William Flew sporting

The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.

From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.

William Flew sporting

Lighter letters included an account of how Bob Hope nicknamed the Hollywood church where he attended Mass with his Catholic wife “Our Lady of the Cadillacs”. He was a founder member of the national Diocesan Editors’ Forum, and for three years its first chairman. Later he was elected life president. In 1967 he became national chairman of the Catholic Writers’ Guild. He also served for five years on the Mass Media Commission of the Catholic Bishops Conference of England & Wales. Wynn had a strong devotion to the Virgin Mary and had campaigned through the pages of the Northern Cross for the medieval shrine of Our Lady of Jesmond in Newcastle to receive the same attention given to the national shrine of the Virgin Mary at Walsingham in Norfolk. He wrote Walsingham, a Modern Mystery Play in 1975. Though he had lived for many years in Essex, Wynn never lost touch with his Newcastle roots, travelling up to Gateshead every year for an annual lunch with the “Pen and Lens Club”, as the gatherings of former district staffers of the national newspapers based in the North East were dubbed.