Ushaw College with the Centre for Catholic Studies at Durham University are celebrating the 450th anniversary of the founding of the English College at Douai with a special anniversary conference: ‘450 Years Pioneering Catholic Education: Past, Present, Future’ at...
A much-loved priest who spent 32 years at St Paulinus in York from its foundation as a parish has died in Ireland at the age of 94. Father Pat Grant was born in Thurles, Co Tipperary, on November 14 1923 and attended St Patrick’s Seminary in his hometown. He was...
Candidates and catechumens were given a warm welcome as they began the final part of their journey towards being received into full communion with the Catholic Church. Canon Pat Hartnett led the traditional Rite of Election and Call To Continuing Conversion, which...
An appeal has been launched to help buy a new bus so that sisters including Middlesbrough-born Sister Pat Pearson can continue providing vital services to vulnerable communities in Ghana. In January, Monsignor Gerard Robinson visited the Padre Pio Rehabilitation...
Parishioners from Middlesbrough are invited to join those from other dioceses on a Day of Pilgrimage and Prayer to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne on Saturday June 2. Now in its fifteenth year, the day will be a special one to pray for seafarers and for the work of...
Calling young people aged 18 to 30! CAFOD is looking for volunteer climate champions to take part in an international workshop in summer 2018 on sustainability with other Catholic young people from across Europe. The Catholic charity is also offering a free one-day...
Dear Sisters and Brothers, What goes up must come down. Breathe in then breathe out. These are truths, facts that most of us would not deny. We take them for granted as self-evident. In a way they are parts of a greater truth, a natural law: the law of gravity and...
Father Tom Ryan, who served for 40 years in parishes in the north and south of our diocese, died at 6am on the morning of Saturday February 3 at the age of 86. Father Tom was born in Caherconlish, County Limerick, on August 29 1931. He attended St Patrick’s Seminary...
Catholics from England and Wales are invited to visit Dublin for the ninth World Meeting of Families, which takes place from August 21 to 26. Pope Francis is expected to attend the meeting, which has the theme of “The Gospel of the Family: Joy for the World”....
