World Water Week has been organised every year since 1991 and is centred on water cooperation, for peace and security in its broadest sense.This year, from August 25 to 29, the theme Bridging Borders: Water for a Peaceful and Sustainable Future asks us to recognise...
(Vatican City, 23 July 2024) – Pope Francis’s prayer intention for August is for political leaders. The Pope Video accompanies the Pope’s request in that context, as he invites politicians “to be at the service of their own people.” In his...
It is a great privilege to be invited by Father Steven to give the homily at his first Mass in this beautiful cathedral.It is a day I am sure you will not forget, if for no other reason than the “air of firstness” about it: the first full day in the priesthood, the...
We are pleased to announce we have organised a Lourdes Hospitalité Ball for 2024. After the success of last year’s event, we wanted to celebrate in style, so we are returning to the picturesque setting of Gisborough Hall, Guisborough.The date for our ball is Friday...
A capacity audience packed St Mary’s Cathedral as award-winning classical singing group The Priests played the only mainland UK show of their farewell tour.The emotional evening – the first of an ongoing concert series – saw the three Northern Irish clerics bring the...
The Holy Father has decided that 2025 will be a Year of Jubilee, something which happens every 25 years. The theme is “Pilgrims of Hope”, and it will be a year of hope for a world suffering the impacts of war, the ongoing effects of Covid-19 pandemic, and a...
Fellow priests and people throughout the diocese were saddened to hear news of the death of Canon Pat Hartnett.Canon Pat, 70, passed away peacefully on Thursday July 25 at Boarbank Hall Nursing home, Grange-over-Sands, where the sisters had been caring for him during...
Cardinal Arthur Roche's homily at the 50th anniversary Postgate Rally at Ugthorpe on Sunday July 7 2024... One of the more disturbing realities in today’s world is how quickly populist movements form and how the determined positions which mark them are often quite...
Cardinal Vincent Nichols, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, has issued a statement welcoming the Instrumentum laboris, the working document that will guide the work of the second session of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the...
