A CHURCH DISPUTE
CATHOLICS IN INDIA PRIEST BANNED FROM COUNTRY. .CALCUTTA, December 12. A sensation has been created in Roman Catholic circles in India by the decision* of the Father-General of the Society of Jesus not to permit Father Gille. of St. Xavier’s, Calcutta, one of the best-known Roman Catholics and editor of the “Catholic Herald” of India, to return to this country. One result of the decision will he the demise or the suppression of the “Catholic Herald,” in which Father Gille persistently advocated the greater “Indianisation” of the Roman Catholic Church, and thus so greatly, annoyed some of the foreign missions in Southern India that tpey sought the intervention of Rome. Father Gille says that he believes that the time will come wbep Catholic India will raise her own clergy.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12330, 28 December 1925, Page 6
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132A CHURCH DISPUTE New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12330, 28 December 1925, Page 6
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