Cardinal Conway praises St. Philip

Cardinal Conway, Arch. bishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland was principal concelebrant and preacher at Mass in the Birmingham Oratory on the occasion of the feast of St. Philip Neri founder of the Oratorian Congregation.
Other concelebrants included Archbishop Dwyer of Birmingham, Gregory Winterton. Superior and other members of the Oratory Community.
Cardinal Conway began his sermon "It seems almost impossible to celebrate the feast of St. Philip here in Birmingham. and in the Oratory, with out celebrating at the same time the memory of that great disciple of his, Cardinal Newman, whose presence is still almost perceptible in the rooms and corridors and libraries of this olace."
He continued: "When in tRa9, after his return to England. Newman was to study in depth the role of the laity in the Church it was not of the university man, the 'intelligent and well-instructed' Catholic, that he was to speak but of 'the obscure. the unlearned and the weak."
The Oratory choir, under its conductor Mr. F. V. Hayward. sang the Mass 'Aeterna Christi munera by Palestrina, fl great friend of St. Philip.
After Mass. Cardinal Conway who had flown over from Ireland specially for the occasion, chatted informally with members of the large congrega• tion in the hall of St. Philip's Grammar School.