The 400th anniversary of Mary Ward is the focus of a three year project by Loreto Albania called ‘A woman’s right in Albania for freedom, justice, and to speak her truth’. Life can be very hard for most Albanian women. They are very much subject to...
The York Circle of the Newman Association present a talk by Pamela Ellis on ‘Mary Ward and the idea of holiness’ on Monday 15th February, 7.30pm at St Bede’s Pastoral Centre, 21 Blossom Street, York Any enquiries, please contact Judith or Robert...
After beginning to read Isaiah’s prophecies during Advent, the READ-A-BOOK-A-MONTH bible-challenge continues with the histories during January and February, reading the First and Second Books of Kings. Here are exciting accounts of confrontations between kings...
15 December 2009 The Right Hon Gordon Brown MP Prime Minister 10 Downing Street LONDON SW1A 2AA Dear Prime Minister I write to you as the Roman Catholic Bishop of Middlesbrough to express my deep concern at the decision of the owners of CORUS to mothball the blast...
On 19th December 2009 Pope Benedict XVI formally published a Decree recognising the ‘heroic virtue’ demonstrated by Mary Ward and thereby conferring on her the title ‘Venerable’. Her cause will now go forward to the next stage in the process towards beatification and...
In the end, the visit of the relics of St Thérèse to York Minster was almost unbearably moving. I talk as one who went on the Friday morning and listened to the service for schoolchildren and witnessed the procession of the relics down the nave to the...
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