At a homily in Poznan on the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, Cardinal Nichols spoke about the need to hear the voice of those who have suffered abuse and mistreatment withing the community of the Church. This too is the voice of Jesus, he said.
Hornchurch parish offers healing service
English Martyrs parish is planning a service aimed to facilitate the healing of the emotional, psychological and spiritual wounds caused by life today. All welcome.
Looking back on Lourdes 2018
Colette Wood, a parishioner from St Cuthbert’s, Burnham on Crouch, shares her experience of pilgrimage.
‘Act justly, love tenderly, walk humbly with God’
On Saturday 1 September Bishop Alan officially opened Walsingham House at Abbotswick, a new retreat centre for visitors of all ages.
Watch live transmission of Eucharistic Congress
Coverage of events from Liverpool will be broadcast by Shalom World, a Catholic family-friendly television channel.
Priest to host BBC Essex Sunday Breakfast
Tune in to Fr Dominic Howarth, who works with young people across the diocese, for two weeks in September.
BCYS celebrates 40th anniversary Lourdes pilgrimage
“The story of a little, poor, ill girl here in 1858 shows us that even those who think themselves weak, excluded, written off, even they – and especially they – can find themselves planted in rich soil.”
Bishop ordains Fr Rick Fernandez at Dagenham
The ordination of Fr Hector ‘Rick’ Fernandez took place at Holy Family, Dagenham at the end of June.
“Use this pilgrimage to link heaven and earth inside yourself”
You can follow the 40th Brentwood Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes virtually thanks to the work of Brenden Thompson and some Y13 members of BCYS,
Scholar commemorates a wartime letter of hope from Pius XII
The encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu, the ‘magna carta’ of biblical studies, was published by Pope Pius XII 75 years ago in the middle of WWII. Hungarian scholar Fr Levente Martos Balazs visited the UK recently to mark its anniversary.