Y.C.W. New National Chaplain

`C.H.'
Reporter
THE only survivor of four priests, when a rocket bomb destroyed Dockhead, London, church in the war, Canon Edmund Arbuthnott, M.A., secretary of the Southwark Catholic Rescue Society, is taking over the post of national chaplain to the Young Christian Workers in the autumn.
He succeeds Fr. Edward Mitchinson, who is resigning for health reasons after 17 years of continuous work in the movement.
When I spoke to Fr. Mitchinson, he paid tribute to his successor, saying: " The Canon has great talent and experience in social work. Indeed, before the last war, he started the first Y.C.W. section in London-at Dockhead. At least fivc local councils have sprung from that beginning, and the present general secretary of the Y.C.W., Frank Lane, came from that section."
Canon Arbuthnott was Southwark diocesan chaplain of the Y.C.W. from 1939 to 1941, when Fr. Mitchinson, who has been ordained three years before, took over. The Canon was later seconded to diocesan rescue work, to which he applied himself with remarkable energy. He TM always been helpful to Catholic journal
ists with his valued advice on social matters.
" The Y.C.W. movement has now reached a stage of maturity," says Fr. Mitchinson. " It can go forward and no better priest could have been appointed than Canon Arbuthnott as national chaplain."
Fr. Mitchinson, who is 44, will in due course be assigned to a parish in the Southwark diocese.
Naval Chapel
A new Catholic chapel for the Royal Naval Barracks at Devonport was blessed and opened on Tuesday by the Senior Catholic Naval Chaplain, Mgr. C. D. Fay, V.G., O.B.E. A large attendance included the Devonport Chaplain, Fr. G. E. Pitt, and former Senior Naval Chaplains, Mgr. E. Dewey, C.B.E., and Mgr. MI. Shepherd, C.B.E. The chapel has the title "Our Lady of the Sea".
TH1RTY.FOUR ORPHANS from Nazareth House, Hammersmith. were taken to Littlehampton for the day on Sunday by the Catholic Action Section, members and friends of the Little Club of London.