In Brief News from around Britain

R. JOHN COVENTRY, Si., -aof Mount Street, London, W.I. is among those due to give addresses in the famous AngloCatholic Church of All Saints', Margaret Street, W.1, on Monday evenings from now until the end of May.
The addresses. which mark a new trend at All Saints', will form a continuing series of dialogues designed to widen the horizons of churchgoers and help speed the work of Christian unity.
Others due to take part in the series are the Archbishop of Canterbury. the Bishops of London and Woolwich, Bishop Jonst de Blank — who launched the series — Canon John Collins. the Abbot of Nashdom and the Rev.
John Stott. '
The addresses have the general title "Growing Up In Christ". It is hoped that the series will become annual and include an even wider selection of speakers in future.
CHAPEL REPLACES HUT A new Catholic chapel and hall. dedicated to the Good Shepherd, was blessed and solemnly opened at Kennington, Berks., last week by Mgr. Sidney Mullarkey, Vicar Capitular of the Portsmouth diocese. It replaces a dilapidated but used as a church for six years.
Guests of honour included the Vicar of Kennington. the Rev. S. S. Davies. Fr, John Croz et. the parish priest, acknov !edged the help given by the Anglicans of Kennington and spoke of the
friendly relations between the two churches.
CHURCH IN THE ROUND The biggest church project in Hampstead this century will be a Catholic church to seat 800 and costing £100,000 to replace the converted hall which is the present home of the Church of St. Thomas More in Maresfield Gardens. it will be on "theatre in the round" lines.
Most of the seats will be set in an arc and the floor will slope towards the altar so that everyone will have an uninterrupted view. The 2,000-strong congregation will he asked to join a "pledge scheme" to raise the money.
IRISH ADULT COURSES Decisions taken at the Vatican Council will he discussed and interpreted at this year's courses of the Dublin Adult Education Committee which start this month. They cover about 200 lectures and discourses in 26 centres in three counties—Wicklow, Dublin, and Kildare.
Other topics during the eightweek courses will be responsible parenthood, economic expansion and the man in the street, disease. censorship and vocational guidance. The lecturers are mostly graduates of the National University of Ireland. and some are on the staff. The committee is under the patronage of Archh.shop McQuaid.
HAM CHURCH PLAN
Outline plans for a new Catholic church, to accommodate
200 250 people, in Back Lane, Ham. near Richmond, Surrey, are before the local authority.
Fr. Francis Davys, priest at St. Elizabeth's, Richmond, says this does not signisfy any immediate building plans but he is anxious to know the local planning committee's views on the scheme.
BISHOP ACCEPTS Catholic observers have been invited to attend meeting of the Manchester and Salford Council of Churches, following a vote at a meeting last Friday in the Central Hall, Manchester.
The Rev. J. M. Neilson, secretary of the Methodist Stewardship Committee, proposed a motion, which was carried unanimously, that the Catholic Bishop of Salford be invited to send observers. It is understood that Bishop Holland has accepted.
Explaining the invitation Canon Eric Saxon. retiring secretary of the Manchester and Salford Council of Churches, said that Catholic observers had already agreed to attend the national meeting of the Council of Churches to he held in Aberdeen on October 26. "We felt that we wanted to implement the national policy at local level", he said.
DIGBY STUART DINNER
A Decade Dinner, for those who left Digt,), Stuart College, Rochampton, 10. 20. 30 etc, years ago will he held at Roehampton tomorrow at I p.m. The General First Saturday Reunion will begin at 3 p.m.