilegious the seizure by the Germans of religious works of art removed from Alsace to Hautefort and Bourdeilles at the beginning of the war…

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First-land Report From Inside Germany Catholics In Naziland In anguish over its lost sons, fearful of the future, the German family turns to the Church for comfort and refuge

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 17 August 1944 · page 11

FROM January, 1943, to Mrch, 1944, I was a parishioner of the "Stifts-kirche" in Baden, Germany,…

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Question Box The Pope did NOT call General Franco "Favorite Son of the Church"

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 17 August 1944 · page 12

FOLLOWING is the text of the Question Box Session broadcast from Radio 2SM last Sunday night by…

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Churchill's Nephew Tried To Escape

Tribune · Thursday 17 August 1944 · page 2

LONDON. — Winston Churchill’s nephew. Captain Peter Romilly, who fought in the Spanish International Brigade, is in Camp Oflag…

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Church Has Clinic Plan For Delinquents

The Sun · Thursday 17 August 1944 · page 5

A plan for the establishment of clinics to treat delinquent children as socially sick persons, was outlined today by the Rev. W. J. Hobbin on behalf of the Social Services Department of the Methodist Church…

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Church's Golden Jubilee. Presbyterianism in Hurstville

The Propeller · Thursday 17 August 1944 · page 1

Special services on Sunday last marked the golden jubilee of the Hurstville Presbyterian Church. Extra seating had to be arranged to accommodate the large…

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