Essential reading for World Suicide Prevention Day

Find out about a publication that deserves to read widely, especially by the legislators and policy experts who will be involved in upcoming debates in Holyrood and Westminster about whether or not to legalise assisted suicide.

Parish holy hours to show solidarity with Adoremus

While the Adoremus Festival is taking place at Oscott College, Birmingham on Saturday, 14 September, parishes across the country have been asked to arrange a Holy Hour at some point during the weekend so that parishioners are in prayerful solidarity with the Bishops and representatives gathered in Birmingham. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference has produced a

Stella Maris chaplain highlights danger facing seafarers

Few of us probably ever think about seafarers. Yet it’s thanks to them that we have so many of the goods we rely on each day. Those sailing the ships which bring those goods to us are being increasingly threatened by incidents of piracy and armed robbery. Please support the Stella Maris Harvest Appeal to support seafarers and fishers working in an increasingly dangerous and hostile world.

CEO of CSAN on recent public disorder

"We stand in solidarity with all victims of violence, especially with our brothers and sisters seeking asylum, our Muslim brothers and sisters, and indeed with anyone feeling threatened because of who they are or where they are from." Raymond Friel OBE writes.

Munich choir to sing at Sunday evening Cathedral mass

This coming Sunday 11 August at 6.30pm evening mass the Cathedral parish is delighted to welcome for the very first time a youth and adult choir from Munich Cathedral. The music is by Max Eham, Domenico Bartolucci and Charles Stanford’s ‘O Be Joyful in the Lord’, conducted by Benedikt Celler and Bastian Fuchs on the