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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

Lighting the way for the world

August 04, 2016

On Saturday night a patch of land outside Kraków became a field of light. From a distance, the field had a mellow glow. Up close, you could pick out individual faces, lit up from below by candles. In the Campus Misericordiae (“Field of Mercy”) stood 1.5 million young people: the hope of the Church in

Mass Readings

July 28, 2016

Ordinary Form Divine Office Week II Sunday, July 31: 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time Ecc 1:2; 2:21-23; Ps 90; Col 3:1-5, 9-11; Lk 12:13-21 Monday, August 1: St Alphonsus Mary de’ Liguori Jer 28:1-17; Ps 119; Mt 14:13-21 Tuesday, August 2: Weekday in Ordinary Time or St Eusebius of Vercelli; St Peter Julian Eymard Jer

Comments of the Week

July 28, 2016

Now that’s what I call a proper pilgrimage SIR – If Jonathan Wright (Feature, July 22) is seeking a real penitential pilgrimage with no sightseeing aspect whatsoever, may I recommend to him the annual Pentecost pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres? He will walk 25 miles on the first day, 27 on the second, and a

Pictures of the Week

July 21, 2016

1 Archbishop Peter Smith presides at the priestly ordinations of Philip Andrews, David Howell and Daniel Weatherley at St George’s Cathedral, Southwark (photo: Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk). 2 Deirdre Rowe has been promoted to associate head teacher at Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire. 3 Jon Cruddas and Maria Elena Arana take part in the annual National Justice and

July 24 to July 30

July 21, 2016

Cardinal Nichols (Westminster) Sun – Tue: Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes. Wed – Sat: World Youth Day, Kraków, Poland. Archbishop Longley (Birmingham) Sun to Sat: World Youth Day, Kraków, Poland. Archbishop McMahon (Liverpool) Sun to Fri: Leads Archdiocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes. Sat: Mass of Thanksgiving for the Silver Jubilee of Rev John McLoughlin, Maryton Carmel, Liverpool,

Mass Readings

July 21, 2016

Ordinary Form Divine Office Week I Sunday, July 24: 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time Gn 18:20-32; Ps 138; Col 2:12-14; Lk 11:1-13 Monday, July 25: St James, Apostle 2 Cor 4:7-15; Ps 126; Mt 20:20-28 Tuesday, July 26: Ss Joachim and Ann, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or St John Jones, priest, martyr Jer 14:17-22; Ps

Comments of the Week

July 21, 2016

Pope Francis is a gift we ought to treasure SIR – There is an old story of a man who, during a flood, refused to leave his house because, he said, his faith would save him. A rope was thrown, a boat came, a helicopter was finally sent. He calmly rejected them all, affirming that

Mass Readings

July 14, 2016

Ordinary Form Divine Office Week IV Sunday, July 17: 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time Gn 18:1-10A; Ps 15; Col 1:24-28; Lk 10:38-42 Monday, July 18: Weekday in Ordinary Time Mic 6:1-4, 6-8; Ps 50; Mt 12:38-42 Tuesday, July 19: Weekday in Ordinary Time or St John Jones, priest, martyr Mic 7:14-15, 18-20; Ps 85; Mt 12:46-50

Comments of the week

July 14, 2016

The EU abandoned Christian ideals long ago SIR – In defence of the EU, Piers Paul Read remarks: “The laws passed in my lifetime that are truly inimical to Christian values, such as those on abortion, cloning, or same-sex marriage and adoption, were passed not in Brussels or Strasbourg but Westminster” (Charterhouse, July 8). But

Advantage the old guard

July 14, 2016

There is only one way to interpret the legislative text issued by Pope Francis on Saturday: as a rebuff to Cardinal George Pell. The motu proprio stripped the Vatican’s financial tsar of administrative powers given to him just two years ago. In 2014 the Pope had transferred certain responsibilities from the Administration of the Patrimony

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