Taking tea' with the chaplain

TO meet Catholic students at Manchester University, the new chaplain, Fr. Benjamin Winterborn. S.J., is inviting parties of 15 to tea. So far 300 of the 350 members of the University Catholic Society have been.
So that the students mix and meet each other more fully, Fr. Winterborn breaks them tin "quite brutally"—after the meal. "While seated they can usually only talk to those on either side. It is far better that they meet, and make friends with, as many fellow-Catholics at the University as possible." he said this week.
The students call the parties "musical chairs without music", and thoroughly enjoy them.
Fr. Winterborn hears all their
problems. A few: If in "digs" what to do at week-ends? If they live at home they miss many Uni versity activities. _
Through the get-togethers the students have many plans, which will probably start at the beginning of the next University year in the autumn.
Fr. Winterborn, who went to Stonyhurst College, near Blackburn, hopes that plans for the new chaplaincy will be ready in a few weeks.
Bishop Beck has been meeting many Catholic members of the Uruversity's 1,000-strong staff. Thirty recently went to Wardley Hall, Worsley, Manchester, his residence, at his invitation. And he has been introduced to a further 30 at the chaplaincy, Fr. Winterborn said that he hoped to meet the remaining 20 or 30 Catholics on the staff, who include two professors, during the summer.
The Catholic Society, is the biggest at the University, and Fr. Winterborn thinks it is the biggest Catholic Society in the country.