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Churches, 1949

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Trial of Cardinal Opening Today Denunciation Made By Vatican "Profound Offence to Catholic Church"

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 February 1949 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.--The trial of the Primate of Hungary (Cardinal Mindszenty) will open in the Budapest People's Court before seven judges today. Cardinal Mindszenty…

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Sacred Heart Fathers To Join Nagasaki Mission

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 3 February 1949 · page 1

THE Australian Province of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart will shortly send missionaries to work in the Japanese Diocese of Nagasaki. At the request of His…

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Catholic Women Participate In Domain Protest Meeting

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 3 February 1949 · page 1

AT the protest meeting held at the Domain on Sunday last, Mrs. K. Burrow, acting president of the Legion of Catholic Women, expressed the views of Catholic women, thousands of whom were present when she said: "The arrest of Cardinal…

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A Page For Catholic Schools Instalment No. 2 In A Study Of Shakespeare's "Macbeth."

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 3 February 1949 · page 2

ACT I., Scene 5, of "Macbeth" begins with Macbeth's castle at Inverness as the setting. Lady Macbeth…

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Christian Science Churches

Nepean Times · Thursday 3 February 1949 · page 1

"Spirit" is the subject in all 'Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday. The Golden Text is: What man knoweth the things of a man, save the…

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Reds Give Notice Of Anti-Church Drive

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 3 February 1949 · page 1

NEW YORK.—The Communist-controlled regime in Poland has given notice of a renewed drive to confine the influence of the Church to its cathedrals and churches and to punish as treasonable any failure by Bishops and clergy…

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Passages and church halls are being used as schools

The Sun · Thursday 3 February 1949 · page 10

Children have had to be accommodated in church halls and school corridors because of serious overcrowding in schools, the Teachers' Federation stated today. Minister for Education, Mr…

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The Sins of Sydney Fighting Parson Flays -- Superintendent of the South Sydney Methodist Mission

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 1

"I see the maggot of Communism, fed on jealousy and despair, working on the minds of the have-nots," he says in this searing attack on the privileged and "respectable" Christians of the city of Sydney. "They're asking for hell, and they'll get it," he writes, contrasting the hypocrisy…

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Open Air Campaigners Work Katoomba Mission

The Methodist · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 4

The Mission conducted at Katoomba, N.S.W., by the Open Air Campaigners, in conjunction with the Katoomba Ministers' Fraternal, was remarkably successful. Under the Fraternal, was remarkably successful. Under the preaching of the…

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Torment's Mission Will Be Chosen on Course

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 10

Choice of a race at Rosehill to-day for the widely fancied Torment will be delayed until the gelding's connections reach the course. Torment is engaged in the Rosehill Handicap (1¼m) and the…

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Church Clinics Preferred to Summer Camps Mrs. Mary Welch

The Methodist · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 5

"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou[?]lt be saved, and thy house," said Paul to the Jailer. Our evangelism and our Church programmes…

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Law Church Services

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 12

The usual services at the opening of the law term will be held next Tuesday. At St. James's Church the…

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CHURCHES Anniversary Of First Service

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 13

A service will be held at St. Philip's, Church Hill, to-morrow, at 3 p.m., to mark the 161st anniversary of the first Christian…

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CHURCHES Anniversary Of First Service

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 12

A service will be held at St. Philip's, Church Hill, to-morrow, at 3 p.m., to mark the 161st anniversary of the first Christian…

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A Miracle In Adelaide? R.C. Church to Probe Cure of Sister Yvonne

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 3

The apparently miraculous recovery of Sister Yvonne, of St. Joseph's Convent, Adelaide, is to be thoroughly investigated by Roman…

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Churchill Did Not Take Cigar

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 2

BARCELONA.-- As much as Winston Churchill likes cigars, he refused a fine quality specimen sent him by a…

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Catholic Paper Attacks Calwell

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 6 February 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sat. -- The Advocate, Roman Catholic weekly, today criticises Immigration Minister Calwell for his deportation order against Indonesian Mrs…

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Curtain May Fall Soon on Drama of Mindszenty Trial Great Churchman Has Been Pilloried, Gaoled, And Held Up To Abuse And Ridicule, Yet His Only Crime Is Daring To Oppose His Govt

Truth · Sunday 6 February 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Saturday.—Although British official observers were refused admission to the Mindszenty trial, the Foreign Office believes there is a possibility of a verdict being reached…

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Mystery Death May Be Linked with Split in Orthodox Church

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 6 February 1949 · page 1

Some White Russians in Sydney believe that a struggle in the Russian Orthodox Church, to prevent the appointment of a Moscow priest in Australia, lies behind the mysterious death of Michael Goreloff, 53. Goreloff, whose body was…

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Church to examine "miracle"

The Sun · Sunday 6 February 1949 · page 44

THE Catholic hierarchy will investigate the sudden recovery from paralysis of a nun to…

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