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August 18, 2016

Henry VIII and the Leave campaign SIR – As a member of the Historians for Britain group, which campaigned for Brexit, it is a trifle hard to be grouped with the “Remainers” by Professor John Rist (Letters, August 12); but then, as the Texas Senator said when asked if he was going to be more

Mass Readings

August 18, 2016

Ordinary Form Divine Office Week I Sunday, August 21: 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Is 66:18-21; Ps 117; Heb 12:5-7, 11-13; Lk 13:22-30 Monday, August 22: The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary 2 Thes 1:1-5, 11-12; Ps 96; Mt 23:13-22 Tuesday, August 23: Weekday in Ordinary Time or St Rose of Lima 2 Thes

August 21 to August 27

August 18, 2016

Archbishop Smith (Southwark) Sun – Fri: Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes Bishop Davies (Shrewsbury) Fri – Sat: Youth 2000 Prayer Festival, Walsingham Bishop Doyle (Northampton) Sun – Sat: Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes Bishop Drainey (Middlesbrough) Thu: Attends meeting of CSAN Board of Trustees at Romero House, London Bishop Egan (Portsmouth) Sun – Fri: Lourdes Pilgrimage Bishop

Pictures of the Week

August 18, 2016

1 Parishioners join Canon Kenneth Noakes as he celebrates his 20th anniversary of priesthood at St Catherine’s Church in Wimborne, Dorset. 2 Year 6 pupils at the The Towers Convent School in Upper Beeding, West Sussex, with a Goblin Kit Car they built to develop their engineering skills. 3 Sister Consilio is inviting the public

Pictures of the Week

August 11, 2016

1 Bishop Séamus Cunningham of Hexham and Newcastle has ordained ordinariate member Ian Westby to the diaconate in the presence of Mgr Keith Newton at St Mary’s Church in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham. 2 Fr Timothy Burke, parish priest of Holy Cross in West Bromwich in the West Midlands, has just celebrated 68 years as a

August 14 to August 20

August 11, 2016

Archbishop Smith (Southwark) Fri – Sat: Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes. Bishop Doyle (Northampton) Fri: Depart for the Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes. Sat: Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes. Bishop Egan (Portsmouth) Mon: Various meetings, Bishop’s House, Portsmouth. Tue: Fanning the Flame Summer Camp visit, St Dominic’s Priory, Lymington. The Visit of Our Lady of Guadalup relic image,

Mass Readings

August 11, 2016

Ordinary Form Divine Office Week IV Sunday, August 14: The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Jer 38:4-6, 8-10; Ps 40; Heb 12:1-4; Jn 10:27 Monday, August 15: Weekday in Ordinary Time Rev 11:19A; 12:1-6A, 10AB; Ps 45; 1 Cor 15:20-27; Lk 1:39-56 Tuesday, August 16: Weekday in Ordinary Time or St Stephen of Hungary Ez 28:1-10;

Comments of the Week

August 11, 2016

Brexit is nothing like the Reformation SIR – Professor John Charmley’s “Britain’s latter-day Reformation” (Comment, July 29) is at best a “Remoaner’s” rhetorical exercise, at worst a grotesquely misleading piece of remain propaganda when he states that “the old Protestant suspicion of Catholic Europe has simply been replaced by dislike of the EU and Brussels”.

Making parishes work

August 11, 2016

In a question-and answer-session with the Polish bishops during his recent visit to that country, Pope Francis made some striking observations about the role of the parish in the Church’s life. He said that parishes are irreplaceable. “The parish cannot be touched,” he said. “It has to remain as a place of creativity, a reference

Obituary: Gerard Noel, an editor who loved mystery and mischief

August 04, 2016

Gerard Noel, who has died aged 89, was one of the most distinguished editors in the history of Catholic Herald, a historian of immense range and readability, and a much-loved presence in English Catholic life for many decades. Gerry Noel, as everyone knew him, personified a type encountered increasingly rarely these days. The son of

August 7 to August 13

August 04, 2016

Bishop Arnold (Salford) Mon: Meetings, Wardley Hall. Tue: Private engagements, Wardley Hall. Wed: Ordination Mass, Ampleforth Abbey, 11.30am. Thu: Start of summer break. Bishop Heskett (Hallam) Tue: Mass, Monastery of the Holy Spirit, Kirk Edge, 8.00am. Tue – Sat: Ordinations, Nigeria. Bishop Lynch (Auxiliary in Southwark) Sun: Anglo Indian Mass at Croydon, 12 noon. Sat:

Pictures of the Week

August 04, 2016

1 Participants at an international conference on human trafficking held by the Medaille Trust in Bled, Slovenia. 2 A booklet in honour of the much-loved late Brentwood diocese priest Fr Denis Hall (pictured) has raised more than £8,000 for Aid to the Church in Need. 3 Lord Lingfield, president of the League of Mercy, has invested

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