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79,000 Catholics celebrate the tenth birthday of their diocese on Sunday 1 June. Provides a short history and some comments from Bishop Clark, the first Bishop of the new diocese. June will be a "month of festival" ending with a Mass of Thanksgiving attended by church leaders including the Bishop of Norwich, Rt Rev Peter Nott.

pg1: an invitation to News Editors to attend at St John's Cathedral, Norwich, for the Celebration of the Diocese's Tenth Anniversary - includes a programme of the day's events
pg2: description of the context of the anniversary plus a list of church leaders to be present. Collection money (expected to exceed £10m,000) will be given to Mr. Julian Filowski, director of CAFOD. St Thomas More Middle school and St John First school will provide musical entertainment.

Note on Mass of Thanksgiving and attendance by church leaders in Norwich

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A short history from 1850 to 1986; interchurch movement with Bishop Clark as leader

Young people from throughout the diocese of East Anglia, representing some of the diocese's 40 schools, will gather to celebrate the feast of Christ the King. A programme of events at Notre Dame High School is followed by a procession to St John the Baptist Cathedral.

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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

very short note about Bishop Clark's message for Lent

pg1: press release:
"Archbishop Barbarito, Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Britain, begins a three-day tour of the Diocese of East Anglia on June 26th. The itinerary includes Norwich, Cambridge, Newmarket, and Walsingham.
Outline description of the programme.
pg 2: 3-day programme.

Report on the visit to St John's First School in Norwich by the Envoy, Archbishop Barbarito.
Image of Archbishop with children [see link]

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."

"Cardinal Hume, Archbishop of Westminster, scores a'1st' on Sunday when he visits the University of East Anglia - the first Cardinal to do so. "

Article describing the visit and quoting from the Cardinal.

Pg1: Invitation to a day led by David Self with Sr Margaret McHard
pg2: Programme 10.30am to 4pm: Story so far; Matching the Station Sound; A morning in the life of a BBC Local Radio Station; Radio in the Nineties; The Way Ahead

"A five-year pastoral commitment to the full integration of the laity in the life of the Church in East Anglia Dioceses is outlined in the report 'Deepening and Widening Our Faith', published this week.

Subhead: "Cheap and nasty mud-slinging"
Bishop of East Anglia wrote to Neil Kinnock complaining that he has abused Catholic beliefs in a speech at the Labour party's Red Rose rally in Birmingham.

Commenting that Kinnock has fallen into "the all-too easy trap of treating Christians as something rather quaint and amusing, the butt of cheap puns. And cheap is very much the tone of Mr Kinnock's attack."
The leader suggests the time is right for a reform of antiquated blasphemy laws - being unworkable. Perhaps Christians should turn the other cheek?

Correspondence relating to Diocesan communication with the media, the Diocesan Information Officer and related matters.