In the Dioceses of Hallam, Leeds and Middlesbrough a pastoral letter was read out that explained why Catholic Care was taking a special case to the High Court on 3 and 4 March 2010.

This pastoral letter, which can be read or downloaded here, explains that since the passing of the Equality Act in 2006, Catholic Care has been fighting to re-establish its rights to still run an adoption agency.

It is anticipated the decision of the court will be known in approximately 3-5 weeks.

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May 22, 2010

There will be a Jubilee Pilgrimage from the village of Osmotherley to the Lady Chapel (2 mile uphill walk) in thanksgiving for Mary Ward and all the favours her sisters have received from God in the last 400 years.

In 1642, Mary Ward and a few sisters were living in the small village of Hutton Rudby, near Northallerton in North Yorkshire while the Civil War raged around her.

Winifred Wigmore, one of her companions at this wrote an account of Mary Ward’s own pilgrimage to Mount Grace at this time of upheaval and suffering for the community:

About the middle of October she fell very Sicke as her life was held in great danger and her recovery attributed to a pilgrimage made for her to the above said Mountgrace, a place to this day of great devotion and where many graces are granted, though so destroyed and defaced and only the bare four walls remaine without roofe or cover, and in regard to the great height of the Mountayne on which it stands exposed to very great winds. Yet shall you find Catholics praying there howers together, and this Pilgrymage herself made when recovered from the above sayd sickness.

The Lady Chapel has been a place of pilgrimage to this day and is now the Diocesan Shrine for the Diocese of Middlesbrough.

For more information or to book your place please contact Sister Mary Walmsley at the Bar Convent York Tel: 01904 464919 or email her at marywalmsley.cj@bar-convent.org.uk