Bernard Elliot SJ

One of my most vivid childhood memories of my home in Macclesfield was the arrival of my mother's weekly newspaper from Downpatrick, Northern Ireland.  The Irish Weekly was the contact with her home.  James, her elder brother was in Canada and a younger brother, Patrick Hugh, had died in Australia.

In 1980, I was living in Cavendish Square in central London, when I came across people from Vietnam.  Father Peter Diem, the Vietnamese chaplain, had an afternoon Mass on the first Sunday of the month at the convent in Kensington Square.  He invited me to attend the Mass and meet his parishioners who came from all over London.  Most of them were Catholic.  There were many young men and women who were not Catholic but came just to meet one another and hear their own Vietnamese language.