Join Mary’s Meals and help bring hope to hungry children
A charity that feeds hungry children all over the world is recruiting volunteer “Hope Givers” to help change the lives of children living in some of the world’s poorest communities.Mary’s Meals started in a tin shed in a Scottish village in 2002 after founder Magnus...
Sea Sunday 2025: Vatican Calls Seafarers and Fishers ‘Pilgrims of Hope, Prophets of Peace’
Seafarers and fishers are in the heart of the Church and serve as “pilgrims of hope” and “prophets of peace”, the Vatican has said in a message released ahead of Sea Sunday, which will be marked on July 13 this year.In a powerful statement, Cardinal Michael Czerny,...
When seafarers need a Good Samaritan
When seafarers and fishers arrive in a port, they are strangers in a foreign land, they don’t know the locals and often don’t know who to turn to when they need help.Port chaplains and volunteer ship visitors from Stella Maris (the Catholic Church’s maritime agency...
Alarm expressed over proposed abortion law change
Archbishop John Sherrington, lead bishop for life issues for the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, says the Church is “deeply alarmed” after MPs passing an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill on decriminalising abortion.In a statement he...
