Charterhouse Chronicle

John Humble, director of Urwick Orr and Partners, management consultants, told Gerard Tavernier, writer of this week's page four feature: "There is a great concern in the world today for a better quality of lifa. The material standards of living throughout the Western world have improved for everybody. But it seems this has not necessarily led to a better quality of life.
"One reason for this is that the institutions which govern the quality of life have fallen very sadly behind. Universities,, schools, prison systems, for example, are not managed as effectively as they could be.
"At the heart of the Christian society is the Church, which, in my view, has not responded to the management side to serve society more effectively."
Humble feels the clergy have two clear advantages over businessmen. First, he says, they pray a lot. "Religious people also have a strong belief in the future; something not always found in industry today,
Newman
I ,am very grateful to Fr J. Crehan for sending me a copy of a curious leaflet which was recently discovered between the pages of a tome in the Farm Street library. It gives Mass prayers for a memorial service to "Blessed John Henry New man, priest and confessor, for use in the Church of England."
Fr Crehan said: "It must go back to the days before 1939 and may have been sent to Fr Woodlock. Had it come from a Catholic source, it would have been enough to suspend all efforts at Newman's beatification, for one of. the essential questions in the process is directed to finding out whether any unauthorised cult of the candidate has been going on.
"The Anglicans apparently allow such cult to arise with diocesan sanction, and this leaflet carries the note that: 'This service should not be used without episcopal or other customary authority," It may be that some of our Anglican readers will be able to identify the author, for, unlike election leaflets, this one carries no name of printer or publisher. A short biography of Newman is attached, part of which reads: "In October 1845 Newman migrated from the English rite and jurisdiction to that of the more ancient Latin Church of pre-reformation England, and although the time has not yet come for the intercommunion of these two rites, yet, under the blessing of God, the time must surely draw near in which these two rites, while keeping their individuality and with reconciled Orders, will be in full vommunion with each other under the primacy of the first Bishop of Christendom, who sits on David's throne, the successor of Peter . ."
The .Collect reads: "0 God who didst raise up thy Blessed servant John Henry to prepare thy way before thee, and make all men know what is the fellowship of the mystery which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in thee: make us obedient to thy will that we all' may be one in thee, and come in the unity of the faith unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ, who tiveth and reignelh with thee and the Holy Spirit one God world without end."
SVP store
A general store with a difference its goods are not for sale, they are given away to those who need them is the latest venture, at 325a Castle Boulevard, Nottingham, of the Society cif Saint Vincent de Paul.
Mr Gerry Watson, local president of the society, says that as members • make their regular visits to people in need in the city they see a lot of real poverty. What is needed'? Clothing, furniture, bedding, crockery all the things that go to make up a home. "We want to bring back some dignity to the homes.of these people," says Mr Watson. In October of last year the society bought a second-hand van and collected unwanted furniture, etc, to distribute among the poor. But the work was hampered through lack of a place to store things. And the calls for help increased. Now, with a loan, and after various fund-raising projects, the society has spent £700 on another second-hand van to replace the old one and has rented a store on Castle Boulevard for £500 a year. Bishop Ellis of Nottingham will bless and officially open the premises next Tuesday at 8 p.m. So far nearly 200 families have been helped. The help is not restricted to Catholics, and no payment is asked for. The society welcomes itetns of furniture, etc. If anyone has items to dispose of they can telephone Nottingham 581576 to arrange for collection.
Get-together
A glittering array of speakers is lining up for a four-day conference on relations between the Church of England and the Catholic Church. The meeting will take place at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, from April 8 to II, 1975.
Of special significance is the fact that the conference is being organised by the Church Society, which was set up at the turn of the century to preserve the "scriptural and reformed" position of the Church of England. In other words it represents the "evangelical" band in the Anglican spectrum a body of opinion which one might expect to be less in sympathy with the Catholic viewpoint.
The Catholic speakers include Fr Michael Richards, editor of the Clergy Review; Canon Richard Stewart, front the Ecumenical Commission; Fr John Coventry, SJ, of Heythrop College; and Fr Adrian Hastings, the lecturer best known for the publication of his account of the Wiriyamu massacre in Moasinshame Among t e R prominent vC Cecil Anglicans K err, willh be
former Chaplain to Queen's University, Belfast; Canon James Flickinbotham who is Principal at Wycliffe Hall, and the Rev Julian Charley. a member of the International Anglican/Roman Catholic Commission which thrashed out the Agreed Statements on the Ministry and the Eucharist.
Discussion of these two topics will figure on the agenda, while other talks will deal with historical relations between the two Churches; recent developments in the Catholic Church; the Charismatic Movement, and future relationships.
The conference is open to all, and applications should be sent ,to the Secretary of the Church Society at 7 Wine Office Court, London, EC4A 3DA, The cost, with full board, is 111.50.
When one thinks of the bitterness and division which havecharacterised relations between our two Churches in the past the Church Society's conference seems to be, all in all, a remarkable event. It all goes to show that once the wind of the Holy Spirit begins to blow there can be no closing doors on the draught.
Rosary
October, the month of the Rosary, has been chosen as an appropriate time for introducing the Association of Our Lady of Mount Carmel to the northwest of England. This has grown from a lay-inspired initiative, taken three years ago in Bristol, to encourage a revival of the Rosary.
After nine mouths spent in the preparation of slides and film strips, Mr Peter Heaton, a design draughtsman from Salford, is now ready to accept invitations from parishes interested in forming their own Rosary circles,
These meet in their own churches on one or more evenings a week for the public recitation of the Rosary. Already there are more than 100 such circles in the Bristol area but only four in the Salford and Shrewsbury dioceses.
This month Mr. Heaton will be visiting five parishes in Wythenshawe to promote the tormation of more, and he is hopeful that eventually enough circles will he created to permit the setting up of one or more area groups responsible for the organisation of three hour vigils.
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Plymouth
Parish priests-. Fr M. Molloy from Winy borne. to retirement at Wyke Regis; Fr M. Ryan from Budleigh Salterton, to retirement in Irelarid; Fr C. I wohig from Upper Parkstoine, to Broadstone; Fr J. Day from Broadstone, to Wimberne; Fr T Horsfield from Sherberne, to Sidmouth; Fr A. Gilby from Leuriceston. to Newton Abbot; Fr T. Hunt from Mainhull, to Upper Parkstone; Fr B. Davis from Bishop's Secretary, to Launceston; Fr J. Boliend from St Peter's, Plymouth, to Marnhull; Fr E. McGivern from Bideford. to Snerborne; Fr J. Hartrahan front Cathedral, to Budleigh Salterton.