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 priest.
3 Bishop David McGough was chief celebrant at the Mass of the Silver Jubilee of the profession of his niece, Sister Helene Therese de Jesus of the Little Sisters of the Poor, and the Confirmation of his great-niece Hannah Shone.
4 Peter Handy, a student at St Joseph’s College in Trent Vale, Staffordshire, has won an Emerald award in the annual Isaac Physics Challenge.
5 Dr Caroline Farey, Dr Dominic Doyle and Fr Guy de Gaynesford, pictured with Dr Tim Walker, were among the speakers at the first annual national catechetical conference at Buckfast Abbey, organised by the School of the Annunciation.
6 Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil with some of the more than 200 Iraqis who took part in World Youth Day at Kraków.
7 Pax Christi members outside Westminster Cathedral hand out leaflets marking the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.
8 Lulu Quinlan of Our Lady and St Werburgh’s Catholic primary school in Newcastle has won the high jump event at the Newcastle-under-Lyme junior athletics competition.
9 The Eco Council at St Benedict’s School in Ealing, west London, has raised more than £500 for the Railway Children charity through its “Train of Money”.
10 Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham celebrated Mass for military pilgrims from Britain during World Youth Day in Kraków (photo: Arkadiusz Juszczak).
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