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Two new auxiliaries
TWO new English bishops have been named by the Pope. Mgr. Patrick Casey becomes auxiliary at Westminster, where he has been Vicar-General for two years. Fr. Augustine Harris, recently named senior Catholic priest to the Prisons Department of the Home Office becomes auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool.
Mgr. Casey, who is 52, is
London born, studied at Ware Seminary a n d was ordained in 1939. Before be becoming Vicar General he was a curate at St. James', Spanish Place, and later parish priest at Hendon.
Bishop-elect Harris, who is 48, was prison chaplain at Walton, Liverpool: for 13 years. He has officially repre. Rented the Church at international conferences on the prevention and treatment of
crime. He will coniinue to act as liaison between the British hierarchy and the Home Office on penal matters.
He was educated in his home city of Liverpool, at St. Xavier's College, and trained at Upholland Seminary, Lancashire.
Jubilee indulgences
Pope Paul has granted Bishops the right to designate one or more churches which can be visited by Catholics to obtain jubilee decree indulgences. Origi nally indulgences were to be granted only to those who attended the cathedral churches of the dioceses between January 1 and May 29, the Feast of Pentecost.
Meat ban opposed
An American bishop who favours lifting the Church's ban on eating meat on Fridays said last week: "What we need, particularly at this time is a restatement of the ideas of penance . . . The Church is universal and has many different means of expressing penance."
Bishop Primeau of Manchester, New Hampshire, added at a Press conference in his diocese that if a Catholic feels pangs of conscience by eating meat on Fridays there would be nothing to stop him from abstaining.
New chaplain
FR. RICHARD INCLEDON, 36, has been appointed Catholic chaplain at Cambridge University, in succession to Mgr. Alfred Gilbey, who resigned at the end of last term. Fr. Incledon read Mods and Greats at Trinity College, Oxford, before studying for the priesthood at the English College, Rome.
He served at Worcester Park, Surrey, and became assistant Catholic chaplain at Oxford four years ago
Luci engaged
MISS LUCI Baines Johnson. 18, daughter of President and Mrs. Lyndon Johnson, hecame engaged on Christmas Eve to Mr. Patrick Nugent, of Waukegan, Illinois, her escort of the past few months.