With Chris Bain, Director of CAFOD and Francis McDonagh, Andes Programme Manager 17th-26th March 2011 A year ago, Chris Bain, the Director of CAFOD, asked if I would be willing to accompany him and Francis McDonagh, the Andes Programme Manager, to visit some of their...
Liturgy has been changing, developing, ever since the early Church began to move away from its Jewish origins, so renewal has been characteristic of liturgy for over 2,000 years. In 1570, acting on the advice of the Council of Trent, Pope Pius V published a detailed...
Container traffic into Teesport is steadily increasing and figures show it rose 15% just in the last year. The Evening Gazette recently reported plans for a multi-million pound expansion of Teesport's container terminal facilities. The move is part of a wider plan -...
The Taste and See Day of Bite-Size Spirituality on Saturday 19th March 2011 was the third such event held in York, and the largest yet with some 300 participants. The idea behind Taste and See is to offer Christians different ways of expressing their faith....
Have you any keen runners in your parish or school community who would like to raise funds for CAFOD? If so, sign-up for the Middlesbrough 5K Fun Run on Sunday 15 May and obtain your CAFOD sponsorship pack from the CAFOD Middlesbrough Office. To sign-up for the Fun...
17 year-old James Digby has been raising money for the past couple of years to help fund the building of a Catholic church in Livingstonia in Malawi. He has raised over £3,500 (which goes a very long way in Malawi!), almost entirely from generous donations from the...
This being the 950th anniversary of the Shrine of Our Lady, founded in 1061, Bishop Terence feels it is an appropriate time to re-establish an annual Diocesan Pilgrimage to Walsingham. The first, of hopefully many, will leave on the morning of 8th October with an...
March sees the start of the 'Pilgrimage Season'. True to form, the first of the year, for 'Our Lady of Perpetual Help' Walsingham group weekend took place on 12th/13th March. No one knows when this group first started but as the title suggests, it originates from the...
Two thousand and eleven celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Red Box and the support given by the Catholics of England and Wales to countless missionaries, missions and people in countries where the Church is young and poor. Today the iconic Red Box, unique to...
