TOWN HALL LECTURE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 70, 24 March 1938, Page 14

TOWN HALL LECTURE.

Rev. Father Dudley.

The Rev. Father Owen Francis Dudley, Superior of the Catholic Missionary Society, England, who is to lecture at-the Town Hall next Wednesday evening, has shown since his arrival in New Zealand that the reputation which preceded him from England is well deserved. In. 1911 he was ordained for the Anglican ministry, and in both country and slum parishes he showed his ability for four years. Then the claims of the Roman Catholic Church proved irresistible to him, and he was received into the Church in 1915. Two years later, after study at the Beda College in Rome, he was ordained priest. Then came the war. Father Dudley joined up as a chaplain. After the war he joined the Catholic Missionary Society, which has as its purpose the giving of missions, the dissemination of Catholic truth throughout England and Wales by means of motor chapels, open-air and cinema lectures, and broadcast addresses, and the production of literature expository of Catholic doctrine. Father Dudley is on the Catholic Council of International Relations, and on the general committee of the Catholic Truth Society. He is also a member of the special committee, of the London Public Morality Council. Father Dudley is known to at wide circle' of readers for his literary works.on topical subjects of world .• In Auckland recently,, during the Roman Catholic Centenary celebrations, Father Dudley was a popular figure with everybody. His lectures and addresses are simple and direct, and he makes his point with touches of humour that delight his audience. Father Dudley will give only 'one • lecture in ,Wellington, Reservations may- be made ,at the D.I.C. booking offic*. j