1 Birmingham Auxiliary Bishop William Kenney celebrates Mass at Our Lady of Fatima Church in Beit Sahour, east of Bethlehem, during the 2017 Holy Land Coordination Meeting (photo: Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk).
2 Bishop Declan Lang of Clifton greets Fr Pierbattista Pizzaballa, apostolic administrator of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, during the annual Holy Land Coordination Meeting (photo: Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk).
3 The Diocese of Brentwood has appointed Steven Webb as its new director of development.
4 Fr Ray Blake marks the door at St Mary Magdalen’s Church in Brighton with blessed chalk on the feast of the Epiphany.
5 Dominicans celebrate a High Mass in the ancient Dominican Rite, in honour of St Hilary of Poitiers, at Blackfriars, Oxford. The music was sponsored by the Latin Mass Society (photo: Joseph Shaw).
6 Thirty original pupils and a former teaching assistant returned to Our Lady and St Werburgh’s Catholic Primary in Newcastle-under-Lyme on January 9, exactly 50 years after the school opened.
7 Canon Christopher Tuckwell, administrator of Westminster Cathedral, welcomes Russian chargé d’affaires Alexander Kramarenko to a memorial service for Count Alexander Benckendorff, the last Ambassador of the Russian Empire to the Court of St James’s, who died on January 11, 1917. He is the only layman buried in the Cathedral crypt.
8 Ellie McLaughlin receives the Sheffield Hallam Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement at a celebration evening at Saint Benedict Catholic Voluntary Academy in Derby.
9 James Potts, a researcher and assistant to Joanne McCartney, one of the Deputy Mayors of London, will speak at a presentation evening at his old school, St Edmund’s Catholic Academy, Wolverhampton, in September.
10 Students from Saint Paul’s Catholic High School in Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester, attend a lecture by the Bloodhound project team, which aims to create a supersonic car.
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