Gateshead Revisited

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In the Church of our day, in which listening, welcoming, and inclusion inspire all pastoral action, and there is a desire to build ecclesial communion “with a synodal method,” this group of ordinary faithful, young families, and fervent priests has the confident hope that its voice will not be stifled but welcomed, listened to, and taken into due consideration. Those who go to the “Latin Mass” are not second-class believers, nor are they deviants to be re-educated or a burden to be gotten rid of. Having read the comments from the Pope I am at a loss to understand how he can say that the Holy Spirit guided Pope Benedict in freeing up the EF Mass while at the same time claiming the guidance of the same Holy Spirit is his preventing it. Surely the Holy Spirit, as a omniscient part of the Holy Trinity, would have foreseen the difficulties caused by His giving contrasting guidance to 2 different Popes. Its engineers are Gifford and Partners and its architects Wilkinson Eyre, designers of a large number of bridges as well as the superb Stratford Market depot (1997) of London Underground's Jubilee Line extension, the new Magna Science Park housed in a former steel works at Rotherham, and the reconstruction of London Bridge station. What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden of even considered harmful” (Benedict XVI, Letter to the Bishops on the occasion of the publication of the Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum). The growing hostility towards the traditional liturgy finds no justification on either a theological or pastoral level. The communities that celebrate the liturgy according to the 1962 Roman Missal are not rebels against the Church. On the contrary, blessed by steady growth in lay faithful and priestly vocations, they constitute an example of steadfast perseverance in Catholic faith and unity, in a world increasingly insensitive to the Gospel, and an ecclesial context increasingly yielding to disintegrating impulses.

The High Court, at ¶144 noted that the critical part of the Panel’s reasoning was that the net zero duty rested upon the Secretary of State making decisions for the United Kingdom as a whole. Here, however, the Secretary of State was dealing with an individual planning application in a particular local authority. The CCA duty essentially lay in the higher realm of national policymaking; not – as here – local decision making. The Gateshead principle is now enshrined in NPPF, paragraph 188. The Decision summarised that paragraph as follows: I think churches are assets/resources and once they are no longer feasible to maintain, they need to be "decommissioned" (and possibly dispensed with). We live in an urban area with a relatively good public transport system - I think even if half the churches in Newcastle-Gateshead were closed, people could still get to Mass, definitely on Sundays (weekdays are a problem at present, too, but that's a different issue).

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take etc. What an adventure you are embarking upon! Bear in mind that once the romance of today wears off and the reality

the Revelation, the Deposit of Faith, delivered through the Apostles” (Pastor Aeternus #6). If a Bishop of Second, Gateshead is not a principle of blind faith. The Panel’s decision needs to be understood in context. All accepted that carbon emissions were a material planning consideration. The Panel noted that the consequence of granting permission was that it would make it more difficult to comply with the net zero duty. However, on the evidence before it, the “comparative magnitude of the increase [in emissions] was limited”. The Gateshead principle is highly fact sensitive. It might very well be rebutted and does not require a decision-maker to adopt a sanguine attitude towards the net zero strategy or the importance of reducing emissions. But the fact remains that that duty lies – as the Panel explained – elsewhere. Gateshead, though, was always the poor relation across the water. Its industrial economy was already in decline by the close of the 19th century. It suffered greatly during the depression. Now, its time has come - with culture rather than industry providing the way forward. So things are ok at St Joseph`s Gateshead. The parish priest was appointed to be a canon last April and continues to battle on with Parkinson`s disease, diagnosed 7 years ago. Cultural projects like Gateshead Quays require faith and considerable teamwork. There are about 18 governmental bodies and cultural organisations involved in this regeneration programme. The total cost for the development of the whole of east Gateshead is about half that of last year's Millennium Experience. It beggars belief: a bridge, a world-class concert hall and art gallery, new hotels and homes, places to shop and eat, stop and stare on the banks of the Tyne, all for the price of a circus tent and its contents.

The Secretary of State is under a duty to ensure that the UK’s carbon account reaches “net zero” by 2050 ( section 1 of the Climate Change Act 2008 (as amended in 2019 following the Paris Agreement)), the “ net zero duty”. To that end, the Secretary of State must prepare carbon budgets, progressively reducing the amount of carbon in the budget to reach that goal. What is striking is the quality of the design and engineering of these new projects. Gateshead has chosen its architects well. Each has come up with a design that lives up to Tyneside's bravura engineering and industrial past. Although refined, none is fey. This is good news, because so many redeveloped quaysides - from New York and Chicago to Cape Town - can be a little too much like water's-edge shopping malls. Gateshead itself boasts one of the biggest and cheesiest shopping malls of all, the gigantic Metro Centre, which, although undoubtedly popular, is a monstrous carbuncle on the face of north-east England. Gateshead Quay might yet redeem the architectural and planning sins of this unholy retail trough. The cultural quarter on Gateshead Quays will, of course, be the jewel in the crown of the regeneration. Yet Barford claims: “We didn’t start with the big picture for a cultural complex. We did it incrementally. So asked Juvenal in hs sixth satire; who will guard the guards, which has come to be used to ask to whom are those in power accountable? Well to God of course but also to their subjects. Although the pope canot be judged by any earthly court the sensus fidelium is always to be considered and bad papal laws can find themselves ignored by the faithful.` Whilst it is always sad if a church needs to be closed we must accept that the financial implications must weigh heavily on the diocese unless Catholics return to their Faith & provide for a church AND PRIESTS to serve the churches.

The details of the bridge are impressive. The steel pedestrian walkways include benches, and are raised above the perforated aluminium cycle path to offer generous views of the Tyne and its twin cities. The bridge can be raised and lowered, all but silently, in just four minutes. It is expected to be opened about 200 times a year, a sight well worth seeing. By night it lights up beautifully. Michael Rhimes is a barrister at Francis Taylor Building specialising in environmental, planning and public law.The Claimant argued that the regime of controlling carbon emissions was akin to air quality. It was a programmatic regime. The Gateshead principle did not bite. The Decision was therefore wrong for essentially assuming that the Secretary of State would comply with the duties under the CCA. At the same time, there is the worry of the new Vatican document seeking to rein in the Extraordinary Form. The last I heard on this was that it was leaving things as they are but any priest new to the EF must get the permission of his bishop to celebrate.This didn`t sound too bad to me if it means the bishop has to set some kind of test to ensure that new celebrants are proficient in the rite. This could mean setting up training courses to ensure proficiency and thus make it easier for priests to learn who are worried about trying it because they have no Latin for example. At least that`s what I hope will happen. suffering, dying world as one of us; came to suffer and die with us and for us, that He may rise again Plainly some of the carbon emissions were the subject of a consenting regime. The Secretary of State had chosen to discharge his duty under s. 1 of the CCA by means of emissions trading scheme. There were (relevantly) two emissions trading schemes, one targeting UK-EU flights (the UK ETS) and one targeting UK-non Eu flights (CORSIA). (¶141). The Claimant accepted that the UK ETS was a parallel consenting regime which fell within the Gateshead principle. To consider that trading scheme alone (and not the other schemes, including those which might come forward in the future (see ¶170)) would be illogical. It was the entirety of the measures put forward to reach the net zero target that should be considered; and For this reason, the attitude of rejection with which their own pastors are forced to treat these communities today is not only reason for bitter sorrow, which these faithful strive to offer for the purification of the Church, but also constitutes a grave injustice. In the face of this injustice, charity itself demands that we not remain silent: for “indiscreet silence leaves in error those who might have been instructed” (Pope St Gregory the Great, Pastoral Rule, Book II, chapter 4).