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MR. QUINTIN HOGG, M.P. addressed the St. James's, Spanish Place, Men's Club on Wednesday in St. George's Street, London, W.1, for which the first annual Mass was celebrated last week in memory of deceased members, their relatives and friends. The Spanish Ambassador, the Marques de Santa Cruz, has consenied to become patron of the club.
CANON EDMUND GRADY, who has retired from St. Joseph's, Bromley, Kent, after 28 years as parish priest was presented with a cheque for 1,000 guineas by his parishioners. There was a concert on the evening of the presentation by five schools with which the canon had been closely connected.
THE entire proceeds of the Christmas Fair of the Sacred Heart Parish, Ainsdale, Southport, are being sent to the missionary parish of Keffi, Northern Nigeria, which it has adapted.
FR. ANTHONY BULLF,N, Director of the Christian Education Centre, Liverpool, will open a series of talks designed to give guidance to parents, teachers and Sunday School teachers in Southport on Tuesday.
THE Society of St Vincent de Paul is to establish another branch in Sheffield at the university. It will officially open on Dec. 8.
THE Catholic Church at Clowne, near Worksop, was crowded for the Christmas fair organised by members of Whitwell, Creswell and Clowne Union of Catholic Mothers. • It was opened by Fr. E. Willoughby from Spinkhill.
ST. JOSEPH'S CONVENT, Chesterfield, celebrated the centenary of the order of nuns administering the convent, the Daughters of Divine Charity, who gave the children in their care a one-day holiday.
MR. WILLIAM CYRIL PONSLEY, of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, a member of the Knights of St. Columba for more than 30 years, has been awarded the papal decoration Pro Ecelesia et Portake for "outstanding service to the Church." He became a member of the Catholic Social Guild in 1929, and still continues to give active support to the guild
THE parish of St Mary's, Falmouth, Cornwall, is planning a programme of events to mark its centenary next year.
FR. WILLIAM H. McDONALD, parish priest of Our Lady of Victories and St. Alphonsus at Lutterworth, Leicestershire, for nearly nine years, is leaving for a parish in the Scottish Highlands as soon as a successor can be found for him. Lutterworth is a scattered parish, and Fr. McDonald said last week that he sometimes walks—he has no car or bicycle-14 miles a day to visit parishioners.
BISHOP CASHMAN of Arundel and Brighton concelebrated Mass with eight priests at the opening
of the Church of Our Lady Queen of Heaven, Langley Green, Crawley, Sussex. The building, formerly used for both services and social functions, has been converted into a church at a cost of £7,000.
DAME GERTRUDE LONGSTAFF, 0.S. B ., a descendant of St. Thomas More, celebrated the diamond jubilee of her religious profession on Sunday at St. Scholastica's Abbey, Teignmouth, Devon. Dame Gertrude, who entered St. Seholastica's Abbey, where there is Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, in 1906. is not the first Benedictine in her family; her great-uncle, Archbishop Ullathorne, was a Benedictine monk of Downside.
CATHOLIC parishes in the Oxford area are now full members of the Oxford Council of Churches and last week's annual general meeting elected a Catholic as the treasurer to the council.
Be is Mr. R. P. Walsh, secretary to the Commission for Social Welfare AN EXHIBITION of French religious and general books opens at Notre Dame de France Church. Leicester Court, Leicester Square, London, today, until next Thursday. On Sunday at 5.30 p.m. M. Jacques Fauvet, editor-in-chief of Le Monde, will give a talk on "Ou va la Presse Francaise?"
THE London Wexfordmen's Association held its first annual Kennedy Brothers Memorial March on Sunday, to commemorate the assassination of President John Kennedy and Senator Robert Kennedy, whose family came from Dunganstown, Co. Wexford The marchers left Speakers' Corner, Hyde Park, at 2 p.m. for Park Crescent, where wreaths were laid at the Kennedy Memorial.