A diary of people and places

BISHOP CASHMAN, the
new Bishop of Arundel and Brighton, is shopping for a house. He wants it somewhere between the two towns and will spend the rest of his time commuting between his Cathedral and curial offices.
He told me in London during the week that he has deliberately split the administrative and spiritual centres of the diocese because Arundel is too inaccessible to his priests. It will be much easier for them to visit him at Brighton where the curial offices will be set up.
The Bishop is not unduly worried about carving out a new diocese. As he said himself, "most of the actual thinking is done for one by the Holy See '. it is up to the Bishops to interpret their advice and put it into action. Besides, having worked at the Apostolic Delegation, he has experienced the birth of new dioceses before this.
But he has his worries. One of the big ones is the shortage of priests. "I need men who are used to working in rural areas, in one horse parishes . . . the type of men who are geared to living by themselves", he told me.
Another problem comes in the "blessing in disguise category" — he has to clear a huge school debt rising from Southwark's phenomenal progress in this field since the war.
But perhaps his main task will be to provide facilities for an area where the population is mushrooming due to the steady drift to the south-east. indeed, as he reminded me. his diocese was formed so that the Church would he able to meet the new demands as a more corlipact uniL
Cathedral Catholic
AS FAR AS I KNOW Miss Susan Hill's contribution to the ecumenical wind of change is a unique one, Miss Hill, a 23year-old Catholic writer, with two published novels to her credit, has been working on the staff of Coventry Cathedral since 1963.
When I asked how she came to be working as their librarian she explained. "Everybody is vaguely linked with the Cathedral in Coventry. I did get to know one or two people there and they asked me to take on the job of organising the library." in April of this year Miss Hill became assistant editor of the Coventry Cathedral Review. She read for a degree in English at King's College. London. Her two novels, published by Hutcheson, are The Enclosure and Do Me A Favour.
"I don't really have time for hobbies." she said, "but when I do I like the theatre (she has written several plays), music and the country." A parishioner of Our Lady of thc Assumption, Tile Hill, Coventry. Miss Hill was born in Scarborough. Yorkshire, and was educated at the Scarborough Con
vent of the Ladies of Mary. Her other job is literary critic of the Coventry Evening Telegraph.
Westminster guide
rARDINAL HEENAN will
celebrate Mass in Westminster Cathedral at 6 o'clock this evening in honour of the 90th birthday of the daughter of the man who built it.
She is Mrs. W;nifrede de L'Hopital, founder-president of the British Federation of Notre Dame (De Namur} Associations. and the daughter of the architect William Bentley, Mrs. de L'Hopital — she married into a Huguenot family — recalled last week how Cardinal Vaughan first conceived the idea of having a Cathedral that would mark the memory of his two predecessors and at the same time be as practical a place of public worship as possible.
She wrote a book about her father and his work, Westminster Cathedral and its Architect, which was published in 1919. She was often given the job too of showing visitors round the building before and after it was completed in 1902. Mrs. de L'Hopital has been associated with many charitable organisations.
All in a name WITH ALL THE celebrations last weekend at Aylesford, marking the return of the Whitefriars to England, I thought I ought to say a 'little about this Whitefriars Chronicle. It gets its name from Carmelite Priory.
The CATHOLIC HERALD offices are at the corner of Fleet Street and White Friars Street in part of the News of the World building. The NoW occupies the site between Whitefriars and Bouverie Street.
Now when the NoW offices were being rebuilt in 1929 a 15th century crypt of the Carmelite Prior's lodging house was unearthed, The company restored the crypt which today may be visited by arrangement, The accompanying photo is of the entrance to the crypt down— below the main works floor—a
Job for someone
A S SCHOOLS of English in London for foreigners usually close down for the summer, Miss Anita Williams, an L.C.C. teacher, decided to open one in a flat. By the end of the summer in 1959 she found that she had "the nucleus of a school of English".
"So I resigned from the L.C,C.," she told me this week, "and moved Into a basement in Gloucester Road, Kensington, which I called St. Antony's School of English."
Now recognised by the Ministry of Education, St. Antony's has spread to a second building, in Wimbledon. Its biggest venture, however, lies just ahead. Miss Williams is leaving London this summer for Madrid to open an English language school there. She will take eight teachers and a secretary with her.
And the new project offers a nice job for someone. For while Miss Williams has the teachers, she has not yet found the secretary, who must: be well educated, an experienced secretary, English, Catholic, have some knowledge of Spanish. There's an advertisement in our classified columns with all the details.