The 10th World Meeting of Families (WMOF) is taking place in Rome this week, from Wednesday June 22 until Sunday June 26. Throughout the four days of the meeting, we’re publishing personal stories from people in our diocese who have different experiences of family....
Caritas Middlesbrough – the umbrella group for the many organisations in the diocese engaged in social outreach work – has produced its second newsletter. You can read the newsletter here…
The 10th World Meeting of Families (WMOF) is taking place in Rome this week, from Wednesday June 22 until Sunday June 26. These meetings normally happen every three years and have been held all over the world. This year’s theme is, “Family Love: A Vocation and a Path...
https://youtu.be/2kaW-AXzggE Millions of people are impacted by the food crisis in East Africa, as CAFOD director Christine Allen witnessed while visiting communities in Kenya. On the long road to Marsabit, a nine-hour drive, we saw charcoal sellers and women sitting...
The full text from JENNY SINCLAIR’s keynote talk at the Diocese of Middlesbrough's Synod Day, a special gathering of clergy, laity and religious to mark the completion of our first step in becoming a "synodal" church and fulfilling our contribution to the listening...
World Meeting of Families Wednesday June 22—Sunday June 26 2022 The theme for the tenth World Meeting of Families (WMOF) is Family Love: a vocation and a path to Holiness. The World Meeting of Families was instituted by Pope St John Paul II in 1994. The week is...
The Tenth World Meeting of Families (WMOF) takes place in Rome from Wednesday June 22 to Sunday June 26. Canon John Lumley has sent this letter to all parishes... For this event, (which normally takes place every three years), the theme is Family Love: A Vocation and...
Inspiring speaker Dr Carmody Grey will give this year’s Anthony Storey Memorial Lecture, which is organised by the Diocesan Justice and Peace Commission. Dr Grey, who is assistant professor of Catholic theology at Durham University, will speak on the subject of...
Patriarchs and bishops in the Holy Land have condemned police use of smoke grenades and rubber bullets against mourners in a funeral procession as “violent” and “disproportionate”. The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, joined with the Greek...
