Prisoners’ Sunday falls this year on October 8, when parishes across England and Wales are invited to bring people in prison and their families before the Lord in prayer.Pact is the national Catholic charity supporting prisoners, people with convictions and their...
Come and find out about the difference you can make during the climate emergency at our one-day event, Don’t Just Pray, Do Something for God’s Sake. The speakers are Sister Margaret Atkins (Laudato Si’ and Catholic Social Teaching) and Glen Melvin (Reducing Our Carbon...
Two years after Pope Francis gave all Catholics the opportunity to make their views known on the mission of the Church in the 21st century, the first of two Synod meetings will take place in Rome from October 4 on the theme 'For a Synodal Church: Communion,...
You can now find a new collection of Catholic walking pilgrimage routes online. Hearts in Search of God is a three-year project to encourage people of all faiths and none to experience a pilgrimage walk in their own area.The combination of ancient and modern...
Bishop Paul Swarbrick, lead bishop for Africa for the Catholic Bishops’ Conference, has expressed the solidarity of the Church of England and Wales with the people of Morocco and Libya who have been devastated in recent days by two natural disasters.An earthquake...
In The Pope Video for the month of September, Pope Francis asks us to pray “for those people who live on the margins of society in subhuman living conditions, that they may not be neglected by institutions and never be cast out”.Pope Francis asks: “How...
One of the four men now in training to become permanent deacons, TOM ROLFE, introduces himself and tells us about his journey so far… It feels very appropriate to be writing this on the feast of St Anne, as my grandmother, Dotty, played such a vital role in my faith...
We invite every parish in our diocese to send a group to a special event to look at how we can all play our part in fighting climate change.“Don’t just pray – do something, for God’s sake! What can we do to leave a better world for future generations?” is the title of...
The School for Synodality exists to help support the synodal conversion of the Church in England and Wales in our day-to-day practice.Through conversations, the development of resources, webinars and parish and innovation programmes, it hopes to enable openness to the...
