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The whole trip was a mixture of inspiration, shock and surprise. To be actually in the place which we hear so much about and to witness the extent of the destruction, not only of entire villages but of cemeteries and churches riddled with bullet h...Read more
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Parishioners read out the names of those who have died and lit candles to remember them. This event also marked the installation of a new weapons disposal bin in the parish grounds, allowing those who no longer wish to carry knives to dispo...Read more
World Day of the Poor and Mitzvah Day fall on the same Sunday, and to mark the occasion Caritas Westminster and the organisers of Mitzvah Day engaged six schools in North London in a social action project. The schools, three Jewish (Noam Primary, ...Read more
Buildings across the world were lit up red on Wednesday 28th November to raise awareness of the plight of persecuted Christians around the world, particularly in the Middle East. The campaign, run by Aid to the Church in Need, is called #RedWednes...Read more
St Thomas More School, in Wood Green, has been running a peer mentoring programme for the past two years, involving over 50 mentors, who provide younger pupils with support, guidance, friendship and reinforcement. The programme is designed to cont...Read more
Frances Tophill, BBC Gardeners' World presenter and judge for the RHS's Campaign for School Gardening, paid a visit to St Gregory's Catholic Science College to congratulate pupils on their success on winning the RHS School Gardening Team of ...Read more
Pupils from St Gregory's Catholic Science College and Uxendon Manor Primary School in Kenton, joined forces to plant hundreds of daffodil bulbs and crocus corms in Woodcock Park.
Veolia, the company which manages Brent's parks, supplied the d...Read more
St Augustine's Priory in Ealing has been shortlisted for the Whole-School Community Initiative of the Year award.
The school runs an allotment and farm on 13 acres of land. Parents lead the allotment where pupils work under their guidance to gr...Read more
The Reception classes of St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School and Nursery in Kenton were recently formally welcomed into the family of the school. Their school jumpers were blessed by Fr Dermot O'Neill of All Saints Parish, Kenton, in a ser...Read more
2018 sees not only the centenary of the Armistice but also the new political order that emerged in Europe after the collapse of four mighty Empires. The period saw new nations being proclaimed and borders being drawn, and, unsurprisingly, the proc...Read more
The Sunday Times School Guide 2019 ranked St Joseph's Catholic Primary School in Willesden as the second best state primary school in the country, and the best state Catholic primary school nationally.
The whole school community has continued to ...Read more
There were two Congress Masses at the Metropolitan Cathedral on the Sunday morning. Given the almost relentless activity of the previous two days, I was glad that we had opted for the later, celebrated at 11.30am by the Cardinal. Arriving, we were...Read more
It is astonishing to realise that the majority of people living in poverty in London (58%) are living in a working family. That's 1.3 million people living with 'in-work' poverty in the capital alone, many working jobs with long hours in uns...Read more
by Fr Lawrence Lew OP
Over a decade ago I served as a lay missionary in a Dominican parish located amid the slums of Metro-Manila. My first Advent there, I was introduced to
The name
In fact, the missionaries were drawing upon a custom that can...Read more
by Carolyn Albon
The Parish of St Hugh of Lincoln, Letchworth Garden City, has recently discovered a connection with Margaret Agnes Rope, a stained glass artist from the early decades of the 20th century, who is becoming better known and apprecia...Read more
by Fr David Stewart SJ
The Morning Offering, to the Heart of Christ, has been at the heart of the spirituality of the Prayer Network for all of its existence of nearly 175 years. Generations of Catholic Christians, and many other followers of J...Read more