First open assembly; 2,300 attended; open for any to attend and express their views.
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Sub-heading: "Catholics and council shocked".
"The re-organisation of Gorleston High School is back in the melting pot after the Bishop of Norwich rejected a plan for a joint church school." Some background to the project provided
Page 14 photocopied from an unknown publication. Article is a short summary of the Normandy trip under the by line of "Margaret Turner"
UnknownPhoto 1: Bishop Smith, with Fr Jennings, being presented with a copy of the church's plans.
Photo 2: General view of church showing extension.
Text: Consecration and dedication ceremony conducted by Bishop Peter Smith at the completion of £194,000 extension project.
Meeting to discuss a plan. Fr Hypher: "It's not just a meeting - it's a fiesta at which we can pray, worship, discuss, meet friends ad join in social events and side-shows."
UnknownAn article based on the contents of the 6 January 1985 Pastoral Letter given by Bishop Clark.
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DEATH OF THE REV. A. F. WALSH (R. C.).- The Diamond Fields Advertiser, published at Kimberley, South Africa, of September 19th, contains the following obituary notice of the late Father Walsh, who was for some years Mission priest at Lynn, and, going out to the Cape in 1875, fulfilled his duty in various places there, and amongst others, with the British troops in the South African wars, in the zealous and self-denying manner described by the biographer:-
Weeping women and men bowed down with grief clustered round the doors of the Roman Catholic Church and priests' residences on Saturday evening. Good cause had they for sorrow. At five o'clock the spirit of a brave and good man had passed away from earth, leaving a void in all that is noble and pure in Kimberley, which it will be hard to fill up. Andrew Francis Walsh had not only gone through the form of setting apart his life for the service of others, but up to the last had performed the vows of that high servitude to the letter. Born in County Tipperary in 1839, he evinced at an early age strong aspirations after spiritual life, and his determination to enter the priesthood was but the outcome of an inward conviction that therein lay his path of duty. His collegiate studies began at Carlow, and subsequently he passed some time at Bruges, Belgium. Having completed his training for the sacred calling, he was stationed for a period in England, chiefly at Nottingham. He allied himself with one of the religious brotherhoods of his Church, and he was despatched to South Africa in March, 1875. Several Sisters, amongst whom was the Rev. Mother now in Kimberley, accompanied him to the Cape. Father Walsh was located in various parts of South Africa. He was the first Roman Catholic minister at Pretoria. Afterwards he opened up a mission at Lydenburg, which for a time proved a busy field for religious work, and only declined when the place fell away as a gold bearing region. He was the pioneer priest of Jagersfontein, where he laboured with great acceptance for three years. He was transferred to Kimberley about two years ago. This is a brief and imperfect sketch of the various spheres of ministerial service in which Father Walsh worked earnestly and lovingly. But it is in another field of duty that he earned name and fame. Wherever in South Africa British soldier or volunteer has been called upon during the last seven years to fight the battles of his Queen, there Father Walsh considered it was his place to be. In the Zulu war and the Transvaal war he attached himself to the British troops as chaplain, and invariably contrived to gain the love and respect of the soldiers no matter what creed they professed. He was fearless in administering rebuke, and unflinching in giving caution and advice; the tenderest of nurses, the most unselfish of comrades. Often and often has he been known to break through the lines and go foraging around in the enemy's country in quest of fruits and vegetables or other succulent herbs for the fever-stricken or wounded patients, with whom he felt all a brother's sympathy. Laden with these spoils of a dangerous expedition - conducted all alone - he would return to camp, doff his coat, chop up sufficient wood for a fire, and then cook the delicacies he had gathered with solicitous hand, serving them to the sick with a touching tenderness that proved in many a case more than half the cure. When reminded of the danger to which he had exposed himself he would simply say: "Others must not do it, but I must. I cannot see these poor men suffering without doing something for them." In the hour of battle he presented an example of calm cool courage almost heroic. Ever watchful that the wounded were not left to be trampled down or ruthlessly done to death, he has been known time after time to have rushed from the shelter of a laager towards some fallen soldier pierced by bullet or assegai, and borne him swiftly and safely away beyond the reach of further danger. He was one of the numerous subjects of Her Majesty who in many an engagement has won the right to the Victoria Cross, if ever true valour won it; but the innate modesty of this truly brave, and thoroughly unselfish man, made him shrink from anything like a trumpeting of his deeds. "My duty" was his motto, and never did priest militant or loving pastor do that duty more loyally. In the Bechuanaland expedition, to which he was attached as chaplain, he was simply idolised by the soldiers. No duty was too arduous, no service too menial for him, when called upon amid the exigencies of camp life. In Kimberley the record of his pure and useful career will be long so remembered. His faith went beyond the boundaries of his own Church, his charity recognised no creed, the poor and sick knew him only as a ministrant of good. Stricken down last Sunday - just after he had been assisting in public worship - with inflammation of the lungs, he gradually sank, notwithstanding the constant attentions of Dr. Jameson, combined latterly with those of Dr. Matthews, until, as we have said, he breathed his last about five o'clock on Saturday evening. Let those who mourn his departure remember, with Petrarch, that
"Death betimes is comfort, not dismay;
And who can rightly die needs no delay."
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Mass at St John's attended by church leaders; thanksgiving for the diocese
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reporting on the new blueprint for the church in the region. 160 strong pastoral council established to implement the 5 year plan. The 80,000 strong diocese could grow by 30,000 in the next 10 years.
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Bishop Clark will donate proceeds from the special collections to CAFOD as a gift to the "world of the young and developing churches". In a talk to East Anglia priests Mgr Vincent Nichols, general secretary of the Bishops Conference of England and Wales, urged priests to work with the poor in the inner cities and not jet off around the world - work with the poor to share in poverty.
Story text reads:
"Two stone coffins containing human remains which have been found by workmen engaged in dismantling a Victorian staircase at Hinchingbrooke House, Huntingdon, are thought to be the remains of two of the prioresses of the attached Nunnery, which existed there prior to the dissolution of the religious houses in 1536. Discovery of the coffins was made while the Victorian staircase was being dismantled to be replaced by a Charles II staircase, which would bring all the woodwork into the same period. The coffins were first discovered in the cloisters in 1834 when similar work was being carried out, and after a sketch of the coffins and bones had been made, they were re-deposited in their original resting place. Because they are cut from solid stone, it is thought that the coffins must have been interred for over 600 years. Stone coffins were not used in England after the 14th century. Lord Hinchingbrooke intends to have the staircase erected in such a way that visitors to the House can, if they wish, see the coffins and bones."
image: man in sports jacket, with broom, by the coffins
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Reports Mr Kinnock's response to complaints: "The words were neither blasphemous in the intention nor meaning. If any believer has been offended I naturally regret it."
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Picture of Fr McCormick celebrating Mass (Tridentine).
Annotation: "1962. Can't remember the Village RLMC"
Story "The secret stairway to priest's hinging hole" short history of St Mary and St Leonard, Malton . "Today the parish is based on the former Anglican Church of St Leonard - once a 12th centry chapel of ease to the Gilbertine Priory at Old Malton. It was transferred as an ecumenical gesture of goodwill from the Chruch of England in 1971"
manuscript annotation "The offer began in 1961"
Image of church with caption "Church was ecumenical gift"
2 columns of text with an image of Bishop Clark and Fr Wace in Cathedral gardens. Reporting the substance of the news release.
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Appointment of Fr Olindo Cramaro to Southwold.
"The Rev Olindo Cramaro, who for the past 16 months has been a curate at St John's Roman Catholic Cathedral, has been appointed by the Bishop of East Anglia, the Rt Rev Alan Clark, as parish priest at Southwold.
Father Cramaro, a 56-year-old Italian, is to succeed Fr James Sloan, 71, who after 10 1/2 years at Southwold and 33 years as a priest, is taking complete retirement. The extensive parish has two churches, that of the Sacred Heart, Southwold, adjoining the presbytery, and St Edmunds, King and Martyr, Halesworth.
Fr Sloan, a Scot who has spent all his ministry in East Anglia, last summer sought permission to retire in favour of a younger man, but was asked to carry on as no one was then available. He is moving to Leigh-on-Sea, near Southend.
Fr Cramaro will be moving into his new home on Thursday January 26th.
Fr Cramaro came to England in October, 1958."
1 large image (Bishop Clark in foreground; young persons beside and behind him) taken at gates of Notre Dame School in Surrey Street, Norwich. 3 column inches of text.
UnknownImage of Bishop Clark with Bishop Escaler of the Philippines visiting Norfolk on the 25th anniversary of CAFOD. Said Mass at St John the Baptist, preached at Thetford, held a question and answer session.
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