The cap on faith admissions is an effective ban on any new Catholic schools - and now the Government seems likely to go back on its promise to scrap it. The Catholic Education Service is urging Catholics to speak up.
Brentwood's centenary year ended with a concelebrated Mass at St Edmund's College in Ware, a place closely associated with Brentwood's first Bishop, Bernard Ward.
Launched last year by the Bishops' Conference, The Art of Dying Well website is inviting the bereaved to post names, pictures or memories of loved ones on its Instagram or Twitter platforms during November so that prayers can be offered for them.
A recent Congress in Rome brought home how much the Church in England and Wales needs to remain a part of the continuing dialogue between the Church in Europe and the European Union.
The Bishops' Conference of England and Wales and the Bishops' Conference of Scotland have issued the statement on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Abortion Act.
In his message for World Day of the Poor, to be observed for the first time on 19 November, Pope Francis asks us to 'draw near to the poor, to encounter them, to meet their gaze, to embrace them'.
