Bishop Alan Clark leads Ipswich Holy Year Mass

By a Special Correspondent
About 600 Catholics of the Ipswich Deanery converged on the chapel of St. Joseph's College, Birkfield, on Tuesday orlast week to join in a Mass concelebrated by the deanery's 13 priests, led by Bishop Alan Clark, Auxiliary of Northampton.
The Mass was the main Ipswich event in the year of preparation for Holy Year — one of three "minipilgrimages."
The first was a fortnight earlier, to St. Joseph's Church, Hadleigh, some ten miles from Ipswich; the third was this week, to St. Felix's Church, Felixstowe.
There were 32 altar boys and 'servers at the St Joseph's College Mass, drawn from all parishes, and choirs from the Catholic schools. In the congregation there were many nuns from the Convent of Jesus and Mary and de la Salle brothers from the two St Joseph's independent schools.
Ipswich has a plane booked for the Rome pilgrimage next year, and 112 of the town's Catholics are firmly committed to it — many involved in a savings scheme which works out at about £1 a week.
Contingents are going from other Suffolk towns, notably Stowmarket, Aldeburgh, and Woodbridge. A large, separate, pilgrimage is going from Norwich.
Sixth-formers told of aims in education
A Sixth-Form Conference on Catholic education, attended by 200 pupils from more than 20 secondary schools in Bromley, was held last month at Coloma College of Education. West Wickham, Kent.
Sister Mary More, the college Principal, who opened the conference, said that what was required from pupils who wished to train for teaching was
not just paper qualifications. ,but people with sympathy and the ability to project their personality.
Ideally, entrants should have two 'A' levels, but at present a minimum of five '0' levels could be accepted. Students were judged on results at the end of a three-year course. The
Principal added that mature students were emerging with very good degrees.
She stressed that although Coloma was a Catholic college it took a number of nonCatholic students and staff. Possibly for the first time in their lives.
Son's 'last resort' bid to trace mother
The son of a woman who disappeared in 1956. soon after coming to I.ondon from Edinburgh, has written to this newspaper "as a last resort" for help in tracing her. Mr Stanley Millard, of III Verulam Road. St Albans, Hertfordshire, thinks she may have been in touch with some church or convent. as she became a Catholic in middle age. She is Mrs Margaret (Sibbald) Milford. and her maiden name was Chrystal.
Cardinal accuses police chief
Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns of Sao Paulo. Brazil, accused the city's chief of police of ''vengeance against the Church" in criticising the arrests of dozens of laymen working with Catholic social action programmes. The Cardinal also disclosed at a press conference in Sao Paulo some of the topics he had discussed with a high-ranking aide to President Ernesto Geisel, General clei Couto e Silva. Senhor Geisel.a Protestant, became 'President of Latin America's biggest country on March 15.
Cardinal Arns said that Police Chief Sergio Paranhos Fleury himself interrogated some of the 40 laymen arrested in Sao Paulo.
Senhor Waldemar Possi, who works for the archdiocesan Justice and Peace Commission, was tortured for six hours, Cardinal Arns said.
Only 14 of those arrested since January were still in prison. Cardinal Arns said the archdiocese was giving financial aid to the families of those arrested and financing their legal defence.
Cardinal opens Irish boys' hostel
Cardinal Conway, Primate of All Ireland, was the principal celebrant last week at a Mass to mark the opening of a new boys' hostel by the Irish Centre in London — Hope House, in Quex Road, Kilburn. Other concelebrants were Cardinal Heenan; Archbishop Cunnane of Tuam; Bishop Eamonn Casey of Kerry: Bishop Patrick Casey of Brentwood; Fr John Dore, Provincial of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, and Fr Patrick Mee, OM1, Director of the Irish Centre.
The property for the hostel was provided by the Holy Family Sisters, whose convent it had been. The purchase of the House and financing of the hostel was made possible by the co-operation of the Irish Episcopal Commission and the London Borough of Camden.
The Episcopal Commission contributed £75,000 from the national collection taken up in Ireland some years ago.
The hostel, which will be able to house 80 to 100 boys and men, will be run by Fr Patrick Carolan, OMI, assisted by Brother Regan, OW.
Cardinal Conway gave the homily during the Mass, and Cardinal Heenan spoke afterwards to the guests at a reception in the Mazenod Hall.
Bishop Eamonn Casey, returning to a "home from home-. as much of his work before he became a bishop had been in Kilburn, was the principal speaker. He thanked the many helpers who made the project possible and said how pleased he was that the Bishops' Commission had been able to help.
He added that the Irish Government had been doubtful whether they had a right to help the Irish abroad, but the national collection's success had shown that this was so, and he hoped that the Irish Government would now also help in such work.
Mr. Sean Gaynor, Minister at the Irish Embassy in London, representing the Ambassador, also spoke, as did the Mayor of Camden and Fr Dore and Fr Mee.