A leprosy charity has praised Pope Francis for defending some of the world’s most marginalised people. Pope Francis called on world leaders to unite their efforts to combat leprosy and end the stigma surrounding the disease, saying the Covid-19 pandemic “has confirmed...
The Project Implementation Team for the independent Catholic Safeguarding Project has published its first newsletter.
Caritas Middlesbrough – the umbrella group for the many organisations in the diocese engaged in social outreach work – has produced its first newsletter. You can read the newsletter here...
The National Board of Catholic Women will host a Zoom seminar on racial justice on Friday February 12 from 7pm to 8.30pm.The seminar will ask what is racial justice, why does it matter and what can we do?A panel from the Catholic Association for Racial Justice will...
On December 8 2020, Pope Francis wrote a letter to all the faithful to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of St Joseph as Patron of the Universal Church. It is called Patris Corde or in English, With a Father’s heart. Among many other things he...
In a new Apostolic Letter entitled Patris Corde (“With a Father’s Heart”), Pope Francis describes St Joseph as a beloved father, a tender and loving father, an obedient father, an accepting father; a father who is creatively courageous, a working father, a father in...
Depaul UK – a national homelessness charity that supports more than 3,400 young people each year – is calling on the government to build on its previous efforts to protect homeless people. With the current national lockdown in response to the more infectious strain of...
1 Celebrates Mass (live steamed) Of the Solemnity of Mary Mother of God at St Mary’s Cathedral, Middlesbrough 10am3 Celebrates Mass (live steamed) at St Mary’s Cathedral, Middlesbrough 10am4 Attends online meeting of Northern Church...
CAFOD Middlesbrough’s community participation coordinator CAROL CROSS introduces this year's Lent Challenge, Walk for Water… It’s raining outside today, it’s cold and grey and my garden is flooded. I look out of the window with a sense of sadness and irony, just a...
