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Thinking about Lourdes
Thinking about Lourdes
The role of Pilgrimage Administrator involves co-ordinating the many parts that go into making a diocesan pilgrimage to Lourdes, as well as other destinations like the Holy Land or Walsingham, work. The role covers pilgrimage publicity, negotia...Read more
26/03/2018
Science Week at St Benedict's
Science Week at St Benedict's
Young scientists at St Benedict's, Ealing, recently held their annual Science Fair, which was attended by 340 children from local primary schools. All students in Year 8 presented their projects, which included hands-on experiments and activi...Read more
26/03/2018
Three St Benedict's singers join the National 
Youth Choir of Great Britain
Three St Benedict's singers join the National Youth Choir of Great Britain
Three St Benedict's pupils have been accepted into the National Youth Boys' Choir, following recent auditions attended by hundreds of young singers from all over the UK. Toby Moore, aged 13, Mark Maalouf, aged 12, and Artie Hair, aged 10,are ...Read more
26/03/2018
Inspiration for 
St Anthony's Girls
Inspiration for St Anthony's Girls
St Anthony's School for Girls in Hampstead celebrated International Women's Day, by welcoming a variety of speakers to offer inspiration to the young pupils. Pupils heard from women who work in finance, the Army and the creative industries wh...Read more
26/03/2018
Some of the founding members of CAFOD, including Jacqueline-Stuyt Simpson
St Augustine's CAFOD Connection
St Augustine's Priory, Ealing, took part in the Lent Fast Day to raise money for the work that CAFOD does overseas and in remembrance of one of their past pupils who was one of the founding members of CAFOD. Jacqueline Stuyt-Simpson was born ...Read more
26/03/2018
Putting Faith in Action at Our Lady's, Hackney
Putting Faith in Action at Our Lady's, Hackney
by Mary Karayel, on behalf of the Caritas Ambassadors When they began working with us Caritas stressed the importance of volunteering as grounded in the Catholic social teaching of St John where he called people of faith to 'not love in word ...Read more
26/03/2018
St Thomas More School, Mini Vinnies, Berkhamsted, helping at the Sacred Heart Parish soup lunch
Giving it up for CAFOD
Young people across the diocese are 'giving up' their time and money to help others. This Lent, CAFOD is working to combat malnutrition in Zimbabwe by providing seeds and farming training for families and communities so that everyone in the...Read more
26/03/2018
Bishop Nicholas Hudson installing the reliquary of St Gabriel at Archway Parish
Passionist is the Way at St Gabriel's
A special Mass was celebrated by Bishop Nicholas Hudson on Tuesday 27 The parish of St Gabriel gets its name not from an archangel but from a young Passionist saint from Italy. The church was founded by the Passionist Fathers of St Joseph's at ...Read more
20/03/2018
One of the newly unveiled Stations of the Cross being blessed by a priest
New Stations of the Cross at Bishop Challoner
New, specially made Stations of the Cross at Bishop Challoner Catholic Federation of Schools were unveiled and blessed by priests from all across the deanery of Tower Hamlets on 20 Each of the 14 stations in the playground is dedicated to a par...Read more
20/03/2018
The Need for Witnesses
The Need for Witnesses
by Rector Canon Roger Taylor Put to the test to prove his identity in today's Gospel (John 5:31-47) in a hostile, adversarial situation, Jesus lines up his witnesses. The word of one man alone is not going to suffice, so Jesus points not just t...Read more
18/03/2018
Rosary on the Coast
Rosary on the Coast
On 29th April, many Catholics will be gathering on the coast to pray the rosary together for 'Faith, Life and Peace in the British Isles'. Inspired by the 'rosary on the border' in Poland last year, a group of British Catholics were driven ...Read more
12/03/2018
Carol-Anne Chandler (L) and Claudette Wadood (R)
Cardinal Celebrates Hardworking Parishioners
On 28 January Cardinal Vincent Nichols celebrated Mass in the church of Saint William of York, Stanmore. He also presented two long-term parishioners with Benemerenti medals. The presentation happend at the end of Mass and was followed by a parish...Read more
12/03/2018
Call to protect status of Jerusalem holy sites
Call to protect status of Jerusalem holy sites
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Cardinal Vincent Nichols have called on the Israeli Government to protect the status quo at the holy sites in Jerusalem. In a joint letter to the Israeli Ambassador to London, Mark Regev, the two fa...Read more
05/03/2018
Cardinal invites young people to be 'digital apostles'
Cardinal invites young people to be 'digital apostles'
Cardinal Vincent met with a group of young people from around the diocese on Tuesday, 27 February to listen to their hopes and desires for their own lives and for the Church.Read more
01/03/2018
Pope's Prayer Intention: March
Pope's Prayer Intention: March
By Fr David Stewart SJ In March we, the whole people of God in each hemisphere, continue with our Lenten observance then move into the most solemn week of the year, Holy Week. We are taken to Palm Sunday, when we first hear proclaimed the Passi...Read more
01/03/2018
Mass for Members of the Travelling Community
Mass for Members of the Travelling Community
On Saturday 24 February Bishop Paul MacAleenan celebrated Mass for Members of the Travelling Community at Westminster Cathedral. As well as being one of our auxiliary Bishops he is also Catholic Bishop with oversight for Ethnic Chaplaincies. B...Read more
28/02/2018
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