People and Places

There will be a "Peace Party" with films, singing, meditation and refreshments at St Aloysius Church, Phoenix Road. London, NW I, on October 23, at 7.30 pnt. Further details from Christian CND. 29 Great James Street. London, WC I.
An inter-denominational service for people with speech disorders will be held on Sunday at St Columba' Church of Scotland, Pont Street, London, SW I, at 3 pm. Mr Andrew Cruickshank will preach and Fr David Wilson, Catholic Chaplain for the Handicapped. will be among those to lead the prayers.
A National March and Rally Against Apartheid in South Africa will be held at Speakers Corner. Hyde Park, London, on October 21 at 1.30 pro. Details from Anti apartheid, 89 Charlotte Street, London, W1.
Miss Mary Remnant of the Royal College of Music will give a lecture recital on "Music and Instruments in the Age of St Francis" at the Servite Church. Fulham Road, London. SW10. next Tuesday at 8 pm.
Ruben Zamora, a member of the El Salvador Justice and Peace Corn mission, recently gave a talk on "Attitudes to the Poor and the Third World" at the Diocesan Catechetical Centre in Tooting Bee, London, SW. Bishop Henderson. Auxiliary of Southwark, was present at the meeting.
The parishoners of SS Peter and Paul's Wakefield, West Yorkshire, will meet in Painthorpe House Country Club tonight. The guest speaker will be Mr Kieron Moore of C afod.
Fr Austin Smith. CP. addressed the AGM of the Catholic Social Services in Liverpool at the weekend. He stressed that the deepest form of poverty affecting the inner city areas of Liverpool was not material poverty hut powerlessness. He called for the full involvement of all inner city dwellers in the changes implemented to combat urban decay.
Fr Tim Firth will speak at the next St Edmund's Family Day on Novem ber 5, at St Joseph's Convent, Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire, on the subject of "Lay Involvement". This will be the second in a series of eight family days which provide an opportunity for parents and adults from all over Hertfordshire to meet and study together. Young children will be cared for by students front Allen Hall and Poles Convent.
* * "Politics of the Spirit" is the title or the national autumn conference of the Catholic Student Council. The conference is to be held at Birm ingham University Catholic Chaplaincy on the weekend of November 10-12.
The former Coloma College of Education, South London, which closed in July, is to reopen as a mixed comprehensive school in September next year. It will be known as St John Righ) Secondary School, and is the result of the amalgamation of St Her nardette's Girls and St Joseph's Boys schools, The Southwark Diocesan Schools Commission is now advertising for a head teacher.
* * * Miss Cecilia Agnes Fee, of Northumberland Avenue, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne. who died in April, left £110,559 gross, £109,188 net. She left £1,000 to the parish priest of the Church of Our Lady and
Group Scout Leader John Vaughan (left) of the 11th Wallington (St Elpheges) presents the Queen's Scout Award to Simon Vaughan (no relation) at the start of a Group family day at Buckmore Park Scout Activity Centre.
St Oswin, Tynemouth, towards the building of a new church in the parish; £200 to St Charles' Catholic Church, Gosforth, and a further £50 for Masses and the remainder of her property to the Catholic diocese of Hexham and Newcastle.
Let Live, the charity which looks after women who are unhappily pregnant but unwilling to have an abortion, will hold its annual meeting at Amigo Hall, adjoining St George's Cathedral, St George's Road, Southwark. London, SE1, on October 21. at 3 pm.
Bishop Donal Lamont, the exiled Bishop of Umtali, Rhodesia, will speak at a Cheltenham Council of Churches meeting at the Borough Council Chamber, Council Offices, Promenade, Cheltenham on December 7, at 8 pro.
Age Concern has produced an order of service called "Who Is My Neighbour?" The leaflet contains, suggestions for prayers, readings and hymns and is available from Age Concern, England, 60 Pitcairn Road, Mitcham, Surrey.
The International Defence and Aid Fund has produced an information kit on the situation in Zimbabwe. It includes a portable exhibition of photographs and posters as well as a range of booklets on the internal settlement, political prisoners and the legal system. Available from IDAF Publications, 104 Newgate Street, London, Ed.
Sister Deidre Duffy of Pax Christi, who was a member of the Vatican delegation at the United Nations Special Session on Disarmament will speak at a United Nations Association meeting at Dean Close House, Lansdown Road, Cheltenham on November 6, at 7.45 pm.
Catholic Family Life will hold its annual conference on the theme of Humanae Vitae at the Church Hall, Corpus Christi, Brixton Hill, London, SW. on October 28 and 29. Details from Catholic Family Life, 172 St Andrew's Road, Coulsden, Surrey.
The Gregorian Association will hold a Solemn Evensong at St George's Cathedral, Southwark tomorrow at 4 pm. The Rev Derek Rochford, formerly Director of Music at the cathedral will preach.
Fr Edward McDonagh, an American Rdemptorist priest, will lead the opening service at the Worth Abbey Day of Renewal tomorrow, Fr MdDonagh comes from Boston, where hc regularly holds healing and restoration services attended by as many as 4,000 people. He is touring England at present at the invitation of the National Service Committee for Catholic Charismatic Renewal.
A weekend on "Christian Leadership" will be held for Scouters and Guiders at Ashburnham Place, Battle, Sussex, from November 17 to 19. It is being organised by Lee Ab bey, a Church of England deentre for evangelism and lay training which is open to all denominations.