Bishop Marcus Stock, Bishop Chair of the Catholic Education Service (CES), has welcomed the decision by the Education Secretary, Gillian Keegan, to lift the faith-based admissions cap on new free schools in England. The decision paves the way for...
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has called for individual Catholics to respond to an open consultation on the way government engages with faith communities. The link to the online submission is:...
Catholic Voices. I signed up for the Rise Up programme during the summer holidays not entirely sure what it would be like in its pilot year. The whole experience surpassed all my prior expectations. 'Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the...
On Thursday 8 December, after the Mass of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, Bishop John Sherrington blessed the refurbished statue of Our Lady of Walsingham in the Chapel of St George and the English Martyrs. The statue was processed fro...
'Jesus Christ is the face of the Father's mercy.'
With these words Pope Francis opened the Bull of Indiction of the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy which is now underway. The Holy Father's words are unequivocal, and they are true. Y...