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The Catenian Association: A Centenary History 1908-2008

by webmaster | Aug 2, 2008 | Book Reviews, Organisations

In this new book by James Hagarty will be found a very well written account of the first 100 years of The Catenian Association. The Association is an organisation of Catholic laymen with over 10,000 members in Europe, Africa and Australia. The Catenians were founded...

Celebrating Family Project Worker

by webmaster | Jul 9, 2008 | Miscellaneous

The Diocese of Middlesbrough wishes to appoint a ‘Celebrating Family’ Project Worker to promote awareness of the marriage and Family Life initiative ‘Celebrating Family’ throught the Diocese, and to facilitate workshops with parishes and groups based upon ‘Everybody’s...

Red boxes Mass at Ushaw

by webmaster | Jul 2, 2008 | Miscellaneous

Two leather-bound ‘remembrance’ books containing the names of several thousand supporters of the red box mission appeal had a place of honour at a special Mass at Ushaw College, Durham on Sunday 29th June. The Mass was offered up for the deceased people...

Richard Rolle: The Fellowship of Angels

by webmaster | Jul 2, 2008 | Book Reviews, Parishes

The latest book to appear on the Repository at St Joseph’s Church in Pickering is something rather special. It is a translation into modern English of some of the work of the mediaeval mystic and writer Richard Rolle, born in the year 1300, in our diocese in...

The Last Dragon

by webmaster | Jul 2, 2008 | Book Reviews

Readers looking for a good read over the summer may like to pick up ‘The Last Dragon’ by Rosemary Brydon, a former editor of the Middlesbrough Catholic Voice. Though not a religious book it is firmly set in our diocese, and all the places are real; you...

The Story of Gilling Castle

by webmaster | Jul 2, 2008 | Book Reviews, Religious Communities

Fr Anselm Cramer, the Monastic Archivist at Ampleforth Abbey has written a new book entitled ‘Gilling Castle, The Story of the House and its Families’. The book starts, as it should, with the first family the Ettons who started building Gilling Castle...