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Churches, 1948

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Catholic Education in Goulburn Diocese

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 3

A SEARCH, for the beginnings of Catholic education' in the Archdiocese of Canberra - Goulburn would…

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The Question Box Impossible To Discover Anglican Teachings

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 4

J. ELINOR, of Drummoyne, writes: Would you, please, [?] comment on the enclosed paragraph from the Anglican "Church Standard?" R.: It Is the reprint or an…

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Catholic Sport Handball Title To G. Macris

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 3

The largest crowd of the season was present at Randwick on Sunday of last week to witness the final of the N.S.W. handball…

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Penrith Methodist Circuit Farewell to Rev. and Mrs. Little

Nepean Times · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 4

Members of the congregation of Penrith Methodist Church entertained Rev. G. A. Little and Mrs. Little in the Sunday School Hall, Evans Street,…

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B.C.O.F. Inquiry Mission To Stay 3 Weeks

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 1

CANBERRA, Wednesday.— The party officially appointed to investigate charges of blackmarketing and immorality…

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A Page For Catholic Schools the Sonnet Form in Lyrical Verse

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 2

ALTOGETHER, there are three sonnets set down for study and appreciation for the Leaving Certificate…

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Christian Science Churches

Nepean Times · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 5

"Unreality" will be the subject in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday. The Golden Text will be: Let not…

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Churches Crowded During Easter Inspiring scenes on Good Friday; 5000 at Maryfields

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 3

RECORD CROWDS attended the solemn ceremonies of Holy Week and Easter Sunday in all the. churches of the Archdiocese. Despite the fact that about 5000 journeyed to…

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The Churches Of Asia Minor Special Feature

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 2

When an Auxiliary or a Coadjutor Bishop is appointed by the Holy See, he is invariably given a title. Hence Bishop O'Brien, the new Auxiliary to His Eminence the Cardinal, is Titular Bishop of Alinda. Bishop Toohey, the new Coadjutor to the Bishop of Maitland, is Titular Bishop of Verinopolis. Both Alinda and Verinopolis were once Sees in Asia Minor, but have no existence to-day, only the title remaining…

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Churchyard In Which Girl Was Attacked

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 2

TOP: Scene of last night's attack by a man on an 11-years-old girl at St. John's churchyard, Bland St., Ashfield. The outrage is described by police as the worst of its kind in their experience. The man, who was near the…

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Wide Manhunt for Sex Maniac Child Attacked In Ashfield Churchyard Assailant's Brutality

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 2

DETECTIVES have begun a manhunt for a sex maniac who inflicted shocking injuries on an 11 -years-old girl and raped her at Ashfield last night…

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Wide Manhunt for Sex Maniac Child Attacked In Ashfield Churchyard Assailant's Brutality

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 2

DETECTIVES have begun a manhunt for a sex maniac who inflicted shocking injuries on an 11-years-old girl and raped her at Ashfield last night…

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Churchyard In Which Girl Was Attacked

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 2

TOP: Scene of last night's attack by a man on an 11-years-old girl at St. John's churchyard. Bland St., Ashfield. The outrage is described by police as the worst of its kind in their experience. The man, who was near the…

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Easter at the Mission

The Methodist · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 8

All services were particularly well attended. The evening service was relayed into Wesley Chapel for several hundred people who could not find room, in the…

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Correspondence A Methodist Cemetery

The Methodist · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 9

sir,—The letter in your issue of 12-3-48, "A Methodist Cemetery,", calls for some reply. Your suggestion that Mr. Roach…

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Hurlstone Park Methodist C.E. Societies 6th ANNIVERSARY

The Methodist · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 10

On the 12th, 13th and 14th of March, the Hurlstone Park Methodist Christian Endeavour Societies celebrated their anniversary…

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AMSTERDAM, 1948 Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft General Secretary of the World Council of Churches

The Methodist · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 5

At the time of writing—six months before the Assembly—one hundred and thirty six Churches in forty countries have accepted the invitation to participate in the first constituent Assembly…

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CHURCHES Appeal In "Red Book" Case

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 10

Twenty-eight grounds of appeal have been advanced by the Rt. Rev. A. L. Wylde, Bishop of Bathurst, against…

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Church Chiefs of One Mind on Dress

Truth · Sunday 4 April 1948 · page 4

Leading church officials do not believe churchgoers should abandon their "Sunday clothes" and wear "shorts and open-necked shirts" to church on hot Sundays…

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Churchill Five Times a Grandpa

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 April 1948 · page 1

MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL admiring his newest grandson, Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames, seen here in the arms of Mrs. Christopher Soames, the baby's mother. This is Mr. Churchill's fifth grand-child.--…

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