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St Paul and the Ultimate Destiny

by webmaster | Apr 19, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events, Cleveland Newman Circle, Organisations, Parishes, St Bernadette's, Middlesbrough

On Wednesday 18th March, Sr Patsy MacDonald gave a lively and engaging discourse to the Cleveland Newman Circle on the theology of St Paul using three texts and the theme of Eschatology. She outlined something of St Paul’s theological progress, beginning with 1...

What happened to Mary Ward’s vision?

by webmaster | Apr 19, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events, English Martyrs, York, Organisations, Parishes, Religious Communities

To mark the 400th anniversary of Mary Ward’s foundations, the Diocesan Women’s Commission invited Sr Patricia Harriss CJ to speak on ‘What happened to Mary Ward’s vision?’ at our AGM on 28th March in English Martyrs hall, York. Sr...

York Catholic History Day

by webmaster | Apr 19, 2009 | Event Calendar, Organisations, Pastoral Centres, St Bede's Pastoral Centre

The fourteenth York Catholic History Day will be held at the Bar Convent on Saturday 6th June. Last year’s programme featured three young scholars from the University of York whose papers covered a range of topics of local, national and European Catholic...

Carmelite Friar to be Canonised

by webmaster | Apr 11, 2009 | Carmelite Spirituality Group, Organisations

Saint Nuno a Military General turned Religious Friar On 26th April Pope Benedict XVI will declare saintly a military general turned religious friar. A fourteenth-century knight Dom Nuno Álvares Pereira is still a national hero in his native Portugal. Monuments,...

CAFOD Mass and Barbecue

by webmaster | Mar 26, 2009 | CAFOD, Event Calendar, Organisations, Parishes

Sunday 7th June. Mass and Barbecue at York University Catholic Chaplaincy, More House, Heslington 11.00 am to 4.00 pm. A chance to bring students together with CAFOD volunteers and clergy in the York and surrounding area to celebrate our work, pray together and get to...

Remembering Fr Tony Storey

by webmaster | Mar 26, 2009 | Event Calendar, Justice and Peace

The Anthony Storey Memorial Lecture will be given this year by Eamon Duffy, Cambridge Professor of the History of Christianity on 9th May, 11am, Lindsay Suite, Staff House, University of Hull. ‘Saints and Torturers: Catholics as Religious Persecutors in Tudor...