by webmaster | Jan 27, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events, Event Calendar, St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough, Parishes, Bishop Terry
Pope Benedict XVI has declared 28th June 2008 to 29th June 2009 the ‘Year of St Paul’ to celebrate the 2,000th anniversary of St Paul’s birth. It is the Holy Father’s intention that during this year we all come to know better ‘the immense...
by webmaster | Jan 27, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events, CAFOD, Event Calendar, Organisations, CAFOD Appeals
Lent Fast Day, 6th March 2009 AIDS has orphaned thousands of children in Cambodia. Maryknoll, a local charity supported by CAFOD since 2003, offers young people a family home and the chance to finish their education. The Khmer Rouge murdered Phalla’s family in...
by webmaster | Jan 27, 2009 | Carmelite Spirituality Group, Organisations, Religious Communities
On 6th January, an ancient bell was installed at the new monastery of the Carmelite nuns at Thicket Priory just outside York. Thicket has long been the home of Roman Catholic religious women; from the 12th Century, Cistercian nuns lived there until the Reformation...
by webmaster | Jan 27, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events
The Baghdad Appeal has been making the news recently with coverage in The Stockton and Darlington Times and The Northern Echo. In the following article, originally published The Catholic Herald and re-published here by kind permission, the man behind the mission John...
by webmaster | Jan 27, 2009 | Event Calendar, Justice and Peace
Bringing to light the true causes of the war in Congo with Reverend Theodore Ngoy, Congolese Pastor, Lawyer, elected Member of Parliament for Katanga province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and former candidate for the Presidential Elections in Congo. Thurs...