The Centre for Catholic Studies is holding a Study Day: ‘Catholic Perspectives on Poverty’ on Saturday 21 March 2015 at Ushaw College, Durham. The Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University in association with The Newman Association and The National Board...
If you don’t take advantage of the month of February then before you know where you are, you’re already half way through the year. That might sound a bit odd. But what I mean is that you can’t keep on thinking that you are still at the beginning of the year, and have...
So we begin a new year. May it be a blessed and peaceful one for us all. We have many things to look forward to during the course of this year. Each of us will have our own personal wish-list and expectations. However, as a country we will be having a General Election...
So we begin a new year. May it be a blessed and peaceful one for us all. We have many things to look forward to during the course of this year. Each of us will have our own personal wish-list and expectations. However, as a country we will be having a General Election...
Dear Sisters and Brothers, .. the child’s father and mother stood there wondering at the things that were being said about him….. How many parents must have found themselves in this position, standing there wondering at the things that were being said about their...
Dear Brothers and Sisters, What tension, suspense, and drama we witness in today’s readings especially the Gospel. You can feel the electricity in the air as the words move backwards and forwards between John the Baptist and the priests and Levites. Just listen again....
Desperate young people are being offered an alternative to sleeping on the streets of Middlesbrough with the creation of a new safe-house network. Depaul UK’s Nightstop North East project pairs young people with volunteer families and individuals who have a spare room...
Tributes have been paid to much-loved priest, Father Norman Jacobson, who has died at the age of 67 following a lengthy period of ill health. Born in Boldon, Co Durham, on February 13 1947, Father Norman was initially ordained into the Anglican ministry and worked in...
Middlesbrough teacher Francis Hannaway is returning for another stint in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he worked as a lay missionary in the early 1990s. Francis was part of Britain’s own Catholic missionary society, Mill Hill Missionaries, which was founded...
