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New Oratory to be launched this month
May 04, 2017
A new Oratory for Bournemouth will be launched this month, the Diocese of Portsmouth has announced. It will be the sixth community of Oratorians in Britain. The community was first announced last year but its establishment was delayed after Fr David Hutton, one of the founders, became ill. Fr Hutton died of cancer in March.
Support grows for memorial to Glasgow martyr
May 04, 2017
A campaign to establish a public memorial to Scotland’s only Catholic martyr on the site of his execution in Glasgow has received the backing of the city’s councillors. St John Ogilvie, a Jesuit priest, was hanged and drawn at Glasgow Cross in 1615. He had been preaching in secret and celebrating clandestine Masses. He was
Pope Francis signs decree declaring Cardinal Van Thuan venerable
May 04, 2017
The Vietnamese archbishop was imprisoned for 13 years by the country's Communist authorities
Bishop: the West Country is ‘mission territory’ akin to Pakistan or Burma
May 04, 2017
Bishop Mark O'Toole of Plymouth has urged every Catholic in his diocese to be a missionary disciple
Christian Heritage Centre’s new building blessed ahead of £4million renovation
May 03, 2017
Stonyhurst's Theodore House will provide a Study, Retreat and Leadership Centre
Catholic and Anglican archbishops to play historic joint role in Ireland’s first beatification
May 03, 2017
The beatification of Fr John Sullivan, a Jesuit famed for for the power of his prayers, will take place in Dublin later this month
Police raid ‘underground’ church in China during Mass
April 28, 2017
A government statement said the police had successfully stopped 'illegal religious activity'
What’s inside this week’s magazine?
April 27, 2017
Take a look inside this week's Catholic Herald
Saint of the week: Gianna Beretta Molla (April 28)
April 27, 2017
Dreams of Brazil Gianna Beretta Molla was born on October 4, 1922. In 1942 she began studying medicine in Milan and was a member of the St Vincent de Paul Society, serving the needy. She specialised in paediatrics at the University of Milan. Gianna had always intended to join her brother, a missionary priest in
News in brief
April 27, 2017
Cardinal issues plea for peace to Buddhists Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, head of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, has issued a message for the Buddhist celebration of Vesakh. He said Christ and Buddha were “promoters of non-violence”, urging Catholics and Buddhists to follow their example. Smartphones ‘built on blood of Congolese’ Congolese priest Fr Richard
Arson attack on Nepal’s cathedral
April 27, 2017
Arsonists have attempted to set fire to Assumption Cathedral, the first public Catholic place of worship in Hindu-majority Nepal. Fr Ignatius Rai, parish priest at the cathedral, said “unknown persons” broke into the church premises at about 3am. They started a fire that partially damaged the priest’s residence and the western part of the church.
Scottish Catholics ‘to overtake Presbyterians’
April 27, 2017
Catholicism is likely to become the largest churchgoing denomination in Scotland, according to new projections. Figures from the 2016 Scottish Church Census reveal that the Catholic Church and Church of Scotland make up 35 per cent of the church-going population, but that the Catholic proportion is expanding. The report found 135,600 weekly Catholic Mass attenders
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