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GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-05-01-02-01-28 · Item · 20 August 1975
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

Went to Downham for the Mass and stayed a week. Why do you persecute a priest because he refuses to be a heretic? 5 years ago deviant behaviours (pop masses, dancing masses...) would have resulted in excommunication on the spot. Who is right Fr Baker, or those in a free for all.
Copied to Cardinal Heenan, Apostolic Delegate, Bishop Grant

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GB ARCHON 2913 PA21-a-01-01-47 · Item · 28 January 1996
Part of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour and St Edmund Parish, Hunstanton

Outlines a situation in which Dersingham has become isolated from the parish of Hunstanton through a lack of attention and engagement by the parish priest. The deacon does his best but since the death of Fr Howarth, Fr Dobson's approach is distant to the congregation at Dersingham. Requests that the Bishop makes some intervention to try an restore happier times.

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GB ARCHON 2913 PA21-a-01-01-36 · Item · 9 May 1996
Part of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour and St Edmund Parish, Hunstanton

Differences of opinion between Fr Dobson and Deacon Matthews are escalating. Fr Dobson no longer providing masses at Dersingham - Canon Ryan is providing cover - this happened without the congregation being informed of changes on the way. Seems as though St Cecilia is to be cut adrift and there are great difficulties between the two men. The letter is an attempt to provide insight and balanced input into feedback the Bishop may have received following a meeting held by Deacon Matthew without the presence of Fr Dobson. The situation is not what Alice Insley wanted for Dersingham.

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GB ARCHON 2913 PA21-a-01-01-53 · Item · 12 August 1996
Part of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour and St Edmund Parish, Hunstanton

Deacon Matthews is doing his best; Fr Ryan is an old man and cannot supply at all 9.30 Masses. Deacon Matthews is under great strain - he collapsed while at the Convent in Massingham; we are worried for his health. Why are married convert priests ordained into the Catholic priesthood but married convert deacons are not?

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GB ARCHON 2913 WAL-04-03 · File · September 1938 to September 2011
Part of Walsingham Association - National Body
  1. 17 Sept 1938 , 2 pages A4, Photocopy, "The Table" - "The Slipper Chapel Walsingham" - item on the Consecration of the Slipper Chapel on 8 September 1938
  2. 17 Nov. 2006, 1 page 293mm x 393mm, "Eastern Daily Press" - "Mix of Ancient and modern" - item on new £1.3m Church of the Annunciation being built in Walsingham
  3. c2006, unknown publication, 255mm x 210mm, picture & text - "Solar panels help church see the light"
  4. 19 Mar. 2007, EDP, 233mm x 327mm, picture & text, "Priestly pair ready for the challenge" - Frs Philip North & Philip Barnes, cycling from St Paul's Cathedral, London, to the Anglican Shrine in Walsingham
  5. 6 Jul. 2007, EDP, 294mm x 194mm, picture & text, "Shrine to be made more welcoming - redevelopment work at the Anglican Shrine in Walsingham
  6. 25 Sep. 2011, Catholic Times, 152mm x 124mm, "Final vows will cap shrine anniversary" - Sr Gabriels Gasch's final vows at Walsingham
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GB ARCHON 2913 PA03-01-01-60 · Item · 30 April 1926
Part of St Benet's Minster Parish, Beccles

Writing from St Joseph's Seminary. Travel arrangements. Expects to travel with John Ketterer with whom he expects to have a life long bond as they are to be ordained together. Has obtained 400 copies of the Ceremony from CTS Liverpool for the congregation's use.

Banham, Cyril Norbert Rev (1887-1963)
GB ARCHON 2913 PA02-01-02-8 · Item · 17 April 1977
Part of Our Lady and St Peter Parish, Aldeburgh

Para 1 - Last visitation Autumn 1993; present visitation 17-4-1997.
Para 2 - PP is Fr Heath
Para 3 - short review of status of both churches
Para 4 - Registers up-to-date
Para 5 - Summary of parish and parish organisations.
Para 6 - Fr Heath & ecumenism
Para 7 - Fr Heath outline of recent activities
Summary: "A good man in his own rather quiet way... solid work in this parish which is well suited to his particular gifts"

Walsh, James Rev
GB ARCHON 2913 PA22-02-01-15-1 · Part · 25 November 1999
Part of St Michael the Archangel Parish, Huntingdon

Contains a list of answers in a format which indicates there is a template visitation report format.
note added about de-commissioning of chapels on military bases - Fr Kearney may raise it with you (bishop)

Rogers, Anthony Bruce Rev (1947-)
GB ARCHON 2913 PA28-01-01-253-1 · Part · undated (post 1878)
Part of Our Lady of the Annunciation Parish, King's Lynn

Text from cutting:
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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GB ARCHON 2913 PA21-a-01-01-9 · Item · 16 July 1987
Part of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour and St Edmund Parish, Hunstanton

Dersingham Catholic Group (Chair, C Handley): Miss Insley's house left for priest accommodation is occupied by Fr Flynn. Requesting that the Bishop grant permission for Fr Flynn to say Masses in the Community Centre, this house, or St Nicholas Church (CoE, Dersingham) to hold trial Masses in readiness for new Church building.

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GB ARCHON 2913 PA21-a-02-01-1 · Item · 25 January 1988
Part of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour and St Edmund Parish, Hunstanton

Meeting points:
Fr Flynn established in Dersingham; Growth in the area to 9000 by 1991; go-ahead on building the church; Bishop to advise Architects; Priest's maintenance fund being set up and will transfer to Diocese; Bishop cannot guarantee to appoint a priest to Dersingham so the Catholic group will have responsibility. Press release attached.

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GB ARCHON 2913 PA21-a-01-01-22 · Item · 2 July 1992
Part of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour and St Edmund Parish, Hunstanton

St Cecilia's Church Committee describe a number of factors which convince them that a resident priest is needed for Dersingham: the departure of Andrew Kingcomb leaves a large gap as he fulfilled many roles - organist, Eucharistic minister, religious instruction for children; Fr Nesden is not well and needs support for the Parish; accommodation is available and can only be occupied by a priest; they believe that Fr Charles Howarth (from the Convent of The Daughters of Jesus, Great Massingham) would be interested in parochial duties.

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