School pupils climate assembly. Credit: CBCEW As we near the end of the first week of the COP26 UN climate summit, two Catholic bishops have …
Cardinal Pell: ‘Resistance’ in the Secretariat of State cost Vatican money in London deal
Cardinal George Pell gives an interview to EWTN News in Rome, Italy, on Dec. 9, 2020. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Cardinal George Pell, the Vatican’s former …
Pope Francis meets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at Vatican
Pope Francis meets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at Vatican on Nov. 4, 2021. Vatican Media. | Vatican Media. Pope Francis met Thursday with Palestinian President …
COP26 presents last opportunity to reclaim title of “responsible stewards of creation”, say Catholic bishops
Christian climate protest. Credit: CBCEW Archbishop Malcolm McMahon and Bishop John Arnold, our Lead Bishops for Vocations and the Environment respectively, have issued a joint …
Bishop Mark O’Toole becomes Member of the International Council for Catechesis
Bishop Mark O’Toole, Chair of the Bishops’ Conference’s Department for Evangelisation and Discipleship. Credit: CBCEW The Bishop of Plymouth, the Right Reverend Mark O’Toole, Chair …
Pope Francis asks Catholics to pray in November for people suffering depression
Pope Francis’ general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, Nov. 3, 2021. | Vatican Media. Pope Francis has asked Catholics around the …
Vatican to open contemporary art gallery in historic papal library
The Vatican Apostolic Library, pictured on Feb. 24, 2016. | Alexey Gotovskiy/CNA. The Vatican’s historic library has created a new space for hosting temporary art …
Guidelines released to help Catholic dioceses measure a baseline carbon footprint
Carbon emissions skies. Credit: CBCEW ‘Guardians of Creation’ project releases guidance to help Catholic dioceses achieve ‘net zero’. Guidance has been released for the Catholic …
Pope Francis to COP26: ‘Now is the time to act, urgently, courageously, and responsibly
Pope Francis, pictured on April 17, 2013. | Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk. Pope Francis told world leaders attending a United Nations climate summit on Tuesday that “now is …
How to get a plenary indulgence any day this November 2021
Andrey Kuzmin/Shutterstock. Did you know that you can get a plenary indulgence any day this November? It’s true. The Vatican has decided to grant Catholics …
Appeal: Can YOU help the Tyburn nuns re-roof their Benedictine Monastery, Largs, Scotland?
The sisters are in dire need of funds to repair their leaking roof, damaged ceilings and walls, and improve their heating by installing double glazed windows.
Bishops call on COP26 leaders to maintain commitment to keep the global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees
snow cap mountains – Credit: CBCEW As the COP26 UN climate Summit gets underway in Glasgow, two bishops representing the Bishops’ Conference of England and …
Cardinal to PM: Support poor and vulnerable communities facing “devastating effects of climate change”
Cardinal Vincent Nichols in London. Credit: CBCEW Ahead of the meeting of world leaders at the COP26 UN climate summit, Cardinal Vincent Nichols has written …
Bishop Egan: Discrimination law could force Guernsey’s Catholic schools to close
Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth, pictured May 21, 2015. | Mazur/cbcew.org.uk. An English bishop has said that a proposed anti-discrimination law could force an island’s …
Pope Francis: Read, reread, and be passionate about the Gospel
Pope Francis delivers his Angelus address at the Vatican, Oct. 31, 2021. | Vatican Media. Pope Francis on Sunday urged Catholics to read, reread, and …
‘A moment of great joy’: English cardinal ordains ex-Anglican bishop as Catholic priest
The ordination of Dr. Michael Nazir-Ali to the Catholic priesthood in London, England, Oct. 30, 2021. | @UKOrdinariate Twitter account. Cardinal Vincent Nichols yesterday ordained …
Caritas Social Action Network resources for the World Day of the Poor 2021
Family Centre East London. Credit: CBCEW Caritas Social Action Network (CSAN), the Bishops’ Conference agency promoting domestic social action, has collated resources in collaboration with …
We need a social model capable of countering new forms of global poverty, says Pope Francis
Pope Francis. Credit: CBCEW In his message for the fifth World Day of the Poor, celebrated in the Catholic Church globally on 14 November 2021, …
Bishop talks about “the gift of unborn life” on Abortion Act anniversary
Bishop John Sherrington Bishop for Life Issues. Credit: CBCEW The Right Reverend John Sherrington, Bishop for Life Issues for the Bishops’ Conference has given an …