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£950,000 secured for ‘urgent repairs’ at first Catholic church built in Welsh Valleys

March 28, 2024

This year’s Easter celebrations at St Illtyd’s Catholic Church in Wales have received an additional boost with the church being granted funding for urgent repairs costing nearly a million pounds. The roof at St Illtyd’s Church and Community Centre in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, has deteriorated at an alarming rate, leading to more and more leaks

Ale named in honour of seminarians who were mistaken for stag party

August 08, 2017

A Welsh pub renamed one of its ales 'by way of thanks' for the seminarians' good humour

Priests told to leave pub because staff thought they were a stag do

August 01, 2017

The bartender told them it was policy not to grant entry to fancy dress parties

Second Catholic diocese to support a refugee family from Syria

February 23, 2017

The family will stay in a property owned by the Archdiocese of Cardiff

Archbishop invites ordinariate into ‘the very heart of the diocese’

May 02, 2014

Archbishop Stack offers Cardiff cathedral as home for ordinariate group

Archbishop Stack is installed in Cardiff

June 22, 2011

In his homily Archbishop Stack calls for Catholics to challenge 'the structures of injustice' in society

A plea to Archbishop-designate Stack: tell the people of Cardiff that you believe in Our Lady’s intercession

April 26, 2011

It’s urgent that he explains his speech to the General Synod

Vatican appoints new Archbishop of Cardiff

April 19, 2011

Bishop George Stack has been appointed to lead the Welsh archdiocese

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