GOVERNMENT SANCTIONS CATHOLIC FAITH
(Received 9, 1.0 p.m.) MADRID, Aug. 8. The Government has decided to permit the practice of the Catholic religion in private, for which pxwpose it is granting lieences to a- large number of priests, enabling thousands of couples to re-marry, many whom were married at the front by oflicers. A large number of babies is being baptxsed, and graves rre being blessed. Re-opening of the churches will be slow, as many are being used at present *1 to nntropirmOTil efhrnliniiaae
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 173, 9 August 1937, Page 5
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