At the beginning of Holy Week, Pope Leo XIV announces that his prayer intention for the month of April is dedicated to priests in crisis and the need to care for them, listen to them and accompany them. Through the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network’s Pray with the Pope...
We were delighted to celebrate the ordination of Father Douglas McKittrick to the priesthood at St Mary's Cathedral on Saturday April 29. Bishop Marcus's first ordination in our diocese, it was a joyful and grace-filled moment for our diocesan family. We give thanks...
The Most Reverend Richard Moth, Archbishop of Westminster, has responded to Israeli police blocking Church leaders from celebrating Mass in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Palm Sunday (March 29).Police prevented the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, His...
Following the resignation of the Right Reverend Ralph Heskett CSsR as Bishop of Hallam, His Holiness Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Marcus Stock as the Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Hallam. This appointment is in addition to his office as Bishop of...
A Message to the Clergy, Religious and Lay Faithful of the Dioceses of Hallam, Leeds and Middlesbrough My Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Following the resignation of the Right Reverend Ralph Heskett C.Ss.R. as Bishop of Hallam, His Holiness Pope Leo XIV has...
Bishop Marcus will ordain Deacon Douglas McKittrick to the sacred priesthood at St Mary’s Cathedral at noon on Saturday March 28. He will continue to serve at St Leonard & St Mary, Malton, and St Joseph, Pickering, alongside Father Timothy BywaterPlease keep...
The faithful of the Diocese of Middlesbrough, the Diocese of Hallam and the Diocese of Leeds have been asked to help explore the possibility of how the two dioceses could work together with a view to a possible future union as one diocesan family. Bishop Marcus is...
Bishop of Clifton Bosco MacDonald has issued the following statement on the war in Iran: The widening war involving Iran is a grave cause of sorrow and alarm. After the long agony of Ukraine and the appalling suffering in Gaza, the world now faces another conflict...
In a Lenten statement, the Archbishop of Liverpool, the Most Reverend John Sherrington, clarifies the Church’s principled objection to the Terminally Ill (Adults) End of Life Bill and urges Catholics to pray for parliamentarians debating the Private Members’ Bill in...
