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Volume 47 | Issue 3
Includes puzzles! Tuesday 3rd December 2024
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Warwick Catholics slam University’s eleventh-hour chaplaincy appointment
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arwick’s new Catholic Chaplain is set to be appointed in early December, just in time for the University’s ecumenical carol service, The Boar can reveal. It follows a series of ‘huge delays’ and ‘inadequate communication’ between the University and Warwick’s Catholic students, according to Warwick Catholic Society (CathSoc). After Reverend David Palmer retired in July, the University has gone an entire term without a
Catholic chaplain, which has seen the end of on-campus Mass.
“Communication from the University has been incredibly poor”
— Eleanor Milburn, President of Warwick Catholic Society Amid growing uncertainty, The Boar understands that the University’s new Catholic Chaplain will be Reverend Simon Baker, who also serves as Parish Priest at St Joseph the Worker and St Thomas More. Eleanor Milburn, President of
Warwick CathSoc, is ‘outraged’ by the ‘shocking lack of communication’ from the University throughout the appointment process. She told The Boar: “I genuinely think if CathSoc and the Chaplaincy team hadn’t been chasing this for so long, nothing would be getting done. “Communication from the University has been incredibly poor, and the chaplaincy team have also been in the dark about what’s happening. It seems the chaplaincy has no autonomy at all.” She added: “The University’s chaplaincy team have been fantastic throughout all of this, but they’ve had no control over the process and are also confused as to why it’s taken so long.”
Having gone weeks without a Chaplain, it was not until 17 November, the Sunday of Week 7, that a mass specifically for Warwick students was held. This was at a nearby church in Canley—St Joseph the Worker. Eleanor later stressed that it was only “whenever The Boar came chasing for answers” that the appointment process progressed. “Whenever CathSoc and the Chaplaincy team tried to do the same, nothing really happened,” she added. Solomon Lever, a first-year Philosophy and Politics student, stressed the impact of these delays on pastoral care:
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