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Churches, 1948

1,814 stories in Sydney's papers · page 58 of 91

Can The Churches Re-state Christianity?

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 26 August 1948 · page 3

"Are the Churches out of touch with modern life ?" "Can the Church re-state Christianity?"…

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Current Comment The World Council Of Churches

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 26 August 1948 · page 4

AUSTRALIAN press and radio have been generous in the amount of space and time they have allocated to…

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Every second Olympic star belonged to the Church

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 26 August 1948 · page 1

PROBABLY half of the several thousand athletes who participated in the Olympic Games in London were Catholics. They included Australians, 98 of the 100-member Irish team, most of the competitors from European Catholic…

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New Church Hall

The Propeller · Thursday 26 August 1948 · page 2

The new kindergarten hall of St. Thomas' Church of England, Kingsgrove, was dedicated and opened last…

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Church Did Not Invite 'Red Dean'

Daily Mirror · Thursday 26 August 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The invitation to England's "Red Dean," Dr. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, to visit Australia, had not come from the Church here, said Dean Wilson of St. Paul's…

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Council of Churches War Memorandum

Daily Mirror · Thursday 26 August 1948 · page 5

AMSTERDAM, Thursday.--A memorandum demanding that the Church refuse to participate in violence or war. and…

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Church Did Not Invite 'Red Dean'

Daily Mirror · Thursday 26 August 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday.-- The invitation to England's "Red Dean," Dr. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, to visit Australia, had not come from the Church here, said Dean Wilson of St. Paul's…

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Council of Churches War Memorandum

Daily Mirror · Thursday 26 August 1948 · page 5

AMSTERDAM, Thursday.-- A memorandum demanding that the Church refuse to participate in violence or war, and…

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Council of Churches War Memorandum

Daily Mirror · Thursday 26 August 1948 · page 2

AMSTERDAM, Thursday.--A memorandum demanding that the Church refuse to participate in violence or war and…

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Catholic Firm's Founder Dies

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 August 1948 · page 9

Mr. Umberto Pellegrini, 84, founder of the firm of Pellegrini and Company Pty., Ltd., died yesterday at Lewisham Private…

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Letters to the Editor World Council of Churches West And East

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 August 1948 · page 2

Sir,—An implication of the Rev. Alan Walker's interesting article of Saturday last, on the World Council of Churches now…

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New Church Hall

The St George Call · Friday 27 August 1948 · page 1

The new kindergarten hall of St. Thomas' Church of England, Kingsgrove, was dedicated and opened last Saturday afternoon, 21st inst…

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The Church's One Foundation

The Methodist · Saturday 28 August 1948 · page 12

Sir,—Distance from Sydney makes it difficult for this correspondence to be connected, but I was pleased to read the letter of T. H. Roach, in…

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Circuit News Blayney Church Aid Anniversary

The Methodist · Saturday 28 August 1948 · page 10

On Wednesday afternoon, 23rd June, the Blayney Church Aid ladies held their birthday party in the S.S. Hall, and in spite of…

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CHURCHES Divorce Law Attacked

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 August 1948 · page 10

The Dean of Sydney, Dr. S. Barton Babbage, states in the Diocesan Magazine: "The Australian divorce law is farcical."…

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The churchwardens copied a magazine picture

The Sun · Sunday 29 August 1948 · page 21

A hundred years ago, three Sydney churchwardens set out to draw up plans for a new church. But it was not until architect Edmund Blacket showed…

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Model Kept Boss Waiting at Church

The Sun · Monday 30 August 1948 · page 3

Lovely 22-year-old Sydney model, Pat Rea, who today married her former boss, Ray Scott, kept him waiting at the…

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Church View Of Communism

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 August 1948 · page 3

AMSTERDAM, August 29 (A.A.P.).—Christians could not afford to take a negative attitude to Communism, Dr…

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Conference of World Churches

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 August 1948 · page 3

Some of the 450 delegates from many nations assembling in Amsterdam, Holland, recently for the procession to the Nieuwe Kirk for the inaugural service of the 14-day World Council of Christian Churches. Three thousand people watched the procession. At the forefront of the clerics in this picture are two Australian delegates, the Rev…

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Warning on Socialism by Catholic Church

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 31 August 1948 · page 3

Socialisation of the means of production, distribution, and exchange is condemned in a pamphlet prepared with the authority of the archbishops and bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in Australia…

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