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Archbishop Poupard, Pro-President of the Secretariat for Non-Believers, is asking the BCEW to find ten candidates for the office of Consultor to the Secretariat. Please forward a lost of candidates to Archbishop Heim for forwarding to Mgs Poupard.

Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education ask how many diocesan Ordinandi would like to be ordained in Rome by the Pope on 14 June 1981

Returned from Canberra, Australia, after heading up the Vatican delegation for VII Assembly of the World Council of Churches - chaotic but epic. Thanks the Cardinal for his leadership in the debate on the Gulf Crisis.
Francis Selman: happy for the Cardinal to see him (provides a short pen picture) - thought he had settled at Quidenham - but that is obviously not the case.
Fr Andrew Morley at Dersingham: Asks the Cardinal to withdraw him as he has caused offence and gone to the provincial press.

Has just received a reply from Cardinal Knox to his letter dated 9 October 1979.
Discouraging - appreciate the Cardinal Hume's counsel. The inability to give General Absolution at time of pilgrimage is not a disaster - but the letter shows an addiction to strict and literal interpretation of the norms.
He has instructed his clergy that in real necessity they are authorised to administer GA (the kind of necessity the Congregation does not admit!) and inform him after the fact. But this has been rarely used and with no criticisms
Bishop Clark thinks that something has "leaked".

Three days in Rome as Co-Moderator of the Joint Working Group (between the Holy See and the World Council of Churches [WCC]). Summary of discussion with Bishop Duprey: Cardinal Hume handled the matter admirably; not to support the "Papua New Guinea Solution" (Archivist would not let Bishop Clark look at the Papua New Guinea file); hostile to Conditional Ordination; explore Supplemental Ordination?; As CDF [The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Curia, Vatican] did not accept ARCIC approach to Apostolic Succession there may be a problem.

Mr Ralph Brown (V.G.) responding to Fr Roger Reader (Provincial Secretary). Discussion regarding the relationship of association with the Catholic Church. "It would not be appropriate for the Cardinal to give any form of external approval" but the stated objectives of the Society can be achieved without that. If the Society wishes to transact directly with the Holy See then a special request could be made.