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GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-02-02-99-2 · Part · 17 March 2023
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

"Fr Dennis Finbow, a retired priest of served in parishes in Peterborough the diocese of East Anglia, has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in jail after he was convicted for three historic (non-recent) child sexual abuse offences. The sentence was passed down at Cambridge Crown Court and follows his conviction at Huntingdon Crown on 31st January." Story continues.

Universe Catholic Weekly (2021-)
GB ARCHON 2913 PA03-01-01-151 · Item · 8 December 1980
Part of St Benet's Minster Parish, Beccles

Pointed observations on British Council of Churches and priests being married (before or after ordination). Mentions that neither Our Lord nor St John the Baptist said one word to criticise the politicians and economic institutions at the time [supported by several Latin quotations].

Watkin, Aelred Rev MA FSA FRSA FRHistS (1918-1997)
GB ARCHON 2913 PA21-01-01-1 · Item · 1 June 1903[?]
Part of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour and St Edmund Parish, Hunstanton

Sisters came 23 July 1903 and for 3 or 4 months had a Dominican or secular priest for all the services. Bishop Riddell then sent Fr Garnett, requesting them to provide £40 per year (plus collection money from the Convent Chapel). Masses were held at the priest's house and when the "little church was opened" services were held their instead. 18 months ago Fr Garnett wanted a rest on Saturdays and masses would be held instead at the Church on a Monday. The writer lists all that they do (including pay the stipend) - there are only 9 parish people. The Bishop is asked to establish a regular service to the Sisters for good order at the Convent.

The Dominican Sisters Convent, Hunstanton
GB ARCHON 2913 WSHR-01-06-117-2 · Part · 1983-6-20
Part of Walsingham Shrine

An agreement between the RCDEA and Society of Mary (The Marist Fathers).
The society of Mary undertakes the pastoral care of the parish of Walsingham / Wells. One priest nominated by the Society; normal remuneration for priests in RCDEA.

Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)
GB ARCHON 2913 PA02-06-05-9 · Item · c. August 1948
Part of Our Lady and St Peter Parish, Aldeburgh

OCR'd to produce:
Editorial
During the weeks immediately preceding publication the Editor has been been away on holiday. We mention this not only to crave our readers‘ indulgence in the event of some slight delay in publication but also in order to justify a train of thought which these days of leisure have brought to his mind.

HOLIDAY THOUGHTS.
The holiday of a priest, I suppose, especially if he is engaged on parish work, will generally be admitted to be be a good thing for all concerned. The people have the opportunity of a change of pastor and of preaching, and the priest rejoices in weekdays of leisure and a couple of Sundays without pastoral care.

The Editor is happy to say that he enjoyed his holiday very much indeed. Part was spent on Pilgrimage to Our Lady of Lourdes, always an occasion of solace and joy, and another part, as guest of a country priest in another part of France. For a few days he lived with dear friend and wartime colleague deep in the heart of that beautiful land, and the experience was memorable indeed. Surely there is no brotherhood so strong or so loyal as that which exists between priests. The outsider, even the Catholic, may be deceived by a certain bluffness into thinking that this community is but the laying aside of a professional reserve and that it is merely the easy sociability of old friends and school mates. There is much more to it than this. Priests love the company of priests; there is an unspoken unity of feeling for their common vocation which passes the power of easy description.

Clerical hospitality is always generous; clerical conversation is always joyous and innocent, and priestly sympathy and mutual counsel is ever tender and fraternal. It is not that we lack the weaknesses of other men or that our lives are unclouded by evil, but as fellow workers in the vineyard of the Lord we do look back to our hours of priestly companionship as times of joy and gladness – Quam bonum et jucundum habitare fratres in unum!

On Whit week I stayed at the Presbytery of Chezy en Orxois. It is a simple cottage with only four rooms. The village contains about 500 inhabitants and the church resembles the ancient parish churches of any such sized village in Norfolk or Suffolk. It seemed strange to be saying Mass in so old a Catholic church. It was built in 1548 when Rood Screens had begun to fall out of fashion but there were choir stalls, beautifully carved, with miserere seats separated from the body of the church by an iron railing. I sang the parochial Mass at half past ten; the Curé had already said two Masses at two smaller churches – in adjoining punishes. There were about two hundred people present; normally there would have been more but it was Whit Sunday and many had gone to the earlier masses in the other churches in order to receive Holy Communion. Strictly speaking I suppose it would have been described as a Low Mass with singing. There was no organ – only a harmonium – and an old man and two ladies sang the Proper of the Mass while the congregation sang, not too heartily, I must admit, the familiar Missa de Angeles. There was only one server, in red cassock, cotta and a red skullcap, and the congregation reminded me irresistibly, but with odd differences, of my own. The back benches had the same attraction for the men folk and there were the usual stalwarts who prefer to remain standing up at the back. The children were mostly in the front rows, but there were a few men and women who chose to occupy the choir stalls. The parish priest read the same kind of notices – time for Easter Duties was drawing to a close; there was to be a sale of Work shortly; please would the congregation find out the proper times for Confession and so on. Two girls took the collection – odd not to hear the coins falling on the plate because everyone uses the incredibly grubby paper money which afflicts France.

After Mass the noise of hoofs on the cobbles and of motors starting up. The children stay behind for catechism because the is no Catholic school in the village, only a state school where no religion is taught, although happily, and rather unusually, the schoolmaster is a good Catholic.

Some days later there was a little clerical party. About a dozen priests and the venerable Dean of the district. Oh the dear diversity of the Catholic priesthood! The same types I know so well at home, and yet how different. The kindly Dean – he had been in London with his sister in 1905 – before I was born. He had stayed near Charing Cross and the trip had cost him £5 for a fortnight – and did we still eat bacon and eggs for breakfast? The Vice-Dean, till recently a seminary professor and still with the eagle of eye of the schoolmaster; there was the mechanical genius – proud owner of a third hand Jeep and proprietor of a parish cinema — and there were the others, less well remembered but each a friend to the stranger—priest. Some had come on bicycles; one had a motor bike and the rest had compressed themselves into the Jeep.

The French priests are great gardeners; they have much need to be for their income is the merest pittance. And the meal, though simple, was a masterpiece. The good housekeeper pressed the goodly fruits of the earth upon us, and large portions of deceased parochial poultry and ham with the enthusiasm of a missioner. There was wine in sufficiency and wonderful coffee. I was tempted to say that this was a rare treat for one from hungry England – but it would not have been true. I was among priests and it would have been the same at home.

It was a delight to listen to the conversation of the Brethren. I have a special private system of speaking French which I find invaluable to procuring food, transport and the like, with unerring despatch and accuracy. I speak a kind of Red-Indian language which avoids all grammatical pitfalls and only requires the simplest vocabulary – a kind of Basic Basic in fact. At the Restaurant I just say " I hungry; show me Menu." and conclude the conversation with becks and nods and wreathed smiles. But as a medium of polite conversation my system is not so good. I was at first inundated with kind enquiries as to the state of the realm and the sentiments of the populace at home, but as the system only produced such gems as " Mr Bevin good man; Mr Molotov rather crafty man." the good fathers had soon to content themselves with the knowledge that I had a general idea of what their own conversation was all about and that I was was very pleased to be with them.

The French have a gift for conversation; they are animated without being contentious and they can be profound without sententious. My friend the Curé is an Englishman who belongs to a French diocese. He speaks French, of course, with extreme fluency. For all his poverty and hard life I envied him his lot in this Catholic countryside which his people and fellow priests who love him so much. Our country is fortunate in that through him they love us too.

I went out with him to see the clergy leave. My special favourites the Dean and the mechanical genius went off together in the Jeep. France has many of these relics of the Liberation and the bad French petrol makes them stubborn to start; and I had ample opportunity to study its every detail. It was still marked with insignia of some American army unit and below the windscreen there was a striking picture of Donald Duck.

I expect that the fathers have all forgotten about me; I was just a foreign priest with nothing much to say. Quite frankly I always used to feel a little distant about the French clergy with their inaccurate notions of Catholicism in England and their addiction to riding ladies‘ bicycles in dusty cassocks, but now I like them very much indeed. They are poor and overworked and have to face hostility such as we can scarcely conceive in England. It was pleasing to discover that although they all had learned English at School their English was, if possible, less than my French. But I felt at home with them because their constant solace was a smile; God bless them.

Thomson, John Henry Rev RD (-1968)
GB ARCHON 2913 Deac-ECAP · Fonds · 1993-2001

ECAP 1 Episcopal Commission Anglican Priests I ACC
Birmingham
ECAP 2 Episcopal Commission Anglican Priests II ACC
Arundel & Brighton
Brentwood
East Anglia (+ letters & papers wrt Anglican Priests of East Anglia 1993-2001 ACC / PDS)
Clifton
Cardiff
ECAP 3 Episcopal Commission Anglican Priests III ACC
Hexham
Leeds
Lancaster
Middlesborough
Northampton
Nottingham
ECAP 4 Episcopal Commission Anglican Priests IV ACC
Plymouth
Portsmouth
Salford
Shrewsbury
Southwark
ECAP 5 Episcopal Commission Anglican Priests V ACC
Westminster
Wrexham
Final report
Letters
Lists

Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)
GB ARCHON 2913 PA21-a-01-03-7 · Item · 30 September 1985
Part of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour and St Edmund Parish, Hunstanton

Progress so far: value of estate established at £330,000. Survey of area identified 158 Catholics - possibly 200 in total. Plan to refurbish the house - sufficient for an Oratory/Chapel in one large ground floor room. The can seek a priest to reside temporarily; he could say mass in a local hall. Hope then to be able to persuade the Bishop to build a church in the village. Fr Nesden is kept informed.

Correspondent
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-01-09-02-36-1 · Part · 10 June 1987
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

"For the third time in two months, the Pope has given permission for a former Anglican priest to be ordained as a Catholic priest." Comment from Peter Cornwall, one of the earlier priests referred to. Comment by the author on celibacy in the priesthood.

The Independent
GB ARCHON 2913 PA03-01-04-1 · Item · 10 January 1921
Part of St Benet's Minster Parish, Beccles

Novice Master at Manresa House [Jesuit house, Birmingham] suggested the approach regarding Cyril Banham training to become a secular priest in this Diocese. Always wanted to become a priest but was delayed following an operation in 1914 for empyema. Will support the cost of the training. Cyril saw Canon Drake recently on this matter.

Banham, Frederick E
GB ARCHON 2913 PA21-a-01-01-35 · Item · 9 May 1996
Part of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour and St Edmund Parish, Hunstanton

Dersingham people may be confused about the availability of Mass. Need to discuss - note that it is usually the Bishop that agrees changes to Mass provision and they would need to go into the Year Book. Whilst Fr Brian [?] may be wiling to help, the Sisters have first call and then Fr Shryane also relies on him to help out in King's Lynn.

Shryane, Anthony Rev
GB ARCHON 2913 PA19-01-04-22 · Item · 5-4-1989
Part of St Mary's Parish, Great Yarmouth

Fr Ahearne had written to the Bishop on 5th March to say he had been elected Provincial of the Anglo-Scottish Province, and a Chapter would take place on 27th March. They have made changes in personnel agreed at a Provincial Chapter at Austin Friars in Carlisle on 4/5 April. The community at St Mary's Great Yarmouth will be:
John Reid - Parish Priest
Hieran O'Brien - Prior
Killian O'Mahoney
Denis Condon
Signed by Fr Ahearne as Provincial & John Reid as Secretary.

Ahearne, Seamus, Rev OSA
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-02-02-66-8 · Part · 2 April 2021
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

"Fr Alban Hood from Douai Abbey has been appointed as the new chaplain at Fisher House, the University Chaplaincy at Cambridge. "I know that Fr Alban will receive a warm welcome from the Diocese," said Bishop Alan Hopes, "and in particular from those working and living in the Cambridge Deanery, whom he is looking forward to meeting in the near future." Story continues
Image caption "Fr Alban is a renowned spiritual director and leader of retreats".

The Catholic Universe (1860-2021)
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-05-01-02-01-12 · Item · c. 12 August 1975
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

Income in the parish has increased - so, not living on a "pittance". Willing to accept position as a curate so that the parish priest from Swaffham does not have to travel to Downham. His weekly visit to the convent in Swaffham means he could easily report to the PP. Changes would be detrimental to this parish. Suggest that any priest free to officiate do so at Oxburgh instead. Not impelled to move; willing to stay.

Baker, Oswald Charles Rev (1915-2004)
GB ARCHON 2913 WSHR-00-07-3 · Item · 1980-11-5
Part of Walsingham Shrine

In the absence of Fr Graystone, the Vicar Provincial, Father Michael O'Neill, asked that Fr Birch approach the Bishop for appointment as Parish Priest pro temp.
Since Fr John Murphy died there is a need to appoint another signatory (Fr Birch) for the Parish (Walsingham and Wells) Bank Account.
manuscript annotation: "(1) Appointment verbally given - 'temporary' (vicarius economus). (2) Requested three signatories for Bank Account."

Birch, Clive Rev SM LGSM
GB ARCHON 2913 PA03-01-01-58-1 · Part · 10 March 1926
Part of St Benet's Minster Parish, Beccles

Opportunity for the working people to see the ceremony. Sufficient priest secured; Frs Banham SJ and Miller are certainties, himself and Fr Vermeulin [sic], Fr Helsham SJ is being asked for from the Provincial SJ. Need a supply for Fr Squirrell. Enclosed the Bishop's letter [not present].

Campbell, Henry Martin Dom OSB
GB ARCHON 2913 PA47-b-01-01-46 · Item · 1989-8-8
Part of Church of the Annunciation Parish, Walsingham

Fr Richmond has been found a chaplaincy with the Dominican Sisters in Bushey.
Fr Georgio Malecki SDS will be available for St Henry's for at least six months form 1st October. Has worked in four parishes, with the last 4 years as an assistant priest in Wealdstone. An excellent priest and it is time for him to gain experience in running a parish. Can you grant the necessary faculties?

Clark, Hilary Rev SDS