WHAT IS YOUR WISH FOR 1956?

The 'CA' asked some well-known people this question. Here are their answers
n GILBERT HARDING
Y strongest personal wish for the New Year has had to be put off for a bit. I wanted to go to Rome to see the Holy Father. but the doctors won't let me travel so far yet. But now they have succeeded in doing such wonderful things for me, I hope to make it before Easter.
E. However, four things spring to my mind as special New Year hopes;
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Fir, of course, that there should ff• be increasing certainty of peace.'
E Secondly, that we should have .2 what we need so badly-a
Fa stable responsible Government, E of any worthwhile party.
Thirdly. that the teachers should
I. succeed in getting justice.
E Fourthly, for the maintenance of the Holy Father's health and
the restoration to health of "ffl. Cardinal Griffin.
= Fr. GORDON ALBION, 11 historian and broadcaster 2 T WOULD like to see thr Catholic Church established in every village in t ngland in e7pre-fabricated huts built to hold about 50 people each. We are 100 years behind the Nonconformists in this.
Mass would be said in each hut every Sunday, and I would like to see priests encouraged to say one or even two evening Masses every Sunday ireaddition to the morning one in the parish church. 11111111ilifAMIIIIIIr111111 Convert married clergymen, ordained in the Catholic Church as deacons. could help
with the extra pastoral and catechetical work. involved.
For finance, I suggest that the covenant system, with its tax benefits, should be publicised and organised nationally so that each Catholic could base his contributions on one generous offertory. This would obviate the need for extra collections and such things as football pools which entail a lot of extra work.
Fr. EDWARD HOLLOWAY
T PRAY for a dynamic re-1discovery of God among
young scientists and other in tellectuals.
I am encouraged in this thought by a recent challenge debate in a university when a majority of nearly 500 to 12 deplored the general fall away from God.
Fr. AGNELLUS ANDREW, 0.F.M., Assistant Director of Religious broadcasting
That the barriers between us and our fellow-countrymen will crumble still further by mutual understanding and charity. Each year sees us a little more in touch with those outside the Church in spite of the persistence of misunderstanding and prejudice.
The past few years have seen great developments, and we in Catholic broadcasting like to think we have played our small part in spreading understanding and charity. Much remains to be done, both by way of getting to know the minds and hearts of those outside the Church and trying to understand them with sympathy and real respect.
Great study of the environment within which we live is needed, and the lesson of the Incarnation cart and must be learnt, for Our Blessed Lord came down and identified Himself with the world that He wanted to redeem.
BEN LYON and BLUE DANIELS reUR special with is that the
N.-1 New Year will bring continued health to the Holy Father and restored health to His Eminence Cardinal Griffin so that they may be spared for many years to give all their devoted subjects the spiritual guidance so desperately needed in this troubledworld.
LORD PAKENHAM
THE greatest change for good at home within our power as a nation would he a long Step forward in prison reform and in the after-care of those who have been in prison.
A CERTAIN EDITOR
THAT we should all wake up one morning and find that the liturgical principles of the Encyclical " Mediator Dci " had become • a living reality overnight-with everyone going
to Dialogue Mass facing the people and taking their altar breads with them.
In fact, the fullest participation by the laity in the Holy Sacrifice.
GRACE CONWAY
rTIMAT our national landscape -Ishould cease to be blotted
by vulgar, tasteless and sensa
tional posters advertising films,
(Miss Conway, f." film critic, was once instrumenral in having a particularly revolting example removed from a hoarding.) DOUGLAS HYDE
THAT every Catholic schoolleaver should go through a " hardening-off " course before setting off into the world.
That Anglo-Catholics, seeing their colleagues come to Rome should see that the only logical thing is to follow their examples.
That Catholics should throw their full weight into trade union politics.
That the Communist advances in Asia and Africa may be outstripped by conversions to the Fa the e visit of Bulganin and Krusehev to this country will result in the conversion of Bulganin and Kruschev.
FRANCIS TOLHURST C.T.S. Organising Secretary TT would be a matter of joy 1 for us all if we could infuse something of the quality of courtesy and elegance into our daily. humare relationships.
It could well begin by people trying to look more cheerful and to be more cordial to each 5. other.
Then. thinking of the Bishop of Shrewsbury's Advent letter _5 which .eou headlined " Put Warmth into State Ice-boxes." 5 let it develop into us all doing -fe those innumerable immediate facts of kindness and help which don't get done in the _q Welfare State.
Let's try to make it more at a Family State. F_
FR. PAUL CRANE, S.J. m 13EACE in industry at home, --== and the liberation of the satellite States behind the Iron E Curtain. 3
Mrs. BESSIE BRADDOCK M.P.
THAT the emphasis in our -I national life should he upon the individual and his need for E
security. re
So many are engaged in the manufacture of implements of --=atwarfare that we are not paying Eenough attention to such things 5 as providing decent homes and -5 housing accommodation for 5individual men and their families.
May the New Year bring it about 5' that we somehow get negotiations for peace going proKperly. Until then there can be '4
no true prosperity. -5
OLD man on top of a has: :That the working class 5_ people who voted for the Tones
will get their . . . heads examined. ===