Harvest Festival Appeal

The Mary Thompson Fund supporting refugees and people seeking asylum in the Tees Valley As many of you are aware, the Mary Thompson Fund provides packs of food and toiletries to refused asylum seekers who are homeless and destitute. Sally, one of our Volunteers based...

SVP Awareness month

September 2007 is host to the first ever SVP awareness month. For over 160 years the St Vincent de Paul Society (England & Wales) has been committed to tackling poverty through social action. SVP conferences across the country will be highlighting the scope of the...

Baghdad Appeal consignment sent

Subsequent to the Riverside event a consignment valued at £40,000 was sent to Baghdad Children’s Hospital. Follow the progress of the Baghdad Appeal and see how your contribution can make a real difference in the Catholic Voice and on the Diocesan...

SOS

6th August 2007 21.35 hours flight ET 701 to Kinshasa Refugee Week 2007 Congolese Community spoke of their fear of forced removal. “Congo is not safe. We want to go back – when it is safe.” June 2007 in Middlesbrough Rev. Theodore Ngoy, opposition...

Archbishop Kelly ordains Simon Broughton

In a packed St Mary’s Cathedral on 23rd June 2007, Archbishop Patrick Kelly of Liverpool ordained Simon Broughton as a priest for our Diocese. More than 30 diocesan priests were joined by Simon’s friends and staff from Ushaw College including the...

Fifteen Priestly Jubilees

Fifteen priests in the Middlesbrough diocese marked ordination jubilees of their ordination and ten of them took part in the annual celebration of priesthood Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral, Middlesbrough, on Sunday 17th June. About 700 people attended the Mass for...

Monsignor Charlton steps down after 50 years

Monsignor Ray Charlton, Parish Priest of St Joseph’s in Stokesley and St Margaret’s in Great Ayton, has celebrated his Golden Jubilee as a priest and announced his retirement from active ministry. He has served Stokesley, Great Ayton and the surrounding...

How we will meet the costs of the Diocesan Curia in 2007

The costs of the Curia cover the funding of the main pastoral activities of the Diocese – adult formation, child protection, education, vocations and liturgy, care of buildings, youth ministry, historic churches commission, communication, the costs of the Bishop...

Celebrating Franciscans

On Sunday 22nd June 1958, The Worshipful Mayor of Richmond, with the Minister Provincial of the Franciscans, Fr Justin McLoughlin OFM, led the procession of many guests from the Catholic Church in Richmond to the town’s Franciscan Friary ruins to commemorate the...

New Priest for Diocese

35 year old Simon Broughton from Redcar will be ordained a priest by the Archbishop of Liverpool, Patrick Kelly, in St Mary’s Cathedral, Middlesbrough at noon on Saturday 23 June 2007. Simon was employed in Printing and Graphic design before he commenced his six years...

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