by Michael McG | Feb 17, 2021 | Jobs
The London Jesuit Centre is recruiting four new members to its central team. The positions are:*Theology lead*Spirituality team members (two posts)*Social and environmental justice lead The closing date for applications is Friday February 26. Further information is on...
by Michael McG | Feb 17, 2021 | Catholic Bishop's Conference
Bishop Richard Moth has issued a statement expressing distress that people with learning disabilities have been given Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR) orders during the pandemic. The chair of the Bishops’ Conference Department for Social Justice...
by Michael McG | Feb 17, 2021 | Aid the the Church in Need (ACN), Organisations
A 12-year-old Christian girl in Pakistan shackled and enslaved by a man who made her marry him and convert is now back home after a court victory. Faisalabad District and Sessions Court ruled on February 16 that Farah Shaheen should be allowed to return to her father...
by Michael McG | Feb 15, 2021 | Diocese, Safeguarding
The Project Implementation Team for the independent Catholic Safeguarding Project has published its second newsletter.
by Michael McG | Feb 12, 2021 | Diocese, Education Service, Parishes, Schools and Colleges, St Aelred's
A selection of fabulous Valentines Cards designed and created by the Minnie Vinnies at St Aelred’s Primary School in York. St Aelred’s SVP will deliver them to elderly, housebound and needy families to spread a little cheer and love around.
by Michael McG | Feb 10, 2021 | CAFOD, Organisations
There’s still time to sign up for CAFOD’s 10,000 steps a day or its Big Walk for Water at 2pm on Saturday February 20. Bishop Terry tells us why we should do all we can to help… As Lent begins, I want to encourage you to think of joining in CAFOD’s Big...
by Michael McG | Feb 9, 2021 | Ampleforth Abbey, Diocese, Obituaries, Organisations
Father Alban Crossley OSB, Benedictine monk of Ampleforth Abbey, died on February 2 at the age of 86. He was born in Farnworth, Lancashire, and joined the monastic community at Ampleforth Abbey in September 1955.From 1958 to 1961 he was at St Benet’s Hall at the...
by Michael McG | Feb 9, 2021 | Missio, Organisations
Missio is hoping to raise a few smiles and a few pounds during these difficult times by encouraging families, households, church groups and communities to fundraise during lockdown. Usually at this time of year the charity’s school supporters from across England and...
by Michael McG | Feb 9, 2021 | Bishop Terry
Following the introduction of an opt-out system for organ donation in England in May 2020, NHS Blood and Transplant have launched “Leave Them Certain”, a campaign that aims to encourage individuals to talk to their families and loved ones about their organ donation...
by Michael McG | Feb 9, 2021 | Diocese, Obituaries
Father Peter Egan has passed away just a few months before he would have celebrated the golden jubilee of his priesthood.Father Peter, who was 76, was born in County Clare and trained at St John’s Seminary in Waterford before being ordained a priest on June 6 1971.His...
by Michael McG | Feb 8, 2021 | Parishes, Schools and Colleges, St Aelred's
St Aelred’s Catholic Primary School in York has thanked Father Bill Serplus and generous parishioners of St Aelred’s for helping to fund a new piece of artwork in the school entrance. Local artist Dan Savage took on the commission to create a piece of...
by Michael McG | Feb 3, 2021 | Appeals and Special Events, Pope Francis
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...
by Michael McG | Feb 1, 2021 | Diocese, Safeguarding
The Project Implementation Team for the independent Catholic Safeguarding Project has published its first newsletter.
by Michael McG | Jan 25, 2021 | Caritas Social Action Network (CSAN), Organisations
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…
by Michael McG | Jan 21, 2021 | National Board of Catholic Women, Organisations
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...
by Michael McG | Jan 20, 2021 | Appeals and Special Events, Bishop Terry, Bishop Terry's Pastoral Letters, Year of St Joseph
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...
by Michael McG | Jan 19, 2021 | Year of St Joseph
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...
by Michael McG | Jan 18, 2021 | Depaul UK, Organisations
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...
by Michael McG | Jan 18, 2021 | Bishop Terry, Bishop's Engagements
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...
by Michael McG | Jan 15, 2021 | Appeals and Special Events, CAFOD, CAFOD Appeals, Organisations
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...
by Michael McG | Jan 15, 2021 | Aid the the Church in Need (ACN), Organisations, Pope Francis
Iraq’s Christians say Pope Francis’ planned visit gives them hope that they do have a future in their homeland – despite the genocide they suffered. Project partners of Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) in the city of Qaraqosh (Baghdeda), which is on...
by Michael McG | Jan 15, 2021 | Catholic Bishop's Conference, Liturgy and Music, The God Who Speaks
A range of resources have been made available in the run up to the Pope’s new Sunday of the Word of God on January 24 as part of the God Who Speaks initiative. Click on the links below for more information. Sunday of the Word of God Blessing of Bibles Commissioning of...
by Michael McG | Jan 15, 2021 | Organisations, SPUC
The Department of Health is holding a public consultation on whether to continue the practice of allowing abortion providers to send abortion pills to women so that they can perform their own abortion at home. The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children is...
by Michael McG | Jan 15, 2021 | Friends of the Holy Land, Organisations
The physical reality of Easter is captured in a new book which brings together voices from the first Holy Week with those from across the Holy Land in today’s Covid-hit world. With forewords by Cardinal Vincent Nichols and Archbishop Justin Welby, Holy Week Voices...
by Michael McG | Jan 13, 2021 | Catholic Bishop's Conference, Diocese, Safeguarding
Plans to implement the recommendations of the Elliott Review and improve safeguarding structures and arrangements within the Catholic Church in England and Wales have been announced. More details are available in the PDF below…
by Michael McG | Jan 5, 2021 | Coronavirus, Lady Chapel
The weekly Mass at the Lady Chapel at Mount Grace has been temporarily suspended because of the new national lockdown and the worsening Covid-19 pandemic. A Vigil Mass is usually celebrated at 3pm each Saturday, but this will not take place for the present time,...
by Michael McG | Jan 5, 2021 | Ampleforth Abbey, Bishop Terry
Bishop Terry will preside in a ceremony at a date to be arranged to bless Dom Robert Igo, who has been elected ninth Abbot of Ampleforth. Dom Robert was elected on Tuesday January 5 in the presence of Abbot Paul Stonham OSB, delegate of the president of the English...
by Michael McG | Jan 5, 2021 | Encyclicals, Pope Francis
Since Pope Francis published his groundbreaking letter on the environment, Laudato Si’, in 2015, millions of people worldwide have joined the global movement to address the environmental crisis our world is facing.A group called Laudato Si’ Animators UK is inviting...
by Michael McG | Jan 4, 2021 | Pax Christi
Pax Christi, the international Catholic movement for peace, has produced a variety of online and paper resources to celebrate the theme for Peace Sunday on January 17, “A Culture of Care as a Path to Peace”. In his message to parishes, Pax Christi national...
by Michael McG | Jan 4, 2021 | Courses, Diocese
The Christian Heritage Centre at Stonyhurst is offering two series of online events as we begin the year. The Drama Displayed: A Journey of Salvation is a free series of online talks from a range of speakers who will examine the key moments of salvation history, with...
by Michael McG | Jan 4, 2021 | Pope Francis, Pope's Prayer Intention
Pope Francis has chosen to highlight human fraternity for the first intention of the new year, with a focus on communion with those of other religions.Director of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network Father David Stewart tells us more…A greater sense of human...
by Michael McG | Dec 26, 2020 | Bishop Terry, Bishop Terry's Pastoral Letters, Miscellaneous
This letter was to be read out in churches throughout the diocese on the weekend of December 26 and 27...
by Michael McG | Dec 18, 2020 | Lady Chapel, Our Lady of Mount Grace, Osmotherley, Parishes, St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough
There will be Mass at the Lady Chapel in Osmotherley at 3pm on Saturday December 19. However, after this we will not be celebrating any Masses up at the Lady Chapel on Christmas Eve or Boxing Day due to the Covid restrictions and social distancing. The next Mass will...
by Michael McG | Dec 17, 2020 | Bar Convent, Pastoral Centres
York’s Bar Convent says it’s “overwhelmed” after more than 1,000 angels were created to adorn the windows of its stunning Grade II-listed building this Christmas. People of all ages and from across the UK, including nine schools, and angels even came from as far as...
by Michael McG | Dec 16, 2020 | Apostleship of the Sea, Organisations
This Sunday (December 20) is Sea Sunday, when the Church prays for all those who live and work at sea.Seafarers and fishers are among the heroes of this pandemic, ensuring that food, medicine and other vital equipment continues to be delivered to us. Please support...
by Michael McG | Dec 9, 2020 | Lourdes
Members of the UCM in St Aelred’s Parish in York have been busy knitting blankets for our Lourdes pilgrims during lockdown. Requests went out over the parish’s WhatsApp for any spare wool people had and arrangements were made for delivery. The ladies then knitted the...
by Michael McG | Dec 8, 2020 | Aid the the Church in Need (ACN), Organisations, Pope Francis
Iraq’s Christians have welcomed news that Pope Francis is set to go to Iraq next spring – the first time any pontiff will have visited the country. Syriac Catholic Archbishop Nizar Semaan of Hadiab-Erbil warmly greeted the announcement that Pope Francis will visit...
by Michael McG | Dec 8, 2020 | Music for the Mind, Parishes, St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough
Monsignor Gerard Robinson will lead a carol service for people living with dementia at St Mary’s Cathedral in Middlesbrough on Sunday December 13 at 3pm, to be streamed live on the diocesan YouTube page. The service, which has been organised by the Music for the Mind...
by Michael McG | Dec 7, 2020 | Adult Formation, Evangelisation, Parishes, St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough
Catholics throughout the diocese are invited to join us on three Tuesday evenings during the Season of Advent as we come together in prayer. The theme for our season of prayer is “Praying together as a diocese – Advent 2020.” All are streamed on the diocese Facebook...
by Michael McG | Dec 4, 2020 | Bishop Terry, Bishop Terry's Pastoral Letters
Dear Brothers and Sisters, We have been through some dark times in 2020. We have learned some new words that we probably would never have used before – pandemic, lockdown, coronavirus, Covid19 – to mention but a few. Perhaps you, like me, and many others, have...
by Michael McG | Dec 4, 2020 | Bishop Terry, Bishop's Engagements
1 Celebrates Mass (live steamed) at St Mary’s Cathedral, Middlesbrough 10am3 Attends meeting of Northern Province via video conference 9am6 Celebrates Mass (live steamed) at St Mary’s Cathedral, Middlesbrough 10am8 Attends meeting...
by Michael McG | Dec 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
Bradford, is the setting for The Priest – a film that charts life in the parish of Mary, Mother of God from the beginning of Lent to Easter Sunday, the most important season in the Church’s liturgical calendar. As a priest, Father Paul Grogan supports people in...
by Michael McG | Dec 4, 2020 | Pope Francis, Pope's Prayer Intention
By Fr David Stewart SJ As this awful year has unfolded and as the second wave of the pandemic has spread across many lands, fears began to grow about our Advent and our Christmas. Would we be able to celebrate together, or even be together? The Pope’s prayer intention...
by Michael McG | Dec 4, 2020 | Catholic Bishop's Conference, Coronavirus
Bishop Richard Moth, chair of the Department of Social Justice of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, has issued the following statement in response to recent announcements concerning the development of Vocid-19 vaccines… The development of a...
by Michael McG | Nov 27, 2020 | CAFOD, Organisations
Our Catholic family in the Diocese of Middlesbrough has always been generous in our compassion for people living in poverty around the world.We know that every life created by God is precious and we can show our compassion through CAFOD, the official overseas...
by Michael McG | Nov 19, 2020 | Friends of the Holy Land, Organisations
As uncertainty continues around Christmas celebrations in the UK this year, the situation in the place where the Nativity story began is desperate, an aid charity has warned as it launched an appeal for funds. Ecumenical charity Friends of the Holy Land, which...
by Michael McG | Nov 19, 2020 | Diocese, Education Service, Schools and Colleges
St Margaret Clitherow Catholic Academy Trust – the family of 17 schools serving the central region of the diocese – has unveiled its new brand identity, website and vision to “bring joy, hope, opportunity and purpose for our children in an uncertain world.”...
by Michael McG | Nov 16, 2020 | Diocese, Education Service, Schools and Colleges, Youth
After a year when so many of us have been separated from loved ones, the theme “Together” has been chosen as schools are invited to the first-ever National Youth Funday on Friday November 20. Youth ministry teams from across England and Wales will host this exciting...
by Michael McG | Nov 13, 2020 | Catholic Bishop's Conference, Diocese, Safeguarding
A statement from the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales Cardinal Vincent Nichols and vice-president Archbishop Malcolm McMahon OP… The Catholic Church in England and Wales welcomes the report from the Independent Inquiry into...
by Michael McG | Nov 12, 2020 | Bar Convent, Pastoral Centres
As part of the Christmas story, York’s Bar Convent will be celebrating angels and all that they symbolise – from faith, love and comfort to strength, protection and guardianship. During lockdown the convent is creating a Christmas display of angels for the...
