Campion News, Trinity Term 2015 page 1 Campion News The Newsletter of Campion Hall, Oxford University Number 4, Trinity Term 2015 Mercy, Flexibility or Change? Newman Lecturer Offers Bishops’ Synod a Choice “WOW!”, was the admiring open- ing comment of Lord (Chris) Pat- ten, the University’s Chancellor, as he began chairing the discus- sion following this year’s New- man lecture given on 6 March by Professor Lisa Sowle Cahill. In his exclamation the Chancellor was summing up the warm accla- mation accorded to Professor Ca- hill’s masterly presentation by a large appreciative audience. The annual Newman Lecture is sponsored and presented in turn by the three Catholic Halls of Ox- ford University, the Benedictine St Benet’s Hall, the Dominican Blackfriars and the Jesuit Campi- on Hall; and this year Campion presented the lecture and the fol- lowing reception in the splendidly Photo Jack Mahoney equipped Pichette Auditorum of Professor Lisa The Master The Chancellor neighbouring Pembroke College. Sowle Cahill Dr Hanvey SJ Lord Patten Professor Cahill, who is the J. Donald Monan Professor at the Jesuit Boston Col- Catholic theology of marriage and the family; sec- lege, Massachusetts, had chosen as the subject of ondly, the widely diverse patterns of practice affect- her lecture, Catholic Families: Theology, Practice, ing families throughout modern society, from which and Evangelisation, in the light of the Bishops’ the Catholic church is far from immune, ranging Synod on the Family to be concluded in Rome later from cohabitation before or in place of marriage, this year. The audience at the lecture included the and contraception, through divorce and remarriage, Chancellor and Lady Patten, the Heads, staff and to same-sex partnerships, IVF and surrogate chil- students of the three participating Halls, Archbishop dren; and thirdly, the increasingly urgent calls for Bernard Longley and Bishop William Kenney CP the Church in its evangelisation to deal with the of the local Birmingham Archdiocese, Archbishop painful theological and moral dilemmas facing Peter Smith of Southwark Archdiocese and Bishop many Catholics in their marriage, often centring on Declan Lang of Clifton Diocese, and other members the dispute which is now growing within the Church of the University and visitors. over their admission to receive Holy Communion Professor Cahill dealt in turn with the three top- while attending Mass. ics identified in her title as they affect Catholic fam- Surveying recent comments made by Pope Fran- ilies: first, the traditional, somewhat monolithic, cis, who summoned the Synod, on the role of Campion News Trinity 2015 Campion News, Trinity Term 2015 page 2 The Newman Lecture, continued New Bursar Appointed mercy in the Church’s approach to this whole area of marital and family pastoral support, Professor Cahill explored the nuances of the Pope’s some- times apparently off-the-cuff remarks on the sub- ject, and concluded that there appear to be three possibilities which are, in principle, open to the Synod in its next session: Applying the Church’s mediation of God’s mercy to couples who find themselves in in- soluble marital situations; Flexibly applying the Church’s legislation by invoking epieicheia (pastoral equity), expand- ing the process of marriage annulment, and recognising the developing “law of graduali- e are happy to report the recent appoint- ty” in the observing of Church rulings, as dis- W ment of a new full-time Bursar to Campion tinct from instant compliance with them; and Hall. Mr Mark Shaddick, FCA, MA (Oxon) is an accountant and a graduate of Exeter College in Considering the development and modifying Modern History and Economics, who also studied of the Church’s teaching on marriage. Russian at Bristol University. He spent over twen- ty years with GKN plc, the British multinational In addition to the Chancellor’s appreciative reac- automotive and aero-space company, first as As- tion to Professor Cahill’s presentation, the many sistant Controller, then as Financial Controller and other tributes included a striking public request Company Secretary, and finally as Finance and IT from the Archbishop of Southwark for all the Bish- Director. ops of England and Wales to receive personal cop- Recently on sabbatical leave, he is also a local ies of the lecture, to help them prepare for the con- historian, and co-author of Yesterday’s Children, cluding session of the Synod on the Family. Appro- Bidford-on-Avon Remembered (2013), and We priately, Blessed John Henry Newman, in whose Will Remember Them (2014). He is married with honour this annual lecture was founded, wrote fa- two daughters, and is a long-suffering supporter of mously about the importance of the bishops consult- Bristol Rovers Football Club. ing the faithful in matters of doctrine. Here was surely an outstanding instance of this. Contents 1 The 2015 Newman Lecture Professor Cahill plans to incorporate her 2015 2 A New Bursar Appointed Newman lecture in a future book on the family. Her 3 Obituary: Father Ian Brayley SJ previous books include Global Justice, Christology and Christian Ethics (2013); Theological Ethics: Campion Congratulations Participation, Justice, and Change (2005); Bioeth- 4 Holy Week Retreat ics and the Common Good (2004); Family: A Chris- The Passion in Oxford Art tian Social Perspective (2000); Sex, Gender and 5 Up and Running — our new website Christian Ethics (1996); Love Your Enemies: Disci- The Georgetown Connection pleship, Pacifism and Just War Theory (1994); and 6 Treasures of Campion Hall, 4: Between the Sexes: Foundations for a Christian The Hopkins Archive Ethic of Sexuality (1985). 8 Visiting Scholars An audio-recording of Professor Cahill’s 2015 9 The new Robert Parsons Room Newman lecture is accessible at the Campion Hall 10 Past Masters: Richard F. Clarke website, which is to be found renewed at <http:// 11 New Alumna Organist www.campion.ox.ac.uk> (see page five). 12 Introducing The WAY Supporting Campion Hall Campion News Trinity 2015 Campion News, Trinity Term 2015 page 3 Obituary: Father Ian Brayley SJ FATHER IAN BRAYLEY died in lent memory and a very sharp the Jesuit Medical Centre at Bos- mind (the daily Times crossword combe, Bournemouth, on 27th was solved in record time) he December, 2014. Born in Barnsta- could navigate the University ple in 1923, he trained originally system with great competence as a scientist (taking part in radar as Senior Tutor. research at Malvern during the His learning was equalled by war), and later became one of the exceptional kindness, usually best known members of Campion disguised under a cloak of hu- Hall, living here for a record forty mour. Devoted from his teenage years (1969-2009). years to the liturgy of the Mass After studying at the Biblical (he joined the Roman Catholic Institute in Rome, he began teach- Church at the age of 19) he ing at Heythrop College in Oxfordshire, and when made a point of celebrating his daily Mass with it transferred to London University he moved to great care in what became known as the Brayley the Hall, where in many ways Oxford fitted him Chapel. He can be compared to the wise scribe, like a glove: he was the quintessential Oxford don. drawing old and new from his storeroom (Mt 13 51 An outstanding tutor, he taught Scripture and He- -52), and distributing them with great generosity. brew to many students (many of them Anglican His many friends mourn a remarkable man to ordinands), being granted dining-rights at Exeter, whom the Hall is much indebted. R.I.P. which he much appreciated. Gifted with an excel- Joseph Munitiz SJ We offer Campion’s Congratulations To Fr Gregory Morgan, of the To Dan Mai SJ, for his recent To Kazutomo Karasawa, Pro- success in fessor of his DPhil English phi- in Social lology at Philoso- Tokyo’s phy. His Komazawa thesis, University, which in- who has volved been on sab- Archdiocese of Sydney, on his over a year batical with confirmation for doctoral studies of ethno- us this past at Oxford. Before ordination graphic field work in rural China, year. He has just produced the Greg graduated in philosophy was on Sustaining Family Life in fruits of his research, an edition, and theology, and with a Licenti- Rural China: Reinterpreting Fil- with notes and a facing English ate in Christian Ethics. After pa- ial Piety in Migrant Chinese translation, of The Old English rochial and hospital ministries in Families. It demonstrates how Metrical Calendar (Meno- Australia, he completed a Cam- migration and modernization are logium), published by Boydell & bridge MPhil in Philosophy of reshaping familial roles, chang- Brewer. A late tenth-century Ol- Religion, and is now engaged in ing filial expectations and the de English poem, it sets out, in a Oxford working towards a doc- notion of care-taking. Dan plans methodical structure based on the toral project that evaluates the to undertake work in the Jesuit framework of the solar/natural dialogical and theo-cultural va- Refugee Service (JRS), which year, the locations of the major lidity of natural law in post- cares for displaced refugees in feasts widely observed in late troubled areas around the world. Anglo-Saxon England. modern jurisprudence. Campion News Trinity 2015 Campion News, Trinity Term 2015 page 4 Campion News Trinity 2015 Campion News, Trinity Term 2015 page 5 Holy Week Retreat The Passion in Oxford Art PART OF the retreat described in the previous col- umn was devoted to the Stations of the Cross done in a new, but old, way. Making the Stations, pri- vately or in a congregation, is a highly popular Lenten devotion for Catholics, and every Catholic church is recognisable by the fourteen scenes mounted around its walls portraying stages, or sta- tions, of Christ’s Passion and Death, from his arrest in Gethsemane to his death on Calvary and his bur- ial.