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Is Our Church Rejecting True Priestly Vocations?
Page 6 from 7th June 2002death knell is sounding over England's seven seminaries. Last week, the Bishops announced plans to close two of the four in England, and, pending......

Obituaries Fr Basil Lynch, An Oratorian, Has Died At The
Page 3 from 23rd August 1991age of 85. Born Phillip Russell Lynch in 1906, he was educated at Newman's Oratory school, and studied for the priesthood at Louvain and Oscott. In......

Liturgical Schola Offer To Parish Priests
Page 15 from 8th July 1938The parish of Effingham was visited on Sunday last by members of the Schola of St. Michael, who at the invitation of the Rev. Francis Bird, the......

Local News In Brief
Page 6 from 5th November 2004BIRMINGHAM The Annual Conference of Diocesan Vocation Directors and Promoters of England and Wales met at St Mary’s College, Oscott, Birmingham,......

Obituaries
Page 7 from 1st April 1949THE REV. V. J. REAPE. Requiem Mass for the repose of the soul of the Rev. Vincent Joseph Reape, parish priest of St. Cuthbert's, Pemberton.......

Birmingham Gets New
Page 1 from 8th December 1967• 1 . • au xi iary By a Staff Reporter CANON ANTHONY J. EMERY, 49, chairman of the Birmingham Diocesan Schools Commission since 1962, has been......

Of Persons And Places
Page 15 from 8th July 1938A Roving Causerie By G. E. ANSTRUTHER That Alfred Byrne—" Alf " to his nationwide familiars—should have been elected Lord Mayor of his country's......

The Spring At Oscott
Page 9 from 3rd May 1974Cardinal Nc man preached his famous "Second Spring" sermon in St Mary's College, Oscott, near Birmingham, on July 13, 1852, on the occasion of the......

Scots Unveil Plan To Close Seminary
Page 2 from 21st June 2002BY DAVID KIRKWOOD AND CHRISTINA WHITE SCOTLAND'S bishops have recommended the closure of the last remaining seminary on Scottish soil. Their......

Nice But Dim
Page 11 from 14th February 2003Anthony Symondson Si wonders whether Archbishop Ilsley is worth a biography Edward Ilsley: Archbishop of Bimingham by Mary Mclnally, Continuum 05......