2009 sees CAFOD’s widest ever range of World Gifts that capture the true spirit of Christmas. World Gifts are thoughtful gifts that are great to give and fun to receive. There’s a World Gift that’s perfect for everyone that will help transform the lives of poor...
On Sunday 27th December at 5.00 pm, Bishop Terence Drainey will celebrate Mass at St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough. This day is the Feast of the Holy Family and the Bishop has specially chosen it for a Diocesan Mass to celebrate Marriage and Family Life. Readers may...
A Conversation with our Neighbour in Iraq As you read your copy of the December Voice and with vast stocks of Christmas goods continuing to be sold in our shops (some Christmas items on sale since September), it is perhaps difficult to equate the preparation for...
When Sister Imelda Poole IBVM (Loreto) moved to Tirana in 2005 (after 16 years working in grassroots ministry at Port Clarence on Teesside) she soon encountered families of Roma communities living in shanty towns near the railway station, close by to where she lives....
The Knights of St Columba present a variety show with music and mayhem from priests and parishioners Middlesbrough Theatre, The Avenue, Linthorpe Tel 01642 815151 Friday 15th January 2010, 7.30pm Saturday 16th January 2010, 7.30pm Tickets £8.50 from Jeanette on 01642...
One of three thousand! At 11.30 am on a damp and windy Saturday morning on 24th October, 400 people made a human wave for Climate Justice around York Minster. The event led by CAFOD and supported by Christian Aid and other networks of people concerned about the impact...
2010 is a special year for CAFOD. It is the fiftieth anniversary of Fast Day which was first held on 12th March 1960 organised by volunteer members of the National Board of Catholic Women who wanted to raise funds for a mother and baby clinic on the Caribbean island...
Bishop Terence greets the children returning from their liturgy, during his visit to the parish of St Augustine's, Redcar on 15 November 2009.
On 2nd November, All Souls Day, parishioners from Our Lady and St Benedict, Ampleforth commemorated their dead with a Mass and with hundreds of candles placed on the graves. This is the second year of a venture to commemorate those buried in our churchyard, a venture...
