by Michael McG | Mar 31, 2021 | St Gabriel's, CAFOD, Organisations
DEACON DAVID CROSS has raised almost £1,000 by walking more than half a million steps during Lent – find out why he’s doing it and how you can help… Each Lent we are encouraged by the Church to give something up as a way of helping us to come closer to God, to help us...
by Michael McG | Mar 22, 2021 | Aid the the Church in Need (ACN), Organisations
An urgent call to end the block on vital aid to people in sanctions-crippled Syria has come from the leaders of a Catholic charity amid fears that the country’s humanitarian crisis has reached an all-time high. Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is demanding...
by Michael McG | Mar 19, 2021 | Pope Francis, Encyclicals, Ampleforth Abbey, Organisations
Ryedale Christian Council is holding a free Zoom event entitled the Climate Change Crisis – what on earth can we do? Our Lady and St Benedict’s, Ampleforth, and Ampleforth’s Anglican benefice, as well as local Methodists and Quakers, are all involved in...
by Michael McG | Mar 11, 2021 | Appeals and Special Events, CAFOD, Organisations, CAFOD Appeals
FATHER BILL SURPLUS has been enjoying the beauty of York at dawn – all for a very good cause… A chance phone call and a mention of CAFOD’s Walk for Water campaign was enough to immediately get me onto the website and register to do 10,000 steps a day during...
by Michael McG | Mar 8, 2021 | Pope Francis, Aid the the Church in Need (ACN), Organisations
The meeting between Pope Francis and Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani – one of Iraq’s most influential spiritual leaders for Shi‘a Muslims – on Saturday (March 6) has been hailed as a historic moment of peace. Speaking to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN),...
by Michael McG | Feb 26, 2021 | Pope Francis, National Board of Catholic Women, Organisations
The National Board of Catholic Women is hosting a Zoom meeting with Dr Anna Rowlands to examine the pope’s latest encyclical, Fratelli Tutti. Dr Rowlands is St Hilda associate professor of catholic social thought and practice in the Department of Theology and...
