Kilcrea Friary quincentenary

PLAQUES were unveiled 2over the graves of Cormac (Laidir) MacCarthy, tenth Lord of Muskerry, and Bishop Thomas O'Herlihy of Ross during a ceremony to commemorate last year's quincentenary of the foundation of Kilcrea Franciscan Friary in Mid Cork.
The Lord of Muskerry built the friary, and his grave and that of the Bishop are in its ruins. The Bishop, who addressed the final session of the Council of Trent in 1562, was later imprisoned and tortured in the Tower of London.
83 at Beaumont for final year
LiEA U M ONT COLLEGE will have only 83 pupils when it starts the autumn term on September 20. Only those taking 0 and A level examinations during the academic year are returning. Others of the 275 boys who boarded there are joining Stonyhurst.
Fr. Thomas Dunphy, rector of Beaumont, said the lack of teachers which had forced the closure at the end of next school year was because of the need for the 850 Jesuits in Britain, apart from providing teachers for other schools, to man a mission in Africa, another in Guyana, and to supply chaplains for several universities.
Plater College successes
QIXTEEN students of Plater 16-3 Catholk Workers' College, Oxford, are in the list of successful candidates for two Oxford University diplomas. Twelve arc from Britain, one from Eire and three from overseas. They arc: Diploma in Economics and Political Science: Thomas Dicks, civil servant, Gloucestershire; Emmet Kelly, electrician, Ireland; Leo. McAlroy, draughtsman, Newcastle on Tyne; Winston Moore, post office clerk, Barnet; Timothy Phelan, labourer, Coventry; Wendy Richmond, technical
assistant, Coventry; Gillian Walker, secretary, London; Peter Williamson, clerk, London; Sarni Colgecen-Yalcin, formerly in the Turkish Navy; Victor Mifsud, formerly a dockyard worker, now a teacher, Malta.
Written examination for the Diploma in Social and Administrative Studies: Bro. Gerard Cummins, De La Salle Brothers; Elizabeth England, clerk, London; Fr. Peter Kelly, Liverpool Archdiocese; Eileen Kinney, hairdresser, Lancashire; Sister Anne Murphy, Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul, London, Stephen Kanu, teacher, Sierra Leone.
Those in the second list must complete a course of practical training before they can be awarded their diplomas.
Methodist mayor at Requiem
Tull. Mayor of Exeter, Ald. Mrs. Minnie Nichols, who is a Methodist, attended a Requiem Mass in the Sacred Heart Church. Exeter, for Mrs. Ann Horton, head of the Ellen Tinkham House, which cares f a r mentally handicapped children.
Mrs. Horton, who died aged 54, founded the St. Dymphna Society. She went to Exeter in 1950 to take charge of the city council's occupation centre in Exe Island mission church hall. This was moved to Ellen Tinkham House in 1954.
Liverpool priest gets new job
MGR. CYRIL TAYLOR, parish priest of St. Thomas at Caterbury, Waterloo, Liverpool, is now supervising the practical details of Liverpool Cathedral's opening next spring.
As chairman of the Ways and Means committee, he will deputise for Archbishop Beck, who is recovering from a heart attack. At his office, formerly the Archbishop's rooms at la Trueman Street, he will deal with invitations, receiving guests, brochures, stewarding and car parking.
Other members of the committee are the deputy Lord Mayor Alderman David Cowley, J.P.; Captain A. M. Mould and Mr. E. Bellew.
Nottingham's new teachers' college
BUILDING has just started on a new £850,000 Catholic teachers' training college at Keyworth, Nottingham. Sponsored by the Loreto Sisters, it will be affiliated to Nottingham University.
When it opens in October, 1968, Mary Ward College will take 180 women students. Eventually, there will be places for 450.
The college, including lecture halls, residential, dining and sick quarters, gymnasium, library, laboratories, convent and chapel, will be built on a 26-acre site south-east of Nottingham.
It will offer three year courses in primary teaching, in home economics for secondary schools and, later, a four-year degree course. There are already 13 Catholic teacher training colleges in England and Wales, 10 for women, one for men and two co-educational.
Church newspaper of all religions
CATHOLICS, Anglicans and 14-4 Methodists will form the editorial board of a monthly newspaper a local Christian Council proposes to launch at Washington, Co. Durham. The provisional title is the Washington Post.
The Rev. P. Croft, Anglican rector of Washington, said last week that the council will know by October if the support of advertisers will be large enough to make publication financially possible. He hoped the first number would come out in January.
The initial circulation would be 7,500. which it was hoped to increase by 1.500 a year. Distribution would be carried out by 150 volunteers, each supplying 50 houses in the large industrial village.
Washington Hall, the ancestral home of George Washington, is in the village, where a new town for 50,000 people is planned.
Franciscans study ways of 'renewal'
THE Franciscans in England are working for the renewal of their Order. "We are modernising our approach to the apostolate in the light of the Vatican Council," Fr. Roderic O'Hagan, the Provincial, said this week.
The Order's Constitution is being examined and, where necessary, rewritten. The results of this move will be put to the Provincial Chapter at Pentecost next year before being adopted. At present the Franciscans have 180 priests and 40 brothers in this country.