The Annual Diocesan Marriage and Family Life Mass will be celebrated by the Bishop at St Mary’s Cathedral at 7pm Friday 1 October. The celebration includes an opportunity for renewal of marriage vows. This is the feast day of St Thérèse of Lisieux, and...
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Family Conference Day
25th September, 10am - 4pm, registration from 9.30am at Easingwold School Whoever you are - as a priest, teacher, governor, catechist, parishioner, single, married, parent, grandparent - if you care about and are interested in the present and the future of this ‘vital...
Endangered Lives
On Thursday, 30th September 6.30 in the University Cinema, Europa Building at Teesside University Endangered Lives Consequences of adverse decisions for people seeking sanctuary Returned to danger: Cameroon and DR Congo The cases will include those of Anselme Noumbiwa...
Papal Visit Begins
This morning Pope Benedict XVI will arrive in Scotland at the beginning of his state visit to the United Kingdom. Applications for tickets for all events during the visit are now closed.
Pastoral Letter for the Diocesan Retired Priests’ Welfare Fund
Dear Brothers and Sisters Apart from dreading yet another pastoral letter, I am sure most of you are thinking, “Surely, not more retiring collections!” The Church in our diocese has a history of living hand to mouth. There are not mountains of gold accruing in...
Media Matters
The Diocese of Middlesbrough Women’s Commission, Middlesbrough Cohesion Partnership and the University of Teesside invite you to ‘Meet the Media’, an event to encourage women who work, live or worship in Middlesbrough to participate in this women’s interfaith media...
Watch the Papal Visit live
If you have a computer and an internet connection, you will be able to watch the Holy Father’s visit to the UK live and in full online at www.thepapalvisit.org.uk. With just a week to go until Pope Benedict arrives in the UK, a new section on the official Papal Visit...
Leadership and Collaboration in the Diocese of Middlesbrough
In the August edition of the Catholic Voice, it was announced that Bishop Terry is re-organising the diocese, in order to simplify and streamline our work, so that we can better fulfil our mission of proclaiming the good news and serving the kingdom of God. In that...
Thanks Fr Joe
More than 12 Diocesan priests and Bishop Terence, who presided, joined Fr Joe Brennan when he celebrated a Mass of Thanksgiving for his 60 years of priesthood at St Hilda's, Whitby, on 23rd July. Representatives from parishes where Fr Joe had served were in the...

